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 sterile 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 to 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 firth to get more details from athens. the un security council has 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 at

the world body. the worst kept secret is the fact that the united states says it will veto the palestinian bid for u.n. membership and statehood but nonetheless the palestinians have 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 us 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 the israelis and the 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 tunisian 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 do 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 put them in a position to cast a veto palestinian envoy riad monsoor addressed 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 put among this pressure. 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 the old friends is a solid the relationship and. the pose of palestine and they are supportive of justice for the palestinian people and palestinian president mahmoud abbas said he would return to negotiations only only if israel halts its settlement construction and since that has not happened and since this statement made by the quartet did not include that then the president of palestine said that there's 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 e.u. now russia is one of the many countries at the u.n. that said they would support the palestinian bid for a 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 its claim the white house sold dozens of bunker buster bombs to tel aviv weapons suited for destroying underground nuclear facilities in iran a deal to buy the bombs during the bush administration in two thousand and five found over concerns that israel had passed technology on to china but now claims have emerged that the weapons were c. really 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 the israeli f. sixteen over raqi air space and a phone call from benjamin netanyahu saying it's on what are you 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 hezbollah and their borders etc you know if israel was run by secret agent traitors that had taken over the country they couldn't do worse than they are 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 are 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 especially when there's nothing to fight about when there just is not a nuclear weapons program one just zero seven the 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 r.t. sarah first 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 what austerity measures are we talking about . where we're going to see a test for the. weekend he's going to be voting as he said on the very unpopular

property tax here in the country the lawmakers again to approve that and that's going to a gay some way to plug the deficit they have been hopefully to convince the u.s. and leaders to david that ten point eight billion dollars cash injection is going to be needed to keep greece inflation the prime minister just happened to be holding talks to see about that really the question here is not whether greece is going to be saying that it's doing these things in passing these measures now it's whether or not they're actually going to be able to deliver on that it's and it is extremely unpopular here in the country the people. are very opposed to this and these measures are coming again against growing anger here in the country that really is not a case where the people want to pay or not they simply can't the country has really been taken to the brink now in extremely serious situation there's been a lot of talk of greece's eminent default design looking likely at this point. well

publicly the line still very much for the years and leaders that they're certainly not thinking at this point greece exiting the euro so that's still very much the public like the privately it seems that people are now planning certainly for some kind of to fold if not a complete exit from the eurozone altogether knows peking professor close to sion of law here in greece yesterday i was talking tell about sort of moving away from the financial jargon but what exactly controls the full even means because it seems always a contradiction in terms coming at a time when the situation seems so out of control have a listen to what is that. either we're going to have a default i default to that that we can organize and protect our interests or we're going to have a kind of controlled bankruptcy you know there were a vote of brussels and through the windows i'm going to dictates too much do you is trying to avoid the domino effect so practically the it that i know they are trying

to. pass it was so rushed not contaminate that it's the viewer's room maybe you are going to be. confined from them in order to show up to fix this trying to force spirit to measure something necessary for the are not followed by the victim then the disaster is the only possible way out. what are you saying about the domino effect there is really very interesting because that's what a lot of experts have been talking about is that really the youth in leaders conned the foods to let greece leave the usa because if greece can go well then anyone can go in the spectators will then be turning their sights to countries such as spain and italy and then you really do have a very dangerous situation which could result in the collapse of the entire monetary union all together so it does seem that the elite is looking at this controlled the ball now is a very realistic plan b. and remember right at the very beginning of this that was the official line again for me it is no plan b.

seems they backtracked on that and really a mistake and this growing concern that the situation is going public can get people in a really wondering whether the u.s. saying leaders have the political capabilities of the will even anymore to see this through and to avoid this crisis situation right r.t. sorry for it live for us in athens thanks for that report. syria's foreign minister has accused foreign governments of fueling the an arrest in the country this comes as international pressure on syria is growing with the u.s. urging more u.n. sanctions russia's approach rivals the u.s. backed draft urging the warring sides towards dialogue the u.n. now says that more than twenty seven hundred people have been killed by security forces in the government crackdown this year back to you or him aloof from jordan university says the conflict is being fueled from from abroad with foreign countries financing the opposition. well i think that moscow has already proven that that is very serious about and still gaping reform has initiated

a series of regulations regarding the media a multi-party system but the opposition unfortunately has been refusing to sit down and dialogue with the regime so the problem here is not the syrian leadership but the opposition which is being encouraged by interference from abroad whether by the gulf cooperation council or the nato via 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 it doesn't mean that you should

intervene with. you know the ball is not a resolution there was a un security council resolution either of these things apply of the woman to what's happening in syria but. at the end of the state just as it is and it won't it may take some time to walk and they're not going to leave us by which we could get to the economic political diplomatic let's the period for the next trials and all of the records of the women of last resort is the military they fooled the economic diplomatic use political influence to achieve these needs of trying to protect people. the u.k. has been trying hard to reduce its debt but the spending cuts are forcing growing numbers of people out of work now 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 artie's ivor bennett reports. jaymes amongst the growing ranks of unemployed he's been trying to find a job in social housing since may the competition is fierce that father six agencies now working for each job so you just find that you know it looks like there's about thirty people getting shortlisted of it as look at salaries slightly less you know maybe going to go out to college and maybe do some parts on unemployment's now it 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 helped fill one hundred eighty thousand new vacancies in the last twelve months but only eight percent of those went to british workers but foreign nationals more successful in the job market nine times out of ten reversing that trend was a key election pledge of the new government promising to slash immigration but a year on its only increased net 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 government's five figure target i think they're probably over promising given restrictions that they face it didn't make sense to promise to bring the number down to an arbitrary level i mean they should've been having a more honest debate with the public about the limits on what they could do the government claims its target can be met by capping nor e.u. immigration but that ignores how most are coming from within the e.u. where restrictions don't apply entry numbers for eastern europeans rose by eight times in the last year alone as they continue to cash in on the open borders it's unlikely that the measures are better now that target market close but unlikely to me to 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. but says most don't go back to thirty forty years ago when you've seen immigrants come to this country what they want to do is they want to was called and guess on in life they really do their families think. you know new day's campaspe you have a tremendous work ethic in this country really i think we've lost some of it was easy to see that at the job center where most i'm it will migrant workers the problem is that. they're not doing the minimum job. they need to be taking these jobs the government claims it's now doing just that it says we are reforming the welfare system to ensure that we end the benefit dependency which is trap so many people and 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 bennett's. london. stay with us here on r t still ahead a walk in the wilderness for the citizens of the spitzbergen archipelago in the arctic find out why polar bears have become a much loved symbol an invaluable source of income but also what perks. but 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 the plan to reshuffle at the top of the country's politics lattimer putin has announced he's running for president in two thousand and twelve and hopes the current president dmitri medvedev will become prime minister reacting to the news saying he would not serve in the new government if it's headed by made better by medvedev said anyone who doubts his leadership should resign or find out more about the possible successors to cruder in our business board and i mean 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 is comes as the news that former libyan former rebels breached the colonel qadhafi his hometown of sirte is has 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 are valid to revolt until the end following 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 egyptian officials launched a security operation in the 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 fall and when several fishermen the world ported missing well it's also the cause of the death of a baby who drowned heavy downpours and winds of up to one hundred seventy kilometers an hour prompted the closure of government offices and schools in the capital manila scores of domestic flights were cancelled an interest in 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 a huge draw for visitors artie's oksana boyko reports on those who get close to the wilderness in the region's most famous inhabited. bear watching and very being watched from the moment you arrive any longer be an airport the king of the arctic never lets you decide who watches you collecting your back from the belt and browsing in the souvenir shop enjoying spitzbergen spectacular scenery or simply doing a big rush. the pull of various cult of personality is still huge here it makes some dictators down south look like timid hair even the archipelago about to here. is a good picture of. promoting. its surroundings since it's also restricted us to you cannot. it has become

a symbol for this region but people here always bear in mind the dangers when you pm has a higher percentage of gun ownership than any other municipality in norway the country may be debating tighter gun controls following joyce you can't massacre but here are the rules for renting firearms have been a nice. big deal the local taxi driver says he also leaves his cellphone at home but never his reference yet there was little of this. once 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 when i realized that i left my signal going to home it was a close call no i tried to be more careful the moment countries have a happy ending a seventeen year old british poor was killed and for a few companions injury when a hungry polar bear rampage through their camp in early august. just days before they had left an ecstatic post in a blog about having seen the beer from

a distance the danger for people traveling in the natural to obey is that they could be seen as prey it's very rare i mean that have been which which has you know a big operation a big operation. he cried detections emotions haven't if you believe for the easiest to be released but local experts believe functioning rifles may have been to blame but twenty five hundred people and three thousand polar bears living on the spins bergan archipelago securities all basically and they should to keep in mind and while locals and tourists a strongly advised to carry firearms at all times being loaded for bear is definitely not the way to go here well the death of the british teenager shocked locals some feel killing the bear responsible was unnecessary. the notion that human life is sacred just because it's human life it's. only

a nation of polar bears here from sweden or wilderness guy he trains hard to never miss anyone living here and realizes that aiming a rifle. is like shooting yourself in the food i think. the guy always has to carry the rifle and things like that so absolutely it's the attraction but at the base. at least based on the danger. and the bear it could mean though the perfect recipe for peaceful coexistence but so far the majority chips pittsburgh and locals on two legs and four b. side by side and both communities are growing. our. spitzbergen are. and all of our news and much more can be found a click away at our t. dot com here's what's online for you right now. i know why the u.s. hasn't given away an estimated two hundred fifty million dollars worth of military equipment in iraq. had internet sensation dancing comes to the russian capital

tonight hundreds of people in performing his famous routine washbasin funny more videos at r.t. dot com. t.v. . corrina milliken's up next with a business update stay with us here on r.t. . oh well come to our business update this hour russia needs a new finance minister following the shock departure of attics he could ring on monday his position became untenable after the problems of the after he publicly stated it would not work on them if they had if in the next administration she can meld chief economist at morgan stanley says there are a few candidates to succeed couldn't but all find it hard to match to the

confidence he inspired. i think there's quite a number of people in morse code who have the qualifications on paper a perhaps personality to be the minister of finance visit the central bank governor who works in the ministry of finance this view can he was a deputy minister of finance deputy central bank governor those two could reach the president's economic could follow those deputy ministers in the ministry of fun at such a store charge you have the capacity to to to fulfill the role want to trade with the track record he has the credibility and you don't build it all over noids i'm russia needs a study to school today. taking a look at the markets now oil prices are heading up a mint speculation that the european central bank may alleviate the region's sovereign debt crisis boosting growth and fuel for manned flight sweetness trading at eighty one dollars a barrel this hour while brant is at one hundred five dollars per barrel and

markets in asia are on the rise after reports that policymakers are considering new plans to support european countries struggling with debt financial stocks are leading the rally on the nikkei falls with both of us and told me personally and you can be sure financial groups gaining around three percent and commodity sector firms are among the best performers in hong kong only incorporation of china is up five percent an all time group over six percent. and it's less than two hours before the opening bell here in moscow the russian markets closed makes monday the r.t.s. and it floods negative while my sixty one percent. russian markets saw swift and two positive start to the week out news the finance minister resignation i was under a 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 called the t.v. station in the evidence. you fought today the students will not just invade the

poem and. everything will be fine i think that these upward movement can continue. for up to the moment when the next negative from yours from the euro zone will come above the voting in germany yes it will not be that small but it mostly depends on the position all fun go america. officials all the blood bank and joy money. wheel will be perceived by the markets that's why we are again in be interesting situation and i think that. all stories check our website.

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the greek government is said to approve more unpopular as a tries to convince european lenders to hand over another slice of the battle out. meanwhile the greek prime minister is heading to berlin to hold talks with european leaders as the country's debt crisis are spiraling out of control. and un security council are ready to submit the palestinian statehood bid for recognition despite fierce objections from israel and the us which is about to meet the palestinians could still gain partial recognition from the general assembly but they already have a majority of support. nine out of ten new jobs in the u.k. being taken by immigrants as comes the country struggles to create and work amid a start rising unemployment partially fueled by spending.