merkel this comes as lawmakers in athens are expected to approve an unpopular property taxes they battle to show that they are serious about tackling the country's debt its part of austerity measures put together to convince the e.u. and i.m.f. to hand over an eight billion euro bailout artie's sorry for of has more from athens. we're going to see a test for those measures today as the greek m.p. planning to vote on that property tax is proof extremely unpopular here in the country among the public coming of course on top of. that have been going on for a long long time now is the one on top of the other for the people here they've had cause to government spending they've had cuts to their pensions people have lost their jobs unemployment is extremely high here and now this property tax on top of that really coming at a time a public anger that the prime minister george pop and jay will be holding talks to discuss the debt crisis it's not known whether you're also need is it going to be

handing over that ten point eight billion dollar cash injection is going to be needed to keep the country afloat publicly the line still very much in the lead in that they're not planning for greece to exit the us and in fact that's very far from their minds are going to be keeping rates in the usa and that even at the polls maybe not the way forward but privately what people are saying is that actually the default it's very much looking likely and indeed possibly even an exit from the usa altogether no speaking yesterday to professor the constitutional law here in green he was sort of taking me through the financial jargon of this idea of the controls to fold have a listen to what he said either we're going to have a default. that we can organize and protect our interests or we're going to have a kind of controlled bankruptcy you know there were a brush. i'm going to do you try to avoid the domino effect so

practically the. only passion. made of the years you know maybe we're going to be. one of the. first. measure. of the i know it's followed by the work that. then it was the only possible. now that's the key thing that what he was saying about the domino effect is. very very concerned that. year and then really anyone could leave and the spectators. pinpointing greece would then tend the sights of countries such as italy and spain and then you really have a very serious problem indeed that could be the end so it's looking like that control of the full is on the cards at some point very much like the need is plan b. remembering of course. there's been a lot of criticism of the way that we handled the situation but the people here

struggling in the midst of this crisis this thing it's not entirely that a lot of this it's a very bad policy decision making at the very top there's a lot of anger directed at the choice at the i.m.f. at the well really a lot of questions whether they're going to be able to guide the years think through this crisis and whether greece is going to be able to. stay with us here on r t still to come or ming an ally or setting off a time bomb explosive revelations claim the u.s. has sold heavy duty weapons to israel to start a new war in the middle east. but first the u.n. security council decided to postpone further discussions around the palestinian bid for for membership until wednesday this is washington refuses to back down on a promise to block the move in support of its ally israel but artie's marine important i reports the palestinians could still gain an elevated status at the world body. what the palestinians would need would be nine out of fifteen of the

security council members to support this application no vetoes but the 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.

observer state a nonmember observer state but they would be able to file lawsuits at the international criminal court and participate in many forums that i'll bet 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 custody to a 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 a tremendous pressure. so that the number of countries and 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 goals of the.

they are supportive of justice for the palestinian people and palestinian president mahmoud abbas said he would return to negotiations only only if israel 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 e.u. now russia is one of the many countries that when that said they would support the palestinian bid for u.n. membership and stay put at statement 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. as the u.s. continues to stand by israel washington is coming under new fire for its revelations of dealings with the country its claim of the white house supply dozens of bunker buster bombs to tel aviv weapons that may be best 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 israel could pass the technology on to china but claims of a merge that the weapons were secretly released shortly after obama took office in two thousand and nine observers fear the move could lead to a new 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 airspace and a phone call from benjamin netanyahu saying it's gone 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 has a law in their borders etc you know if israel was run by a 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 it 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 as specially 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. syria's foreign minister has accused foreign governments of fueling the on arrest in the country the crackdown on anti-government protests there is now into its seventh month truce reportedly storming the strategic central city of rostov with residents saying tanks and armored vehicles entered early on tuesday the u.n. believes more than twenty seven hundred people have died in the country since violence started dr evil regime aloof from georgian university thinks the conflict is being fueled from abroad with foreign countries financing the opposition. but i think the moscow has already proven that that is very serious about and still gaping reform has initiated a series of good lessons that he guarding 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 and thought of freedoms from abroad whether by the gulf cooperation council or the nato kirk especially and other groups working on the ground so i don't know what you define as men at the end to run some 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. later this hour former nato chief george robertson tells r.t. that foreign military intervention in syria should only be considered if all else fails. because you can't intervene and really doesn't mean that you should intervene with you can you know the war is an out of resolution there was a un security council resolution and i did a piece things apply at the woman to what's happening in syria but. at the end it

will stay just as it is and it won't it may take some time to walk over and they're not going to leave us by which you can be economic political or diplomatic when it's created for the next so trying to all of the records of the river the weapon of last resort is the military pay for that economic diplomatic use political influence to achieve these names 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 what summers are what a 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. jamie's amongst the growing ranks of unemployed he's been trying to find a job in social housing since many competitions fee is that for the six i just he's

now working for each job so you just find that you know it looks like is about you they will get short listed of it as look at salaries slightly less you know maybe going to go back to college and maybe do some parts on unemployment's now it's eight percent the highest for fifteen years but no matter how hard jamie tries the old says stacked against him job centers like this one helps fill one hundred eighty thousand 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 the new government promising to slash immigration but a year on it's 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 we're probably over promising given the restrictions that they face it didn't

make sense to promise to bring the number down to an arbitrary level maybe they should be 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. 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 here but says most don't i go back to thirty forty years ago and you've seen immigrants come to this country what they wanted to is they want to work hard and get on in life

they really do their families think about except except shop you know new days gone past we used to have a tremendous british work ethic in this country we really did i think we've effectively lost some of that as it was easy to see that at the job center where most i'm it will migrant workers the problem is that a lot of the basic but i got used to not doing the minimum wage jobs and low paid work so they need to be forced into taking these jobs the government claims it's now doing just that it says we are reforming the welfare system to ensure. we end the benefit dependency which is trap so many people and finally insure would pace but once the long term unemployed can be forced to look for jobs this new guarantee they'll get them coming back to the immigration problem the government simply can't keep on job in its. london. stay with us here on r t still ahead a walk in the wilderness for the people of the bergen archipelago in the arctic and

find out why polar bears have become a much beloved symbol and an invaluable source of income but also what perks. first though russia is looking for a new finance minister after the surprising dismissal of alexei kudrin on monday is the first fall out of the plan a reshuffle of the top of the country's politics a lot of near putin announced he's running for president again in two thousand and twelve and hopes current president dmitry medvedev will become prime minister reacting to the news by saying he wouldn't serve in a new government if it's headed by my bed at medvedev said anyone who questions his policies should step down and find out how the russian markets are reacting to the news in our business bulletin coming your way in less than ten minutes. staying with the regional politics former ukrainian prime minister yulia timoshenko will be back in court tuesday after a two week break in the hearings she's accused of abuse of power during gas deals with russia in two thousand and nine claims she denies to those been on trial since

june and was arrested in august on contempt of court her arrest sparked massive protests in kiev police clashed with tymoshenko supporters who set up camp outside the court where the hearings are taking place. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe libya's new leaders have approved plans to reform the laws that were used by the gadhafi regime to jail dissidents this as forces continue the siege of khadafi his hometown in sirte it's been under sustained attack with civilians forced to flee civil war has so far claimed the lives of an estimated thirty thousand libyans the. yemeni government activists have vowed to revolt until b.n.b. following president ali abdullah saleh speech in which he failed to promise to step down more than one hundred forty people were killed across the country this past week in violence that's escalated since the president returned to yemen after medical treatment abroad more than fifteen hundred people are believed to have died since clashes between anti-government activists and security forces began.

three men opened fire on an egyptian pipeline to israel and jordan causing a large explosion that shut off gas it's the sixth such attack on the pipeline since february when hosni mubarak was ousted is egypt's leader a security operation was launched in august to eliminate hundreds of suspected militants believed to be the believed to be behind the pipeline attacks. powerful typhoon assad has slammed into the philippines bringing with it monsoon rains and strong winds that toppled trees in flooded parts of the capital at least seven people died including a baby who fell in the swollen river government offices are closed and. as well as schools while dozens of domestic flights were canceled more than one hundred thousand people have been evacuated from the worst hit areas by heavy downpours are expected to continue for several more days. well groomed all but beautiful for the residents of the icy arctic archipelago spitzbergen polar bears are

a common sight despite the obvious dangers there are huge draw for tourists but artie's oksana boyko reports those who get closer to the wilderness and on the region's most famous inhabit. bear watching and bearing being watched from the moment you arrive any longer be an area where the king of the market never lets you know if you sight he watches you collecting your backs from the bow and browsing in the souvenir shop enjoying spitzbergen spectacular scenery or simply doing a big rush or ease the pull of various cult of personality is still huge here it makes some dictators down south look like timid hair even the archipelago officials bow to him polar bears is a good picture of. 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 the dangers one gibeon

has a higher percentage of gun ownership than any other municipality in no great the country may be debating tighter gun controls following july's youth camp massacre but here are the rules for granting firearms have been eased. video of the local taxi driver says he also believes his cell phone at home but never his reference if it was because of the. 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 not only in 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 on a blog about having seen the bear from a distance that danger for people traveling in the natural is that they could be

seen as prey it's very rare i mean have been found out which which has. been a big. thing for a protection from seventy if you believe for the easiest to be released but local experts believe functioning rifles may have been to blame with twenty five hundred people and three thousand polar bears living on the spears bergen 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 medieval only fascination with polar bears break here from sweden or wilderness guy he trains hard to never miss it he says

anyone living here realizes that aiming a rifle into polar bear is like shooting yourself in the food i think it's a lot of choice. because of. the guy it's always has to carry the rifle and things like that so absolutely it's the attraction but that attraction base is. at least based on the danger and greed and the barry we know the perfect recipe for peaceful coexistence but so far the majority of spitzbergen is locals on two legs and four b. side by side and both communities are growing. longer piano spitzbergen are. remember all of our news and much more can be found in our t. dot com here's what's a click away right now. know why the u.s. has given away an estimated two hundred fifty million. dollars worth of military equipment in iraq. an internet sensation.

hundreds of people are performing his famous routine more. next with the business update stay with us here on our. welcome to our business update the russian markets continue to climb on tuesday. finance minister alex he couldn't on monday get all over the r.t.s. stock exchange with more both the all ts. be making gains on tuesday this is being driven by activity in the asian markets where energy commodities have been trading well russia of course the majority of their blue chip stocks all in all yelling so

they've been snubbed open others also rumblings that a potential debt deal could be done in europe this is driving people to go towards those energy stocks as well and of course we're seeing not reflected all the russian markets with all of these outside factors impacting all new r.t.s. on the my six it's it's difficult to say right now how much of an impact. monday. finance minister is having both of those indices. and here on the figure is for the softball both are adding over two and a half percent as we see now let's have a look at some index moves on the line six energy stocks are on the rise and stronger crude. oil is gaining over two percent. and financials are no exception with the country's biggest lenders pair of bank three percent in the black and other sectors aeroflot is among the gayness after it reported a twenty one fold increase in net profit for the from the year the company benefited

from the sale of assets and rising passenger traffic. markets in europe open higher as well with insurers leaving that we bound shares and frenchwomen d.m.p. part of over eight percent in paris and world bank of scotland again. half percent in london. and stocks in asia rebounded from a sixteen month low following two days of gains in the us financial stocks along. gainers in tokyo commodity sex of firms also advancing strongly along with games oil and coal futures. turning to oil is being supported by speculation that the european central bank may alleviate the region's solvent debt crisis boosting grow . lights read it is going to be trading over eighty one dollars a barrel while brant is at one hundred and five dollars per barrel. russia's all major ross now is in talks with italy's any over the joint development of a project in the black sea that's according to the business daily commerce quoting

sources close to the deal the newspaper says that the european company could get a third of a joint venture which is expected to be sealed by the end of the year in response to when a role in any project to leave earlier the russian company discussed the possibility of working in the black sea with america's chevron and exxon mobil. russia needs a new finance minister following the shock departure of arctic sea could remain on monday his position became a tandem untenable after he publicly stated he would not work on the mid if in the next administration jacob now from morgan stanley rushes there are a few candidates to succeed cauldron but all will find it's hard to match the confidence he inspired. i think there's quite a number of people in morse code who have the qualifications on paper and perhaps personality to be the minister of finance visit the r.c.f. the central bank governor who works in the ministry of finance business you can who

was a deputy minister of finance deputy central bank governor those to wall coverage the president's economic adviser those deputy ministers in the ministry of finance such a store chuck you have the capacity to to to fulfill the role want to train passed a track record he has the credibility and you don't build that up overnight and russia needs a steady hand on the fiscal tiller today. that's all for now for i'm all stories just log on to our website r.t. dot com slash business thanks for watching. the.

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twelve thirty pm in moscow the zero headlines the greek government said to approve more unpopular taxes and tries to convince european lenders to hand over another slice of the bailout. default the prime minister will hold talks with the german chancellor as the debt crisis spirals out of control. u.n. security council prepares to submit the palestinian statehood bid for recognition despite fierce objections from israel and the u.s. because vowed to veto the move the palestinians could still gain partial recognition from the general assembly where they already have the majority of support. nine out of ten new jobs in the u.k. are being taken by immigrants and this comes the country struggles to create a new work i'm.