good to have you with us here on r t our top story the greek prime minister says he's confident his country can emerge from instead crisis as head of talks with germany's chancellor over cutting the budget deficit this is lawmakers in athens are expected to approve an unpopular property tax it's part of austerity measures to convince the e.u. and i.m.f. to hand over an eight billion euro bailout or more from athens. we're going to see a test for those are sturdy measures today as. 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 of great public anger that the prime minister jewish pop and trade will be

holding talks to discuss the debt crisis it's not known whether you're it's a 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 it's that they're not planning for greece to exit the u.s. and in fact that's very far from them eyes are going to be keeping with the usa and that even at the polls maybe not the way forward but privately what people are saying is that actually the default is 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 they were. going to do

use trying to avoid the domino effect so practically the. passion. of the years room may be right going to be. one of the. measure. of the are not followed by the letter. then the. only possible way so it's looking like that. very much like the. plan b. remembering a. plan that's been a lot of criticism of the way that we handled the situation but the people here locally in the midst of this thing it's not entirely the load of this it's a very bad policy decision making at the very top there's a lot of anger directed at the i.m.f.

at the well really a lot of question they're going to be able to guide the year i think through this crisis and whether greece is going to be able to. stay with us here on r t still to come or meeting an ally or setting a time bomb explosive revelations claim the u.s. may have sold heavy duty weaponry to. be used to start a new war in the middle east. but first the u.n. security council decided to put off further discussions about palestinian palestine's 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 marine important i reports that 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 that to metion 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 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 close of play. and they are supportive of justice for the palestinian people palestinian president mahmoud abbas said he would return to negotiations only only if israel calls 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 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's coming under fire from new revelations of its dealings with the country its claim the white house supply dozens of bunker buster bombs to tel aviv weapons that could be used for destroying underground nuclear facilities in iran a deal to buy the bombs during the bush administration in two thousand five hundred over concerns that israel could pass the technology on to china but claims of now emerged 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. it seems that there is very few limits that the united states is willing to trust in order to support israel at any cost you have to almost wonder how it is

that the tail wags the dog in this respect israel is a training mission the size of new jersey and it has new oil wealth it has barely a strategic position and yet it's telling the soul the world's sole remaining superpower what to do and it just goes on and on the bunker busters a five thousand pound bomb that is only used in order to penetrate deep deep fortified positions to run does is instead to keep its nuclear research facilities deep underground and the only way to really access them would be using exactly this sort of weapon so. it's not speculation to us with there in rome. we'd be interested in you care about this transaction this is very much in a school ation if the conflict between israel and iran. 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 in its seventh month troops are

reportedly storming the strategic central city of rost on with residents saying tanks and armored vehicles entered early early tuesday and u.n. believes more than twenty seven hundred people have died since the country's violence began dr eve rahim aloof from jordan university though says the conflict is being fueled from abroad by foreign countries financing the opposition. but i think the mosque has already proven that that there is very serious about and still gaping reform it 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 interference from abroad whether by the gulf call for a certain console or all of the nato especially and other groups working on the

ground so i don't know what to define as military and to revenge them 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. 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 a merge what fewer jobs you can see as there are going almost exclusively to immigrants who are taking ninety percent of all new positions. jamie's amongst the growing ranks of unemployed he's been trying to find a job in social housing since many competitions fears that father six agencies now working for each job so you just find that you know looks like is about for you they will get short listed 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 to 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 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 their restrictions that they face it didn't make sense to promise to bring the number down to an arbitrary level we initially 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. the restrictions don't apply entry numbers for eastern europeans 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. 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 go back to thirty forty years ago when you've seen immigrants come to this country what they wanted to is they want to was called and guess on in life they really do their families think. you know days gone past three years have a tremendous work ethic in this country really just i think people to be lost some of it was easy to see that at the job center where most i'm it will migrant workers

for them is that a little bit but i got used to not doing the minimum wage jobs. i 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 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 promise 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 people of the it's a bird an island in the arctic find out why polar bears have become a symbol an invaluable source of income but also a curse. first to russia's looking for a new finance minister following the surprise dismissal of alexei kudrin on monday

president medvedev sacked the minister who said he wouldn't serve in a new government if it's headed by medvedev it's become the first fallout from the planned reshuffle of the top of the country's political pile let's go. live with all the details hello peter so this sacking triggered a shock waves in russia n.b. on tell us more about. the reaction to it all the reactions that are coming out coming from the the political elites at the moment. get of issued this ultimatum to couldn't to say get on board all get out couldn't said he would consult with prime minister vladimir putin now we're hearing today from the me to be. spokesperson that that consultation never happened so he didn't talk to decide his future presidential aide. says that as soon as he could in went against president medvedev he made his position untenable and the only option for him was to disappear and go eventually he was dismissed now one of the biggest names that

we're hearing from is the chairman of the state duma. also a senior member of united russia the leading party here he says that. yesterday this dispute over who didn't saying he wouldn't work in a government headed by medvedev is just the tip of an iceberg and there's many other things going on in the background however he wouldn't he wouldn't elaborate on what those other things were so this certainly seems that we we haven't heard the full story yet of what's going on between couldn't the me to be made to the end of. a widely respected figure internationally how the market's been reacting to the news well the russian markets are trading up on tuesday. that is though because of being driven by trade in the asian markets where a lot of energy stocks have been bought up russia has its main blue chip companies chip stocks in oil and gas so they've seen the benefits from the also the rumors of

a proposed solution for europe has led to more people grabbing up russian oil and gas stocks and shares so really what we're looking at is there's not many outside interfering factors only markets that are incredibly volatile at the the moment. it's very difficult to see just how the dismissal of alexey could that it is affecting the markets here in russia but the couldn't doesn't go away stay with us here when i see business report just a little later on we'll be looking at who could be the potential successor to the finance minister who was dismissed after eleven years in the job all right looking forward to that artie's peter all of our reporting live in moscow thank you. 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 she denies the claims to go was on trial since june and was arrested in august on charges of contempt of court her arrest sparked

mass protests in the ukraine capital kiev police clash with supporters of hers who set up camp outside the court where the hearings were taking place take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe libya's new leaders have approved plans to reform laws that were used by the khadafi regime to delta jailed dissidents this comes as forces continue the siege of khadafi his hometown sirte it's been under sustained attack with hundreds of civilians forced to flee the civil war has also claimed the lives of some thirty thousand people. in yemen anti-government activists valid drove all to 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 the past week alone in violence that 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.

a suicide car bomb has exploded just outside a police compound in southern afghanistan killing at least five people and injuring dozens it happened in helmand province one of the country's most violent regions officials say the bomber waited for a police truck and then detonated his explosives when it stopped the taliban has claimed responsibility. a powerful typhoon assad has slammed into the philippines bringing with it monsoon rains and strong winds that toppled trees and flooded parts of the capital manila at least seven people have died including a baby fell into a swollen river government offices and schools were shut while dozens of domestic flights were canceled more than one hundred thousand people have been evacuated from the worst hit areas heavy downpours are expected to last for several days. well brutal but beautiful for the residents of the icy arctic island of spitzbergen polar bears are common sight despite the obvious dangers there also

a huge draw for visitors are reports on those who get closer to the wilderness and the region's most famous inhabitants. bear watching and very being watched from the moment you arrive any longer be an area where the king of the arctic never lets you out of his sight he watches you collecting your backs from the bow and browsing into souvenir shop enjoying spitzbergen speak tackler scenery or simply doing a big rush aries deployed barriers cult of personality is still huge here it makes some dictators down south look like to meet harry even the archipelagos stop officials bow to him. 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

european has a higher percentage of gun ownership than any other municipality in no great the country may be debating tighter gun controls following july so you can't massacre but here are the rules for granting firearms have been eased. medieval local taxi driver says he also believes his cell phone at home but never his reference if it was because 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 now i try to be more careful not only encounters 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 which which has you know a big operation a big operation he cried protections and items haven't 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 spins bergen archipelago security is obviously an issue 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 a nation of polar bears break teams here from sweden or wilderness guide he trains hard to never miss anyone living here realizes that aiming a rifle edge

a 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. at least based on the danger of green and the bear it could mean though 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 some are longer piano spitzbergen. remember 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. find out why do you west has given away an estimated two hundred. fifty million dollars worth of military equipment in the wrong. and dancing sensation dancing madhouse to the russian capital tonight

hundreds of people performing his famous internet routine blockers and many other videos at r g dot com. the. recap of our top stories coming your way a few minutes but first the business news with kareen stay with us. welcome to our business update this hour as we've been reporting russia needs a new finance minister following the shock departure of the knicks he could ring on monday jacob now from morgan stanley russell says there are a few candidates who could succeed could try but also find it hard to match the confidence by. i think there's quite a number of people in morse code who have the qualifications on paper a perhaps

a personality to be the minister of finance visit the central bank governor who works in the ministry of finance his view given he was a deputy minister of finance deputy central bank governor those two could reach the president's economic adviser those deputy ministers in the ministry of finance such a store jack 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 up overnight i'm russia needs a steady hand on the fiscal to. tell us take a look at the markets russian stocks are rebounding here the biggest for the r.t.s. in my eyes it falls out adding over two and a half percent now let's have a look at something that moves on my sex and stocks on the rise of a stronger crude who lukoil is gaining over two percent and financials are no exception with the country's biggest one is their bank up to three percent in other sectors airflight is among the main game is up with reported a twenty one fold increase in net profit for the first half of the year the company

benefited from the sale of non core assets and rising passenger traffic markets in europe are on the rise as well where the insurer is leading the rebound shares of b.m.p. parabolic jumped eight point eight percent in paris and world bank of scotland good gained five and a half percent in london among other stocks on the move german car make a dynamo rally five percent after it was upgraded to alter formed a mutual by twenty six turning to oil now with heads being supported by speculation the european central bank may alleviate the region's sovereign debt crisis boosting growth and fuel demand quite sweet is currently trading at eighty over eighty one dollars a barrel while grant is at one hundred five dollars a barrel. which is all major ross nafta 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 and that quote sources close to the deal now the newspaper says the european company

would get a third of the joint venture which is expected to be sealed by the end of the year in response. to when a role in any project in media at the end of russian company discussed the possibility of working in the black sea with america chevron and exxon mobil. and the world's biggest drink make a coca-cola is planning to invest three billion dollars into russia's economy by two thousand and sixteen that says much as it spent over the last twenty years speaking exclusively to r.t. to companies president kent explains where the money will go. that's going to be investments in more production more distribution more marketing more branding more communication more support of our customers where we have seen opportunity in russia we have made some acquisitions like bolton and like. so those are complementary to our business existing business we feel that our

portfolio is very rich and we will be focused on organic growth in the next few years. it's a business update for now joy may end less than forty five minutes from. twenty years ago largest country in. the suitcases of.

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greece's prime minister says he's confident you can pull out of crisis a head of talks with the german chancellor in the meantime the government is preparing to approve more unpopular as he tries to convince european lenders to hand over another piece of the bailout over a looming default. the u.n. security council prepares to submit the palestinian statehood bid for recognition and despite fierce objections from israel and the u.s. which is about to veto the move the palestinians could still gain partial recognition from the general assembly where they already have a majority of support. nine out of ten your jobs in the u.k. being taken by immigrants this comes as the country struggles to create new work on the horizon unemployment.