a very warm welcome to you this is live from moscow the greek prime minister says he's confident his country can emerge from its debt crisis ahead of talks with germany's chancellor over causing the budget deficit it comes as no make is in athens are expected to approve an unpopular property tanks its powerful starting measures to convince the new and i.m.f. to hand out and eight billion bailout for more this has cost lives not all correspondents sarah ferguson athens for us so how exactly is the greek prime minister planning to convince e.u. leaders to hand over this latest slice of bailout money. well what you're hearing from the greek prime minister jewish pub in jail speaking to members of the german industry in berlin is this a very positive rhetoric he thinks this country can take the crisis now the german chancellor is also expected to address that same conference she probably going on

right now it is true she's going to say much of the same thing there's still the line from these eurozone leaders is that there's no question if we take sitting from the usa and the fold still not being spoken about publicly now here in athens in amongst. the opinion really defense quite significantly all excuses that being a little bit skeptical about that kind of speech because we've been here before and we see the same things being said and yet the country still wants again the brink of a deep deep financial crisis if they don't get this next cash injection ten point eight billion dollars for the year is elitist then the country very very quickly will be struggling to even pay their stuff at the moment on the ground here with think some greatest action that save the parliament voting today on this property tax is another all star if you measure this designed to try and convince the eurozone.

disagrees is making the right moves at the people here is that this isn't really a matter anymore whether or not they want to pay it of course a day but it's not a case of that it's that they simply want the first time seeing people below the poverty line being taxed and they said that simply unacceptable in another list i was just speaking to the four talking to said that really what you're seeing from countries such as germany that hold a lot of the carrot them is that they're trying to buy themselves some time here weeks being punished it's been thing very much the black sheep of the usa well actually they're saying that really they see it as their becoming the sacrificial lamb and look what germany is poisoning the case of these measures that they're trying to say i simply aren't having any of this for the house but a lot of commentary saying it's pretty much a given that greece will have to default wards. lucy said this still a very different public line what's being said privately now privately for the last

year and a half a lot of people have been saying that just has always been inevitable it's just the fact that your is a leader is simply not that admits it that they said it's one of the worst kept secret. here in us that he was talking me to the financial judge explaining this idea if it controls default we're saying that every day of the situation seems extremely out of control and have a listen to what he had said. either we're going to have a default by default to that 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 be used trying to avoid the domino effect so practically the. passion to contaminate the figure was wrong maybe you are going to be.

fighting for them in order to show. that he's trying to force the measure. into the i'm not followed by the then the disaster is the only possible way out. now it's very important what you're saying there about that domino effect because a lot of people saying that you know it's only that simply aren't going to accept greece exiting the euro because if greece were to exit then anyone could leave and that really good means the end of the year altogether a lot of people saying about this control to folk that really ideally greece should be able to do this their way not dictated by the leaders but what we've heard is that what's expected from a lot of people is the euro they need to have a choice not to do this the rational way or the irrational way and analysts have told me that the russia way would be to attack this problem have everything out in the eighty's now be honest about what's going on and have that control to focus there's also the irrational way and a lot of people certainly think that that's quite possibly what we're going to see

now which is more to the ring more talks more discussions and in the very painful measures that these people simply are working ok for. that update. we'd like to hear your opinion on the crisis in greece or log on to our website ality dot com to take part in our latest poll today we'll what do you think and you lead as a discussing behind the scenes so far the most popular responses how to escape a lynching from angry voters. think they're discussing how to manage to control the fault and some of you believe they might be talking about whether greece should exit the euro zone and how far the bailouts can stretch to get involved in the debate and head along to r.t. dot com to cast your vote. on the way here on r.t. arming an ally or setting off a time bomb explosive revelation that the us sold heavy weapons to israel but

used to start a new war in the middle east. the un security council decided to postpone the discussions around the palestinian bid for a full membership until wednesday this is washington refuses to back down on a promise to block the move in support of its ally israel but no reports of 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 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 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 put on this pressure. so if the number of countries and members of the security council but we trust that we have money friends in the council and the relationship between us and the old friends is assaulted the relationship and. the polls. they support the justice of the palestinian people palestinian president mahmoud abbas said he would return to negotiations only only if israel halt 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's 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 what is the u.s. continues to stand by israel washington's not coming on to fund for new revelations of its dealings with the country its claimed white house supply dozens of bunker buster bombs to tel aviv weapons best suited for destroying underground nuclear facilities in iran a deal of all of the through the bush and the situation in two thousand and five found that a bit concerned that israel could pass the technology on to china but now image the weapons. off in two thousand and nine this fear the move could lead to new. 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 rocky 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 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'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 especially when there's nothing to fight about when there just is not a nuclear weapons program no 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. syrian foreign minister is the keys foreign governments the fueling gun rest in the country the crackdown on anti-government protests now into. jeeps reportedly storming to strategic central city of ruf done with residents saying things that ahmed vehicles and for that on tuesday u.n. police more than two thousand seven hundred people have died that happens on its began duct tape from children to the best infants accomplis the code of foreign countries hina. well i think that moscow has already proven that it is very serious about and still getting 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 and thought of freedoms from abroad whether by the gulf corporation council or all of the nato reoccur especially and other groups working on their 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. the u.k.'s been trying hard to reduce its debt but the spending cuts are forcing growing numbers of people out of what now it's in. what few job vacancies they're wrong only skews the p.c. immigrant scene ninety percent of all new positions are either bennett's house. jaymes amongst the growing ranks of unemployed he's been trying to find a job in social housing since many competitions fears that for the 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 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 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 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 its only increased migration was nearly a quarter of a million last year up 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 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 the coming from within the e.u. were 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 a top of a measure of announced will meet that target and might come close but it is 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 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 eccentric search or you don't you 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 not there in the minimum wage jobs in the 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 that we end the benefit dependency which is traps so many people and finally ensure work pays but it was the long term unemployed can be forced to look for jobs there's no guarantee they'll get them coming back to that immigration promise the government simply can't keep the billet. london so why have you at this hour a walk in the wilderness for the people or if you are in the arctic find out

why polar bears have become a much larger symbol an invaluable source of income but also. russia is looking for a new finance minister following the surprise dismissal of that in on monday president medvedev the minister who said he wouldn't serve in a new government if it's headed by medvedev but it's become the first fallout from the planned reshuffle at the top of the country's political pile. the story. well the reactions that are coming out coming from the the political elite at the moment after get of issued this ultimatum to you couldn't to say get on board all gets out couldn't said he would consult with prime minister vladimir putin now we're hearing today from the me to be. spokesperson that consultation never happened so he didn't talk to decide his future presidential aide. says that as soon

as. today when president medvedev he made his position untenable and the only option for him was to slip off and 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 this spot yesterday this disputes over that couldn't saying he wouldn't work in a government headed by may get it 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 alexi couldn't on the meter maid he had a stay with us here on r.t. and our 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. time now for the

top stories from around the world they sour on libyan leaders have approved plans to reform rules which were used by the gadhafi regime to jail dissidents it comes as forces continue this image of colonel gadhafi as hometown so it's been under sustained attack of hundreds of the civilians from the strictly simple rules thing the law is for the estimated thirty thousand people. yemeni anti-government activists a vow to revolt until the end all the way president to ali abdullah a speech in which he failed to promise to step down over one hundred forty thousand been killed across the country in the past week in violence that escalated think the president return to yemen often medical treatment. more than fifteen hundred people appear to have died since transfers between answer to this the security forces began. a suicide car bombs exploded just outside a police compound in southern afghanistan leaving at least five people dead and

injuring dozens more it happened in helmand province one of the country's most violent regions officials say the bomber waited for a police truck and detonated his explosives when it stopped the taliban's claimed responsibility. a powerful typhoon nesat sland into the philippines bring it with it monsoon rains and strong winds for the toppled trees and flooded parts of the capital at least seven people have died including a baby fell into a swollen river government offices and schools are closed all dozens of domestic flights were canceled and one hundred pounds of back rated from the worst affected areas by heavy downpours are expected to continue for several days. brutal beautiful for residents of the icy arctic island bag and polar bears are a common side despite the obvious dangers that also

a huge drop of visitors. reports now on those who get to go all the go to get closer to wilderness and the region's was famous inhabitant. bear watching and bearing being watched from the moment you arrive any longer be an airport the king of the arctic never lets you out of his sight he watches you collecting your backs from the belt and browsing in the souvenir shop enjoying spitzbergen spectacular scenery or simply doing a big rush. the pullen very cult of personality is still huge here it makes some dictators down south look like timid hares even the archipelagos stop officials bow to him polar bears is a good picture of. promoting. its surroundings since it's also restricted us to you cannot. polar bears it has become a symbol for this world. 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 july spears camp massacre but here are the rules for renting firearms have been in the. medieval local taxi driver says he often leaves his cell phone at home but never his rest for if it was but. once my friend and i were driving our snowmobiles in the countryside when we saw a polar bear we got pretty close to him he 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 but all 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 it danger for people traveling in the natural after. they offer could be

seen as prey it's very rare i mean i have been troubled which which has you know a big operation a big operation cry protection tonight in seventy a few police report is yet to be released but local experts believe mull functioning rifles may have been to blame with twenty five hundred people and three thousand polar bears living on the space bergen archipelago securities obviously and they should to keep in mind and while locals and tourists are 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 is medieval only adult express a nation with polar bears brought him here from sweden a wilderness guide he trains hard to never miss if he says anyone living here

realizes that aiming a rifle edge of polar bear is like shooting yourself in the food i think it's a lot of choice and most of the cost of. the gates 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. artsy longer piano spitzbergen. well opinion updates all today's headlines in just a few minutes before they were going to business update with. welcome to our business update this hour plans for joining me as we've been reporting russia needs a new finance minister following the sharp departure of alexei kudrin on monday

jacob knell from morgan stanley russell says there are few candidates who could exceed could win but all will find it 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 central bank governor who works in the ministry of finance you can he was a deputy minister of finance deputy central bank governor those two could reach the president's economic advisor those deputy ministers in the ministry of finance such a stall chuck you have the capacity to to to fulfill the role i want to treat with the track record the house of credibility and you don't build it up overnight i'm russia needs a study to speak to. take a look at the markets now i hear the figures for the r.t.s. in my six adding over two and a half percent this hour and let's have

a look at some index movers on the rise next energy stocks on the rise and stronger crude look or this gaining just nearly two and a half percent the nationals are no exception with the country's biggest lender spare bank up over three percent in other sectors airflow is among the main game as a trade 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 with the insurers leading the rebound the footsies up under two and a half percent and the dax is over three percent higher among other stocks on the move german carmaker time around a five percent after it was upgraded to outperform from neutral by credit suisse turning to oil now it's being supported by speculation the european central bank may alleviate the region's sovereign debt crisis boosting growth and fuel to month light sweet is trading at eighty one dollars per barrel while brant is at one

hundred five dollars a barrel. versus 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 science . 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 it will sponsor us nafta wants to win a role in any project in libya thirty other russian companies discuss the possibility of working in the black sea where america chevron and exxon mobil and the world's biggest drink make a coca-cola planning to invest three billion dollars into russia's economy by twenty sixteen that's as much as it spends over the last twenty years speaking exclusively to our to eat a company's president kent explains where the money. 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 malton and like we've done. 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. that's our business. but don't forget you can always find more stories just all and all what sites dot com thanks so much.

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is help us out here must say this is all some of the greek prime minister says he's confident his country can pull out of crisis ahead of talks with the german chancellor in the meantime the government and athens is preparing to approve more on paul the times says i think it tries to can. european lenders to hound the slides of the bailout to move. the un security council to submit the palestinian statehood bid for recognition despite fears objections from israel on the us which is found to be so you can move out of students could still gain partial recognition from the general assembly where they already have a majority of them. and nine out of ten new jobs in the u.k. of being.