very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow this hour greece says it's doing all it can and is on the right track to reduce its crippling deficit the prime minister also pleaded for germany's assistance ahead of talks with chancellor merkel as the greek parliament prepares to vote on a new set of carts needed to secure the next vital bailout installment. is in athens for us let's cross over to her now sara how is the greek prime minister actually trying to convince germany it's worthy of yet more bailout cash. we're hearing more the positive rhetoric coming from the greek prime minister jos perpetrates day he's been talking to the federation of industry in berlin and he's going to be meeting with the german chancellor later today we've heard him saying that he thinks his country can get out of this crisis and much the same that we

heard from who he's been saying that they're behind greece trying to rebuild confidence but they haven't actually proposed any measures now for kerry nothing that's all be met with some skepticism because remember we've been here before and what we're seeing now is once again greece is really being taken to the brink on the streets here in athens rudi seeing the protests before it's now today parliament's going to be voting on a bill to pass by even even more seriously this is a very unpopular property tax that's being discussed in part of it is still the lawmakers are going to prefer the people who are turning out on the streets to protest instead it's not even a case anymore of whether they want to pay this money they simply can't pay it it's being taxed on top of tax very very strict austerity measures novi speaking to analysts here on the ground he said really default for the country's been on the cards for a long long time it's just not something the leaders

a willing to talk about in the open at the moment that's certainly what the feeling is here at the moment and nothing's now sir you've been on the ground in greece for a while now covering this story what's the general view there about the possibility of greece defaulting what's the feeling like. despite the very public line is we said for the leaders that greece is absolutely not going to exit the usa if i'm not strong language they wouldn't be allowed to talk here is not an exiting necessarily but certainly that at the polls is a very realistic possibility right now as he said it's described as one of the worst kept secrets that certainly something the most people hear things are going to happen it would just be a case of exactly how now people are saying that response to be able to do it its way no controls to fold but quite possibly the e.u. are going to now what we're going to see is in buying themselves time that's what we've been told that there's this next tranche of money that should be coming

greece's where the maybe eurozone leaders haven't said whether they're going to release it or not eight billion euros to greece needs to stay afloat now people here are saying that that is going to happen at some point but not necessarily in greece interest to the e.u. to be so in control of the situation in this way as he said growing public anger very similar feeling here at the maybe on the streets quite worryingly to the last time we were back here in the summer when there is a very poor filing protests erupted the movement already today there's not a huge turnout of numbers it's yet but the ready ferry very tense we've seen a very large number of riot police on the ground so very tense outbreaks between the riot police and the protesters there here at the moment we've had later on this evening that a lot of people expected to turn out want to sit tight and again like we said we're here again we see the e.u. leaders trying to implement these measures that are simply not effective and people are now saying let's be rational let's be realistic because right now once again

the greek people feeling that really they've reached breaking points ok so many thanks for that r.t. sara first peek into us live there from athens. where eurozone leaders are reportedly planning to boost the region's bailout is going to almost fall for buyers leading european business journalist believes that would be the end of it johana van overtveldt told me that greece will always negatively export its financial troubles. contagion is imminent i mean the situation in portugal in ireland is well known puerto goal is i think in worse shape than ireland but of course the big question with respect to the future of the euro zone is what will happen to spain and italy because here the amounts are that much higher and the the the needs to intervene is that much more huge then it is with respect to the result portugal if you're really then in a totally other ball game

a ball game in which for example germany would certainly be very doubtful to go it all the way well if we only look at greece i think it would be a very good thing for luis to leave the eurozone and since greece is only a very small part of the eurozone in one can kind of it seems like the greek exit in an orderly way if it is done this or who knew it would tails we didn't the entire euro zone i think and i'm fully convinced that an exit of the of greece from the euro zone is from a technically monetary point of view perfectly doable it only takes a little bit of coolness to do it and it would solve a lot it to a large extent this problem still it needs more exports and more import competitiveness to regain some economic growth it cannot find that growth without the major devaluation of the currency which in this case would mean that

greece leaves the euro zone. well that was van overtveldt editor in chief of belgium's leading business magazine on how he thinks greece a kind of scape collapsed. to other news now the u.n. security council's postponed further debate on the palestinian statehood bid until wednesday that is the united states presses members to not rush their decision in order to allow peace talks with israel to resume while avoiding an international confrontation. explains. 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 that veto if it had to but let's remember that u.s.

credibility and influence in the middle east is at stake here u.s. president barack obama has been seen supporting the so-called arab spring the tunisians the libyans the egyptians and so for the u.s. to cast a veto now against the aspirations of the palestinians would be as some critics have said hypocritical the palestinians 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 castigate a 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 polls. 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 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. so they come here only a mile away all the highway tough words from russia's president as he signs the finance minister say vital military money is not up for discussion and anyone who thinks differently can also go now. and the beautiful beast has become a blessing for the island of spitsbergen in the arctic but all good things come out of hostile tell tells you why. the u.k. has been trying hard to reduce the debt but the spending cuts are forcing growing numbers of people out of work now it's emerged that what few job vacancies that all are growing or we've seen screw simply to immigrants who are taking ninety percent of all vacancies. bennett explains why. jaymes amongst the growing ranks of unemployed he's been trying to find

a job in social housing since may 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 out 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 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 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 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 mostly 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 and mark come close. likely to meet a 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 it 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 sure you know when 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 basics but i got used to not doing the minimum wage jobs in the low paid work so 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 in the benefit dependency which is track so many people and finally ensure workplace but once the long term unemployed can be forced to look for jobs there's no guarantee they'll get them coming back to their immigration promise the government simply can't keep the billet r.t. london. me that editors asserted that whoever disagrees

a presidential policy should look for another job which is exactly what happened to the now former finance minister who he sacks on monday alexei kruger and said he just couldn't new government have been better became prime minister in the future we shuffle out the top piece all of our takes up the story. well since president medvedev came to power there were certain areas of the country ditties earmarked for spending in improvement things like improvements in the prisons the armed forces now some of the spending policies so it's clear to have been in disagreement to want to see could in thoughts and that's why he lost his job on monday now president dmitri medvedev has on tuesday robustly defended his spending policies saying at the defense spending in particular is crucial to the development of russia when you more from a boy we can do without defense spending and the spending should be worthy of russia we're not some banana republic we're a big country with

a permanent member of the un security council them and we have nuclear weapons that's why an increase in spending for the defense budget arms and salaries for military personnel will be the government's top priority and whoever disagrees with that we can use our us and missed well could really clearly did disagree with us and now he will be looking for work elsewhere this all really came to a head the catalyst for it being the announcement that a lot of me and putin will run for the presidency in twenty twelve and that he would put forward dmitri medvedev as his prime minister this box could in to say they see couldn't work with. to be trade debt as prime minister g two spending policies major debt is in turn issued an ultimatum to could today and saying i think get on board or get out and tell your resignation not didn't come and he was dismissed from his post late last night after eleven years in at the job so the veteran finance minister out of work in russia currently with out

a finance minister up this time well if you want to find out a little bit more about this story stay with us here at all t. in our business report coming up in a few minutes they'll be looking at the favorites for who could be good taking that job next well keep across the elements on the story at aussie dot com as well of course including the actual frosty exchange between the president and the man he was his chance for. the chief also online say they have the kalashnikov rifle prepared to bite the bullet as russia's defense ministry decides that the country's most iconic weapon without detection. and moscow's in the need to move this is internet sensation dancing not. before may his genie go around the world now he's in brussels the capital getting muscovite on their feet or some get down by getting online. and ripping. ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko is back in court all for a two week display meant the ion a.t.v.

creating politics is on trial for abusing have power when signing gas deals with russia which allegedly lost kiev millions of dollars something she denies or thousands of her supporters are running outside court. reports now from kiev many say that the court hearings are entering their final stage with debates in court to take place within the next several weeks some say unity with my still get a prison sentence up to seven years for the economic crimes she is being accused of but most of the experts think that she will most likely get a suspended sentence of five years and that will automatically take her out of the presidential race in twenty fifteen and the parliamentary complaint due to be held in autumn next year now i'd like to remind two of you was that huge mistake was being accused of several economic crimes one of them is according to the prosecution is that she managed to strike unlawful gas deals with russia in two

thousand and nine at the same time it is very interesting because moscow is adamant that those gas agreements were signed in full accordance with the international legislation and thus they must be fulfilled until they have been revised to the court hearing so been going on since june certainly this is the loudest and the biggest court hearing now in ukraine. supporters of you and those against her are being stationed at the main street in kiev the street in front of the court building for several months now and they are still here with course expecting their presence to. to multiply within the next several weeks and tensions will most likely be rising. more world news this hour now in brief powerful typhoon nesat has struck the philippines bringing monsoon rains and strong winds that have flooded parts of the capital at least twelve people including children have died in the storms which affords businesses to close as well as disrupting air travel and power

supplies over one hundred thousand people have been evacuated from the worst affected areas that's my feeling is expected to move across the country before reaching southern china on thursday. in china to subway trains have collided in shanghai injuring more than two hundred passengers some critically it happened on one of the same lines when one train slammed the back of another result of a technical fault a similar collision between two high speed over ground trains in eastern china killed forty people in july provoking public anger about safety standards. in syria troops that backed by time from that helicopter reportedly stormed a key or positioning town pounding it in the night with heavy machine gun fire all of us down the strategically important as it lies along my way to turkey and it's close to the city. the u.n. estimates that more than two thousand seven hundred. dollars since the dawn began

seven months ago. all sizes of talks and the audience will moscow says it does not support sanctions proposed by the. beautiful for residents of the island of spitsbergen polar bears are common signs they're all for us dangers but they've been a huge attraction for visitors. to reports now on those taking a walk on the wild side to meet the region's most famous inhabitants. bear watching and very being watched from the moment you arrive any longer be an airport the king of the arctic never lets you out if you see. right he watches you collecting your backs from the bell and browsing in the souvenir shop enjoying spitzbergen spectacular scenery or simply doing a big rush. pulling very cult of personality huge here it makes some dictators down south look like timid hairs in the archipelago. polar bears is

a good picture of. promoting. its surroundings. restricted us to you cannot. it has become a symbol for this road. but people here always bear in mind the dangers when you pm has a higher percentage of gun ownership than any other municipality in the rain because she may be debating tighter gun controls following joyce you can't message her but here are the rules for renting firearms have been in these. local taxi driver says he also leaves his cell phone at home but never is restful 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 home it was a close call now i try to be more careful 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 have to obey 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 i'm seventy if you'll believe for these yet to be released but local experts believe no functioning rifles may have been to blame but twenty five hundred people and three thousand polar bears living on the spears 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 suffield killing the bear responsible was unnecessary. the notion that humans might be sacred just because it's human life it's medieval only fascination with polar bears break here from sweden i will do this guy he trains hard to never miss it he says and anyone living here realizes that aiming a rifle at a polar bear is like shooting yourself in the food i think it's a lot of choice because of the birds and 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 partly at least based on the danger and greed and the buried 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 so we are at sea longer piano

spitzbergen to. head out the way the news is this hour let's go to business update now with. cloned a very warm welcome to our business update the russian markets may not have dropped on news that alex accouterments resignation as finance minister but spirits certainly have could turn as much admired in the financial community for his stewardship of the russian economy richard handsworth from ratings says it will be tough to find someone ask a people. and there is perhaps one of the most productive ministers. the government. here has very influential. a lot of all respect is paid to. by people outside russia many investors the bund have a great deal of respect. already ringing up and asking for reactions their

only options is a very negative uncertain about what's going to happen to us without them so the question is who's going to replace them. and the prestige accoutred. in himself is going to be used by this government in another post. let's have a look at the markets now the our chance is that in three and hoped for scientists now and my success up two point two percent. time to check some of the individual share moves in the my six energy stocks on the wrong isn't that strong encouraged gaining two percent a solid among minus pauli meshal is gaining one percent as precious metals side consing and in other sectors era flautas month the main gain us reported twenty fold increase and not profit for the first half of the here our floor also says it's considering a listing in dublin and york. markets in europe are posting strong gains the footsie is up three percent and the dax is four percent higher german com they

could die and are relished four and a half percent sure it was upgraded to outperform from neutral by credit suisse. turning to oil now it's been supported by speculation the european central bank may alleviate the region's debt crisis growth and fuel demand whitewashes currently trading at eighty two dollars per barrel brant is that one hundred five dollars. russia's oil major alston after is in talks with each and is any of the joint development of approached. in the black sea that's according to the business daily mirror sunt quoting sources close to the deal the newspaper says the european company got a third of the joint venture which is expected to be sealed by the end of the here in response ross never wants to win a role in any. earlier the russian company discussed the possibility of working in the black sea with america's chevron and exxon mobil. world's biggest soft

drinks maker coca-cola is planning to invest three billion dollars into russia's economy by twenty sixteen well that says much as it spent over the last twenty years speaking exclusively to our t. the company's president can't explain 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 of the visions i will to an unlikely done. so that those are complementary to our business existing business we feel that our portfolios very rich and we will be focused on organic growth in the next few years. another business updates and lust and want to stay with us.

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this is greece is rushing to reassure investors that is worthy of the next option the prime minister says things is doing more. costs. the u.n. . the palestinian recognition so wednesday the u.s. is lobbying to slow down but decision making process of the security council to allow peace talks with israel to recede. and immigrants in britain they're doing a much better job of getting employment then the locals so they show foreign workers and say ninety percent of. a man who helped.