welcome you're watching r.t. from moscow with me kevin oh in our top story at nine pm 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 and that's as the greek parliament proposed a vote on a new set of cuts needed to secure the next vital bailout installment r.t. sara firth's in athens for us. growing discontent here in athens at the moment really we've been speaking to a lot of people today in d.c. in some small protest movements throughout the day and they're saying they're really reaching breaking point head now we're on syntagma square and this is where most of the protest action has happened so far outside the part of the building as the maybe you can see that just the beginnings of the greeks gathering with their flags and it's still that later on today is well we're going to see a lot more gathering to but there's a little bit of concern about the tension that we're feeling at the moment because

as he said the prime minister george happened today he's in berlin holding talks today at they've also been trying to push measures three parliaments another all star team measure that's a very unpopular. property taxes going on here say there's been a definite tension here today amongst the people that we speak and say just alone from syntagma square you've got the finance and economics building in the background that and earlier on today what we saw down on the streets were the rates being stopped we saw a huge number as that riot police turning out people were parking their bikes in the middle is the right very large number of people what they were there to protest where as he said these austerity measures that they said are simply not working so now the men who waiting to see really exactly how this plays out tonight at this as a concern because i quit once again in the situation very desperate situation where they're trying to push a start you may just see that the people say they simply cannot afford very positive rhetoric coming from the u.a.e. it's a new leader but it's the german chancellor and the prime minister of greece george

patton try saying that they think we can get through the crisis that jenny is going to be behind and skepticism here on the ground really meeting these comments people are saying that they fired all of this before and in fact contrary to what germany things that behind me. that there's. a lot of they continue to actually. find. sells some time to see how this plays out now because again with these austerity measures we've seen them happen before in the usa leaders haven't made a decision yet whether to believe that eight billion euro is cash injection decreases tanks need to stay in place that they will at some point we see this the forward again these austerity measures simply haven't worked here that. we see. upon types of these people they're saying that it's not a case of them not wanting to pay any more they simply can't say as he said really

growing discontent at the moment and since quite disturbing testimonials from a lot of the people here he said to enter contrast to what we seem to protest in the summer when the police were reacting to violence friend the more extreme positive the protest is that in recent weeks we saw on sunday police using tear gas a liquid outside harrison type with the police might actually be reacting quite aggressively to this day there is the awareness that people have feeling extremely angry at these measures say a very tense situation at the moment so first our correspondent in athens where european leaders are desperate to try to work out a solution to keep greece from collapsing and taking the whole region down with a constitutional law professor george cut through gallows told me he believes that bankruptcy on greece's oh terms is better than the surrounding sovereign state of foreign leaders. there is not an easy way out for greece. but i think that

given our default but that the fault decided to buy us over in good government it cannot just be imposed to us by therefore in the end that would be a better solution because people know we are in a country of our limits of our ain't it our government cannot cannot follow its own policy it's just following guidelines. and just gave lines as i told you before have proven to be fruitless just important sacrifices without any hope of where we are now at the second here of this are still you can measure those that did the state of getting it used. rocket high is practically doubling down on who would have started these austerity measures at the same time the economy is shrinking and at the same time we have a lot of burden to the poorest to get weakest parts of the population so i don't think that this kind of policy is going to work. so george could trigger lost a constitutional law professor in athens explaining what constant bailouts have

done to his country. and folks in syria now their government troops have reportedly stormed a key opposition town after pounding it overnight with heavy machine gun fire russia's foreign ministers reiterated that talks are the solution for pace not more western sanctions he's also been addressing the u.n. general assembly in new york and the can is there for us. wrapping up his visit to the united nations general assembly session here in new york the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has addressed the united nations general assembly with a speech touching up on many different subjects that are most warning for the international community and syria was certainly at the top of that list and one of the most important points he made regarding syria was that it's key to let the government and the opposition try to carry out talks let them talk before any intervention from the outside world take takes place he has said that the government should be given the opportunity to carry out the reforms that they promised and you know the international community should refrain from taking any

action until this opportunities given to let syria deal with its own issues to avoid establishing the region even further because he brought up the latest example of libya he reiterated that russia really believes that russia stands against the use of any kind of force against innocent civilians and libya's example has unfortunately showed that actions from the outside world really should take place within the scope of the international war and going behind the scope can hurt innocent civilians so russia is really speaking out against america's approach to call for the syrian president to step down and for sanctions to be implemented at the security council it was a difference but we cannot support the projects that is being pushed through by western countries and it is among other things to do with the libyan experience we will do next try to use how have you calculated your next steps the answer we get is that we haven't thought about it yet but president assad needs to go we need to

draw you into a corner with sanctions you should go first and then we'll see it's a very simple i believe not very reliable strategy if it could be called a strategy we know that the united states and the european union have implemented unilateral sanctions against syria and have been calling within the united nations security council for the international community include. russia of course to join in but it's been made very clear that russia would not support a resolution against syria until syria is actually given a chance to work some of these things out to many different issues were certainly addressed but all eyes have been on palestine here in new york at the united nations general assembly and the russian foreign minister has reiterated russia's position really that it's supports palestine's official bid for statehood within the united nations security council and within the united nations and he has welcomed expressed russia's welcome feeling for palestine's wish to participate in further negotiations with negotiations with israel as that we know have been

stalled and of course it's to give our viewers a bit of a background like we've been reporting it's been a mean sort of issue of. hard work behind closed doors the united states has been really working hard to try to prevent palestine from placing this official bid to the security council the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas did go ahead with this and this is something that the united nations security council will officially be considering come wednesday on the situation there in new york for us israel's give the go ahead to building eleven one hundred homes in the disputed area of east jerusalem that's likely to further complicate relations with the palestinians the frozen mideast peace talks the reacted by saying the decision should be reversed those talks just helping to discuss this is a political activist and co-founder of the israeli committee against house the issues but thanks ever so much being with us mr help but this really pm but even though says he wanted to meet palestinian leader mahmoud abbas on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly where we know there is left new york do you think today's decision might have played

a part in the not holding direct talks. well there's nothing to hold direct talks about i don't think the palestinians are going to fall into that trap again what's good about what's happening in the un whichever way of plays out is that we're at the end of negotiations goshi a shift in the trap for the palestinians and it's very clear today the israeli government announces going to build one thousand one hundred new settlement units this is on about another four or five thousand they've already announced for east jerusalem in another part of east jerusalem so it's clear that on the ground nothing is stopping israel in other words if you have negotiations that in which israel and this is what abbas is saying and which israel stops settlement construction it stops creating facts on the ground maybe it is still i don't think the goshi sions will really succeed because israel has no intention of giving up

the occupied territories so just took this job at least it would freeze all the settlement building so jeff they do what you're basically saying then i don't put words in your mouth but i guess the gist of what you're saying is it looks like israel believes that decisions sewn up in israel's favor on the u.s. is favor already. well that's right it's a fixed game and that's why i think russia and the e.u. actually the and the un three out of the four quartet partners are very critical of the united states and aren't going along with it because basically. israel has created facts on the ground over the last forty four years that it really made made its occupation irreversible i mean you've got a half a million israelis more than half a million living in the occupied territories so that if i can't possibly see how to negotiations are going to ending israel's occupation i don't see any pressures to

get a half a million people out and i think that's what abbas is saying. are useless either you get out of our territory period or there or there's no point in going on with the process if i was you know there's another huge sort of school of thought that completely disagrees with. the people look at it from the other side of the fence we will get into that argument now i want to ask you some facts about how you think this decision today about these new houses will go down turkey's prime minister is already urged the u.n. to slap sanctions on israel over it and of course relations are already really strained over the gaza right foot incident where nine turkish activists were killed what do you think the un reaction is going to be as well. i don't think israel has anything to worry about from its point of view there are three countries that matter the other hundred ninety are irrelevant the three countries are the united states britain and germany as long as they're behind israel's

policies or at least even if they criticize as long as they prevent saying sions and provide this umbrella for israel israel is something to worry about who's going to sanction it who's going to force it to get out who's going to put pressures on israel it has that absolute support of germany britain and the united states and that's all it needs to confirm its nose at the other nine hundred ninety countries they have nothing that they can do in order to conduct forces are a lot is not what it's doing to the quartet of mid-east negotiates is well israel right now to start building on the disputed territories seems to be don't want to know doesn't it to the quartet a powerful voice. of course one of this is been for years and years i mean the mitchell report was ten years ago you know it demands to stop settlements were forty years ago and the bush administration of bush the father stopped ten billion dollars of loan guarantees to israel because of settlements israel goes ahead with

the settlements because it because it can nobody's going to really stop it even if there's criticism and at the end of the day you've prejudiced negotiations that's the whole point of it israel will not go into negotiations unless the outcome is determined from the beginning and you determine the outcome of negotiations you determine what we're going to negotiate what the parameters are by the facts on the ground and the facts are so massive today it's not only the settlements is house demolitions it's the wall it's the exploration of palace city and land it's a massive highway system that israel's laid over the occupied territories israel has really already incorporated the occupied territories into israel so it's all for what negotiations do for israel is they allowed to keep the status quo going there's an appearance that we're willing to talk and that they're the bad guys because they don't want to talk but in fact israel is scrambling on the ground the

occupation gets stronger and stronger and finally abbas is finally said look there's nothing else to talk about either we get a state on the sixty seven borders or or you know we'll see what happens but we're not going to go back to the bush letter that says israel can keep its settlement blocks i mean that it the obama policy is you have are extremely pro israel then bush's policy once if we could talk an awful lot about this is a heck of a delay on the line as well between now me talking and do you i'm trying i just want to say thank you for your time just how co-founder of the israeli committee against house demolitions we could talk about this a lot longer but i'd say we're out of time thank you. still to come here on r t why immigrants in britain are doing a good job far of work as a soaking up to ninety percent of vacancies in the country's bleak employment market right now we've got a report on back coming up for you and also my way all the way tough words

from russia's president as he gives the finance minister yesterday's marching orders saying vital military money is not up for discussion and anyone who thinks differently can also go. seven kosovan serbs have been injured in an exchange of fire between protesters and nato peacekeepers a disputed border crossing locals blame the alliance's troops but nato says it's responded only with rubber bullets and tear gas in self-defense after kosovo serbs attacked the checkpoint where motion's been running high since august when kosovo and police seized two border crossings in a trade dispute with serbia a local documentary maker told me that one sided nato is forcing serbia to accept its terms. this is something that is. escalating the situation over there with german soldiers trying to isolate the community and turn it essentially into a ghetto in this you know uni polar world the serbs are hoping that somebody will come to the aid because nato at this point is not really contributing to

a peaceful resolution of the problems over there nato is simply pushing ahead with its interests in north korea which are mainly canonic it's hard to see whether the situation will get worse but nato has not refrain from using force when when it needed to push for its interest it does have blood in it sends ever since the needle bombing of serbia in one thousand nine hundred nine and these conflicts are showing that they don't really care what was going to happen to the serbian civilians unarmed civilians in kosovo that they are going to push ahead no matter what the serbs on the other hand are fighting for their bare existence and they have no choice but to continue pushing forward to have the right to remain where they have lived for centuries the bellary in pristina governments are trying to establish so-called good relations and this is a prerequisite for joining european at the european union and this is definitely

a step backward but on the other hand ever since this requirement has been imposed to establish good relations it is been more in the sense that serbia should accept everything that the international community thinks is a porton in regards to kosovo a while because they're getting more of a free ride but if the international community is supporting just one side it's very hard to reach a reasonable agreement. because he's speaking to me there elliott jobs in the united kingdom of getting fewer and fewer and it seems the vacancies that they are being swept up by non brits immigrants to scooping up faith what big ninety percent of positions bennett for explains why. jaymes amongst the growing ranks of unemployed he's been trying to find a job in social housing since many competitions fears that fathers it's 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 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 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 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 most are coming from within the e.u. we're 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 the measures are announced will meet that target and might come close but it is unlikely to meet it so we refer 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 take. 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 that all families think about except it said sure you know new day's

gone past three years have a tremendous british work ethic in this country we really did i think we'd be fit to be lost some of that was 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 bit haiti but i got used to not doing the minimum paid 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 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 that immigration promise the government simply can't keep the bennett r.t. london. meter preventives asserted that whoever disagrees with presidential policy should look for another job which is exactly what happened to the now former finance minister who we sacked on monday lexicographer said he couldn't work under

a new government if madrid of became prime minister in a future reshuffle of the top people over for r.t. 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 to the prisons the armed forces now some of these spending policies as appears to have been in disagreement to what alexi could in thoughts and that's why he lost his job on monday president dmitri medvedev has on tuesday possibly defended his spending policies saying that this defense spending in particular was crucial to the development of russia when you more from a way to use we can do without defense spending and this spending should be worthy of russia we're not some banana repub. we're a big country a permanent member of the u.n. security council 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 can work out where and

with that i will be but will miss well could really clearly did disagree with that and now he will be looking for work elsewhere this all really came to a head the catalyst for it being the announcement they flatter me of putin will run for the presidency in twenty twelve and that he would put forward dmitri medvedev as his prime minister so this could get in to say they'd see could work with. the trade get as prime minister g two spending policies midgette if in turn issued an ultimatum to could in saying i think get on board or get seltzer intended your resignation that didn't come and he was dismissed from his post late last night after eleven years. you keep across developments on that story as well as many others at r.t. dot com we've also got the actual frosty exchange if you haven't called it between the president or the man who was his treasury chief on line also other stories tonight for you might be interested the kalashnikov rifle wolf famous well is preparing to bite the bullet now as russia's defense ministry decides the country

will strike on it well but it is out of date. moscow is in the mood to move there they go this is the internet sensation dancing the man who's videos show him performing his jig around the world now he's here in the russian capital getting muscovites lift the voice and getting down by get online videos reports that are tito. could listen talk world news stories a brief powerful typhoon ness that struck the philippines support monsoon rains and strong winds of flooded parts of the capital at least sixteen people including children have died in those storms which have forced 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 the typhoon is expected to move across the country before reaching southern china on thursday meanwhile in china itself two subway trains have collided in shanghai injuring more than two hundred seventy passengers it happened on one of the city's newest lines when one train slammed into the back of another as a result of a technical fault a similar collision between two high speed over ground trains in eastern china

killed forty people just last year live provoking public anger about safety standards. opening statements are underway in the california trial of dr conrad murray who was charged with involuntary manslaughter of legendary pop star michael jackson it's claimed dr murray administered lethal dose two sedatives to jackson causing his fatal overdose in two thousand and nine murray's plaited not guilty insisting you didn't administer anything that could have killed jackson coming up to twenty six minutes past nine and a few minutes in the tiny european state of pains to bury it salvi it passed his business first. everyone welcome to the business update a temporary fix has been made to the russian government following the firing of alex he could train as finance minister on monday much of a push and has appointed deputy untaught silly one of the as the new acting finance minister while first deputy prime minister it should be all of will report to the

cabinet on economic issues prime minister gave no indication how long the interim arrangement might last distrust both appointments have been approved by present but that if you sacked could trend following his public disagreement between the two men. had world's biggest soft drinks maker coca-cola is planning to invest three billion dollars into russia's economy by twenty sixteen that much as it spent over the last twenty years speaking exclusively to our t.v. 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 acquisitions like malta and the like. so those are complimentary 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. let's not have a quick check on the markets here stocks are rising extending the previous sessions games investors hope that european policymakers are moving closer to a plan to avoid a massive debt default markets in europe have posted strong gains not true today sentiment was supported by speculation that euro zone leaders will take steps to beef up the bailout fund. eleven and a half cent. just a bit behind and eleven percent on the rise. in russia the markets rather than choosing just by the resignation of the country's finance minister editor over four percent of the mice it's was up two and a half percent let's not have a look at some of the individual show moves on the might six energy stocks were on the rise a bit stronger courage gained one of the percent of the close in one minus four the

metal gained two percent as precious metals advanced and in other sectors era ford was among the main gainers three and a half percent up after it for a quarter to twenty fold increase in net profit for the first half of the year before it also says it's considering a listing in dublin and new york. ok that props up the business boardroom more market allows has less than one us time for you here on our two so do stay with us .

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suppose nine pm here in moscow my name's kevin owen you're watching out internationally for your company tonight these are our top stories for you greece is rushing to reassure investors that it's worthy of the next bailout batch as the prime minister says athens is doing all it can to cut costs. for talks with the euro zone's mainland germany. in syria government forces reportedly storm a key opposition town after pounding it overnight with heavy machine gun fire moscow is calling on both sides to enter talks to stop the violence while rejecting western sanctions and avoid a repeat of the libyan scenario. and violence flares up between a breakaway kosovo seven kosovan serbs have been injured in a disputed border crossing in an exchange of fire between protesters and nato peacekeepers.