this is our team tonight crowds gather in athens angry over facing more deep cuts which are due to be imposed by government but scrambling for debt rescue cash in germany right now. also this hour as government forces stormed a key opposition town in syria moscow calls on both sides to talk while rejecting western sanctions. and violence flares up between serbia a breakaway cost of zero seven cost of the serbs the region of the disputed border crossing.

even for me kevin owen here in moscow tonight it's now eleven pm moscow time not top story on r.t.e. angry greeks a gathering in athens to protest against a new set of government cuts which are expected to be passed next month but measures are needed to secure the next vital bailout installment prime minister george papandreou is in germany to convince its main lender the greece is on the right track to reduce its crippling debt sara first in athens for us. the shading on the sails syntagma square tonight thousands upon thousands of people have turned out the parliament discussing the property tax is pretty extremely high country you can see the tension levels rising again and people are trying to take that see we have this we've already seen the riot police leaving and now you can see pulses to go through the nine and being rioting certainly if else like a peace that we saw in the summer when those prices. sadly we saw the violence sunday evening with or stella thing happened on syntagma it's been

a struggle here to get the situation under control for the first time in this country is seeing people below the poverty line being cut they simply don't have the money and they're calling on eurozone leaders now to be realistic the talk is certainly turning to that a greek default analysts here have said to us that the really is a case of how that happens whether it's the controls to soltis all greece's terms where the e.u. leaders will again play by their rules and for that benefit really that the great prime minister just popped into a has been having meetings today in berlin he said he thought the country could get out of this crisis we had the german chancellor saying much the same thing the people of my extremely skeptical about this rhetoric you only have to look at the numbers of the telling out and i can tell you it is a tense situation we've got a standoff once again between the riot police and the protests to say we've already seen some bosses beings right everyone hyping the situation doesn't once again

descend into violence like we've seen happen before but unfortunately that is the level of anger today amongst the greek people people we've been speaking to saying they can't afford their rent they can't afford to support their families the visa applications the greeks wanting to now leave the pros has risen dramatically as unemployment has. it is extremely volatile situation there. with what they see as a complete and utter whitening between what the people are asking for and what the e.u. leaders they think that yes they needed that name and still has yet to decide on whether to provide that eight billion a year a cash injection that we think desperately needs is thought but potentially they will be approving that because they don't want to see we think think the year is safe briefly then anyone could leave and that really may seedless that the spell the end of the year is

a altogether this situation at the main and really on the brink. it's really happy with what's been happening in that country. that you've repeated correspondent sara firth in athens that's now bring into the conversation economic analyst international lawyer nick scratches nick pretty good evening thanks for being on r.t. international as usual as we heard so graphic you heard the greeks again tonight the key point rally and we're seeing more clashes more public anger about the government still going on course pressing on with those cuts for politicians and other things to think of any alternative to this in order to try to spare at least the poorest who are going to suffer so much here. really and choice of the moment for greece and the political system knows that many of the protesters that you see that very unhappy have very very good legitimate cause us to be and it's not just the pauses of the day. it's the last forty years that have been a bit of

a disaster really. in terms of how reflective the political will use these days of the will of the people well eighty percent of the people do want to be in the euro in greece and you know you can't do that without. coming to some accord with your lenders. to do the tax cuts tax hikes and more spending cuts are the way forward. unfortunately and this is what the troika of lenders command from us and it's a very one sided bargain i think they have been pushing greece and greeks transceiver and i think it may result in a bit of a dead trap because the more you say x. and the more you destroy the economy and the worse of these and the harder it is to repay you i think the only good news that we really got today out of the seven billion package announced by the finance minister the news that was he's not he hopes he hopes that by the end of next year we will have reached primary surpluses

which means basically we've got more revenues than expenditures and we can start seriously pain down debt during that time in the time folks that had been you think he'll still be using the euro and your country in a year's time i have no question that if the euros around we will still be using it i'm not altogether convinced that the euro will be around forever in its current form it needs great institutional changes. have been avoided for far too long we have a very divided eurozone leadership at the moment there's a lot of delivering there's a lot of conflict i think they would be very unwise to even suggest that you believe because quite frankly they can't force their way so i think it will be around and it sets a very dangerous precedent for them if priest leaves and see. me up next yeah i mean how desperate are the eurozone leaders to make sure the e.u. do stay within i think particularly about germany one of your countries how to bail you out well i don't think that the germans of the ones that are most worried about

us being in the euro zone i think it's a lot of e.u. leaders that are worried about their own secular banking system now if these rumors about a fifty percent haircut were to be venturing very much you would be not only wiping out the greek banks agree pension funds you would also be damaging very. italian. u.k. banks you name it ok some of the german banks as well floated more greek securities to be easy to be than others but they're not particularly since either so it's in no one's interest to this stage but a mystique collapse the good or even the eurozone agaves ok thanks for your thoughts economic analyst international lawyer as you are and very much in the thick of it in athens as well thanks very much richard. you should syrian government troops there reportedly stormed a key opposition town after pounding it overnight with heavy machine gun fire

russia's foreign minister has reiterated the talks are the solution for peace not more western sanctions he's also been addressing the e.u. general assembly new york from where our teams in a specific scherchen reports. 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 courting 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 to stabilizing the region even further because he brought up the latest

example of libya and 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 spoken word 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 if it's we cannot support the project that is being pushed through by western countries and it is among other things to do with the libyan experience. what the next try to use how have you calculated your next steps could be answer is that we haven't thought about it yet would president assad needs to go we need to draw you into a corner with sanctions should go first and then we'll see you very soon i believe not very reliable strategy if you 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 could join in but it's 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 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 officials feared for statehood within the united nations security council and within the united nations and as well expressed russia's welcome feeling for palestine's wish to participate in further negotiations with negotiations with israel as a 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 of the united states has

been really working hard to try to prevent palestine from placing this official been 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 in a situation of the new york for us israel's if we go ahead building eleven hundred homes in the disputed area of east jerusalem be reacted by side with decision should be reversed it's likely to further complicate relations with the palestinians on the frozen middle east peace talks and mideast quartet have given israel and the palestinians and so we end of twenty twelve to reach agreement. who co-founded the israeli committee against host of illusions told me that israel doesn't need talks so long as it's got support from his big. basically. israel has created facts on the ground over the last forty four years that have really made made its occupation irreversible i mean you've got a half a million israelis more than half a billion living in the occupied territories so that i can't possibly see how

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 and bush asians are useless either you get out of our territory period or they are there's no point in going on with the process i don't think israel has anything to worry about from its point of view there are three countries of matter if other hundred ninety are irrelevant the three countries of 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. still to come on r t y m a grid see britain are doing a good job foreign workers are soaking up to ninety five percent of vacancies in the country's bleak employment market we've got

a full report on that coming up for you. my way or the highway tough words from russia's president as he gives the finance minister his marching orders saying vital military money is not up for discussion and anyone who thinks differently could also go now. next seven kosovan serbs have been injured in an exchange of fire between protesters and nato peacekeepers of a disputed border crossing. the alliance's troops but nato says it responded only with rubber bullets and tear gas in self-defense after kosovo serbs attacked the attacked the checkpoint but emotions are running high since august when cars from 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 poor world the serbs are hoping that somebody will come to the aid

because nato at this point is not really contributing to to a peaceful resolution of the problems over there and nato is simply pushing ahead with with its interests in north korea which are mainly economic it's hard to see whether the situation will get worse but nato has not refrain from using force. to push for its interest it does have blood in its sense ever since the needle bombing of serbia in one thousand nine and these conflicts are showing that they don't really care what was going to happen to the serbian civilians are unarmed civilians in kosovo that they are going to push ahead no matter what well 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 in pristina governments are trying to establish so-called the good relations and this is

a prerequisite for joining european and the european union and this is definitely a step backward but on the other hand ever since this requirement has been imposed to to establish good relations it has been more in the sense that serbia should accept everything that the international community thinks is the porton in regards the closer well 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. jobs in the united kingdom are getting fewer of fear and it seems the vacancies that are there are being swept up by non brits immigrants scooping up a whopping ninety percent of positions are things i've a bennett reports. jaymes amongst the growing ranks of unemployed he's been trying to find a job in social housing since many competitions fear is 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 snow it 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 at 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 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 wish they'd

been having a more honest debate about the limits on what they continue the government claims its target can be met by capping normally you immigration but that ignores how most are coming from within the e.u. we're restrictions apply entry numbers for eastern europeans 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 of announced will meet that target or not come close. as i would like them to meet it so we can 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 it says most don't i go back to thirty forty years ago when you seen immigrants come to this country what they wanted to is they want to work hard and get on in life they really do they call family think about eccentric cetra you know new days gone past the establishment as british work ethic in this country really it is i think

people need to be lost some of that as it was easy to see that at the job center where most time it will migrant workers the problem is that a lot of the basic but i got used to not there in the minimum paid 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 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 their immigration promise the government simply can't keep either bennett r.t. london. here to meet a rebellious asserted that whoever disagrees with presidential policy should look for another job which is exactly what happened to the now former finance minister who was sacked on monday and executed and said he couldn't work under

a new government if would vote of became prime minister in any future reshuffle of the top people all of it 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 proof inside the prisons the armed forces now some of the spending policies as appears to have been in disagreement to what alexi could install and that's why he lost his job on monday now president dmitri medvedev has on tuesday possibly defended his spending policies saying this defense spending in particular was crucial to the development of russia we knew more than we can do without sufficient spending and this spending should be worthy of russia we're not some banana republic we're a big country a permanent member of the un 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 elsewhere he said worse and we probably will miss well could really clearly did disagree with dance and now he will be looking for work elsewhere this all really came to a head the catalyst for it being the announcement to 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 in to say it's he couldn't work with. the trade get is was prime minister g two spending policies midgette is in turn issued an ultimatum to could in saying i think get on board or guess else intended your resignation didn't come and he was dismissed from his post late last night after eleven years we are all over a correspondent there he will cross of elements on that story at r.t. dot com including the actual frosty exchange between the president of the man who was his treasury chief we got the footage online through it r.t. dot com also online tonight the kalashnikov rifle proposed by the ball it is russians the french ministry the size of the country's most iconic weapon is now. a

moscow's in a mood to move this is internet sensation dancing mat videos. show him performing his gig around the world now he's in russian capital getting most of the vibes on their feet as we go watch them getting down by getting online and you can catch all our videos at the same time of course report at r.t. dot com. gives prosecutor wants former ukrainian prime minister yulia timoshenko behind bars for seventy years the iron lady of ukraine's politics is on trial for abusing her power of a gas deals with russia which allegedly lost millions of dollars something she denies thousands of her supporters have been rallying outside the court in kiev where alexia chesky reports. many say that the court hearings are entering their final stage with debates in court to take place within the next several weeks and we are expecting some kind of verdict to be delivered within the next several weeks now experts are speculating he said what that verdict will be some say that's how

you get to a second may get i still get a prison sentence of up to seven years for the economic crimes she's being accused of and that will automatically take her out of the presidential race in twenty feet and of course will also rule her out of the parliamentary complaint due to be held in autumn next here you too much that was being accused of several economic crimes one of them is unlawful gas deals with russia in two thousand and nine the same just moscow adamant that those gas agreements were signed in full accordance with the international legislation and thus they must be fulfilled but still they're being revised and that is being something which is being speculated by the two countries' governments at the moment supporters of judicial shango and those against her are being stationed at the main street the shoddy street in front of the court building for several months now and they're still here with course expecting their presence to. multiply within the next several weeks and gentians

will most likely be rising and of course we'll be keeping our focus on this case a movie bringing the latest details thought is us as soon as we get them we want to do to correspond the next here is your screen there world news in brief now this hour opening statements are underway in the california trial of dr conrad murray who's charged with the involuntary manslaughter of measured michael jackson it's claimed dr murray administered a lethal dose of sedatives to jackson causing his fatal overdose in two thousand and nine parys pleaded not guilty insisting he didn't administer anything that could have killed jackson. a roadside bomb in afghanistan killed sixty members of a family including eleven children they're on their way back from an engagement party when their vehicle was struck at the province and the explosion was just hours after a separate assault in the south of the country five died and dozens were injured when a suicide car bomber targeted police in a city with security was handed over to afghan forces two months ago. powerful

typhoon yes it struck the philippines bringing monsoon rains and strong winds that are flooded parts of the capital at least sixteen people including children have died in the storms which will force 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 type of expected to move across the country before reaching southern china on thursday. so i'm twenty four pm here in moscow in rome and five minutes or so tonight because a report on here for you are telling you something wall street would rather you didn't know usual first you really have brings us up to date with the business news from moscow. thanks kevin that's right time to delve into the world of business and a temporary fix has been made to the russian government following the firing of alexa could train a spine its minister on monday that's about pushing house point it could trim step she until one of the new acting finance minister well first prime minister he could

shove all of the report to the cabinet on economic issues the prime minister gave no indication how long the interim arrangement might last his trance both appointments have been approved by president bit better could try installing a public disagreement between the two men. the world's biggest soft drinks maker coca-cola is planning to invest three billion dollars into russia's economy by twenty sixteen that says much as it spends 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 acquisitions moves and we've done. so that 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. let's have a look at the markets where our stocks are rising extending the previous sessions gains investors hope that european policymakers are moving closer check plantar voice a massive debt default. markets in europe have posted strong gains on choose a sentiment all supported by speculation that euro zone leaders will take steps to be thought the bailout fund german commerzbank sought to live an unhealthy sound at the close and tortured just a bit behind on the eleven percent on the rise. rajan russia the markets rallied on cheers to despite the resignation of the country's finance minister the r.t.s. editor over four percent under my six was up two and a half percent but i have a check on some of the individual share moves in the my six energy stocks on the rise and it's strong courage. one and

a half cent among minus poly metal gauge two percent as precious metals advanced and another such as airport was among the main gave us three and a half percent wanted twenty fold increase net profit for the first time for the year therefore also says it's considering listing in dublin and new york. so we have time for now you are up to date for more stories check our website arches of consular business. coming.

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