and prime minister george papandreou is in germany right now to convince its main lender that greece is on the right track to reduce its crippling debt sarah ferguson atoms for us. only shading on this here on syntagma square tonight thousands upon thousands of people have turned out you can see the tension levels rising again the people in charge take the riot police moving in there you can see poses a will sure the moment being right and certainly if else like her piece that we saw in the summer when those processes. and sadly we saw the violence sunday evening we source everything 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 taxed they simply don't have that money and they're calling on eurozone leaders now to be realistic the talk is certainly turning to that a greek default analyst here has said to us at the really is a case of how that happens whether it's

a controls to focus on greece's turns over the e.u. leaders will again play by their rules and that benefit really that the greek prime minister george papa j has been having meetings today in berlin he said he thought the country could get out of this crisis and we had the german chancellor saying much the same thing that people have grown extremely skeptical about this rhetoric you only have to look at the numbers that are turning 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 bottles being thrown everyone hyping that 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 a full day rent they can't afford to support their families the visa applications the greeks wanting to now leave the pros has risen dramatically extremely volatile

situation that simply fed up with what they see as i complete and utter widening between what the people are asking for. well edith is a teaching three years edith and the name is still has yet to decide on whether to invite that eight billion a year in cash injection the least they desperately need and still that potentially they will be everything that the kids they day wants to see rethinking the years any briefly then anyone can leave and that really what may save the said would spell the end of the year is a altogether the situation at the moment really on the brink everyone we meet was extremely unhappy with what has been happening in the country. so first a correspondent in athens tonight with european leaders a desperate to try to work out a solution to keep greece from collapsing and taking the region down with it but constitutional law professor george cut billions of bankruptcy on greece's own terms is better than surrendering sovereignty to foreign lenders there is not an

easy way out for greece. but they think that given a default but that they fall decided to buy us over in good government it's not just imposed on us by reforming that would be a better solution because people know we are not going through a filing with it so far in our government cannot follow its own policy it's just following guidelines. just gave lines as i told you before have proven to be fruitless just important sacrifices without any hope of what we all know what the second year of this are still you commercials that you state of get it used. rocket . is practically double done or we have started this or certain 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. in syria government troops reportedly storm to kill opposition turn after pounding in overnight with heavy machine gun fire russia's foreign ministers reiterated that talks are the solution for peace not more western sanctions there's talk now to journalists not to war activists and she's in washington for a series of very good to see you tonight thanks for being on r.t. international opposition activists in syria saying the suffering fresh attacks now by government forces although president assad's been promising these reforms movement does seem to be slow how soon could we see damascus putting its words into proper action. syria needs to listen to surgery love raw and listen to and allow foreign mediation to come in and help them. there is no way bashir assad can do this by himself and he is not receiving any proper assistance from the united states or any

european power that would be able to offer conflict resolution sanctions are not the answer sanctions only hurt the syrian people but. if bashar assad will would be wise he would quickly invite a russian delegation to come in and help the syrian government resolve this problem the west though want sanctions the west thinks that sanctions are the way forward to try and force the syrian government stands you're saying categorically you think that is not the way to go. syria sanctions freeze the situation so that diplomacy is stalled it never works it is a bad bad strategy and it means that they lack ideas for advancing problem solving the syrian people need real changes and real reforms and someone need a third party mediation is critical to helping bashar assad's government go forward

. i had the advantage of working with the syrian diplomats at the united nations and we all knew that in a time of crisis. governments begin to become paralyzed of course they make decisions that are very short term that are only going to help them survive the afternoon without understanding how it will impact them tomorrow morning and without thinking of tomorrow morning so they make good decisions for service that you know they don't make good decisions they make bad decisions based on survival that will get them through a day but not tomorrow and they must have mitigation and i would just like to say that i knew surgeon lateral when he was. at the united nations and he is a formidable strategist and there there it would behoove the syrian government to listen to. the advice of someone of this he was such an experienced

diplomat in solving these problems he's he's saying in effect that nato countries have got no real strategy for syria beyond i've stated president just sad i mean what all western leaders try to do but with these sanctions and but what about where they're trying to get where is that going to take the country. they have no strategy for going forward all they know is regime change it's like what they've done in libya what they've tried to do in libya they thought that if they removed khadafi all the problems would go away actually has not gone away the conflict the war has continued there has to be a plan a comprehensive plan for enacting reforms that and that does not require the removal of bashar assad who in the past has been very supportive of reforms but the syrian people are correct that this process has been moving too slow and it needs to go forward and bashar assad needs to accept help and i sincerely hope that

the foreign ministry of russia will give it to them because they need this help and that there must be some intervention will russia has been warning against letting their libyan scenario repeat itself in syria is a military intervention all the cards any closer to being on the stage do. i think that it could be and i think it would be disastrous i think we've already seen that libya has we've lost control of the situation in libya the rebels came in and declared victory but there is no victory in libya the people of libya are furious they hate nato they're fighting back and so qaddafi may not be in the future of libya but what no one knows what is and now we have a situation in syria where the west thinks that removing the head is going to solve the problem it will not solve the problem there have to be substantial reforms but the whole apparatus of the syrian government would still be in place and. the cost

of it is much better to use diplomacy as a solution sanctions never work ok says. diplomacy is exactly the moment you need them we get your message she's an adult things ever so much for taking the time to be on a pretty sure thing. israel given the go ahead to building eleven hundred homes in the disputed area of east jerusalem the international community's rounding on the decision is counterproductive saying it should be reversed but israel's move is likely to further complicate relations of course with the palestinians and the frozen peace talks the mideast quartet have given israel and the palestinians until the end of twenty twelve to reach agreement jeff howe co-founder of the israeli committee against house demolitions he told me that israel doesn't need to work so long as it's got support from its big allies basically. israel has created facts on the ground over the last forty four years then it really made made its

occupation irreversible i mean you've got half a million israelis more than half a million living in the occupied territories so that it's 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 negotiations are useless either you get out of our territory period or there or 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 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 nothing 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 why immigrants in britain

are doing a good job right now foreign workers are looking up to ninety percent of vacancies in the country's bleak employment market we've got a report coming up from london. my way or the highway tough words from russia's president as he gives the finance ministers marching orders saying vital military money is not up for discussion in any one of things differently can also go now. because the oceans between serbia and kosovo are on hold until the situation of the disputed border crossings comes down seven cos of an serbs who are injured there is an exchange of fire between protesters and nato peacekeepers both sides blame each other for starting violence the motions with running high since august when kosovan police seized two border crossings in a trade route 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 and nato is simply pushing ahead with with its interests in north korea which are mainly konami it's hard to say 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 nato 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 are unarmed civilians in kosovo that they are going to push ahead no matter what while 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 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 is been more in the sense that serbia should accept everything that the international community thinks is a porton in regards to kosovo while the course all beings are 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 joe most of the united kingdom are getting fewer and fewer and it seems that they can see is that all there are being swept up by no brits immigrants escaping up a whopping ninety percent of positions either bet reports. jaymes amongst the growing ranks of unemployed he's been trying to find a job in social housing since many competitions fears that father six agencies now

working for each job so you just find that you know it 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 is now 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 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 are 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 a top of a measure of announced that target might come close. unlikely to meet its 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. but says most don't i go back to thirty forty years ago when 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 the 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 was it was easy to see that at the job center where most i'm it were migrant workers the problem is that a lot of british people a member of the bit hasty and i got used to not doing 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 end the benefit dependency which is trap so many people and finally ensure work pays but once the long term unemployed can be forced to look for jobs there's no guarantee they'll get them coming back to their immigration promises the government simply can't keep either bennett r.t. london here demitra develops 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 lex accoutred said he couldn't work under a new government if my values became prime minister in a future reshuffle at the top 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 improvements in the prisons and the armed forces now some of the spending policy says appears to have been in disagreement towards alexy couldn't thoughts and that's why he lost his job on monday now president dmitri medvedev has on cheese day robustly defended his spending policies saying at this defense spending in particular is crucial to the development of russia when you more from the way we can do without defense 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 out with that i will be but will 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 they plotted me of putin will run for the presidency in twenty twelve and that he would put forward dimitri midgette of as his prime minister now this could in to say they see couldn't work with. to be treated as a as prime minister t two spending policies get if in turn issued an ultimatum to could in 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 here if you want to catch up with that story got my web site as well including the actual frosty exchange between the president of the man who was his treasury chief at r.t. dot com one of the early stories as well tonight but he says she's a kalashnikov rifle world famous name preparing though to bite the bullet as

russia's defense ministry decides of the country's most iconic weapon is at a day. moscow's a move to move this is internet sensation down the sink but there is. it was a video show performing is jigger around the world now he's in russia getting muscovites on their feet to watch them get down by getting online full of video reports at r.t. dot com it's midnight twenty over but most of the time world news in brief opening statements are underway in the california trial of dr conrad murray who's charged with the involuntary manslaughter of legendary pop star michael jackson has claimed dr murray administered a lethal dose of sedatives to jackson causing his fatal overdose in two thousand and nine murray's pleaded not guilty insisting he didn't administer anything that could have killed jackson. a roadside bomb in afghanistan has killed sixteen members of a family including eleven children they were on their way back from an engagement party when the vehicle was struck in the head or province the explosion happened 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 where security was handed to afghan forces two months ago. powerful typhoon nesat struck the philippines bringing with it monsoon rains and strong winds they flooded part of the capital at least sixteen people including children have died in the storms which a force businesses to close and disrupted their travel and power supplies over one hundred thousand people have been evacuated from the worst affected areas the thai food expected to move across the country before reaching southern china on thursday . coming up. one of the world's leading experts on u.s. foreign policy walter russell mead explain this to us the way he sees it is for america's global future.

walter russell mead thank you very much for being with us today sir good to be here it's a pleasure so i know that your and democrat who voted for obama has disappointed you in some ways yes in some ways no i have to say when i voted for him i didn't think oh this is the one everything is going to be perfect i thought he would be

able to manage our foreign policy. effectively not perfectly no one and i think he has. i think we're in fairly good shape and he's been able to do some of the things that the bush administration tried to do but without all the trouble and aggravation and some ways which is good domestically i think he made some mistakes at the beginning of this and he he thought that the country had elected him to transform the country i. he was actually look to be more like bill clinton and try to keep everything nice and so he's gotten out because he tried to do too much and do some things people didn't expect or want he's now on the defensive and this is a difficult time for him what do you think shapes the values of a promise administration lot of things i think he's very much a product of the kind of ivy league educational system. as he sees

himself i think is part of a new kind of america almost the millennial generation in some ways looking to build a post racial society i think he does he's he's not as much on the left some people have thought a year as i don't i don't think that's right i think i would consider more a kind of a technocrat in the in the mold of people like mcgeorge bundy the sort of great harvard technocrats of the one nine hundred sixty s. and seventy's i think is where he is getting is going to get reelected that's very hard to say i know that you have described the united states e.u. and japan as financially responsible superpowers so i was wondering how do you think the world can afford to be led by responsible super powers well of course there are a lot of financially irresponsible non superpowers too i think financially they're

not superpowers right but what i guess what i'm saying is who else can it be led by that was going to my second question that if the united states actually loses their leadership who would it be well that's partly why i think it may be less likely that the u.s. will lose and in some ways the dollar as a reserve currency it's the chinese are not going to internationalize theirs for a while the euro is is not really an alternative to the dollar so what is it the swiss franc the south african rand so let me just recap because there's been a lot of talk in the past two years about the world becoming law type color. in your opinion things are going to stay the way they are the world order for a while well i guess what i would say is the whole. the goal of american foreign policy is not actually a uni polar world i mean people. think that the united states actually is more a grab

a garbo and that is we would like to be left alone for example the european union from the united states' point of view is the perfect solution the europeans aren't going to war with each other they aren't going to war with us they're pretty prosperous they like a lot of the things we do so the europe if the nicest had a dream for europe that would be it it's ok now we have much less power in europe than we did in one thousand nine hundred five when we could decide who ate what's ok but you have much more power in other parts of the world right but again what we want to say is we would like every place to more or less be like your happy rich at peace so that you can be left alone so right so that the world would be the way we want it to be but we wouldn't have to make it perform that's the american goal and so in that sense. a multiple older world in which most or

all of the polls are kind of like the american way without us making them like it and you see that's the goal and to some degree the emergence of india the emergence of europe the fact that brazil is growing into just that kind of power suggests that that we're getting that what americans would consider a banal on multiple arity rather than say the one nine hundred forty s. when you have the soviet union germany and japan that all heat that system and are trying to destroy it how would america like to see russia america would like to see russia happy free democratic and secure thank you very much for this interview thank you.

twenty years ago the largest country. to some degree to just. what had been changed. to teach began a journey. where did it take the. very first verses of the bible that all human beings are created but set of it all came in god's image and it doesn't say just jews or non jews. sixty to seventy percent of what i did as a combat soldier an iraqi by territories was to do with deterrents doing what we call making our presence so you go out should some bozo they hear a knock on some doors run to the other corner and hit another house religion and nationalism not just judaism have been a part of the problem they've been part of what leads to. bloodshed if you want to bomb guys and kill. a thousand four hundred people in

a month and you want to expect that this will have no effect until a feat you have to be either extremely naive or extremely stupid not to be a killer religious jew calling another joe a not you not a lady really did it not. it's

midnight thirty here in moscow my name's kevin owen and you're watching our top stories tonight anger in athens crowds railing lawmakers as they rip a stamp a new property taxes the government scrambles for debt rescue cash in germany. also had learning from us as government forces storm a key opposition town in syria moscow calls on both sides to talk while rejecting western sanctions. and violence flares between serbia and breakaway kosovo is seven cos of an serbs a range of that a disputed border crossing. next a special report about a stone twenty years after leaving the u.s.s.r. and its uncomfortable relationship with its soviet past.