mr george perp and drumming times in germany to try to convince its main lender the greece is on track and the right track to reduce its crippling debt sara firth's in athens 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 john take the riot police moving in there you can see poses a war 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 sourced everything happened on syntagma it's been a struggle here to get the situation under control for the first time in this country you're 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 as a greek default analysts here have 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 for that benefit really that the greek prime minister george patton jay 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 of the 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 protesters say we've already seen some bottles being thrown everyone hoping 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 there simply fed up with what they see as i can plead and also widening between what the people are asking for us. look the e.u. leaders at this think three years they needed that the name as well as yet to decide on whether to invite that eight billion a year a cash injection that we think desperately needs. that potentially they will be a preview in that because they don't want to see we think think the year is sane if briefly then anyone can leave and that really what they see the fed will spell the end of the year if they all think as it is situation at the name and really on the brink everyone. extremely happy with what is being happening in that country. first reporting there for us no syria government troops backed by tanks and helicopters have reportedly stormed a key opposition town after pounding it overnight with heavy machine gun fire meanwhile at the u.n. russia's foreign ministers once again called on all sides to sit down for talks

reiterating dialogue is the only possible solution this gives more comment on this ongoing story in syria we're joined now by jacob hornberger founder and president of the washington based future of freedom foundation jacob thanks for being on r.t. with us tonight russia has been very clear about no more sanctions do you think for the western sanctions are likely though to push the syrian government to give in to the opposition's demands. well it's likely that the u.s. government will continue to pursue those avenues but they're absolutely misguided and wrongheaded sanctions have never succeeded in achieving regime change which is what the u.s. goal is and then let's keep in mind that this was a dictatorship that the u.s. government used one time to torture a canadian citizen name a our air our so there's a lot of hypocrisy here too as well what are the chances of the syrian government collapsing and what would happen if it does. well you know i don't know how

can you ever call these kind of things but and no one can predict the aftermath but the real point is that this is something that the syrian people should decide not the u.s. government it's none of the u.s. government's business this revolution's announced or of regimes should be up to the people of that country because as we all know the price can sometimes be very high in revolutions and that's why it's up to the people of that country to make that decision but we haven't seen the paper of the country or the the job of the opposition only wanting to talk to the leaders of the country do you think there's a sea change there now is that this is dragging all of the impasse drags on is the likelihood that they'll be discussion and people get around the table. i think it's impossible to say you know dictators are dictators for a reason they they like power they intend to stay in power and the citizenry won some kind of democratic reforms freedom they see the rest of the world is passing

them by they want what the rest of the world has and so how do you arrive at a compromise of those two principles sometimes it's possible sometimes it's not it's impossible to predict but why do you think we've seen so little progress that in terms of the assad regime and the opposition sitting down for talks let's flip that around is it too late for its own. well because assad wants to remain in power most likely for the rest of his life at least a few decades as most of the middle east dictators have done is dictators have been throughout history the people want him out of there how do you compromise that kind of position i think it's extremely difficult. well russia's foreign minister we know has criticized nato countries driving no real strategy for syria be all that president assad. if you think west of what all western a destructive achieve that if they get him out what are they going to bring in his place do you think. well they're trying to bring in a u.s.

approved ruler or he could be a dictator i mean let's keep in mind that the us empire doesn't have anything in principle against dictatorships they partnered with the assad dictatorship to torture a man they supported we barracked they support the dictatorships in saudi arabia jordan but what they're trying to achieve is to put their man in power that's the whole quest of u.s. foreign policy can they achieve that well time remains to be same but there's always a high cost to this type of imperialist and foreign policy at least to the american people or i would take a look at thanks for your views there father of presidents of the future of freedom foundation thanks so much. israel's given the go ahead to building eleven hundred homes of the disputed area east of jerusalem the international community's radical the decision is kind of productive saying it should be reversed israel's moves likely to further complicate relations with the palestinians and the frozen peace talks the mideast quartet given israel and the palestinians until the end of two

thousand and twelve to reach agreement helpers co-founder of the israeli committee against house demolitions he told me earlier that israel doesn't need talks so long as he's got support from his 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 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 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. jobs in the u.k. getting fewer and fewer and it seems the vacancies that ah there are being swept up by non brits immigrants and scooping up a whopping ninety percent of positions on the bennett reports for t.v. . 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 the measures are announced will meet that target and might come close but it is unlikely to me to further measures are necessary for others the problem lies at home pretty patel's an m.p. and from an immigrant family herself she knows what it takes to. succeed here but says most don't i go back to thirty forty years ago and you've seen immigrants come to this country what they wanted to is they want to work hard and get on in life they really do 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 will migrant workers the problem is that

a lot of the bit hasty but i got used to not doing the minimum paid jobs and 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 that immigration promise the government simply can't keep either bennett r.t. london to me to the developers asserted that whoever disagrees with presidential policy should look for another job which is exactly what happened to the now former finance minister that he sacked on monday. said he couldn't work under a new government if became prime minister in a future reshuffle at the top of his paper 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 improvements in the prisons and the armed forces now some of the spending policy says appears to have been in disagreement towards alexy 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 was crucial to the development of russia when you more from away 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 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 you saw us and 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 diplo to me a putin will run for the presidency in twenty twelve and that he would put forward

dmitri medvedev as his prime minister this could in to say they see couldn't work wish to be treated as a as prime minister g 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. seven cost seven serbs have been injured in an exchange of fire between protesters and nato peacekeepers a disputed border crossing and locals play in the alliance is true but nato says it responded only with rubber bullets and tear gas in self-defense after kosovo serbs attacked the checkpoint motion's been running with a high this since august when kosovan police seized two border crossings in a trade dispute with serbia and a police officer was killed in earlier violence let's get some comment about these . elements the bush is a serbian his story is george washington d.c. the bush is very good even she thanks for being with us these reports emerged in

serbia that nato forces used real bullets despite what nato say having earlier said that they were using tear gas and rubber bullets we've got some pictures from the serbian news agency ten new york. to try and explain what's happening you've got a doctor pointing up with the injuries here we're looking to see itself the doctor pointing at what looks there they are they look to pay the doctor says i'm not a medic i don't know if you know but they are real bullets despite what nato is saying they're going to comment on that. yes they started out using rubber bullets in the switch to real live ammunition. needed claims that this was after a protester several bombs sent them serb reports are saying that the used flares that to use that soccer games to drive off nato troops from trying to bodily remove a lorry a truck that was walking one of the little barricades for the past eleven days that it's been a game of nerves on the barricades with nido sitting up barbed wire and fully armed

troops in the surge building the barricades of earth trying to block nido and using alternate routes into the province because whenever serbs try to use the be unmanned crossings they would get beaten abused detained and otherwise mistreated. just a few days ago after the nato first put into barricades do local serbs at this very crossing actually gave them food and trying to be social there is no reason why they would attack each be we've got pictures of that as well we don't have our direct to can show that says it's a still picture i believe we've got coming up of. giving food across the barbed wire there to the nato soldiers there we go i mean that looks like they're on a specified can be in these circumstances that the raid on reasonably amicable terms and yet we're hearing that it all dramatically changed to rome. after that. is there any suggestion that nato overstepped the mark here absolutely absolutely

and it's not just me saying so obviously there's very very many observers that are saying that nato was absolutely outside the bounds of my its mandate it is not supposed to be a law enforcement agency for therefore the self-proclaimed government it is it wasn't supposed to seize these so-called customs posts in the first place and it certainly isn't supposed to be shooting at people they don't peacefully protesting this turn of the turn of events but nato is perceived by serbs as part of the problem not take the serb side of it i can understand that side of the argument i can see both sides of the argument it is a reasonable position though and if so what's to be done to improve the situation. what is very easy to improve the situation by not making it worse in the first place by not deploying these troops in support of. actually speak state now that they have been deployed they could have just as well have retreated like they did back in july in early august again needed comancheros to escalate and they are

giving us this pabulum about lawyer order and criminal elements and therefore most criminal elements in this case if what we're saying there is true if these allegations are true proper bullets we use eccentric cetra of the scenario really is that if i'm getting this right nato peacekeepers the people that moved in to help bring calm in the region are now involved in shooting themselves as we have apparently seen here could this situation escalating of a more what's the worry. well did could escalate to the point where nato is basically causes disturb opulent remains in a province which is only about a third of the population it existed twelve years ago we need a truce team in you have to remember when needed troops came in in one thousand nine hundred nine a large number of serbs hundreds of thousands of them actually were forced to leave and needle troops just looked idly by as the as the caylee and the and the ethnic. albanians conducted a massive ethnic cleansing operation the also stood idly by and two thousand and four where fifty thousand ethnic albanians ran across the province burning out of

villages and churches and expelling people so new troops really don't provide protection to the local serbs as much as protection to the albanian authorities from serbia now serbia itself the government and believes refusing to support its own people which is a separate problem. but the serbs in kosovo that the people who actually live there who don't want to leave their homes who don't want to live in an albanian state they have done everything. peaceful population is expected to do in a civilized world they have gone out to the barricades stopped at the. bodies and bare hands and offered them food is a sign of as a sign of acceptance and tolerance and they got shot in the heart you know what else is a is about religion support it is the mark does democracy mean freedom to submit. thanks here's a program. historian the author on arteta night. for world news now this

fair opening statements are under way in the california trial of dr conrad murray is charged with the involuntary manslaughter of legendary pub star michael jackson's claim dr murray administered a lethal dose of sedatives to jackson causing a fatal overdose in two thousand and nine various pleaded not guilty of system he didn't administer anything that could have killed jackson. a roadside bomb in afghanistan 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 a province explosion happened just hours after a separate assault in the south of the country five died and dozens were injured when a suicide bomber targeted police city where security was indeed handed over to afghan forces just two months ago. powerful typhoon struck the philippines has brought with it monsoon rains and strong winds those rains and flooded parts of the capital at least sixteen people including children died in the storms business has been forced to close its disrupted air travel and power supplies over one hundred thousand people have been evacuated from the worst affected areas but thai food is

now expected to move across the country before reaching southern china on thursday . one twenty one am moscow time coming up soon on this channel the kaiser report with economic news analysis was true prefer you didn't know before that there were two sophie shevardnadze meets one of the world's leading experts on u.s. foreign policy walter russell mead explains next how the land lies 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 you're an advert democrat you voted for obama has said disappointing 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 that 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 phase which is good domestically i think he

made some mistakes at the beginning of this he he thought that the country had elected him to transform the country i think 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 valleys of a promise and raised ration lot of things i think he's very much a product of the kind of ivy league educational system. because he sees himself i think as 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. some people have forty years i don't i don't think that's right i think he 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've described the united states e.u. and japan as financially responsible superpowers so i was wondering how long 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 paul or. 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 think people. think that the united states actually is more a gretta garbo and that as 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 watts 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 i'm old type polar world in which most or all of the polls are kind of like the american way. without us making them like 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 been on multi-polar already rather than say the one nine hundred forty s. when you had the soviet union germany and japan that all heat that system and are trying to destroy what america like. america would like to see russia happy free democratic and secure thank you very much. thank you. wealthy british style. sometimes. market why not. spend. why not what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert for

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