the. thousands of greeks unite angry protest after the government passes another round of austerity measures it's have to avert a looming economic disaster. border disorder nato forces in kosovo clash with serves as a local news agency reports live rounds have been fired. from. the international community slams israel's decision to build new settlements on occupied territory that the palestinian state rules out bilateral peace talks called for at the u.n. .

ten am in moscow i met reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story greece has been engulfed by angry protests after the government passed the most unpopular round of austerity measures yet in exchange for a new round of rescue loans a new property tax is expected to bridge a gap in the country's budget but people say they can't afford to pay for watch the protests out of turbulent night in athens. do you think here from the racing club the phrase has been pushed out house in times square you can head to take gas going off again we said the situation looking like he was going to escalate other things that that will that's what we're seeing we've seen a huge amount of the riot play pushing the crowds down. 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 cut they simply things

have that money and they cling 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 that benefit really that the greek prime minister george papa j. has certain having meetings in berlin he said he thought the country could get out of this crisis we heard the german chancellor saying much the same thing 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 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 extremely volatile situation there simply with what they see as

a complete and utter widening between what the people are asking for a lot the e.u. leaders are pushing through the years and leaders at the moment are still has yet to decide on whether to provide that eight billion a year a cash injection equates they desperately need is still but potentially they will be approving that because they tell you want to see that thing here he said it briefly then anyone can lead and that really what may save lisette was tell the. and they also can see that the maiden really on the brink of the green lights that a country that's not the place that it is it's not like the good times disease. on. display on. a blog or on economic affairs dimitri kovtun is thinks the greek government needs to take drastic action before it's too late. they need to default on their debt if they want their starting measures to work because right now you

have austerity with tax increases and a giant that and you're not going to get anywhere and the greek economy is contracting so if it if it continues in this way in the short term long term it just means sort of down because you have this giant that it's not going to go away that goes viral and in portugal and spain as well and perhaps italy but i think that the smartest thing for the e.u. in the on the do they really want a solution would be a structured default of greece portugal of ireland probably spain as well in some sort of way and to allow some of those currents of the country especially greece for example for the public sector to issue drachmas again it doesn't mean that you are going to circulate but it would mean a kind of dual currency system in the long term the euro is not going to survive for reasons that we're already seeing in terms of national policies overriding pan european policy i don't think they're going to be able to create a fiscal treasury and basically integrate your advice in the short term the e.u. may stay alive if they allow some of the other countries to begin to share their own currencies and partially default on their debts. we'd like to hear your views

on the crisis in greece you can click on to r.t. dot com and take part in our latest poll we're asking right now what do you think greek any you leaders are discussing behind the scenes about fifteen per cent think they might be analyzing whether greece should exit the euro zone about a quarter believe they're looking at how to manage a control deferrals a minority believe they're debating how far the balance can stretch but so far the most popular response is a tongue in cheek one suggesting talks are focusing on how politicians can escape a lynching by angry voters have your say click on r t dot com and cast your vote several servers have reportedly been injured in clashes with nato troops as violence has once again flared along the serbia kosovo border it's believed the alliance peacekeeping forces tried to dismantle a road barricade set up by serbs troops say they use rubber bullets and tear gas in self-defense but a serbian news agency claims live rounds were used and has distributed pictures showing x. ray images of the gunshot wounds the tension started in july when kosovo authorities

tried to seize the checkpoints to enforce a unilateral trade embargo this infuriated serbs who protested against it and set up barricades on the roads and the militia malitia serbian historian and author says that nato's actions may only make a tense situation worse. anita was absolutely outside the bounds of its mandate it is not supposed to be a law enforcement agency for live for still proclaim government to push into these he wasn't supposed to see so called customs posts in the first place and he certainly isn't supposed to be shooting at people peacefully protesting this turn of the turn of events it's very easy to improve the situation by not making it worse in the first a spy not to kill luis troops in support of. chachi speak state i know that he had been deployed he could have just as well and retreated like he did back in july in early august i didn't need to comanche to escalate and they are giving us this tabula bug lawyer to order an interim

a new elements and therefore most criminal elements in this case stay with us here on our t.v. still to come a look at the western strategy for syria. what they're trying to achieve is to put their man in power that's the whole question of us foreign policy. but calls for media un sanctions against the mask is are dropped from the draft resolution as russia and china call for the government and opposition to negotiate. but first israel says it's not going to back a self-imposed ban on building settlements on occupied palestinian territory and is moving ahead with construction in east jerusalem the move has drawn strong opposition from israel's allies who say it's counterproductive to the peace process washington and london have described a decision as disappointing and a legal while he says construction plans should be reversed israel maintains that will keep building something palestinian say rules out talks between the two sides international middle east peace portend comprised of russia the us e.u.

and un corpora bilateral negotiations to start up again within a week but addle a spate now that's highly unlikely out basically. israel has created facts on the ground over the last forty four years that have really made made its occupy. irreversible i mean you've got a half a million this rabies more than half a billion living in the occupied territories so that i can't possibly see how the negotiations are going to end 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 he goes are useless either you get out of our territory period or they or there's no point in going on with the process i don't think israel has anything to worry about its point of view there are three countries that matter if other hundred ninety are irrelevant this 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 so i think you 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. israel's announcement of a new settlement construction comes as the u.n. security council prepares to consider the palestinian bid for membership of the world body wednesday the u.s. has promised to veto the move but russia and several other members of the council say they'll support the palestinians even if washington blocks the full membership the palestinians could still again elevated legal status at the u.n. general assembly where they have a majority. stay with us here on r t still to come a speaking out but being shouted down. here in america we're very proud of our freedom of speech and the right to speak his considered holy except if you see the wrong statements you can get in trouble american celebrities find they get in more

trouble than they bargained for when publicly discussing sensitive issues including the so-called war on terror all the details coming up. but first countries have dropped their call for further a media sanctions against syria the u.n. draft resolution has now softened it only threaten and now for. and sanctions only if the government doesn't stop its crackdown on the opposition but that crackdown currently continues the syrian army has deployed tanks and armored vehicles in the town of ras that russia has been calling on both sides in the six month long conflict to hold talks and has opposed sanctions jacob oram burger founder and president of the washington based future of freedom foundation says the real aim of western intervention would be putting their matter and our 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 us government used one time to torture a canadian citizen name

a horror air are 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 us foreign policy so there's a lot of hypocrisy here too as well if 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 tour 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. using humanitarian explanations for justifying yet more bloody intervention echoes of colonial imperialism according to british author and journalist simon jenkins full interview with him coming up in about twenty minutes here's a preview. i do not believe you are in states have legal rights it will be geisha no duty to interfere no the slogan states as written into the united nations charter this is not a country to threaten britain any of its neighbors and invaded

a neighbor is going about his own business if you're going to reveal it was its own business i'm sure last things would happen to make guns in the us do things up north of the world. the excuse for them might have been something nasty about to happen and they just threw her in for the cookie invading a country gets capital which i find pretty extraordinary and something. noble concept of we tend to really begin to be in countries where we have some interest in this case the oil that we tend to intervene where we think is the most quickly laurie to be how it was a case of going to run with and that was the case here all i knows is more responsibility there is no british empire anymore. for suspected militants have reportedly been detained in russia southern a public of english accused of organizing insurgent groups with two explosive devices were found after the suspects homes were raided by police hand grenades and various

munitions were also confiscated north caucasus remains of the region after years of militant activity with frequent battles between insurgents and security forces. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe. they do official say loyalist fighters are hiding in the residential areas of bani walid and sirte putting more than two hundred thousand libyans in danger from allied airstrikes and attack from anti could the forces severe food water and power shortages have also been reported that meanwhile u.s. media says an estimated twenty thousand heat seeking missiles were stolen in libya and it's not known who has them. iraq has made its first payment in a three billion dollars deal to buy eighteen u.s. f. sixteen fighter jets including training and weaponry the planes that will be delivered next year are to protect the country's air sovereignty after the u.s. military departs there are some forty four thousand american troops in iraq all scheduled withdraw by the end of the year the fighter jets are the first

installment of a thirty six fighter jet package that is still pending u.s. approval. he's with michael jackson's personal physician has gone on trial charged with involuntary manslaughter of the legendary singer conrad murray is accused of professional negligence in administering the pop star with a fatal mix of sedatives causing jackson's fatal overdose in two thousand and nine murray denies the charges but admits to giving him drugs to help him sleep the doctor and says he didn't prescribe anything that could have caused jackson's death if found guilty already could face four years in jail and the loss of his medical license. stay with us here on r t still ahead a childhood spent working in the cotton fields. to report on how millions of children in india suffer abuse while working on plantations across the country stay with us.

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here on our team in the usa one has the right to speak their mind but those opinions can sometimes carry a high price according at least to some high profile figures who have been forced to eat some very public humble pie for voicing their views especially when it comes to some hot button issues are he's got a champion reports from washington. an american icon legendary singer world war two veteran and pacifist tony bennett has come under fire for speaking his mind on a radio talk show he said america's actions of rot have provoked terror to terrorists are we the terrorists or are they the terrorists well rooms don't make a right they are the ones who started with a plane flying into the world trade center what do you think i don't know about tony bennett was attacked afterwards with stinging criticism from some quarters then he went to great lengths to apologize to those his remarks may have offended but i'd like to say that i am sorry if my state statement suggested anything other than the expression of my love for my country america calls itself the land of the

free but some are asking why is a living legend like tony bennett has to apologize for his thoughts there's no tolerance really for any deviation from the official line even though here in america we're very proud of our freedom of speech and the right to speak as considered holy except if you say the wrong things and you can get in trouble and artists have musicians have now tony bennett in the question freedom of speech proved no defense in protecting the jobs of a number of public figures in america sacked after comments that appeared to challenge conventional u.s. establishment views journalist helen thomas who'd been a white house reporter for over half a century was forced to resign after she said he's really should leave land base taken from palestinians everybody has been fired for what they say you can write and that if you say anything about the president of the united states you call him

anything in the book but you can't say anything about israel. that automatically makes you any semantic cnn's former senior editor of middle east affairs and not sir was sacked a year ago because of a tweet she wrote about her respect for a lebanese cleary who had one time had been seen as the spiritual leader of the hezbollah but had leader broken ties with them they're also acknowledging it was promptly pushed out of the us mainstream media it's all about consequences social and economic interest pressure rather than real censorship politicians expressing ideas against the establishment you come under fire through like congressman ron paul who is running for president on some of the law and i don't think i have been there. they have been explicit and they wrote. there we are can act we attack america because you had bases on our holy land in saudi arabia you do

not i give palestinians fair treatment and you have been bombing. i didn't say that i am trying to get you through understand what the motive was behind the bombing at the same time we have been bombing and killing hundreds of thousands of iraqis here near would you be annoyed if you're not annoyed if you go in there some problem booed and labeled unpatriotic by some just like tony bennett was when he spoke his mind it's not so much about what these people said that led to them being. or even being fired from their jobs but rather about the fact that in a country that prides itself on freedom of speech that freedom often comes at a hefty price i'm going to check out reporting from washington our team. or you can find our latest news updates and videos by clicking on our team here's what's online right now facebook is getting serious by launching its own political committee to strengthen its lobbying on capitol hill. you can buy the images are

you tube travel. by two powerful typhoon assad that slammed into the philippines causing hundreds of thousands to flee that and much more click away right now. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images. from the streets of canada. moderations rule today. piling on this news block millions of children across india give up school at hope of a better future to help support families by working in the cotton fields while they earn a few dollars rights activists say they lose a lot more and they warn that little is being done to protect the children from

being physically emotionally or even sexually abused or teens preassure to reports . from across the street sixteen year old navin plus side can hear the chatter of children a few years younger than him going to school but his school going days are long gone for saddam is taking to work on cotton plantations with the dream of making money for his family going to the farm workers from four am to six pm every day twenty six of us children work i came home as i wasn't paid for the work i did was for nothing. he was promised the equivalent of around two dollars per day but left the plantation that summer with nothing archie obtain this hidden camera video from social workers who say that these children are regularly sleep deprived hungry overworked and oftentimes physically verbally and sexually abused but they use these visuals to provide evidence to policemen in the area so they could conduct a raid and save the children and what we need to highlight could be healed of b.c.

culture and history of the. children but. we have seen many cases of you know and it's been arranged the children are taken to the cotton plantations each summer and used to pick cotton their fingers are better able to pick the plants and the farmers can lower costs by paying them less than adults agents or middlemen say they're just trying to help the kids make money and that they too ended up getting cheated in the process when they're then i made. a one hundred fifty. always i can give him the commission of the good. in many rural parts of india schools for children above the age of fourteen are rare so parents believe that if they send their kids away to work at least they won't have to worry about how to feed them seventeen million children in this country are engaged in labor work agriculture is actually not included in the child labor prevention act seventy percent of india's

economy is dependent on agriculture still many people argue that banning it would actually prevent children from working in the fields with their parents. x.-press say that it's a problem that stretches far beyond india these plantations harvest bt cotton the scientific abbreviation for genetically modified cotton monsanto an american agricultural company that critics say has a monopoly on agricultural practices around the world sells beachy seats to these farmers but as you many international companies are investing in and involved in the bt cotton and the cost of production is too high a multinational companies won't want that work for now the victims of this mass scare children can barely speak about their time at the plantations. i can back home now i want to go back twenty six of us were cheated by going to. cheated out of a childhood for the greedy to make a buck preassure either r t india or coming up in an interview in sports or

first arena joins us with a business that. i would welcome to business here in r.t. this medieval form of russia's granting sexily fall victim to the sacking of finance minister i excluded richard haynesworth from illustrating believes that new measures to make it more transparent allow inevitably to late. everything is put into question by the changes in the ministry of finance. however there are questions that need to be decided also we have to bear in mind the term of office for mistake not to risk coming to an end and so the question is who is going to place mistake not for all questions of future reform probably going to have to wait until we see who the new head of the central bank is going to be but they do need to be reforms to the situation around moscow situation so score by all of the

points that were bought by the table in have to be looked up so there are areas where reform is needed is a look and you know. meanwhile russia's financial institutions are getting ready for a possible second wave of the crisis and this is capital has decided to cut ten percent of its staff so has to be create is also planning to shed some of its workforce and the current volatility as states evolve and back the e.b. has reduced its portfolio growth by ten percent back dowd's it may raise capital abroad because of global problems. let's take a look at the markets now see new set of losses ahead of reports that may signal a slowdown of global growth investors expect figures to show us durable goods orders for european consumer confidence declined to a two year low in september bread blend is trading at around one hundred six dollars a barrel guys at eighty three dollars a barrel marketing

a share of mixed investors are concerned about europe's willingness to resolve the region's debt crisis the hang sang is between losses while the nikkei is over a quarter of a cent higher than ourselves us on the rise of over gains in a more modest the more holdings and that was the thirty's group are up around one percent which. and here in russia markets opened lower on wednesday the r.t.s. is losing nearly a percentage of them isaacson. over one percent. trade. questions markets have enjoyed a strong start to the week in part this has been due to optimism that europe's leaders are making progress in increasing the bailout fund for indebted nations but mark rubenstein felt also that markets are yet to price in reports that greece has passed on a popular property tax you know its immediate fiscal targets get a new pain on. the heels of the vote in the greek parliament last night i think the

market got another indication that the. debt problems in the euro zone i've been addressed and might see continuation of the rally that we saw yesterday today particularly against the backdrop of rising expectations that b.c.b.s. going to act next thursday when it has another scheduled meeting. about about in about forty five minutes we're. going. to. see. the be.

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