levon am in moscow i met treasurer good to have you with us here on r t our top story greece has been engulfed by angry protests after the government mass the most past the most popular or check that government passed the most unpopular round of austerity measures yet in exchange for rescue loans a new property taxes are expected to bridge a gap in the country's budget but people say they can't afford to pay our firth watch the protests on a turbulent night in athens. well using his arms race being love to protest being pushed out of syntagma square you can hear the take gas going off again we said the situation looking like he was going to escalate and i think that that will that's what we're seeing we've seen a huge amount of the riot police pushing the crowd sound. 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 soltis 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 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 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 that simply fed up with what they see as a complete and utter widening between what the people are asking for and will be

leaders and pushing through the years they needed at the moment are still has yet to decide on whether to provide that eight billion a year a cash injection to greece they desperately needs and still that potentially they will be approving that because they don't want to see greece i think the year is saying if briefly then everyone can leave and that really what most people said will spell the end. you know the name didn't really bring up the green lights that can't be done with the pretense that it's not like that but it's disease. was. economic affairs blogger 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 the s.r.t. measures to work because right now you have austerity with tax increases and a giant that 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. because you have this giant debt that's not going to go away that goes for ireland and portugal and spain as well and perhaps italy but i think that the smartest thing for the e.u. and the i.m.f. to do if they really want a solution would be a structured the fault of greece of portugal of ireland probably spain as well in some sort of way and to allow some of those currency the countries especially greece for example for the public sector to issue drachma so again it doesn't mean that euro zone have to circulate but it would mean a kind of dual currency system in 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 fiscal integrate europe but in the short term the e.u. may stay alive if they allow some of the other countries to begin to issue their own currencies and partially default on their debts. we'd like to hear your views on the crisis in greece you can click over to our t.

dot com and take part in our latest poll or asking what do you think agree can either leaders are talking about behind the scenes sixteen percent think they're debating how far balance can stretch more than a quarter believe they're looking at how to manage a controlled the fall a minority believe a minority believe they might be advising whether greece should exit the euro zone but the most popular response is the tongue in cheek one suggesting that the talks are focusing on how politicians can escape a lynching at the hands of angry voters live on to dot com and cast your vote. several serbs have reportedly been injured in clashes with nato troops as violence has once again flared along the serbia kosovo border it's believed alliance peacekeeping forces tried to take apart a road barricade set up by the serbs troops say they used rubber bullets and tear gas in self-defense but a serbian news agency claims live rounds were used as distributed pictures showing x. ray images of the gunshot wounds tensions began 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 the barricades on the roads and the serbian historian and author says the nato his actions will only make a tense situation worse oh nato is absolutely outside the bounds of my its mandate it is not supposed to be a law enforcement agency for now for the self-proclaimed government it is it wasn't supposed to seize these so-called customs posts in the first place and it certainly is institutionally shooting at people don't 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 spine not deploying these troops in support of. speak state oh now that they have been deployed they could have just as well and retreated like they did back in july early august again need in command choose to escalate and they are giving us this pabulum about loyal reader and criminal elements and therefore most criminal elements in this case. stay with us here on r t still to come in the program

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 quest of u.s. foreign policy but calls for immediate u.n. sanctions against damascus are dropped from the draft resolution is russia and china call for the government and opposition to negotiate. but first israel says it's not going to back the south imposed ban on building settlements in the 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 the decision as disappointing and illegal while the e.u. says construction plans should be reversed but israel maintains it will keep building something palestinians say rules out talks between the sides the international middle east peace cortez comprised of u.s. russia e.u. when un called for bilateral negotiations to start up within a week but have a list think that's highly unlikely. 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 to negotiate 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 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 of the united states britain and germany as long as they're behind israel's policy toward 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. 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 on wednesday the us 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 bid for membership palestinians can still get an elevated legal status at the u.n. general assembly where they have a majority of support. stay with us here on r t still to come speaking out but then 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 room you can get in trouble american celebrities find they get more what they that they more than they bargained for when publicly discussing sensitive issues including the

so-called war on terror details coming up. but first countries have dropped their call for further immediate sanctions against syria the u.n. draft resolution has now been softened and now threatened sanctions only if the government doesn't end its crackdown on the opposition but that crackdown currently continues syria's army is deployed tanks and armored vehicles in the city of rostov on russia has been calling on both sides in the six month long conflict to hold talks and has opposed. hornberger founder and president of a washington based future freedom foundation thinks the real aim of any western intervention would be to put their man in power. 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 at one time to torture canadian citizen name a our 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 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 x. explanations for justifying more bloody interventions echo's colonial imperialism according to british author and journalist simon jenkins the full interview coming your way in about an hour hears you. i do not believe the states have a legal right to an obligation or duty to interfere no the sovereign states is written into the united nations jones. this is not a country to threaten britain didn't threaten any of its neighbors and invaded in the neighbor it was going about his own business which is not

a revolution it was it and i'm sure lost of things would happen to many guns enough to things have moved the world. the excuse there might have been something else to about to happen the justification for invading to invading a country will make its capital is i think quite extraordinary and it creates it's a noble concept and we tend to do it in countries where we have some interest in this case although we tend to enter the way we think of as a quick google read to be had as was the case if you the wrong. was the case here who i knows is more responsibility there is no british empire anymore. for suspected militants have reportedly been detained in russia southern republic of. they're charged with organizing insurgent groups there to explosive devices were found after the suspects homes were a and by police hand grenades and various munitions were also confiscated police have now launched an anti terror operation in the area north caucasus remains

a volatile region after many years of militant activity and frequent battles between insurgents and security forces. turned out of some other stories making headlines across the globe nato officials say loyalist fighters are hiding in a residential areas of bani walid and sirte but in more than two hundred thousand libyans in danger from allied airstrikes and its haq from anti could aki forces severe food water and power shortages also reported meanwhile u.s. media says an estimated twenty thousand heat seeking missiles were stolen in libya and it's not known who has them now. iraq has made its first payment on a three billion dollars deal to buy eighteen you. u.s. f. sixteen fighter jets including training and ammunition the planes were delivered that will be delivered next year it will protect the country's air sovereignty after american military forces leave there are some forty four thousand u.s. troops in iraq all scheduled to be scheduled to 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. for a convicted murderer who's been on the run from the f.b.i. for forty one years has been arrested in portugal george wright a skate from a new jersey prison having served eight years in jail then he hijacked a plane while dressed as a priest and fled to algeria he was convicted of the murder of a gas station owner during a robbery a robbery in one thousand nine hundred sixty two and was given a thirty year sentence the u.s. now seeks his extradition. michael jackson's personal doctor has gone on trial charged with the involuntary manslaughter of the legendary singer dr conrad murray is accused of professional negligence in administering the star with a fatal mix of sedatives murray denies the charge but admits to giving jackson the drugs to help him sleep the physician and says he didn't prescribe anything that could have caused death if found guilty murray could face four years in jail and the loss of his medical license. stay with us here on r t still ahead dropping out

of school for a life of picking up the report on how millions of children in india suffer abuse while working on plantations across the country. but first in the united states anyone has the right to speak their mind but those opinions can sometimes carry a high price at least that's been the experience of some high profile figures who have lost their jobs or their reputations after voicing their views especially when it comes to some hot button issues as artie's got a cheeky on reports from washington. an american icon legendary singer world war two veteran and pacifist tony bennett because come under fire for speaking his mind on a radio talk show he said america's actions are broad it provokes terror with the terrorists or with the terrorists or are they the terrorists well two wrongs don't make a right but the one who started with the plane flying into the world trade center what do you do know 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 i'd like to say that i am sorry if my state statements suggested anything other than an expression of my love for my country america calls itself the land of the free but some are asking why our 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 his considerable holy except if you say the wrong things you can get in trouble and artists have musicians have now tony bennett to speak question freedom of speech proved no defense in protecting the jobs of a number of probably figures in america sacked after comments that appeared to challenge conventional u.s. establishment views the 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 they

taken from palestinians everybody has been fired for what they say these days you could you but not if you say anything about the president of the united states you can call him anything in the book but you can't say anything about israel. that automatically makes you any sematic see it is former senior editor of middle east affairs now sir was sacked a year ago because of a tweet she wrote about her respect for a lebanese cleric who at one time had been seen as the spiritual leader of the has a law that had later broken ties with response there also. that was promptly pushed out of the us mainstream media outlets all about consequences social and economic just pressure rather than real censorship politicians expressing ideas against the establishment if you come under fire just like congressman ron paul who is running for president i'm some of them large and i don't think i have been a christian. they have been explicit and they wrote. that we are can

act we attacked america because you had bases on our holy land in saudi arabia you do not give palestinians a fair treatment and you have been bombing. i didn't say that i'm trying to get you to 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 by everybody and there's 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 booed 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 our reporting from washington are to. remember you can access our news updates and latest videos all on our website r t v dot com

here's what's online right now. facebook getting serious by launching its own political action committee to strengthen its lobbying capitol hill. watching. images are you traveled the powerful typhoon assad slammed into the philippines causing hundreds of thousands to flee all that and much much more put away right now. more news today. these are the. streets of canada. for asians to rule the day. millions of children across india give up school and the hope of a better future to help support their families often they end up working in the

cotton fields but while they earn the equivalent of only a few dollars rights activists say they lose a whole lot more a whole lot more and they warn that little is done to protect the children from being physically emotionally or even sexually abused artie's priya sridhar reports . from across the street sixteen year old navin prosodic 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 was taken to work on cotton plantations with the dream of making money for his family i went to the farm four am to six pm every day twenty six of us children work i came home as i wasn't paid so the work i did was nothing. he was promised the equivalent of around two dollars per day but left the plantation that summer with nothing are to 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 they use these visuals to provide evidence to policemen in the area so they could conduct a raid and save the children. we need to highlight that the bt constant is produced with the blood in her children won't confirm one thousand hours we have seen many cases of gallons being raped 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 the going to make it but in so good a legal one. can give him a lot of the moon commission. 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 so many people argue that banning it would actually prevent children from working in the fields with their parents. experts 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 bt seeds to these farmers boss who many international companies are investing in and involved in the b.c. culture and if the cost of production is too high and multinational companies won't like that work for now the victims of this mass the scare children can barely speak about their time at the plantation. i came back home now i want to go back twenty

six of us were cheated by the. cheated out of a childhood for the greedy to make a buck preassure there are to be india. or the british are crossed are coming your way shortly but first greenham joins us with the business update stay with us here on r.t. . i welcome to our business off the south thanks for joining me russ and markets are struggling to retain gains they enjoyed at the start of the week they managed to avoid fallout from the resignation of finance minister aleksei couldn't but you have stepped crisis is weighing on the markets a low russian indices a managing to peek into positive territory joining me now is planning on all ski from renesas asset management thank you for coming to the program so russia took this largest hit during the last wave of the turbulence on the market was that.

russia used to beat the market in the world and that's because it's dominated by commodity producers that the kind of cool it's also less liquid than the major boost to so when the markets the global markets will fall russia tend to exacerbate but let's not forget when the markets go the other way russia unfold from this is the reason why over the love decade since the bear market russia's beaten everything by a very huge margin and i don't buy the relationship it's an attention any time soon but some claim that smart by the are not buying rescue efforts by the e.u. and say markets are doomed so what's your view on that first. which is the smart money the smart money is doing without adult people are very bearish consensuses universally bearish if you look at cash levels very high and crisis situations in both sensationalism and the temptation to say the world is coming to an end. you

know gets the front page i think. it's quite clear that the markets have been driven by policy action or inaction. with a pretty binary situation should the european union and the politicians get their act together i think this would be quite helpful to markets and we will avoid a collapsing crash however should the political process be a stall as it falls. less. will be naive the european union is the largest economic block in the world the consequences are likely to be quite serious i'm not sure whether that's going to lead to a collapse but certainly the marks one plug up but given all that what do you think could keep investors confident in order to avoid all this turmoil we're seeing again it is policy action there are some distinct things that the european union can do to rescue the situation to safeguard the. safe bourse and to also to arrange for an orderly default for the ones that come pay i think if the markets

were to see that there would be quite encouraged the other thing that we shouldn't forget is that the central banks of the world have told us that they will issue unlimited liquidity and because of that liquidity doubt will overflow in the system as it did before that would be hugely helpful to emerging market assets and it also is likely to bring some inflation in the system when inflation goes up the chinese markets frankly i think people would like for you to go from investors just ordinary people how could we ordinary people protect our assets which we do it's very tricky this case because of there's no help for it does not come through i'm just going to jump to the conclusion and i think if you want protection against decline in the real purchasing power of your assets you actually have to take risk if you're very concerned about capital protection i'm afraid the so-called safe havens don't give you the things the longer you can see that you'll see in the major developed economies are close to zero in some cases negative let's not forget

about inflation again it's very early and i'm not talking about c.p.r. i'm talking about cost of living so purchasing power of capital has been eroded very rapidly if you want the protection against inflation i'll repeat that you have to take risk there is no easy lunch left on the table in the long run there is much talk about but we don't have much time so palm coast investment director of rene thanks very much for coming to the program and now let's take a look at the markets. seeing new sets of losses ahead of reports that may signal a slowdown in global growth investors expect figures to show that u.s. durable goods orders fell and european consumer confidence declines to a year low in september when blend is trading at around one hundred six dollars per barrel while w.i. as at eighty three dollars per barrel now markets in asia are mostly trading lower as investors are concerned about europe's willingness to resolve the region's debt crisis the hang seng is continuing losses while the nikkei is. slightly flops of

but pointing upwards financials are still on the rise although the gains are now more modest no more holdings and it was a curious groups were up around one percent each and here in russia markets are higher this hour the my six is up slightly and over actually demise it's up over. half a percent and the r.t.s. is up just slightly reversing from an earlier fall now let's take a look at some individual share moves on the line six the style and energy majors trading in negative territory a little crude. after losing more than one percent meanwhile concerns about european debt are weighing on financials spread bank is down almost one and a half percent this hour and among the gainers though is known as the company has started accepting bids for its four billion dollars buyback program. that's all for now join me in forty five minutes for more.

cultures that so much as a lot of people at my area will download old tapes of from western really mention is a is it ever justified or such of military interventions within the confines of international law is there a case where. twenty years ago the largest country. to serve two diseases of the first. one had been trying. to teach began the journey. where did it take them.

eleven thirty am in moscow the zero r.t. headlines thousands of greeks unite in protest after the government passes another round of austerity measures in a bid to avert a looming economic disaster this comes after the greek prime minister held talks with the german chancellor and an attempt to restore confidence that it is on the right track. nato peacekeepers in kosovo have injured seven serbs in clashes at a border area the alliance says it used rubber bullets but a local news agency claims live rounds were fired as well as the x. rays that it says show the gunshot wounds of the victims. and the international community slams israel's decision to build new settlements on occupied territory the palestinians say the israeli move rules out any chance of bilateral peace talks . his guess on cross talk whether.