siding whether to release further bailout cash angry protests broke out tuesday after the government passed the most unpopular round of austerity measures yet it's a new property tax and it's expected to bridge a gap in the country's budget but people say they can't afford to pay it or he's sorry for thousand more. well you think his underwear is being blocked the protesters are being pushed down i'll sometimes spare you can hear the take gas going off again we said the situation looking like he was going to escalate and it seems that that well that's what we're seeing we've seen a huge amount of the riot police pushing the crowd style and 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 the greek prime minister george papa 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 their rent they can't afford to support their families the visa applications the greeks wanting to now leave the pros has risen dramatically and extremely volatile situation that is simply fed up with what they see as a complete and utter widening between what the people are asking for a look see leaders approaching three years a leaders at the moment still as yet to decide on whether to provide that eight

billion a year a cash injection that greece a desperately needs is still that potentially they will be approving that because they don't want to see greece a thing here is saying if briefly then everyone can leave and that really what may save the said will spell the end of the year. it is to a scene at the moment really on the brink. the glory of the fight for that country the protests it's a day it's no it's a fight that for. economic affairs blogger dimitri kovtun is thinks the greek government needs to take a drastic drastic action and quickly if it wants to find a way out of the crisis they need to default on their debt if they want the austerity 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 surf

down 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. in the end this to do if they really want a solution would be a structured default of greece of 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 eurozone have 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 fiscally 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. european commission chief jose manuel barroso has pledged that greece will remain in the euro zone speaking to the e.u. parliament in strasse millions annual state of the union address barroso admitted

that the eurozone is living through the worst crisis in its short history the president of the executive arm called for more unity claiming the next few years will be a bad to some a fire for the entire generation. to be well we'd like to hear your views on the crisis in greece you can click over to r.t. dot com and have your say in our latest poll or asking what do you think greek and e.u. leaders are discussing behind closed doors and around sixteen percent think they're debating how far the bouts can stretch more than a quarter think that they are and what we're going to have how to manage or control devolve a minority think that they might be advising whether greece or to exit the euro zone porth the tongue in cheek responses so far the most popular suggesting talks are focusing on how the politicians can escape a lynching at the hands of angry voters and the plug on r.t. dot com your book. several serbs have reportedly been injured in clashes with nato troops as violence has once again flared at the kosovo serbia border talks between belgrade and prishtina scheduled for wednesday have been

cancelled as a result of the rising tensions it's believed alliance peacekeeping forces try to dismantle a roadblock set up by serbs the 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 started in july with a host to try to seize checkpoints to enforce a unilateral trade embargo is anger at the serbs who protested against it and set up the barricades on the road knowledge of serbian historian and author says that nato is actions may only make a tense situation worse. need to is absolutely outside the bounds of much its mandate it is not supposed to be a law enforcement agency for still thirteen government tutor sheena it is it wasn't supposed to. so-called customs posts in first place and it certainly isn't be shooting at people they don't peacefully protesting the stern of the turn of events

it's very easy to improve the situation by not making it worse in the first a spy not deploying these troops in support of a touchy streak seat oh now that they have been deployed they could have just as well and retreated like they did back in july normally august again needing command choose to escalate and the giving us discount be a little about lloyd older and criminal elements and therefore most criminal elements in this case stay with us here on our team 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 quest of us foreign policy but calls for immediate u.s. sanctions against damascus are dropped from the draft resolution as russia and china call on the government and opposition to negotiate. but first israel says it's not going to back a self-imposed ban on building settlements in occupied palestinian territory and is plowing 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 move as disappointing and illegal while he says the construction plans should be reversed but israel maintains it will keep building something the palestinians say rules out any talks between the sides the international middle east peace quartet made up of russia the u.s. and you and u.n. called for bilateral talks were to resume within a month and i have a list think that's now 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 a half a million this rabies more than half a million living in the occupied territories so that it's i can't possibly see. see how they go she shoes 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 you go she shoes are

useless either you get out of our territory period or they are there's no point in going on with the process i don't think israel has anything to worry about from its point of view there are three countries 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 deletes 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 new settlement construction comes as the u.n. security council are ready to consider the palestinian bid for membership at the world body wednesday the u.s. has promised to veto the move but russia and several other council members say they'll support the palestinians even washington blocks the full membership palestinians could still get an elevated legal status at the u.n. general assembly where they have a majority of support now still ahead on r t speaking out but then being shouted

down. here in america we're very proud of our freedom of speech and the right to speak this is considered holy except if you see the wrong you can get in trouble american celebrities find they get more than they bargained for when they publicly discuss sensitive issues including the so-called war on terror details coming up. but first e.u. countries have dropped their call for further immediate sanctions against syria the u.n. draft resolution has now been softened and now threaten sanctions only if the government doesn't end its crackdown on the opposition but that crackdown is the currently continuing the syrian army has deployed tanks and armored vehicles to the town of rostock russia's been calling on both sides in the six month long conflict to hold talks as opposed sanctions to take a burger founder and president of the washington based future of freedom foundation thinks the real aim of

a western intervention would be to put their men in control. sanctions have never succeeded in achieving regime change which is what the us 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 our they supported we barracked they support the dictatorships of 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 is 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 using humanitarian explanations for justify more bloody interventions echoes colonial period lism according to british author and journalist simon

jenkins full interview with him coming your way in about twenty minutes here's a preview. i do not believe the states have legal rights or an obligation or a duty to interfere no the sovereign states is written into the united nations jones. this is not a country that 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 last two things would have the main guns enough to things happen over the world. the excuse there might have been something about to happen the just because they didn't take the invading a country and bombing its capital is i think quite extraordinary and it's a noble concept of we tend to be in countries where we have some interest from the state or will we tend to enter the way we think that was quick glory to be had as was the case of if you the wrong and he was the case here all i know is more money responsibility there is no british empire anymore.

for suspected militants have reportedly been detained in russia's southern republican they're accused of organizing insurgent groups there too explosive devices were discovered after the suspects homes were raided by police hand grenades and ammunition were also confiscated police have now launched an anti terror operation in the area the north caucasus remains a volatile region after years of militant activity with frequent battles between insurgents and security forces. check now at some other stories making headlines across the globe nato officials say loyalist fighters are hiding in residential areas of bani walid and sirte putting more than two hundred thousand libyans in danger from allied airstrikes and attack from anti cocky 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 where they currently are. iraq made its first payment on

a three billion dollar deal to buy eighteen u.s. f. sixteen fighter jets including training and weaponry the planes will be delivered next year and are protected countries air sovereignty after military forces leave as more than forty thousand forty four thousand u.s. troops in iraq are all scheduled to withdraw by the end of the year iraq is hoping to buy eighteen more fighter jets but it's still awaiting u.s. approval. a convicted killer who's been on the run from the f.b.i. for forty one years has been arrested in portugal george wright escaped from a new jersey prison having served eight years in jail he then hijacked a plane while dressed as a priest to flee to algeria he was convicted of the murder of a petrol station owner during a robbery in one thousand nine hundred sixty two and had a thirty year sentence the u.s. now seeks extradition. michael jackson's personal doctor has gone on trial with the involuntary manslaughter of the legendary singer conrad murray's accused of professional negligence it is ministering the star with

a fatal mix of sedatives and murray denies the charge but admits giving jackson the drugs to help him sleep the physician insists he didn't prescribe anything that could have led to death if found guilty or you could face four years in jail and the loss of his medical license. stay with us here on our t.v. still ahead dropping out of school for a life of picking cotton we report how millions of children in the india suffer abuse while working plantations across the country. but first in america anyone has the right to speak their mind but those opinions can sometimes carry a price at least that's been the experience of some high profile people who've lost their jobs whether reputations after voicing their views especially when it comes to some hot button issues as artie's got a cheeky. report 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 the broad have provoked terror with

the terrorists or with the terrorists or are they the terrorists well two wrongs don't make a right they're the ones who started with the plane flying into the world trade center what do you do oh 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 law 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 real love speech

approved no defense in protecting the jobs of a number of probably figures in america sacked after of 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've taken from palestinians everybody has been fired for what they say these days you can 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. automatically makes you any sematic cnn's former senior editor of middle east affairs and not sir was sacked a year ago because of it we wrote about her respects a lebanese cleary who had one time had been seen as a spiritual leader of the has a lot lane and had later broken ties with the response or also. it was promptly pushed out of the us mainstream media it's 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 some of them large and i don't kind of have been a christian. they have been explicit and they grow. there we 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 through i understand what the motive was behind the bombing at the same time we have been bombing and killing hundreds of thousands of iraqis for ten years would you be annoyed if you're not annoyed by a group going 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 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 our to remember you can find our latest news updates and videos online at r.t. dot com here's what's a click away right now. facebook getting serious by launching its own political action committee to strengthen its lobbying clout on capitol hill. and you can find images are the. hundreds of thousands all that and much much more. today. these are the.

nations 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 cotton fields but while they earn the equivalent of a few dollars a day rights activists say they lose a whole lot more they warn that little is done to protect the children from being physically emotionally or even sexually abused are reports from. from across the street sixteen year old of the empress saad can hear the chatter of children a few years younger than him going to school but his school going days are long gone for saad was taken to work on cotton plantations with the dream of making money for his family i went to the farm when i was 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

for nothing. he was promised the equivalent of around two dollars per day but left the plantation that summer with nothing r t 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 field of b.c. courts ministries used with the blood in her children while working eighteen 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. one who.

can give him a lot of the 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 to

be some of the cost of production is too high a multinational companies 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 now twenty six of us were cheated by going to. cheated out of a childhood for the greedy to make a buck preassure either party india. when americans up next with the business news stay with us here at r.t. . welcome to our business i'll play this out thanks for joining me question markets are struggling to retain the gains they enjoyed at the start of the week they managed to avoid fallout from the resignation of finance minister arctic sea cordon but europe's debt crisis is weighing on the markets although russian indices managing to pick into positive territory. from an isis asset managers explains what is driving the

roller coaster. the reason the brushwood so lovely is to go for us is the ca's pizza market in the world did some value markets it's always been quite cheap and when the global markets are in turmoil russia first in the form of the other reason but you can look for that to stop the russian market is still relatively liquid compared for the global versus and when people read the money it tends to suffer disproportionately so there is a flipside to that when things go off the russians to outperform everything else and that's where over the last decades since the bear market trough. recently russia was the bus pulling marketing the world always goes up more than anything goes on more than anything. well she spoke about innovation hub could lose a lucrative contract with b.p. as a result of the company's long lasting conflict with its russian partners the british oil major has frozen a multi-million dollar project with skolkovo to increase oil refining efficiency in

russia he says it's concerned its partners in the joint venture to b.p. might object to the deal earlier this year b.p.'s russian partners blocked its huge tie up with ross now and now demanding for billions of dollars in compensation a court hearing on that case will take place on thursday. take a look at how the markets are doing the russian markets slightly higher than my six is up point three percent while the r.t.s. is just a notch now let's take a look at some individual share moves on them isaac's energy majors are trading in negative territory lower crude both gospel monreal snapped a losing more than one percent meanwhile concerns about european debt are weighing on financials the bank is down almost one and a half percent so among the gain is is noise can make you that's up seven percent the company jumped the most in three weeks after it started accepting bids for its

four billion dollars buyback program. now all is seeing new set of losses they had 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 declined to a two year low in september to blend is trading at over one hundred six dollars a barrel while the guy is over eighty dollars a barrel. in asian markets are mixed japanese and australian stock markets managed gains but chinese and korean traded slightly lower solidly lower europe is europe's ability to tackle its debt problems is keeping buying sentiment in check and signing is continuing its losses while the nikkei is flat financials are still on the rise along with gains. more modest. and here's europe where markets drop in early trading after report following that european leaders are divided over whether to restructure greece's bailout banking stocks lead the fall with b.m.p. party boss sleeping three point four percent while hedge fund manager man group

tumbled seventeen percent after reporting a sharp fall in its assets under management. this p.d. reform of russia's banking sector may fall victim to the sacking of finance minister alex equal in which it has worked from trading believes a new measures to make it more transparent will now inevitably be delayed. everything is put into question. however there are questions that need to be decided also. the term of office. is coming to an end. the question is who is going to. all questions of the future are probably going to have to wait until we see who the new. but they do need to be reform. situation. all of the.

to be looked up so there are areas where reform is needed. russia's financial institutions are getting ready for a possible second wave of the crisis. is also planning to shed some of its workforce and that the current volatility and states of. growth. may raise capital abroad because of global economic. stories on our website.

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twelve thirty pm in moscow the zero. thousands of greeks unite in angry protest after the government passes another round of austerity. disaster this comes after the greek prime minister held talks with the german chancellor and try in a store confidence that. nato peacekeepers in kosovo have injured seven serbs in clashes at the border area. but a local news agency. released x. rays which it says show the gunshot wounds of. the international community slams israel's decision to build new settlements on occupied territory. by lateral peace talks with the u.k. and other western.