one pm in moscow i'm out treasurer good to have you with us here on r t our top story senior officials from the e.u. and i.m.f. are expected in greece to study the country's progress in reducing its debt then they'll decide whether to release further barrel out of cash this was angry protests tuesday after the government passed the most unpopular round of austerity measures yet for more on this we go live to r.t. sorry for standing by for us in this hour atolls more about the steps greece has been taking to qualify for the latest round of bailout money. well we saw a very positive rhetoric yesterday for the greek prime minister it was popping joy he was in berlin just seeing the heads of industry that we had very similar statements coming from the german chancellor and now we know that the code it team heading to greece and they're going to be holding talks here about whether to

release the next tranche of money the eight billion year and greece really aproned the way for the team to return hit by a passing the very unpopular property tax that happened quite late yesterday and it was already known that little make his way oh miss says lee going to approve that but does that that's going to provably add around an extra thousand a year ways to most people here in the country household bills and they're going to try and collect that to the electricity bill now just to show you the problems that the greek government face here at the electricity company the electricity well because it's said that they're going to call it that collection of the tax they really they're in a very difficult situation indeed the team the team again to be coming here we saw the choice to quit talks last month after the situations that they said the slow to stick weeks a greek with take weeks is taking to implement some of the. these reforms are still

pushing ahead with these but whether or not they're actually going to be able to raise that money is very very uncertain days we've seen all the dramatic protest video that you've been sent back to us you've been down there on monkey people what are they telling you. so much the same as we've heard the full that really their breaking point they said these extra taxes the austerity measures on top of the stairs the measures they're already in an absolutely desperate situation i mean he really can't express enough the. only streets the people outside parliament just absolutely livid about what they said it's the greek government really. pushing them into a situation that they can no longer stand their people shaming pictures of their families telling me stories about leaving chills unemployment is rife here they really are in a very desperate situation and we seen this before and this really is one of the service things about the situation here increases that through the rhetoric coming

from the leaders and about trying to stabilize the year is saying either way from the economics of this and the people here in the country a genuinely really suffering and you know once again we seen it taken to the point where they're approving these measures but the people on the streets are just absolutely furious we saw last night some of the worst rise that we've seen for the past couple of weeks believe again dispersing the crowd seizing tear gas every is a very dissatisfied situation and that here is the catch twenty two is that how do you get a country back on its feet when the measures that the government a passing to decern are crippling the people. to see how this plays out r.t. sorry for a fly for us in athens thanks for that report. european commission chief jose manuel barroso has pledged that greece will remain in the euro zone speaking to the e.u. parliament in strasbourg in his annual state of the union address borough so admitted that the eurozone is living through the worst crisis in its short history

the president of the news executives' on called for more unity claiming the next thirty years will be a bad tism of fire for an entire generation. well don't forget to click on r t dot com to get more insight on what's going on with greece and the euro zone in his blog on our website the former deputy speaker of belgium is parliament load of the news who writes that the problems facing greece are not new he claims that they were known about ten years ago when it entered the currency union and no one paid any attention to find out why in his blog at r.t. dot com. several serbs have reportedly been injured in clashes with nato troops as the violence has once again flared along the serbia kosovo border russia's foreign ministry has reacted to the situation calling for peacekeeping forces to remain neutral and here to the un mandate it's believed alliance peacekeeping troops tried to dismantle road blocks set up by serbs the troops say they used rubber bullets and tear gas in self-defense

a serbian news agency claims live ammunition was used and has distributed pictures showing x. ray images of the gunshot wounds tensions started in july when kosovo authorities tried to seize the checkpoints to enforce a unilateral trade embargo this in a rage of the serbs who protested against it and set up the barricades on the roads in the moisture a serbian historian and author says that nato is actions may only make a tense situation worse. needle was absolutely outside the bounds of my its mandate it is not supposed to be a law enforcement agency four to form a self-proclaimed government it is it wasn't supposed to see so-called customs posts in the first place and it certainly isn't supposed to be shooting at people 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. speak state oh now that they have been deployed the creative just as well and retreated like they did back in july

and early august again needed comancheros 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 a look at 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 it calls for a media u.n. sanctions i guess damascus are dropped from a 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 self-imposed bad building settlements in occupied palestinian territory and moving ahead with construction in east jerusalem the move has drawn strong strong opposition from israel's allies who say it's counterproductive to the peace process washington a lot and have described the decision as disappointing and illegal while the e.u. says construction plans should be reversed israel maintains it will keep building

something palestinian say rules out talks between the two sides international middle east peace quartet comprised of russia the u.s. e.u. and un called for biological negotiations to resume within a month but analysts think that it'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 half a million israelis more than half a million living in the occupied territories so that it's i can't possibly see how you go she shouldn't 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 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. as long as they're behind israel's policies or least even if they criticize as long as they prevent saying 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 are ready to consider the palestinian bid for membership at the world body wednesday the u.s. has vowed to veto the move but russia and several other council members say they'll support the palestinians even if washington blocks a full membership can still get an elevated legal status at the u.n. general assembly where they have a majority of support that's said he will now 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 wrong you can get in trouble so american celebrities find more they get more than they bargained for when publicly discussing sensitive issues including the so-called war on terror details ahead. but first e.u. countries have dropped their call for further immediate sanctions against syria the u.n. draft resolution has been softened and now threaten sanctions only if the government doesn't stop its crackdown on the opposition but that crackdown continues currently continues syria's 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 and has opposed sanctions jacob hornberger founder and president of the washington based future freedom foundation says 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 a 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 is an ouster 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 to justify more bloody interventions echo's colonial imperialism according to british author and journalist simon jenkins columnist for the guardian newspaper interview with him coming up in about an hour here's a preview. i do not believe the states have legal

rights over and over again. to interfere no the sovereign states is written into the united nations jones. this is not a country that threatened 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 the last two days were from the main guns enough to things happen over the world. the excuse that there might have been something about to happen the justification for invading to be invading a country and bombing its capital is i find quite extraordinary it's an it's a noble concept. we tend to be in countries where we have some interest in the street or that we tend to enter the way we think that was quick glory to be had as was the case if you are wrong and he was the case he will i know it is more responsibility there is no british empire anymore. former ukrainian prime minister yulia timoshenko was back in court for the second day of hearings after

a two week break she's accused of abuse of power during gas deals with russia in two thousand and nine claims she denies today's session will hear evidence from a representative of nafta guys a company that claims her deals brought almost two hundred million dollars in the losses since june was arrested in august on charges of contempt of u.s. park mass protests in ukraine's capital kiev with some of her supporters clashing with police. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe nato officials say loyalist fighters are hiding in the residential areas of bani walid and sirte putting more than two thousand two hundred thousand libyans in danger from allied airstrikes and attack from anti kadafi 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. afghan police say eight officers have been shot dead three others wounded in a militant attack on

a checkpoint in the country's south this comes a day after sixteen civilians were killed in a different province when their station wagon truck bomb. stationwagon struck a roadside bomb eleven of the victims were children the taliban's been stepping up insults across the country to recent months as nato begins to withdraw some troops . that are out of 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 legal will be delivered next year will protect the country's air sovereignty after american military leaves there are some forty four thousand u.s. troops in iraq all scheduled to be withdrawn by the end of the year iraq is hoping to buy eighteen more fighter jets but still pending u.s. approval. michael jackson's personal doctor is gone on trial charged with involuntary manslaughter of the legendary singer 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 the pop star drugs to help him sleep the physician and says he didn't prescribe anything that would have led to 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 this hour dropping out of school for a life of picking cotton the report on how millions of children in india suffer abuse while working on plantations across the country. but first the united states where 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 chicky on reports. an american icon legendary singer world war two veteran pacifist tony bennett because come under fire 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 they're the ones who started with the plane flying into the world trade center what do you 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 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 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 us 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 they 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. that automatically makes you any sematic cnn's former senior editor of middle east the fierce and not sir was sacked a year ago because of its we wrote about her respects a lebanese cleric who had one time had been seen as a spiritual leader of the has a whole lot lane and had later broken ties with the sponsor also. that 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 true like congressman ron paul who is running for president and some of them large and i don't kind have been a mistake. 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 a group going there some problem booed and labeled on patriotic by some just like tony bennett 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 our reporting from washington are to remember you can access our news updates and latest videos online at r.t. dot com here's what's a click away right now. facebook getting serious by launching its own political committee to strengthen its lobbying clout on capitol hill. by the images are you too. the powerful typhoon. of the philippines causing hundreds of thousands to flee all that and much more put away. more news today. these are the.

corporations rule the day. millions of children across india give up school in the hope of a better future to help support their families often end up working in cotton fields but while they earn the equivalent of a few dollars rights activists say they lose a lot more and they warn that little is done to protect the children from being physically emotionally or even sexually abused or. 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 has 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 well i came home as i was 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 bt clients ministries used with the blood and children but. we have seen in many cases if you know like us 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 but. i wonder 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 culture 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 these plantations harvest bt cotton a scientific abbreviation for genetically modified cotton months santo 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 it is going to

be one of the coolest i don't finish too high a multinational companies going for now the victims of this mass the scare children can barely speak about their time at the plantation. i came back i know i want to go back that twenty six of us were cheated by then it. cheated out of a childhood reading to make a buck preassure the other party india. is up next with the business news stay with us here on r.t. . for what was our business update this all thanks for joining me russian markets are struggling to retain the gains they enjoyed the start of the week they managed to avoid fallout from the resignation of finance minister. but in europe step crisis is weighing on the markets although russian indices a magazine to peek into positive territory. from renesas asset managers explains

what is driving the lower cost. the reason lokomotiv should be so bold as to go throw shoes because beat the market in the world feed some volume on a complete console is being quite cheap when the global markets are in thermal first in the form of the other reason but you can look. to the russian market to still grow to be. competitive global books and so on when people read the money begins to suffer disproportionately so there is a flipside to go printings go up rushed into oklahoma everything else who knows where they kids most used to birth control. recently russell's book called the most in the world three folds goes up to more women singles no more unique. and russian markets now are trading flash demise next point nine percent while the r.t.s. is slightly down at this hour let's take a look at some individual share moves on the my six energy majors are trading in

negative territory on the role of crude both gazprom and ross naphtha losing more than one percent meanwhile concerns about european debt are weighing on financials bank is down almost one a half percent this hour and among the gain is noticed nicko that's up seven percent of the company the most in three weeks after it started accepting bids for its all billion dollars buyback program. markets all lower in new york as well london stocks were down with banks under pressure on the new jitters over a solution to europe's debt problems or its banking group fell one point six percent while hedge fund manager mountain put a couple seventeen percent after reporting a shop fall in its assets under management commerzbank is topping the losers list on the docks property four percent. now all is seeing new set of losses ahead over the course that may signal a slowdown in global growth investors expect figures to show that u.s. doable goods orders fell and european consumer confidence declined to a two year low it's

a temporary blend is trading at over one hundred six dollars per barrel and. is. eighty three dollars. russia skolkovo innovation hobb could lose a lucrative contract with b.p. as a result of the company's long lasting conflict with its russian partners now the british were a major has frozen a multi-million dollar project with kolkata to increase oil refining efficiency in russia b.p. says its 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. now demanding for billions of dollars in compensation a court hearing on that case will take place on thursday. this be a reform of russia's banking sector may fall victim to the sacking of finance minister alex he couldn't which would haynesworth from rating believes that new measures to make it more transparent will now inevitably be delayed. everything is

put into question by the change in the ministry of finance. however there are questions that need to be decided also you have to bear in mind the term of office for mystic motive is coming to an end and so the question is who is going to place mystic knots 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 the situation so school all of the points that were bought. enough to be looked up so there are areas where reform is needed in the way investors are looking. meanwhile washes financial institutions are getting ready for a possible second wave of the crisis or nation's capital has decided to cut ten percent of its staff so as the t.v. critic is also planning to shed some of its workforce and become fallen toti and state development bank. has reduced its growth by ten percent in baghdad so it may

raise capital abroad because of global economic problems. so for now we'll have more for you in about forty five minutes so.

one thirty pm in moscow these are. the grim financial fate of greece under scrutiny from european and i.m.f. officials they're due in athens to assess the scale of the country's progress in reducing debt is after thousands of greeks united in protest against the government's latest round of austerity measures. nato peacekeepers in kosovo have injured seven serbs in clashes at the border area the alliance says they used rubber bullets but a local news agency claims live rounds were used as released x. rays which it says show the gunshot wounds of victims. and irrational community slams israel's decision to build new settlements on the occupied territory palestinians say the israeli move rules out any chance of. staying with that team up next in our teeth are one.