three pm in moscow i mattress a 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 its progress in tackling its crippling debt and they'll decide whether to release further bailout cash this follows angry protests tuesday after the government passed the most unpopular round of austerity measures yet r.t. sarraf earth has more from athens. we saw a very positive rhetoric yesterday for the greek prime minister george patton jr he was in berlin just saying the heads of industry that we had very similar same is coming from the german chancellor now we know that the trade coded 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 years and greece really opened the way for the

team to return here bypassing the very unpopular property tax that happened quite late yesterday and it was already known that lawmakers were almost certainly going to approve that bill was that that's going to probably add around an extra thousand a year is 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 faces here at the electricity company the electricity workers the said that they're going to boycott that collection of the tax increases 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 he really can't express enough the ury on the streets the people outside parliament are 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 shiny pitches that their

families telling me stories about leaving children unemployment is rife here they really are in a very desperate situation and we see in this the poor and this really is one of those service things about the situation here increases that through the rhetoric coming from the leaders and about trying to stabilize the year is a new you leave away from the economics of this and the people here in the country and genuinely really suffering 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 of passing to d.c. are critical ing the people. canonic affairs blogger dmitry kovtun is thinks the greek government needs to take drastic action and fast if it wants to find a way out of the crisis. they need to default on their debt if they want the s.r.d. 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 default 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 drachms again it doesn't mean that euro zone 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 greece will remain in the euro zone speaking to the e.u. parliament in strasburg in his annual state of the union address bro so admitted

the eurozone is living through its own in the worst crisis in its short history the president of the e.u. is the executive arm called for more unity claiming the next two years will be a bad sense of the fire for an entire generation. but a lot on to our t. dot com for more insight into what's going on in greece and the eurozone at large in his walk on our website the former deputy speaker of belgium is parliament loaded about it with who writes that the problems facing greece are not new he claims they were known about ten years ago when the country entered the currency union but no one paid enough attention by the why at r t dot com. several serbs have reportedly been injured in clashes with nato troops as the violence has once again flared up around 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 the lie of peacekeeping troops tried to dismantle road blocks set up by serbs troops say they used 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 talks between belgrade and prishtina scheduled for wednesday have been canceled as a result of rising tension. a serbian historian and author says nato is actions may only make a tense situation worse. nato is absolutely outside the bounds of it might its mandate it is not supposed to be a law enforcement agency for to form a self-proclaimed government it is it wasn't supposed to seize d.c. so called customs posts in the first place and it certainly is institutionally shooting at people don't peacefully protesting this turn of the in 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 in early august i didn't need

a command chose to escalate and they are giving us this pabulum about lloyd older and truman allow men and their foremost criminal elements in this case. well stay with us here on r t 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 u.s. foreign policy but calls for immediate u.n. sanctions against the massacres are dropped from the draft resolution as russia and china call for the government and opposition to negotiate. first though israel says it's not going to back this 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 decision as disappointing and illegal while moscow and the e.u. have voiced hope of a rethink israel maintains it will keep building something palestinian say rules

out talks between the two sides international middle east peace quartet made up of russia the u.s. and u.n. called for by a lot of old talks to resume within a month but adults now think that's highly unlikely. basically. israel has created facts on the ground over the last forty four years then of 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 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 negotiations 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 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 policy towards 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 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 bid palestinians could still get an elevated legal status at the u.n. general assembly where they have a majority of support. will stay with us here on r t still ahead 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 some of arkansas leverage is fine they get more than they bargained for when publicly discussing 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 been softened and now threatened sanctions only if the government doesn't end its crackdown on the opposition but that crackdown is continuing syria's army has deployed tanks and armored vehicles to the town of rostov on 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 might 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 is 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 alister 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 more bloody interventions are echoes of colonial imperialism according to british author and journalist simon jenkins a columnist for the guardian newspaper full interview with him coming your way in a little more than an hour here's a preview. i do not believe the states have a legal right to 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 and. is going about his own business which is going to reveal lucian it was it's i'm sure lost to things that happened in benghazi nasty things happen all over the world. the excuse that there might have been something about to happen the justification for invading to be invading a country will make its capital i find quite extraordinary and it creates it's a noble concept of we tend to be in countries where we have some interest in the struggle we tend to enter the way we think as almost quit glory to be had as was the case if you are wrong he was the case here who i know is more responsibility there is no british empire anymore. former ukrainian prime minister yulia timoshenko is back in court for the second day of hearings after a two week break she's accused of abuse of power during during gas deals with

russia in two thousand and nine claims she denies today session we'll hear evidence from a representative of the company that claims her deals brought almost two hundred million dollars worth of losses since june to machine who was arrested in august on charges of contempt of court to arrest sparked mass protest in kiev with some of her supporters with police. turned out of some other stories making headlines across the globe libya's national transitional council says it thinks colonel gadhafi is hiding in the west of the country protected by loyalists near the algerian border fighting meanwhile continues in the city of sirte where more than two. hundred thousand libyans are in danger of being put up in the clashes severe food water and power shortages also reported meanwhile u.s. media says an estimated twenty thousand heat seeking missiles were stolen in the country and it's not known where they are. now 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

a day after sixteen civilians were killed in a different province when their station wagon struck a roadside bomb eleven of those victims were children the taliban's been stepping up assault across the country in recent months as nato begins to withdraw some of its combat troops. iraq has made its first payment in a three billion dollars deal to buy each team u.s. f. sixteen jets including training and weaponry the planes which will be delivered next year are due to protect the country's air sovereignty after the u.s. military leaves there are some forty four thousand u.s. troops in iraq with all scheduled to withdraw by the end of the year iraq was hoping to buy eighteen more fighter jets but they are still awaiting u.s. approval for that. turning to yemen where forces loyal to what tribal leader have shot down a government war plane that was bombing their positions north of the capital the jet fighter was downed by anti-aircraft guns near the region where insurgents overread it all army base earlier this week the capture of close weeks of

intermittent fighting between pro and anti-government forces president ali abdullah saleh who is under international pressure to step down return to the country last friday sparking violence in which dozens were killed this. stay with us here on r.t. still to come a dropping out of school for a life of picking cotton we were for millions of children in india suffer abuse while working plantations across the country. but first to the u.s. 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 some of their reputations after voicing their views especially when it comes to some hot button issues as artie's got a cheeky on reports. it's 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 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 skin siddur 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 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 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. automatically makes you any systematic c.n.n.'s former senior editor of middle east affairs. was sacked a year ago because of a tweet she wrote about her respect for a lebanese cleric who had one time had been seen as the spiritual leader of the hezbollah but had later broken ties with them there also apologized but was promptly pushed out of the u.s. 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 the law and i have been missing. 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 who got 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 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 that i have to price i'm going to check out reporting from washington our team. member you can find the latest news videos and blogs online at r.t. dot com here's what's a click away right now. british justice in the dock as a convicted terrorist gets released from prison halfway through his sentence but. facebook getting some power. it's own political action committee to strengthen its lobbying on capitol hill. the latest images and video. of a powerful typhoon that slammed into the philippines leading to hundreds of thousands of people to flee much much more online for you right now.

more news today. and these are the images. giant corporations are today. millions of children across india give up school in the hope of a better future to help support their families often the end up working in cotton fields but while they earn a few dollars rights activists say they lose a whole lot more and they want a little is done to protect the children from being physically emotionally or even sexually abused artie's preassure to report. from across the street sixteen year old navin pressed saad can hear the chatter of children a few years younger than him going to school but his school going days are long gone precise was taken to work on cotton plantations with the dream of making money for his family i went to the farm where i work from 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 but 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 yield of bt constant is produced with the blood in her children won't confirm eighteen hours we have seen many cases of you know look it's been 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 they're going to make it but into a legal one fifteen with all the movies i can give him a lot of the movie 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 months santo an american agricultural company that critics say has

a monopoly on agricultural practices around the world sells bt seeds to these farmers bought too many international companies that are investing and involved in the b.c. culture and 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 plantations. 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 either party india. stay with us here on our two careers up next with the business news. hello welcome to our business update this hour we'll go straight to our top story is antitrust authorities have raided european offices of gas from minutes main customers over possible market abuse the checks are taking place in ten countries

where gas from is suspected of market manipulation and excessive pricing gas from partners german energy groups r.v. and on and off oil and we are also subject in the investigation now to discuss this i'm joined by the i didn't ever think of ski head of research at north capital thank you sir for joining us at what all the allegations and how serious are they. how well there is very little information so far obviously we've been watching where he closely this is the because though this might have their market price of gas brought my opinion is that basically something to help on the related to the to the activity of gas brought my own in germany and there is a little surprise to me that. partner rue gods actually took a stance of gas from and expressed dissatisfaction and some sort of frustration with this readership. and there is

a very little knowledge about details but it's definitely something connected with the gazprom paperwork and get sprawled agreements. concluded in germany so you think this is what they're looking for basically four agreements some kind of paperwork. probably there is some of the remans not prison but the proper way and that might actually signify some side agreements a good in with possibly i'm not saying this exactly happened but this is my version that might be a separate agreement with the regards probably as a possibility. i saw they would need to inspect the paperwork and the guest room basically in this situation has nothing to do but sit and wait but but but genuinely think you are so concerned why these rays second place well what's the concern there. in the world basically i would refer to

a recent booting. speech in brussels when he said that basically if you can go ahead and speak with gazprom and. you know generating capacity and. transfer and pipelines because if you consider this a breach of monopoly rules and time monopoly rules go ahead and do it but i think it's inefficient because there will be a lot of middlemen there will be additional cost incurred in the in conjunction with this split as we remember there was a little reaction from the european counterparts and i also cannot exclude that this is some aftermath of this disagreement some probably you know side effect said beard in conjunction with in the temp just released activity for gas brome in germany probably but the speaking about this all what

effect will this have on russian relations with the european union. from your point of view well you know this is a win win their relationship i mean the european union unfortunately cannot go by without gazprom right now there is little alternative except after the. japanese. explosion. germany's stronger pools in the for the development of nuclear power it means the german used to feed itself with the other you know and they're just sources including good nature. gas because natural gas is the least polluting. source of this i don't think this conflict has a new year. if the perspective to develop into full fledged contradiction into full fledge conflict between russia and germany i think somehow.

this will be a result of one way or another and bridges soon because it's the last example of their dependence. ok well let's just wait and see and thank you for sharing these thoughts with us that was like my russian coffee had a research at north capitol that's all time we have this hour but join us in about forty five minutes from now for more here on this.

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three thirty pm in moscow these are your arty headlights the grim financial fate of greece under scrutiny from european and i am after officials there doing athens to assess the scale of the country's progress in reducing debt this after thousands of greeks united in protest against the government's latest round of austerity measures. nato peacekeepers in kosovo was injured seven serbs in the clashes at the border area the alliance says it used rubber bullets but a local news agency claims live rounds were fired as released x. rays it says show the gunshot wounds of victims. the international community condemns israel's decision to build new settlements on occupied territory palestinian savy israeli moves rule out any chance of bilateral peace talks. up next peter lavelle asks his cross to our guest whether western.