i would print certainly the splined hotel in touch with the who tell me it's not your real it's a google now it's international sales flood the cheese and the green little bit till. the greek news tightens period sprouts clashed with police over a new house levy to pay for the debt while the e.u. president warns the bloc faces its biggest challenge ever. border violence delays talks between serbia and kosovo after several people were injured in clashes between ethnic serbs and nato troops. and a wave of global disapproval hits israel which is greenlit more settler homes in east jerusalem as the un's most powerful body prepares to consider a palestinian state.

four pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here are t. our top story hard pressed greeks will get a nasty surprise in their electricity bills the highly unpopular new property tax that's being levied to help the government pay off its enormous debt leaders are scrambling to reassure lenders that greece is solvent so they can get more bailout cash but the european commission president is warning the e.u. may collapse if its finances are more harmonized but says greece can stay in the euro r.t. sorry for it has more from athens. we saw a very positive rhetoric yesterday for the greek prime minister it was patently he was in berlin just seeing the heads of industry that we had very similar statements coming from the challenge chancellor and now we know that the trade could it seems heading to greece and they are going to be holding talks here about whether to release the next tranche of money the eight billion year raise and greece really aproned the way for that team to return here bypassing the very unpopular property

tax that happened quite late yesterday and it was already known the law makers were almost certainly going to approve that. was a that's going to probably add around an extra thousand year ways people here in the country household bills and against trying to play that to the electricity bill now just to show you the problems that the greek government faces here the electricity company the electricity was consistent as the day came to the point cause that collection of the tax they really they're in a very difficult situation indeed it seems huge it seems against the coming here because the troika quick talks last month after the stations that they said in the slightest a quick quick quick step which is taking to implement some of these reforms still pushing ahead with these whether or not they're actually going to be able to raise that money it is very very uncertain and they really can't express enough the. on

the streets the people outside parliament just absolutely livid about what they said if the greek government really. fishing there to a situation that they can no longer stand their people shiny pitching to their families telling me stories about losing turns unemployment is rife here they really are in a very desperate situation and we've seen this the poor and this really is one of this kind of things about the situation here in greece is that through the rhetoric coming from the leaders in about try. stabilized these away from the economics of this the people here in the country like genuinely really suffering is it once again we've seen it taken to the point where they're increasing these measures but the people on the street i just. saw last night some of that was that we see the cost up that we make and i just because you think. it really is a very just a desperate situation and that here is the catch. it how do you get

a country back on its feet when the government policy its. people. eurozone leaders are keen to cling to greece as a euro member to stop the rot spreading for their own bags but financial journalist dimitri kovtun things i think should go with a loan for the sake of its people they need to default on their dad 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 i'm a greek economy is contracting so if he continues in this way in the short term long term it just means surf down because you have it is dry and that it's not going to go away because farland in portugal and spain as well and perhaps italy but i think that the smartest thing for the e.u. and the i.m.f. the do 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 you are going to circulate but it would mean a kind of dual currency system in the long term the euro not going to survive for reasons that we're already seeing in terms of national policies overriding european policy i don't think they're going to be able to create a fiscal treasury and great 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're gathering expert opinion on what's needed in order to sort out the struggling euro zone like r.t. dot com or among others are for alice's blogs there of belgium's former deputy opponents motiva newest believes the greek troubles are a decade old but the unpaid attention a lot of us still tied to stop it faster than his and many other views of our team down. between serbia and kosovo have been delayed until renewed until the renewed conflict on the disputed border crossing calms down russia's foreign ministry reacted card for peace peacekeeping forces to remain neutral and stick to

be un resolution several people were injured tuesday night in a class with an ethnic serbs and nato troops in northern kosovo both sides of blame the other for a start of the violence almost rubber bullets and tear gas burning horses and burros late july when kosovo authorities tried to seize the french here is to enforce their unilateral trade embargo local serbs responded with barricades one serbian historian has been telling our teenager his presence in the region may be only making the situation worse anita was absolutely outside the bounds of not its mandate it is not supposed to be a law enforcement agency for different self-proclaimed government intrusion it is he wasn't supposed to seize these so-called customs posts in the first place and he certainly essence of who should be shooting at people don't peacefully protesting is turn of the turn of events it's very easy to improve the situation by not making it worse in the first a study not to kill a nice troops in support of. touchy speak state oh no to be having deployed they

could have just as well have retreated like they did back in july early august again and even command choose to escalate and they are giving us this kind of deal about lloyd older and truman allow means and therefore most criminal elements in this case. stay with us here on r.g.p. coming your way in a few minutes we'll look at the cost of free speech even muslim american celebrities like kerner tony bennett of fine are not immune when speaking their mind in the u.s. we'll tell you why he's getting his words later this hour plus. our she reports on the millions of indian children suffering abuse as they are forced to work on plantations have been their families instead of going to school all the details straight ahead. but first the international community has ripped into israel for its decision to build a loving one hundred homes in disputed east jerusalem russia says it's deeply concerned that the plan and hopes will be were and hopes it will be to reversed

europe and the u.s. also joined a chorus of disapproval prime minister benjamin netanyahu defended israel's right to build with people in the country referring to it as a gift for the jewish new year celebrations this week and will also see the occupied west bank under strict curfew except for emergency crews palestinian authorities claim israel is not serious about bringing peace and john harper from the israeli committee against house demolitions explain to us why he thinks israelis don't appear to be in a hurry to get him to go she added table. basically. israel his creative 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 this rabies more than half a billion living in the occupied territories so that it's i can't possibly see how you go she should use 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 going to boss 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 iran of its three countries of the united states. britain and germany as long as they're behind israel's policies or at least even if they criticize as long as they prevent saying sions and provide this umbrella for israel israel is i think worry about who's going to say that he's going to force it to get out who's going to put pressures on israel. israel's decision to dramatically increase the size of jewish settlements in the west bank comes hot on the heels of a palestinian bid for statehood at the u.n. wednesday the security council starts considering its membership the u.s. says it will veto the decision if the big gets more than the night of the fifteen needs to pass but even if washington blocks a full membership base palestinians could still get an elevated legal status in the

general assembly where they have a majority of support. european countries have dropped their car for further immediate sanctions against syria the u.n. draft resolution that been softened and now threatened sanctions only if assad's government doesn't stop its violence against and hydrogen protesters but that crackdown continues syria's army supported by tanks and helicopters stormed a key rebel city of rust on russia wants both sides enter talks and opposes sanctions branding them as an unreliable strategy hornberger from the future of freedom foundation says the real goal of any western intervention might be to put men in power and not help civilians. sanctions have never succeeded in achieving regime change which is what the u.s. goal is and then let's keep in mind it 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 if this is something that the syrian people should decide not the u.s. government it's none of the u.s. government's business this revolution's announced tour of regimes should be up to the people of that country because as we all know the price can sometimes be very high in revolutions and that's why it's up to the people of that country to make that decision. a little later we got the thoughts of a leading british commentator on why countries in the west may feel the need to get involved in some other nations here's what simon jenkins also asked to say. i do not believe that states have a legal right or an obligation to reject it and to interfere in other sovereign states as written into the united nations charter this is not a country to threaten britain than for any of its neighbors from the invaded neighbor labor in the game was in business with me but of revolutions there's a danger isn't if we're going to go in wherever there's a possible loss of human life are going to go invading countries all over the world

all the time i'm assuming didn't get more than a cynic i think i know there are mixed motives in all these interventions and we tend to intervene in countries where we think we might win you know thirty more latitude and we tend to really be intervening in countries where we have some interest in this critical that we tend to intervene where we think i think there's almost quickly lori to be high it was a case of pretty rotten that clearly was the case here there's always mixed motives but i think we always need to examine our motives and ask us of the simple question are we going to get good rather than harm. more from the leading guardian columnist simon jenkins said about twenty minutes. ukrainian prosecutors want former prime minister yulia timoshenko to put it to be put away for seven years for what they see as unlawful gas fields with russia could also be fined about one hundred ninety million dollars almost matching the money ukraine says it lost due to contracts she signed with russia's energy giant gazprom

in two thousand and nine the former pm has been on trial in kiev for abusing her power and corruption since june and a verdict they think could be reached by the end of the week commissioner go denies all the charges and claims the trial is a political show if killed evil it will rule out her hands for the presidential race in two thousand and fifteen the case mark wide protest with thousands of her supporters rallying and camping outside the court. turned out of some other stories making headlines across the globe feel up operations underway throughout the philippines in the wake of the devastating typhoon assata the storm battered the capital manila with tarantula rains leading to widespread floods that left eighteen dead and thirty five missing residents are also bracing themselves for another tropical storm heading their way. the u.s. has struck a three billion dollars deal to sell it eighteen f. sixteen fighter jets to iraq military commanders say baghdad needs the fighters to maintain air sovereignty after u.s. forces leave the country this agreement comes as iraqi officials consider extending

the december thirty first deadline for withdrawal of u.s. troops in the country. gunmen have attacked a police outpost in afghanistan's helmand province killing eight officers and wounding three others investigators are looking into the disappearance of another officer from the outpost and are considering where the attack that the attack came from within it is the second violent outbreak in the region in twenty four hours. california jurors are reliving the final days of pop star michael jackson's life as the prosecution presents their case against his personal physician dr conrad murray the doctor is accused of involuntary manslaughter with prosecutors insisting his gross negligence led to the famous singers drug overdose induced death in two thousand and nine. the charges despite evidence that he continued to give the pop star powerful drugs and even after signs of his deteriorating health in america everyone has the right to speak their mind but that can sometimes carry

a high price at least that's the experience of some high profile figures who have lost their jobs and so many their reputations after voicing their views especially when it comes to sensitive subjects as art he's got a chicky on reports from washington. an american icon legendary singer world war two veteran and 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 the one who started with a plane flying into the world trade center 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 been banned it i'd like to say that i am sorry if my state 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 it a 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 a promise 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 fade they and. that if you say anything about the president in the united states you call them anything in the book but you can't say anything about israel. automatically makes

you any sematic see it is former senior editor of middle east affairs be enough sir was sacked a year ago because of a tweet she wrote about her respect for a lebanese cleary who at one time had been seen as the spiritual leader of the hezbollah but had leader broken ties with them out there 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 true like congressman ron paul who is running for president obama bin ladin and i don't think i have been a christian. they have been explicit and they wrote. that we attacked we attacked america because you had bases on our holy land in saudi arabia you do not give palestinians fair treatment then 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 i could go in there some problem booed and legal on petri arctic by some just like tony bennett was when he spoke his mind it's not so much about what people said that led to them being. or even being fired from their jobs but rather about the fact that in a country that prides itself on freedom of speech that freedom often comes at a hefty price i'm going to check out reporting from washington are two. of course if your tongue is a little too loose you might sometimes end up mincing your words as president obama recently found out what's the difference between a catheter and if you present president obama found a solution difficult after confusing two in a speech over the weekend all the details at our. part. i hope pastors

russian agricultural bosses keen to set up. a reason to expect. that all the story plus our best videos on our trip. is. for millions of indian children it's definitely all work no play they often have to be the main breadwinners for their families what's worse is that they often don't get the even meager wages they were promised in face abuse instead or he's pretty shrewd reports on how little is being done to break this vicious circle. from

across the street sixteen year old intervene prosodic can hear the chatter of children a few years younger than him going to school but his school going days are long gone. to work on cotton plantations with the dream of making money for his family going 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.o. teen 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 and 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

a good yield of ministry with. children but. we have seen many cases of. 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 their kids make money and that they too ended up getting cheated in the process but they're going to make a legal one. as i can give him a lot of the commission on it if you have the relief in many rural parts of india schools for children of all of 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. x.-press say that it's a problem that stretches far beyond india these plantations harvest bt cotton a 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 and involved in to be the cost of production is too high a multinational companies want mark that work for now the victims of this mass the scared children can barely speak about their time at the plantation. i came back home now i want to go back there twenty six of us were cheated by then. cheated out of a childhood for the greedy to make a buck preassure it or r t could drop india. coming up one of britain's most

prominent columnists explains why he thinks some western powers feel the need to meddle in other countries affairs first business news with an older. hello and a very warm welcome to a business update in use and to trust authorities have rangers european officers of gas over possible breaches of competition rules the company's partners are w.e.e.e. on and also subjects of the investigation archie's dental bushell is reporting from brussels. there was a coordinated raid across the offices not just of gazprom but it's the suppliers and the intermediaries companies like german energy major all w.-e. who can supply heat and electricity or consumers like homes and offices there is a because asians are price fixing the relationship between supplier and intermediary are too cozy and there's not enough competition on the gas markets in europe the european commission has issued

a statement saying it suspects exclusionary behavior such as partitioning obstacle to network access barriers to supply diversification as well as possible exploitative behavior such as excessive prices is being seen here in brussels as a final check up before the european union opens up its national gas markets to international competition gas prices it's ordinary practice and official in its exports omagh did such inspections the standard within the framework of competition rules under have been applied to all of the leading european energy companies there was a similar investigation in two thousand and five which found that goes from didn't preach any to trust regulation. but the russian cost came from north capitol police thousand no chance the radon gas from could develop into a full on dispute between russia and e.u. this is a win win the relationship i mean the european union unfortunately can't. go by

without gazprom right now there is little alternative but i don't think this conflict has perspective to develop into a full fledged contradiction into a full fledged conflict i think somehow. this will be a result of one way or another in previous film because it's the last example of their dependence. russian markets are struggling to retain the gains they enjoyed at the start of the week they managed to avoid fallout from the resignation of planets. but europe's debt crisis is weighing on the markets all the russian indices are managing to interpol's to territory plumb in minutes q from renesas as managers explains what is driving the rollercoaster. i don't resemble them or global pressure groups or both of these people for all she's because before markets in the world get some well you markets it's always been quite cheap when the global markets are in turmoil russia first in the form of the other reason but you can

move pulled up in scope of the russian market is still relatively liquid compared to probably will be worthless and run people really money has to suffer disproportionately so there is a flip side to go from things go off the russians to outperform everything else in the world whilst they kids go through the bird market trough. recently russel's before not in the world always goes up more than anything goes on more than any of . us have a look at those figures russian markets are flat after seeing some gains and clearly it's alice the arch as the slipped in to read one of the more it's a slightly on the rise let's take a look at some of the individual shriver's in the might six mpg mages are mixed from is losing almost one percent while look where this point four percent measurement and rolls to nickel is the main gain of the salvage company jumped the most in three weeks after it started accepting bits for its four billion dollars buyback program. and european stocks are mixed germany's dax is gaining

a quarter of london's foot say is low on a day after posting its biggest one day percentage gain in sixteen months as investors reconsidered expectations that euro zone policymakers would act aggressively to resolve the debt crisis shares and many group have plunged nineteen percent after the world's biggest listed hedge fund manager of the large outflows. and or the setting for the biggest quarterly to clients is true thousand eight thousand speculation about fuel demand will drop as the u.s. economy slows and europe's debt crisis batters consumer sentiment brant lunch is trading at over one hundred six dollars per barrel while the w t i is that eighty three dollars is. still floating the top of the market investors are mostly a looking blue chip some shares in companies focusing on asia. the criteria for the short term to determine the best interest certainly going to be highly quickly that's number one and number two the companies with the highest earnings

visibility going forward. number three the companies that could benefit from growth in certain parts of the world where the forecast is still strong of course i'm talking about asia mostly but read some of the business news for now join us next hour for most stories here on r.t.e. . you.

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