was a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow hard pressed greeks will get a nazi surprise in their electricity bills the highly unpopular new property taxes being levied to help the government pay off its enormous debt leaders a scrambling to reassure lenders that greece is solvent so they can get more bailout cash so is in athens for r.t. . we've heard the head of the european commission manuel. saying this is not a sprint it's the marston but the greek people here have said that being stopped in their tracks by the survey all-stars the measures that we're saying being passed by the government now the troika audit team is coming back to greece they're going to be assessing the situation here head of the decision has to be made aware of the european it is going to release that next tranche of money that eight billion year

is so at that there's a lot of skepticism really about this positive rhetoric that we've heard coming from the european leaders about the government passing yesterday as he said that extremely unpopular property tax that was seen as a putting the way to the troika old it seemed to return at that realistically there are many questions being asked as to how effective that will actually be is going to add around another thousand euros a year on some of these people's household bills and the electricity company the electricity went to some cells has said that they're planning to void call that say the i did it this is gay it's a place to plug a t.v. really and you're a deficit in the budget the i did it the money will actually be able to be raised some other sites they can take as saying it's simply unrealistic we had again that from where you say he was talking about you know the challenges that the e.u. now faces that the european union faces and greece is absolutely going to be

staying within the year if it is here on the ground these are everyday situations the people having to do with the stream really high unemployment and they really don't know who to trust now because we've seen these measures because we've seen them fail and again i have to highlight that the fact that the troika would it team have come again on the back of the government passing this property tax that's a place to be seen as a positive but the people here is that that they're simply not going to pay it this week at the end of this week one of the previous times. it's a pace to be collected for the people here that's the deadline for that is going to be reset people is that they're going to be outside the building says the times collective they're ripping up the bills that they've received the saying this is the no going to pay it saying these measures is simply not going to have an impact safe that. day and we have to do it for the people he was saying last night we saw the outbreak again days riots and the clashes

between the right least in the protesters here these people are extremely angry about how this is affecting their lives to come back to power a safe then and knowledge you know these people are asking for a sporting chance to get themselves out of this and they simply don't feel that they're getting at the moment when as we had the commission president is calling for close economic integration as a way to escape the crisis the british your m.p. golf you play into last year was the union the cools the troubles in the first place. you cannot tunks your way of recession or despair depression is simply isn't possible in the great winston churchill's quote on this trying to touch your way out of a recession is like trying to lift yourself up in a bucket by the handle they simply can't work for the certain is the politicians the bureaucrats never really else face the truth of this crisis the sooner we can start to get out of it the greek people are beginning to understand that they will be better off by defaulting are what we need to do the rest of the european union

the eurozone and indeed the i.m.f. is to help in a stable controls. know what we need to do is to get national governments democratically elected back to running their own economy is the european union and part of the solution here the european union is part of the problem it's the european union and the eurozone which has created this terrible consequences big problem so new is not part of the solution mr berg so least of all . well we're gathering expert opinion on what's needed in order to sort out the struggling euro zone or we do have dot com where among the analysis there's a lot of good belgium is the former deputy poland speak a lot of the venues he believes the greek troubles are a decade old with no one paid attention while there was still time to stop the catastrophe weeden is and many other views that r.t. dot com. now nato peacekeepers in kosovo have brought in more

troops to a disputed border crossing in the ethnic north a day after several people were hurt in clashes both sides blame each other for starting the violence in which rubber bullets and tear gas were used by our alliance forces for the roads in late july when koskinen forward he's tried to seize the frontiers to enforce a trade embargo let's discuss this more with john laughlin from the institute for democracy and cooperation a very perilous time it's locked in many times of being with us here at r.t. now additional nato peacekeepers have been drafted in to try and keep calm in the region as i was saying but bear existing presence he was to lead to just more armed conflict in the region what effect do you think they get more troops will have on the very fragile situation there. well that's a very good question you know it's difficult to predict isn't it the future outcome of this i mean i have to say it was a historical perspective one of call. border

posts. but it was when slovenia tried to set up its own border posts with austria and when the yugoslav authorities as they then were intervene to prevent that but the beginning of the process of the destruction of yugoslavia started so this bodes very ill but i was interested by the report you've just carried from god god through balloon the interview way where the british army. discussed recently said the european union is the problem not the solution that applies in this situation as well it's the european union and the nato so-called peacekeepers or other in forces who have caused this problem the cost of zero issue of the situation in the north of conservation is what we call a frozen conflict in other words it's an unresolved anomalous situation that has been relatively peaceful now for more than ten years and it seems that the european union is determined to make it not peaceful anymore they are in love with it often

i.e. they're suggesting that if the nato and the european police forces k. for new leks where to remove their presence from those volatile border regions on the serbian cost seven borders would peace remain in those areas or are is their presence still required think. if they took away their. newly sent force a trip from the borders between northern kosovo and the rest of serbia then yes i do think the region would go back to being useful i repeat it's a frozen conflict northern kosovo has never been under control of christian it's never been under the control of the albanian government in prishtina and it's almost not been under the control of you lex or k. for either but it has and therefore it is if you like illegally or novelettes but it has been peaceful it's the recent sending of k. four troops to police the border between north and kosovo in the rest of serbia that has caused the problem but how far did eighty's powers actually stretch in

their region how far can they actually. that. that is a very. difficult question to answer in my view the powers of you lex which is the european union body that sent the troops there to enforce the new customs regime i believe that your leks itself is illegal i take the view that it's the united nations which should be governing kosovo according to president bush and twelve forty four and not you lex. and indeed i think one can make a case for saying that there are parallel structures now in kosovo the european union on one hand and the united nations on the other but legally speaking it should be the united nations as to how far they can go they can go it's true i'm afraid of any political question they can go as far as they want to until they are stopped by a greater force came down with great is the situation we're looking at it seemed to add countries themselves and gays asians between said bank also have been delayed until there are new confit on the disputed border crossing comes down to he thinks

to take the first step. well in the serbian government should abandon in my view its strategic goal of joining the european union you just carried a report from greece which shows that the european monetary union is a state of collapse people are in uproar in this in the city of in the streets of athens athens is a greece is a member state of the european union we can see the european union itself in a state of advanced collapse why on earth is serbia trying to join it and why is serbia determined to sacrifice part of her own territory a very stark part of their own territory for that goal that's the reality and i'm afraid of the situation won't improve until belgrade abandons this in my view suicidal goal of joining the e.u. or that it had done nothing financing for democracy in cooperation in paris thank you if they thought. on the way in just

a few minutes here on our see the backtracking in sorting out syria your drops its demands for u.n. sanctions against the country to russia and china refuse their supporters. we look at the cost of free speech even much loved american celebrities like bennett find they're not immune when speaking their mind in the u.s. . the international community rips into israel for its decision to build eleven hundred homes in disputed east jerusalem russia says it's deeply concerned with the plan and hopes it will be reversed and the u.s. will to join the chorus of disapproval or 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 weekend will also see the occupied west bank on the street view except for emergency crews palestinian authorities claim israel is not serious about bringing peace jeff helper from the israeli

committee against house demolitions explain to us why he thinks israelis don't appear to be in a hurry to get the negotiating table on the way. basically. israel has created facts on the ground over the last forty four years that 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 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 if you go she is 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 this three countries are the united states britain and germany as long

as they're behind israel's policy toward least even if they criticize as long as they prevent saying sions and provide this umbrella for israel this shows nothing to worry about who's going to saying who's going to force it to get out who's going to put pressures on israel. when his decision to dramatically increase the size of jewish settlements in the west bank comes off on the heels of the policies that the state to the u.n. security council has now referred the request to the mission committee which will consider it on friday you know if the state says it will these a the decision if the fed gets more than the nine out of fifteen in the posture body even if washington a block full membership there the palestinians could still get an elevated legal status in the u.n. general assembly where they have a majority of support. european countries have drop their call for immediate sanctions against syria the u.n. draft resolution has been softened and now threatened sanctions only after the

government doesn't stop its finest against protesters but that crackdown continues the syrian army supported by time. the key rebel. russia wants both sides to end its. functions binding them as being an unreliable strategy jacob one bag. freedom foundation says the real goal of any western intervention is the men in power not to help save it so 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 one time to torture canadian citizen name a our air are they supported we barracked they support the dictatorships in saudi arabia jordan but what they're trying to achieve is to put their man in power that's the whole quest of us foreign policy so there's a lot of hypocrisy here too as well this is something that the syrian people should

decide not the u.s. government it's none of the u.s. government's business this revolution 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. now on today we're getting the thoughts of a leading british commentator on why counties in the west feel the need to get involved in some countries here's some of what simon jenkins has been telling us. i do not believe the sovereign states have legal rights or an obligation or a duty to interfere in other sovereign states is written into the united nations charter this is not a country that threatened britain didn't threaten any of its neighbors invaded in labor labor railroads in business if you got a revolution it was a very important if we're going to go in wherever there's a possible loss of human life we're going to go invading countries all over the world all the time i'm assuming more than a cynic i think i know there are mixed motives and always interventions we tend to

intervene in countries where we think we might win you know the moral attitude we tend to really begin to read in countries where we have some interest in this crazy world that we tend to intervene where we think i think. almost quick glory to be hired as was the case i think in iraq and clearly was the case here there are always mixed messages but we always need to examine almost as an office of the simple question are we going to do good rather than harm. for meeting guardian columnist in about fifteen minutes time. ukrainian prosecutors want a former prime minister yulia timoshenko put away for seven years for what they see as unlawful gas deals with russia could also be fined around one hundred ninety million dollars almost matching the money you queen says it lost due to contracts she signed with russia's energy giant gazprom in two thousand and nine the former

p.m.'s been on trial in care for abusing her power and corruption and since june and a verdict could be reached by the end of the week. all the challenges in claims the trial is a political show if found guilty it will rule her out of the presidential race twenty fifteen pick a spot wide protests with thousands of her supporters rallying and camping outside . now in america everyone has the right to speak their mind but that can carry a high price at least that's the experience of some high profile figures who lost their jobs or reputations after voicing their views especially when it comes to sensitive subjects as you can reports from washington. 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 are we 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 line even though here in america we're very proud of our freedom of speech and the right to speak his considerable holy except if you say the wrong things you can get in trouble and artists have musicians have now tony bennett to speak question freedom of speech proved no defense in protecting the jobs of a number of 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 you but not if you say anything about the president in the united states you can call him anything in the book but you can't say anything about israel. automatically makes you any systematic cnn's former senior editor of middle east affairs now sir was sacked a year ago because of a tweet she wrote about her respect for a lebanese cleric who at one time had been seen as the spiritual leader of the hezbollah but had later broken ties with them there also. that 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's running for president i'm some of bin ladin and i don't think i have been a christian. they have been explicit and they wrote. that we are can we attack 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 to know iran there's some problem booed and labeled unpatriotic by some just like tony bennett was when he spoke his mind it's not so much about what these people said that led to them being booed or even being fired from their jobs but rather about the fact that in

a country that prides itself on freedom of speech that freedom often comes at a hefty price i'm going to check our reporting from washington our to. of course a few of tongues and sometimes and up with us as president obama found out recently . the what is the difference between a jew the president found the distinction difficult to use in the two in his speech over the weekend we've. also online. agreed apologies russian agricultural bosses accusing to set out widespread cannabis plantations perhaps not for the reasons we do expect it's strange but true and we've got the full story on our website and. a look now at some other major world news this hour cleanup operations are underway throughout the philippines in the wake of the devastating typhoon nesa the storm battered the capital manila with rains causing widespread flooding which left twenty one dead and thirty missing

residents also bracing themselves for another tropical storm that's heading their way. the u.s. has struck a three billion dollars deal to sell eighteen f. sixteen fighter jets to iraq military commanders say baghdad needs to find to maintain their sovereignty elf to u.s. forces leave the country this agreement comes just as iraqi officials consider extending the december thirty first deadline for the withdrawal of u.s. troops in iraq. dolman have a time to please post in afghanistan's helmand province killing eight officers and wounding three others investigators are looking into the disappearance of another officer from the considering the attack came from within it's the second violent outbreak in the region in twenty four hours. california jurors are relieved reliving rather the last days of pop superstar michael jackson's life as the

prosecution presents their case against his personal physician dr conrad murray the doctor is accused of involuntary manslaughter the prosecution's insisting his gross negligence led to the fav the singer's drug overdose in jesus' death in two thousand and nine denies the charges despite evidence that he continued giving the pop star powerful drugs even after the sun with his deteriorating health. that's the way the news. let's go to business update now with. how it's time to delve into the world of business trost authorities have raided european offices of gas from a possible breach of competition rules the company's tautness r.w. on and. also subjects in the investigation artie's dental bushell if you're watching from brussels there was a coordinated raid across the office is not just of gazprom but its suppliers and

intermediaries companies like german energy major all w. them supplied heat and electricity to consumers like homes and offices there is a price fixing the relationship between supplier and intermediary a 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 obstacles 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 big check up before the european union opens up its national gas markets to international competition from says its ordinary practice an official in its export inspection is a standard within the framework of e.u. 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 gazprom didn't

breach any and to trust regulation. capital believes thousand zero chance to radon gas from could develop into a full on dispute between russia and the e.u. . this is a win win their relationship i mean the european union unfortunately can not go by without gazprom right now there is little alternative and i don't think this conflict bears in year perspective to develop into full fledged contradiction into full fledged conflict i think somehow. this will be a result of one way or another and bring you soon because it's the last example of their dependence. the russian markets are struggling to retain the games they enjoyed to at the start of the week they managed to avoid fallout from the resignation of finance minister aleksey kudrin watch europe's debt crisis is weighing on the markets all the russian indices

a managing to peek into positive territory. from more nascent advantages explains what is driving the roller coaster and the reason the commodity of the drug should be so above these two go for us is because we the market in the world feeds them while you market it's always been quite cheap and you know when the global markets are in turmoil russia first in the form of the other reason but you can look for that if you start to the russian market is still broken really quickly can the problem will worsen when people read the money then still suffer disproportionately so there is a flipside to that when things go up it was rushed into a form everything you know from those well the last decade most of the bear market trough and not until recently russia was the only market in the world the truth always goes up more than anything you know more than anything. but some look at those figures the russian markets are down this hour i have a look at what's happening on the might six here are some of the individual share

moves most energy may just in the right with gas from losing one percent as you can see right now precious metal monoplane metal is also down best as on the take not sure an earlier rally on a week for us top results the company's net profits rose seventy seven percent to one hundred fifty one million dollars a normal cyclical is the main game at this hour it's jazz is soaring eighty percent the company has jumped off trees started accepting its for its four billion dollars buyback program its biggest rise and three weeks. stocks a losing ground up for a strong stajan at a trade the dow is down two point two percent and is losing point one percent. and european stocks have retreated from away games germany's dax losing a third of a percent london's to see is lower a day after posting its because one day percentage gain in sixteen months has

investors reconsidered expectations that eurozone policymakers would act aggressively to resolve the debt crisis as a medical group have plunged nineteen percent after the world's biggest listed hedge fund manager reported large outflows. benoit was heading for the biggest quarterly decline since two thousand and eight thousand speculation that fuel demand will drop as he threw us economy slows and europe's debt crisis bachus consumer sentiment brand blunt is driving it over one hundred six dollars per barrel while the w.s.j. is that eighty three dollars a barrel. so a business news this hour join the less than one it's time for another business update here on our team so do stay with us that.

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