the greek new system license furious crowds clashed with police avery new households led me to page one of the dead one of the e.u. president who owns the block faces its biggest challenge after. the way hail syntagma square which last night was the scene of clashes between riot police and the protesters as great people united in their opposition to the government's new austerity measures. need to brings in more troops to reinforce the can do as it would have a tree in serbia and breakaway course of vote after fresh violence do rails talks between the two sides. and a wave of global disapproval hates israel which is greenlit more satellite homes in

east jerusalem just as the un's most powerful body referred to last time statehood bid to its michigan. on the russian markets fail to retain the gains this saw at the start of the week up to the end of the plan to negative response to. a very warm welcome to you this is our see live from moscow hard pressed to greeks will get another sees a rise in their electricity bills a highly unpopular new property taxes being levied to help the government pay off its enormous debt leaders and scrambling to reassure the end is that greece's solvency they can get more bailout cash so is in athens for aussie. we've had the head of the year commission. saying this is not

a sprint it's embarrassing but the great people here have said that being stopped in their tracks by the surveil stary see measures that we're saying being passed by the government now is not a choice code it team is coming back to greece they're going to be assessing the situation here head of the decision to be made aware of the year when it is going to release that next tranche of money that eighty billion year is safe and there's a lot of skepticism really about this positive rhetoric that we've heard coming from the european leaders. the government passing yesterday as you said that extremely unpopular property tax that was seen as a putting the way to the troika owed it to him to return at that realistically there are many questions being asked as to how effective that will actually be is going to add around two thousand here is yet people's household bills and the electricity company the electricity went to some cells has said that they're

planning simply call that say the i did this is a is a place to plug a t.v. really in your deficit in the budget the i did it the money will actually be able to be raised by melissa they can see as a mistake they are realistic we had again this from grace and he was talking about you know the challenges that the the now faces that the european union faces and greece is absolutely going to be staying within the year a kid on the ground every day situations the people having to do with extremely high unemployment and they really don't know if key to trust now because we see these measures because we see them fail and again i have to highlight the fact that the trickle of the team has come again on the back of the government causing this property tax as a place to be seen as a positive but the people here is that the simply not going to try it this week at the end of this week one of the previous times. this is a city collective friend the people here that's the deadline for that is going to

be reason people is that they can see outside the building says the times thanks and everything up the bills a day for speed i think this if we know going to play it safe these measures is simply not going to have the impact safe. for one day that he's back and we have to do it for the people he was saying last night we saw the outbreak again days riots and clashes between the right least in the protest as it is 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 said be thankful that they get naman and as we have the commission president is calling for close economic integration os a way to escape the crisis pushes euro and. told r.t. was union calls the troubles of last place you cannot tunks your way of recession or despite the pression it's simply isn't possible in the great winston

churchill's quotes on this trying to touch your way out of a recession is like trying to lift yourself up in a bucket by the handle is simply can't work and the soon as the politicians the bureaucrats nobody 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 default. what we need to do the rest of the european union the eurozone and indeed the i.m.f. is to hope live in a stable controls defaults 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 power of the solution here you european union is part of the problem it's the european union and the eurozone which has created this terrible cataclysmic problem so new is not part of the solution mr briggs least of all. that was. blue with his assessment of what's to blame for the greek

debt troubles. to others he's down there is in kosovo more troops into a disputed border crossing in the ethnics north a day after several people were hurt in clashes both sides blame each other for the start of the violent riots or rubber bullets and tear gas used by alliance forces anger rose in late july and cost the north already has tried to seize the front is to enforce a trade embargo peace alliston law and says the region that was doing fine until the e.u. stepped in. it's the european union and the nato so-called peacekeepers or other in forces who have caused this problem the kosovo issue a situation in the north of possible is what we call a frozen conflict in other words it's an unresolved anomalous situation which has been relatively peaceful now for more than ten years and it seems that the european union is determined to make it not peaceful and in my view the powers of

culex which is the european union body that sent the troops there to in past treasury. i believe that you lex itself is illegal i take the view that it's the united nations which should be careful in kosovo according to president bush and told 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 united nations the european union itself in a state of advanced collapse while earth is serbia trying to join it and why is serbia determined to sacrifice part of her own territory every historic part of our territory to that goal that's the reality and i'm afraid of a situation where it improved until belgrade pendens this in my view suicidal goal of joining me. we're

a few minutes away from hearing how free speech does come out of cost even most of the american celebrities like renesmee bennett and also me when speaking their mind bonanza for me it's coming soon. the international community has returned to israel for its decision to eleven hundred homes this easter we said the process says it's deeply concerned plan and hopes it will be reversed and the u.s. also joined the chorus of disapproval from 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 as we can will see the occupied west bank under strict curfew except for emergency crews policy that all parties claim israel is not serious about bringing peace jeff halper from the israeli committee against house demolitions explain to us why he thinks his ratings so to appear to be a hurry to get to the nikkei season take basically. israel has created facts

on the ground over the last forty four years that have 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 we 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 what abbas is saying go she shoes are useless either you get other dark areas very 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 to 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 i

think you worry about who's going to sanction it who's going to force it to get out we've got to put pressures on israel. and israel says there's a dramatic increase the size of jewish settlements in the west bank comes hold on the heels of the kind of thing you did the statehood out of the un the un security council has now referred the request of its admissions committee which will consider it on friday the united states said it will be say the decision if it gets more than the nine out of eighteen it meets the policy followed even of last. membership is the palestinians could still get an elevated legal status in the un general assembly by they have a majority of supports. u.n. has also heard iranian stark warning from france u.s. envoy threatened a military strike into iran continues its nuclear development well in a forthright remark to thank everyone he said some countries weren't exactly around having a nuclear bomb would make preventative strike tell us would you make of the french

a delegate she's even ahead with the details and votes on what you think will happen next that and dr. european 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 stop its violence against protesters but that drive down continues the syrian army supported by tanks and helicopters stormed and he rebels as you have a thumb russia wants both sides to end the talks and the post and sanctions branding and is being an unreliable strategy take it. your freedom plantation says the real goal of any mention is you pick their men who are not to help civilians. have never succeeded in achieving change which is what the u.s. goal is and then let's keep in mind that this was a dictatorship that the u.s. government used one time to torture a canadian citizen name

a our air are they supported 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'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. today we're getting the thoughts of a leading british commentator on why countries in the west feel the need to get involved in some countries here's some of what i mean jenkins has been telling us. i do know moving the sovereign states have a legal right to own obligations originating and to interfere in other sovereign states as written into the united nations charter this is not a country that threatened britain couldn't for any of its neighbors from the

invaded the neighbor labor. business something about a revolution for years and 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 that more mobile syria got to go no mixed motives and always interventions we tend to intervene in clubs where we think we might we in north korea more likely to return to really interesting countries where we have some interest in this crazy world that we tend to intervene where we think and i think there's almost quit glory to be how it was the kurds are going to run for the road was the case here they're always mixed messages about it we always need to examine our most humans and also so one simple question are we going to be a good rather than harm. on the leading guardian columnist there now is time. now in america have you asked the right to speak their mind that can carry

a high price at least that the experiences some high profile figures have lost their jobs or reputations out of voicing their views especially when it comes the sense the subjects' is. 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 right of provokes terror who the terrorists are with the terrorists are they the terrorists well the rooms don't make a right they are the ones who started with the plane flying into the world trade center what do you think 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 my state certainly suggested anything other than the 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 considered holy except if you say the wrong things you can get in trouble and artists have musicians have now tony bennett as the 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 had been a white house reporter for over half a century was forced to resign after she said he's really should leave land it's taken from palestinians everybody has been fired for what they say they can. and that 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 semantic see it is former senior editor of middle east affairs the announcer 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 us mainstream media it's all about consequences social and economic interests pressure rather than real censorship politicians expressing ideas against the establishment you come under fire true like congressman ron paul who is running for president obama bin ladin and i don't hide i have been a christian. they have been explicit and they wrote. their we are characters we attack america because you had bases on our holy land in saudi arabia and you know i give palestinians are fair treatment when you have been bombing. i

didn't say that i'm trying to get to understand what the motive was behind the bombing at the same time we have been bombing and killing hundreds of thousands of iraqis or 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 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 and that is check out reporting from washington are to. but of course if your tongues a little too loose you sometimes end up mincing no words as president obama found out recently well what is the difference between a journalist added to the president found the distinction difficult confusing the two in a speech over the weekend with all the details that are also on line few high hopes

for greener pastures russia or cultural forces the kenyans unsettled widespread candidates plantations although perhaps not for the reasons you'd expect it's strange but true can cause a full story on our web sites. coverage . communicate with who want to. become free. what nature can give you. or were telling us one of our top stories developments on the kosovo border let's cross live down to russia's envoy to nato a the me three goals and mr arrivals and many thanks for joining us here on r.t.

so has moved more peacekeepers in to help bring kong on the border but they reportedly become involved in what appears to be armed conflict making the situation worse how can that be explained. well in the book alone generally speaking we're headed very weird conversation here at the russian nato council it was very emotional and the oppression i get is my nature colleagues don't try and realize what the repercussions of their involvement in this conflict might be. instead of following the un security council resolution and remaining neutral to d.d. they are supporting well being authorities and castle and basically. nato has blocked the only rule of life so to say between the serbs and the rest of serbia and so to see this civil war that is set to unfolding before our eyes

in the open territories this western. representatives here they're ignoring information they're ignoring media reports from inside down and sources independent experts and they're not even investigating the incidents that took place yesterday according to all resources information we received from the northern districts of the territory there and many people wounded among casillas serbs. and those sorry gunshot wounds. not just rubber bullets there are gunshot wounds so who shot those serbs and nato does not respond to those questions and i just asked for an objective investigation of what the so-called nato peacekeepers are doing because of a but they just ignored in my question what this is a mistake that nato is making. and this will just start another conflict in the

balkans and certain confusing situation on the border with lots of make them and verified reports coming out of what's happening nathan's been ignoring your questions and your advice what that. do you think that attention more troops could help with the fragile situation there and do you think that more troops are like clay. well you know i suspect. these kind of storms he says it's what do you give to us and when they talk to the public but within the till the kind of discussions they have between themselves is totally different they're really afraid of the way the situation me you pull the realize they're christian our thirty's are actually cooling needs on into their games and the first thing that happened is this decision nato has basically taken already to preserve their full contingent in possible there are no reductions

as states have announced earlier and furthermore they're in now bringing in nato reserves to strengthen their possible force that they already have here and so basically with the. stepping up their military presence in the territory because nato realizes that they can't handle the situation this way now some analysts suggest that possibly could actually be using the allies his presence in the region to essentially carry out their wishes what do you make a pass. well it's very difficult for us to talk to our native colleagues for a very simple reason because there is hiding behind formal. phrases that mean nothing. and they just say they're working on jury un mandate to d.

when i asked them. how come the two forces were involved in transporting the priest in your thirty's today no than districts you know what they told me they said they just provided transport for the european mission and. european mission use this transport this goes to transport christian authorities and this is just a joke i think nato should really be held accountable before the united nations for the situation in its search tory now we have a situation where nato is for the present in the territory and still the situation is more and getting more and more dramatic and saw i think we should take a principled stand on this issue as lots of unanswered questions now you've said in the past that this unstable situation in the region threatens the entire european safety why did you say. this is because we have had many instances in the past where we realized that if

european security is undermined by the situation in the balkans. if we look at the past you will probably remember that the world war started from the conflict in the balkans to deed the balkans is just. hot spots where they have criminal business. the train enormous prostitution drugs and although this is something that person or thirty's are aware of. as just in the gangland and pair of brass seen an ethnic minority i mean the serbs. and what may be the outcome of all this the conflict will spread throughout the balkan something fortunately because the serbian people. cannot tolerate what is happening in casa with two d. of them were there the serbs dear and then very difficult situation and eventual

this may spread to the rest of the balkan sent to the rest of europe this is what we see every time a war starts in the balkans and just a few months later this becomes a general european and then the world war so we cannot allow this to happen so if nato is concerned about its reputation they should stop this immediately and become neutral again and best to get the crimes that have happened against the civilians in the northern district of costa. high growth in russian envoy to nato many thousands talking all through north or from the situation on the set because they fall into many that feel force. that is the way the news this hour here on today go into business update now with you here. that's right time for a business update 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

finance minister alexey cauldron got europe's debt crisis is weighing on the markets although russian indices are managing to peek into positive charge train polman manasse from renesas asset management explains what is driving the rollercoaster. the reason i'm going to mark over the russian leaves a lot of these approaches because of the markets in the world keeps them while you markets are always getting more cheap and when the global markets are in turmoil in russia or some form of the other reason that you can move called up instead of the russian market is still the road to be liquid and the problem will do the work since and when people really money turns to suffer disproportionately there is a flip cycle of things go up and it was rushed into a form everything you know from those world in the last decade most of the bear market trough is. not until recently russia was looking nobody in the world the truth always goes up more than anything goes on more than anything else. and all is

heading for the biggest course of the decline since two thousand and eight thoughts on speculation that field amount will drop as the u.s. economy slows and europe's debt crisis but just consumer sentiment around plants trading at over one hundred six dollars a barrel while the job is at eighty three dollars a barrel. stuart saw losing ground after a strong start in early trade the dow is down twenty two percent and the nasdaq is losing must and a tenth of a century. european stocks have retreated from earlier gains germany's dax is losing a third of percent london's tutsi is a day out posting its biggest one day percentage gain in sixteen months as investors reconsidered its patience but euro zone policymakers would act aggressively to resolve the debt crisis shows and many group has plunged nineteen percent off to the world's biggest listed hedge fund manager reported large flows.

from the russian markets was brought to negative at the end of wednesday's trading session was a look at some of the traditional share moves on the mice it's most energy may just end up in the red with gas from over one percent down precious metals miner pull imaginal lost one point three percent off for their. alyona big forest past results the company is not profits rose seventy seven cents to one hundred fifty one million dollars and rolls to nickel is the main thing you know of the day its shares sourced eight percent the company giant after it started accepting its for its four billion dollars buyback program it's because streisand three weeks the troika dollar grab something straight for us. the market is quite interesting after today's rally. thinking right now what was it was it like just technical dollars on the downward trend or is it the turn their own point. in their measure question best why we actually we don't see much acting which are to be sure will open

slightly up. again concerns regarding that recently it is not a really kind of fulfilling plaza search or just came to the market in the market goes down a bit but again it is there all gone on very kind of low volumes. that's all of this is news for now join us next offer more stories here on our team. down the official ulti humbly cation your body phone i pod touch from the. geology life on the good. video on demand. mine broadcasts and omissions for you now in the palm of your. machine on the job com.