so at the start of the week of may and it's black too negative the best ones. are very warm welcomes you this is the life from moscow hard pressed to greeks will get a nazi surprise in their electricity bills a highly unpopular new property taxes being levied to help the government pay off its enormous debt leaders a scrambling to reassure lenders that greece's sole than say they can get more bailout cash so is in athens for aussie. we've heard the head of the european commission manuel. saying this is not a sprint is a marathon but the greek people here has said that being stopped in their tracks by the surveil steroids 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 that 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 just how effective that will actually be and it's going to add around another thousand euros a year on some base people's household bills and the electricity company the electricity went to some cells has said that they're planning to we call that say the i did it this is gay it's a place to plug a t.v. billion year old deficit in the budget the i did it the money will actually be able to be raised about this size they can take a saying is simply unrealistic we had again from very say he was talking about you

know the challenge is 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 extremely high unemployment if they really don't know if he to trust now because we've seen these measures because we've seen them fail and again i have to highlight the fact that the joint quoted team has come again on the back of the government policy in 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 type. 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 the impact safe that. they only have to do it for the people

here were saying last night we saw the outbreak again days riots and the clashes between the right leasing the protesters you know these people are extremely angry about how this is affecting their lives to come back to power a ses merriest then analogy 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 and as we have the commission president is calling for close economic integration as the way to escape the crisis which is euro and. told r.t. was the union that caused the troubles in the first place you cannot tunks your way of recession or depression is simply isn't possible and 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 call the work of the cern as the politicians the bureaucrats and everybody 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 controlled defaults know what we need to do is to get national governments democratically elected back to running their own economy is the european union isn't 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 cataclysmic problem so new is not part of the solution mr berg so least of all. that was pretty. blue with his assessment of what's to blame for the greek debt troubles. to all the knees down they say peacekeepers in kosovo brought in more troops to the 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 violence which saw rubber bullets and tear gas used by alliance forces and arose in late july calls for north already has tried to seize the front is to enforce a trade embargo a peace alliston law and says the region it 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 the situation in the north of cost of those 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 in my view the powers of bulimics which is the european union body that sent the troops there to impose the new class regime. i believe that ulick's itself is illegal or i take the view that

it's the united nations which should be governing kosovo according to resolution 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 the european union itself in a state of advanced collapse while there is serbia trying to join it and why is serbia determined to sacrifice part of her own territory a very historic part of our territory for that goal that's the reality and i'm afraid the situation won't improve until belgrade abandons this in my view suicidal goal of joining the e.u. . we're a few minutes away from hearing how free speech does come out a cost even much loved american celebrities like cream and bennett and then also me when speaking their mind in the land of the free it's coming soon. the

international community has written to israel for its decision to build eleven hundred disputed easter we sent a process says it's deeply concerned with the plan and hopes it will be reversed and the us also joined the chorus of disapproval of 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 say see the occupied west bank on the street after you except for emergency crews palestinian authorities 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 don't appear to be in a hurry to get to the nikkei season table 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 this rabies 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 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 towards least even if they criticize as long as they prevent saying sions and provide this umbrella for israel. this shows i think they're worried about who's going to sanction it who's going to force it to get out who's going to put pressures on israel. in israel's decision to dramatically increase the size of jewish settlements in the west bank comes home the heels of the palestinian

bid for statehood out of the un the un security council has now referred to requests to its admissions committee which will consider its own fight a united states said it'll be the decision of the big gets more than the nine out of fifteen it needs to policy body even of washington blocks that full membership is the palestinians could still get an elevated legal status in the un general assembly by they have a majority of supporters. the un has also heard iran to get a warning from france use envoy threaten a military strike into iran continues its nuclear development well in a forthright remark the french have voiced said some countries won't accept iran having a nuclear bomb would make a preventative strike tell us would you make the french a delegate she's even the head we. know you think will happen next. european countries have dropped their call for their immediate sanctions against

syria the u.n. draft resolution has been softened and now threaten sanctions only if the government doesn't stop its violence against protesters but that crackdown continues the syrian army supported by tanks and helicopters stormed the key rebels the. russia wants both sides to the talks and the potent sanctions branding them as being an unreliable strategy. afraid of foundation says the real goal of any western intervention is that men not to help civilians. have never succeeded in achieving regime change which is what the u.s. goal is and then let's keep in mind that this was a dictatorship that the us government used at one time to torture a canadian citizen name a our air are they supported we barracked they support the dictatorships in saudi arabia jordan but what they're trying to achieve is to put their man in power that's the whole quest of us foreign policy so there's

a lot of hypocrisy here too as well this is something that the syrian people should decide not the u.s. government it's none of the u.s. government's business this revolution is an 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. today we're getting the thoughts about leading british commentator on why countries in the west feel the need to get involved in some countries has some of jenkins's been telling elf. i do know that the sovereign states have legal rights or an obligation or a duty to interfere in all the sovereign states is written into the united nations charter this is not a country to threaten britain didn't threaten any of its neighbors from the invaded in the labor. 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 in always interventions we tend to intervene in countries where we think we might win you know the moral attitude we tend to really be interested in countries where we have some interest in this case or that we tend to intervene where we think i think. almost quit glory to be hired as was the case of iraq and that 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. from the leading guardian columnist simon jenkins then now it's time. now in america everyone has the right to speak their mind but that can carry a high price at least not the experiences some high profile figures have lost their jobs or voicing their views especially when it comes to sense the subtext is granted you can report. 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 abroad 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 that 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 certainly 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 are 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 the 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 the united states you can call him anything in the book but you can't say anything about israel. that automatically makes you any systematic cnn's former senior editor of middle east affairs davian 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 nasr also apologized but 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 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 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 are today. but of course if your tongues a little too loose you sometimes end up mincing no words as president obama found out recently what is the difference between a journalist and a jew the president found the distinction difficult confusing the two in a speech over the weekend with all the details that are also online for new high hopes for greener pastures russian agricultural bosses acquaintance that how widespread cannabis plantations although perhaps not for the reasons you'd expect it's strange but true can cause the full story on our websites.

and discoveries to be. communicated with the wild. west yourself and become free. see what nature can give you on. forward turning out 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 then is that i will say many thanks for joining us here on r.t. nato has moved more peacekeepers in to help bring calm on the border but they reportedly become involved in what appears to be armed conflict making the situation worse how can that be explained. but on the border generally speaking

very weird conversation here at russia nato council to a severe emotional pression i get is my nature colleagues don't realize what the repercussions of their involvement in this conflict might be. instead of calling the u.n. security council resolution and remaining neutral. they are supporting benin authorities in costs when basically. nato has blocked the only rule of live so to say between the serbs and the rest of serbia and so the two d. this civil war that is sexual unfolding before our eyes in the northern territory is this when western. representatives there they're ignoring information they're ignoring media reports from independent sources independent experts and they're not

even investigating the incidents that took place yesterday according to all resources the information we received from the northern districts of the territory is there and many people wounded among the costs of a serbs. and those are gunshot wounds. not just rubber bullets there are gunshot wounds so who shot those serbs 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 my question of whether this is a mistake that nato is making. and that this will just start another conflict in the balkans and certainly a confusing situation on the border with lots of mixed on verified reports coming out as to what's happening you say that nato has been ignoring your questions and your advice what effect do you think that potentially more troops could have on the

fragile situation there and do you think that more troops there like me. who were. well you know i suspect. these kind of storms he says use what they 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. way the situation me to pull the realize that the person arthritics are actually pulling nato into their games and the first thing that happened is this decision nato has basically taken already to preserve their full contingent in costs over there and no reductions as they have announced earlier and furthermore there is no bringing in nato reserves to strengthen their cost of a force that they already have they are so basically adhering stepping up their

military presence in the territory because nato realizes that they can't handle the situation this way now some analysts have that yes that kosovo could actually be using the alliances presence in the region to essentially carry out their wishes what do you make of that. well it's very difficult for us to talk to our natick colleagues for a very simple reason because they're hiding behind a formal. phrases that mean nothing. and they just see they're working on jury un mandate we're going to do when i asked him. how come nato forces were involved in transporting christian is there any use to the northern district you know what they told me they said they just provided transport for the european mission then the european mission used to transport this those

vehicles 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 and that sir torie now we have the situation where nato is fully present in the territory and still the situation is one more i'm getting more and more dramatic so i think we should take a principled stand on this issue as lots of us had questions now you've said in the past that this unstable situation in the region threatens the entire european safety why did you say that. this is because we have had many instances in the past where we realized that 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 da the balkans is just. hot spots where they have criminal business with the train enormous prostitution drugs and all of this is something that personnel thirty's are aware of. and this is just in the gang land and they're oppressing 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 cost of what to be with there the serbs there and the very difficult situation and eventually this may spread to the rest of the balkan sent to the rest of europe this is what we see every time in the war starts in the balkans and just a few months later this becomes a general european and then

a 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. golden russian envoy to nato many thousands talking all through thought from the situation on the set because they from to many of us feel thoughts. that is the way the news is this hour here on t. day go away we got a busy day 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 their message to avoid fallout from the resignation of finance minister. bought europe's debt crisis is weighing on the markets although russian indices are managing to peek into positive territory plowman miscue from renesas asset management explains what is driving the rollercoaster. the reason the

model of the drug should be so above these two go for us is because of your marketing your worldview from while you market control is being quite cheap and you know when the global markets are in turmoil in russia first in the form of the other reason but you can look for that if you go to the russian markets to grow to be liquid the computer program will be worthless and when people really money learns to suffer disproportionately there is a flip side to them to throw off it was rushed into a form of real you know from those who are in the last decade most of the bear market trough and. recently russia was the only market in the world view three dollars goes up more minutes more than anything. and the oil is heading for the biggest course of the decline says two thousand and eight thoughts on speculation that fuel demand will drop as the u.s. economy slows and europe's debt crisis but just consumer sentiment brown blunt is

trading at over one hundred six dollars a barrel while the w. is at eighty three dollars a barrel. oil stocks all losing ground after a strong start to trade the dow is down point two percent and the nasdaq is losing must and a tenth of a cent. european stocks have retreated from gains germany's dax is losing a third of percent london's footsie is a day out posting its biggest one day percentage gain in sixteen months as investors reconsidered its potations but yours and policymakers would act aggressively to resolve the debt crisis sure as a men's group has plunged nineteen percent off to the world's biggest listed hedge fund manager reported large flows. from the russian markets with plots negative at the end of wednesday's trading session as a look at some of the individual share moves on the my six most energy may just end up in the red with gas from one percent down precious metals mine a full imaginal lost one point three percent off for their raw. alyona but first

past results the company's net profit rose seventy seven percent to one hundred fifty one million dollars and the world's nickel is the main gate of the day its shares sold eight percent the company jumped off trees started accepting its for its four billion dollars buyback program it's the biggest rising three weeks i thought pretty good dollars grab something straight for us. the market is quite interesting after two days really. thinking right now what was it was it like just technical bone still not done or trend or easy to point. to the major question that's why we actually don't see much activity would be open slightly up. again concerns regarding that greece maybe is not really kind of fulfilling their plans or search or just came to the market and the market goes down a bit but again repeat this done on very kind of low volumes. that's

all business news for now join us next hour for more stories here on our chief. the official altie allocation. called talk from the. video. and st paul of you want to. push it a. little

. davis is on the seafloor is crowds and classroom teachers out there in all of it and you probably times to page with him from the dead as if the president wanted to block faces they could challenge and the economic integration is michael led naysay sends in more troops to reinforce a contested border crossing between serbia and braithwaite. off to the rails to between the two sides russia's foreign ministry wants peacekeeping forces to remain neutral and stick to the un resolutions lead to the wave of global the ruble hates israel which says it will build a new staff of the disputed east jerusalem thomas of the u.n. plays a powerful.