these stunts on t.v. don't come. from. the greek and noosa time sins of derrius crowns clash with police a very new house levy to pay towards the debts of the president warns the block faces its biggest challenge ever. will hear els in charge of the 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. nato brings in more troops to reinforce a contested pulled over tween serbia and breakaway call survey on their fresh violence details talks between the two sides. in the wake of global disapproval heads israel which has greenlit more satellite homes in east jerusalem

just as the un those powerful body repairs of time stated bid to its admission. a very warm welcome to you this is our see a live from moscow press greeks will get a notice of rise in their electricity bills a highly unpopular new property tax is being levied to help the government pay off its enormous debts leaders a scrambling to reassure lenders that greece is solvent so they can get more bailout cash with sarah ferguson athens for aussie. we've had the head of the year commission. saying this is not a sprint it's the marathon but the great 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 trade code it 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 eighty billion year is. there's a lot of skepticism really about this positive rhetoric that we've heard coming from the european leaders to the government casting yesterday as you 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 at there is many questions being asked as to how effective that will actually be and is going to add around two thousand here is yet people 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 gay is a place to plug a t.v. really in your a deficit in the budget the idea that the money will actually be able to be raised

some alist as they can see as saying it's simply unrealistic we have again from very say he was talking about the challenges that the e.u. 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 the stream high unemployment and they really don't know if he to trust now because we see these measures because we've seen them fail and again i have to highlight the fact that each week over the team they come again on the back of the government causing this property tax cuts a place to be seen as a positive but the people here is that the simply not going to pay it this week at the end of this week one of the previous times. it's a place to be collected for and the people here that's the deadline for that is going to be really to people is that they're going to be outside the building that has collected everything up the bills that they've received the saying this is we not going to pay it so these measures are simply not going to have an impact so if

the european union leaders to wonder. if they only have to do it for the people here were saying last night we saw the outbreak again those riots the clashes between the right leeson the protesters it is people are extremely angry about how this is affecting their lives to come back to. an analogy you know these people are asking for a sporting chance to get themselves out of this they simply don't feel that they get. movies from your icon that's from the institute of economic and social studies many of us for joining us here at r.t. the greek people now face yet another tax on top of so many cuts already all in order to receive more bailout cash but do you think it will actually help the economy. or just. the medium to long

term it's just pulling out of european burns and europe. well if greece does get another bailout which regardless of what any of us and i think the government is gunning for at the cost of further cuts and tax hikes how soon would those people who could really affected by the measures be able to recover t. thing. all it will be quite difficult because all of these solution doesn't bode well for greece so all of the greek economy will have a very hard time. or even. in my opinion the only long term sustainable solution he said before the restart should. help widening this out year as own leaders are planning measures to lift their we should from its debt hit really including the think tanks and increasing the bailout fund what's your opinion on those measures do you think they will have

a chance of parking. well all these changes and all who knows us as a. big world. i think european union and make it stronger so they will survive. and how desperate is the euro zone stronger economies do you think to keep greece inflate the effect that its collapse could have on the single currency. well they are doing very well below the falls the sort of the grammys one hundred billion euros released one year are. all you can see there acquired this year it's. called into the future of. t.v. europe needs more centralized economic governance like the european commission presidents calling for what's the white a solution here. what i'm going so i think yours on should all of it's all rules

and the only way i would survive because i'm not sure that people are you. or. your government and they are not going to be so you can have a real it's the you know i'm a very. good i've got this for me it should be economic and social studies many thanks for your thoughts here on r.t. to see. naysay peacekeepers in carthage have brought in more troops to a disputed border crossing in the ethnics there the north a day after several people were hurt in clashes both sides blame each other for starting the violence which saw rubber bullets and tear gas by allied forces anger reigns and catherine our priority is try to be the front here to enforce the trade embargo he's alliston laughlin says the region with doing fine until the east. it's the european union and the nato so-called peacekeepers or other in forces

who have caused this problem the kosovo issue of the situation a lot of kosovo 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 you lex which is the european union body that sent the troops there to enforce the new customs regime i believe that you looks itself is illegal i take the view that it's the united nations which should be governed in kosovo according to the resolution trolls forty four and not you lex. and indeed i think one can make a case for saying that there are parallel structures national 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 while the serbia trying to join it and why is serbia determined

to sacrifice part of her own territory a very historic part of her territory so that of 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. . now russia's envoy to nato told me earlier that the alliance is now taking sides in what is essentially an internal conflict. it seems my new colleagues don't have a clue what the consequences of their involvement in the conflict could be instead of taking a neutral position in accordance with the un security council resolution side of constable albania basically nato is blocking the only route of light between the cost of an serbs and serbia if the international peacekeepers who are involved in the civil conflict in the north of the region according to our sources there are badly wounded people among the consequences. are not from rubber bullets or from stones from real bullets fired people who refuses to answer the question it's not

a mistake it newsmaking and provokes another conflict in the balkans. where a few minutes away now from herring how free speech does seem to cover costs these days even much of americans leprosy like you know tony bennett. speaking their mind in the land of the free that's coming see. now the u.n. security council is considering the palestinian of ministrations membership the stated he did not officially submitted a united nations application last week israel and united states strongly oppose the idea he's made a point as calling the consultations for us in new york let's talk to her now marina how long is this going to take where is the smart money and how the vote will go. well in terms of how long this is supposed to take go pro says takes no longer than thirty five days and that should be the maximum of which this

standing committee will review the outlook for palestinian un membership and statehood the standing committee will hold its first meeting on friday and the application that the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas handed in calls for recognition of a palestinian state in the west bank or gaza strip and east jerusalem as its capital so far there is about a six security council members on the record that have thrown their support behind the palestinian bid a total of nine out of the fifteen countries need to support the application and there has to be no vetoes none of the veto wielding members of the security council should cast a veto as we know the united states a staunch ally of israel has vowed to veto the palestinian bid for u.n. membership if that house to israel is very much opposed to this the us president

barack obama said the only way that there can be independent palestinian state is if palestinians and the israelis get back to the negotiation table and discuss middle east peace plan that comes to fruition so at this point some critics say the palestinian campaign for you another ship is doomed to hell but the palestinians are very appreciative that security council is moving so quickly and at the very least this is bringing to it bringing attention to a problem that has lasted for decades and has not yet been solved in schools and so she doesn't want. to expand the settlements in disputed east jerusalem and build some eleven hundred new hundreds where does this leave the peace process in the middle east such as it is. clearly this is make this makes the circumstance that much harder there has been any condemnation coming from the international community against israel's plan to expand its settlements russia has

said it's deeply concerned that the plan and hopes that it would be revised the united states and european union also voiced criticism of this plan some critics say that the settlement expansion is actually a violation of international law and if anything israel's actions can be seen as provoking and already sensitive circumstance not helping to reach. ultimate peace agreements in any sort of way the prime minister of israel benjamin netanyahu says that israel has a right to build and the people in israel some say have you this settlement expansion as a gift for the jewish new year the palestinian authority say that israel clearly with this move is not serious about peace whatsoever and at a point where we saw the middle east quartet come together last friday at the eleventh hour to try to get both sides to come to me to the tables this move is

being seen by the international community by diplomats as as a move that is only irritating a problem could be seen as a provocation and while the international media is trying to get both sides to come together particularly the u.s. where it doesn't want its influence in credibility credibility in the middle east compromise this is only irritating the problem so we can imagine that a lot of the diplomatic negotiations will continue taking place to make sure that maybe israel will will take back its plan on expanding settlements because if those settlements do you expect the palestinian president said there will be no kind of business as usual and no direct talks with the israelis. to porton our ability. us live from new york there. now there's a new attempt by the un's top formulating a response to syria but european countries and russia remain divided on sanctions

european nations new draft scales back the call for tougher restrictions on syria suggesting that further sanctions are only implemented if the violent doesn't stop immediately russia remains resolute in its stance of further sanctions won't work and that the warring sides should enter talks the crackdown in syria continues with the army supported by tanks the helicopters now have installed bikini rebel city of rust on. the un has also heard iran got a stark warning from france whose envoy threatened a military strike if surround continues its nuclear development in a forthright remark the french employees had some countries won't accept around having a nuclear bomb would be a preventative strike well tell us what you make of the france delegates shooting from the hip with the details and then vote on what you think will happen next all of our teams are. now in america everyone has the right to speak their mind but that cannot carry a high price at least that the experience of some high profile figures who lost

their jobs or reputations after a voice in their views especially when it comes to sensitive subjects is going she can reports from washington. 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 of provokes terror with the terrorists or with the terrorists are related to us well two rooms don't make a right so the one who started with our 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 offended 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 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 and you can get in trouble and artists have musicians have now tony bennett history 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's been fired for what they say they could. 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. 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 one time had been seen as the spiritual leader of the hezbollah but had later broken ties with them now they're all sort that was promptly pushed out of the us mainstream media it's all about consequences social and economic 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 been law man i don't think i have been a christian. they have been explicit and they wrote. their we are can act we attack america because you had bases on our holy land in saudi arabia you do not give palestinians our fair treatment and you have been bombing. i didn't say that i'm trying to get through 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 who did and label on p. true already 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 rude 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 art. and of course if your tongues and. minced no words as president obama found out recently what is it if it's challenged as a g. the president found the distinction difficult he's made to the speech because we can't recall the details at all to dot com also online year. high hopes a green appalls chance russian opera cultural boss is again just set up by spread

kind of a spontaneous sions perhaps not for the reasons you'd expect it's strange but true full story on our website. very first verses of the bible that all human beings are created. in god's image and it doesn't say just. sixty to seventy percent of what i did as a comet so you have to play territories to do with the turds doing what we call making our presence so we go out should some bozo hear a knock on some doors for the other. religion and nationalism is not as good as i'm . a part of the problem. part of what leads to. bloodshed if you want to. kill. a thousand four hundred people in

a month and you want to expect that this will have no effect and people feel you have to be either extremely evil extremist or. you're a few religious jew killing another jew and not believe they really didn't. turn out one of our top stories the un security council considering the palestinian administration's membership the state had installed more innocent life i don't know about them as being the physical sciences at the university in ramallah many thanks for joining me delta's bt how syrians have high hopes of course for that bid what happens if the u.s. does exercise its veto as promised in blocs this. well my assessment that the united states is unlikely to reach a point of using to veto unless really the united states has it has to do that

i think the united states will first probably resort to trying to exert some pressure upon the other members of those has it been members in order not to let the situation reach the point where nine members support of. this proposal i think that it's very much as if he used the veto knowing that it will have very very impact and probably very disastrous consequences in the region we all know the middle east is boiling basically is really changing radically and i think the last thing the last thing the united states want to have is another headache over hitting the americans and making it very difficult for americans three to play any kind of role in the reason. these while looking to see the big settle but most specifically now to happen on the twenty third of september the israeli prime

minister binyamin netanyahu he did say that he was willing to actually meet the palestinian leader on the fringes ofa general assembly but that never actually happened in your opinion should we do about it maybe taking the high road and try to meet with netanyahu and challenge him directly. no it's very simple. i think with women who talk about became very experienced politician in really realizing that mr netanyahu is nothing about the big liar he is he has nothing to offer he's just. can't provide the words and try to capture some kind of emotions but in fact he is captured by a government of such orders he is obsessed with a very fine i think kind of political ideology and he has read nothing to offer lately or. had reached that realisation after eighteen years of brutus

negotiation and the israelis particularly at this point under the leadership of netanyahu is able to deliver anything and one evidence that supported this so this claim is yesterday's or actually. curation a part of the government building new settlements and to sort of other places so it's a government of settlers to deal with the question of peace because if the question of peace is to be correctly i dress then the question of settlements has to be also dealt with apparently the current government is unable to reach that point where you can't feel very passionate about based on sound if you say that the mideast quartet has had its outline at the end of twenty twelve for us rather to kind of say needs to reach agreement box both sides in a hurry to get the nikkei seats in table why is that. i'm sorry i did not you hear you willing questions you is the one i did to both sides both

israel and and palestine not seem to be in any particular hurry to reach an agreement the middle east quartet is has a deadline for the end of twenty twelve for the green to be reached but why does need aside here to be in any sort of hari. from the palestinian side there is apparently there is no partner and israeli side. with the palestinians have taken their their topic to the international community through the united nations and certain really concrete assurances need to be given to the palestinians in order for palestinians to really come back to the negotiating tables now declared as well as the european bloc so far is look for the much is offering of the formula of getting the negotiation resumed but without really assuring the palestinians who are asking three important things time to. the magic

words of nine hundred sixty seven and also the question of settlements guys these issues are not addressed and apparently neither by the court there nor book by the europeans of course not supported by the americans as long as these issues are not addressed i'm afraid the palestinians will never be able to go back to negotiation with the part of the israel is it is going to court unity for them to say no simply because the game is getting out of hand meaning the topic is not becoming a strictly something that is hijacked by the israelis and the americans and apparently they are very troubled that this topic is really getting out of how. many times they saw a spectacle scientists at the united states university in ramallah and. don't go away in just a few moments one of britain's most prominent commentators explains why his and

other western nations jump to get involved in other countries conflicts first the business with you. i know that's right time for your business update russian markets are struggling to retain the gains they enjoyed at the start of the week they managed to avoid thought from the resignation of finance minister aleksey kudrin but your stock price is weighing on the markets although russian indices are managing to peek into positive territory. from renesas asset managers explains what is driving the rollercoaster and the reason going to mario the russian beautiful bodies and good fortune is because before markets in the world people from value markets it's always been quite cheap and when the global markets are in turmoil the rush of some form of the other reason but you can look pulled up in scope of the russian markets through the road to believe we've come back for the worse and when people read the money there is to suffer disproportionately so there is

a flip cycle of things go up but it was rushed into a form everything else in the world in the last decade since the bird market trough and. not until recently ruffles the corn north in the world you think always goes up more than anything goes no more than a million people let's have a look at those figures while it's heading for the biggest course logic line since two thousand and eight that some speculation that fuel demand will drop as the u.s. economy slows and europe stuff prices just consumer sentiment. is trading at eighty three dollars a barrel and branches at one hundred six dollars a barrel. hundred stocks are mixed after a strong start and trade the dollar is a quarter percent up while the nasdaq is point one percent in the red. time european stocks closed in the red on wednesday the german dax almost one percent down while the footsie was down about one and a half as sand and. that's after posting its biggest one day percentage gain in

sixteen months and that happened as investors. reconsidered expectations that euro zone policymakers would act aggressively to resolve the debt crisis on the food says shaz and many groups have pledged nineteen percent after the world's biggest listed hedge fund manager reported large flows. of the russian markets were thought to negative at the under wednesday's trading session let's have a look at some of the individual share moves in the night since most energy may just ended in the red with gas from over one cent down precious metal mine a point eventually lost one point three percent after an earlier rally on upbeat results the company's not profit growth than just seven percent to one hundred fifty one million dollars and the world's going to go is the main gate of the day it's jazz so what eight percent of the company jumps started accepting bits for its four billion dollars buyback program and it's because rising three hrs.