the greek noosa titans of periods crowns clashed with police avery new alst levy to pay to the debt while the e.u. president warns the blockade face is the biggest challenge of. the way hales in charge of the square which last night was the scene of clashes between riot police and the protest is as politically united in their opposition as the government's new all star if he manages. nato troops and bring in more serene full was thinking tested for water between server and great weight loss of over after fresh the relative to between the two sides. and

a wave of global disapproval of his israel which has really made more secular entities jerusalem just in the un space powerful body prefers palestine stated to its admission poor. fans and business the russian market spoil to retain big gains they enjoyed at the start of the week that issue plot to negative on wednesday more influential minutes. everyone welcome to this is r.t. live from moscow press greeks will get a no see surprise in their electricity bells the highly unpopular new property tax is being levied to help the government pay off its enormous debt that's ahead of thursday's crucial vote in germany which could see the eurozone rescue package.

fourfold home with of greece's debt written off surfaces now and for us that's course a versatile life well that's what can the greek people expect from time horoscopes . well all eyes are going to be on the island to see the outcome of that is very uncertain the moment exactly what's going to happen now as he said the contributions friend germany as well as other usa members would increase. to be a preview we know that there has been some problems especially amongst the general public it's been extremely unpopular and we've seen a prime minister choose pop enjoy it on a visit just the other day and met with the german chancellor merkel that that was seen as a move to try maybe garner a bit more support for greece and we had some very positive rhetoric coming from the place of the increase that is part promising to deliver saying they think they can find their way out of the crisis but it really is crucial that your is a need to still have made it clear whether or not they're going to be providing

that next tranche of money the eight billion euro is is still that that's i think will go ahead because as we've seen in some of the other statements that have come out recently very much the opinion and the thought is the greece is to stay within the euro you know within the euro zone where it's live we've heard that anyone could leave really and i can see the end of the entire union all together and we're seeing those in greece getting ready to now and their disappointment is more a move hans you've been there for a few days now what do you hear on the streets. there's a lot of disappointment from the people here about the way the situation's played out i mentioned how the german public was feeling about having said the possibility of providing contributions towards that bailout well here in greece to be honest the said the feelings very similar they don't particularly like the idea that the year is a leaders coming to the rescue what they see is leave the simply. untenable of

course they won't greece to ride out this crisis but the austerity measures that have been put in place that have been very very strict indeed that property tax you mentioned that was dated three last night by the parliament and we saw the situation here also in tightness square where the protests clashed with riot police that escalated again but they're very unhappy with this measure that property tax is going to add even more to the tax bills that these people are having to pay and the public has said that it's not even a case anymore of whether they want to pay they simply don't have that money the situation here really is extremely crucial points and moving forward now people are going to be looking to decisions i like to maurice in berlin to see exactly where the euro is a need is it going to lead to whether they're going to be taking decisive action that it going to help people out of the situation so moving forward all eyes will certainly be on balance and the outcome of that. many facts. reporting from our.

well as we heard the e.u. commission president is calling for close economic integration as a way to escape the crisis person here and he told r.t. it was the union that calls the troubles in the first place. you cannot tax your way to recession or depression it simply isn't possible and the great winston churchill's quote on this trying to track 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 as soon 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 not we need to do the rest of the european union the eurozone and indeed the i.m.f. is to help them in a stable controlled default know what we need to do is to get national governments democratically elected pact to running their own economy is the

european union and part of the solution here you european union is part of the problem it's the european union in the euro zone which has created this terrible cataclysmic problem so new is not part of the solution mr brooks the least of all but was that versus your and he coffee playing with his ass and not supplying concrete that. sob stories are native peacekeepers and costco has brought in more troops to the disputed border crossing the ethnic north a day after several people were hurt in clashes both sides blame each other in the pilots which some rubber bullets and tear gas seized by alliance forces anger rose in late july when cost of an authority is trying to seize that front is to enforce a trade embargo piece and listen john larkin says the region is doing fine answer b e u stepped in. it's the european union and nato

so-called peacekeepers or other enforcers who have caused this problem to kosovo issue the situation in the north 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 and in my view the powers of you lex which is the european union body that sent the troops there to enforce the new custom trisha. i believe that you lex itself is illegal i take the view that it's the united nations which should pick up an eco suppose of products of resolution told forty four and not you lex. and indeed i think one can make a case for saying that there are parallels 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 here in unit 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 to a very strict part of her territory to that of that's the reality and i'm afraid for the situation won't improve until belgrade a pendens this in my view suicidal goal of joining the e.u. . russia's envoy to nato told nearly ever the alliance is now taking sides in what is essentially an internal conflicts. 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 with the un security council resolution he took the side of constable i'll give you basically newdow is blocking the only route of life between the cost of an serbs and serbia the international peacekeepers who are involved in the civil conflict in the north of the region according to our sources there above the wounded people among the constable serbs those wounds are not from rubber

bullets or stones from real bullets fired at these people need refuses to answer the question its littlest a good neighbor was making and provoked another conflict in the balkans. our just a few minutes away from hearing. well i will have more on that story a little bit later right now though let's cross over to some breaking news that we're getting here at r.t. right now a car bomb has killed eight people in russia's southern republic of dagestan seven civilians including an eleven year old child are dead as well as a police van with the investigative committee which is russia's top investigative body said an explosive was planted in a car part of a road crossing in the central lavish district set with a blast also wounded some six other police officers on wednesday a criminal investigation is underway well of course any more on this story as we

get it if you stay with us here on r.t. . the u.n. security council is considering the palestinian administration's membership the state has made about who would have officially submitted a united nations application last week israel in the united states strongly opposed the idea of what nice following the consultations in new york. as takes no longer than thirty five days the standing committee will assess and review the application for palestinian un membership and statehood the standing committee will hold its first meeting on friday the application the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas handed in calls for recognition palestinian state in the west bank gaza strip and east jerusalem capital so far there is 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 you know one of the veto wielding members of the security council should cast a veto as we know the united states is songe ally of israel has vowed to veto any of it for you and 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 the 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 that the palestinian campaign for a year number ship is doomed to fail but the palestinians are very appreciative it's is moving so quickly and at the very least this is going to bring attention to a problem that has lasted for decades and has not yet been solved there has been condemnation coming from the international community against israel's plan to

expand its settlements russia has said it's deeply concerned with the plan and hopes that it would be revised the united states and european union are also voiced criticism of this plan and some critics say that this 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 agreement in any sort of way the prime minister of israel benjamin netanyahu says that israel has the right to build people in israel some say have you this settlement expansion as a gift for the jewish new year of the palestinian authority say that israel clearly with this move is not serious about peace whatsoever and we can imagine that a lot of diplomatic negotiations will continue taking place to make sure that maybe israel will. plan on expanding settlements because if those settlements do you

expect the palestinian president said there will be no kind of business as usual in no were direct talks with the israelis when israel's announcement that it will expand their lives in the west bank is giving the palestinians further down the neighbors want peace physical sciences daughter. in ramallah told r.t. israeli prime minister is the one stalling the process. mr netanyahu is nothing about the big liar he is he has nothing to offer he's just. can't provide empty words he is obsessed with a very fine i think kind of political ideology and he has really nothing to offer lately or in the end mr bass had reached that realisation after eighteen years of fruitless negotiation that these are a list particularly at this point under the under the leadership of netanyahu is

unable to deliver anything and one evidence that supported this so this claim is yesterday's or actually today's. curation only part of the government building was supplements and there was a place so it's a government of settlers to deal with the question of peace because if the question of peace is to be correctly addressed then the question of settlements has to be also dealt with and apparently the current government is unable to reach that limit . well there's a new attempt by the un's top body in formulating a response to syria good european countries and russia remain divided on sanctions european nations new draft scales bank a call for tougher restrictions on syria suggesting that further sanctions are only implemented it is violence doesn't start immediately russia remains that resolution its stance that sanctions won't work and that the warring sides should enter talks the crackdown in syria continues with the army supported by tanks and helicopters

and have installed the key rebel city of trust than. the u.s. has also heard iran got a stark warning from france to them boy threatens a military strike iran continues its nuclear development it our fault line from our french envoy said some countries won't accept around having a nuclear bomb and would make a preventive strike or tell us all you made with the french delegates usually when they have read the details and vote on what you think will happen next dot com. 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've lost their jobs or reputations are to voicing their views especially when it comes the sense this subject gammage again 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 of right of provokes terror with the terrorists or with terrorists are very good 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 but i'd like to say that i am sorry if my state statement 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 eluding 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 you can get in trouble and artists have musicians have now tony bennett it's me

question freedom of speech proved no defense in protecting the jobs of a number of probably figures in america sacked after comments that appeared to challenge conventional us establishment views journalist helen thomas when 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 prior for what they say. and what 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 systematic see it is for a senior editor of middle east the fears be enough sir was sacked a year ago because of a tweet she wrote about her respect for a lebanese cleary who had one time had been seen as the spiritual leader of the hezbollah but had leader broken ties with them they're all sort college or at least that 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 these that wish when you come under fire true like congressman ron paul who is running for president i was common law man i am tired 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 fair treatment and 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 for ten years would you be annoyed if you're not annoyed there's a 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.

or even being fired from their jobs but rather about the fact that in a country that prides itself on freedom of speech that freedom often comes at a hefty price i'm going to check out reporting from washington are to. take a quick reminder now of our breaking news here on are being killed in a car bomb in russia's southern republic of a duck a stunt as cross live to our reporter now who's in the north caucuses with the court's neveh do you know what's the situation on the ground there what are you hearing on their ass. well the answer them to. leave it right number our presidents have been going for and just recently now aged people and revenue year old child or grandchild in the russian republic of dagestan in a bomb blast shelter sixteen eastern i would force them to be here if they were engaged and in moments they are in hearts and searched meanwhile investigative

committees are so the bomb was planted in a car parked outside and their. secret and was even later about financial plate but not to be a criminal investigation. and do we know anything more about this do we know who's behind this well the good stuff and certainly what we're going to be i apologize we probably care and learn from the sorry for us yes here they have been a number out for a mentor and friend who jerry range and marjorie going to have been killed according to what we see told. of the current air operations or continue in this region hour for instance and into their own like large aircraft only in that i didn't care and still take part in a russian for christmas ok medina many thanks that updates artie's we did a quarter of their reporting for us from the north caucuses on this breaking news

a car bomb having gone off in a russian southern republic of dagestan to stay with us for more on the story as we get it. ok of brief look now at some of the major world news of grief a mass protest filmed in yemen's capital in what appears to be one of the biggest anti-government protests since the country's embattled president returned last week and months of day demonstrations have been calling for greater freedom of the ali abdullah saleh to end his decades long rule military officials also report trouble outside the city well armed tribesmen shuts down a yemeni rule saying. witnesses at the manslaughter trial of michael jackson's doctors say the pop star appeared in good health but concert rehearsals just days before his death the promoter of the kombucha all told jurors he thought jackson let's engage in the energetic dr conrad murray's accused of gross negligence leading to jackson's drug induced death in two thousand and nine which he denies.

clean up operations underway throughout the philippines in the wake of the devastating typhoon knesset the storm battered the capital manila with two eventual rains causing widespread flooding which left twenty one dead and thirty missing residents are also bracing themselves for another tropical storm that's heading their way. now is china's turn to stake a claim of the stars with a long day over it's all getting heavenly palace the unmanned tiangong one laboratory will test the water for beijing to boost its presence in the skies let's get more on this now and talk to tariq malik editor's space dot com many of us are joining us here and ask you mr mallock that was a big step is it for china's space program just briefly outline for us if you will what the heavenly palace is and what it's going to do. i think it's going to be here this is as you mentioned a huge step we're trying to space program the children won't module is there

a prototype for a full blown space station module. about the size of the guys that were using the nine times and what they're hoping with this i don't know is that it's going to be the foundation for a. reusable or just a nation in space for a trainer after this life goes up if it's successful they will send another unmanned spacecraft up with it in november if that is successful that sets the stage for an end to the laboratory so it would be a top for china in space just the beginning of a long time to even if it's finding space project it sounds like that but how far does china have to go really before it manages to catch up with the other big space superpowers like russia and the u.s. want to do that and taking the stepping stone approach to human spaceflight so it's a very. temperate. trying to trial and error.

slow but it doesn't have the frenetic pace that the u.s. and russia were were experiencing in the sixty's during the space race. so they you know this is are i think their next leader milestone since the last man space flight in actually has or not. so it's been several years since they've had a major flight like this. taking on success for these flights they want to make sure thing goes right they take their time for it and that's why this one has been away from own earlier launch because of our recent mishap it had with a rocket well let's talk about the timing why do you think china is expanding its place projects out of time like this is specially when we see the u.s. for example failing back after retiring their actual thoughts what china sees a space program as. this is all. example of it's

a problem as well. for a country. and you're going to. be a technological powerhouse. there's a story you're your expertise. it's one of the hardest things for people to do here is interest rates indeed it is tiring managing editor of space on many thanks for those thoughts it's. like a reminder now of our breaking news that we're hearing here and artsy now eight people including our eleven year old girl have been killed by a car bomb in russia's southern republic of dagestan six policemen have also been severely injured and are now in hospital rushes committee says explosive was planted in a car pause at a road crossing and was decimated clearly a criminal investigation is underway where of course across what's happening in that part of the caucuses and new more on this story as we get it so you do stay

with us here on our. right now though that's going to be with you. hello and a very welcome time for the 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 alex a cool drink but europe's debt crisis is weighing on the markets although russian indices are trying to peek into positive territory plowman. as advantages explains what is driving the rollercoaster. and the reason above them are global pressure before bubbly is because russia is because of the market in the world from well you markets it's always been quite cheap and when the global markets are in turmoil russia has some form of the other reason that you can move all of these go to the russian markets to grow to really quickly become

a problem will be worthless and when people really money things suffer disproportionately there is a few cycles of friction for what it was the russians or the former you know from those where over the last decade most of the bear market profits. not until recently ruffles the foreign markets in the world you think those goals of more than anything goes on more than anything else. let's have a look at those figures or less heading for the biggest courses you clients is two thousand and eight that's the speculation that deal demand will drop as the years economy slows and europe's debt crisis consumer sentiment juggling two eyes trading at around eighty two and a halt dollars per barrel and brand is hovering at one hundred five dollars a barrel. for a strong start to the day the drought is of course will present while the nasdaq is point one percent in the right. time the european indices closed in the red the taxes was about one percent while the puts the last one and

a half percent that's after posting its biggest one day percentage gain in sixteen months as investors reconsidered expect. is that your zone policymakers would act aggressively to resolve the debt crisis and in the foods or shares men who have plunged nineteen percent off of the world's biggest listed hedge fund manager reported large was. planned the russian markets were not too negative about the other wednesday's trajan session let's take a look at some of the individual share moves in the my six closed energy majors and if the right with gas from a one percent down precious metals one of one metal one point three percent doctrine earlier rally on a beautiful as tough results in the company's net profit growth seventy seven percent to one hundred fifty one million dollars clinical is the main gate of the day its shares soared sons the company jumped after it started accepting birds or it's forbidden dog buyback program that's why they were the biggest prize and three

weeks. i'll have time for knowledge in the next hour for more business stories here on r.g.p. and got more small website arches of consolation business.