and in business the russian markets fail to retain the gains they enjoyed at the start of the week that issue plus two negative points wednesday were in twenty minutes. a very warm welcome to this is r.t. live from moscow hard press greeks will get a notice the surprise in their electricity bills 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 increase some four fold at home off of greece's debt written off surfaces now and for us that's cross save life now so what can the greek people expect from tomorrow's voters. well all eyes are going to be on berlin to see the outcome of

that is very uncertain the name and exactly what's going to happen now as he said the contributions from germany as well as other usa members would increase. to be a preview we know that there has been some problems especially amongst the german public it's pretty extremely unpopular and we've seen the greek prime minister george happened on a visit just the other day met with the german chancellor merkel that that was seen as a move to try to maybe garner a bit more support for greece and we heard some very positive rhetoric coming from the base of the increase is part promising to deliver saying they think they can find their way out of the crisis it really is crucial that you as i 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 certain will go ahead because it's we've seen in some of the other statements that have come out recently very much the opinion and the thought is that greece is just. within the year within the

eurozone where it's live we've heard that anyone could leave really and i can see the end of the entire union altogether and sarah we're seeing those in greece getting ready boku now in their disappointments and more and more concierges 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 were feeling about having said the possibility of providing more contributions towards that bailout while here in greece to be honest the so the feelings very similar they don't particularly like the idea the year is a new leaders coming to the rescue what they see is that it simply untenable that it cools 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 he mentioned that was fated three last night by the parliament and we saw the

situation here on some tightness square where the protesters clashed with riot police that escalated again but they're very unhappy with a smashes that property tax is going to add even more to the tax those 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 like to maurice in berlin to see exactly where the year is a need is it going to lead to whether they're going to be taking decisive action that are going to help people out of the situation so moving forward all eyes will certainly be on balance more on the outcome of that more right sara many facts. reporting from this for us. well as we heard the e.u. commission president is calling for close economic integration as a way to escape the crisis that person. told r.t. it was the union that calls the troubles in the first place you cannot tax your way

out of recession or despair 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 can't work and the cern as the politicians the bureaucrats and everybody else faced 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 on what 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 back to running their own economy is the european union and part of the solution here the u. 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. purses your empty coffee playing with his assessment of what's to blame for the greek debt troubles. stories on a tape peacekeepers in the cost of have brought in more troops to a disputed border crossing in the ethnic north a day after several people were hurt in clashes both sides blame each other for starting the violence which saw rubber bullets and tear gas used by alliance forces anger rose in late july when cos of an authority is trying to seize the front is to enforce a trade embargo piece and listen john mostyn says the region 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 cost of zero issue the situation in the north of costs 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 you lex which is the european union body that sent the troops there to enforce the new cuss interest. i believe that you lex itself is illegal 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 to that of that's the reality and i'm afraid

of the situation we're in to improve until belgrade abandons this in my view suicidal goal of joining the e.u. . on russia's envoy to nato told me earlier that 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 in accordance with the un security council resolution and they took the side of constable albania basically nato is blocking the only road of life between the cost of an serbs and serbia it's huge national 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 cause of an serbs and those wounds are not from rubber bullets or stones from real bullets fired at these people need to refuses to answer the question it's not a mistake that nader was making and provoked another conflict in the balkans now we are 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 some breaking news that we're getting here at r.t. right now 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 policeman will be investigative committee which is russia's top investigative body said an explosive was planted in a car parked at a road crossing in the central. districts where the blast also wounded some six other police officers on wednesday a criminal investigation is underway well of course plenty 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 for statehood leader mahmoud abbas officially said betty the united nations application

last week israel in the united states strongly opposed the idea of port nice following the consultations in new york. the process takes no longer than thirty five days this 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 that the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas handed in calls for recognition of palestinian state in the west bank gaza strip and east jerusalem its capital so far there is about 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 over the united states a staunch ally of israel has vowed to veto any invid for us membership if it

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 the middle east peace plan that comes to fruition so at this point some critics say the palestinian campaign for a year number ship is doomed to fell 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 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 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 now 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 we can imagine that a lot of 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 expand the palestinian president said there will be no kind of business as usual and no direct talks with the israelis will israel's announcement

that it will expand full moons in the west bank is giving the palestinians further down the neighbors want peace physical scientists don't serve them as b.d. and ramallah told r.t. the 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. provide empty words. says with a very frenetic kind of political ideology. he has really nothing to offer lately or. reach that realisation after eighteen years of fruitless negotiation this role is particularly at this point on the under the leadership of little you know is will to deliver anything and what evidence that supported this so this claim is. originally part of a government building we were settlements in jerusalem. it's

a government of settlers to deal with the question of peace because if the question of peace there's to be correctly addressed the question of settlements has to be also dealt with apparently the current government is unable to reach that limit. now there's a new attempt by the un's top body in formulating a response to syria but european countries and russia remain divided on sanctions the european nations new draw off scales back the coup for tougher restrictions on syria suggesting that further sanctions are only implemented responded stuff stop immediately russia remains that resolution its stance that sanctions won't and that the warring sides should enter talks the crackdown in syria continues with the only support by tanks and helicopters now having stormed the key rebel city of trust on . the u.n. has also got a stark warning from france these amboy threatened military strike if taran

continues its nuclear development for life from our french envoy said some countries won't accept around having a nuclear bomb and would make a preventive strike well tell us what you make of the french i think it's easy for they have read the details and. what do you think will happen exit at all to dot com. now in america everyone has the right to speak their mind but that can carry a high price at least that is the experience of some high profile figures who lost their jobs or reputations after voicing their views especially when it comes to sensitive subjects and damage that you can report 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 broad have provoked terror with the terrorists or with the terrorists or are they the terrorists well two wrongs don't make a right they are the ones who started with the plane flying into the world trade center what do you do oh i don't know about tony bennett was attacked afterwards

with stinging criticism from some quarters then he went to great lengths to apologize to those his remarks may have offended that writer saying that i am sorry if my state statements suggested anything other than an expression of my love for my country america calls itself the land of the free but some are asking why our living legend like tony bennett has to apologize for his thoughts there's no tolerance really for any deviation from the official line even though here in america we're very proud of our freedom of speech and the right to speak his 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's sacked after comments that appeared to challenge conventional u.s. establishment views journalist helen thomas who'd been

a white house reporter 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. automatically makes you any systematic cnn's former senior editor of middle east affairs davian nasr 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 in-law and i don't hide i have been a christian. they have been explicit and they wrote. that we are characters 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 at

a hefty price i'm going to check our reporting from washington our to. ok a quick reminder now evolve breaking news. people have been killed in a car bomb in russia's southern republic of doug a stunt that is cross live to our reporter now he's in the north caucuses in the in a quarter of a do you know what's the situation on the ground there what are you hearing on their ass. well the answer then have been early today good to leave the exact number out there that gentiles been going for and just recently now age people and eleven year old child have been killed in the russian republic of dagestan again a bomb blast in a sixty two and i was fortunate to be seriously wounded and the moment they are in hospital schmear while investigative committee of the bomb was planted eighteen in a car parked outside and this bomb was hidden in an empty car and was data related to national t.v. in the arms of

a criminal investigation cases underway and medina do we know anything more about this do we know who's behind this. well the good stuff and the names well known to be volatile and informed the story for us yes here they have been a number up there in the toy and found huge error rate and injuries. to have been killed according to what we see felt. the current operations will continue in this region as in the. into their own like what jews have their name dragged down and still take place in the russians are. many thanks that. the coach of the reporting for us from the old school has his own this breaking news a car bomb having gone off in a rush the southern republic of dagestan do stay with us for more on this story as we get it. ok a brief look now at some of the major world news in brief

a mouse protest filmed in yemeni capital in what appears to be one of the biggest anti-government protests since the country's embattled president returned last week months of daily demonstrations have been calling for greater freedom and for ali abdullah saleh to end his decades long rule military officials also report trouble outside the city where armed tribesmen shot down a yemeni warplane. witnesses at the manslaughter trial of michael jackson's doctors say the pop star appearing good health that concert rehearsals just days before his death the promoter of the convert all told jurors he thought jackson looked engaged and 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 rental

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 it's china's turn to stake a claim in the stars with the launch on thursday although it's all we're seeing 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 getters space dot com many of us are joining us here on r.t. mr ballen that was a big step is that 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. it's going to be this is original huge so we're trying to program the general module is there for. a module. about so little as it were. it's about nine times and what they're hoping with this is that it's going to be the

foundation for a. reusable destination in space for training after this flight goes up if it's successful they will send up another unmanned spacecraft to dock with it in november if that is successful that sets the stage for a manned flight to the laboratory so it would be told for china in space just the beginning of a of a long time table defining 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 super palates like russia and the u.s. well china has been taking a stepping stone approach to human spaceflight so it's a very. temperate. trial and error. slow but it doesn't have the frenetic pace that the u.s. and russia where we're experiencing in the sixty's during the space race. so they

knew this is it or i think their next major milestone since the last man space flight in two thousand and eight so it's been several years since they've had a major flight like this. banking on success for these flights they want to make sure everything goes right they take their time for it and that's why this one has been delayed from an earlier launch because of our recent mishap it had with a rocket as well when i talk about the timing why do you think china is expanding its price project that a time like this is specially when we see the u.s. for example scaling back after retiring there shuttles well trying to seize a space program as a big. visible. example of its progress as well it's a major prestige. for the country and of course the you know it is trying to grow as it wants to be technological. powerhouse. worlds through. your your

expertise what is one of the hardest things for people to do well for you know humans industry indeed it is terrence malick managing editor of space dot com many thanks for those tools it's. like a reminder now of our breaking news that we're hearing here in alt c. now eight people including an 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 russia's investigative committee says an explosive was planted in a car parked at a road crossing and was detonated automatically a criminal investigation is underway where of course across what's happening in that part of the caucuses when you more on this story as we get it say do stay with us. right now though let's get a business update with. hello

and a very welcome time for the business update russian markets are struggling to retain the games they enjoyed at the start of the week they managed to avoid fallout from the resignation of finance minister but europe's debt crisis is weighing on the markets although russia indices are trying to peek into positive territory plowman . as advantages explains what is driving the rollercoaster. and the reason the mark of the drug should be so bubbly is to go for a cheese because the market in the world from value market console is being quite cheap and when the global markets are in turmoil in russia or some form. the other reason but you can look for that if you start the russian market just to grow to really quickly become the problem will be worse and when people read the money that's the stuff from this proportion there is a flipside to the printing so often it was rushed into the form everything else in the world in the last decade since the bear market trough. recently russel's the

only market in the world the truth always goes up more than anything more than anything. let's have a look at those figures or less heading for the biggest quarterly to clients is two thousand and eight that's the speculation that deal demand will drop as the u.s. economy slows and europe's debt crisis consumer sentiment w t i was trading at around eighty two and a halt dollars per barrel and brand is hovering at one hundred five dollars per barrel. a strong start to the day the dow is a course of a percent while the nasdaq is point one percent in the write. down the european indices closing there at the texas was about one percent while the foot's the last one and a half percent that's after posting its biggest one day percentage gain in sixteen months as investors reconsider its expectations. that euro zone policymakers would act aggressively to resolve the debt crisis and on the foods issue as

a men's group plunged nineteen percent off of the world's biggest listed hedge fund manager reported launch was. the russian markets were flat to negative at the end of wednesday's trade and session let's take a look at some of the individual share moves in the my six closed energy may just end up in the right with gas from one percent down precious metals in a pool of metal one point three percent off to an earlier rally. results in the company's metals a gross seventy seven percent to one hundred fifty one million dollars. nichols the main gate of the day its shares soared eight percent the company jumped off trade started accepting its force for good in dollar buyback program that's why they were the biggest prize and three weeks. that's all i have time for knowledge in the next hour for more business stories here on our. website r.t. dot com slash business.

a very warm welcome back it's now we're here in moscow just one stories of update you on right now in the eight people including an eleven year old been killed in a car bomb blast in the republic of dagestan and solve in russia all except one of the victims were civilians will say wounded six a police officer is an explosive was planted in the call paul at a road crossing in the central ski district a criminal investigation is under way stay with us he will bring you more details as they come in. next day with the u.k. and other western countries still very much involved in the libyan conflict one of britain's leading newspaper columnists now tells us why nations like his seem to pick and choose where they do.