a very warm welcome to you this is our see live from moscow now we start with tragedy and dug a stand where eight people including an eleven year old girl have been killed by a car bomb in the southern russian republic six policemen were also severely injured and are now in hospital and he said now is following developments. well it has officially been confirmed that eight people were killed in this blast seven of them civilians an eleven year old girl we're just hearing from law enforcers in the area that we entire family was killed in fact they were driving by this parked car word fact the explosives were planted and set off automatically in their car was a husband his wife and their three daughters so that's the latest we're hearing six police officers were injured one of those victims who is dead is a police officer in fact and obviously a criminal investigation has been launched this housing had been casa fight as an act of terror what has been launched as

a criminal investigation and the charges there an attempt on the life of a police officer and the illegal use of explosives the caucus is known for its volatility and terrorism is still a very major threat there in fact just last week we saw double blasts in the capital of dagestan a hard scoreline sixty one people were injured there are no deaths but it's certainly something that officials there the whole country is still very much dealing with the threat of terror but this so far again i want to i just wonder why it has not been confirmed for casa five as to not just take us out of the entire region really and this is something that moscow very much understands and in fact we're hearing just recently from the prosecutor general's office that they believe that more on forster's there and leaders are not doing it in fish enough job of dealing with terrorism an effort to prevent situations that we've seen over the past year just recently. last week in the heart of the law and again this hasn't been classified as an act of terror but certainly that is going to be looked into

and this is this is one of russia's i think it's fair to say top issues the issue of terrorism and terrorism that comes out of the caucuses and we've been seeing a lot of activity lately just in in dagestan itself. now european inspectors are heading for greece to find knowledgeable stairs he manages the being implemented as quickly as they could be but also an account from move ways to cut budgets and raise taxes on the head of a crucial german vote which could see a full fold increase in the year is a rescue fund it could also branch off a pot of greece's debt sarah ferguson athens ferrante. all eyes are going to be on balance to see the outcome of that is very uncertain the moment exactly what's going to happen now is he said the contributions from germany as well as other usa members would increase whether it's to be a preview we know that there has been some problems especially amongst the german public as proof 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 was seen as a move to china maybe garner a bit more support for greece and we heard some very positive rhetoric coming from the both of them greece is part promising to deliver saying they think they can find their way out of the crisis it really is crucial that you know it's 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 euros is to that that certainly will go ahead because as we've seen from some of the other statements that have come out recently very much the opinion and the thought is that greece is to stay within the year within the eurozone where it's live we've heard that anyone could leave really and i could see the end of the entire union all together 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 to the possibility of providing more contributions towards that bailout well here in greece to be

honest the said the feelings very similar they don't particularly like the idea the euro is a new leaders coming to the rescue what they see is news that is simply untenable for them because they want greece to ride out this crisis but the austerity measures that have been put in place them have been very very strict indeed property tax now the stated three last night by the parliament and we saw the situation here on some tightness to the square where the protesters clashed with riot police that escalated again at the very unhappy with this measure is that property tax is going to add even more. to the tax those that these people having to pay in 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 a headache steamy krishna points and even food now people are going to be looking at t.v. stations i like to maurice in berlin to see exactly where the usa 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 say meeting food all eyes will certainly be on balance my and the outcome of that vase. now e.u. officials have called on member states unite in facing the debt crisis suggesting that even close economic integration could help battle its effects in europe that bush's year and. says it's the union itself that caused the troubles in the first place you cannot tunks your way of recession or depression is simply isn't possible in 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 nobody else face the truth of this crisis the sooner we can start to get out of it the greek people are beginning to understand that they will be better off by defaulting are 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 defaults know what we need to do is to get national governments democratically elected back to running their own economy is the your opinion 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. well that was person. playing with his assessment of what's to blame for the greek debt troubles but in just a few minutes here on palestine beds israel builds we hear from the palestinians u.n. envoy for his insights into the talks and timings surrounding his membership mission at the global body. and free speech does come out a cost even in the land of the free much loved american flapper seems like kroon attorney bennett find they can't always make their mind.

they say peacekeepers in kosovo 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 for so rubber bullets and tear gas and by a life forces anger rose in late july thora she's trying to seize the front is to enforce a trade embargo 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 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 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 casa been serbs and those wounds are not from rubber bullets or from stones not from real bullets fired at these people need to refuse to answer that question it's another mistake that nato was making and provoked another conflict in the balkans. when asked he's been hearing from bulk an expert mark a gal sic who told us that nato forces moved into a cost of only to push their own interests. i do hope that the international criminal court will will have a look at list since the international criminal court claims to be very interested in the way of civilians are treated i hope that they won't make an exception for western powers in the way they treat civilians they've decided who they want to sponsor they want to sponsor the greater albanian project through which they see their own interest they see can bond still the biggest military base in the world having a permanent presence in the heart of europe strategically located completing that encircled and of russia which is always one of the serious aspects of their game plan that's what they're about they're about controlling the flow of oil controlling the security of energy supplies through this part of the region they're

about control nato is about control of territory and control of resources that's where they can stay on the side of those whose country it was not they will reward the organ stealers and the great albanian terrorists with a country because then the albanian maffia will over the big time that's the nato plan for the un security council is considering the palestinian it industry sions membership state he didn't ask would advance officially submitted a united nations application last week is rare in the united states strongly oppose the idea we have nice following the consultations in new. 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 the palestinian leader mahmoud

abbas handed in calls for recognition of palestinian state in the west bank 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 you 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 us 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 the middle east peace plan that comes to fruition so at this point some critics say the palestinian campaign for your number 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 there has been 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. an 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 that 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 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 when israel finance meant that it will expand settlements in the west bank he's giving the palestinians full of it down to their neighbors want peace united nations ambassador explains why this league. is that are you to government. or. responding to the international community and to the quartet which have been asking their. obligations under international law. which called for the freeze of

settlements the. announcing these days this illegal. is an indication that not interested in what the court that is proposing or the international community or why the obligation on international law and therefore they are not interested in negotiating peace they say they want to negotiate peace without conditions they are imposing all these conditions and actions speaks louder the announcement of their desire to negotiate peace. now the u.n. has also had a round get a dog warning from france use the envoy threatened a military strike if to round it continues its nuclear development in full stride grandma in front of voice said some country willing to accept around having a nuclear bomb would make a preventive strike tell us what do you make of the french delegate shooting from

the hip with these l's and then vote so on what you think will happen next it all. now in america everyone has the right to speak their minds but that can carry a high price at least that's the experience that some high profile figures he's lost their jobs or reputations often voicing their views especially when it comes to sensitive subjects is to get as you 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 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 but the one 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

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 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 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's been fired for what they say these days you can

you but not if you say anything about the president of 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 c.n.n.'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 too like congressman ron paul who is running for president and some of them large and i don't hide i have been missing. they have been explicit and they wrote. that we are can act

we attacked 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 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 or to your nearest 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 for washing our till. now is china's turn to safe its claim on the stars as it launches the unmanned space of. one on

thursday well seen in his heavenly palace that will test the waters of beijing salvation to feast his extraterrestrial presence had a serious face to call my attack my legs says this is the beginning of china's full scale space program. huge step for china's space program the general module is their prototype for a full on space station module it's a about the size of a bus that weighs about nine times and what they're hoping with this is that it's going to be a foundation or a a reusable destination in space for a trainer after this flight goes up if it successful it 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 go to the laboratory so it would be a toehold for china in space its space program has a big visible example of its progress as well it's

a major prestigious. for the country and the you know it is trying to grow as it wants to be a technological a powerhouse and we're also demonstrate your your expertise what is one of the hardest things for people to do flying into humans into space. some of the major wealth needs this hour now and a mass protests has been filmed yemen's capital and what it means to be one of the biggest anti-government protests as 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 role miniature officials also report trouble i'll cite the city where tribesmen shot down a yemeni will playing. when this is a manslaughter trial of michael jackson's doctor say the pop star appearing to get how that concept the hassles just days before his death the promoter of the

kombucha told jurors he thought jackson gage an energetic doctor conrad murray denied grace think that into jackson's drug angie's death in two thousand and nine . cleanup operations are underway throughout the philippines in the wake of the devastation typhoon yes that the storm battered the capital venture brings widespread flooding which left twenty one dead and the missing residents are also bracing themselves for another tropical storm that's heading their way. and that's what you are today for this hour next on r.t. with the u.k. and other western countries still very much involved in the libyan conflict one of britain's losing newspaper columnist tells us why he feels nations feel free to pick and choose where they distribute humanitarian help.

i'm joined by simon jenkins author and journalist who now writes for the guardian newspaper sometimes this week and r.t. now you've written extensively criticizing the way the intervention in libya has been handled what was wrong with it was it wrong to begin with of course during the process you're wrong we would have. taken both in the first place. i do not believe that states have legal rights or not. to interfere in other sovereign states is written into the united nations charter this is not

a country that threaten britain didn't threaten any of its neighbors and invaded and. is going about its own business because you got a revolution it was it's those all teary. since things like the leaks to the oil contracts that are now being forced you know more important then than say preventing loss of human life well i would if we were 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 to take a moral attitude we tend to really be intervening countries where we have some interest in this case or we tend to intervene where we think i think. almost quick glory to be had as was the case i think in iraq and clearly was the case here there are always mixed messages but i think we always need to examine almost as an office of the simple question are we going to do good rather than harm in this case it seems we've done good. that was by no means guaranteed the fact of the matter was

it was not our country and the mission creep we're seeing here was it planned do you think or is it just an inevitable unavoidable consequence of intervention i think it's a very difficult question mission creep. invariably when it happens in the great cases it was in both in both now people say at the beginning we we won't let this happen we are only going into a humanitarian relief would have been might be in this case who knew going in to save the citizens of benghazi from what was claimed to be a huge massacre would have been a pretty unpleasant thing there's no question about that. but at the back of everyone's mark the reason why the army was so reluctant to put is the knowledge that mission creep always happens you cannot control the situation on the ground you don't know what's going to happen you've got to be prepared for the worst because the worst is what usually happens now in this case it was looking a real mess and all the various and the very end you got special forces surrounding tripoli. didn't just get lucky when they used may fourth of using helicopters they

would be using british weapons to bash through walls and everything in the end we did what we probably should go to the beginning which is make sure. we are not going to lose what about gadhafi david cameron since we washing his hands of that is she saying his fate is in the hands of the n t c is that shirking responsibility i'm assuming that british and french forces are not trying to find gadhafi inserting i mean i can't see the point of not finishing the job you know we claim just two subs no fly zone was a joke. i just it just seems to me that if you're going to attack a country in this way you must finish it and then you end the country and the really difficult thing is to transfer power from yourself as the powerful authority to the local people and i think we're going to find it very difficult how different is this really from iraq afghanistan and previous interventions i mean they say they've learned their lessons have well and the only lesson i draw from any of these is don't do it. they're clearly going to start looking for another one i mean

i imagine there's going to be some trouble in syria i don't know what they're going to do with i mean iran is if you do not invade iran and this year out of your mind and it's a huge country iraq with a pretty big country and we found that very difficult afghanistan at least a small but we're getting a bloody nose that. i mean i guess the lesson of libya is it's a really small country might get away with it. applauding themselves this is the model of a successful intervention why is this not happening in syria in yemen in places i think the reason is that they thought it would be a good idea and it worked. it was easy to do you could run it from a few areas and bases in the mediterranean so it was a doable enterprise you could put in special forces quite easily without too many people noticing. i just think it was it came along at the time i was couldn't realise why they didn't do burma when the famine was on the very good example of where you could have intervened and you had you had total forces available which

would have been to do it in a cage and. i mean i think these things are completely random now it's difficult to see how you. straight a foreign policy based upon these random interventions as for nature and what is it to do with nature nature's north atlantic alliance against the russians it's i repeat it's like a mercenary force roaming the world looking for things to do completely stuck in afghanistan it may yet get stuck in libya can intervention work that the principle works if it works. to topple saddam hussein. punish the taliban topple gadhafi works how should they subpoena and how suddenly you think i just a little we've left syria or we've. we've left. why libya what does this mean now for the arab spring does this intervention reinforce it or undermine it i didn't really mean for our what is the arab spring i mean the arab spring was with

a number of rebellions most of which was suppressed. to north korea which would go away we didn't it was going to mean egypt yet we don't know what spring means. could well be that morocco and bahrain a better off through not having toppled by governments but having full for government reform than the ones who did topple the government i just don't know all i know is not my responsibility there is no british empire anymore you know we are not charged by the electorate or by the world to go around invading other people's countries we don't like their regimes it's just not our job simon jenkins thank you . culture is that so much a lot of people are curious of all that is it all worth trying to from western liberal interventionism is it ever justified for such

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everyone welcome back it's holocaust hour here in moscow this is all eight people including an eleven year old girl being killed by a car bomb attack us down south of russia six policemen with severely injured an explosive was planted in a car parked at a road crossing in the central never sion ski district. greece is bracing itself for more street clashes ahead of a crucial vote in jab many over the next pay. it could see the year isn't rescue package increase full folder hoff of greece's debt written off the. natives ins in more troops to reinforce a contested border crossing between breakaway kosovo after fresh violence do to between the two sides russia's foreign ministry wants peacekeeping forces to remain neutral and.