my from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching archie with me and he said now it's midnight here in the russian capital ten pm in berlin german lawmakers have agreed to massively increase the size and power of the euro zone's bailout fund meaning berlin will guarantee a whopping two hundred and eleven billion euros worth of loans greece is watching this closely as it tries to convince the e.u. and i.m.f. to release more emergency cash but the greek public's anger is focused on facing more cuts and tax hikes that's our first explains from aphids. the patience is running out amongst the people here in greece take your bell and leave that was the message from the protesters here today down outside the finance ministry the organizations of a lot of people who are being made unemployed to the government's austerity measures one of the implementations that they've put in place to try and secure

that bailout cash the eight billion is going to be decided on later next month so you can see the ban is that the ban on the finance ministry itself saying we want life the people here a feeling that the measures that the put in place are simply stifling them and that realistically that is too high a price to pay so it is certainly a different reaction to the positivity we saw after that positive vote in germany it was certainly a positive step that chancellor merkel managed to secure the majority of that that is seen as taking decisive action but there are questions really eva how much impact that money is going to have now currently the greek debt stands at around three hundred forty billion euro is and the germany very taking to extend the size and power of the bailout fund that would now stand at four hundred forty billion euros of which over two hundred billion would be called cheated by germany was already the single biggest contributor to that fund we know that's caused some

discontent among the german public i know when i've been a cash just playing from that yet because there are still countries that have to buy tonight takes seventeen countries and as he said the way that that's being received here amongst the public is with since get this isn't they said a lot of people are saying that they view the year is a leader is as a part of the problem of this whole year as a financial crisis and so they're asking how they can be the solution and also there's a lot of mistrust here because the people here's someone telling me today that this isn't a case of things getting worse month by month whole week by week even. day by day things here getting less for the people but tomorrow we're going to see that deadline that we see people outside the finance ministry. banning the taxes that they've been given they say not only do they not want to pay this they simply con they they day to have the money any more a lot of disappointment in the government we sold the protests and clashes break

out between the riot police and the protest is a cheese day off to the filth the property tax was caused that says a lot of discontent still amongst these people say with the next round of money to be decided on next month and with the ballots being extended what people hear is that is there nobody should they will not cash they feel that the measures being taken a to launch that is poisoning the patient's age speak and they don't know whether this bailout funds going to be medicine no to the country whether taking that money is going to be drinking from the poison chalice. well across the atlantic the finances are fairing much better but now are fairing much better i should say but president obama has found someone to saddle with blame he claims the arab world uprisings are shaking western economic foundations because of high oil prices let's see what current affairs editor michael jones makes of this from culture magazine

thanks for being with us president obama has been helling the arab uprisings as a victory of democracy but now blames them for the current world economic troubles why the sudden change in rhetoric here. the sudden change is because he needs to find a scapegoat for the bad economic situation in the united states there is what first of all just to set the record straight gasoline prices are lower now in the united states or they've been in years so it doesn't seem that high oil prices are the issue here the issue is on repayable debt. the country simply cannot pay back this debt it's the same issue throughout the entire world they have the world is saddled with a debt that it can't pay back and so the question is what are we going to do about that who are we going to blame and what measures are we going to take that the debt is largely the result of the wars in the middle east so in order to get to the

heart of the matter you would have to repudiate americans hard america's foreign policy since nine eleven and obama apparently doesn't want to do that he has signed on with the failed bush policies and so therefore he has to find a scapegoat and so now he's blaming the arab spring even if this is a blame game as you say the arab spring only started in january the economic turmoil began years ago how can people buy that this is the uprisings fault i don't think people will buy it i think they will see through what he said is just an attempt to find a scapegoat and divert people's attention from the real problem which is an repayable debt you can't pay off these debts that's the problem and so you're going to show the president is going to try and divert the country's attention to the usual scapegoat which is now the islamic world which conflates with terrorism and a threat to the united states and we've seen congress in a stalemate which nearly bankrupted the u.s.

is this blame game a way to divert attention from political troubles at home. the the political trouble is what each party or let's say the tea party in particular the republican party is trying to extort advantages from the in past from the impending bankruptcy and so it's a little sideshow which has failed i think that the majority of the american people now dislike intensely the republicans and the tea party for trying to exploit the situation but it's not going to stop its can't solve the problem the problem is unsolvable it's unrepeatable debt it's usury capitalism is state sponsored usury and in invariably the usury burden the compound interest burden gets out of control and destroys the economy that has that has happened over and over again it's happening right now and we're seeing the age of austerity if i may hit europe

take over your really is this the road the u.s. is having to head down as well whenever whenever capitalism over burdens the economy was on repayable debt the first thing they tried to do is loot labor they try and lower wages and this invariably only speeds up the intensity the intensity of the death spiral what what what obama needs to do is to put money in the real economy and not this quantitative easing which just goes into the banks and allows them to mitt place more bets and and impoverished the people and prop up the bad debts that are already there he needs to break free of the bankers and get money into the real economy to prevent this desk from intensifying alright editor michael jones from culture magazine thank you very much . well one of those arab uprising countries which obama blames for his economic

strife of course is libya where nato still trying to force gadhafi loyalists into submission and the regime fighters are now taking control of the airport in the fugitive colonel's hometown of syria the last stronghold of his loyalist civilians continue to flee the violence saying nato is hitting their homes so you can't chandan joins us now live from london he is from british civilians for peace in libya thanks for being with us this evening locals are saying power and water have run out as well as petrol and other goods and nato is hitting civilian buildings how do you see this timing in with their mission to protect the people. there is no mission to protect the people nato is involved in a war against african an arab country for many different reasons a world which i've gone into before in russia today and other places but my sources on the ground that i cross check my sources on the ground in libya tell me that bani walid is still a strong resistance against the pro nato forces and nato itself and as you mention

this sort and also my my my sources on the ground mention that a very important border town between two newseum libya and algeria has been captured by gadhafi as a resistance a town called got and also. between the algerian and libyan border is also surrounded by gadhafi as resistance against nato so really what we have in libya is a situation i came to afghanistan but the difference being is that gadhafi is arguably a lot more popular than the taliban's national resistance is and was in afghanistan like afghanistan gadhafi has neighboring states supporting his resistance that's a new jersey recently just last week basically told the french government to back off because they're not going to detain elements of gadhafi regime finding refuge and actually living in private accommodation in the capital in the jail so really what's starting to develop and compounded. with the deep divisions that there are

amongst the rebels the rebels openly fighting each other i mean this this this rebel government is a complete joke and knew it would be a joke at all and so tragic and resulting in tens of thousands of people being killed by nato and the pro nato rebel forces but the so-called anti see so first of all we're going to form a government in tripoli in a few days and a few weeks and now they're saying well we're not going to form a until the whole country defeats gadhafi and so really this is indicative of the deep crisis that the rebels have always been and actually in libya. as you're telling us your sources on the ground paid a much different picture than what we're getting from the mainstream media and from other sources how is that possible and how does that all play in to this mission as a whole as you see it. well you know michael makes one side of the media what will teach you is that your friends are your enemies and your enemies are your friends and on march the twentieth the most intelligent mouthpiece of the british elites the financial times said very clearly without the role of al-jazeera in this war

there would be no successful nato war in libya and actually russia today has been the closest thing to the only consistent critical voice in relation to the libya war i think if empire learned from vietnam some lessons are you don't let the media have free access they definitely learn the lessons from the two thousand and three war of aggression against iraq that's make sure that there's no critical media that the media's own side and they achieve that without actually where you got the arabs thinking. cologne you aggression is freedom you know so we go in with a very warped scenario here so they learn that lesson also they learn the lesson that make sure the media doesn't oppose the war make sure there's no prison no controlled things like abu ghraib prison the controversies to make sure none of the kind of factual humanitarian fall out like iraq happened in libya through the media so i think this is the situation we face with and i think the global south especially chavez and his government recognize that. the struggle is really on the media front but in that the global south is lacking and we need more channels like

russia today we need more poles of the global south to produce effective media to counteract that war propaganda coming from the nato countries thank you very much for your very kind words about r t how much longer do you see nato as firepower being deployed in libya since at least according to most sources all but gone now. he seems far from going and like i said if the taliban can reemerge phoenix like there's no reason whatsoever actually there's more reason why gadhafi and his revolutionary green movement can emerge. in libya but there's a few of the a few of the issues that the media have left out what happened to the predominately black town of toward go it's been ethnically totally cleansed by the rebels and these are the type of scandalous things that are going on that none of the western media want to report i was once on t.v. with a rebel leader libyan rebel leader and he stormed off within within twenty seconds of the speaking and why these people come on to russia today with me and other

people who are critical of the war and let's have a proper critical debate so that audiences and the people out there can actually make up their own minds intelligently about what's going on but just just just so it's to directly answer a question it's far from over and my sources on the ground that any critical voices and analysts in libya clearly say that the fight is just starting right now. what do you think is going to happen in terms of reports that we're hearing about these civilians dying about homes being bombed about hospitals being hit i mean it seems unlikely that nato or any other forces are going to have to. you know if i may pay you for what's happening in libya how do you see that situation. unlike iraq and even afghanistan there is just no critical voices coming from the international human rights organization actually they've collaborated with this whole war effort in making up stories like the now everyone knows the full stories about the cut off his army taking viagogo in this mass rapes this kind of nonsense so if there's no

critical voice then people don't have the power to critique this nato foreign policy so there's going to be nothing really on the ground so if i get it before the countries of the global south why not send international brigades now that might me sound like a very kind of extreme thing to say but what the global south have to take the initiative because we're seeing nato now take the initiative against us and in so doing we rolled over and allowed libya and gadhafi to fall and i think everyone in the global south and latin america russia and china and africa know that we are in a in a relative crisis right now and we can only overcome this crisis only stop nato rolling on other countries in africa and the global south if we take the initiative now journalists who can chandan from the british civilians for peace in libya thank you very much for your time interesting talking to you this hour. well up for you in just a few minutes here on our t.v. you as vigo shadow still looms over palestine's bid for statehood but the palestinians have made some progress on their way through the security council

current earth or discussed the hurdles still the overcome with a senior member. well in china china's turn to stake a claim to the stars now that it's launched its first orbiting laboratory nicknamed heavenly palace the unmanned facility will boost beijing's presence in or bed and also test the waters ahead of china's plans for its own space station by the end of the decade the experiment comes at a time when the u.s. is get i doubt it's shuttle program scientists investment consultant dr patrick follow told r.t. that china could be a real competitor to the world space superpowers russia and. it's very much the first step in china's plans to establish a presence with a space station in orbit it's very simple at the moment this. drum is going

to be there for at least two years and china's intention at the moment is to send up spacecraft later this year which will dock with it and show that the really is a capability for a sophisticated space program but trying to complete in place and i think china has the determination and probably the flow technical ability to catch up with the u.s. and with russia very very quickly indeed and certainly if they can demonstrate the ability as they seem to want to put a space station in orbit by the end of the decade then that will certainly be a very very strong indicator of how much technical progress china has been able to make we've seen the u.s. space program winding down in the last few months the laws. last shuttle flight the u.s. is not intending at least as far as nasser is concerned to put another. to bring

in another launch vehicle until i think it's two thousand and seventeen so is it possible that china could come into the international space station program or is this an indication that china sees an opportunity to establish an independent presence in space and then perhaps invite other partners on board so really interesting question it's as much political as scientific question. well very in-depth coverage of all our stories plus much more check out our website r.t. dot com here's what's waiting for you on line right now if there is any truth to the worst colonel gadhafi is certainly earning his air miles that the moment it's sightings in different countries on a daily basis r.t. has its own take on where the missing momar might be hiding out online from war. plus a former ukrainian prime minister yulia tymoshenko is going to dock after a two week break and she's clearly happier for it go to our to dot com to find out

why and don't forget to check out our you tube channel for some of the stories you won't find anywhere else. the wheels are turning at the u.n. security council as the palestinian statehood bid faces a vote at the group's admissions committee on friday it needs at least nine of the fifteen members to approve it joining the international body but the threat of an american veto still hangs in the air pheasant obama insisted goshi ations between israel and the palestinians are the only way to reach sovereignty in the meantime israel has further antagonized most of the global community by authorizing more settler homes in dispute east jerusalem european parliament has now thrown its voice behind the palestinian sovereignty drive saying statehood statehood bid is legitimate well a senior fatah official told r.t. that europe and the u.s. should stop giving israel preferential treatment. it's very important what the european are saying because. you're going to come through to other members of the

security council and i think it's an important message for us that a president out of all of the european people are saying loud and clear out of that this move to the united nation is very legitimate and we hope that this will reflect itself on the voting by the european governments and but of to a lot of both france and britain the americans have asked us and the israelis to stop the proximity talks which we did but the direct talks which we did in direct talks which we did and they say is have decided to end the freeze of settlements and what they've called the moratorium on this issue has totally bush the whole talks into total collapse even the companies that has said that the jewish settlements in that but as you know that there is an obstacle to peace they are not legitimate and so on we ask them today the european union the united states israel is announcing the southern months and what are you going to do about it so i think

this is the question for the entitlement community there israel is a very is every day violating beside three months by evaluating international legitimacy violating all of the resolutions that are related to united nation the question is what is it that their international community is doing about it we hope that the international community does not continue to deal with israel as a spoiled kid of the a washington and some european capitals. and for more on the situation in the middle east started talks to prominent academic and philosopher noam chomsky.

r.t. sitting down with over a noun scholar linguist author and mit professor noam chomsky professor chomsky thank you very much for taking time to speak with r.t. glad to be with you you released a book recently. called nine eleven was there an alternative focusing on the us assassination of osama bin laden and that continuity you say between george w. bush and barack obama the killing of us on that. it was done. in such a way as to in your pocket. which is extremely. the most dangerous country in the world would do it. to have a professional army you committed. to. the pakistanis were

already. overwhelmingly anti american this shoots through the stratosphere the army is bitterly angry not only at the invasion of the country and the murder of someone on their soil but also that they're being. pressured forced to take part in an american war in afghanistan some of the conservatives military have a list wrote about the bin laden us as a nation i quoted some of them pointed out quite accurately that there's a shift between bush's policies and obama's and this bush bush's policy was to kidnap people. whatever you thought about them. take them to guantanamo or bug rome or some other torture chamber and try to extract some information out of them we know what that was like describe it obama's policies just kill. killing them all over the world targeted assassination and

you know to kidnap them and torture and you're still in. the bloodless estimation was a case in point it's hard to remember but there used to be a system of justice in the west which said that a person is a suspect until it is proven guilty until then he's a suspect he's innocent until proven guilty. that's one night you just kill him if you think they're guilty so he was apprehended. no resistance he was alone with his ways but the feds. highly trained commandos could certainly have a redundant they didn't they were under orders to murder the horse's body into the ocean acts that are almost designed such a way as to increase. hatred throughout the muslim world and when anybody has got their eyes open you talk about the obama

administration and how u.s. actions right now could be infuriating the muslim world the arab world the obama administration has supported the tunisians has supported the egyptians has supported the libyans and the so-called arab spring the palestinians have officially submitted an application for u.n. membership and statehood the u.s. says that they will cast if you go against it if they have to because they believe that the record low shisha should take place between house and israel before there's an independent palestine first of all have to make a go of creation of the united states and its western allies did not support the egyptian museum revolutions they opposed them. back to them and to lose it was mostly france sirico and fix going to the united states and they supported the dictators until the last minute and when. the army turned against

them and it was no longer possible to support them then they said ok one democracy is wonderful and then they move to try to ensure that the regimes would stay pretty much as they were and cites a very old pattern but putting that aside it's true that the united states. that we cast of the for about thirty five years the united states and israel have been rejecting a political settlement that is supported by virtually the entire world the arab league the organization of islamic states which includes iran and hamas reports that almost no relevant party disagrees with it except that the united states and israel won't let it happen they say it's israel's best interest and ask if the u.s. still allow this palestinian un membership to stay with us for thirty five years the sensory chamber is now that it's been for almost forty years there's a choice between security and expansion very clear choice israel is like

other states prefer it for since your early seventy's it's had a choice between security and expansion and have t's but not with expansion into the territories which incidentally is recognized to be criminal but everyone including israel. they can get away with it as long as the most powerful state in the world backs them and as long as europe goes along and europe is remarkably cowardly them out like this but they don't like to step on the toenails of the masters so they go along so you know it's the quartet has backed the united states they picked tony blair you know i don't have to comment on him but then i might as well think george bush to. bring the message you do what the united states tells you to stop this nonsense about statehood and go back to negotiations that's. we

now stand it's up to the people against industrial countries to compel the government should all of the world professor chomsky thank you very much for your time. very first verses of the bible that all human beings are created but sentimental came in god's image and it doesn't say just jews or non jews. sixty to seventy percent of what i did as a combat soldier in the occupied territories was to do with deterrents doing what we call making our presence felt to go out should some so they hear a knock on some doors run to the other corner and they don't know how religion and nationalism not just judaism have been a part of the problem they've been part of what leads to. bloodshed

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from moscow our top stories germany gives the go ahead for a hugely inflated eurozone bailout fund to prop up its currency colleagues it's greece tries to convince the e.u. and i.m.f. to release more emergency cash. and to gadhafi fighters have taken full control of the airport in the colonel's hometown of sirte meanwhile residents are fleeing the violence accusing nato of hitting their homes. and china heads for the haven't as it launches its ambitious space lab facility will test the waters ahead of the country's plans for its own space station. up next our special report our team follows in the footsteps.