more ambitious project the launch of beijing's own space station. and broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is r t certainly glad to have you with us let's take a look at the top stories now europe's largest economy has voted in favor of boosting the euro zone's bailout guarantees to seven hundred eighty billion euros a large majority of german lawmakers supported the measure middling berlin to providing two hundred eleven billion euros worth of loans greece is one of the most likely recipients of the aid and has been watching developments closely as it is in dire need of fresh cash injection but as sara first found out the people are more focused on spending cuts and tax hikes then courting foreign money. the patience is running out amongst the people here in greece take your bat and leave that was the

message from the protesters here today than outside the finance ministry the organizations 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 be less than a four hundred forty billion euros a which over two hundred billion would be called cheated by gen news already the single biggest contributor to that fund we know that's caused some discontent among the german public but now we're not been a cash playing from that yet because there are still countries that have to fight and i take seventeen countries and i think that the way that that's being received ten amongst the public is with some skepticism they said a lot of people are saying that they've either you're using leaders 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 head 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 worse 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 can't pay it they don't have the money anymore a lot of disappointment in the government we sold the protests and clashes break out between the riot police and the protesters on tuesday off to the filth the property tax was because. a lot of discontent still among the people say with the next round of money to be decided on next month and with the telephone being extended what people hear is that if nobody should they will not cash they feel that the measures being taken at too harsh that is poisoning the patient's age speak and they don't know whether this bailout funds going to be medicine or to the country or whether taking that money is going to be drinking from the poison chalice or to surfer is reporting for us there now sticking with the same story

politicians in greece are working hard to secure more bailout cash to avoid defaulting on its debt and remain in the currency union but there's a problem you notice soteris a sociology professor in athens says it's no longer a question of if greece will default but rather how. i think that the big question facing us today is not whether we are going to default but how we are going to default i mean all the measures taking by this throwing up by the european union the it's a b. and the i.m.f. leads one way or the other to some sort of default some sort of mine it's default but this new fault is going to be accompanied by newest even house or what's there at the mess or some sort of so upset about about it for example we had this summit meeting on july twenty first and there was all this hope that the new bailout package was on the way. come september and the blackmail starts from the part of

the european union concerning the last payments of the previews bailout package its bailout be not company it's by extremists terrorism is there's the demand for a complete state assets and then again more austerity more recession. give us station of the of the productive capacity of this country i mean this is a vicious circle something that this must stop i think about the society as a country we have that to default on our own our own terms which means the immediate stop of payments to the death immediate exit of greece from the euro zone from the euro across the atlantic the u.s. economy is also struggling but now president obama has found somewhere to point the finger of blame and that's directly at the democratic uprisings in the arab world but as ari ruttenberg from the daily banter political blog says his rhetoric is no

more than mr action. what is the problem for a long time neither the european sovereign debt crisis or the little you have made it will substantially more expensive than it's been over the last three or four years you know we missed country is talking about just lose their meter and our problem right. and even more strangely it seems to me that they have been gaining traction on the jobs issue recently and so change abruptly change their well this is very strange and i can't help but think that they have some pressure from somewhere else from without from outside of the white house any attempt to point another direction. in terms of the problems that were facing us direction i she knows what the problem is. and i get off he forces have taken the airport in the fugitive colonel's hometown of sered one of the last remaining khadafi strongholds reinforcements have been called in ready for a fresh assault in the face of stiff resistance civilians that continue to flee the

violence in the besieged city saying nato is only adding to their problems and tie war activist and director of the answer coalition brian becker says that nato wants to establish a new regime in libya to make the country the puppet of western powers. clearly they're not protecting civilians when they're bombing cities that are considered to be pro could offie when they're killing people not because they've done something wrong but because their own political beliefs are contrary to what nato wants in terms of the kind of government they want for libya so i think that they need to be brought to justice i think though unless there's a very strong international movement for human rights in this instance i think it's unlikely they will be brought to court there is no sense of international justice whatsoever there's only a sense of what was called is called victor's justice in other words the courts become

a political tool by those who have the power those who have the guns those who are carrying out the invasions and occupations not a measure of real legal accountability. yes i think the go in the nato powers is the carry out regime change so that the khadafy government is gone once and for ever and that there will be a new government that will not necessarily be more democratic or more humane but will be an ally or i would say in fact a proxy a client perhaps a puppet western powers in this country that has the largest oil reserves in the world i think that real goal of the nato powers is that take control over libya's vast resources and russia asks nato to stay neutral in another conflict that's getting worse on the kosovo serbian border where the situation remains for terria says ethnic serbs are refusing to dismantle the roadblocks which caused the clashes two days ago a report on that coming your way in just a few minutes. 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 president obama insists negotiations 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 the more settlers homes in disputed east jerusalem a prominent academic professor noam chomsky believes if israel really wants peace it should reconsider its settlement expansion. there's a choice between security and expansion very clear. israel is like other states is preferred since your early seventy's it's harder to is between security and expansion and have to use but not with expansion in the territories

which incidentally is recognised by criminal but everyone so they get away with it as long as the most powerful state will back them and as long as you are close on that's where we now stand and it's up to the people danced industrial countries to compel the governments to go along with the world. the situation in kosovo remains tense with ethnic serbs keeping their barricades in place and nato bringing more troops into the region rocky relations between serbia and kosovo plunged to a new low on tuesday as violence flared over the seizure of border posts and a dozen people were injured in clashes like shots the reports from belgrade. now i'm standing beside one of the manmade barricades one of the manmade checkpoints created by the kosovo destined to cart off both the k four and the cost of a police forces from the serbian part of the village as you can see it is pretty

calm now here with people sitting by the fire waiting for something to happen being on guard every minute but there are certain indications that the tension is mounting in here in this region with both the course that was reinforcing their checkpoints these piles of sand they put here to block the roads look quite fresh and we also have information that from the local from the local people here reporting that the nato forces are pulling additional troops to this site almost every day now this comes just less than forty eight hours after simmering tensions here lots of clashes between the and the k. four forces at the border checkpoint there's certain deal of controversy surrounding this incident with nato pointing fingers at the course was for provoking this incident at the same time saying that it had to use rubber bullets against the attackers and gas grenades as well at the same time we have information

from the local hospitals and from different medical sources around the region that all the people who were injured in these clashes were delivered to hospitals carrying gunshot wounds this despite here last since july when the coastal police force decided to put up checkpoints in order to enforce some kind of training bargo to cut off the course of the serbs from the trade posts in the serbian mainland and the local consular service reacted by saying the barricades the man made barricades around the border and certainly the clashes have been happening here ever since this situation has pretty much worried belgrade which has come up with a very stern response to the events happening here at the border. post the latest. i've been seeing the north of serbia show two facts first that prishtina is about to set up customs around what they think is the independent state of course on the other hand they show that there are international unions and a whole number of states to deprive you of such intentions of pristina we are

facing a situation here when international forces deployed in kosovo in fact some of the needs instead of maintaining a neutral position this is why serbia is against it the events here of course also caused very loud international reaction with the russian foreign ministry expressing its deep concerns over what is happening here saying that it may be may seem to be a very little dispute but in fact it could destabilize the situation in the region which is already been subjected to a great deal of stress and it's already a melting pot so of course the situation could escalate into a serious conflict. now if you miss something on the air don't worry just love r t dot com where you can find more details on all of our stories here's a flavor of what's waiting for you online right now. if there's any truth to the rumors that colonel gadhafi is certainly earning his air miles at the moment with sightings in different countries on a daily basis r.t.

has its own take on where the missing moammar might be hiding head online from war . and former ukrainian prime minister yulia timoshenko is back in the dock after a two week break and she's clearly done that the happier for it good r.t. dot com to find out why and check out our youtube channel for some of the stories you won't find anywhere else. it is china's turn to stake a claim into the stars now that it is launched its first orbiting laboratory

nicknamed the heavenly palace the unmanned of facility will boost beijing's presence in orbit it will also test the waters ahead for china's plans for its own space station by the end of the decade experiment comes at a time when the u.s. is scaling down its shuttle program science investment consultant dr patrick fuller told r.t. that china could be a real competitor to the world's space superpowers russia and america. it's very much the first step in china's plans to establish a presence with the space station in orbit it's very simple at the moment this all but drum is going to be there for at least two years and china's intention at the moment is to send up a manned spacecraft later this year which will dock with it and show that the really is a capability for a sophisticated space program that china can put in place and i think china has the

determination and probably the flair 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 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 last shuttle flight the u.s. is saying that they're not intending at least as far as nasser is concerned to put another. bring in another manned 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 already 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 a really interesting question and it's as much political a scientific question it's china's turn to stake a claim to the stars and we've already told you that story let's get to a little bit more here in a second. world update some of the stories making headlines around the world for you at this moment in time a court in bahrain is handed to twenty medics in jail sentences of up to fifteen years after convicting them of incitement to overthrow the government the group had treated protesters injured during clashes with security forces earlier this year in a separate case a protester has been sentenced to death for killing a policeman during the unrest uprising came in the wake of the arab spring and was harshly suppressed with numerous claims of human rights abuses. there is no word on the fate of the eighteen passengers who were on board a plane that crashed in the mountainous region of indonesia's largest island of syria by a government officials say that they search for excuse me the largest island of

sumatra government officials will say that the search for survivors is underway heavy rain was reported in sumatra before the plane went down earlier on wednesday eight people were killed and dozens more injured as people panicked on a ferry on route to the island after a fire broke out on board. almost sixty thousand people have been evacuated from the chinese island of heinen as a huge typhoon slams into southern china disruption has hit the whole island as the storm caused massive flooding with schools closed and more than sixty flights canceled at the two main airports typhoon it made its way over to the south china sea from the philippines where it claimed thirty five lives. former i.m.f. chief dominique strauss kahn faced the french writer who accuses him of attempted rape eight years ago that was the first meeting between the two since strauss kahn

was arrested in the u.s. in may also on charges of sexual assault trust in his accuser were questioned together for more than two hours in a paris police station transcon denies the charges and plans to counter sue for slander. and that's all for now up next our exclusive interview on r.t. this time we meet our. netra but go there with us for that.

r.t. sitting down with the world renowned opera star in the trap go and i thank you so much for joining us today. i want to start off by saying congratulations on the extremely successful opening of the metropolitan opera season as the prima. donna now it's been a decade since your debut on the stage how does it feel to be back in such a dramatic role in one of the most famous stages in the world i'm not thinking about that i'm thinking about music in about what i have to perform but the. behind . it's past it's gone. to date different time with a different role and you have certainly one over the hearts of millions of people all over the world do you still sometimes get nervous before walking out on stage or i am getting nervous because. each performance it's a live performance singing without the microphone. anything can happen

usually the rules are quiet tough and you have to be able to go through the whole evening. in quite a good level. i think to go on the stage in front of the thousands of people sometimes it's a million seafoods lifetimes mission it's even more scary and you know we get nervous that's normal and you have the leading cast in this in this op are all russians which is certainly a major source of pride for russians back at home and for you actually. three russians in the opening night at the met in the italian opera. almost never happen i don't know how did that happen. for graves means what. russian fingers really going for that but it's wonderful do you think the west's curiosity towards the russian soul is growing because of you know russia's

growing cultural influence throughout the world probably you're right of course. russian artist able to to go outside of russia. and seeing the difference they just get to experience different musicians i think it's a great thing for us not only for the singers but for musicians as well i think that's why the level of the the forming art in russia it's really growing very very high and we know that in october. when i was going to be shown. in movie theaters all over the world where millions more people will get the opportunity to really experience this do you think that's also a new trend really in the twenty first century that's going to attract a much wider audience i think it's a great thing about this high definition and. it's very difficult to do

very difficult to organize but. i think. now with all the twelve cameras around with a mazing sound really can bring to the wider audience in the quiet good level do you think it gets in the way of really sending the message across as strongly as to real life audience i think operates not for close up i think it has to be performed and the opera theater but but there is some performance. in the motion moments which only come around in big screen. moments when you really can fall in love with her because they are amazingly very truthful which of the stage is really do you prefer is it do you prefer to go back home or maybe it's something else i think the wonderful thing about our profession would always changing the places and the stages and this is great i mean you spend

two months in one cd you did a great performances and often as you say ok it's great it's now it's time to leave the gold somewhere else and it doesn't matter which city which. is the stage i moved before with. fame power. and i love love to do so you're the honorary director of the russian children's welfare society and a global ambassador for an austrian based international children's charity what brings you to this cause really why why children's rights we've course understand it's important but. why specifically this cause and what do you think really are the most important steps for the international community to be taking in supporting children's causes to be public person to have a lot of opportunity. to really use it in the good purposes it's important thing and there's a understand quires soon and that's why me and my husband will open the foundation

in europe. and we deed and we're going to do a lot of wonderful projects i think it's extremely important thank you very much for your time with us today. culture is that so much given to each musician on the mark when the united nations the global body in search of a mission often derided as a competent and ineffective feel when it is also accused of. the move.

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i'm broadcasting live and direct from the heart of moscow this is r t glad to have you along the german parliament votes and decisively to boost of the euro zone's bailout guarantees to seven hundred eighty billion euros that's as greece tries to persuade the e.u. and i.m.f. to release more emergency cash. fighting in libya continues as anti kadafi forces take the airport in syria one of the colonels few remaining strongholds so frightened residents flee the city has their homes are destroyed meanwhile president obama who has always hailed of the arab uprisings as a victory for democracy now says they've contributed to the sloppy economic recovery in the us. three.