we'll. bring you the latest in signs and signals from the realms of. the future of. the german parliament rushes through a drastic increase in the e.u. bailout funds powers as greece finds itself crushed under the weight of a precedented austerity. public anger in egypt turns against the post mubarak military government with many admitting the grass may not have been greener on the other side. serbs refused to dismantle their barricades along the serbia kosovo border despite nato calling in more troops. and business has soured russia's the economic policy will follow the course set by alfred alex they couldn't say to the finance minister said it's torture joining me for more of that analysis tories. it's time.

one pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story kicked into action by a market panic unseen since the financial crash of two thousand and eight the german government scramble to approve a massive expansion of each version see bailout fund the new measures mean berlin now personally guarantees an astronomic contribution of some two hundred eleven billion euros most analysts though however agree that more must be done to prevent a highly anticipated greek default from shattering the euro zone e.u. negotiators also returned to athens to restart talks on future belo payments the government's last chance to evade a collapse later this month as r.t. sour fourth the fourth a fuel for the greek government's relentless austerity engine may be running out. greece has been the place the child of the year anything take right with germany they think they. ban the bell out on

a country like france to get that much needed cash injection to help come with some condition here in greece the people say the price cutting make the pay simply the high earning the fail is deadline day for the first to be hit with the greek government's nice special tax it's one of the measures they put in place to try to secure the next tranche of money the country needs to avoid bankruptcy the extra tax which is due to doubts about another week a sense from people on your income supposed to help like some of the massive deficit in the budget nothing more than a year's salary cuts and rises in living costs people have already at breaking point the last two years almost everybody has lost at least thirty percent of his salary or four or. ira cost analysis from the opposition even in title pay he tells me how the meat mints expanded rapidly in recent months as more and

more people hit that financial wall before. most of the people were not playing because they wanted to protest against the situation know there are thousands and thousands and thousands of people who will not pay because of. people's desperation has become increasingly evident on the streets of greece but it says repeatedly breaking out between riot place and protesters she sticks to even more clashes is parliament and feted yet another austerity measure of any property tax where organizing all of this. to put on there are. just for political reasons. and critics do not need. many people in greece now question just to him it is the thing control are fortunate today very early in euro zone are the bankers. and there.

is mr. bunker we. are not being. called again and again and again are the. taxpayers in the euro zone despite germany having baited positively to expand the size and power of the european pan out funds already critics are questioning whether that will be enough concise now time to the many challenges. still faces the problem will move from greece and will start patching other european countries and then the german banks to the end. even germany. feels economy and european union. will be affected if the problem will not stop to. find a solution not just for greece but for all the. cost measures failing to have the

facts in this bill its leaders continue to struggle to convince that public interest is a still hangs in the balance these protests. continue many people have it greece is a country now at risk of having any a financial but it democratic deficit as well. as the parliament building in a sense well the e.u. may be throwing billions of afghans to prop up its economy and create the appearance of stability by the greek crisis has now grown too big to contain according to paddy otis a terrorist a sociology professor in athens. i think that the big question facing us today is not whether we are going to default but how we're going to default i mean all the measures taking by this throwing up by the european union the e.c.b. and the i.m.f. leads one way or the other to some sort of the full some sort of moneths default

but this this board is going to be a complaint by newest even cancer or state in the midst of some sort of so somebody for example we had this summit meeting on july twenty first and there was all this hope but i knew a bailout package that was on their way. come september and the black bean starts from the part of the european union concerning the last payments of the tribute bailout package its bailout being accompanied by extremists terrorism is theirs and the demand for a complete fielitz of states assets and then again more austerity maurice asian and other give a statement of the productive capacity of this country i mean this is a vicious circle something this must stop i think about the society as a country we have the chance to default on our own our own terms which means immediate scope of payment to the death immediate exit of greece from the euro zone

from the euro. you can find all the latest developments on greece and the euro crisis moments after they happen on our twitter stream that's it twitter dot com slash r t underscore check it out. for further mass protests friday hoping it will attract people dissatisfied with the. public anger is accompanied by threats from dozens of political parties to

boycott. we knew that change would come to egypt a new chapter of freedom and democracy don't judge a book by its cover when reading post mubarak egypt it's pretty twee no lines where you'll find the new chapter hasn't been published ended or slightly revised we still have the supreme council of the armed forces goes. along i cannot say that they have been. since this country towards democracy barak may be gone but his policies are not the hosni mubarak's case is ongoing at this tribe you know new figures from human rights watch claims more civilians have been forced to face military trials last six months some twelve thousand during the entire thirty year rule of mubarak average civilians are giving face to you know seven years in

prison a lot of torture has occurred since staff has come into power. actor ali simply doesn't clown around when it comes to the supreme council or scaf he has taken part in protests since day one and still has scars from being detained because the books were much worse a self very long hair they told people they had to stick it holy for months after that i shot for the struggle and he said with a pat on the head i was released only because i'm well known now not a now to leave the country for thirty years according to law if i have to seek asylum stay and fight for freedom like mubarak skaf gets the support it needs to rule egypt from abroad day that we get from the u.s. that one point five billion a year the easier to seize from from the usa and most of it entirely go through the

supreme court to the to the army you know the scout and one of the last boat. history books will change for the better the arab spring is a massive opportunity to spread peace prosperity democracy egypt since our left reading the writing on the wall in many areas it's the same as before don't want to paper in some areas and getting more worse and he's now a r t congress with freedom and democracy still elusive in egypt the future for libya is also clouded in uncertainty. 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 coming up later this hour while libya's interim government struggles for full control of the country skepticism surrounding those who will benefit most from the revolution starts to creep in. and the shadow of any of us veto clouding

palestinian statehood i think the u.n. security council has a yes vote looks certain. but first the standoff continues in northern kosovo with local serbs reinforcing their barricades in an ongoing dispute over border crossings situations also led to nato sending more troops to the area already fraught relations between serbia and kosovo plunged to new depths on tuesday after nato forces tried to dismantle the road blocks provoking the violent clashes with the serbs problem latest on this i'm joined by our t's alexei jarosz o.c. lived in the region along axes so as any water been thrown on this fire yet is there any signs of things calming down so far. well for now the situation really seems to be rather call there are no clashes everything seems to be quiet and peaceful here in the town of course all the time which is split between. the serbs but they are certain indications that the situation could be escalating nearest future

because we went to the barricades manmade barricades organized by the course of yesterday last night and we saw that they are reinforcing their very gates with fresh piles of sand put on the roads to block these roads for forces and for the course of the police also we heard helicopters ok for forces flying in through the region every literally half an hour and we understand that those helicopters are bringing fresh troops to the border crossings to. realize the situation somehow now this comes after let's say seventy two hours since violent clashes at the border between. protecting the barricades and the forces were understand that almost a dozen men remain in hospitals with different boards and the same time it is really hard to understand who provoked this marlins because the nato forces point the finger at the cost of a serb saying that they were the ones who provoked these clashes but at the same

time they say they had to use rubber bullets and tear gas grenades against. the point. in hospitals here in the middle east. who were delivered with injuries they are delivered with gunshot wounds so it is really hard to tell what's true and what's false in this whole situation driving around the city we've seen many pictures it's my first time here in more than four years and i've never seen so many serbian flags hanging around this serbian part. of town as well as many banners on the streets saying that this is serbia this basically reflects the mood it is rather calm but the situation could be escalating any minute and why did this deadlock come about in the first place. well this is been long going since july this year when the cost of the police decided to pull checkpoints at the border crossings they decided to impose a trade embargo on the serbs living in kosovo from. the good supplies and special

supplies the serbs the local so it's reacted if you recently by putting manmade very kates and ever since there have been clashes with the police with the forces so this situation is rather a rather unstable for now there has been lots of international reaction to that with washington. provoking violence and the russian foreign ministry saying that it expressed deep concerns over the situation saying that it may seem that this is just a minor border crossing dispute but in fact it could describe realize the situation in the entire region the region which as we know certainly has already been subjected to a great deal of stress it's already a melting port so it is really interesting to see what developments we'll see in the near future here in this rather volatile region when we actually hear and keeping all the latest track of all the latest details that will be updating all of us with all the latest information absolutely artie's like sarah ferguson reporting for us for me tributes of kosovo where the standoff continues over the disputed

border checkpoints. or you can find all our latest stories and more on our web site r.t. dot com here's what's a click away right now. if you missed out on the frankfurt motor show no worries just come on here to moscow where government officials managed to blow more than one hundred fifty million dollars on a luxury cars. and a police officer attacked by a muslim man in brussels after he demanded the man's wife remove her veil full coverage of that story and plenty more at r.t. dot com. election fever will soon be spreading across russia with december's parliamentary vote followed by the presidential runoff in march of next year president medvedev who now said he does not plan to compete for

a second term in his view are not the election means for the country as he spoke with the country's mainstream media at a news conference there on his arm he said tell you know that. i want to tell you so what exactly did the president have to say. mostly spoke about the upcoming presidential election of two thousand and twelve and boy. about the reasoning behind his suggestion. the man for the top job. one of the names was. better ratings among russian. the current president himself and you could also say that there's no such thing as power struggle between him and the support as they both have the same goals of serving their country and their people nonetheless he hopes that he does hope to win the election and also. speculations about. the fact that it is a done deal absolutely irresponsible in the end of the day it's up to people to

decide who their president is going to be. and those are just words it's the truth any politician. in the country's history as well as other countries that's what's happening. anything can happen make a determination. as normal. people who. are able to highlight the key points for a candidate or a party down that's what democracy is about you surely are presidents meeting you didn't suggest. speaking out the united nations. simply washing finance minister aleksey wouldn't have said that she would not say he doesn't want to remain at his post with the government's was she was dismissed out of that investment because it has said that it is a matter of political discipline and there's no need to jam with sizes because

russia is not a parliament's republic but a presidential republican such statements are simply unacceptable both insight into go for president if you will be able to which. later in the day right up it's all you know to live for us in moscow thanks but. libya's national transitional council says it won't form an interim government until the whole country is liberated and i could argue forces have already taken the airport the fugitive colonel's hometown of sirte one of the last remaining strongholds reinforcements were called in for a fresh assault in the face of strong resistance by civilians continue fleeing the besieged city and i were activist and director of the answer coalition brian becker says. we are adding to the problems in the country. clearly they're not protecting civilians when they're bombing cities that are considered to be pro khadafi 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 but the goal of the nato powers is the carry out regime change so that it could be government is gone once and forever and then 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 of puppet western powers in this country that has the largest oil reserves in all. africa the ninth largest oil reserves in the world i think that real goal of the nato powers is they take control over libya's vast resources which we know are a great treasure the palestinian bid for statehood has made

a strong start at the u.n. security council with up to nine members a number acquired to pass the vote promising their support bids already been forwarded to a special admissions committee for approval before a vote observers say at this stage it's at this stage that the us is most likely to try to install the process in an effort to avoid having to veto it critics say such a move could be a blow to its credibility as a mediator among the international bodies indorsing the big european parliament the palestinian quest for statehood a legitimate target meanwhile israel has yet again provoked criticism from much of the world community after approving more settlements on occupied palestinian territory a senior official tells r.t. unconditional us support and aid are a major factor in the country's behavior. it's very important what they are saying because. european countries are actually members of the security council and i think it's an important message for us that it doesn't hurt the of the european

people of same blood and this move with the united nation is very legitimate and we hope that this will reflect itself on the whole thing by the european governments and by the full lot of both france and britain the americans have asked us and the israelis to start proximity talks which we did the prior died of talks which we did the indicted talks which we did and they say let's have decided to end the freeze of settlements and what they're called the moratorium on this issue has totally bush the whole talks and to total collapse even by companies that has said that the jewish settlements in the palestinian territories are an obstacle to peace they are not legitimate them so on we ask them today the european union the united states israel is announcing these seven months what are you going to do about it so i think this is the question for the international community the israel is a breeze every day violating beside the months by evaluating international legitimacy violating all. related to united nations the question is what is it that

their international community is doing about it we hope that the international community does not want to deal with israel as the spoiled kid of the of washington and some european cup because palestine is putting high hopes on the security council warrantees peter lavelle and his cross talk yes but the organizations credibility under scrutiny for a program coming up at eleven g.m.t. and here's a preview of that. influence of proposed hypothetical but some more of the united states of the united kingdom these sites to go on the wall and the united nations security council doesn't give that you know there's the russia or china or whoever vetoing that it's a good decision then they decide to step so the united nations and go to war regardless what can the united nations do in reality they can do absolutely nothing nothing that is where the problem is we were absolutely i agree with you inside it's. like a. you know because i do think before we become made to reduce this to

a debate about whether colonialism still persists in attitude or facts one should not make rectory other half the other three quarters of the united nations which is doing humanitarian aid around the world where the united nations is the central organizing mechanism for the delivery of food aid for famine for post war conflict and to bragger of the u.n. using the security council as the only face of the u.n. whatever once you get over it it's a real reduction it's. just . take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe the yemeni ministry of defense has announced it has killed at the u.s. born terrorist mastermind anwar what he was allegedly involved in a number of attacks on the u.s.

including the failed times square bombing last year and the fort hood shooting rampage in two thousand and nine. said to be was said to be on the cia's priority target list and his death follows the number of failed attempts on his life by u.s. army. china has rocketed into space history after. launching its first orbiting laboratory successfully youngman facility nicknamed the heavenly palace blasted off those day the lab will stay in order for two years mark of the first step in china's plans for its own space station by the air. a decade module will be used to master the docking technique. that israel and president hu go chavez is denying rumors of a setback to his health he was referring to are published in the us newspaper claiming he'd been hospitalized again said he was taking steroids as he recovers from chemotherapy after finishing a final round of treatment in cuba last week creators up next with the business news stay with us here on r.t. . hello and welcome

to a business here in artefacts for joining me russia's economic policy will continue more less on the course said by alex they couldn't speaking to business i t deputy finance minister sergei star trak explains the government's thinking in the wake of the shock sacking of his boss. bugles amused you because the government really won't slow new chief the first deputy prime minister. agrees with experience. he says the eve of his programs his state budget for next year which we developed and will remain in use and the ministry. of. let's take a look at the markets now all prices are heading up on expectations an expanded european bailout fund will support economic growth and demand for fuel flights we just trading at eighty two dollars a barrel while brand is at one hundred over one hundred three dollars a barrel asian shares

a mostly lower on friday on the final day of the fourth quarter with investors three nervously ahead of further developments on the europe's debt crisis meanwhile energy companies managed to notch some gains on the nikkei with jack's holdings up one point four percent and hong kong's hang seng is down over two percent with financials and on from a decline or industrial and commercial bank of china six percent stocks in europe are lower at the foot sea is almost one percent down while the german dax is one point seven percent in the red car makers and luxury for amazon leading the falls shares and burberry group dropped three point six percent in london nine as anthropology stocks are also losing ground. in the u.k. chip designer a r m holdings fell three point four percent and german carmaker b.m.w. lost four percent here in russia stocks are in the red in afternoon trading session the r.t.s. is losing just one and a half percent while the wise it's down one and

a quarter of a percent now let's take a look at some individual share common isaac's this hour energy stocks are in the red cross now have to think of a one percent and financials are also under pressure with spare bank losing one and a half percent toggles growth we're all seed capital the need for investors to take a. closer look at oil and banking stocks for a good. world companies a really good bet right now given that their room mission have a double benefit from their margins from north such a a weak ruble there are other export revenues are nominated in dollars which means that they should have an exceptionally good quarter of this quarter the other also will i think quite cheap after the recent so off also russian banks i think it's something else it's worth looking at him again because there are other point keep their trading at the very little multiples against against what they have been

a hit harder than most stocks in recent soft and so it's also something i would do look at especially if there's some resolution are coming out of the e.u. ministers meeting early next week. or russia stop such as a young banks has thought a ten percent stake in an american while start up like oh a fifteen million dollars deal is considered as another step in the company's point fashion the u.s. market actually coincides with reports of a company continues to professional and it's hard to bulldoze. so for now they're back in forty five minutes with more try.