you're watching r t coming to you live from moscow now our top story in athens angry protesters have been clashing with police who have fired tear gas up thousands have been gathering outside the greek parliament furious at the level of spending cuts well twenty four hour public sector strike brought the country to a halt and greek airports were closed and hospitals are relying on emergency staff archies surfer of reports now from athens. we saw the stings on the streets of athens day on syntagma square outside the main parliament building we ask. the tensions pull david with the angry protesters and the riot police clashing we saw at a gas being fired we also saw some people needing medical attention the riot police moving on to syntagma square and trying to clear the protesters out of that area really since very aggressive scenes of the clashes between the two sides that we saw the police moving into the metro station chasing some of the protesters here on

syntagma at the match a work is striking actually intervening to push back the riot place certainly a very very tense situation we see more and more these are starting measures being passed not really raise the level of public anger head out the beginning of the day the main labor party is in the country had let thousands of work is public sector workers on to the streets to protest against these measures and again like we said we saw they stay in the escalating quite dramatically throughout the day people are really losing trust in the eurozone leaders ability to take the country out of this crisis into measures in place that are actually realistic and can be met now we've seen over the last couple of weeks is the government passing more and more these are starting measures to try and keep the international lenders on side to try and prove to them that they're able to take these steps to try and plug the deficit and the budget the property tax that we saw passed last week and the announcement of

possible job losses on top of people who already in the country having had the salaries cut dramatically most people at about thirty percent of the salaries who are being cut then to have these extra taxes it is really raised the level of anger amongst the public here he said they simply can't manage that now we've seen this all say quite disconcertingly spreading throughout the year is and from the sovereign debt crisis meeting now into the banking sector. well and there are fears of a repeat of what we saw a couple of years back and you know once again we're hearing what people are saying is the steps in the measures that were put in place at that time after we saw the collapse of lehman brothers you know it really was a key for that because we find ourselves back in the same situation certainly here in greece we've already seen it's really being downgraded by midis and the state of committee said that that happened as a result of a lack of trust in the year are you saying governments really does sentiment could not be echoed any more clearly by the public here is others exactly how they feel

they just lost trust in the usa leaders ability to get them out of this situation and face now really that we're going to see this meeting for the financial crisis into very severe economic recession possibly not just the grease remember that the rest of the year is a countries as well or eurozone leaders have given themselves until mid november to decide on the next tranche of the greek bailout it will only arrive if the country meets its deficit targets but thomas tigris or from s.c.b. merchant banking believes that athens is being prepared for a default. there is no real point in keeping on with this bailout exercise and i think over the past one or two months that's become clear to the euro system and the i.m.f. as well so i think that the delay that we heard about earlier is a very significant event it suggests that there won't be any more bailout payments to greece by then we need another four or five weeks before the difference the preparations for the greek default can be in place obviously if it happens in

uncontrolled way it could be a very destructive event if there are no defensive perpetrations made in the in advance then it could cost the bank system other governments quite dearly but i think that that's what would be the reason why this is going to happen not right now but in four or five weeks he said there are now frantic preparations underway to bolster the defenses to make money available for paying out banks and ring fencing the healthier governments of europe when this actually happens so when we live problem i could see with the solution is that every single interest i've made over the past year or two they all seem to believe that after the bailout there would be a default anyway so i mean that's just throwing your money down a black hole better not do that and start dealing with reality instead. well russia and china have vetoed a u.n. security council resolution on syria the european backdraft called on damascus to end its crackdown on protesters or face a targeted measures moscow and beijing are concerned the mandate could pave the way

for a libya style of military intervention instead moscow wants the u.n. to take action to push all sides towards dialogue russia believes the syrians should resolve the crisis themselves without external involvement or international pressure but the retailer by two permanent members has split the security council but moscow is convinced its action is justified r.t. said that he explains. it's a rare rare case that russia has used its power of veto since nineteen eighty-four it's been seven times only that russia turned to its last resort if you will and in case of syria russia felt it was necessary to be told that resolution to stop this scenario and yet another arab state similar to what happened in libya after the u.n. mandate to protect civilians the resolution on libya was passed in march with russia abstaining from the vote but good monday it was quickly picked up by nato which

sided with and to gadhafi forces helping them to topple the planet and russia believes that in case of v.b. at the un mandate was misused and this is why it has not to let that happen again just as china russia as well will be the only two permanent members of the u.n. security council were actively trying to negotiate at these full solution to the crisis russia in particular has hosted representatives so board president bashar al assad and members of the opposition trying to notch them into the dialogue and russia things that when you have two armed sides in a conflict what you need to do is to bring them both under the same tent while the whole issue of this resolution on the syria came up and estimated over two thousand five hundred protests. those have been killed in violent crackdowns to assad forces since march this year at vishal damascus claims that it's only fighting some but tours who've been killing their security offices and hundreds

r.t.d. has obtained a video footage which allegedly shows that those that anti assad protesters are actually carrying weapons and using those weapons firing we could not very quiet these small but phone footage these are indeed tend to president assad protested they do not look like the street is only calling the president to step down so it rushes saying that it is a conflict where it's all because that violence has been carried out on both sides so if you only support one hard side in that conflict you are you sending out biased message to one side in these cases to opposition forces a message of strong support which will only fuel more tension inside the country. gary bettman who's a middle east expert from the american university of washington says that russia and china's call for further dialogue in syria is the right course for the car tree

and the wider region. the regime has recently been saying it is willing to implement. reforms it wants to make changes it wants to talk. to the opposition although there are some who question and are suspicious of some of the statements of the regime in syria nevertheless. they have been saying that they do they are willing to undergo reforms and they want to see changes sanctions are going to be very costly for the not sort of the regime as much as for the people of syria that it is the people of syria who are going to end up paying a very heavy price. for for the sanctions there are however some elements of opposition some of them have reflected this perspective in istanbul and other places who believe that they cannot communicate with the regime they cannot enter into a dialogue with that and therefore they need to also foreign protection because they

say the regime is continuing to oppress them and so that's why i think this position that was adopted by russia and china is seeking to open a new way to prevent using this issue of protection for regime change or other interests of the british prime minister has called for a can do optimism during a quote actual time for the country's economy well speaking to his conservative party conference david cameron said the threat of the world economy is a serious today as it was in two thousand and eight when global recession loomed gavin hayes who's general secretary of a left wing pressure group compass told me earlier that the priorities of the speech were all wrong. i don't think britain is in a position to be optimistic and we are very very disappointed with the prime minister's speech today i think people all across britain will be quickly coming to realise that this is an out of touch prime minister and that we have

a seen nothing do nothing government firstly on the economy because we're very worried about the economy and the prime minister's lack of a plan b. for the economy you know the government was warned a year ago that they really did run the risk of a double dip recession if they cut public spending as hard and as fast as they have to in order to pay off the deficit in his speech today he failed to allude to any plan b. for the u.k. economy secondly he also talked about the need for people to pay off their credit card debts yet on this he also seems entirely out of touch with the british people as nearly ins of people struggle to make ends meet every month struggling to pay fuel bills put food on the table and clothe their kids but we heard absolutely nothing again in david cameron's speech about the need to reform the

banking system and sort of cracked down on britain's big banks so i would have liked to have seen much more of a focus on making sure those at the top pay their fair share. now id wall street protests are continuing to spread across the country after reaching the third week new york is currently hosting the biggest rally attracting thousands of people well protesters are angered by social injustice of corporate greed that they blame before pushing the country into financial meltdown while out to get more on this let's now cross live to our correspondent somebody who is in new york for us sabrina the demonstrations are growing in a more and more people of course they keep spreading across the u.s. can you tell us what's happening at the moment. well at the moment this demonstration is gaining on precedented momentum thousands of people are marching

through lower manhattan to join the occupy wall street movement i think this this number is one that nobody has even anticipated in the reason for that is because at this moment you are now seeing unions join this movement the transport workers union one of the largest unions in new york city that accounts for thirty eight thousand employees has joined this momentum teachers are also out on the street the nation's largest nurses' movement has joined occupy wall street students have walked out of universities in new york and throughout the country to join the occupy wall street demonstration thousands of people are walking down manhattan to join this movement and we have heard some of them speaking to the crowd they were saying things such as this is cairo this is tunisia this is a movement taking place not only in the u.s. but one taking place all over the world with the wall street bank bailouts we will

win these are just some of the things that the demonstrators have been saying to all of those that are gathering and clearly this is a movement that is gaining tremendous momentum and as you mentioned these are frustrated america. right now that i have been waiting for the economy to get better that have been waiting for change that have been waiting to reap some kind of benefits or rewards following the two thousand and eight financial crisis and the bank bailout that was given there after the bailouts that were given to the auto industries and at this point when you see unemployment as high as it is in the us these people are coming together with frustration and they want a change they're demanding a change as you mentioned there are a lot of different unions different groups of people not participating and from be all set i mean we've seen different a number of concerns grievances and demands can you break down for us what their

goal is is there one that unites them. i think there's probably two or two of grievances that unite all of them all one is that there's there are frustrated with the wealth disparity in the united states and the second is that they're very frustrated with corporate influence over u.s. politics now and they believe that because of the massive donations and money that's being spent by corporations into u.s. politics the corporations are getting away with with making the laws that they benefit from let me give you an example let's take a look at the contributions that were made to us president barack obama's campaign when he was running as a candidate goldman sachs was among his top donors that their political action movement goldman sachs contributed more than one million dollars to obama j.p. morgan chase more than eight hundred thousand dollars general electric more than

half a million dollars was contributed to then candidate barack obama now if you take a look at the numbers that were released in two thousand and ten j.p. morgan made seventeen point four billion dollars in profits and paid no taxes general electric paid no taxes and. a three point two billion dollar rebate now we don't want to weigh our viewers down with the numbers but these numbers indicate why the average american is so frustrated why they're saying that the corporations are benefiting they are winning and it's the every day common american that is living paycheck to paycheck according to statistics that have been released one out of every six americans is signed up for some type of anti poverty. program one including maybe food stamps and more than forty five million americans are on food stamps so many are struggling to hold on to their jobs so many are fighting to get

a job and when most americans see the profits that are being made by corporations the benefits that wall street is gaining from a government backed taxpayer funded bailout it's reached a pinnacle of the aggravation is helpful you can feel it when you're walking through lower manhattan and at this point the aggravation the frustration is getting worse it's expanding and all of these americans are coming together to demand that their aleck that officials change the system and make sure that things are become a little bit more fair for every day americans thanks very much for bringing us to read that report of bringing us all the latest developments very important reporting from new york thank you. well let's look at some other world news in brief this hour afghan intelligence officials have arrested the six individuals charged with conspiring to assassinate president hamid karzai the group which is reportedly affiliated with al qaida managed to recruit one of karzai personal bodyguards for their operation extremists have killed several high profile figures

in afghanistan in recent months the last of which is the use of temperate twentieth assassination of former afghan president would. you have any activists say at least eight people have been killed and over one hundred fifty injured in the past twenty. for hours in the southern city of taiz government forces shelled residential areas while opposition led on tribesmen supporting be a demand for president saleh to go join in the fire fight thousands continue to take to the streets across the country protesting his decades long. the uprising any i meant started in february and has reportedly claimed the lives of over fifty hundred people. now it's a big bash for the chechen capital tonight with massive celebrations marking a city day but there is more than one day of shows and press visitors to grozny the city has gone through a massive transformation since a being devastated by two conflicts against extremists in one nine hundred ninety

s. artie's would even want to have a look. just ten years has passed and grozny has gone from this to this as president at arms uncandid of is known far beyond his hometown viewed as an authoritarian ruler in the west but and fact of manager to many fellow chechens and handsome bushes his vision to raise devastated grozny from the ashes and make it the do boy of the caucasus. i never thought it would be possible in such a short amount of time what's happened in some kind of miracle i can believe my eyes. the produce to choose meant is girls in the city a complex of international class hotels and business centers when they were first per poster there was a lot of help to says and they would average build many thought it was just a pipe dream but there there are five believing towers there at the heart of the reconstruction of course the and our is so obvious that is recovery following the

destruction wrought at the beginning of the millennium but cut it off once to do more than just put a building he's aiming to raise the city's profile on a global scale so is this still much of the year he's attempted to grab the world's attention by inviting stars from the world of sports and show business to spend time in grozny. we've opened a stadium a youth center an ice palace in a few cinemas so people go see other places on t.v. you think it's better than here in the country we want people to come to us. it's not the first time grozny has been rocked by big scale events in may legendary footballers diego maradona and luis figo took part in the grand opening of the city's before that other international stars including roberto carlos came to the region some turned years ago it would have been hard to believe that anything so

glamorous and high profile. could africa take place on the chechen soil but now it's almost become a tradition chechnya has seen massive progress but there are still challenges terrorism remains a big problem here with attacks taking place on a regular basis but locals put their hope and investment they believe tracks more money from outside and the quality of life continues to improve eradicating terrorism will no longer assume a mission impossible my do not question the arts reporting from crossly. well that's all the news for their sour but now the north caucasus remains russia's most volatile region with terror attacks happening almost daily corruption and a poor quality of life are often blamed for causing violence and next hour he talks to the president's special envoy to the north caucasus about how the situation in the region is being improved.

and existing upon him thank you so much for being with us today thank you president medvedev said that one of the key problems many countries including brusha face today is interesting tension and criminality many russians associate the root of these problems with the kook phase you were entrusted to supervise what can we do about it. i strongly object to your putting it this way that the caucus

is the epicenter of the ethnic crime unfortunately and it has repeatedly been stressed crime has no national identity i would support those of the opinion that the criminal group in question is of no particular ethnic origin with you in august a high ranking french delegation visited the north caucuses and denounce their decision to invest considerable funds in developing tourism that good this result in building a cluster of tourist resorts disconnected from the rest of the region where misery and lawlessness still persist are you saying that there will. be a zone where law and order will be installed and chaos and misery everywhere outside that zone i'm asking you this scenario was possible. of course not it i want you to understand that we are not reinventing the wheel here we are not inventing constructions that have never been heard of it is perfectly obvious that unless the local population is integrated into the tourism cluster development process all our attempts to build ski lives and five star hotels will inevitably

fall flat if we disenfranchise the indigenous population the local population must be involved in all of these developments but how do we do that first of all we must gather what i call the starship troopers that's up to ten thousand young people who will be employed in the tourism and service sector these people must be local and live in the areas where these mountain skiing clusters will be developed a second from any residential areas located around those skiing coasters we're going to select young people teach them and do our best to help them set up small and medium businesses sometimes with the help of the state they may open small hotels for tourists we want people to be able to make money if people feel involved and integrated in this process i see no problems at all austria had the same experience a while back austria's vice chancellor said at a conference that there were also explosions in austria while infrastructure was being built the local population he said was also terribly upset until authorities managed to involve locals in what was going on before that the project had incurred

great difficulty. for mystical upon a new sub the be fruitful many investments people and even state officials paid terrorists to ensure their safety and that that money later of used to finance terrorist attacks can be done about dot when even state official or than civilians have to pay terrorists. of the greater proportion of all i would say it has to do with a certain lack of trust the business people have in the ability of federal authorities to protect them from criminal extortion networks recently active in the caucasus this issue. however is changing now and we're working actively to explain to people that aiding and abetting terrorism is a crime just as destructive as terrorism itself and that any money given to terrorists can be seen as a crime equal to carrying out a terrorist attack today we have many cases of local citizens and business people cooperating with law enforcement the results are improving gradually but again this is a long process i've talked to several leaders of north caucuses republics and their

opinions differ some of them say negotiations with terrorists are necessary while on a thing that there is no talking to terrorists do you think authorities must negotiate with terrorists. i believe there's nothing to negotiate with terrorists but we should talk and negotiate with parents of those children who have left for the woods and haven't committed any crimes yet if there is a chance to bring them back in the woods with the help of our religious leaders or their parents and families elders councils and any other social institutions we should be doing our utmost to take it we should encourage those who report to us and inform on these people those who are willing to lay down their arms and start living a peaceful life we should consolidate our efforts but once they take a gun and commit a crime there's nothing to talk to them about. how many terrorists operate throughout the north caucuses today. we like giving numbers but it's actually very difficult to make a difference between bandits and terrorists or the overall number that i usually

give to media agencies for both small groups of five to six members and large groups of twenty to thirty or it's up to one thousand people in all the north caucuses republics we are aware of these gang leaders and we've been working thoroughly on their cases. and they funded from within the conscious by of the country. with a. recent analysis shows the a broad domestic funding ratio is about ten to ninety the latter being russia they don't need to support of international organizations and other worldwide terror networks such as al-qaeda the money they extort from biz. representatives confirm them this actually means that it's not so much terrorism as banditry at the same time i want to stress again that there is indeed a funding inflow for western foundations charities and human rights organizations these funds are used to among other things to finance radical religious literature and a number of bonded leaders who exploit children for profits in the caucasus mystical upon him thank you very much for this interview.

question is that so much of me is going to make a lot of people here in days is the global economy on the brink of a double dip recession if so why can't the rich west find the right mix of fiscal and.

welcome back you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow and here's a recap of all our main stories police fired tear gas and demonstrators in athens as a nation is brought to a standstill by a nationwide strike and state services have been paralyzed after thousands of civil civil servants walked off their jobs in protest at new social cut backs. russia and china block a u.n. resolution against syria which had a european backing moscow says the targeting of damascus is based on a confrontation and not a push for peace. and the wall street activists join forces with students and young else as demonstrations multiply across the u.s. against corporate greed and blame for leading the country to the brink of economic collapse.