six thirty pm in moscow these iraqi headlines in egypt voters queue to cast their ballots in the first post mubarak parliamentary elections are due to continue till march voting takes place amid protests against the military and warnings of further violence with many calling on people to boycott the election altogether. president obama hosts e.u. leaders in washington to discuss syria's ongoing unrest and work out additional measures to tackle a iran's controversial nuclear program another issue on the table with experts predicting further isolation of both countries ultimately aimed at regime change

will back a stand will permanently close of vital military supplier into afghanistan in response to nato as deadly air raid helicopter strike killed twenty four pakistani soldiers and triggered anti-american rallies across the country setting already strained relations plummeting. decks a greek n.p.c. most couldn't go blue shares his thoughts with us on what the future holds for europe struggling to contain its debt epidemic stay with us. she was getting thank you very much for being with us today so look us stick greece's new prime minister now but the key people in his government still remain the same for instance to finance minister can people trust this new elected

government this government is a temporary government with a special specific mandate and a timetable a specific timetable if the job of this government is to pass the brussels deal to implement. the laws passed the laws are thought of necessary by parliament and we support them through this job it is it is very important that we have elections the soonest possible because there is a problem of the democrat the rigid migration of. greece don't feel rightfully represented by this government they like this parliament because they feel that they were tricked in the last elections the socialists were saying we have money we will give you money and they ended up taking the money of the people and now the

average salary in greece today's thirty percent less than it was a year ago and the prices are going higher and higher so. the risk cannot go on for longer and the greeks need to feel right to be represented by their parliament and we need a government that is supported by the greek society and that can come only with elections let me tell you what it looks like from the outside it looks like people are afraid of being impoverished and prepared to. are afraid to displease the e.u. leaders the e.u. masters per se how much of a factor has fear become in create politics. there is a fear for tomorrow we don't know what's coming next and i believe that the whole of europe doesn't know what's coming next now everybody realizes that it's not just the greek problem it's a european problem it's the whole system that we had made up the european union isn't working we had only monetary union without konami union without political

even and this creates the problems that we see today so either move we move towards fostering the zygons of grayson's. we have we must have the euro bond that's our position we must have the central bank of europe playing an active role in the in this crisis and not just watching as today we believe that the germans must change their position they must realize it's for their own good also you know german economy without the european clients is not going to do very well. so we believe that we must find a solution with our european partners greek society is afraid and we we have been used to working the wrong way. friend diplomat in greece

a russian diplomat told me half joking half seriously that we are the last soviet republic in europe and i said well i will see how much the percentage of people that work in the public sector see how much your economy is dependent on the public sector so yes we have corrected it sticks of a soviet democracy but i guess not only public sector but talk about the ongoing protests and huge strong. that's coming up on the first of december how much the causing your economy with boys over and over i've lost track of the strikes for the past year it's nearly day by day we have some strike it is understandable that people don't want the changes they were used to another way it was an easy way it was the way of borrowing money and giving it away it was

done in the wrong way for example greek farmers were paid they were getting subsidies in order not to work they didn't calculate anything of they were just taking the money so we don't produce as much as we did before and we don't have the exports that we could have and we haven't attract the investments that we must attract so we must change the whole structure of our economy very quickly and completely how come there is such a dissonance between the government and the measures that the car wants to push in this thirty measures and ordinary people. why can't they understand each other. because. we didn't speak the truth to the people of the past years we were we knew the problem for example my party did a big mistake when we came to power in two thousand and four although we had

a. the right program to face the problem of public accommodation we didn't do what had to be done quickly and radically we tried to the changes you know we had with shock and society it proved to be too slowly and too late so now we must speak the truth explained that for the past twenty years greece has been. importing more than it's been exporting we don't produce even if the border is closed tomorrow the council like greece doesn't produce the wheat the meats that greeks need so it's the first time since world war two that greece can't feed its people and the country like greece where everything can grow i think it's a crime but certainly the austerity measures that the government is pushing for and

if there is more to come will undermine the demand in the economy aren't you afraid that greece will find itself in a big recession. the problem that we're trying on my part is trying to explain to our european partners is that austerity is austerity and justice that it doesn't solve the problem it makes it worse when you raise the taxes and then economy that is in a recession then the results are catastrophic so we need a policy that encourages development if we go as we were growing up in the collapses. you know that greece is now desperate to receive an urgent credit tranche of eight billion here on this or else in two weeks grace may go into default what would that mean for greece because it's played if that doesn't happen in a month greece can pay the salaries and the pensions. more than three or

four million people. so it's going to be a tragedy that's going to be a greek tragedy and it's not going to be only greece you know that it's gotten the have a domino effect in the whole of europe already you see that the problems are getting very serious in italy. spain was already in the picture now france is starting to feel the shock waves and germany had. a message to try one germany try germans try to sell their bonds and they did manage so i think we must. decide to face this problem all together but do you feel like among all this financial problems crease has lost its financial independence stories soon to listen when we don't have the money to pay the wages of the salaries and the

pensions because we are dependent and we want to get over this phase the quickest possible because everyone in greece unanimously agrees and excludes the option of greece leaving to heber so. bring this to try to save its fiscal independence at least listen to right now i'd say more than seventy or even eighty percent of greeks want to stay in the european union to want to stay in the eurozone but if things go. and the option is. open we will see if we have to. fight for a fiscal of the problems with the national congress who will do it what do you say to all those talks he brought up that german policy is directed to towards greece that we don't particularly like and there has been talk about the readers maybe sacrificing greece to save the euro zone what do you what do you say to that i

think that's going to be a huge mistake the concept of greece to save the. it was a wise is the eurozone will be saved all together all it will collapse all together are you a believer in you do you think it's a liver i believe that if we can have a big and more. comprehensive integration. i believe the united europe. but in this united europe for example i believe that russia must have a place for a continental europe without russia so there are many things that must change. i'm glad to see that you wrote russian relations the past years have become better and i believe that the everybody sees that process places in europe talking about the for investors i don't think greece has a great privatized fifty billion euro of its assets yet in several years yet what would that mean for the foreign creditors must be privatized in the right way for

example many of those companies are in the stock market so right now the food privatized them. they're worth nothing because the them stock market is that the slowest point of the past century half century so we must first make things a little bit better so that they will attract money but there are privatizations that can go rather quickly for example the greek railroads yeah to be the offer of russian railway to buy into the creek railroads there was an interest . and unfortunately the socialist government didn't respond and that's one of the big questions we have because greek railroads cost us two million euros a day i believe that when we are in government this will we will speed up this privatisation thank you very much but this thing into.

i had to go through a ten year old boy that. we train them how to. develop the orders for them to kill. we never explained to them why it's ok. most people at the point of looking down and time to pull the trigger became consciences objectors. i don't remember squeezing the trigger and i don't remember seeing him go down all i remember is that we shot at him. and so. on the other side are soldiers too and soldiers do it so we do and they're trying to kill us we're trying to kill them and that's just the ugly face a war there's. nothing

honorable until. i went to the war zone and i started seeing how i need to change. and the only way to do there's not a rival and kill another person that's why i'm applying for consonants and. oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh. see i. see

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rallies across the country setting already strained relations with. kids up next with a sports update stay with us here on r.t. . well i thank you for joining me again at the top sports stories. finishing on a high speed scare into the winter break six points clear at the top of the russian premier league after victory i mean the fourteenth place got to sit down she. while tributes pouring in for wales football manager gary speed ahead of his sunday at the age of forty two. and roger federer targets more records after beating joe will create song got to become the first player to win the world tour finals six times. start though with the russian premier league where leaders need to go into

the winter break six points clear of tesco the st petersburg side one to one it's home to luck motif while the army men lost to want to tangi often ceding a last minute penalty well first of the patrols to the stadium where all the goals came in the first half so they'd missed a golden chance from the penalty spot and to thank the last of which was up ended but resilient made amends by stating victor risings penalty anguish for coach for china's policy but he was smiling just minutes later when you go down a slotted home. and that gets him like quickly added a second after picking out his spot. doco they did pull one back through denise boucher coffee just before the break but despite both sides pressing the end goals she wants as a need not going to now with just one point in the last all day.

all goals came in the second half and she going in front three showing up got off i just after the restarts however that lead only lasted for a minute a great run from sage and dubious. such a love for taste as equalizer. the but with the minutes to go and she were awarded a penalty really sure cost was brought down by stargate chips to go off the stand off. and so stepped up to score the winner his eights go eleven games so to want two hundred one are stuck with the challenge agree the staff were missing several key players through injury and now without a win five games will be glad of the three month winter break to get their squad fit again. so this is how the championship group looks which is made up of the top eight sides and to lead the way on sixty five point six clear of taste and then it's pretty tight between the rest and i was just behind in third place before that

my spark back and redeem the fixtures will resume on march the third which will then go on to decide the title and european places. now over in the u.k. tributes continue to pour in for wales football manager gary speed after the forty two year old former midfielder was found dead at his home in england on sunday morning police say there are no suspicious circumstances as a player speed made five hundred thirty five premier league appearances and had spells at leeds everton newcastle bolton and sheffield united he kept in wales and won eighty five international caps and took over as their manager last december when in five out of ten games scottish legend graeme souness's has described speed as the consummate professional. well there was gary speed a minute silence was held the welsh side swanzy kicks off against aston villa on sunday that's not finished goalless while later

a ten man match the city regains their five point lead at the top and remain unbeaten in a three one one draw at liverpool it's one company open for the visitors all to half an hour but joleon lescott immediately through his own that city substitute mario balotelli were sent off late on the two yellow cards after only being on the pitch for eighteen minutes but one wanted finished the six. while in the meantime former england captain david beckham will decide to join paris sun or stay in america when he returns from the l.a. galaxy as pre-season tour next month the thirty six year old joined the californian club for the royal madrid in two thousand and seven and after tonight spoke with the ac milan help galaxy and the last cup last week with a one they'll win over houston dynamo back in as a five year contract expires on december thirty first and he could sign a new one year extension he's ruled out interest from the u.k. italy and brazil only consider france and the us before that manchester united star

is desperate to be in the great britain team in next year's olympics in his native london talks with ambitious mega rich p.s.g. said to be and the dogs to stage well the chris johnson might even keep his record . straight faced with a female last boss a sundays and cross a go at it claiming headed in the i've been up against the run of play to my minutes and twenty minutes off into the side to no. need to feel that we're going to follow through the ball home. it's seven minutes to go when you had a crack team to see the street real victory last say rise to ninth u.s.g. stakes second three points behind one. tennis now roger federer says he's looking forward to breaking more records after becoming the first player to win the war to a finals six times well this was the one hundredth final federer's career and he was up against frenchman joe wilfried tsonga and at the start like that could only

be one winner federer racing through the first set six three and some scintillating tennis sun there respond and then at five four in the second start for the match but he wasted the opportunity and stronger went on to level it on a tie breaker. however federer steadied himself to dominate the decider winning that six three to take the match in turn and nineteen minutes into the seventieth title of his long and brilliant career he also finished the year back as well number three after a week from andy murray in the rankings. rewriting history i guess is a very proud moment in anybody's sporting career and i'm still able to actually write more of potentially is a beautiful feeling i feel really upbeat very excited and sort of tired and subdued . sort of trying to save and you know control my emotions i thought this was.

excellent. and it was an awesome result so it's great. and the curtain has also come down on this year's formula one season the final race in brazil ending with yet another victory for red bull but this time it was mark webber on top of the podium after teammate and world champion sebastian vettel suffered technical problems both vettel had started on pole and led from the beginning but later his gearbox was giving him trouble and half way through the race he was forced to let webber past and also having problems with this gave ops was mclaren's lewis hamilton he was forced out of the race at the last forty eight in his back the fifth escape a massive. makes jenson button had a better race overtaking fernando alonso. behind vettel who still managed to come second however though ended the year on a high taking the checkered flag for the first time of the last race although the

season long to vettel to eleven wins the record fifteen call positions and nineteen goal. and finally over to the ice as we continue our series of reports featuring k h l clubs this time robert father and takes a closer look at barry said the snow leopards from kazakstan who have a stanley cup winner on their roster. getting stronger. getting tougher. getting faster. just the way snow leopards should be worrisome no inconsiderate a good job our house i have never been afraid of anybody and this isn't because the fun side had already beat to time get boring cup winners. and reigning champion so i want you on. the team of definitely go better this season now was strong enough

to beat anyone including the league's best we finally edged namesakes x. box i have this year will win a lot of games in the playoffs for the summer series have already proved to be as aggressive as leopards and are in the league still why far away wins them on the border with a smile tim and goal is to build an attacking team with accurate passing of course defense is an essential part of the game but we definitely focus on offensive play no attack no big victories that's my hockey philosophy as a. head go they show you on the sopranos has paid off so far and he's men are now stronger than ever having brought in significant reinforcement from across the atlantic worries us that now one of the most not american influence was in the cage with the americans and but canadians bring in extra bite to this snow leopards from kazakhstan and one of the seven can't even boast a stanley cup winners bring american defensemen and how much in some one will

hockey is most prestigious glop trophy with a girl in the hurricanes in two thousand and six know his a chance to do a rare double by lifting the bearing cup with worries i think just like you said. you have the pre-season there plan twelve games to get us ready and then you just sit over here and it's good thing. now there are just the bigger i service and. it's the more natural feeling out meanwhile the team's captain came in them and as they were established his name in europe stone the sleek the canadian joined breeze in two thousand and eight and was quick to the owner of the top scoring vandeman in the new formed league with an impressive twenty eight ghouls and fifty eight points from fifty three games although down in some additions to far beyond his personal stance it's definitely a goal of ours to defy you pass

a first round and get in the conference conference finals was a lot actually and i think we have the team to do it and we just our continuing to gel together and iran's get more comfortable playing with each other so in the next forty forty five games we should turn things are on the turn things around we're playing well but just just get us to a steamer on in the playoffs before burress one eight out of their last ten games elude still one from a now this is why their hunger for victory as the snow leopards have really just started their becomes. the record in your own party is a stone. of us all from sport botha. culture is that so much different today a huge musician apparently minute that mark was different than the spring a state appointed investigation claims for rain used excessive force as it halted

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