a balancing act at the top of the e.u. the german chancellor and the new french leader vowed to battle jointly against the crisis but eurozone cuts are keeping them at odds. a walkout in the line of duty thousands of police officers marched to demand their rights as a massive number of bobbies will soon be given the boot. and with former bosnian serb general robert go on trial in the hague for war crimes we asked his son know why the defense sees the case as biased.

thanks for joining our team it is eight o'clock here in moscow and i'm karen tara it's a tough road ahead for france and germany as newly elected president francois hollande and chancellor angela merkel pledged to work together to battle the crisis however they don't exactly see eye to eye on how to do it with opposing views on belt tightening and how to punish overspenders arches peter oliver is in berlin. well there was no real political bombshells dropped at the meeting between francois hollande and merkel but there was also no attempt to cover up that they too don't see eye to eye on every issue and emphasized his belief that the impetus for growth is needed in the eurozone while angle a merkel remains committed that austerity is the only way if the eurozone is to drag its way out of the current mire it finds itself in now on the subject of the fiscal treaty francois

hollande was relatively noncommittal however he did say that he continued to say to the french people that he wanted to see the treaty renegotiated now that something of course that angle or merkel in germany have said isn't on the table but will be looking to see if they can come to some form of compromise over that issue that treaty of course binding the states that signed up to it to austerity measures the subject of greece of course on the table for discussion this first meeting between the two leaders both of them saying that they want greece to stay within the euro land said that he would respect what ever happens in the greek elections which will be taking place in june however all and also saying that he appreciated the suffering of the greek people during this tough time angle merkel said that the euro was a political project not just a monetary one and said that the eurozone and the euro had benefited the people of

europe and would continue to benefit them so no real attempt to hide the differences between the two leaders but no sign that they can come to some form of compromise over their well polarizing political views most been a very busy day for the new french president he was sworn in in the morning on tuesday before laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier at the arc de triomphe he then appointed his. prime minister before boarding a plane to come here it's of berlin if he thought boarding the plane was going to be the easiest part of his day but he was in for a bit of a shock the plane was then hit by lightning apparently on its way here and was forced to return to paris where the key got off got on a new plane and made his way here arriving safely if not a little late for this important meeting between the two leaders of the two biggest economies in europe the two leaders that are going to be crucial if the eurozone problems are going to be sorted out greece has been left in political limbo which could see it exit out of the currency union athens is now preparing for

a new election after all attempts to form a government failed with anti-static parties rejecting a coalition forces more cuts a caretaker government will be appointed in the meantime economic analysts next crack us believes a potential greek exit won't shake up the eurozone i think that they are already contingency plans beginning in the eurozone for a great exit of course this isn't that is easy as some might have the know because they would be tremendous contagion through the other periphery countries so it would really shake up the eurozone completely and also the cost of greece exiting the euro and being bankrupt is more than about three hundred billion because it's not just what the government owes it's also what the greek banks oh i don't want the greek central bank goes the e.c.b. you have to understand that in europe at the moment there is a bit of a dichotomy they don't want to give in to greece completely because then they will

have everybody else lining up as well but on the other hand they don't want to send the message that we will have members of the eurozone loose and that the eurozone could dissolve and shrink overnight if you ask most greeks about the bailout cash they're very happy to take it if you ask them whether they would rather be a leader well the eighty percent will say yes if you ask them about the austerity of course they say no i think that they maybe. some ways that the memorandum can be renegotiated to take away the worst of the austerity keep some of the supply side reforms and for greece to be able to stay within the european union in that way but of course the political leaders have to come clean with the population. and that's not only worker suffering from the budget cuts and broad reforms of pay and conditions and britain police officers poured their anger out on the streets with thousands of posts set to be axed and as i reports that's raising concerns over public safety but a protest policing itself is

a rare sight especially one this big that's because these protesters are the police thirty five thousand officers from across england and wales demonstrating against government cuts they call criminal never before so many bodies on one beat the problem is never again these black caps represent the number of police officers who lose their jobs in the cards sixteen thousand over the next four years cuts they say that could seriously threaten the public safety it will have an impact on the public safety not just that perception of the police say these people will see if you will this is on the street and at the end of the day people see places a place emphasis on the street they feel safe bitingly presence and that's just not going to happen egypt it was known as the facts that the police force in the will and with these consistently it will continue like that the police will be hit hard by government desperate to get more for less over five thousand officers have

already been booted off front line policing in the past year alone police pay and pensions will also be slashed in a sweeping twenty percent cuts the thin blue lines about to get much thinner we will be able to provide a service but it's nice to make an issue to the moment that as a result i will. most of it is considered to be able to provide good service more miserable lives because it directors always will be saying to yourself it's not just police probation officers are up for the chopper to the government wants to replace them with machines expected to look like this removing yet another barrier protecting the public they're supposed to stop criminals re offending with nothing but a series of yes no questions they'll be trialed first in parts of london but without a lie detector these machines aren't exactly the spanish inquisition nonsense to

suggest that a machine could do the job of human being there's a real likelihood and the public protection in britain will become noise if these machines are rolled up nationally. deviant behavior deterioration behavior will be missed but most people will go and commit serious crimes against the public the government insists the machines to cut costs stating this is a misrepresentation the london probation trust is investigating a range of a negative approaches to law professionals to cut bureaucracy and spend their time more effectively with the offenders they supervise public protection will always be our priority not according to those charged with that role it's been four years since police officers last marched on mass three london the next time sure to be sooner than that if the government continues its squeeze either bennett r.t. london. coming up in a few minutes a lessons of hate history classes on different sides of the israeli palestinian

water serve as a source of conflict or from a tender age although no one although one school does beg to differ. and syria's tourism industry is dealt a major blow by the revolt with businesses on the verge of bankruptcy although i have full of foreigners have managed to avoid the conflict. there's been more protests in the us via the occupy movement against big business day of global action has been taking place nationwide with organizers claiming countries around the world are rising up in opposition to austerity and corporate greed anti-war activist a j l r param claims the government's being forced to take notice there hasn't been a significant maybe the protests in the united states for quite some time now in fact has been carved in the united states for over a century so the fact that there are significant for this angelus nor in all of us

a country you know taking part of those who in the least the barrier coalition coming together i was with up i was angela's act taking part in it was a massive. s four on the already how they're responding are there were no helicopters hovering over persons where and was angel is and it seems to me that the police or governments or local governments are taking this very seriously whether or not they do anything the occupy wall street movement domestically i do not know. but the fact the matter through spending considerable resources to to watch over a bunch of the proposer searched. and it's also been claimed the police in the us are sparing some legal resources on occupy protesters either you can head over to

our tea dot com to find out more about the action of officers in the state of minnesota. impact of a say some have been given drugs police in exchange for information as authorities do order an investigation also on our website. a norwegian mountainside himself on fire and all slow outside the court where mass killer on their sobriety is currently on trial a badly injured man was taken to the hospital you can read more about that at r.t. dot com. is.

the official. talks from the. video. and. now in the palm of your. on the dot com. former bosnian serb general of iraq is to face trial at the international hague tribunal he's charged with genocide during the yugoslavia war in the one nine hundred ninety s. among his alleged crimes are the massacre in the town of city but a new cell where eight thousand muslims were slaughtered and the deaths of over ten thousand civilians during the siege of sarajevo sixty nine year old law that was arrested by serb forces near belgrade last year his defense lawyers earlier asked

for the trial to be disposed and saying the prosecution had failed to provide evidence all the time they also accuse the judge of bias their request was however denied while there is still viewed as a national hero by some serbs in an interview to r.t. his son. told us why yes i am proud of his role was no war not because i think that he's guilty of anything but because i know that he was doing his job to support and primarily objective all. our side was to protect our people from. being exposed to genocide and again. i think that the only point of supporting my father and this is meeting the starving people these thing there isn't for me is a. terrible act darkroom the truth because only the. defending themselves

from being exposed to genocide and my father have succeeded in the past and i'm proud of. it all he's even in the war. you can see the full exclusive interview with that article ma just sun in just about twenty minutes. an iranian group considered as a terrorist by the u.s. for fifteen years is moving off the blacklist. government officials are advocating to clear the name of moved. or the k even releasing a number of p.r. adverts this could further strain relations between washington and teheran jamal the policy director for the iranian american national council believes it's a mix of times with israel and u.s. lawmakers that are driving the push. they're not necessarily considered to have given up their terrorist activities u.s.

officials have actually gone off the record and said that he was behind some of the assassinations of iranian scientists and professors that have occurred in recent years so if they make a was behind you know putting these bombs on cars and delivering bombs with motorcycles that sounds like terrorism and there's an acknowledgement that that's the case but they you know u.s. officials have also said they're working with mossad they're working with israel to engage in this campaign and so among hardliners here in the u.s. there's a view of they're the enemy of our enemy so they're our friends you also have domestically or here in the u.s. you have members of congress who are accepting campaign donations from supporters of the emmy kaye you have very prominent us former officials like rudy giuliani for instance who have spoken out in favor of them and have received really exorbitant fees for their support so you have this huge money network that is funding these activities and at the end of the day it really is hard liners you know whether it's

in the u.s. or possibly even israel possibly even some of the gulf states that are supporting these guys as a cudgel against. clashes between israeli forces and palestinian demonstrators erupted during the annual nakba day march in the west bank it's a rally to mark the nine hundred forty eight displacement of hundreds of thousands of palestinians but while adults remember history children on different sides of the border are taught different versions of it as policy or reports. the own city the israeli palestinian puzzle might lie in these pages with the jewish children who never. get to know each other only through the bush and would usually then not named they're called arabs or israelis arabs which is a racist thing label and then they're represented is that primitive farmers i know my it's always with the fia with a camel and with some kind of dress that nobody really. errors in racist caricatures. and of course as terrorist but it's not much better in the palestinian

textbooks the stereotypes here also pretty alarming the israeli jews. are invaders from europe they have nothing to do with this land and they are basically criminals and therefore they are educated for a long term war against them much of the problem stems from the fact that in israel jews and arabs go to different schools they study a different curriculum and sit different exams what's more because jewish schools are generally better funded the standard of education is higher but here is one school trying to get it right it is part of i o. s. as for peace of elites with an equal number of both jewish and arab learn is a sign from being an example of how both sides can learn together the most important lesson going toward here is understanding each other it's the first school of its kind in the country and receives no funding from the government in

every classroom is an israeli and palestinian teacher and every lesson is taught in both hebrew and arabic some terms of insurance may be according to what is going. there is. some of. the war and. some they are coming from home with. all kind of. ideas and. they're talking about in a particularly difficult place and these teachers are preparing for israel's independence day because while for israelis it's a national holiday for palestinians it's a catastrophe when the two teachers are standing in front of the tear the children are tense in their sometimes. the gist i'm hearing i'm not here we assure them it's ok to speak about it it's not something this is history in we're supposed to speak about what happened and look for the future together but

the challenge is being underscored uses is really takes books which it has translated into arabic there are six in there talk about a so-called palestinian demographic nightmare and there are many that ignore each other's existence what these books do especially history books they teach the children not the story discourse this is not the discourse of historians the teach them the discourse of politicians and generals. and so until a different story is written and taught the lessons most israelis and palestinian children taken to the future for dismally short of a real education for peace policy r t the true. time now to take you around the world for more of the sars nears. a bomb attack has killed five people in the colombian capital more than a thousand a dozen rather others were injured during the explosion which had a busy district filled with foot traffic the blast was said to have targeted the

country's a former interior minister who was wounded in the attack his driver and police escort were among those killed no one has immediately claimed responsibility. and indonesian search team house found the voice and data float recorders at the crash site of a russian oil supernature one hundred the plane flew into a cliff dormant volcano last week during a demonstration flight killing all up forty five people on board the planes manufacturers are blaming the accident on difficult mountainous terrain which has also greatly hindered search and recovery efforts. pakistan's been invited to the forthcoming nato summit in chicago the move comes amid signs the country may reopen its western border to the. u.s. army which was closed in november after a nato airstrike killed twenty four soldiers the route is a strategic nato military supply line to the war in neighboring afghanistan as

stayed away from the last major summit after the incident. dominic strauss kahn has made a one million dollar counter claim against the new york hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault a former i.m.f. chief said enough he says the alo lied about the alleged attack a year ago which seriously damaged his reputation the criminal case against charles kahn it was dropped after prosecutors said deol had lost credibility after the frenchman's arrest he resigned from the i.m.f. and was unable to take part and has in the presidential race as a leading socialist candidate. for years syria was able to capitalize on its rich history and ancient cities to build a thriving tourist industry but after months of conflict his final source of income has all but dried up and those arches arcs out of boy reports many in the country feel wronged by the revolution. he wanted to see the world but became

a touring sensation himself martin at twenty eight year old boss driver from germany was on a year long by journey when he heard syria about two weeks ago unaware of the clashes he wrote all the way to homs and even managed to take pictures of it then two homes that enter hama but the word of me has a point but they even get me into this if you think there. was quite a strange feeling you know nobody was in the world you could see what had been before but never a few danger your dangers for my safety martin barely knows a few phrases in arabic but he's a good smile and boyish curiosity out loud to seem to connect with the locals even those whose job presupposes some suspicion of four in there. was a very. sometimes easier for us because some of us have like. such a bags when they figure out what. it was it was never so much makes the station a lot of heaviest foreigners while his home country of germany has kept

a fairly low profile in the diplomatic spat over the fate of syria he says he often hears locals complain about the western meddling in serious internal affairs i think the problem is that new is trying to tell you sometimes from seeing and you believe it but the news hour bored to tell you different stories in the news inside of the country so i always thought it's just a problem that inside of syria but now many syrian people came here by coming out from the outside of the country this interest like martin would be very welcome guests in syria these days but there are very few and far between the country's tourism industry was devastated by the revolution but the number of visitors slumping by more than ninety percent in a lap of the country's largest city and home to countless you nascar heritage sites the ten percent occupancy rate is now considered as joke of luck you know this is

one of the sixty five rooms you are talking about an hour out of the sixty five how many in the uk for more than five rooms and it's not just about lost profit in aleppo which some claim is the oldest continuously inhabited settlement on earth tourism has healthy vital landmarks such as remain martini's boutique hotel which gave a new lease of life to the four centuries old building especially if. you spend a lot every year to keep such buildings alive from my experience i can tell you that about seven to ten percent of my whole income i spend it on maintenance. is not shy and criticize. they're side government for the slow pace of economic reforms yet he believes that's no reason to bring the whole country to the point of self-destruction nobody could imagine that could. get to

such situation like now at the beginning everybody was looking for freedom but afterwards when it comes to clashes and fire and killing and killing for nothing just only that you're with the government or against the government and kidnapping people really we are sorry for syria to come like this what's made things even worse is that two thousand and ten the last year before the syrian uprising was the most successful on record for serious tourism industry revenues john by sixty percent prompting many to take out investment loans they're no longer able to repay no wonder many now feel bankrupted by their revolution in times of crisis tourism is always the first to fall and the last to recover and syria learned the hard way what's ironic is that in order to rise from the ashes this country desperately

needs visitors from the same nations that contributed to the current crisis actually work our sea syria. time now for the business news with dmitri and greece is yet again hampering hopes of a market rebound that is through the political impasse that in the country may force new elections and that's seen by investors as of course a negative factor so in asia the markets are continuing to fall with nicky down one percent the hang saying down more than two percent with commodity being the worst hit now this whole drop those originated from the united states what we saw overnights was a negative session all the hype coming from germany's g.d.p. earlier on was off by the end of the day and the dow jones was down. half a percent the nasdaq a little less than that the nasdaq is of course awaiting a big i.p.o. from facebook which has now decided to place more shares as demand has exceeded

supply several times now over on the commodities markets continues to drop to a fresh five month loves ninety two dollars per barrel will almost ninety three full light sweet bread is also declining around one dollar and in gold it has been falling for more than three months in a row the longest negative streak since two thousand and four and even though we have seen analyst saying that basically there's a there's a. surge in the pipeline for bullion and we are still seeing investors are selling it at this hour now over in the currencies market the euro continues to drop versus the dollar of the yesterday's sharp drop to one twenty seven as you can see there right now it's followed by just a notch and the ruble declined in the end against both of currencies in tuesday's session and wednesday's session will kick off in one hour how for hours the same

applies for the u.s. stock markets this is choose those close you're seeing it was a mixed close the russian markets failed to reacted not have time basically to react to the greek developments and so we did see the my six goes up half a percent of the falling three and a half percent on monday. so that's the way the markets look this hour. and then many thanks for that update. our exclusive interview with the son of. a serb general standing trial in the hague is coming up in a few minutes after a short break of an update of the headlines.

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