the balancing act at the top of the new the german chancellor added a new french leader vowed to battle jointly against the crisis but euro zone cuts are keeping them at all it's. a walkout in the line of duty thousands of police on a march to demand their rights as a massive number of officers will soon be given the boot. and with former bosnian serb general robert trial in the hague for war crimes we ask his son why the defense sees the case as biased.

though and thanks for joining r t this wednesday it's not 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 whether opposing views on belt tightening and how to punish overspenders archies peter all over 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. 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 a 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 is first meeting between the two leaders both of them saying that they want greece to stay within the euro. 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 a 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 a linefeed thought boarding up plane was going to be the easiest part of his day but he was in for a bit of a shock that 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 an teil study parties were jek to a coalition that enforces more cuts and a caretaker government will be appointed in the meantime economic analysts next greatest believes a potential greek exit would shake up the eurozone but i think that they are already contingency plans beginning in the eurozone for a great gigs and of course this isn't that is easy as some might have you know because they would be tremendous contagion through the all the 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 both had with 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 into 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 a trinkaus 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 with an 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 u.s. they read the paper 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. that's not only workers suffering from much of cuts and broader reforms of pay and conditions in britain police officers poured their anger out on the streets with thousands of posts set to be axed and as iver bennett reports. that's where as it concerns over public safety. 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 carts sixteen fouls and over the next four years cuts they say that could seriously threaten public safety it will have an impact on the public safety not just that section of the police it is people will see if you will this is on the street and at the end of the day people see police the police help is on the street they feel safe bitingly presence and that's just not going to happen egypt it was known as the baxter 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 from the 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 if it's efficient it is a moment that as a result i would feel. like almost if it was considered to be able to provide that service for them as it has a direct resource will be said to most of them 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 human being there's a real likelihood and the public protection in britain because if these machines are rolled up nationally. even if you deteriorate you behave you will be missed and those people will go on to 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 innovative 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 their role it's been four years since police officers last marched on through london the next time sure to be sooner than that and if the government continues its squeeze on the bennett london. coming up in a few minutes the lessons of hate. history classes on different sides of the

israeli palestinian border serve as a source of conflict from a tender age although one school begs 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 thought of foreigners have managed to avoid the conflict. there's been more protests in the us why the occupiers movement against big businesses a 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 gyal are her claims the government's being forced to take notes. there hasn't been a significant made a protest in the united states for quite some time now in fact there's been four cards in the united states for over a century so the fact that there are significant for this of angelo's nor in all

across the country you know taking part of those and in all these a barrier coalition coming together i was with up i was angeles taking part in it was a massive s four and of the reason how they're responding are there were helicopters hovering over persian square and was angel it was 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. wall street movement the rare domestically i do not know. but the americans are spending considerable resources to to watch over a bunch of the pros in a search. that's also been a claim to police in the us aren't sparing some illegal resources on occupy protesters either go to archie dot com to find out more about the actions of

officers in the state of minnesota. activists say some have been given trunks by police in exchange for information as authorities order an investigation also on our website. and our which a man set himself on fire and i was low outside the court where a mass killer on their side but i have it is currently on trial the badly injured man was taken to the hospital you can read more about that at r.t. dot com. it's.

the official ulti allocation your i pod touch from the. light on the. video on demand. an r.s.s. feed now in the palm of your. machine on the dot com former bosnian serb general rothko 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 software eight thousand muslims were slaughtered and the deaths of over ten thousand civilians a during the siege of sarajevo sixty nine year old luggage was arrested by serb forces near belgrade last year his defense lawyers earlier asked for the trial to be postponed saying the prosecution had failed to provide evidence on time they

also accuse the judge of bias their request was however denied law which is still viewed as a national hero by some serbs and in an interview to r.t. his son. told us why yes i am proud of his role in the war not because i think that he is 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 support of my father and hers is. i mean this i mean people these for me. for because. they tend to go selfs from being exposed to genocide and

my father who succeeded. in the war. you can see the full exclusive interview with that out of the sun in just one hour here on our team. 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 the end ek even releasing a number of p.r. advertisements this could further strain relations between washington and attack iran. a policy director for the iranian american national council believes it's every case time is 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 it 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 it sounds like terrorism and there's a knowledge of 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 enemies so they're our friends you also have domestically here in the u.s. you have members of congress who are accepting campaign donations from supporters of the any k. 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 hardliners you know whether it's in the u.s. or possibly in israel possibly even some of the gulf states that are supporting these guys as a cudgel against you groet. clashes between israeli forces and palestinian

demonstrators are wrapped it up during the annual nakba day march in the west bank it's a rally to mark the one 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 but the answer to the israeli palestinian puzzle might lie in these pages were arab and jewish children who never meet in person get to know each other only through the written would usually they're not named they're called arabs or israel's arabs which is a racist label and then there are presented as their primitive farmers and no modes also always with a coffee or with a camel and with some kind of dress that nobody really wears in racist caricatures . and of course 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 in the 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 city 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 the oasis for peace village 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 listen is taught in . hebrew and arabic some term insurance may be according to what is going.

some. the war in gaza. some are coming from home which is kind of. ideas and. and they're talking them all to 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 and it's a catastrophe when the two teachers are standing in front of the two of them the children are tense in there sometimes they just it's like i'm here and 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 big and the sky news this 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 to story discourse this is not the discourse of historians they teach them that this course 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 around the world for more of the sars nears. their father jack has killed five people in the colombian capital more than a dozen others were injured during the explosion which hit a busy district filled with foot traffic the blast was said to have targeted the country's former interior minister who was wounded in the attack his driver and police escort were among those killed no one's immediately claimed responsibility.

and indonesian search chain has found one of the two flight recorders from a different russian source one hundred a plane flew into a cliff of a dormant volcano last week during a demonstration flight killing all forty five on board the planes manufacturers are blaming the accident. on difficult mountainous terrain which has also greatly hindered the search and recovery efforts. dominic straus called has made a one million dollar counter claim against the new york hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault the former i.m.f. chief said the woman lied about the alleged attack a year ago which seriously damaged his reputation the criminal case against ross kahn was dropped after prosecutors said the housekeeper had lost credibility after the frenchman's arrest he resigned from the i.m.f. and was unable to take part 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 this vital source of income has all but dried up and as artie's arcs on a boy who reports many in the country feel robbed by the revolution. he wanted to see the world but became a touring sensation himself martin a twenty eight year old boss driver from germany was on a year long by journey when he answered 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 to homs that enter hama but there were a bit of money to take point but even let me into the city center. it was quite a strange feeling you know nobody was on the road you could see what happened before but never a few dangers 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 foreign there's was always going to i just wasn't going to be one of us to consummately such a big stage even if you know that you like to believe it was never so much makes a station a lot of television supporters while he's home cunt. 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. the news our board 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 their problems are coming out from the outside of the country are called this interest like martin would be very welcome guests in syria these days but there are very few and far

between the countries tourism industry was devastated by the revolution but the number of visitors slumping by more than ninety percent in the lap of the country's largest city and home to countless you know ask a heritage sites the ten percent occupancy rate is now considered a stroke of luck you know this is one of the sixty five rooms were talking about an hour out of their 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 helped feed 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

ramy money team is not shy in criticizing the assad 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 r t syria. dimitri joins us live from the business desk and it seems greece is yet again hampering hopes of a market rebound through the political impasse in the country's leading to a situation when might be forced to have a new elections and this is of course seen by investors as a negative factor when it comes to investing overall in assets in europe what we're seeing in asia the markets trading in the other open is that down point nine percent the hang seng is down more than two percent this is also coupled with

worries of course about the state of the commodities market and the the the market is full of these companies in the commodity sector folding the most now this decline originated in the united states i mean the asian markets took it over from the you know u.s. overnight the dow jones close. half a percent lower j.p. morgan was bucking the trend it was up more than one percent as the company's c.e.o. jamie dimon would be staying with the governor he says that the recent loss of more than two billion dollars will not have an effect on the company's dividend. over on the commodities market light sweet does declining to a new six month low of ninety two dollars sixty eight cents. brant is also fooling by more than one dollar per barrel. and other commodities gold continues to decline for the further months the longest the last streak since

two thousand and four that's despite investors some of us are saying that there will be a rallies in the making and that we might see prices of nineteen hundred dollars per ounce. and in the currencies market the year of continues its decline against the dollar falling by just a notch but as you can see the one point two seven to the dollar far from one three three that we saw two weeks ago even and the russian ruble on tuesday declined against above currencies and of course new trading will start in thirty minutes time so have more info than same applies to the russian stock markets where the r.t.s. myself saw a mixed and to choose days session when the my six managed to gain half a percent but that was a slight rebound compared to the drop of three and a half percent that we saw on monday and this is also not being not being

helped by the news that russia's g.d.p. grew by four point nine percent of the first quarter which demonstrates that the russian economy is more resilient to european economic woes. and that's the way the markets look this hour but of course next hour we'll have the opening figures for the russian markets and for the russian ruble character and i look forward to that . join us longest talk show coming up in a few minutes after a short break and an update of the headlines.

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