balancing act at the top of the e.u. the german chancellor and the new french leader vowed to battle jointly against the crisis by euro zone caught spark keeping them at all it's. a walk out in the line of duty thousands of police marched to demand their rights as a massive number of officers will soon be given the boot. and with former bosnian serb general robert cone law this on trial in the hague for war crimes we ask his son why the defense sees the case as by its.

own screaming on line twenty four hours a day seven days a week this is our team it's a tough road ahead for france and germany as the 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 are to spear all of ours in berlin. well there was no real political bombshells dropped at the meeting between francois hollande and angle or 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 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 is 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 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 well it's 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. you prime minister before boarding a plane to come here lynn if you 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 creek 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 without house charity parties rejecting a coalition that enforces more cuts a caretaker government will be appointed in the meantime economic analysts next great guest believes a potential greek exit would shake up the eurozone. i think that they are already contingency plans beginning in the eurozone for a great case and of course this isn't it is easy as some of my heavy 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 ties it's also what the greek banks had what the greek central bank owes 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 he lost most greeks about the by a lack yes 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 us there eat the cape some of the supply side reforms and for greece to be able to stay within the european union in that way but of course political leaders have to come clean with the population. it's not only workers is suffering from budget cuts and broader forms of pain conditions and britain police officers pour their anger out on the streets with thousands of posts set to be axed and as i've been reports that's raising 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 existing not just that perception of the police and its people will see fewer this is on the street and at the end of the day people see police 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 police force in the will and with these cuts it simply 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

frontline 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 that issue to it. feels. like almost it was considered to be able to provide that service for them as it was a direct result will be said for support it's not just police probation officers are up for the chopper too 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 and. ization nonsense to suggest that a machine could do the job of human being there's

a real likelihood and the public protection in britain because if these machines are rolled up nationally. even if you are deterioration behave you 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 knowledge of 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 lessons of hate. history classes on different sides of the israeli palestinian border serve as a source of conflict from

a tender age although once corvet's to death. and syria's church's own industry is dealt a major blow by the revolt with businesses on the verge of bankruptcy although a handful of foreigners have managed to avoid the conflict. there's been more protest in the us by the occupy movement against big business a day of global action has been taken place nationwide with organizers claiming countries around the world are rising up in opposition to austerity and corporate greed anti-war activists trial are claims that the government's been forced to take noticed. baskin eight significant made eight protests in the united states for quite some time now on the back has been for cars in the united states for over a century so the fact that there are significant for this on angela's nor in all across the country you know taking part in this and in all the sabera coalition

coming together i was with up i was angela's act there in taking part in it was massive. for on the origins how they're responding there are nine helicopters hovering over persian square and was angela's and it seems to me either the police or governments or local governments are taking this very seriously whether or not they do think that the. wall street movement is a rat domestically i do not know but the fact the matter through spending considerable resources to to watch over a bunch of proposals in a search. it's also been claimed police in the us are sparing some illegal resources on occupied tokyo streets the their head talk to dot com to find out more about the action of officers in the state of minnesota activists say some have been

given drugs by police in exchange for information as authorities ordered an investigation also on our website. a norwegian man set himself on fire and i'll slow outside the courtroom where the mass killer on their sympathetic is currently on trial badly injured man was taken to the hospital you can read more about that r t v dot com. former bosnian serb general ought to go in law which 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 of a new son where eight thousand muslims were slaughtered and the deaths of over ten thousand civilians during the seizure of said i have all 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 have failed to provide evidence on time but also accuse the judge of bias

a request however was denied is still viewed as a national hero by some serbs and in an interview to r.t. his son told us why. i am proud of his role in the 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 object people who. are assigned to protect our people from. being exposed to genocide and again. i think that the only person supporting my father and hers is meeting the serbian people this saying there isn't for me. it is a. terrible attack on the truth because all we did is defending ourselves from being our very exposed to genocide and my father succeeded in this task and i

am proud of. the role of his in the war. you can see the full exclusive interview with our own lalage's son in about twenty minutes. and a writing 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 even releasing a number of p.r. adverts that's could further strain relations between washington and turkey jamal do the policy director for the iranian american national council believes it's enrique's ties 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 an acknowledgment 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 m.e. 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 even israel possibly even some of the gulf states that are supporting these guys as a cudgel against iran fourteen minutes past the hour and clashes between israeli forces and palestinian demonstrators erupted during the annual nakba day march in

the last 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 clear reports. the answer to the israeli palestinian puzzle might lie in these pages where arab and jewish children who never meet in person get to know each other only through the written word 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 ali baba 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 are 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 small 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 a says for peace of 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 lesson is taught in both hebrew and arabic some terms of insurance maybe according to what is going.

there is. some of. the war and. some they are coming from home with. all kind of. do isn't. in there talking about in a particularly difficult listen 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 for the two of them the children are tense in there sometimes they just it's like i'm hearing i'm not here we assure them it's ok to speak about it it's not something where 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 school uses israeli textbooks which it has translated into arabic there are sections there talk about

a so-called palestinian demographic nightmare and there are maps that ignore each other's existence what these books do especially history books they teach the children not the historical discourse this is not the discourse of historians teach them to hit 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. poison have cleared an opposition protest camp in the center of moscow which had been in existence for more than a week on tuesday a mass scale course all of the activists to cite and many were use police orders to disperse some twenty people were detained most of whom have now been released a group of about thirty people have moved to a different part of the russian capital looking for a new place to demonstrate activist arranged

a sit in protest after president of ideological to his inauguration angry at his return to power. time now to take you around the world for more of this hour as world news. a bomb attack has killed five people in the colombian capital more than a dozen others were injured during the explosion which hit a busy district will traffic 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 and mediately claimed responsibility. and indonesian search team has found one of the two flight recorders from the doomed to russian support superjet one hundred but the voice and data box was badly damaged which could hinder the probe of a plane flew into a clip 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

endured search and recovery efforts. dominic strauss kahn has made a one million dollars power 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 as a criminal case against ross khan 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 part in the presidential race as a leading socialist candidate. four 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 oksana boyko reports many in the country feel robbed 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 entered syria about two weeks ago and aware of the clashes he wrote all the way to homs and even managed to take pictures of it went to homs seven to hama but there were not only to take point but even let me into the city center. it was quite a strange feeling you know nobody was in the world you could see what happened before but i never feared danger here dangerous for myself martin barely knows a few phrases in arabic but he's open smile and boyish curiosity out loud him to connect with the locals even those whose job presupposes some suspicion of foreign there's. no point waiting for something he thought us across from observing. such effects even if it was circulated it was it was never so much makes us safe in a lot of the obvious 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 that 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 same years of problems are coming out from the outside of the country this issue is 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 a 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 you are talking about

out of the sixty five how many in the uk but not more than five rooms and it's not just about loss 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 gave in new ways of live 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 let me martini's 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 sarah learned the hard way what's ironic is. 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. meter joins us now from the business just counted the russian markets opened with a fall as they have been doing over the past two weeks now after the fact came out became evident to investors that greece will have to go ahead with the new elections pretty much we saw a wave of selling all across the globe and the russians now and then exception is down more than two percent of my sex more than one percent blue chips all across the board in the red and it seems that a correction is pretty far away nowhere in sight so far. over in asia we're also seeing a similar picture with hong kong for even further up to three percent two point seven five what we're seeing right now this is again on worries that basically europe's economic woes and debt problems are far from over even so what we see the

situation in greece the political stalemate cannot move on further to get to go ahead resolve the debt crisis now in the united states we've also seen negative session but not to this extent with the dow jones just falling around half a percent j.p. morgan was bucking the trend it was up one point three percent has its c.e.o. decided to stay i mean the shareholders of the side of the c.e.o. would stay and he said that two billion dollars of losses derivatives will not be affecting the company's dividend. and over in the commodities market we're seeing oil go down to six month lows with the light sweet and brant declining more than one dollar also in commodities gold continues to decline third month in a rose is the longest streak. two thousand and four and this is despite the fact that some models have been saying that they expect to see even the prices at

the one thousand nine hundred dollars. and on the currency markets the ruble continues its drop against both for the dollar and the euro whereas the euro declines sharply the first is the greenback. so that's the way the markets look at this sell of course we'll be back with plenty more details on the breakdown of the stocks which are going down next hour in around fifty five minutes time all right we look forward to that. in a few minutes we will talk to the son of about gone modish the serb general standing trial in the hague that's after the headlines coming up. you're.

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