only on the. balancing act at the top of the e.u. and the german chancellor and the new french leader about a battle jointly against the crisis but the eurozone cuts are tripping them and on . 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 golmaal beach on trial in the hague for war crimes we ask his son not one of the defense sees the case as by. the greek crisis is causing gives another wave of selling all across the globe with the domino effect getting to russia and the national currency falling one and a half percent versus the dollar more of this in the business world.

welcome to our team this wednesday with me karen tara well it certainly is a tough road ahead for france and germany has 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 archies peter oliver is in berlin. well there was no real political bombshells dropped at the meeting between francois hollande and angular 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 this 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 of 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 now. prime minister before boarding a plane to come here to lynn if he thought boarding up plane was going to be the easiest part of his day and 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 it's not only workers suffering from budget cuts and broader forms 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 i have a bet it 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 thousand over the next four years which cuts

they say that could seriously threaten public safety it will have an impact on the executive not just that section of the police it is people will see if you that this is on the street and at the end of the day people see police police help is on the street they feel safe but in the present and that's just not going to happen in egypt it was known as the best police force in the will and it's simply it will continue like that the police will be hit hard by a 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 a shooting it. feels. almost as if it had to be able to. direct it's always

a little bit shaky most of 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 and. ization nonsense to suggest that a machine could do the job you think there's a real likelihood and the public protection in britain because if these machines are rolled up nationally. even if you are to behave you will be missed and those 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 normative 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 mass through london the next time sure to be sooner than that if the government continues its squeeze on the bennett r t london . and 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 one sport begs to differ. and serious tourism industry is dealt a major blow by the revolt with businesses on the verge of bankruptcy although how full of foreigners have managed to avoid the conflict. former bosnian serb general. faces trial at the international hague tribunal is 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 sibling where eight thousand muslims were slaughtered and the deaths of over ten thousand civilians during the siege of sarajevo sixty nine year old moderates was arrested by serb forces near belgrade last year as defense lawyers earlier asked for the trial to be postponed saying the prosecution had failed to provide ever. it is on time they also accuse the judge of bias their request however was tonight is still viewed as a national hero by some serbs and in an interview to r.t. his son told us why action 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 to.

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 this is the meeting of the soviet people this saying there isn't for me is a. terrible attack on the truth because all we did is defending ourselves from being exposed to genocide and my father succeeded in this task and i am proud of. the role of his even in the war. you can see the full exclusive interview with the author of the just sun in just one hour here on our. all right we turn now to our top story let's talk to. a portuguese m.e.p. he is joining us live from brussels thanks for joining us mr todd is now in germany as angle a merkel and says debt should be eliminated from

a country's budget though more and more through rather more and more cuts saying the a fiscal treaty should not be amended but however a whole lot on has promised to focus on growth they have pledged to work together but do you really think that's possible. well i think that if iraq wants to to build forces for girls europe will grow it's not it's we know how to do it we have done it in the past both in europe in the in the and in other parts of the world brazil moves hard to do it so it's not difficult to create. the bombers or to create growth you need a certain amount of debt and more the amount of debt and the question in europe is were you pleased at that it's. my view is that you push that dept on europe itself on the e.u. which as an external downs or the eurozone which does next in order out. of course the germans feel that this is like placing their bets on the germans or it's not it's putting that on the europeans the germans are also europeans as the greeks are

on peahens in the portuguese are either you see the euro zone as a curacy area. that goes or else the political will to agree a girls or a loose you just say as a currency with seventeen different national debts which will put you in the kind of where where you are not just strong in those two to two if you're a very small is economy that we have ten years ago but it's not strong enough to endure the kind of financial crises that we are moving faster to something that they get now i want to draw your attention to portugal a year ago portugal received a bailout from the e.u. and the i.m.f. now the government says that it is committed to austerity but how do you view the rescue package has it helps any. no it hasn't always it is in a recession and sometimes. there is a recession than expected sometimes

a model that one trimester by trimester. need to make change a little bit but that is the core tools that austerity is contractionary does not change so departures economy is contracting that house the state collects less taxes if you call it selects a list exits but it is less in order and we cannot rebuild our debts also of course so this think is making cuts but people don't forget that the most of the problem in portugal is private enterprise their families that and the banking system that was. the wash. wave of credit coming from german banks among others. world. making gets at the state level does nothing to to solve doubts unless we are just trying to to get the baathists we import is much less and exports and. much more now what about if i didn't even angle an

article is not discounting the possibility of exiting the euro at this point even though she wants to keep it how likely is its departure ok i just wanted to to finish the last reasoning because of course portugal is trying to do debts that so are the government so this importantly as exports more but everybody's starting the segment to sit at the same time and this is clearly impossible. to your next question it. is not possible according to the treaties. if us city or you have to exit the european union and you cannot be forced out of the european union and opened trick and leave the european union force outside the us to be voluntary. it is very hard to. to see in these very. dangerous very irresponsible political game that is played being played in all in europe if people are sitting in the tools with talk about it all except use their simple tools they

will have either to amend the treaties or. in or out of. resource to the treaty that they used with the treaty of the few which is it be written outside of european union foreign minister terms are as i'm so sorry but unfortunately that's all the time we have thank you for joining us portuguese m.e.p. of artists. and iranian group considered as terrorists by the u.s. for fifteen years is moving off the blacklist government officials are advocating to clear the name of the ek even releasing a number of p.r. adverts this could further strain relations between washington and attack iran jamal abdi the policy director for the iranian american and national council believes it's only 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 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. clashes between israeli forces and palestinian demonstrators erupted during the annual not by 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 adults remember history children on different sides of the border are taught different versions of it as policy or 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 they're represented as they're 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 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 village with an equal number of both jewish and arab learners 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 both hebrew and arabic some terms of to ensure they be according to what is going. there is. some of. the war and. so they are coming from home with. all kind of. do isn't. in there 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 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 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 takes books which it has translated into arabic there are sections that 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 to historical discourse this is not the discourse of historians they 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 truth. switching gears to a different story and a different country police have cleared an opposition protest camp in the center of moscow which had been in existence for more than a week r jews day

a mass scale court ordered the activists to site but many refused 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 activists arranged sit in protests after president vladimir putin's inauguration angry at his return to power. all right we take a trip around the world for more of this hour's news. a bomb targeting a hardline former interior minister has killed two of his bodyguards in the colombian capital thirty nine other people were injured in the attack that struck a busy district filled with foot traffic the former minister suffered minor wounds in the blast no one's immediately claimed responsibility but police blame the country's main leftist rebel group the far. and indonesian search team has found one of the two flight recorders from the doomed to russian it's

a question one hundred that the voice and data box which was badly damaged could hinder the probe the plane flew into a clip of a dormant volcano last week during a demonstration flight killing all forty five members on board the planes manufacturers are blaming the accident on a difficult to mountainous terrain which has also greatly hampered search and recovery efforts. dominique strauss kahn has made a one million dollars 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 a criminal case against ross county was dropped after the 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 presidential race as a leading socialist candidate. for years syria was able to capitalize on its rich

history and intern cities to build a thriving tourist industry but after months of conflict at 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 a 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 when two homes enter hama but there were a lot of money 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 new dangers from isis 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 way for you to identify something for us across an officer like. search of x. even if. it was it was never so much make so it's saved me 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 at the news hour 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 right now many syrian people their 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

country's 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 term. and occupancy rate is now considered a stroke 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 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 a new lease of lives 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 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. to major joins us now so it seems like it's all sell sell sell on the russian markets today there is no room for buying that is true given that the main participants on the russian markets are foreign funds and they're pulling out money they have been in the past two weeks to cover for losses at home and this is all connected with worries about what's going on in greece that it needs a new election to form a government that might come out of the euro zone and therefore what we're seeing is the r.t.s. falling two and a half percent of fresh twelve month lows to look at the stocks it's not only energy actually shares that are falling and notably rosneft is actually gaining

point three percent due to rumors as to what's going to happen with the management of the company of the new cabinet of ministers will be announced financials are here the worst this out of the t.v. down two point seven percent as you can see. over in the in what's in currencies the euro is falling massively versus the greenback because the dollar is seen as a safe haven right now as opposed to gold traditionally it's also falling and what's happening is that the russian ruble is losing one and a half percent versus the dollar forty three copecks as you can see there now this is a low we haven't seen since january this year so basically four month low over in europe the markets of opened with yet another decline of more than one percent both in london and in frankfurt again this is all on the jitters it was due what is going to happen with greece now that hasn't been able to form

a government and in asia we're also seeing a very harsh drop especially in hong kong of around three percent with commodity stocks being hit the worst in the whole market. and finally over the commodities we are seeing a fresh six month lows for oil as worries persis does to the state of global demand then global growth given the situation in europe most of lead in greece spain and italy. that's the way the markets look this i'll have more details of course next hour around fifty five minutes time also look at a website all to slash business all right thanks for that update dimitri join us talk show is coming out that's after the headlines in just a few minutes.