greenies on the brink another election next month with the scramble to create a caretaker government to steer the country paralyzed by anger over cuts. and it's all be watched very closely here in berlin despite support from chancellor merkel and france's from swallow lund if. you wait for most of it may face the blues from the euro zone. the trial begins of former bosnian serb general radko mulatto for alleged genocide and war crimes but back at home in serbia he's still seen by some as their defender. plus changing the children who are taught to hate how a school in israel standing out in class by teaching jewish and arab kids both sides of the story. there are some markets took

a hit today at the end i think bone prices continue to decline and the ruble will need this value to i mean twenty minutes time for the bank at. seven pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story a month of uncertainty lies ahead for europe with greece facing another election june seventeenth that could decide the its euro fate markets and banks already on edge with athens running out of cash while patience runs out over cuts but france's new and staring president francois hollande and germany's chancellor angela merkel pledging to help greece stay in the euro at their first meeting in berlin archy's peter all of our reports. despite cooperation being announced between germany and france at a meeting here in berlin

a lot depends on what's going on in athens at the moment now it's just been announced that this pick of our men also supreme court judge will be taking over as the prime minister of a caretaker government will be in charge until fresh elections can be held on the seventeenth of june now that after. the country's politicians were able to come to terms on a coalition government following elections earlier this month now some of those political parties that would be involved in not want to see an end in those elections want to see an end to austerity measures now this comes ahead of the next load of bailout money from the eurozone that should be going to greece now basically they've been told that if you don't agree to austerity measures then there will be no bailout money now this is led to the greek central bank announcing that the banking system in greece is weak however they're trying to tell

people not to panic we've seen around one billion euros being taken out of greek banks now this is by people who fear that the country could pull out of the euro return to the drachma and they could lose their savings now in terms of greece pulling out of the euro greece two or three spring kicked out of the euro as it may be it seems to be an incredibly polarizing issue now we've heard from john claude juncker the head of the e.u. finance ministers saying that any talks of greece leaving the euro a basically propaganda we're also hearing similar things from charles de lehrer who's from the institute of international finance he says that it's certainly not inevitable that greece will be leaving and says that he hopes that compromise can be found however on the other side. give the argument. people who don't believe that it would be such a problem if greece left the the eurozone are people like the italian industry

minister who says that it really things could just continue as normal without greece should they pull out or should they be removed from the eurozone and revert back to the drachma now all of this is going to continue to be discussed over the coming weeks and there is a large meeting taking place on the thirty first of may in around two weeks' time a youth finance minister is of course not in a caretaker government in charge in athens at the moment they really can't do too much they can't do anything at all really when it comes to making decisions it's all leading up to those elections that are going to take place on the seventeenth of june but the e.u. finance minister meeting could prove critical to deciding what happens with greece next and what happens with the future regarding the eurozone. economist alberto says a greek eurozone exit may spark a chain reaction of cash being taken from smaller economies are now unfairly put into the hands of bigger ones. there probably osteria he is dead osteria he is

a very confusing warts by osteria you can mean two very different things which shades one cat's expanding and the other is higher taxation the governor the president of the e.c.b. mind you that i viewed as pork in about two different kind of hours terry the good one and a bad one get better one is the one may by raising taxes the good one is the one made by capping bhaumik expenditure the problem is that portion and the bed kind of host charity he's also the easy one to be who sued politically speaking but the problem is to have been teetering these days everything these about expectation in the waiting week to kindly looks in front of the markets international now what may happen is to add you've got greece exiting the you know where to go following suit and money basically being to leave in a way out of the italian and spanish banks to german banks and into austrian banks

very savers believe their savings will be safer and this can bring to any northern italy auction starting with this fact a capital crime to all in this country of course if you have defacto capital controls basically you are saying goodbye not just to the europe but to the entire dream of a unified common market. tows whether you think greece's crumbling economy will sound the death knell for the death knell for the eurozone here's how the votes stack up right now at r.t. dot com so far about how for convincing the euro destruction is inevitable in any instance more than a quarter say yes it will be a catalyst for collapse eighteen percent say the euro zone will survive the thesis piously kicked out and the rest say not if merkel tightens on the belt tell us what you think about ontology dot com and have your say. still on the way we learn why bobbies in britain believe the cuts there are criminal tens of thousands of

officers mark against a government they say is endangering the public by tightening the purse strings in the wrong places and. find out why the u.s. military has been given a not so warm welcome in the south china sea details ahead. but first the trial is underway a former bosnian serb military commander in chief right comal he faces eleven charges of genocide and crimes against humanity during his role in the yugoslav war in the ninety's blodgett was arrested by serb forces near belgrade a year ago he's accused of the deaths of more than ten thousand civilians during the siege of sarajevo and for this robbery needs a massacre where more than seven thousand muslim men and boys were killed but some stir serves as a national hero and the next hour his son darko tells our team where his father's public support is coming from. proud of his role in the war not because i think that he's guilty of anything but because of.

that he was doing his job to support and primarily our objective or. was to protect our people from. being exposed to genocide and again. i think that the only person supporting my father and as. is that in the serbian people this. is. terrible for us because. defending ourselves from being exposed to genocide and my father succeeded in this task of. in the war. it's often hard to see a light at the end of the title for israelis and palestinians still deeply at odds over their history and lead what's worse is that the two peoples are taught to despise each other from an early age bargees policy has been to one score trying to

bridge the gap in the answer to the israeli palestinian puzzle might lie in these pages we 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 they're represented as their primitive farmers and know my it's also always with the fia with a camel and with some kind of ali baba dress that nobody really wears in racist caricatures. and of course as 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 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 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 listen is taught in both hebrew and arabic some terms of insurance may be according to what is going going on there is. some of. the war and. some there are coming from home was all kind of. ideas and.

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 for the children the children are tense in their 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 bad this is history and we're supposed to speak about what happened and look for the future together but the challenge is being underscored uses these weighty 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 story discourse this is not the discourse of historians they teach

them to hit this course of twenty patients and generals. and so until a different story is written and taught the lessons most israelis and palestinian children taken to the future for disney short of a real education for peace policy r t the truth. the ongoing conflict in syria increasingly spilling across the borders into neighboring countries for fresh sectarian clashes have erupted in the lebanese city of tripoli even after the army was deployed to act as a buffer between the warring sides we'll go live to beirut to discuss the development sorry a researcher for syracuse university so the syrian government claims it's fighting a foreign funded insurgency but what's at the root of the increasing violence that's becoming over across the border into neighboring lebanon. well of course as everybody knows the lebanese are very divided when it comes to the syrian issue half the population probably supports the assad government will whilst the other

half is likely to support the opposition and although this is often framed as a sectarian conflict here in lebanon it's not exactly that simple because there are many christian andrews who actually supports the assad government as well as those who maybe don't support the assad government so it's not clearly marked necessarily according to sectarian lines but here in lebanon the government this is citing everything even the language of lebanon is sectarian and so it often gets framed in these terms now up in tripoli the problem also is class it's also a terribly poor city people do not have jobs young men do not feel that they have any political leaders anymore especially when they're sunni and so they're choosing the path of armed resistance against a government that's not even their own because they don't feel that their own government is giving them any jobs or any opportunities to succeed in life and so they're increasingly picking up arms and picking fights with their neighboring alawite and this has been going on for

a very long time and it exploded this last weekend and even though the army was then as you said it's likely going to explode again and it's the lebanese government is in a very precarious position right now because it needs to establish a position of neutrality when it comes to the syrian crisis the lebanese cannot afford to pick sides and the lebanese people are divided so if the lebanese government did pick sides it would ultimately result in civil war so really the army has to be able to take control of the situation and the politicians and the people have to support peace and calm in tripoli you know that you were helping coordinate material support to some of the rebels who say they're now getting more weapons for broad that serves to damascus has been saying so what do you think washington stands to gain from their support of the opposition. well yes of course the united states has always been supporting the rebel forces with arms but they're finally actually coming out to admit it and it's coming through saudi arabia and

qatar this well and unfortunately a lot of this is going to be a lebanon lebanon was able to stop a ship carrying arms towards syria recently but there are still smaller routes going through the poorest border between syria and lebanon and the united states is always interested in destabilizing this region when those who are in power are against us or israel's interest so the united states definitely wants to continue the conflict in syria it's ridiculous that they have the audacity to say anything in support of the kofi annan peace plan at the same time they're actually providing arms to the rebels they're violating the peace themselves and then they're actively doing it and so they're also going to be wanting to do this here in lebanon because right now the government of lebanon is basically supportive of the resistance of the bowler and these are against american interests and so it was very evident that the united states will do anything possible and you know anything that you can get away with i should say when it comes to lebanon like for example vice president joe

biden came here before the last elections and basically told the lebanese people if they voted a certain way the united states would withdraw aid and of course that certain weight was for the march eighth coalition which is led by hizbollah so we're going to see the united states making statements about what's going on here in lebanon likely saying that they want stability of obviously provoking further tensions by supplying weapons and also political support likely to those who are trying to. trying to take assad down or turning to yemen and other arab spring flashpoint the government there says it is fighting al qaeda do you think that's the case or do you think there's a wide a rebellion under way in yemen. oh of course there's a wider rebellion underway and yemen the so-called transition that was negotiated this transfer of power wasn't a transfer of power at all it was the vice president took over he ran in an uncontested election yemenis most yemenis didn't bother voting who had been in the

streets and who had wanted for real change and so the threat of al qaeda is something that the united states stokes again to justify its massive violations of yemenis human rights these drone attacks against civilians and also it's just covering up the basic human rights violations throughout the middle east but particularly in yemen and so al qaeda is not necessarily going to be the threat but it helps the president generate support at home with his national security strategy he apparently foiled another plot to attack the united states coming from yemen but who knows you know looking at our tactics at home the f.b.i. has been doing entrapment for a lot of these terrorist cases and so it's likely that u.s. and saudi agents are in yemen right now encouraging these sort of attacks and al qaeda is really not a threat as the united states says it is. very briefly the u.s. is now moving a sanction people obstructing the political process in yemen why do you think

washington is getting involved in yemen's internal affairs. well i believe that this is their attempt to try to save face they know that the international community is aghast at their terrible violations with the drone strikes in yemen and also they know that there there hasn't been any transition in yemen so they're trying to placate the yemenis who are in the streets to try to fight for a new government they're trying but you know the people on the streets the people in the region are not stupid they know america's tricks and they know what the reality on the ground is and so any is this this attempt to try to. encourage old yemenis leaders to abide by the agreements that they made by freezing their assets is just quite ridiculous and it's not going to work certainly they could just take their assets from it and out of the united states into another country if they were really fearful of being. all right sara mera site from syracuse university thanks for your time. increase the u.s.

military presence near the south the south china sea fueling tension between washington and beijing a u.s. nuclear powered sub has docked to the philippine port close to where chinese and filipino ships have been locked in a month long standoff the deadline started after philippine authorities accuse chinese boats of illegally fishing in their waters both countries claim the area as their own china is concerned that the u.s. presence in the region could mean washington is ready to get involved in the dispute just a month after annual war games strengthen ties between the u.s. and philippines peter simons from the world socialist web site thinks the u.s. navy is positioning to put pressure on china. you know you were sued is basically your sort of thing it's it's. military position in. this is on the one a number of different visits from compliance not just to the philippines but also to the. lot up and down the coast

on mr putin's obviously dilute the charge on the u.s. mint on just military. isn't there and the good. news is the light is does on the most of the. time it's the this is the reach and the center to these very sensitive areas it also has an economic component to it were. to put pressure on china. considerations. in that sphere as well. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe foreign observers of egypt's selection say their movements are being restricted by authorities they say they've not yet gotten the press paperwork permission are allowing them to be witnesses the election commission's toughen the rules under which observers can operate although many of the restrictions go against international monitoring principles the vote to decide who will succeed ousted leader hosni mubarak due to take place next week. ukraine's dismissed in the

e.u. please over treatment of jailed former prime minister yulia timoshenko europe says her imprisonment was politically motivated but the ukrainian government claims the concern is unwarranted it was found guilty of abusing her powers as private mr pushing through a gas deal with russia in two thousand and nine she denies wrongdoing. former i.m.f. chief dominique strauss kahn has filed a million dollar counter suit against the new york hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault it claims the lawsuit ruined his chance of standing for the french presidency he also wants compensation for losing his job serving jail time and for damage to his reputation straus khan's assault case was dropped last year after prosecutors questioned the maid's credibility. british government's efforts to slash thousands of police jobs putting the public in the firing line according to a senior officer the head of the police chiefs association says crime will rise nationwide with fewer bodies on the beat artie's ever bet it has more from london.

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 cuts they say that could seriously threaten public safety it will have an impact on the executive not just that the reception of the police say that people will see fewer this is on the street and at the end of the day people see police the police have this is on the street they feel safe bitingly a presence and that's just not going to happen egypt it was known as the facts the police force in the will and with these 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's issue to. almost it was considered to be able to. direct its orders will. 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 of human being there's a real likelihood in danger that public protection in britain will be compromised if these machines are rolled up nationally. even if you're deterioration behavior will be missed on those people who 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 their 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 on the bennett r.t. london. time now for

a live as business news with katie and russian markets extending losses today tell us more absolutely i'm out there now closed up and i need to hear the lows and that's of all the political impasse in greece really taking its toll here in moscow now the all certainty is that they triggering a run for perceived safe havens such as the us dollar for example now to discuss the issue in that i'm joined by our correspondent daniel bushell he's at the russians so it's dangerous now let's talk about greece why is it the focus for investors right now. well today fresh elections are called in greece for june seventeenth as you say that means another month of indecision an interim government is all markets can say good news from what they call the uncertainty seven hundred million euro has been taken oh greek banks since last election is a fortnight to go off and stock market hit twenty year low yesterday some bookmakers no longer taking bit song greece quitting the euro they're already taking it for granted question seems to be where they're still in the bank of

england says the eurozone is tearing itself apart we're seeing those fears infect europe and beyond to the likes of russia and what about the russian markets and how they've been effective at the moment. they've just closed trading volatility he has been a high volumes have been higher than usual much higher than usual people taking their money out getting their money on this really bad sign i've been speaking with me here but the most exists change is a real sense of fear of the euro's markets really lost a fifth of the value this year no more to get into halting trade know that nasty stuff that happens when there's a lot full but it is the usual turn of events when the world economy does well russia does better when the world struggles russia does even worse and that's what's happened here today ok daniel thanks very much indeed for the with all that in mind we're going to check out the l.c.s. in the my six just now see those closing figures for you guys you can see what some red flag is right on the screen there the r.t.s. is nearly two percent down the my six seven tenths of a cent in negative territory as you said two year lows we're looking now right now

let's see how the movers and shakers perform today we had that russian second biggest and receive the down just around half a percent pardon me if it is stopped well as a surprise it must have happened in the last hour who got from that one point seven percent down by iraq down at one point twenty three percent now that was one of the big tourist stocks on the market and that's because it's actually increases waiting to six point four percent is now the fourth biggest russian stock on the ball so i can move on to the u.s. markets that are up are running their. had a bit of a rest but. a few figures coming out just to auction increased better than expected as well as the housing starts were also an improvement if we look at the dow jones a third of the nasdaq around the same opposed of territory let's get on and see how the european markets are now performing i believe it's a slight change of fortunes that we are looking at the right figures but it's not quite as bad as a quarter percent of the footsie on the dioxins five basis point move in almost

we'll see how the common currency is performing as you said there were people were during that seven hundred billion euros from their bank accounts anticipating a return to the dogma that i was going to want twenty seven it's seventeen the ruble performed poorly against the greenback and the year i moved on we see how the oil prices didn't help out the russian market to a lot of that is because of stockpiles in the u.s. creasing we've got them now dropping. back in about fifteen minutes more details for you on the markets or a very scary and i'll be back with a recap of today's headlines in a few moments stay with us york. question

is that so much made me really made a lot of people carrying a burden for me. is this what is happening to american jews and missions to american jews may indeed be more liberal.