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make up or break up britain's prime minister issues a stark warning to the eurozone to take action all face collapse. david cameron bows to keep the u.k. take whatever happens the euro but insisted in britain best interest for the common currency countries with all their problems out. also syria releases the names of alleged foreign terrorists in its custody as the rebellion gets boosted by arms from abroad while suffering a split of the top class. is all the ignites the palestinian conflict by sending dance up as it pushes ahead with efforts to barricade itself from its increasingly frustrated over the neighbors.
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hello and welcome to the news from r.t. moscow this hour it's now eleven pm here my name's kevin oh in the top story the britain's prime minister says the eurozone is running out of time to solve its crisis david cameron told business leaders that the beleaguered single currency countries are now at a crossroads which demands urgent action to avoid sparking a global recession here's our london correspondent laura smith. he used these words that the eurozone has to make up or break up essentially what he's saying is support greece or see the euro zone fail he's calling for years and states and institutions to step in and help greece to support these require me to not just be made in a city as well as i say these are stronger words than he's ever used before he explicitly said that germany must do more and he talked about three or more tricks of the euro which is according to him a sort of rigid system that looks in any. terms of what
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a country like would normally do if it had its currency would be too busy to value it but inside the realms of the euro that's just not a possible option for them so cameron is saying that stronger states must be help help the weaker ones and he also said that the logic of a monetary union urges more political cooperation and so that it takes an electorate responsibility from all the countries to help out the weaker ones that this sort of fiscal burden sharing that he's talking about and also a supportive monetary policy amongst all the countries in this people are very quick to say that of course the u.k. is not a member of the euro zone in syria no business sense what business does cameron have particularly to criticize countries like germany and france when when the u.k.'s economy isn't necessarily involved but cameron's message today was that he wants to see the euro zone succeed because it's in every country's financial interests to have strong economic neighbors but david cameron sees really his job
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in all this to keep britain safe is he says he says it's in the u.k. interest to have these stable neighbors david cameron's message really is that he doesn't want greece to drop out of the euro zone experts are now saying that if it does happen then it could cause ten years of global depression this sort of terrible in the financial markets that will be got over quickly also of course he won't be able to get the very austerity that is at the moment failing in the us is the same. he's pushing in britain and also trying to push the other european countries as well so it's a politically very difficult position for him to be in what we're seeing increased at the moment is a new prime minister who's of course the kates caretaker prime minister up until a new election can be held on the seventeenth of june and there are huge fears that the greek people will ultimately lead to your government and if that happens it means that they won't have access to any more bailouts from euro zone countries we're seeing one equiped drawing from banks in greece and that's not just happening
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in greece we're hearing reports that it's happening in spain too and it could possibly spread to italy there's been the recent nationalization of one of spain's biggest banks banks here and reports that spanish people have also withdrawn a total of around a billion euros just in the past few days from those banks so the fear isn't that without the without greece the euro zone collapse of greece is leaving would create a sort of house of cards in fact whereby everything else would fall down after that and of course this is against a backdrop of huge political differences between the main players in this new french president francois loans is very anti austerity in fact he's going to it says he's going to increase spending in france who doesn't see it like that at all so we've got a lot of political wrangling from these major players who according to what david cameron said today are the only once you could potentially sort this out. with a london correspondent there were economics journalist to do. that greece cutting himself loose from the euro won't be easy enough and may yet be in for much worse
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so we'll hear some more of what he's got to say next but this is a quick clip from an. people have been modeling what a greek exit from the euro zone would look like for the best part of a year politically and economically politically even those who are in favor of greece leaving euro zone. they would accept that it would involve beyond being straight people it would mean banks would cost the a.t.m. to not be working it would mean that people be stopped from leaving the country especially with this forms of euros in their back pocket because the country been stopped happy for the country and to maintain a very high level. so it would be affected like a countryman marshall. the question all in the saudis really for the rest of the euro zone if the euro zone can say to the rest of the financial markets look greece
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is leaving but we all know it greece is a special case you know behind our hands will say it's a bit of a basket case and actually its problems are not the rest of the euro zone that's what they really mean by an orderly exit if they can convince everyone that greece is leaving because of greece not because of the euro i don't think people markets would buy that. israel's denying reports that exam be shelled parts of garza wounding several civilians the claims come from palestinian doctors and so they're treating the casualties the latest from middle east correspondent and polish we're. here we're being told that anything between four and seven gazans have been hurt in this latest israeli artillery fire in northern and eastern gaza two people have been taken to hospital but we've been told that ambulances as well as emergency vehicles are still in the area now according to palestinian sources there was somewhere between six to eight israeli tanks and bulldozers heading into gaza and according to eyewitnesses the
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soldiers started firing indiscriminately on farmers who were working their land also being told that the borders was started bulldozing those very same plots of land speaking to the israeli army vote they say that they had not heard of any injuries they say that the israeli army is nearly conducting routine operations inside gaza but certainly we do understand that the israeli army is still inside gaza where we speak now tensions in the area have been running high for several weeks now every few days one hears about rockets that are fired from gaza into southern israeli communities and every so often there is a flare up in rhetoric from the israeli signed in terms of warning the gazans that any israeli operation in the gaza strip might not be that far off in addition is all is building walls along its borders with its arab neighbors it's essentially barricading itself in according to many critics say it's been building a wall along its southern border with the sinai and with egypt it's also recently
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began building a wall in the north along the israeli lebanese border and this is in addition to the wall it's building in the palestinian west bank. a lonely house on a hilltop tells the whole story of palestinian plots of land passed down through the generations now under threat i don't read a number i don't want. i want my gran and for his insistence almost paying the price is small probably she is on the wrong side of the wall tel aviv is building between israel and the palestinians and what was once on mars was part of a larger village he'll soon be cut off from it and alone on the other side from this i feel for me. it's really tractors have already for eight months been building the prison or more refers to digging up the ground around his house the plan will see his home cut off by a five metre high electrified fence and a tunnel monitored by security cameras will connect him with
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a larger village after. the experience for around for this this this rod and go for in the tunnel go go downstairs the tunnel and go the village the side she's go this tunnel two hundred fifty meter. this tunnel she had a very big bowl for this five million eight hundred thousand one million dollars just to build this for just only one family. for decades already israel's been building a wall that cuts through the west bank these ribisi it's for security but palestinians complain it saves them from their land and communities the leadership of israel is going crazy and they have no real plan their have no really vision no real vision of a very good long term israel because walls will not and will never ever provide security for this one is a good neighbor is actually provide security and we do not have good neighbors
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eventually the village of larger will also be completely closed in by the wall the only way in and out will be through this introns that the israelis will control here too the israelis are building another tunnel this one is so that omar's neighbors can reach a small family cemetery they'll be an electrified fence and the local joke is that not only are the israelis separating palestinians from their land they're separating the living from the dead but with each tilt of the soil almost families connection to the land is threatened to be even more polluted for emergency. what they can do just id term future in. this. this for you and this for my father. my grandfather. don't live in the future it's. like a future times against him and with every new brick it goes up the families isolation is cemented policy r.t.
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will larger village. the syrian government's released the names of alleged foreign terrorists it claims to have captured on its soil twenty is said to be arabs who have confessed to working for the list also includes french and british citizens get some reaction from around the base of activists jim jim grieving these revelations from the rascals help it back up i guess it claims of fighting a foreign funded insurgency but is the international community buying it. i think generally there is silence because. there has been some kind of general pact which has at the center of it and the there is a kind of nato gulf cooperation council. and i think that there are many things going on fairly secretly fairly obviously as well but i mean washington has been denying the media reports that we've been amongst other outlets reporting
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in the week of in direct involvement in smuggling arms to the syrian rebels but you know it does beg the question i guess does the u.s. even need to get involved when it's already boosting the opposition. well i think the united states has its own very special interest anyway and it would to some extent it would rely on its local allies but on the other hand it would never. complete control to them so they would be working in parallel what about this split we've seen in the rebels' ranks the head of the syrian national council most saying he's going to step down how is that going to affect the conflict is going to change anything for the syrian people. i can't say whether it's seriously going to change things but clearly you have an opposition that isn't there isn't a single opposition bloc and there are those voices that are clearly calling for foreign intervention and there are those who are clearly against it and i think
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these are those two attended these in particular affected in the splits in the opposition. in the un is claiming too that iran is also sending weapons to syria what stake does to have in all this can you cast a light on that. well clearly syria is a longstanding iranian ally and it's the only one of its kind in in the region standing so that it wouldn't surprise anybody i think if iran was doing whatever it could to to prop up the syrian government i don't thing that would surprise anybody but was all this going i mean the u.n. has got more than two hundred observers know in syria trying to oversee the peace plan it doesn't seem to be working is there any hope head how's it going to pan out do you think. i think there is some hope because clearly there isn't. certainly isn't the united opposition. there is clearly
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a widespread food among the syrian people that they want change but they want no foreign intervention and that's a very distinct position that commands a very real support and against that i don't think you can have. the kind of opposition the kind of intervention that's being organized or appears to being organized particularly from saudi arabia ok folks your thoughts thanks for the program and who are active is jim brown on the line there from london you're on r.t. tonight. for the news no tonight america's ambassador to israel says plans for a possible military strike on iran are ready and the option is fully available and that statement comes just days before terrans due to resume talks will powers over its nuclear program with me now investigative journalist in the story and gareth porter on the line live from washington d.c. mr porter hi the american ambassador claims the u.s. prefers to resolve the dispute diplomatically yet still said the military strike was ready how would you assess the diplomacy there well i think the diplomacy
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so-called there is an act in fact a political to israeli interests trying to please the israeli public as well as to some extent to appease the netanyahu government i don't think that it means anything more than that because in fact the obama administration's position is quite clear on the record. that there is no reason at this point for the united states to use or to contemplate the use of military force against iran as long as iran does not make a move indicating that it is moving to a breakout capability that is to say kicking out the i.a.e.a. inspection. the inspection mechanism inside iran which continues to operate and as long as that's the case the obama administration clearly is not contemplating the use of force regardless of what happens in these talks so it's really quite
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it's quite misleading for him to say that i transcend to meet with the u.s. and its allies indeed about its nuclear program just a few days now how is the ambassador statement got to affect that meeting and the the way the talks developed you think. i wouldn't expect it to have any impact at all i don't think the iranians like the specter or the spectacle of the us ambassador to israel making those sorts of statements but it's nothing new and i think that they would write it off essentially as political posturing as it precisely is the case and the iranians are going to go into those talks with a very carefully thought through strategy which is aimed at both making sure that the talks don't break down on account of the iranian behavior as well as maximizing the possibility of actually striking some kind of a deal the iranian line about this it's been pretty clear all along and now iran's top nuclear negotiator is saying that western pressure is ineffective all things
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like this all in barga that we've seen imposed enough really behind the scenes to make to round yield to anything in these talks coming up. no i don't think that iran is going to yield because of pressures either certainly in the form of threats of military action against iran nor in fact as a result of the. oil sanctions which are by far the toughest sanctions against iran at this point i think what iran is calculating here is that this is the right time to try to strike a deal with the united states in particular knowing of course the united states is the primary actor here and that the europeans are responsive primarily to the lead taken by the united states and so from their point of view the timing is right they certainly don't want to go on necessarily with the oil sanctions going into effect
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fully after the middle of this year. they obviously have an interest in trying to prevent that of possible but they also know that there are some very serious political obstacles domestically in the united states to the u.s. coming forward with a plan that's going to work with us go back to the comments made by america's ambassador those comments were made on israeli army radio now of course israel had previously hinted that it may be able to go ahead with a preemptive strike on iran at some point it's been talked about for a long time all we where we are the moment any closer to that happening. i think the chances of that happening in the next few months are really quite minimal i was in israel in march for me for about ten days and what i came away from that visit quite convinced of is that the stance being taken by bibi netanyahu the prime minister of israel is
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a bluff. it is intended to get the united states and other western powers to take of the most aggressive policy possible toward iran and to put pressure on iran as well but i don't think they have any intention of actually carrying out a strike for one simple reason and that is something that is not really well understood but it is understood by the iranian intelligence by the israeli intelligence and military leadership and that is that iran can retaliate directly with their own ballistic missiles in a way that would be quite devastating for israeli society for for its civilian population and because of that fact i think israel is going to think much harder about an attack on iran that is generally let on to the public and of course a question mark over the capability of israel as well many analysts say that even if israel did launch a strike america is in fact the only come to the nothing to do any lasting damage
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and would the u.s. leap a no does israel have more power than suspected you think. well that is the only real question mark here if the israelis were to be unwise enough to launch an attack would it be because they believe that particularly in a an electoral campaign and a close election campaign that president obama would feel so pressured by the republican parties right wing's and by the israeli lobby in the united states that he had no choice but to get into the war on the side of israel i think that has been one of the calculations being made by the political elite in israel for some time i'm not convinced that that is sufficient for them to take a chance on attacking iran but that would be the only potential scenario in which i think it could possibly take place final quick question senate republicans in
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washington today said they need more time to review a new package of economic sanctions for iran which way do you see that heading do you think there came to loosen restrictions or indeed to toughen up on to run out. look the republican party in the united states is a wholly owned subsidiary of israel at this point they are committed sole fully to the israeli government's position that they're almost in a position of being more roiled i'm a king so the possibility that they would loosen sanctions simply doesn't exist i think they're talking about how they could possibly tighten ok thanks for your thoughts thanks to the program of washington d.c. investigative journalist in a story in care of ports that. let me take you some other world news headlines now in brief a group of suicide bombers have attacked a government compound in western afghanistan has killed at least seven and wounded twelve others one of the militants blume self up at the gate of the governor's complex in the province as three others push their way inside a gun battle with police then broke out killing the other attackers several offices
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and a civilian. trial of former bosnian military commander ratko bloody has been suspended indefinitely because of significant disclosure is prosecutors failed to share their evidence with the defense team which is demanding a six month delay that it faces multiple charges from the one nine hundred ninety s. yugoslavia war including the srebrenica massacre of over seven thousand was lamentable ways and the siege of sarajevo which killed ten thousand civilians. a gay pride march in georgia has ended in clashes with members of the country's church based union of all the dogs parents around twenty people rallied through want to tbilisi's main streets marking the international day against homophobia trouble flared though when the church group members crossed their path as no report of casualties or no reports on the casualties rather on either side. a little salt has been handed to britain during a ceremony in athens it's been a weeklong really across greece since being lit in
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a limb here the birthplace of the ancient games there it is the flame will be flown to the u.k. on friday accompanied by football star david beckham it ought to be used to officially starts. again from the twenty seventh of july. now back now to one of our top stories britain's prime minister urging e.u. leaders to do more to quell the debt crisis in europe david cameron today also raising the prospect of greece leaving the euro zone one man is keeping a very close eye on what the e.u. is up to robert although he's the head of policy watching bruges group in london thanks for being on the program robert good to see you tonight now britain is part of the crisis whether it likes it or not and now that it's sucked back into recession britain surely david culbert needs to share britain back to growth before he tries for reelection in two thousand and fifty think absolutely the key to the british elections and winning or losing a british election is if you are the best manager of the economy if people think
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that the other party is better than you. managing the economy looking after people's futures then that of course is the issue which will determine the result and what's happened is that traditionally the conservative party for since two thousand and seven has been more trusted than labor on one and the economy but now that's changed and people think that labor market better which is why you and i need to be addressed by david cameron if he has any hope to win again in twenty fifteen so the big question how are you ropes leaders the broader picture going to dig their way out when their new people like france's president and the setting out with something to prove of course while long standing leaders like merkel have everything to lose as their voters shift away. while the european leaders aren't really doing what's necessary to generate economic growth within the eurozone and within the european union there is a major problem with the euro but that needs a disorderly amount dismantling that that's what is required at dismantling of the euro in an orderly fashion really at the moment is forcing more and more austerity
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on countries which can't really do a lot with good. in an orderly fashion. it has to be done because the real problem within the european union and the eurozone is a problem of growth and despondent imbalances caused by germany and we can't have a common c.u. and with many different disparate economies which need different levels of support different interest rates different fiscal policies but germany and the european central bank are forcing on countries like greece and spain and italy in portugal as well as other countries such as ours and austerity cutbacks coupled with tax rises which have hurt economic growth there are condom is already on competitive as a result of being in the euro and they just are now in a major economic depression that's what's happening in those economies with massive levels of unemployment really no no future something radical needs to happen otherwise there will be more of the same and the same is a declining economy with ever increasing numbers of unemployment robert frank for
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your thoughts the head of the bridge group think tank is going to talk about the bad news for greece as well tonight another ratings agency is a given of not talk about what trouble talk about with our business there's going to. be a lot. of work oh really. fiction now downgraded greek tell us more yeah that's right talk about adding insult to injury kevin my goodness me they've been downgraded to triple c. and that's from the miners it's gone from bad to worse and that's all adding to the speculation that the troubled economy will indeed leave the common currency right there we got the russian markets reaction to all the greek saga today as investors move out of risk out there let's get a snapshot of those stocks on the screen some of the biggest companies here in moscow really suffered today there we got gas from luke all energy mages the biggest financial company has bad bank over seven percent down but explain this are
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far better than i ever had got my team says in call from the head of it's our so actually stars that us. have a listen. first and foremost to rush through the who so called high above the market was a wise to know when things are getting cute russia hit more than anything on top of that we're seeing a number of margin calls today and basically substantial selling coming from western france the possible who was around one thousand two hundred four there are two years in this currently worth one thousand three hundred something so perhaps like a ten percent but you know if greg's its so-called gregg's that there exist of greece from the european union the euro so euro is going to be counted badly then pickups we might see even through the decline in the art years seemed it's moving on to the us markets then are scaping all of the pressure today we've got the dow jones down seven tenths of percent the now is that one and
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a half percent down moving on to the european markets we see how they closed up today and they were unsurprisingly down the footsie one point four zero percent the over up and down spain's also in the spotlight there having twenty one banks downgraded that is the threat coming from moody's moving almost see how the common currency got on today and it is indeed just a fraction of that we've also got the ruble performance break or indeed as investors head towards the u.s. dollar i'm moving on to the all prices they are suffering down and down we've got the low levels of six month allies kevin and that's how the markets that for the day dimitri he'll be here in the morning with your next update ok folks have a very sobering as it was over was not very welcome news that's very said all right no more financial scrutiny could come as well on this channel very shortly much and stacy here with the latest report for you after i've updated the headlines here on our team from moscow in one minute fifteen seconds from.
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