versus to gas mass protest in the greek capital turned ugly with reports of multiple arrests and injuries on both sides. for the united states of america the best is yet to come i was in the mood barack obama promises to resurrect his four year old message of hope after winning his second term as president of the united states. germany's angela merkel visits the u.k. amid hopes british counterpart will temper justice with mercy and agree not to veto plans for the budget for twenty thirty. nato missiles may soon appear on the turkish syrian border to rebels fighting bashar al assad's army staking

fears a full scale military intervention could follow. international news in calling live from the new center here in moscow this is the thousands of angry greeks are in the center of athens to protest against new austerity measures about to be voted in parliament there have been violent clashes with police resulting and arrests and injuries is in the greek capital. we've seen violent clashes here in the center of athens as riot police and demonstrators of full running battles with flash bangs through and by one side molotov cocktails thrown by the other and the ethic with tear gas the riot police basically clearing syntagma square demonstrators have reformed in front of the parliament building there waiting for a decision to be made from that parliament building because what's being debated

right now is the next round of austerity measures for the greek people now this is a team point five billion euros worth of savings that is being dictated to greece by its three main lenders the so-called troika greek people are deeply unhappy about the savings that are going to be forced upon them now these include the raising of the retirement age from sixty five to sixty seven between a five and fifteen percent slashing of pensions as well as cuts to wages now this is wages for public sector work as well as a cut to the the minimum wage and they will also be new mold brought in which would make it essentially easier to hire but also easier to fire employees now all of those driving the greek people out onto the streets of the capital. and we're going to be here for quite a while because this vote that's taking place in the parliament it hasn't taken place yet is being discussed right now has been delayed by several hours now we're

not expecting to hear a result on that for a while yet of course as soon as we do find out whether this latest round of austerity measures has been put forward by prime minister summers has been voted through because i'll bring you all the latest here on on. the situation in greece economist. the prime minister summers his promise this will be the final set of cuts is that likely. you know every time an. argument. it will be the last one just this will see the in may of two thousand and then just this will see a day in june of two thousand and eleven just the same they say that at that february of two thousand and two eleven when the bullshit that is that actually called for. all the big signal that the inuit did it by kids he's

only will fight them this is not even blues into the european union of now you may have fit into dust for this reason because the believe because you know very who are you that the put it that it is not a viable or they don't give it to goodies in their money of the law what about the political implications pushing this package through parliament has really shown there are serious divisions in the ruling coalition is in danger of collapsing. no there is not a me than the so it would we see now anybody's easy game or for all we listen between is a bad that it would be to either government to pirate this but in reality within weeks or charity people only dicked by a huge majority all of these measures i really beat you will see the end to the big barrier made to be for if you mean need to buy they already are mentally in their place and that the main part of that now leaves

a dick that all for methot european union will be too lax it will be pretty sandy to go and be all for. the market i see and it created us are so sorry to interrupt a dictatorship based in brussels in effect overruling the greek people would they be better to be out of the euro now or would it be better off for them to ready to stick with this plan and austerity being implemented i mean what what's the worst of the problems for them both off of these plans out of catastrophic for at least the only solution and now for a pretty easy easy exit from the eurozone if you will be anyone on each all need not to buy a disease or forests and i. and others will use it for these now lisa deal for it we must be fully to do our work. we could not meet baited should not be paid to board now must meet than it isa war to the it was ordered he hasn't

been or if it was the kid asked it we must natural now our word about it but it could be anything system meaning that the now. even by the form of god and this even even by their form of gas in the mountain that these equal to be over. please for these it is one of many banks that must be. it is it must execute for them you would. not have made theorems made of america is very interesting to hear your thoughts greece should get out of the euro zone thank you very much indeed to get out is joining me live there in athens very interesting to hear your thoughts. barack obama vows to fulfill his promise of change in

a victory speech to jubilant supporters that's after securing a second term as president of the united states. what was predicted to be a close finish if not a tide turned into an electoral college landslide barrack obama swept to victory in almost every battleground state to win a second term as president his republican challenger mitt romney has since conceded defeat saying he hopes a bamma can deliver artie's marina porton our reports on the election aftermath. well president barack obama achieved an electoral sweep there is a much narrow margin when it comes to the popular vote of the twenty twelve election believe it or not u.s. ballots are still being counted as of wednesday morning it appears that fifty percent of americans voted for obama and forty eight and a half percent voted for mitt romney what this shows is that despite obama's victory america remains a nation that is deeply divided and some would say very polarized obama for his

part defied history in the twenty twelve election the us leader was reelected with the highest unemployment rate of any president returning to office since franklin roosevelt in one thousand nine hundred thirty six the u.s. unemployment rate is around seven point eight percent and tens of millions of americans are not experiencing the economic recovery that obama promised four years ago but in the u.s. twenty twelve election voters were forced to pick between a democratic incumbent who hasn't delivered on his promise of change and a republican such as mitt romney whose agenda included shrinking government and slashing taxes in times of financial uncertainty during his acceptance speech barack obama assured americans that the best was still ahead but as our tease guy in a chicken reports the best may be more of the same. and the winner is

i want to. participate in this is like. you made your voice heard and you made a good mitt romney has accepted his well it's just a case of obama to congratulate him on his victory. full on excitement in the president's hometown of chicago way to president obama's daughters chanting four more. years savor what do they expect in the next four years and are they so happy with the past four of his presidency congress hasn't been very cooperative the past two years but i think he needs these four more years to continue i'm very happy with what he's tried to achieve i really need to have the help of the health care that he's going to offer and like i said we need more time than the last four years the main pledge of president obama's campaign has been to bring back the shrinking middle class and made the economy slow recovery and gigantic deficit at

a time when the gap between the rich and the poor is as high as ever in america i want to give middle class families and folks who are striving to get in the middle class some relief. because they have been hit hard the president has blamed congress for his inability to implement a more robust plan to help out the middle class president obama's claim that he's being handcuffed by republican lawmakers in his plan to dramatically cut taxes for middle income americans does not hold the vast majority of americans and our entire economy hostage while we debate the merits of another tax cut for the wealthy and skeptics argue there is no reason to believe congress will give the president an easier ride in his second term however president obama had no problem with congress when he signed into law the controversial legislation which allows for the detention of american citizens for indefinite periods of time without charge in due process and incredible the trail of our civil liberties that

the president has assumed and dictatorial rights to put us in prison at his pleasure without charge or without trial and congress did not stand in the president's way when he was increasing military spending here after a year of something you almost bragged about during the debate on foreign policy our military spending has gone up every single year that i've been in office. the actions of the administration overseas in the last four years have indicated that the president despite in favor of military interventions but is the clear strategy is to stay away from fighting ground wars and to opt for more hit and run style interventions like the one executed in libya. as for syria the administration indicated that they would like to intervene more actively but for now syria just seems too complicated than washington cannot count on a desirable outcome for us to get more in tangled militarily in syria is

a serious step and we have to do so making absolutely certain that we know who we are helping that we're not putting arms in the hands of folks who eventually could turn them against. us or allies in the region having spent around a billion dollars in this election campaign brock obama is america's commander in chief again. president obama will be sworn into office in january something his supporters are very excited about their hopes and expectations include jobs no more devastating wars and no more financial meltdowns there was a good number of people who voted for barack obama because they were voting against mitt romney's seeing him as more aggressive especially when it comes to foreign policy and seemingly out of touch with middle class america and a lot of people they don't see a choice at all in this election in washington i'm going to check out. scott bolden the former chair of the democratic party from washington d.c. and managing partner reed smith says the election results show one thing that the people demand change from both

a bomber and the republicans the president of the republic the representatives in the house of representatives and the senate their leadership qualities are going to be tested clearly the exit polling said that the voters wanted something to get done in washington and we've been pretty much a stalemate for the last four years i wouldn't say that president barack obama hasn't kept his promises he's been unable to keep his promises he's done his level best i'm not sure given the political makeup of the legislature and the executive any one could have done better but the people want something different and we've got this fiscal cliff there we're looking at regard to tax breaks and and and. other financial issues coming up by the end of the year and it is going to take all parties and the legislature and the executive to work together so we'll see what we've covered the election extensively detailing how the vote went in exposing

reports of election irregularities we recorded the world's response to about his reelection from you for it and your cold disappointment in israel all that and much more nutty. recently protests and demonstrations of any kind were banned until further notice in bus rain a curfew as in you can't go out of your home when the government doesn't want you to has already been in effect in the country since two thousand and eleven many of the protests which are now totally forbidden were related to members of the public demanding the release of political prisoners four people were also recently arrested for insulting the king over twitter wow a middle eastern country that has totally shut down any form of protest and hud's you down if you tweet about the leadership so it's pretty undemocratic to me i

think nato is already fueling up ready to take action and bomb some freedom into warmer eight well not really if nato really cared about spreading democracy you'd think they'd be more consistent with their targets but that's just my opinion. the issue is that so much of it which of course is right on it until you marry because political reform has finally come to an end there was a really a choice to what degree was this campaign season only about.

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thank you. it's so true. here in moscow the news continues now turkey and its allies including the u.s. are reportedly considering stationing patriot missiles along the border with syria reports suggest that nato is preparing to take responsibility for the deployment of the missiles the war activist says this is the first step to a full scale military intervention. these will be news if necessary students we

need in the internal conflict in particular it seems to me that having the patriot missiles is a trade it's all about a no fly zone we've seen the full effects of no fly zones for example in the us for example in iraq where they actually did bring peace to the region i guess they will try to get that u.n. security council but this is a problem that the the u.s. in particular and the european powers had a great deal of trouble with that they haven't been able to get in the emergency which is allowed to go ahead i think now they're all pressing much much stronger and of course we should be aware that there were there is a great deal of precedent in recent history for nato acting outside of the. since of the u.n. security council of course is a strong possibility. a come and went on the rampage in moscow shooting dead five people and severely wounding two bodies lindsey france brings us the latest details

. these storms the office on the fourth floor with a rifle in each hand and began firing bullets that's when two women and three men died two other people are right now being treated in the hospital now according to investigators the suspect says he'd been drinking for five days in a row and then came into the office to carry out the shooting because he was in love with one of his female coworkers who did not return his feelings now before the shooting on his big contact your page which is essentially a russian a a social networking a public to facebook he posted a very violently worded manifesto that was posted at around five this morning the shooting took place just five hours later he used phrases such as i hate human society i hate this very life he talks about human evolution comparing it to a cancer eating away at the body now the worry in all of this at this point is that

this safer strongly copycat crime crimes that the mere mass killings have that have taken place in other countries very definitely of the united states and also the anders breivik case out of norway so really in a country like russia where firearms are so heavily restricted and crime such as this stream really rare and best gaiters do hope that this is not in fact a copycat case and that it does not lead to more like it. the german chancellor is in london for what could be a frosty meeting with britain's prime minister about the e.u.'s budget for twenty thirteen and the merkel hopes to try and talk david cameron out a veto in the budget something the u.k. parliament is urging him to do well joining me now live from brussels we brought you home and the from the united kingdom independence party ukip cameron what do you what do you actually do something as drastic as that is veto a european union budget. well he's in

a seriously tough spot because he's had the vote in westminster which has told him that he can't that he should decrease the budget he's declared that he won't accept more than an inflationary increase so if he now comes back with a deal that is worse than that he will be first of all very embarrassed and secondly he may well have a struggle in getting it through the westminster parliament because they have to vote for it what would be the consequences of a veto some are saying this would be the first step to britain declaring that it could actually leave the european union is that true. well i don't think david cameron would intend it to mean that but i think that a lot of our colleagues in europe would actually see it in that light and frankly from my point of view i'll be delighted if they do but would britain really survive i mean i know you've got a british business background would the u.k. survive without all the trading and all that's involved with the e.u. at this stage well the error is in your question without all the trading there is

no reason to suppose that britain would do any less trade with europe in fact we're already members of efter the free trade area which preceded the european union and if we were to leave the european union we would still be in that free trade area the germans would still want to service b.m.w.'s analogies and mercs and we'd still want to sell them jagger's and leverages now you're there in brussels tell us what with that one hundred billion euros extra funding go to and is it justified. it's not justified the the explanation of the commission is that they have been given many more tarski because they're constantly extending their areas of competence they're doing many things that either shouldn't be done or should be done much more efficiently in structural funds the structural funds so-called could be brought back to the member states the common agricultural policy is hugely wasteful we just heard that the court of orders to us was refused for the eighteenth of the year to

sign off the accounts so the european union is becoming a by word for waste and corruption on the british people don't understand why they have to pay fifty three million pounds a day to be members of this organization but it's not all about waste of corruption surely there's some many valiant things that the e.u. does poorly e.u. states they depend on this sort of financing down a charity project employment government contracts i mean this is something that britain really should be contributing to towards well what may well be that some of the poorest states work on the funding they get from from brussels but of course from a british point of view we are and have been for very many years a net contributor to the e.u. and we're not getting any benefits let's be quite clear there are no benefits of membership that we could not get from a simple free trade arrangement many countries around the world have free trade deals with the european union mexico korea india as a negotiating one they have

a much better deal than we have as members just like to know what your feelings are for the future of the e.u. now a lot of negative talk huge efforts to keep the union together but do you really think it could collapse the eurozone that's what i want to ask you about the eurozone itself what is the future of the euro now the euro zone i think almost inevitably will collapse i mean the core of it may remain together but clearly countries like greece will have to leave because if we go on as we are greece being required. more and more bailouts it'll be coming back every six months saying sorry guys we couldn't manage on the money give us some more money and angle of merkel in germany and the german voter simply will not put up with these constant requests for bailouts it's got to stop somewhere and i can't tell you whether it be this year or next year or maybe twenty fourteen but it cannot survive in my view roger how the thank you so much for your time we really appreciate you joining us live here on r.t. thank you my pleasure thank you. well this is r.t.

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a journey to buy coal can be unique trip of a lifetime and the locals say once you've seen it you'll be coming back again and again. welcome to business so as we reported earlier the american people have reelected barack obama in these times of grim economic realities with the highest unemployment rate of any president we elected since franklin roosevelt in nineteen . i discussed all the economic challenges ahead for mr obama with fina televisor our reisa young and i started by asking why and how was i read that did in

a failing economy. i think to a certain degree it was better the devil you know even though obama is frankly fiscally illiterate the problem was that ultimately mitt romney was an incredibly lucky luster accountability had the incredible potential economic calendar to see but he didn't really show through and therefore people were simply uncertain at the end of the whole position there looked to be some doctor recently that was suggesting that the u.s. economy was improving slightly certainly there has been a buying soonly economy since the nuttier of the first term of obama but overall nobody really got terribly ensues nobody was very confident with either can't do that and that's why you saw barely two percentage point difference between the two when the polls were coming in and ultimately romney had the opportunity to win but he was simply not a strong enough counter to convince the electorate that he was the amount to run the u.s. economy and if we look at the stock market's reaction right now we are looking at considerable losses is if that's the investors are dead.