at nine pm moscow time misery for merkel in portugal the german chancellor is greeted with public anger and blame for your stare at the strangling their country right now it follows mass protests in greece against the cuts demanded by international lenders we've got the latest on this developing news story tonight for you also israel hits military targets in syria in response to mortar shells landing on its territory with spillover from syria's civil war blamed for shattering the decades long truce between the two states again we gauge developments tonight plus more heads roll at the p b c now the news chief and a deputy step aside over the broadcasters botched handling of child abuse claims. and the sex scandal that from to the resignation of the former cia chief results

into a way of suspicion and accusations that the affair is just part of a much bigger political cover up. a very good evening for me kevin zero in this is our top story this hour protests have started in portugal's capital lisbon where chancellor angela merkel's visiting people there playing the german leader for their nation's economic hardships particular to adopt severe austerity measures to receive a bailout worth almost eighty billion euros last year sarah firth reports from the country's capital. political myself being more tolerant of the all star team measures in place the lead in the past in that seventy eight billion year i bet they'll know they won't come here today if the german chancellor angela merkel is

the crowds have turned out to protest against steroids the measures that she's been having of the day when the country's president has a prime minister back in d.c. going to be delivering a supportive message to the very tough was that they've been making but as we said a real difference of opinion from the population here that the government has a very strong popular and political opposition to the matches that they've been trying to tell using portugal on the brink right now than placing the severest budget that they've had in recent times because in te days you're going to see a general strike not just in portugal but also another year raising countries as well where you can see how many heads and out the protests against the austerity message that angle of merkel's been delivering a huge amount of people of those days carrying that data is going to go very much but wanted fibrosis wanted by germany to be that southern european success story

but of course is the recession continues political about twenty third year of recession we've seen the anger against the users their teammate is pretty down thing here in the country and i would join by a crisis for the money that was the winning side and why you turning out to protest today these measures have been killing is due to give us no future it's only the carriage unemployment and misery and the political has always been quite different to countries like greece because it hasn't been that really sort of the big protest movement who is seeing more of that now with very home but people are getting desperate is that calls for harder pressure protest these see it getting more violent in the speech or i hope not but i don't know. the solution goes through that i know i know there's a lot of fine think of dangler merkel why do you think this image anger towards her in particular is one of the conductors of this keeps pushing in our government to

do this so when it's all right there is. the sentiment that you see it was angle and. throughout europe at the moment as countries struggle with the recession i think it's even deeper into that cycle of austerity that people say really checking off any chance of the country's growth. austerity and bailouts have already broken the eurozone beyond repair and the angle of merkel's optimistic messages can change says all of a young leader of the libertarian german party of reason. she does not think that it's working she is not optimistic she is just lying to the people this is what politicians usually do all the life of the people she knows that portugal can never pay back they stopped you cannot avoid bankruptcy. these countries are bankrupt they trust have to declare that matter to the public but they want of course a good to harm to the people and to the country but the harm would be even greater

if you delay to drop out of the euro so better to drop out of the paper money system it does harm there's no way to avoid this paper money collapse goes this way so you can't avoid the harm. coming up italy seeks to settle scores by suing the credit agencies the graded accusing the firms of market but never got the full story that in just a few minutes. next to the syrian conflict continues to break its borders of israel filling the ripple effect the jewish state fired missiles over the border for two consecutive days in response to mortar shells landing in the golan heights what is paul asli is called. a mortar shell landed in an open area near the vicinity of and his lady defense force military base in the occupied golan heights it did not cause any injuries or damage but israel immediately responded and fired shells now according to israeli military sources they did hit

a syrian mobile artillery but we have no more information at this stage in connection with that but certainly the israeli army confirming that there were direct hits taken on the syrian side now the audio has also issued a complaint with the united nations forces in the area they say that any kind of fire into israel from syria will not be tolerated and that israel will deal with this in the harshest terms this is the second straight day that they has been a mortar fired from syria landing in northern israel the first incident saw israel responding with warning shots but what is significantly different today is that we are witnessing direct hits now there has been a truce in place between israel and syria since one thousand nine hundred seventy three and for the better part of the last four decades there has been an easy peace between these two countries but this latest incident certainly is sending alarm

bells and people are significantly worried that the situation could escape having said this is all does not believe that the mortars that landed in israeli territory whoa targeted to wards as well but they're rather they are the by products of the fighting that is happening inside syria between rebel forces and forces loyal to the syrian president bashar assad. will be in charge the gulf states are recognized rebel of coalition as the legitimate representative of the syrian people the body was formed of tomorrow from talks with various opposition factions in qatar's capital of the week and the deal is a result of relentless pressure from the u.s. and its european allies who want to see the current syrian regime toppled belgium germany christianson joins me now. all our lives for more analysis can even chris do you think this newly formed opposition groups got to represent the real interests of the real syrian people hello good evening and no as a matter of fact in my opinion they don't three percent told the will of the syrian

people because if they would send two will of the syrian people they should be active from within syria we have to consider and we have to take into account that we have a syrian political opposition within syria. we have a new constitution in syria we have in your will we have parliamentary elections we will have presidential elections in two thousand and fourteen and we have a lot of it's a multi-party system where for a lot of. political parties active in syria parties close to the government that also opposition parties so there is no reason if you have a political opposition to operate from outside the country ok well they obviously think there is a reason why this new coalition was set up to unite rebel ranks out far as that goal been achieved not good as far as your concern. no i don't think at all that it's a united it's

a united front. we have seen this in many meetings before from the opposition that it's fairly fragmented in all these different groups they have a lot of. inside. they fight inside here for a lot of political differences. yes to to be honest or also we saw this we saw through us a lot of pressure from americans from the british to to have a result in qatar but it doesn't come from their heart it's out of political pressure chris the main thing is to bring peace of course will the formation of this new opposition group get the two sides of the syrians. talking and soon taking in everything you just said a car know what your answer is going to be though i guess. no i think it's clear the syrian government from the beginning of the conflict was willing to sit down on the table in until today until this moment the syrian government.

reached their hands. for two years to be in. to have a conversation with the governor with the opposition but unfortunately it's clear to the opposition it's not really interested to talk to the government the only language they use is language of violence and of. military action enough. let's take a little moment to talk about the ripple effect the broader effects the after a shock of the syrian conflict already reached. lebanon and also israel as we've been reporting what can the syrian army keep its war against the rebels within syrian borders. it's clear that the syrian army and the syrian government has no interest at all to have a conflict with their neighbors this is not what the syrian government once the resource or no strategic interest in expanding the conflict of course what happens

is that every day a lot of terrorists infiltrate the country from within these countries from turkey from lebanon. these terrorists also operate from the golan heights. so when you have. infiltrating when you have a conflict militarized conflict accidents happen but to give you one example a few weeks ago when the turkish government accused the syrian government of launching rockets tool into thirty will now there is no proof that this rockets came from the syrian army. it could hold so have been that these rockets came from the rebels to them solo so no we haven't seen any proof ok chris thanks for the line belgian journalist writer christiansen there joining me live for the latest his latest thoughts there what's been happening thank you. now the b.b.c.

is in a bad way botched journalism false child abuse accusations and revelations of decades of paedophilia is seeing a number of key executives feel the heat right now the broadcasters head of news of the deputy of the latest to step aside just days after the director general quit artie's laura smith as the latest from london. director general george resigned over the weekend saying that it he felt it was the owner of both thing to do but what might not be seen as the honorable thing to do is that he's currently taking all four hundred fifty thousand pounds of his yearly pay packets despite having been in the job only fifty four days and of course much of that fifty four days he spent some would say in effect actually trying to fight these fires to keep on breaking out the b.b.c. and that money will be paid by the taxpayer just the latest thing is these allegations by a man called steve meston who said that he was repeatedly sexually abused as a child by

a senior politician that was reported on the b.b.c.'s flagship current affairs program news night and only all of it was this steve messam showing the first graph of lord mcalpine and he said oh no actually i'm sorry i was mistaken it wasn't him after all and that haven't been enough in itself of of the jimmy savile scandal again newsnight had done an investigation into jimmy savile who was a much loved children's entertainer back when i was growing up which essentially exposed him as a paedophile that program was spiked by b.b.c. leadership they were ordered to drop it at least in part because other parts of the b.b.c. were preparing a programme that said how wonderful jimmy savile was can of course it's not just news that the b.b.c. does they do a range of programs nature documentaries it's. so it has been a much loved it loved institution and people hope i think that this change of management will will make that be so again let's have a listen to what they say i still follow b.b.c.

news and business and yeah i still just as easy said we wouldn't deter me from using b.b.c. is an easy thing you see a g.p. i mean it's something that really is the unfortunate you can't control the child i was asian. so i still trust me the more you put into. google to free. war on the police the b.b.c. over a number of years has made a series of blunders and been involved in a number of decisions which have shown somewhat poor judgment. to do with the reporting of the conflicts in the middle east and also an incident surrounding syria where the b.b.c. used to photograph that was taken in iraq in two thousand and three but used it to illustrate a massacre in the syrian city of houla and there was also back in two thousand and three a very serious instant where b.b.c. journalist revealed to david kelly was the source for his report that the government had sex jobs the dossier on the weapons of mass destruction in iraq

which of course led to the invasion of iraq. after being outed in that way was subsequently found dead again in the wake of that the director general resigned but this is this is an erosion of trust really that's been going back for some years. how is not so sweet for many u.k. citizens these days who are still focusing on the u.k. since last we find out why more and more skilled workers are searching for better lives abroad and that could leave britain scrambling for professionals tough to break. it sounds like a dragon crashing through the forest but it is in fact technology versus trees and would you believe it this machine can fail and strip hundreds of them each day when building this facility we wanted to use advanced technology that would increase

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over the extramarital affair which forced the cia chief to quit a few days ago politicians said that david petraeus his resignation might a lightning bolt so now they want to know how much national security was compromised one no one told them soon or more from a washington correspondent. and headlines came out saying the f.b.i. spied on the cia director many saw certain irony in that phrase and it raise a lot of questions the head of the f.b.i. is the nation's spy number one right but then all these anonymous f.b.i. officials came out and said you know general petraeus himself was not the subject of their investigation that they were looking into her arrest and delegations of one woman against another and that one woman who allegedly said arresting a male for another woman turned out to be general petraeus is over for slash mistress so the f.b.i. basically said they stumbled upon the cia director and learned about his affair with this biographer during the course of their own separate investigation and of course are all kinds of theories emerging mostly referring to the iranian

revelation to you all right after the election and some argue there was one or two of his resignation then the public is allowed to know lots of speculation but also listening to the pundits here politicians mainstream media journalists one could say. general petraeus says fall from grace came as a shock to many because of how he was worshiped as the commander of forces in iraq and afghanistan he's officially referred to as the man who turned the tide in the afghan war but if you listen to all the experts of get this that is a mess but the message that the general has risk the mission there it kind of sunk it and general petraeus was idolised the media had to go through the public rather had to go through a similar trauma with the other of dentist and general who was also idolised many ways general stanley mcchrystal he fell from grace and resigned when the rolling stone magazine quoted him saying unflattering things about the administration so the careers of the afghan wars two biggest names have ended abruptly and

shockingly to many the media here of course were all over the portray a scandal when they learned that there was another woman involved it got them spending all over again we heard discussions about how the level of to stop in effect a man's judgment and all those images of this woman the mistress or they were all over the place and she happens to be quite a beautiful woman i mean in my judgment in general petraeus is judgment as well apparently the media have savored every detail of this story one thing that was said it actually said to watch with actually is what the agency and i mean the cia is doing doesn't get that much coverage things like how they pick targets with this targeted assassinations program things that the public should want to know it's national security secret but when it comes to the director's bedroom all of a sudden everybody wants to know london media here are there to question every detail of this supposed love triangle as far as say collateral damage from drone

strikes not as interesting. if. this is a much bigger political picture going on behind the scenes here. the question has to be why this scandal is emerging now why is it is embroiled in general petraeus and what information did he have that would potentially have been interesting to people who would have been interested in bringing him down and this actually we can start to see some of the pieces of this puzzle emerging as it becomes clearer now that that there is the indication that he will not be testifying in upcoming congressional hearings into what happened in benghazi in september and because of that some key information about what happened in benghazi might not come to light including some interesting information that just emerged in recently that in fact last month general petraeus is alleged mistress of broadwell who was going around giving speeches about how the cia annex in benghazi was being used as

a secret prison which is why it was why it was attacked in september. it's really striking a slew of grazers centers borrowing costs skyrocketing and its financial reputation in tatters prosecutors that are now seeking trial for seven officials from standard and poor's and fitch two of the three big credit rating agencies they say the firms cause havoc to the italian economy t.j. . says the lawsuit shows a healthy judicial system. easily was in the midst of major. sovereign debt and these agencies get to the nation's why the market was the there for these screens is the palace of the markets about the italians that we have seen as decisions for greece i mean the greece went through and obliques over and through before it collapsed and. totally and.

indeed it was similar to what easily worked through the nation states issues is the is still there is the independent the. global governance system that the in reaching agencies are trying to impose. britain's brain drain could soon leave the country desperately short of skilled workers that's according to a recent report suggesting that number of professionals chasing work abroad is sought in the past two decades his political looks and why for u.k. citizens home is no longer where the work is. one of the global financial sense says it was even voted the best place to visit only won it last year but it looks like fewer people want to actually live in britain the u.k. home office has just released her of course that says that an increasing number of

executives scientists and academics are choosing to leave britain last year alone some one hundred fifty thousand cases and emigrated over steve and now some five million brits live abroad and don't blame the unpredictable weather or the local cuisine experts now say that it's the high rate of taxation and the cost of living that could drive even more brits to move abroad people with a motor of the economy or people with a lot of property of approach with an education perhaps with ambition as well we need to keep them in the country you have to face a life of living in london on a very small gross wage maybe even smaller by taxation to a net wage that's that which we fail as a country and perhaps some sort of system of graduated tax allowances might help us cope perhaps most alarming for the politicians who office findings that the majority of the people that opt out of the think you take rat race do so out of an

overall lifestyle choice signalling and discontent with living standards here in britain that's not what. we call in national government is hoping for me consider moving abroad to avoid big government slacking off and taking away the good things from the people that think a little bit more even though it's through hard work and dedication over here is that he work until you drop that they don't want to reward us so what's the point of continuing companies are already complaining that they find it hard to find highly skilled. no foreigners to work in the u.k. because of the u.k. government's current one migration in order to cut immigration into the country now the growing number of young ambitious brits popping that by might leave the british government wondering where all the professionals have gone. going to rush the great programs lined up on r t for you for the new season the next then brand new

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