the syrian rebels have ducked for un peacekeepers in the golan heights and say it's for their own safety. that comes as america's top diplomat visits russia in an attempt to bridge the divide over syria with. the u.s. bloodshed. radioactive materials and. locations across the country that could pose a terrorist threat in the role of. the leaders of israel and palestine is beijing's growing economic and political clout spreads to the middle east our top stories.

international news and comment live from a studio center here in moscow. the syrian rebels have abducted four un peacekeepers patrolling the separation zone between syria and israel members of the . brigade posted this picture online claiming they're holding the peacekeepers for their own safety after clashes in the area it's the second time in two months that . i've been taken captive by the rebels steinberg editor of executive intelligence review magazine says it sends a worrying signal to the rebels foreign backers. the rebels are actually terrorists much of the rebel force particularly in the north of syria is made up of people who are overtly associated with al qaida and these are the dominant fighting forces inside syria at this point that's

a terrible embarrassment for the obama administration right at this moment and of course for people like senator john mccain and senator lindsey graham who have been demanding u.s. military action in support of the rebels well the u.s. is considering the opposition regardless of the time takes a bill is being circulated around congress the idea is staunchly opposed by russia who was repeatedly warned against pouring more weapons into the conflict is just one of the differences the u.s. secular state is trying to bridge during talks with the russian leadership in moscow ortiz alexina cesky is following the negotiations. it is understood that kerry came here to moscow to see russia supported resolving the syrian conflict indeed he already set up to meeting the russian president that russia and the united states have a similar viewpoint on the syrian conflict but experts are at a dismay as to how exactly he may get that support because there are fundamental

differences in how both washington and moscow see the resolution of the syrian conflict at the moment in particular russia has been strongly coming up against the militarization of the syrian rebels something which is now being discussed across the atlantic and russia has been saying that this is never contributing to a peaceful resolution of the war in the region another sticking point here another bone of contention is the use of chemical weapon ok michael weapons in syria which is allegedly used by the government troops russia says that this has never been proved and the fact which never been proved did not serve as an excuse for a possible military intervention or anything of the sort it is really hard to say whether kerry has been trying to relay official washington's position here in moscow or try to log the the initiative which is now being discussed the united states to provide military support for the syrian rebels but we are expecting more comments from the u.s.

state secretary after he meets the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov. will join me now live as r.t. contributor afshin return see in london afshin the talks between putin and john kerry they've been going on for hours now how likely do you think it is that they would reach a consensus over syria. very unlikely if it wasn't seventy thousand dead and how many millions of refugees created it would almost be funny if the leaks coming out of moscow a true and kerry is saying the united states' interest say to send to the to me a good hint that they have common interests they both promote regional stability prevent the spread of extremism is difficult and what russian president vladimir putin can possibly say to the u.s. secretary of state because we all know most of the world knows that the major powers have been doing exactly the opposite not promoting regional stability and helping the spread of extremism how have they managed to talk through these hours

unless presumably mr putin is explaining to john kerry that the only way to prevent extremism is to stop nato backing the rebels in syria if it an agreement really is not likely what you think john kerry's here in the first place. it is i suppose interesting that john kerry has bothered to appear in moscow at all the united states is shown itself to be incredibly weak as regards what's happening in syria and a lot of subterfuge going on i know that in britain when the report about chemical weapons the u.n. report came out that the mainstream media here have all been following a drumbeats narrative that basically it's very important to britain supports the rebels even their own journalists were caught off guard no one knew how to report the idea that british backed rebels were using chemical weapons so john kerry must be going there to try and explain himself and perhaps persuade mr putin that they

aren't supplying the chemical weapons as they have of course to people in the middle east before notably saddam hussein because weapons of mass destruction to their client state israel what would john kerry be saying about the latest news concerning those u.n. peacekeepers being abducted by rebels doesn't that undermine the u.s. is support of the syrian opposition. if only the united states people realize that presumably john kerry will have to be telling mr putin you see the martyrs of yarmuk order they call themselves even as they kidnapped twenty one un observers in march and as they have given up for more filipinos i've been to the golan heights and it is emblematic of u.s. backed zionist policy in that region and it's manic to arabs right through the arab world as a disaster zone and the broken churches that i saw still today in the golan heights on the syrian side and the green fields on the other side it's very

difficult how john kerry or be able to explain what to do presumably trying to put pressure on islam is friends but there but i think the key here is the american public needs to know that their government is supporting the defacto supporters or at least those very close to those who would have supported the nine eleven attacks and what we want now really is the american people to start writing to their congressman and say the united states must stop supporting these rebels because this is not going to benefit anyone in the middle east or the united states and only chemical weapons question the u.s. is insisting that those chemical weapons could only be in the hands of the assad regime and only used by the government why are they so sure about why why are they taking that attitude over the chemical weapons issue. here the mainstream media on all channels was so quick to criticize del ponte and say she doesn't know what she's talking about the un this is

a human rights commission report they're not weapons inspectors how i've never heard of a un report being so cost into the rubbish dump even before by reporters so as to why the united states government and us press secretaries in washington as a quick i think it's obvious that they are scared but presumably the mainstream media will bury this information and it will get all in tangled up in the public imagine. continue to create the impression in the minds of people in nato countries the publics that president assad used chemical weapons and w m d i think it was recently reported that one great middle east correspondent was saying he was dining with a syrian commander who said we have made jets why would we need to use chemical weapons and of course we now hear that the colin powells the former u.s. defense secretary under george w. bush his policy adviser saying this is an israeli false flag operation the word

false flag usually conspiracy theorists know this is the former u.s. defense secretary's man for all those years saying this could be an israeli false flag so presumably the united states somehow involving themselves in a false flag operation was r.t. contributor commentator afshin rattansi live in london thanks very much indeed for that. britain is under pressure to put toward you controls on its radioactive materials after its emerged that hazardous substances have gone missing in numerous make asians over the last decade manufacturing industries nuclear reactors and even schools are implicated in the list obtained by r.t. from the health and safety authority some of the material volatile enough to be sought by terrorists on the surface reports this is the university. had been using a radioactive and often very dangerous materials how did in some cases mislaid even

a list of materials now we've been going through the documentation did a good copy of it here with me now and what's incredible about that is that this isn't just one or two incidents this is happened more than thirty times over the last decade three feet things like that pleated uranium you've got one three seven one of the incidents before the well i mean hospital names that it. cesium one three five and it had gone missing and that being the. the treatment of a cancer patient and if you look at what actually said the squire being that material it had the potential to cause significant radiation into ether anyone handling it or even in directly coming in contact with it for a short period of time just getting down the list and you've got a veritable who's who of big names in british industry. darby that have been creating the reactors for britain's nucleus of that was found all these incidents have been prosecuted well some of the firms have been prosecuted many of

the instance on here have actually seen the use involved in the culprits get away with little more than a with a warning you consultant john large explains how easy it would be for terrorists to use some of the late materials well if you take one one substance for example was cesium and yet you and those two materials what you need to do this if you was a terrorist you had evil intent then all you need to do is to ignite burn or detonate a conventional explosive packed near that material to disperse it as a fine but a part in the air and that makes it responsible it makes it comes a contaminant so for example the scenario a scenario in a city would be to actually explode or burn this material at a high level say in the tower block or say in a city like moscow to actually burn it on the metro system on the tube system and

let the trains roam the radioactive atmosphere around the metro system and that would be very very difficult to decontaminate and control because the gas would be pumped around by the trains going through the tunnels into each station. the life here in moscow still ahead for you a noble way to use cutlery young prisoner shows the spoon is more than just an eating utensil just a few moments find out how he borrowed his way out of jail. peddling influence a new form of tourism lifts the veil on health industry gets its way with the german government on how the business lobby pushes its agenda later in the program . but first china is hosting the leaders of both palestine and israel as the asian giant looks to boost its influence in the middle east for israel beijing is its a largest trading partner in asia and prime minister benjamin netanyahu wants to do more business but diplomatically beijing leans very much towards israel's arch

rival palestine the day before netanyahu is a rival palestinian leader mahmoud abbas was given full state honors reading in beijing president xi jinping went on to offer a four point peace plan calling for an end to the gaza blockade and the restoration of palestinian rights party's policy reports on the rush to the east. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the palestinian president mahmoud abbas are currently in china they're there on a week long business trip but obviously they won't just be talking business they'll be talking politics and they'll be trying to further cooperate and entrenched relations in the fields of economy trade and science and also develop political trust for some time we have witnessed our china is trying to influence the middle east and play a bigger role in this part of the world if you look at israeli chinese relations in one thousand nine hundred two the two countries began and established diplomatic relations and since then they have developed increasingly close commercial military

and strategic links trade between the two countries currently stands at around ten billion dollars a year their investments in israel are at the beginning i believe they have a number of reasons why the. investor why they don't invest in israel. i think they think also in large political terms they think is very simple country they want to have a foothold here. but we also noticed that china else china has always supported the arab side in the conflict at least burbling. but you notice that in the last in the recent past they have become a maybe a little bit more hesitant. maybe they will get something back from the arab side what is particularly interesting when we look at the relationship between israel and china is that it seems to be coming on the back of a cooling of the relationship between israel and the united states there's no

secret that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the american president barack obama do not like each other and obviously netanyahu is going to look around in the search for new partners one of whom could easily become china if you take note of how china is getting more and more powerful of how the world is becoming more multi-polar then it is clear that there is no room for ignoring a world power such as china if you look at the euro crisis where did countries go in terms of asking for help china if you look at the north korea crisis where did countries go they ask china for help and now netanyahu is in china at a particularly sensitive time in terms of israeli syrian relations many people are asking why he did not cancel his trip to go there and in fact what role the recent syrian israeli flare up will have in terms of the agenda that is being addressed there china has always had a firm position toward syria and it has always been on the side of negotiations

never did it support the bloodshed from either side of the conflict so it will be interesting to see what comes out of if anything israeli chinese discussions over the situation in syria. will be back with more international news shortly after this break this is all loving mosca. wealthy british. tight. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with. the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser report.

continues here on l.t. and the alleged assassin has escaped from a detention center in reportedly with the help of a spoon well let's get the details of exactly what happened from. according to

prison sources thirty three year old pile of somehow managed to dig out of the top of the ceiling of his cell get out onto the roof of this notoriously high security prison over the fence and away he is not a petty criminal he is charged with a double murder and with illegal arms trafficking the guards at the prison service say that it's most likely he really could only have used a spoon to dig out of that cell because this is the cells of regularly checked for other implements for that very purpose at the moment there is a manhunt underway to try and find mr pile of and also an investigation to look into possible negligence by guards just last year a very high profile almost hollywood escape from a prison a remote prison in russia where accomplices hijacked a helicopter and managed to use that to lift the said inmate out of the prison he was later caught there are other examples as well across the world just last

month a very notorious french armed robber took the guards hostage inside a french prison and then used explosives to blow the doors off and then escape himself and of course we can't end without mentioning nine hundred sixty two alcatraz and what were the the tools of choice there to escape of course the humble spoon. now just as scientists claim they're close to creating a vaccine for hiv it appears there could be another disaster on its way toward a superbug spreading across the globe which many say is drug resistant. called for more details on the infection some fear could be even worse than aids. also that hacker turned to kim dotcom threatens to sue new zealand's foreign intelligence agency for spying on him the government is undeterred and is pushing

for greater powers to snoop on his residence. it's day ninety one of the guantanamo bay hunger strike one hundred inmates are refusing food in protest against inhumane treatment at the hands of the u.s. military twenty four being force fed a procedure that lawyers have condemned as brutal david remes who represents seventeen guantanamo inmates told us what is motivating them. but the two are being force that have energy and focus as you would imagine the others who are. hunger striking are weak find it difficult to focus they can manage but it's difficult they all of them have lost a considerable amount of weight eight. hundred forty five pounds and sixty pounds and it's really a horrifying situation they shouldn't have to do this to get and kind of the american public and they shouldn't have to do this in order to cry out for their release the commander of the joint detention group he's effectively the warden of

the. prison for the detainees has refused to talk to them until they stop their hunger strike i have to say that it's sort of a macho pose on his parts he's just not going to flame first he could have solved his hunger strike within three or four days if he had sat down with them and talked with them about their concerns and found a pragmatic solution that's what is practical. yet after three months he has not been willing to discuss the matter after all this rate i'm afraid that some men made dot. because the military just isn't paying attention what it's trying to do is break the hunger strike by any means possible however for a little. and he's been following the strike from the outset and we've got the full time line on our website for you at the moment there you can find out just how much

taxpayer the shelling out to keep guantanamo running and why the scandal ridden facility is still in business. some other stories making headlines around the world in our world update starting with mexico where a gas tanker explosion has killed at least twenty people and left dozens injured a huge piece of the gas tank was blown one hundred meters by the force of the blast and landed on a health partly destroying it and cars hundreds of police firefighters and paramedics are at the scene and it's feared the death toll could rise. in pakistan more people have been killed in a wave of attacks ahead of the country's general elections the latest target was a pakistan people's party rally six died there and dozens more injured on tuesday an explosion killed at least at a gathering of a proton a party in a hang. afghanistan over one hundred candidates and party workers have now died the taliban has claimed responsibility for most of the attacks.

libya's defense minister has withdrawn his resignation hours after saying he would quit in protest against an ongoing siege of state ministries. accuse the surrounding ministries and tripoli of assaulting the country's democracy the protesters remain in place even though the authorities have given into their main demand that former gadhafi regime officials be barred from government posts. also this hour a volcanic eruption in the philippines has killed at least five people and injured seven others a group of german climbers and they guide were hit by falling rocks after an ash blast on mount mayon volcano is the most active in the southeast asian nation erupting roughly once a decade. out of the may ninth victory day parade thousands of troops and military machines took part in a major reversal in the heart of moscow eleven thousand soldiers along with one

hundred tanks and dozens of other vehicles were involved a fly over saw fighter jet supersonic strategic bombers and other planes thundering over red square i mean celebrations real thursday when russia marks the sixty eighth anniversary of the soviet union's victory over nazi germany and will be providing live coverage starting at six am g.m.t. . frugal times in europe of course a surge of public interest in how governments are spending taxpayers' money and who's pulling the strings behind the big decisions some enterprising german tour guides are now offering visitors to but in the chance to catch a behind the scenes glimpse of how business is the government reports on the murky relationship between promise and politics. on the streets of berlin there's a new form of tourism grabbing attention sightseeing tours that show just how the political lobbying process works. everyone gather around their big green i

just want to make sure everyone can hear within a couple of kilometers we take in how an issue goes from the desk of the lobby organization to the ear of a politician and it's opening. i didn't know how powerful the industry is it's interesting to see how they go about pushing their agenda but why are these people giving up their saturday afternoon to traipse around closed office buildings it's a topic that you don't get much information on. easily and i thought also think it's a topic that's very abstract but we manage to. make it more concrete we give a lot of concrete examples on the door and we go to where the lobbyists are and i think that's what makes it attractive to take the tour and you going to see where germany's auto giants make their presence felt and how they made sure the country's highways famously have no speed limits and since this is germany of course the beer industry also has a say. brewery lobby were facing

a drop off in sales so this is where they lobbied to be allowed lemonade tasting better to attract a younger crowd of. people with money have more of a say in politics than the normal man in the street was what i'm seeing is that political decisions are made by the rich one of the most interesting parts of the tour is getting to see where the closed door meetings take place and highly selective private clubs these are clips. we all know these discussions take place this tour like to see just where they happened i had no idea that there was such a place as the china club but right here in the political center of the city the popularity of tours like the one we've just seen shows that more and more german. i want to find out exactly who is pulling the strings behind some of the major decisions they get taken in parliament peter all of a r t. the end of president vladimir putin's first year in office has been marked

by vladimir putin vladimir putin and vladimir putin dozens of putin's have gathered in moscow to play a game which involves the kind of challenges a president might face on a daily basis one of them involve tracking down a corrupt official and capturing video footage of him taking a bride over some of the players admitted look bid to host the olympic games reports of the real push it was actually among those taking part couldn't be confirmed. i didn't recognize him there time now for business with katie she's joining us here in the studio i don't believe you got some positive news for us once you got markets are really on the rise there on the out there going north are actually global markets rising at the moment actually and why we don't actually know because you look at the economies are not typically well you know they're wanting to be growth that employment is still a big challenge so that is exactly the question we're asking the business but i said why is it a bubble is it and what does it all mean so we'll have analysis coming up after the break thanks very much.

and yet another step along the pointless anti gender crusade activists in sweden are pushing to promote a new gender neutral pronoun these activists want the term hen to replace the pronouns han and han which mean he and she respectively i think the logic of these bizarre gender neutral movements in the e.u. is that they really feel that it's awful to force someone into a role that doesn't fit them you know i can kind of see this i remember back to when i was a boy in school and with me there was a kid what kind of only female friends and he certainly wasn't a sports a toy trucks kind of kid if you understand what i mean you know i could see this guy having all those male stereotypes shoved down his throat you know made his life at school really unpleasant but the wacko e.u. liberal answer to some tiny amount of people being pushed into gender roles they don't like is to force everyone else into

a genderless world they don't like fantastic i guess gender neutrality advocates can speak swedish how they like and they're free to use this word hen but don't force everyone in the country to do things your way the overwhelming majority of the world is very happy with its gender thank you very much but that's just my opinion. of a man us in business had. in most cases all can see. now in these times of economic . growth global says on the ng five year highs this is sound strange you would

think global eczema. it would rise together well apparently not now the m s c i will index which has the charts forty five countries. two thousand and eight highs in asia in europe the germany's dax recent all time high a us stocks continue to experience pre-crisis highs in the footsie in london is just a couple of percentage points of joining the party but the concern is how much of these gains are actually dependent on said stimulus as exactly what i asked mike ingram from b g c partners today the hyperactivity of global central banks is a major driver for equity markets and to some extent some of the areas of the of the bond markets like the yield there's no doubt that these markets will be in a very different place where central banks not flooding the market with liquidity with kiwi. interest rates a mike this can't go on forever can it so what happens when the taps get turned off

well i have to say there's no sign of towns being is turned off any time soon and talk from the fed. of tapering kiwi seems to die down completely however you'd have to say that any withdrawal from this cheap cash is going to be painful you know low interest rate money q e it's like a drug for markets and their withdrawal symptoms are going to be pretty vicious when they come we just pick up on that why and do you think that will happen why do you just see if it ever does and what will be the implications when the company actually picks up in a sustainable fashion that will see the prospects for withdrawal and all the problems that might be associated with it but at the moment you know the u.s. is going through a soft patch japan's only started down this road and you know eurozone is still very much in the doldrums so i would say we're talking about at least a couple of years off before this is a realistic prospect and let's talk

a. inflation there because with all of the liquidity be. injected into the markets how do you see inflation playing out if you look at longer term inflation expectations is the sort of thing that central bankers pay a lot of attention to you'll find that actually inflation expectations are only really coming off the recent you know two three year highs so in fact they've got a lot less wriggle room than the headline numbers would actually suggest and clearly this is the sort of thing that the fed was concerned about when they were talking about a possible draw from q.e. a month or so ago and is the central banks. is our strategy the right do you think that all this quiddity is the right way forward or is it simply the only choice that they have at the moment or should they be taking the tougher decisions now in order to make the future of the debt less of a problem in the century old at the end of the day a lot of people who are holding. investments actually like investors are not going

to be getting their money back and yes you have to say that in the cases we better some of these countries just face there got it over with and moved on. let's take a look at the markets now as you can see demonstrate on the screen they are indeed rising with the dow jones about fifteen thousand for the second time this week actually it's all central banks and chatting about it and also better than expected earnings from the likes of direct t.v. and fossil as well as other market news as well want to mention that there's been a surprise rate of straight is buying k. in japan reached a five year high as well it's all going on let's see what your got up to that as for the footsie alarms and the sun has been shining my mom tells me so things are looking positive the weekend press in the u.k. as well was full of good news stories about businesses relocating to tax for the u.k. sure leading the charge today with a b c before frogs. market was assisted by the rise of industrial orders

i would imagine two point two percent up in march the rush of office have a look there also jumping on the rally she. made holidays here are not harming matters the r.c.s. the my six finishing the day up into positive territory around one another for the r.t.s. around one in the course of the my sex let's see how the russian ruble got on there as she finished up mix it's actually hard against the us dollar today and lower against the common currency ok let's move on. and it's about the may of putin's anniversary one year ago today the russian president was sworn in for a third term natasha she lets go talks us through his achievements and is challenging. over the past cheer putin faced many challenges he had

during his meeting with the cabinet on tuesday he said he was satisfied with the year's results pensions wages and birth rates are all op twelve percent of g.d.p. russia's public debt is one of the lowest in the world and his budget the ceo's balance the unemployment rate is relatively low at just under six percent yet the president is worried about the mounting signs of an economic slowdown in fact putin is now dealing with the weakest economy has ever seen in his twelve years in the problem that's a stark contrast to his first two terms in office when the economy doubled with an annual expansion averaging about seven percent he's well aware of the fact that something needs to be done urgently. but but he might use good we need to boost growth rates and increase economic activity as soon as possible and we shouldn't be satisfied with cosmetic superficial measures we can work much for instance when it

comes to stimulating business activity. indeed this activity is fading fast according to the recent polls just two percent of the adult population wants to launch its own business the numbers are pretty stubborn and they paint a gloomy picture europe's recession coupled with a global slowdown brought russia's overall growth rates down sharply when he returned to the office a year ago putin said the goal of a five percent annual growth russia will be lucky if it sees half of that two and a half percent this year energy exports are down oil prices are about fifteen percent lower this month than they were nay of last year and that of course means a lower budget revenues the industrial output was flying in the first quarter the weakening ruble makes exports more expensive and that in turn boosts the inflation it was seven percent year on year in march. much higher than the central bank's

target range of five to six percent but in the end the fate of russia's two trillion dollar economy depends not only on the concern for the country's president has and his team but also on the state of the global economy and some of its crippling affects are pretty hard to withstand. so for me for now back in the us in two hours time next artie's sits down with the greek government to speak or to discuss the fight against austerity. yes super super super super great if he's alive there's been a new yeah yeah. so

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coming in two thousand and twelve and the mountainous here for greece and for the euro zone your country managed to keep the your and fears of the country's immediate bankruptcy have receded is greece over the worst of it greece is over the worst of it but it's not over yet we still have things to do. our first back to our government came to power in june and the climate was a very very negative i would say we were with. practically out of the eurozone but we managed to win the first battle the battle for the euro zone now is the second battle the battle against unemployment because employment in greece has risen to levels nobody could imagine twenty seven percent among

all of creation sixty percent among young people. because in the beginning it was only austerity asperity and nothing else. that didn't work that's why we have the force to get over session that's why unemployment rose to those levels now . the new program has policies for development. and these tools we are using them to create jobs in any case greek economy desperately needs new clean money clean i mean not by loans and this can be achieved and two ways. by. exports of venting our exports and by attracting investments in both of these ways russia is an ideal partner and that's the reason that

here in russia we presented for the first. the new investment law in greece this tell us a little bit more about that investment. well i'll tell you two things that are quite significant on the high level. we have the fast track procedure high level i mean big investments we have the hype of a fast track procedure which is that means that practically whoever invests more than fifty million euros in greece or world we will take the investor by the hand and guide him to the fulfilment of his investment we have made certain procedures that for example or permissions all necessary permissions will be by one service they won't have to go through this marathon labyrinth of the service to get permissions this bureaucratic. it's an easier procedure were battling

bureaucracy we're simplifying things something else in the low level something that i believe will be attractive and attractive idea for many russians is that we will have any russian that buys a house in greece. up above a certain level which i believe will be around two hundred thousand euros he and his family have. a visa a five year visa will which will be renewed if he keeps that house well as i can see greece is moving towards. closer. stronger relations with russia but not everybody is happy we know that greece expected to raise fifty billion euros in privatization among other things as sallie natural gas assets and there are media reports suggesting that u.s. and european authorities are advising greek authorities know not to sell it to

those sort of things we are going to do good carry on the procedure as it has been planned the best offer wins and we welcome the russian proposals the russian companies that are entering that have been to the procedure as as far. i know they have very good proposals its two main factors that are important the sum of money that is offered but also the gas plan because you can understand especially for an economy which wants to get out of a crisis we want the cheapest possible energy for the next five to ten years but did your government receive any sign any advice from western authorities or not you know the only advice came from articles in newspapers well i'm also a journalist and i know how some articles appear it's just media speculation on the best man wins the best offer in our case ok so as i understand it all sounds

like no more austerity for greece is that correct we can't stand the greeks have sacrificed very much the average income of the greek has fallen by thirty percent you know how much more. development would desperate for for oxygen because we were in a downward spiral we managed to stop it and by summer we will have to rise again and this year will be the first year after many many years that greece will have a primary surplus and i believe it's something like thirty years that we haven't achieved that so we're doing things right it's hard. and we must help the soonest possible those categories for example open sions that need

help even at the time when when euro zone was created back in at the end of one nine hundred ninety s. helmut kohl and the german chancellor ignored signs and the fact and experts have been saying that pointed that out for him that italy was not ready to join the euro zone he was very well informed and very well aware of the fact of the special reset this country and the succession may pose to the euro and two years later same happened with greece it was accepted but it wasn't actually ready as experts were saying why at that time countries like italy like greece were so forcefully dragging things. well it was the european dream then the very you have to look for also other responsibilities who. is in

the monetary union. to come over to political how was that possible what i did with the two most compelling responsibility goes of brussels. to the whole of the european union. no the european union is facing a major challenge it must train and it must be taught by the mistakes of the past. but. and who we really want to be optimistic we believe that europe will change in the correct direction but mistakes were made and you're absolutely right that well anyway when we stop making them. well you have to ask you know and to whoa wait a few politicians about that but will anybody ever hold any responsibility for those mistakes because the consequences are very tough and ordinary people are

suffering they don't see. consequences what the human consequences the crisis across office quinces for somebody that made money out of this yes there will be consequences for somebody that this side that wrongly poorly what kind of consequences i believe the biggest punishment for a politician especially a leader is what history writes what other consequences put them in prison if we had that the political union along with the monetary union we wouldn't have arrived at this point if before lending the money we were checking better we wouldn't have arrived at this point if we had no we wouldn't have done what happened but with if you don't solve problems

what is most urgent for us is to make think that are for the people and still greek society is united how how you feel it isn't bad enough of course listen it is a very difficult period it is a period that. you know unemployment is the best way for extremists. that's why you so if you see the rise of the neo fascists that's why you see the rise of the the political violence that's why you see from the. extremists. leftists to carrying out acts of violence it's the longstanding phenomenon oil spilling on no it isn't a longstanding phenomenon and that i believe that as soon as we manage to battle unemployment we will start we will see political violence. slowing

down and you will see the rise of the neo fascists and the. and you will you will see if it is the standard the desperation is the worst council. so we must bring back hope people are striking throughout greece from time to time and your government has at least twice already threatened to arrest striking workers and some may say that we don't enter believes don't arrest striking workers no i said threatened to arrest those people back to work i know there is a procedure in the greek legal system that in certain occasions allows the government to order people to work for example when you have a strike of well paid people that don't with salaries over three thousand euros per month when. most greeks are making ends meet with one thousand and less.

and they say they are striking and paralyzing the whole sitting a group of a few hundred people so that they won't lose their privileges then yes the government must force them to work and that's what we did we didn't arrest anybody we didn't threaten anybody we enforced the law. nobody can keep a society hostage that's what we said and that's what we did i can hear it i can feel that you are talking with a. huge respect about your european partners but there is a scorn coming from some german politicians and german media in relation to morden day greece is creased right now happy to live in in this kind of common european. list see what kind of european home we make because. europe

has to change let's see the direction but right now are you happy right now listen there what they expressed our partners express their solidarity last november we were offered help in conditions that are the best in europe and possibly the best in the world finally they showed their solidarity well we must do our job and we believe that this year by the end of this year we will be on the rise and everybody will know that we're on the right track thank you very much for this interview and i hope the mistakes you are going to make that you promised will not have serious consequences i hope our next thing to be will be in greece and you will have a business that's never going to see the results so you have an open invitation thank you very much.

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