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business new e.u. rules could hold up progress for gazprom south stream project will bring you the full story in business and around twenty minutes time. as one pm the russian capital you're watching r.t.i. marina joshie at least two deaths and dozens hospitalized for casters in georgia have found out the hard way why they shouldn't speak out against their leadership police showed little restraint in a crackdown on crowds who turned out for what's been called georgia's day of rage demanding that president saakashvili resign sarah ferguson is gauging the mood into the sea for our team. well certainly this morning after the scenes of violence that we saw break out last night as the police violently dispersed the crowd of

protesters extremely quick for the police to break up that cloud we saw a lot of arrests being made even after the crowds. in the main area they were still pulling people out pleading from some of the buildings and hanging past a lot of all people carrying some quite significant injuries that we saw so really very shocking indeed we can show you a bit more now from these events because we were that the same as the violence some photos. it was held by the opposition as the day that would determine george's future instead as the protest ended ousting president saakashvili ended in violence and bloodshed a huge pools of riot police moved in on the crowd just minutes after midnight on judges day independence. day can right at the end that. was exactly right was the crowd out in the middle of the maybe we got police cars

and that in the background here we got one on the other side of the face of the earth around it as the police closed in water cannons were fired into the crowd rubber bullets and gas followed seriously injuring both demonstrators and journalists a police officer this killed when he was run over by a car and a protester died in front of the parliament building the scenes of violence all the more shocking given that many of those involved were of an older generation. we were standing peacefully were right police on to the ground and started beating me my relatives also suffered they smashed one of my friend's face and left another one on mobile to stand. you can see from my face the kind of force they used and i think god i'm even alive these people don't value human life it had been dubbed the silver revolution due to the older crowd they turned out demonstrating

against lay pensions and rising food prices so five days they help each will outside the main t.v. building in tbilisi before taking their protest to the main parliament's. high initial numbers of protesters at the weekend after disputes among the opposition parties and. police they were led through the streets on wednesday the crowds once again turned out the police to use force. through touche. demonstrators were vastly outnumbered and witnesses to the name then the two thousand and seven protests in which six hundred were injured say that this time around police presence was even greater and the force they used just as the questions are already being asked about whether the scale of force used was justifiable and many were arrested and many more injured

the degree on the streets in remnants of the violent clash. they set up their main fan from which the leaders of the opposition gave me a question as they earlier on just before the fighting broke out was saying she would maybe be holding negotiations that didn't happen they wanted out if that's the price and then how it started and things the violent surface r.t. . our full coverage of the developing situation in georgia is online right now at r.t. dot com we've gotten in this video is an analysis as police round of demonstrators demanding president saakashvili his resignation there's always artie's twitter stream and facebook which will keep you updated as events unfold.

a paradise for the french a lead to add a historic world war two sides today sees an invasion of the g. eight machine the latest summit gets going into shape normandy resort of the veil shortly large as any so now we can tell us what lies ahead. tell us uni's us so how busy are the next two days likely to be for the leaders. just a very busy would be putting it lightly this year so many of guns have competence especially concerning libya on address this spring in the arab world and of course the economy especially concerning be here all that has to be discussed in basically a day and a half when the leaders are expected to come up with some kind of joint statement

by the end of it the difficult part especially concerning libya will be getting on the same page of course the west and russia and china have very different approaches to how unrest in the arab world should be dealt with but the first part of the summit really has been allocated so that leaders can meet find just so on the sidelines face to face the president is very different just on town with french president and host nicolas sarkozy who also be meeting with president obama will be speaking about libya of course but also about missile defense and works. acting a joint statement from obama and medvedev later today but right now president is meeting with nicolas sarkozy and there we are expecting that topping the talks will of course be the situation in the be of france of course the first country to intervene in the war torn country and it's especially important to sit down and speak with france because france is a country and its position has changed on the global stage is now playing a much bigger world. the g eight has gone

full circle the last time the summit was held in france eight years ago the agenda looked almost the same. war the economy and somewhere in the middle aid to africa on the table then iraq and boosting the euro now it's libya and saving the euro. two thousand and three france had a very different stance on global politics then it was staunchly opposed to the u.s. invasion of iraq french fries quickly became freedom fries after france u.s. relations soured despite summit smiles but with the new french president came a new friend sir causing has rejected entirely the path of good friends playing a constructive role in a multi multi-polar world and has aligned himself with the single superpower the united states nowadays france is barking much louder with more soldiers involved in

foreign military conflicts of broadbent ever before it's a globalist more than color it's not just a france it's a whole. global plan to change governments as they want. france played a central role in ivory coast's bloody presidential stalemate and is considered the unspoken leader of the intervention in libya so wanted is to participate. to be one of the first. ruler western ruler to to go there and just for his political agenda critics say this new global policy was meant to wean over french voters but hasn't worked france is a kind of small united states with many interventions that are very costly and very little thinking about the relationship between rhetoric and the cost and cost is

the killer european countries are facing more and more protest over huge spending cuts in an attempt to lower deficits and save a drowning euro and at the same time spending hundreds of millions forcing their way into the libya conflict they don't see eye to eye but they going to try to regroup around. the idea that it's a humanitarian intervention and the u.n. resolution a resolution that china and russia didn't veto but it claims has been manipulated just through western interest perhaps there will be an appearance of agreement but if there is an appearance of agreement in my mind it won't be an appearance appearance at the g. eight is hard not to notice the venue is usually some exclusive resort town where you can't hear protest over the euro and it's easy to forget bombs are falling. this year france's beautiful normandy was chosen to house leaders as they sit down

to debate some of the world's ugliest problems and once again are faced with the question of whether the g eight can regroup on splitting a sears and he's now a r t v france. was well over two million people in jail the u.s. has the highest prison population in the world but some are saying the inside of a cell because dodgy judges are getting payback from the private sector are just going to take our reports and those dishing out justice for a fiend. two pennsylvania judges have made a killing out of juvenile prisoners mark ciavarella and michael conahan were convicted of receiving kickbacks for more than two million dollars from the developers of several private detention centers but the real crime according to parents is that these judges then sent more than five thousand children to those various facilities for crimes as small as finding on a school bus or posting

a parody of their teacher on the web site is. a god the size of sandy fonzo seventeen year old son edward was a bloody student and sportsman when he was arrested at an under-age party judge ciavarella locked him out for six months shortly after he got out edward committed suicide and never looked into you know the whole picture of the kids like i said he wind them up one by one and sometime away she. sent them to places. you know god knows what went on and then he throws them barack and how does a kid you know my son just never recover from it eric's the fonz he was twelve when judge ciavarella sent him to jail for two years for scratching his mom's car while george writing for this young man was a teenager was locked up for months for throwing

a piece of steak it is mom's boyfriend. believe it being accused of something like the real story was all that was needed to be put away the case of the two pennsylvania judges in bed with local private prisons could be just the tip of the iceberg a recent report revealed america's largest prison corporations poor hundreds of thousands into the campaigns of governors state legislators and judges in the hope of advancing their agenda and it seems to be working the number of private prison. the u.s. is growing rapidly oh old their money every penny they get is a taxpayer dollar that they get from the government and so what they do is they get bigger the money from the government the house prisoners only surround and spread and spend some of that money by giving it back to the politicians who push the was and the policies that we did believe were people being grocery were people being it right persons so it's almost a money laundering of tax dollars they are making contributions to judge it's.

politics it's sort of like a closed circuit you're making contributions to people who are making the laws and then you're making contributions to who are of course and with the number of prisons out goes the number of prisoners the u.s. has around two point three million people behind bars more than any other nation you've seen prison populations pretty consistently over the last three decades move up a couple percent a year and you know unfortunately as a citizen that that's not the most exciting statistic however when you look at it from a business model perspective for the private operators it's clearly good news the good news for the prison business turned into a nightmare for thousands of under-age victims of the two judges in pennsylvania there's an incentive in private industry obviously to make money that's what caused that industry is for so there's an incentive to have more chris nurse and incentive

to keep those prisoners incarcerated for longer periods of calm there's really no incentive for rehabilitation incentives are reversed this so-called cap for kids seen as something you just reversed the incentives to be and raise the question with judges actually interested in sending people away for a longer term is in keeping their benefactress private prisons for white justice in one county. i'm going to check out reporting from washington r.p. . and around five minutes time as he's intrepid sean thomas gets hot on the trail of the south pole scientists. science and research in antarctica is not only daughter of the laboratories in fact most of it's done out here in the field or this case of the ocean by john thompson coming up we look at the lives of the scientists here. crowds of greeks have showed they won't take further cards

quietly asked fifteen thousand to sand on the parliament building in athens echoes protests in spain were demonstrators gathered and a sin or display of anger a week ago heavily indebted greece is struggling to meet the terms of its nass of bailout with creditors like germany demanding more cuts in the beleaguered country well let's get some insight on this from the economist alexander law mr la thank you very much for being here with us on the program so tell us what are the chances that greece will pull out of the eurozone and also mind that sound the death knell for the euro itself. well the chances that greece exiting the euro zone mounting by the day we had some very strong statements from one of greece's representatives yesterday yet the european commission who is saying basically we've got two choices either we could truly agreements with our creditors we take severe austerity measures which will keep you popular in the country or else we return to

the drachma the issue here is can greece actually go any further in its restructuring can greece actually take all the measures which are necessary i'm not totally sure because when you look at the interest rate it's got to pay the extra you need punitive in a way the markets have already fucked to did the fact that they believe that's reschedule to give the debt is only cards or at least if not a partial default if that were to be the case if that were to be the case greece could just very well say well the euro area it's conditions are too strict for us and we're better off going back to the drachma whatever the situation whatever the outcome both issues are good to be extremely extremely tough it's got to bear in mind that even though austerity measures are probably there in place to reassure foreign investors they go to also have a dramatic effect on growth and the less growth you have the less fiscal income you

have an in effect the bigger the debt problem becomes so i think that the issue of greece exiting the euro is probably going to be. an outcome which is going to happen and that some the death knell for the euro area as a whole i'm not completely convinced but at least it would be the first rockets which would officially appear and in that case equally through the debate every country wants to stay in the euro area and there are some countries such as portugal. spades. you could say what if greece's exit is why should the post we find some fruitful for this into a foreign investment. criteria for deficits and debt so you might as well start afresh whatever happens the next few months decisive for the common for the single currency is going to be extremely extremely tough what of the well mr awad

according to what i'm just sad i mean it sounds like it's a very very complicated situation and there's got to be a way out and what is it i mean on the one hand there staring measures that you just talked about and you also mentioned that you're highly unpopular among the greeks but looks like they might be introduced and shoot if that happened that also in the long running lead to further economic problems but is there a way out of the situation what is the life we saw aleutian. well there are two ways out just be very frank about this the first way out is the way out where you go where you say where greece is we can't take the austerity measures we've got something's got to give and we're going to default on our debt and leave the euro area if not the only other solution is be extreme fear about the. european countries agree to bailouts. indefinitely each and every country which has got problems in effect if if school year year and for that we need what what do we need

to what we need the country from northern europe to say we accept to pay for us or the neighbors that however appears to be extremely unlikely i'm going to medical last tuesday was in fact complaining that countries from southern europe such as greece such as portugal for instance too many holidays and didn't work enough because the germans are extremely afraid of reliving the relation of nine hundred eighty nine where there were tension between west germany and east germany and consumers and households in west germany were saying well we're bailing out the east we don't want to do that again we don't want to do that again so it looks like argue america will you very tough job ahead of her of convincing her electors in effect that we need to bail out countries such as greece to be able to keep the single currency that general wants to do that i don't believe so unfortunately we'll have to leave it there because we're running out of time thanks very much

indeed for sharing your views thank you is well there's economist alexander ally talking to us from paris. and now let's take a look at what else is happening elsewhere in the world of on blast in turkey has one of the at least seven people explosion happened at a bus station near a busy shopping mall in istanbul it's thought the bomb was planted by someone passing on a motorbike stand what was wrought by terror attack seven months ago when a bomb injured more than thirty people. and ambulances crashed into a crowded residential area near india's capital killing ten people aircraft was flying a critically ill patient to a hospital in new delhi when it came down minutes before its scheduled landing the plane broke apart and caught fire before plunging into how. well it takes a certain kind of stamina to plunge into an icy ocean but it's all in

a day's work for the determined divers of antarctica and its latest report from the south pole showing thomas meets the explorer is keeping their cool and the name of signs. of the plunge into frigid enjoyed waters certainly is not for the community but these crews making this dive a regular experience all in the name of science. the main purpose of our trip to antarctica is to establish a foundation for monitoring different species living on the bottom of the ocean we are studying the distribution of animals that live here and we are studying their nature each day during the short summer season this crew makes multiple trips out to sea where they get a firsthand look at what's below the surface. in this case one in the same biological community stretches from a depth of five so almost fifty meters there are certain variations but mostly the picture is the same it's impossible to say anything now it's too early to draw any conclusions we've got too little information just one section of you working out of

the cars the waters of antarctica will not only help scientists identify the types of animals living here but by coming back over time they can study subtle changes in the environment and how the animals are affected by those changes and in three to five years we will repeat it's a collection and we can establish whether there have been any changes some animals might have gone and others me have replaced them we can establish why maybe there are some climatic changes that lead to changes among the populations so it'll indicate whether it's got colder or warmer here what they come up with can at times seem a bit questionable if not simply messy while other times they're catch is quite clear but in all cases important to their research so what is logged in ships to russia what is then catalogue and still sometimes new discoveries are made constantly and cataloguing many new types of muscles my colleagues are doing the same we're always finding new and absolutely unknown species proving that there is still much more

work to be done in one of the world's coldest ecosystems arctica chan thomas fourteen well it is time now for a business some days whiskey perhaps. thanks marina hello and welcome to business with r.t. the exploration of russia's oil and gas rich rich is back on track as all major b.p. falls by the wayside state run rosneft is in talks with shelled about becoming a new partner. the nail in the coffin of the b.p. deal came with the russian energy minister saying these three t.j. alliance between rosneft and b.p. is unlikely to be revived after the rosneft has been looking for a new partner with arctic drilling experience but unlike b.p. shell says a share swap deal with draws near is not an option so already hold a stake in the gazprom lives for collins to project in russia's far east. gazprom

bosses have been in brussels lobbying the european parliament i would the south stream pipeline project they worried about new e.u. rules which force a split between the ownership of pipelines and the gas flowing through them something gazprom is not happy about apart from south stream russia is developing another route north stream while europe has its own high time project they have been down to about the need for south stream which would create overcapacity however let a man reginald ski from north capital say it's the project still makes sense. the world. during the recent years it was several occasions. destruction were significant due to political standoffs you could. certainly get all the good you sure that the russian neighboring countries pleasured with believe that ukraine you lord you would say the pieces in the future i think there was alternative routes

are welcome. let's take a look at the markets now crude prices are giving up their earlier gains and currently floating around the room tonight the european equity is showing mixed dynamics the dax is up almost point three percent in the black and the sorry the decks in the red and the footsie is point three percent in the black markets up and down by we we can crude price on the other hand giving broad support is the news that china is interested in buying portugal bell bonds in the auction next month. here in moscow the markets trading mixed this are the r.t.s. is flat but the my sense is losing almost zero percent. and here are the market movers on the my six all energy majors are heavily in the red on a lower crude price bucking the trend is after that is that song you said it's considering not paying out dividends this year instead of using them for company grows. while russia is dominating gas company gazprom debates deals

prime. with belarus and ukraine small independent companies are seemingly unnoticed the russian natural gas market has plenty of options for customers and not all of them are government own wearing a cross whatever traveled to the country's gas capital nova you're going going to find out more about the smaller places. this is where ninety percent of russia's gas production takes place and abouts one three percent is the world's output gas from maybe the king here but it's not the only one as small independent gas companies are also part of the game and we'll find out how. this is one of the fields will soon to get licenses to develop fields the companies the service amounts. to. now it's partly owned by now but such which is. just in the past also another part of it is on its terra slightly

smaller want to. either sold other things. like these companies that. are right since this is so. haven't seen a lot of signatures and. also they can market. something that it's no longer interests against for example the one. you know it's a it's made giving that's ever run for its money but it's creating the position that it's a great step forward. and that's also a business card. and that's the latest business for now we'll have more in just under an hour's time stay with us the headlines next.

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