video on demand. cheesemonger old girls and history in the palm of your. calm. down with drones thousands of pakistanis voice anger at the scale of civilian deaths through unmanned u.s. asteroids and americans are also sounding the alarm about the possible use of the technology on home soil. no peace over greece massive protests in athens against the nation's financial plight could be echoed by similar ronnie's in other european states to vent fury over bailing the country out. and the fate of all the many and some government services and torture remains unknown after a brutal police crackdown with families fearing they might never see their relatives again. and in business news while globally financial stocks are seeing

heavy losses in russia banks were the main drivers of growth on strong results more on that in twenty minutes on. a very warm welcome for you this is r.t. a lot from moscow on research now the latest u.s. drone attack in volatile northwest pakistan has killed at least eighteen people while official reports claim the casualties militants some witnesses civilians among the victims and as drones have become one of washington's most favored buttons americans fear the technology might soon be used to snoop a little bit closer to home he's gonna check out reports. so that when a u.s. drone hits the house of this young man in pakistan he lost an eye both legs in three family members. these people are demanding the cia be held responsible for

the deaths of their loved ones but to no avail with the use of drones comes a lack of accountability those are being are created by somebody in a command center in langley virginia they're watching it on video on a video screen they're pressing the button they're deciding who lives and who dies and then they go off for a weekend where they have barbecues in their suburban virginia and suburban maryland homes and who pays the price the people who are the victims of the attack is there accountability none whatsoever drones have become the symbol of america's undeclared wars worse that seem to have no state all legal boundaries we've opened up a new realm of warfare a new room of great breaching international and domestic law. used in pakistan yemen and elsewhere they have killed scores of civilians the former chief counterinsurgency strategist for the u.s. state department has estimated their drone attacks kill fifty non targeted persons

for each ng can't it target one of the things the united states kind of pretends is that we are morally superior we are better just able to judge what is good for other people and therefore we are entitled to inflict our judgement on them and that we presume they will be grateful to us for it but that is not what happens ever and it's not what's happening in yemen it's not what's happening in pakistan they are furiously enraged with us washington is looking to increase the funding food room development by seven times over the next ten years a large part of that will go through the worst on our surveillance drones the u.s. has for years been using them in another of its undeclared wars against drug traffickers in mexico the mexican government allows us i planed despite public discontent there's a lot of concern that the use of these drones by the u.s. government has more to do with u.s. control over mexican territory. actually going out to the drug lords and winning

the drug war while the issues of international law and sovereignty trigger little interest among americans the prospect of having surveillance drones spying all across the us itself surely doubts you ask police agencies are asking for drones for domestic surveillance raising alarm among those who think that could be the end of american freedoms and specially when you look at constitutional activities like free speech activities that are going to be hovering over crowds that are merely maybe protesting the war or protesting some are governmental act and they'll be chilling free street should roll deal with some sort of weapon so some people are saying lasers will be able to punish the innocent who are advocating against the government they've already been used in some instances in the united states and then two thousand and seven protesters in washington d.c. noticed small objects floating overhead it looked like dragon well it turned out they were robo flies developed by the pentagon surveillance devices as america continues developing this play station mentality killing any intelligence gathering

in pakistan people leave in fear that it may be time they could become a target in someone's deadly video game and maybe here in the last year that with the rapid expansion of spy drones and with their own territory they could one day wake up you know to my police state i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . i mean time in greece people are venting their anger against the government president made implementing harsher austerity measures to secure further aid the e.u. and the international monetary fund have approved more cash pathans in a bid to save the country and the single currency from defaulting but it's also used a time hole bushell reports there are those ready to go to court to stop their country from footing the bill. the euros did longly germany says top lawyer marcus kerber he's suing the german government to stop it bankrupt neighbors you cannot save so you. tell the country you have to get rid of

greece is no longer worth candidate rolled over with the end of the european union the nations labeled in the region by some as the peaks of europe portugal ireland greece and spain most drop the currency now if pull they drag down all the members wants kerber although athens last year raised the pension age to sixty five and could early retirement other countries believe that greek workers work less will bail you out a second time says chancellor merkel but if you want cash in future you must work longer. we can't have a common currency us some get lots of occasions i'm and others very less so that won't work in the long term. the statement caused up through ring greece but they're not happy in the e.u.'s cash capital frankfurt's even leaving the greeks

have had it too easy of course if we are going to jail sixty seven it's not possible to declare why other people should go with six fifteen which are certainly not responsible for the debts and the deficits run in portugal greece in the pit states raise the age when when the greek people retire. sorry all three people what we have to work along as well germans or wrote boiling point anger which could spill out onto the streets say some experts if the problems with the euro become more bigger we go higher and higher then it is also not excluded or german people go on the street because there's a ok we don't want to pay any more powerful greens and they'll suing merkel's government claiming it did facts about bailouts from the public people in germany i ask you do we have to pay these so we have to give answers and the answers we don't get from our government even the ruling party's revolting close pizza will she's

fighting all rescues since he argues leaving bureau's own is in the interests of the struggling countries should take the chance to say ok we get out we. solve our problems we have our structures. for money for high interest rate with some of their money and then they can qualify again for the euro maybe after ten fifteen years greece protests the euro's a straight jacket which blocks traditional ways to boost your economy like devaluing the currency or adjusting interest rates. even greece's european commissioner says that the country's membership of the common currency is a risk and takes the painful cost cutting mood is a prescribed by the e.u. and the oil where greeks know agree with germany out of control the question is

will weak states quit the euro and reorganize. and bring the single cause the down don't you see. for more on the european bailout just log on to r.t. dot com you can also tell us what you think the eurozone should do with our we want to get germany should continue giving out cash the failing economy is so far as you believe it should close its coffers so it's it's in the country's best interest to break free from the faltering euro if you have in europe you still have a chance to share your opinion i don't know where to r.t. dot com. is yet another european country on the financial brink as its fruit and vegetable exports have been wiped out and so after germany wrongly blamed spanish cucumbers for the deadly e. coli outbreak it was later believed to have originated on a german farm but now officials say that's not the case either financial analyst. believes the initial allegations could be part of a plan to drive

a wedge between euro zone members. when something goes wrong it is only human nature to try and put the blame on somebody else and germany did that very powerfully accusing poor innocent spanish cucumbers of being the cause of the e-coli outbreak now nevertheless i think that there's probably a more subtle a generally highly all of this that is closely related to the fact that there are increasing centrifugal forces within the european union that already made a lot of people's talk about partial fractures partial break ups we just heard in the previous nodes that if greece doesn't find its way around it's cool its financial crisis their money might put a lot of the european monetary mechanism the euro very often one could even imagine that germany or many germans and many powerful people in germany are probably wondering why the ever got themselves into europe to begin with so i think that it's not it's it's not good to just a jump to the first obvious conclusion above

a piece of news or we will have people who must try and find other layers of truth and reasoning that might lead be. you with the lottery moscow right now are ten minutes past the hour coming your way shortly boredom disorder fear of renewed clashes after israeli troops opened fire on protesters union protesters as israel blames syria for trying to divert attention from its own internal crisis. the mission towards the final frontier is the new i say screw with the search for an out of this world john. is left for class not here in the backyard we'll bring you details on the final preparations. egypt's interim government has accepted a three billion dollar learn from the international monetary fund to help relaunch the country's economy barack obama has also promised cash for egypt while nicolas sarkozy pledged aid to both egypt and tunisia for more on this we're now joined by

financial journalist and author of the blog the moon under water austin michael who is in cairo for us and a new article it's very interesting you say that the i.m.f. is depicted as the rich uncle saving children learn from egypt and tunisia it could be devastating why do you think that is. well because it's likely that the loans will have exactly the same kind of conditions attached to previous i.m.f. loans to egypt and chile as you have had which is massive cuts to the public sector and private stations these i mean these are just stagnant creating a business friendly environment is always the mantra of these organizations and what they normally mean there's an environment that's not unfriendly to the rights of local workers and to small businesses in the economy i mean you have to look at the record of these institutions have had in the region within weeks or months of the uprisings in tunisia and egypt and even in libya they were the i.m.f.

was giving act scorecard saying how well these countries were doing implementing reforms so i mean there's actually some people who are better. the i.m.f. rates the country the closer it is to some kind of revolt or revolution because the record shows that these institutions which the majority of people in there are so you know out of these institutions hurt the majority of people here causing more harm than good as you were saying just a moment ago the army. was praising of these autocratic north african governments and but now the toppling as you as you said the i.m.f. is giving money to the other side what is the fund trying to achieve is it perhaps just sinking its teeth into these a fledgling economy so trying. yeah you know that's exactly what was happening and when you say giving money to the other side you go remember in egypt and in tunisia these agreements are being made with transitional governments and these transitional governments have. become a primarily out of speakers of the old regime that composed primarily of figures

from the old regime for example samir radwan the finance minister in egypt has been negotiating this loan was a barak appointee and he's reporting back to the supreme council of the armed forces now people who know internal politics will tell you that the the army here especially the higher around is deeply deeply embedded in the local business elites and that's the people you can expect these loans to benefit mostly international finance international banks and small egyptian elite who were doing well out of the previous structural readjustment programs anyhow so a restructuring of the same fun a chair in the house perhaps or so with this money going to the business. here is anyone going to go to rebuilding or the state sector benefits or government programs or is it just going to line the pockets of the fat cats what my my from going from the historical record we have to states just going to line the pockets of the fact cats for example there was actually strong growth in egypt in tunisia

for the last decade or so before the revolutions which of course the i.m.f. and world bank raised but this was a jobless growth it didn't help. people on the ground wages are stagnant unemployment was rising be an ending and it's important to remember that. i mean there have been some some indications they talked about public works and job creation programs in a statement they released yesterday but we'll let you know we're yet to see any details i think this is probably just spin. more of the same we slightly and marketing. so with the i.m.f. it certainly seems to be spreading its wings in the region such as the middle east and north africa here is there some sort of our regional agenda do you think well i mean it's it is a regional agenda but it's part of a global agenda the near little project that's being pushed for a while now i mean we is an interesting comparison to make between the middle east now and latin america

a few decades ago where you there you had the same institution and working doing similar beings and you see governments in latin america now what nothing to do with the i.m.f. and the world bank you see probably falling in these countries without the i.m.f. fell back against by following the exact opposite prescriptions that the i.m.f. would have given. i think a really interesting example of one comparison to make the one i made in my article as well as south africa because we saw in south africa you know at the end of apartheid the population a majority of the population finally got some political rights in relation to having a say in the government but at the same time as that was happening to come and watch control of its own economy so democracy is fine as long as you can touch our trade agreements our financial journalist author and battle thank you thank you. georgia relatives are looking for missing loved ones nearly two weeks since a brutal crackdown on protesters in the capital tbilisi many opposition supporters

detained by police some even before the demonstrations haven't been seen since sarah first met some of the desperate families. when the riots were dispersed in the georgian capital of tbilisi think is that shock waves around the international community present back if only speaks of bringing a weapon style democracy to georgia but the thing is the witness with the years of experience both by his police operation against largely peaceful protests the even more disturbing we've been finding out that in the aftermath there been tales of aggression behind bars of people going this way who think big concerns among their friends and their relatives hugely so it was a member of an opposition group he was arrested as part of the crackdown a look as issued in three days before all the praise her stick place she hasn't seen or heard from him since and has no idea where he is now. i was still he was it one police station so i went there but they said he had been moved to

a police station in another region when i went to that one they said he wasn't there either so now he's missing i don't know why but she's not the only one with questions in the days leading up to the protest during and after many people have been arrested and finding all these people is proving extremely difficult in some cases we hope problems because these people are. trying to tensions and to another without providing us information where these people are so we have to go. into question places and find peace people which is absolutely. almost impossible for us in consistencies in official information and even more troubling when it comes to some of the deaths surrounding the protests days after the demonstration it kicks in drugs these body was found on a wreath near the protest area was last seen photographed amongst those being detained the circumstances of his death remain extremely unclear there are lots of

questions about the. bodies because there we were receiving a lot of information from inside when. people where just leaving police raided people are them a struggle is there some people have been beaten so terribly. that we're even cases of this with official information proving inconsistent and chaotic attempts to establish exactly what happened to those he dies and to those still missing extremely hard the police sting in history interior they're going to keep us respond to these people or we're going to keep bolting information who was detained where the person was and saw it was huge mess then you'll deny stations are now working on establishing just what has been happening recently in georgia the images of violence from the protest will stick in people's minds for a long while to come but this was a struggle started long before that night's looks set to continue for some time

after sarah r.t. tbilisi. all right i'll just take note of twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow is ready troops are braced for more violence after a day of deadly clashes with pro palestinian protesters on the syrian border over twenty people have reportedly been killed since sunday one thousand started their march towards the israeli controlled golan heights protesters were marking the anniversary of the one nine hundred sixty seven the middle east war when it's ready security forces opened fire israel the claims the syrian regime accusing it of instigating the violence to deflect attention from problems at home and office and activists who teach says there's only one in this country. i just think that i'd like. because what i'm getting peacefully nonviolently of the other demanding the same thing democracy and peace the palestinians.

and the palestinians. is that it does not that it would be nice palestine israel is the only country in the war that is a member of the united nations that does not have a constitution and not be cleared up and now its borders because israel continues to expand and continues to annex other people's land and in the process they have created this long military will keep bishan which has become now a system will start to get. in human history israel is the place of. i thought a type system in south africa. would not continue because the people of south africa decided to struggle against and deny the rights of the south africans to be from apartheid the united states was the last time and this will be the case here in palestine the fact that the israeli lobby is very powerful in the united states would not stop us from demanding freedom independence what

a democracy and the world has to accept palestinians as equal human beings to the israelis and equal human beings. everybody. now if you missed anything on our program you can always catch up on our website about starting dot com there are plenty of other stories and videos there as well these are the boys online right now we go find out how george w. bush and dick cheney ended up alongside hitler on a list of the worst people of all time put together by a u.s. crew. plus over a one and a half thousand facebook users a crush of birthday party for a sixteen year old in town but gets after she unintentionally invited them via social networking now. that is getting some other international news making headlines for you this hour the former i.m.f. chief has pleaded not guilty to charges of sex crimes it was dominique strauss khan's first appearance in a new york court since being released on a six million dollars bail the frenchman is under house arrest and now he was

detained three weeks ago and faces seven different counts including the attempted rape of a hotel maid if found guilty he could spend up to twenty five years in prison and say. emmons main opposition coalition says it will accept a transfer of power to the vice president after the president left for saudi arabia . he's in a saudi hospital meantime having undergone surgery on a woman some suffered during a rocket attack on his compound on friday it remains unclear whether saleh will return to the religious point after thirty three years in power the embattled leader has come under severe pressure to resign oh and while the countdown has begun at the baikonur cosmodrome a revamped version of the soyuz spacecraft has been moved into position it's already lost in just a few days it will carry three crew members to the international space station for a six month mission on board of course the man's most remote outpost parties in the

front reports from the launch pad. less than two days left before blast off here at the baikonur cosmodrome and the three crew members are all in quarantine mike fossum sergei volkov and seto she thought okawa met with press family and friends today through the glass in what was their last public appearance the mood was light as they talked about what they will miss most about their comforts of home the food in space we have a lot of different foods. written for vegetables and. things of course fresh fruits and vegetables are the most valuable products and yes this is fried potatoes the most visible. things like size since. over forty scientific experiments will fill the cruise time of the i s.s. and as the on board physician cancer research will be undertaken by said toshi fido

col what he did give us some insight into what that will entail when it comes to so . there is a whole new genesis there. grow cancer cells so. and using this is going to really. answer now before the three leave the ground they've received some very fatherly advice from sergei volkov father alexander himself because minot's. people and so i would give is not to go straight to the illuminated to take a look outside and move you had too much we might get space sickness just won't see sickness and don't do so much so straightaway try to take care of yourself for the first few days you have a six month mission ahead when you screw takes off on the eight it will take them two days to duck out the eye assess. karnataka business with eritrea.

thanks rory gas problem has fired a warning shot so the e.u. over the hotly debated russian gas deliveries to the block the company c.e.o. early say miller said if the current price noddle does not suit and european customers it would instead to liver its gas to asia now it's a coconut also believes however that this statement isn't able to skirt china rather than the e.u. . and gas from essential betting on china's an ability to get the extra intreat wants from from anywhere so the gas from sangster out china will just have to rely on gas from supply climbed out of politically for its north eastern partner. and he probably gas from also thinks that central asia is too unstable in general to me fred mentioned to be a good supplier to china so it's sayings gas from the science there was no way

trying to do without them so the best strategy and that situation would just sit and wait to be very. calm and collected and unwavering are saying this is the price we want a small one here price. and that's basically take it really. so you have the markets now us not conserving with nine of the climb that's after five straight weeks of declines abbesses a largely selling financials with bank of america down more than two and a half percent as our european stocks mostly low on monday also driven by we cannot be very certain german germany's dax is a point six percent lower driven by a two hundred percent fall for the on a.g. bank stocks also lower across much of the rest of europe lloyd's bags two point nine percent lower in london glencore international base the biggest gainer in london is up more than two point seven percent. russia's markets ended the first day of the wake of a flood of positive note with the r.t.s.

gaining point four percent the my six just a notch up second some individual share of movers on the my sex energy mage's high in the afternoon trading at the close ross snapped up point nine percent his blood bank is also point nine percent higher actually banking stocks were moving very positively. compared to what was going on on the other global markets. on the other hand now most bank was up one point eight percent after reporting on those profits out of something i was going to nation's capital wraps up and they strove. to stop talking about the performance we talk about but we sit around the major theme for you last week was. data from the u.s. economy which was to trigger a photograph and to be a very slow market volume sort of about thirty percent of the usual volume and the range of the market this range donkey in the range is a broad point one percent people are sleeping people on the weekend from the clues

i think from the european central bank official speech on thursday. and that's it from the business desk and i will be back next hour with an update. for the full story we've got it from the biggest issues get the human voice face to face.