u.s. is under mounting pressure to stop its drone attacks which killed scores of civilians have brought americans at home also fear the technology might be used over their own heads to. scramble to the streets and squares of greece to vent their fury over the nation's economy have to stop or could spill over to other e.u. states against bailing athens out once again. and as the international monetary fund is lending egypt three billion dollars to recharge its economy to take a look at what the gesture could help to achieve.

international news and comment live from our studios here in central moscow this is the latest u.s. drone attack in volatile northwest pakistan has killed at least eighteen people one official reports claim the casualties were militants some witnesses name civilians among the victims and as drones have become one of washington's most favored weapons americans fear the technology might soon be used to snoop a little closer to home kind of reports. when a u.s. drone hit the house of this young man in pakistan he lost an eye both legs and 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 operated by somebody at a command center in langley virginia. they're watching it on video on

a video screen they're pressing a 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 in suburban maryland homes and who pays the price people who are the victims of the attack is there accountability none whatsoever drones have become the symbol of america's undeclared wars wars that seem to have no state all the legal boundaries we've opened up a new realm of warfare a new room of. international and domestic law. using pakistan yemen and elsewhere they have killed scores of civilians the former chief counterinsurgency strategist for the u.s. state department has estimated the drone attacks killed fifty non-target persons for each intended 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 for drone development by seven times over the next ten years a large part of that will go towards unarmed 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 biplanes 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 issues of international law and sovereignty trigger a little interest among americans the prospect of having surveillance drones spying all across the u.s. itself sure. you asked police agencies are asking for the rules for domestic

surveillance raising alarm among those who think that p.p.p. and if american freedoms especially when you look at constitutional activities like free speech activities they're 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 speech should roll be equipped with some sort of weapon so some people are saying lasers will be able to punish citizens who are advocating against the government people already been used in some instances in the united states and two thousand servant protesters in washington d.c. noticed small objects falling over here that look like grabbing her and out they were robo flies developed by the pentagon surveillance devices as america continues developing this play station mentality killing any talented scattering to stab people in fear that it may be time they could become a target of the most deadly videogame and needle hearing be the last year that with their rapid expansion of supply drones over their own territory they could one day

wake up you know to my police state i'm going to check our reporting from washington. and greece people are venting their anger against the government as it debates implementing harsh austerity measures to secure a the e.u. and the international monetary fund have approved more cash for athens in a bid to save the country and the single currency from defaulting but if lottie's daniel bushell reports there are those ready to go to court to stop their country footing the bill. the euros did long leave germany says top lawyer marcus kerber he's suing the german government to stop it playing krok neighbors you can all say thank you. to all the country you have to get rid of these is no longer candidate. number of the european union the nations labeled in the region by some as the peaks of europe portugal

ireland greece and spain must drop the currency now before they drag down other members wards 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 now there's very little that won't work in the long term. the statements caused greece but they're not happy in the e.u.'s cash capital frankfurt either believing the greeks have had it too easy because if we are going to chill sixty seven it's not possible yeah why are there people should go with sixty fifty which are certainly not responsible

for the deaths and the deficits run in portugal greece and picked states raise the age when when the greek people retire. story all three people well 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 and bigger higher and higher and it is also not excluded german people go on the street because they're say ok we don't want to pay any more powerful greens and they'll suing merkel's government claiming it hid 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 is revolting closed pizza we'll she's fighting all rescues since your views leaving the eurozone is in the interests of the struggling countries they should take the chance to say ok we'll get out. of our problems we have our

structures also gave money for high interest rate women with some of their money and. can qualify again for the year or 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 because membership of the common currency is at risk and this takes the painful cost cutting medicine prescribed by the e.u. and the i.m.f. greeks will agree with germany out of control the question is will weak states quit the euro and reorganize. and bring the single currency down with the new bush or r c. for more on european bailouts log on to our t. dot com you can also tell us what you think the eurozone should do we've asked you

if germany should continue giving out cash to failing economies and so far most of you believe it should close its coffers since it's in weaker country's best interest to break free from the faltering euro if you haven't yet you still have a chance to share your opinion just head to r.t. dot com. spain's another european country on financial brink has its fruit and vegetable exports have been wiped out that's after germany wrongly blamed spanish cucumbers for the deadly break it was later believed to have originated on a german farm but officials now say that is not the case either. a list agent so good she believes the initial allegations could be part of a plan to drive a wedge between eurozone members. when something goes wrong and it is only human nature to try and put the blame on somebody else germany did that very powerfully accusing poor innocent spanish cucumbers of being the cause of the e-coli out very

well nevertheless i think that is probably more subtle the germ of the 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 fractures powerful break ups we just heard in the previous notice that if greece doesn't find its way around it's cool its financial crisis we're looking might put a lot of the european monetary make use of the euro very often one can even imagine the german leader many germans are. probably wondering why we haven't got themselves into europe to begin with so i think it's not it's it's rather good to just a shock to the first obvious conclusion of the world a piece of news on real people who must try and find other layers of truth and reasoning that might be. coming your way shortly here on r.t. this border this order everything new clashes after israeli troops opened fire

appropriate of protesters as israel blamed syria for trying to cover that attention from its internal crisis. which was the final frontier is the new players as crew is set for an altar this world journey. two days left before blast up here at the back of our cars not europe will bring you details on that final preparation. for historic on the first egypt's transitional government has accepted a three billion dollars loan from the international monetary fund to help relaunch the country's economy barack obama has also promised cash for egypt while nicolas sarkozy pledged to both egypt and tunisia but financial journalist austin merkel believes international financial heavyweights are the only ones who stand to benefit here. it's likely that the loans will have exactly the same kind of conditions attached and previous i.m.f. loans agency as you have had which is meant massive cuts to the public sector and

privatization and creating a business friendly environment is always the mantra of these organizations and while that normally means is an environment that's unfriendly to the rights of local workers and to small businesses in the economy people you can expect these loans to benefit most these international finance international banks and small egyptian only you have to look at the record of these institutions and had in the region within weeks or months of the uprisings inching is yeah and egypt and even in libya they were the i.m.f. was giving out a scorecard saying how well these countries were doing implementing reforms so i mean there's actually some people who argue that the better. the country because it is to some kind of revolt or revolution because the the record shows that these institutions the majority of people in there are in their actions. israeli troops are braced for more violence after clashes with pro palestinian

protesters on the syrian border over twenty people have reportedly been killed since sunday when thousands started their march towards the israeli controlled government points the protesters were marking the anniversary of the night in sixty seven middle east war when israeli security forces opened fire israel blames the syrian regime accusing it of instigating the violence to deflect attention from problems at home the moxy activists stuff about tutsis says there's only one aggressor in this conflict. but just like all the arabs in the capitals struggling peacefully nonviolently of the are demanding the same thing democracy freedom and peace the palestinians. and the palestinian. state solution is that it does not recognize palestine israel is the only country in the world that is a member of the united nations that does not have a constitution and did not declare it up to now its borders because israel

continues to expand and continues to annex i love people's land and in the process they have created this long military occupation which has become now a system of segregation and. in human history israel is the oppressor the occupier the apartheid system in south africa. could not continue because the people of south africa decided to struggle against it and deny that right of the south african to be from the united states was the last to come and this will be the case here in palestine the fact that the israeli lobby is very powerful in the united states will not stop us from demanding freedom our independence i want a democracy and the world has to accept palestinians as equal human beings to the israelis and equal human beings to everybody. a serious nuclear program will be a key topic for the. u.n. nuclear watchdog had its week long meeting in vienna that made pressure from the

u.s. and other states the a.t.a.'s discussing whether die old zero which was destroyed by israeli war planes back in two thousand and seven was a nuclear site syria insists it was a peaceful facility but the atomic agency is demanding concrete evidence to those claims well let's hear more now from saddam is probably arab lawyers association he joins us now live in london on his webcam thanks very much indeed for being with us well the site was born four years ago and since it was destroyed what sufficient grounds are there to believe it was an undeclared nuclear facility. well irrespective of a theory whether it was or it wasn't in fact i think end of the day it was destroyed three years ago now that the syrian regime is under fire this. file has to be opened so that the international community the u.s. gets the un and the way to accuse syria of violating international law so they can take the matter to the security council so that we can apply more precious yet

again and the abuse of the international institutions for the tickle object is whether it's a guy over there was this clear if you cancel this is what the u.s. is doing the findings of the. other time and for the last few years has been there was nothing there but it could have been a project for and you carry out there and this is exactly arab be performance of what happened with iraq when we started to pile up all the all the accusations of guide and eleven september and nuclear facilities and the rest of it when it was just not true let me just interrupt the agency says that syria hasn't been cooperating for something like the last three years that a lack of cooperation does suggest that perhaps could be hiding something that's not well certainly this is the conclusion they're trying to draw but at the end of the day to prove a negative yet again that is the process is that you make people prove the negative

this is a building which has been inspected by the way at the time and number of times but then after they want to have their plans what mysterians out doing they told them a number of times that this is a military installation and it has nothing to do with a nuclear energy or power or a reactor the i am a saying since you are not telling us what else you are going to use it therefore it must be a nuclear facility and that's why we're going to take the matter of the security council this is. let's move on quite a few areas i want to ask you about now of course we know that syria is a very close partner with iran iran of course has been under scrutiny for a very long time the atomic agency it doesn't seem to have got very far with iran over its. nuclear intentions now is this perhaps a way of putting pressure on terror on the mask i don't think so i think it's this is an opportunity to see because the syrian regime is under tremendous pressure

both domestically and internationally and i think quite rightly so except that the interference of the west is going to thwart the revolution in egypt but this situation is different from iran iran is a stable situation and the present iran they have a. semi objection to the government with a lot of people but nevertheless the iranian government is stable could be you could be able to question their nuclear projects be compared in any way in what suppose it is going on in syria and iran or any comparisons absolutely none whatsoever because the iranian one is actually a functioning nuclear system for as the iranians say for peaceful purposes not fear of your own but that brings the question how come the i never asked. this really what is the israeli nuclear stations this is really totally refusal to assist in any way not even to sign the treaty or to allow anybody inspecting any of the facilities this is the double standard which is yet again going to continue to be

the policy that is prevalent in the international calls let me quickly ask you about your comments about syria being under far of course syria's being on a far over its nuclear intentions but also of course it's being heavily criticized for its treatment of the protesters some would say this is a very interesting time to be approaching serious nuclear issue but is having to deal with an uprising at the moment the way that it's dealing with an uprising is this perhaps a way of putting pressure on the regime this is part of the game by bringing up this nuclear issue as well. well that's absolutely right now the present moment the west is trying to change these regimes syria has been one of the pillars of resisting foreign western policy it's been anti israel and very clearly therefore it's time to get syria to back down therefore you are cry on the pressures domestically externally my view domestically i think this era and regime is to blame for what's happening there but i think this is an added pressure which is

being brought specially raising this issue after all these years until now it was ok they were not cooperating but we don't say anything now that it is on its knee on its knees we have to raise up this project. from the arab lawyers association joining me live in london thanks very much for being with us here on our team. if you play the way if you missed something on our program or indeed if you want to watch that interview again well you can always catch up on our website it's r t v dot com there are plenty of other stories and videos there as well here's a quick taste of what's online there at the moment you can 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. school. plus over one hundred thousand facebook fans crash a birthday party for a sixteen year old in hamburg after she invited them unintentionally a social network account of. a moscow court has returned

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yemen's main opposition coalition says it will except to transfer power to the vice president after the president left for saudi arabia ali abdullah saleh is in a saudi hospital having undergone surgery on wounds he suffered during a rocket attack on his compound on friday makes unclear whether sully will return to yemen after thirty three years in power the embattled leader has come under simply a pressure to resign. five u.s. soldiers have been killed in central iraq making it the deadliest day for american troops in over two years iraqi sources said the attack was at a camp on the outskirts of the americans who were at the base acting as advisors when rockets hit their living quarters and it happened just months before u.s. forces withdraw from the country completely. but the countdown has begun at the baikonur cosmodrome a revamped version of the so you spacecraft has been moved into position ready for blastoff just a few days from now it will carry three crew members to the international space station for a six month mission on board most remote outpost ati's lindsey france reports now

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 soto she thought okawa met with the 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 to face. different foods but the thing that is the most is first and first page of the. things of course fresh fruits and vegetables are the most valuable products and yes this is frank toodles the most visited. says. over forty scientific experiments well filled cruise time with the i s.s. and as the on board physician cancer research will be undertaken by side toshi

thought okawa he did give us some insight into what that will entail when it comes to the really. serious. genesis of. this growth is so you. aren't using this is going to reduce the chances now before the three leave the ground they've received some very fatherly advice from syria of all cobs father alexander himself because we're not. going so i would give is not to go straight to the illuminated to take a look outside and move the head too much we might get space sickness just like sea sickness and you don't do somersaults straightaway trying to take care of yourself for the first few days you have a six month mission ahead when this crew takes off on the eight it will take them two days to dock at the i assess. just a few minutes from now we discuss how russia's gas giant gazprom plans to conquer the german market as the country prepares to get rid of atomic energy that's after

the business news with the. he's coming up next. thanks but we're actually going to stay on that topic gazprom c.e.o. alexei miller says the company would consider buying into a german energy giant eon no exact size of the stake has been mentioned the gas problem sees it as a potential strategic investments however analysts say any accusation like this would only cause gazprom problems. see a potential conflict of interest in all this because it's there sir much and gas from his interest to. keep the. gas margin high enough from bush to squeeze the electricity monitoring out for us not business put a foot rise until recently central integrated companies from it will be also exposed to the tristram auction which is it's now trying to squeeze

a profit. and at this point i don't quite see why it's so important unless of course gas from is preparing itself for a major revision of its. long term contracts with its key customers that will be on also by us probably even in our in there to. save it at the even a stock markets now in the us markets are trading with a minor decline that self to five straight weeks of negative movement best as a largely selling financials with bank of america down two point one percent for stuff there p. and skulks ended the monday session mostly lower on monday london was actually up by just a notch but germany's dax is down point three percent is driven by a two and a half is i'm all for you on a.g. bank stocks but also you know across much of the rest of europe lloyds bank was to an office that lowered glencore international however was one of the biggest gainers on the footsie up more than three to six. russia's markets ended the first

day of the week off lots of positive note for the aussie s.k. two point four seven my sixth just i'm not sure if we look at the movers on the my six we'll see that energy majors were trading higher rosneft gaining point nine percent banks were doing pretty well in russia unlike other global markets is by again point nine percent and no most banks gaining one point eight percent after reported one hundred fifteen million dollars profit in the first words of any consequence he's got renesas capital wraps up today's trade. to start talking about to be performance from sort of the last week stick around so i don't see the major theme or the last week was the data from the u.s. economy which was the trigger for everything today we've got a very small market the world i'm sort of wild thirty percent of the usual volume people are sleepy and people are waiting for their clues i think from the european

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