he. says. the u.s. is on the mounting pressure to stop its drone attacks which killed scores of civilians abroad americans at home also fear the technology might be used over their own heads to. scramble to the streets and squares of trees to vent their firy of the nation's dar economy. could spill over to other e.u. states against athens once again. and the international monetary fund is lending egypt three billion dollars to real charges economy take a look at who would actually benefit from the cash injection.

international news and comment live from our studios here in central moscow this is our team the latest u.s. drone attack in volatile northwest pakistan has killed at least eighteen people on official reports claiming 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. as this report. this was 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 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 wars that seem to have no state all the gold boundaries of a new realm of warfare a new room of breaching international and domestic law. used in pakistan yemen and elsewhere they have killed scores of civilians the former chief counterinsurgency strategist with the u.s. state department has estimated the drone attacks kill fifty non targeted persons for each intended target and one of the things you know it's 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 an armed 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 you. u.s. spy planes despite public discontent there's a lot of concern that the years of peace jones by the u.s. government has more to do with u.s. control over mexican territory erickson will be 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 surely do you as police agencies are asking for drones for domestic

surveillance raising the 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 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 innocent who are advocating against the government they've already been used in some instances in the united states and in two thousand servant protesters in washington d.c. noticed small objects falling over here it looked like dragonflies turned out they were robo flies and what 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 needed time they could become a target and sometimes deadly video game and media here in the last year that with their rapid expansion of supply growth of their own territory they could one day

wake up you know known to police state i'm going to check our reporting from our to our team. in greece people are venting their anger against the government as it debates implementing harsh a sturdy measures to secure further aid 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 result he's done which reports there are all those ready to go to court to stop the 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 croc neighbors you can all say thank you. to all the country you have to get rid of greece is no longer with. the nations labeled in the region by some as the pigs of europe portugal ireland greece and

spain most drop the currency now if all they drag down other members was cobra 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 vacation time and others very less so that won't work in the long term. the statements caused through ring 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 cheer sixty seven it's not possible to get clear why other people should go with sixty five which are certainly not responsible for the deaths and the deficits run in portugal greece

and the pick states raise the age when when the greek people retire. story all the people 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 but it is also not excluded german people go on the street because there's a ok we don't want to pay any more powerful greens and no. suing merkel's government claiming it hid facts about bailouts from the public people in germany i ask you do we have to pay it is so we have to give answers and the answers we don't get from our government even the ruling party's revolting class pizza will she's fighting all rescues since he argues leaving the eurozone is in the interests of the struggling countries they should take a chance to say ok we get out. have

our restructured. also gave them money for high interest rate with some of their money and. then qualify again for the 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 that risk unless athens takes the painful cost cutting medicine prescribed by the e.u. and the i.m.f. greeks now agree with germans who say the bits out of control the question is will weak states quit the euro and reorganize or stay and bring the single cause it down with the new bushel artsy. well for more on european pain answer log on to r.t. dot com you can also share with us what you think eurozone members should do we've

asked you if germany should continue handing out rescue packages to its failing neighbors and see on screen there that most of you believe it should close its coffers since it's in week a country's best interest to leave the faltering euro behind if you haven't done so yet you'd like to express your point of view you still have time we could hear from you just head to r.t. dot com. well coming always shortly this hour here in our border disorder a fear of renewed clashes after israeli troops opened fire on pro palestinian protesters as israel blamed syria for trying to divert attention from its internal crisis. and the mission towards a final frontier is the screw is set for alter this world journey. today is left before a blast up here at the baikonur cosmodrome we'll bring you details on the final preparations. egypt's transitional government has accepted a three billion dollar loan from the international monetary fund to help relaunch

the country's economy iraq and bombers also promise cash for egypt and france's nicolas sarkozy pledge to both egypt and tunisia radio host and blogger stephen leatherman told me earlier that he thinks the money will effectively hand over the sovereignty of egypt to western credits and it's. but here it is dr social he is the first he is the target say enterprises all to western interests on which he will be interned will. ordinary working people so egypt taking money from me are going to get it hearing all of egypt to worse than creditors to let don't steal your resources and absolutely refused to treat people the. way the notion of democracy in tunisia egypt those are absolutely and our ability to work folks in washington to folks will be with you to work

for some cause even though they want governments they can control so egypt has a military point to whatever names the emerge from the big old action in egypt september hold the names will e-mail saying behind the scenes locally will be. the power guiding their home from washington and beyond here all of egypt or any other country cheney and i am in a war before you get christened trouble he doesn't know. syria's nuclear program will be key topic for the u.n. nuclear watchdog and its week long meeting in vienna and pressure from the u.s. and other states the i.a.e.a. is discussing whether diet or which was destroyed by israeli warplanes back in two thousand and seven was a nuclear site and that's consensus it was a peaceful facility but the atomic agency is demanding concrete evidence to back up those claims so i looked up from the arab lawyers association told me here on r.t.

that washington and its allies are using the allegations as a tool to remove the current rulers in syria. now that the syrian regime is under fire this. trial has to be opened so that the international community of us gets the un and the way to accuse syria of violating international law so they can take the matter to this community council so that we can apply more pressure as yet again and the end of the international institutions for political culture whether it's a guy or whatever so this curative council this is what the u.s. is doing the findings of the. time and for the last few years has been there was nothing there this is a building which has been inspected by the way at the time and i'm one of them and they're not they want to have the plans all of this iran's out doing they told them a number of times that this is

a military installation and this is nothing to do with a nuclear energy or power or a reactor the 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 to the security council the other present mood in the west is trying to change these regimes syria has been one of the banners for existing foreign western policy it's an anti israel and very clearly therefore it's time to get syria to bow down before you apply all the pressures you must think me externally minded most deeply i think this era regime is to blame for what's happening there but i think this is an added pressure which is being brought specially raising out this issue after all these years till now doesn't evoke a we're not cooperating but we don't say anything now that it is on its knees on its knees we have to raise up this project. the u.s. and israel have accused syria of instigating violence on the border with israel to

deflect attention from problems at home over twenty pro palestinian protesters have reportedly been killed since sunday that was one thousand started their march towards the israeli controlled golan heights demonstrators were marking the anniversary of the nine hundred sixty seven middle east war when israeli security forces opened fire more now on this from believe issues of human rights activist joining us from tel aviv thanks very much indeed for joining us here in our you know israel as i just said along with the u.s. blaming the syrian regime accusing it of instigating the bloodshed to deflect attention from those problems at home is that a fair charge. first of all i want to correct something that was said before about the pro palestinian demonstrators they are not pro palestinians they are palestinians but syrian of the many receive some of the same sort of. there are syrians along with those

palestinians there are syrians who are pro the palestinian cause actually demonstrating i guess the. chilly heard that sound syrian support for the palestinians but from what i know and from what i know is that from demonstrators who go to the other side of the border and demonstrate in support of the palestinians to try to get inside these palestinian refugees and the right context to look at what is happening now is the right of return for the palestinian refugees in syria sit there for forty eight they get no civil rights before they'd they kept quiet they didn't do anything because they are afraid of the regime in syria but now the regime in syria is getting weaker and weaker and in a straight protest all along all over syria it's easier also for the palestinians who are rest. and you never left or never gave up wish

to get back to their own homeland which is israel. yes they make use of the of the weakness of us as region in order to demonstrate and try to break the border and get inside israel so the blaming of our side is ridiculous i mean maybe he's not doing what he can to block them as the lebanese government is doing but it's also because his forces are heavily used to oppress the traitors instill. in this traitors against him not against israel ok so i think the right context is that what israel did is prevented the right of return for sixty years and for the first time in the history in the history of israel in palestine palestinian refugees are actually trying to get inside nonviolently and to remind the world that this. russia. is deeply concerned russia of course being part of

the middle east peace accord is deeply concerned with the escalation of tension and violence between israelis and palestinians really the need obviously to restart a peace process but do you think there you are in tel aviv israel will accept some sort of compromise. this is things like that at the moment the palestinian leadership the p.l.o. and the hamas which was always considered as the violence and terrorist that it was i mean no one thinks they're. different but at the moment they both try to call for peace they ask for international acknowledgement of of the palestinian state of the borders the city seven they're willing to negotiate and israel is showing the strongest hand possible and is getting ready. for the biggest recruitment to the to

the army for september so it seems like you know. like my side is blocked at the moment actually maybe i don't know if you've heard about it but ten thousand people demonstrated a saturday night just yesterday in a call for israel to acknowledge. the state of palestine think that is the state of palestine and they demonstrate intervene citizens in israel now understand that the government is actually carrying us down for into another war when it is totally not necessary. believe in that so we have time for thanks very much and as you said this he talks about the escalation of violence it is very. thank you so much i'm sorry we obviously clearly got a problem with the delay so thanks very much for joining us here on r.t. and i'm sorry about the delay in communication thanks for joining. syria is the top story in the world update state television there is reporting that one hundred twenty policeman have been killed in a gun battle in the north of the country officials claim security personnel came

under attack by ongoings in the town the turkish border government forces are trying to quell the month small protest against the rule of president bashar al assad. a former i.m.f. chief has pleaded not guilty to charges of sex crimes it was dominique strauss kahn's first appearance in a new york court since being released on six million dollars bail the frenchman is under house arrest an armed guard is detained three weeks ago and faces seven different counts including attempted rape of a hotel maid and found guilty he could spend up to twenty five years in prison. germany is still trying to find the cause of a deadly europe wide heartbreak of eternal life or a test carried out on this from a farm suspected of being the source of the bacteria came up negative the strain of so far killed twenty two people but over two thousand others forming ill russia has banned all fruit and vegetable imports. but if you missed something on our program you can always catch up on our web site it's r t v dot com there are plenty of

other stories and videos as well here's a quick taste of what's online at the moment. on our george w. bush and dick cheney ended up alongside hitler on the list of the worst people of all time put together by a us school. plus the naked truth a group of female activists in ukraine not national journalist day with a very hot protest against corrupt media watch more of this video you can go to our you tube channel. now the countdown has begun at the baikonur cosmodrome a revamped version of the soyuz spacecraft has been moved into position ready for blast off in just a few days carry three crew members to the international space station for a six month mission on board most remote placed in 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 seto she thought okawa met with press family and friends today through the glass in what was their last public appearance that mood was light as they talked about what they will miss most about their comforts of home. in face. was different rooms but the living room is the most first room and first bush said it was. of course fresh fruits and vegetables are the most valuable products of the year so this is frank toodles the most visited openings and the friends she. says. over forty scientific experiments will fill the crew's time at the i s.s. and as the on board physician cancer research will be undertaken by side toshi photo color he did give us some insight into what that will entail when times are so good. there if you hold on to your genesis. this

old growth is so you. can't use and this is. really cool chances now before this three leave the ground they've received some very fatherly advice from sergei volkov father alexander himself a cosmonauts so you have gone so i would give is not to go straight to the illuminated to take a look outside and move your head too much we might get space sickness seasickness and don't do some soul straightaway because you take care of yourself for the first few days you have a six month mission ahead when this crew takes off on day eight it will take them two days to dock out the i assess. well in a short while here in r.t. people of all of these guys will be debating what is better for the health of the eurozone bailout sort big for us well but for that dimitri we bring you all the latest business and stay with us for that here.

thanks bill hello and welcome to business starts promise fired a warning shot at the e.u. over the hotly debated russian gas deliveries to europe. they say miller says if the current price model does not suit european customers it will deliver its gas to asia instead i say cork at all said believes the remarks are intended to spur china rather than the e.u. . i think is very much stating the obvious in the sense that everybody knows that sooner or later gas from will start supplying gas to try and that will be quite significant because it's slightly less than half that of course now supplying to the e.u. . maybe even more seeing how it works out but. it's very much repeating the obvious maybe giving it a slightly different color kind of hue and it's also ahead of the economic forum in st petersburg where we would like to see some kind of

announcement or at least preliminary agreement between russia and china on gas lines. i was moved to the stock markets now and in the u.s. they are trading with a mine of the line and that's this fight straight weeks of losses this is a largely selling financials bank of america is down three point two percent this hour. european stocks surged traded mostly in the red for the folks who managed to correct just twenty one percent at the end of the day germany's dax was one point three percent driven life all the. bank stocks were also lower costs much of the board in europe lloyd's bag was three point eight percent lower in london at the close glencore international one of the biggest gainers in london up two point seven seven. russia's markets ended the first day of the week on a collapse a positive note with regard to your speed on four percent my stocks barely up. if

we look at the individual trading stocks on the my six will see that ross nevis gaining point one point nine percent rather despite falling oil prices banks were very good performers on monday despite the fact that globally the one doing so well by bank up point nine percent no most bank one point eight percent of the reported a one hundred fifteen million dollars profit in the first quarter is an example i think of from places comes. to stop talking about the performance we should talk about worst we see around the major theme or for you last week was. data from the u.s. economy which was the euro from britain today we've got a very slow market world in sort of what thirty percent of the usual volumes people are sleeping here and people well i mean we hear for the coming months i think from the european central bank official speech which shows the. cast strap

belo risk of finally be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel the country is one approval for a three billion dollar loan from russia added c.i.s. partners and salacious skyrocketed by twenty percent in five months forcing the government to freeze the food prices people have been desperately trying to buy foreign currency as the belarus ruble lost almost half of its value for the look at shanghai is also seeking financial help from the international monetary fund editor in chief of business new europe magazine ben heiresses where russia and the i.m.f. are pushing for market reforms in the country. is in a serious crisis i mean you could argue that the crisis is a ninety one. percent could put off. keeping tight control of the economy has finally arrived and they need money they need cash to keep keep the country afloat some have some money you know russians are through interest in term of buying and talking to the i.m.f. but of course in both cases they come with strings attached slightly different i mean the russians are pushing for privatization whereas the i.m.f.

will come with a different set of strains which will be about bureaucracy and pension reform and spending reform i think one of the interesting points is that you know russia has always subsidized the russian economy and when the increase the gas prices about three years ago those subsidies came to an end and this growth crisis is a result of in this sense russia is trying to put its relations with its neighbors on economic terms. and despite the high oil price near balanced budget russia seems unable to step aside wildflower central bank says five billion dollars fled the country in may with the annual total expected to be around thirty five billion dollars and this believe it's largely due to unattractive interest rates in the country. the figures for outflows in the last quarter of last year in the first five months of this year are being very discouraging of course and a little bit of a surprise it's one factor why the ruble today's a twenty eight twenty six to go when it should be about kind of level with one

hundred five hundred for the oil price i think there's some technical issues though that the interest rates in russia have not been attracted so that meant that a lot of entrepreneurs and one financial organizations put their money abroad quite sensibly as well i think also there is an element in this is just boring technical is that they need to refinance some of the foreign denominated debt and that goes with capital flight and it's not entirely however it is disturbing and some of it is you know a lack of confidence in the political situation here and money running abroad and saying well wait and see what happens and better be safe than sorry all right that's all from the business team for today john my colleague karina milligan she'll be here time if you're awake that of course stay with us you've had lots.

the close up team has been to the boulder grand reach thank you own the turning point i'm bringing more to. this time the party goes to the region where half of the area is occupied by a nature preserve. where the young generation transit in their ancestors camps and where the mysterious city of the deadlocks world come from republic of marcus edge of russia kazakhstan.