in greece police used tear gas against thousands of protesters trying to block access to parliament where the government is debating a new cutbacks needed to secure yet another international bad. economy to security the leaders of russia china iran and afghanistan joined central asian counterparts for a key summit focusing on the challenges facing the richer. heads of states here in kazakhstan also plan to beyond regional issues calling for nonmilitary resolutions to conflicts in north africa and the middle east join me for the

details later in the program. and to democracy or yet another dictatorship the alleged brutal methods of egypt's military rulers force people to question if the revolution actually brought a change for the better. and in business this hour russians are russia's small banks that were at the beginning and in the form of the fund set up to help them compete with the big guns of banking i'll bring the full story in our business bulletin and around twenty minutes time. here with r.t. live from moscow now the greek police have fired at protesters attempting to block off access to the parliament in athens over twenty thousand angry demonstrators were trying to prevent employees from. voting on you are there any measures needed

to secure all bailout from the e.u. . is on the phone from with the greek capital i'm now joined i sent the. police a farming to protest it's getting ugly out there what do you know. the city have always been since the morning when the protests were tiny even. that instance i'm always trying. to trying to mimic because it's so much closer to home with. what. you think you can actually cause which film it's hard to see why not just. try to get. it incredibly changing every little trick in. the way. through the poverty. line it's

a lot of people like taking. action . a lot of people are just another two. weeks waiting she really. just wanted to read because there was a. pre-school so father takes care of the charity. so we're here till the eldest three the criticism is free parking is. just people we've been speaking to. they feel like. a problem. in a politician's culture that we can share a little bit more about it. they

followed a racist. base of the stairs and i said it was i think he was licensed by even more people seem to forget i say since rights as a muslim started to complete. all of the bills a speculation that these crisis was done by it was in the past to say muslims feel sometimes as he would speak if i don't see the right thing to see the police and they said that just. freeze the boys they said this is really building for years i read that and they still said he's simply phoenix no he means the series he says it's a list of sources in the government not only from. him was in the cars in the cars itself one of the prime ministers but that's assigning isn't so but they held that

was the means the first. policy based event history column in the fall that will be necessary so if that's even more money and if i don't see the baby coming out the details of that finance plan that's right for the past year area friends people if that happens it's at the top it's to me why if the case in full the year i say. we say can something i said there's a lot of people are saying that is really fine the choice of us here is that you buy the i am that and we either provided that it is so bad up money to keep the hunton said billy and you start looking beyond the pale needle it's a plan b. because a lot of people are saying it's me i'm really sick sick sick sick sick pay back up putting up a post. the other come to think. that greece will be allowed to.

they say that on the. night that they. had a cup of tea and i did. not get them ready they think. that it come in late and they. will. have already when they went back on the street the price that. no country got had to wait maybe you don't have the book to see anymore and that's really why and also. be updated throughout the day the protests about. how to serve for the reporting from the greek. group influential central asian states including the regional heavyweights russia and china are meeting in cuts expire on syria to discuss the fight against terrorism in an area with more than its fair share of the issues with pakistan and afghanistan in the neighborhood as

well the shanghai cooperation organization faces a number of challenges. following the i know gathering in astana times a good to see you up to me treatment beautifies i once again stressed the security remains the group's issue of how the leaders planning to tackle threats in the region what you know. well that's right and it's not just president to mention it in fact all the leaders that were here that had given statements did to stress the importance of tackling security regional and international together they did release a statement which echoes what they've all been saying in the past on the situation in north africa and the middle east specifically in libya they had again that called for the international community and those involved in the conflict there to a strictly adhere to the u.n. resolution nine hundred seventy three and one nine hundred seventy two for furthering the conflict that's going on there and with regard to syria for minister sergei lavrov issued a separate statement on. saying that russia's position has not changed and that

they are against a resolution on syria and for any military involvement in that area now with regard to regional security some of the countries china for instance has expressed that it is worried that there are still growing separatism and extremism in their country and other countries have expressed that as well and therefore they would like to carry on the counterterrorism efforts and even expand it not just to tackle the traditional threats that they've seen over the years but also to bring it to the internet to cyberspace to be they were calling on border security idea they are now of course as you said earlier the presence of of ghana's said here certainly has brought it to the front line of the security in afghanistan to the regional security afghanistan so nato future has been repeated over and over here some of the nations have expressed doubts in the past as to whether i've got a son who's really ready to handle the situation on its own however today president hamid karzai had said that again assad is willing to take that responsibility and

that they are ready when nato troops are withdrawn expectedly into twenty four thirteen and so they again here is an important issue that they all put their all stressing here bring it up again and one other issue in afghanistan is that drugs now this is a big issue for russia on the table for some time now because ninety percent of the drugs in russia does come from a stand and get hamid karzai has stress and understands that he needs to work together with his partners and to me she knew that if has stressed again how important this is for us to listen to what he has to say. afghanistan. is a country with. b.s.e. has always been and i'm sure.

president most feared of reiterated the importance of got his participation here is the dialogue especially in relation to the drug problem which really is threatening a big country is a security hole so they have calling for non military resolution to the problems that afghanistan is facing have because i said it's really willing to ask for a long term help even after nato was god including from its partner the usa and another of course a big issue here is the economy now our president did of us stress that a decision should be made faster on that special account for which the countries will draw their funding for big projects which include railway communications even building universities so this he sees it is a fundamental project that they really have to get along with now another statement asio has made is that a unilateral missile defense system unilateral meaning just by one country or by

one group is certainly going to be a threat to international security and also they are calling on their members to adhere to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty interestingly enough iran to be here makes for interesting discussion as you know iran has a controversial nuclear program so this requirement of a hearing to the nonproliferation treaty would be part of that requirement to join as a member of the iran certainly is looking for membership so it's interesting to see what will be said on this matter from both sides from d.s.t.o. and iran and other countries that are seeking to our joy. and of course being. the russian president dmitri. i think we can expect. certainly president. mahmoud ahmadinejad of iran will be meeting on the sidelines and expectedly to talk

about agenda is the controversial nuclear program as well as a bilateral agreements on how to tackle the threats that they face both in terrorism and separatist issues so we're looking forward to a conversation that he agreements called me to come out of also president of will be meeting with afghanistan separately and we expect that the broad topics of being brought up in plenary session will again be brought up drugs topping the agenda as well as the big investments that russia is planning to bring into the country because russia is is keen on helping afghanistan and through the problems that they will be facing continue the efforts of rebuilding the country so. thank you very much. well you are watching r t and are still ahead for you in the program why is it that the u.s. is building a secret cia drone base in the persian gulf to fight militants in yemen.

now the jailing of at least seven thousand people by egypt's military rulers will be reviewed by the nation's interim leaders amid allegations of torture and abuse the behavior of the army since taking over from after hosni mubarak is causing anger amongst those who took part in the revolution when you're skeptical whether the generals are able or even willing to bring about the democratic changes so many died for parties or if an officer reports. hastily egypt never sleeps the eighteen day uprising that ousted president mubarak has more can out the hell nation these has become a common scene here and this two. amnesty international estimates at least eight hundred forty people were killed and more than six thousand wounded during the protest that forced the tyrant to step down and even of direct free country the reason for the fear and frustration. read his brother was among fifteen young men

killed in the violent religious strife and his cairo just weeks after the revolution egyptian christians and muslims clashed following reports that a young christian woman was kidnapped and held in a coptic church after she married a muslim and converted to islam even though he was a christian coptic it wasn't a muslim that's killed read his brother lemon as a rebel and army sniper shot my brother dead the bullet went through his forehead and it came out on the other side and i saw it and no one here has a weapon like this on this old is new it's hard to grasp what happened. rutted lames the army for taking the life of his younger brother and the revolution from giving the army so much power. we expected the army to intervene to protect people just don't whine and spray but instead they started to kill people themselves who didn't expect that all of that it was the people of egypt didn't

expect many things they didn't expect the economy to collapse they didn't imagine the path to a free and democratic society would be such a bloody and painful one they just wanted to free from dictatorship and didn't expect it all to find themselves under get another one in military one the power in egypt now or since mubarak is out rest firmly in the hands of the military chiefs of staff. they were sitting literally in the pentagon war room when the twitter revolution started they are running the show there has been an old displacement about military power but this is a washington installed as i call it in my book full spectrum dominance took our theory and democracy the people who stood on to here's where we do that the regime of the press them for more than three decades was going on how pharaoh as they call the dictator would soon finally face justice for what he's done but months on the

revolutionary euphoria has done as well and people are asking themselves was that's really was the hundreds of victims and did they really get a better country in. egypt is at the crossroads if you go towards chaos or democracy the worst scenario would be of the army continues to rule in the country sinks into blood from a civil war it's up to the people to decide. months since the for the whole arab world it's clear the revolution i mean now be part of history the be fight is far from over brief notion r t. let's get some more the situation in ija. the former israeli ambassador in cairo joining us now live from tel aviv so more than seven thousand people have been arrested in egypt since in the months since the revolution began what kind of signal do you think is the country's interim military rule sending to its people.

trying to show or to ask. why let everybody know the. care or see you need you to write you know. the decision makers are not there or a tool ruled the country but you're saying it's chaos in egypt right now has the as the popular uprising resulted in the kind of change that people in egypt are fighting and dying for do you think. with the new not here by mistake of many call it the revolution in egypt but the. in the egyptian street to my understanding comes from the fact that there is no revulsion and there are no reforms. expected by the people who started the demonstrations so. it kind of.

no no move. in egypt to. as against the. people in the streets. and that's why there is more uncertainties. in the whole area here or it's the instability is running chaos in the region as you say but let's talk about the end game here the possible optimistic peter egypt is holding elections in september do you think back end up in it with a traditional style democracy as envisaged by washington or could we see some quite different form of government. well i'm sorry to say to say that to my opinion washington is naive about. the developments in egypt and in the middle east they call it the middle east springtime but i see more called that than ever before and they're lections in the

immediate in september for the for the parliament. or not going to bring any democracy to egypt on the contrary i am afraid that the outcome of the elections will bring to the problem in a majority of the muslim brotherhood and egypt will go backwards to no islamisation then democrat ization as washington and israel expect and wish all right allan israeli ambassador to egypt life thank you. well you have live from moscow now yemen's government says that dozens of people have been killed in u.s. drone attacks in the country over the last few weeks many of them being civilians washington recently resumed its unofficial military campaign against al qaeda

terrorists the feeling they may exploit the current unrest in yemen to seize power the cia is also reportedly building a secret base in the persian gulf to target militants and is aussie's a guy in a chicken says introducing a cia spooks will move the operation into the legal shadows. the decision to task the cia with chasing down al qaeda in yemen marks a major escalation of america's covert war in yemen which is not really covert it's one of the on an undeclared wars that the u.s. is waging against terror but up to this day in yemen it's been the u.s. military that was running the show that was carrying out the drone strikes sort of in cooperation with the yemeni counterterrorism units but now that power vacuum and all the political turmoil in yemen the cooperation is falling apart and according to u.s. officials because the cia operates under different legal authorities than the military the cia will have quote greater latitude to carry out strikes no matter

what the political climate fear greater latitude in other words they don't have to ask anybody's permission to bomb the country. right there now of the czech republic has reportedly pulled out of the us defense missile plan for europe defense minister told reporters the decision was made out of frustration with the country's minor role in the project of the bush administration first proposed stationing shield elements in poland and the czech republic to protect europe from any potential attack from iran russia angrily objected saying the plan threaten its own security and warned that it would station its own missiles in the baltic region if the project went ahead later the obama administration it shelved that plan and offered a new reconfigured program for a smaller role with the czechs now proud he says it wants to take part but not in this way. well you can always catch up to the stories we're covering online and artsy dot com plenty for you to explore for example as nato continues its

humanitarian bombing campaign in libya people in the oil rich country say they're being robbed of both fuel supplies and safety. and the deep sea vessels in geneva waters find out how and why two russian mini subs went to the bottom of one of europe's largest lakes dot com. ok without you live from moscow let's check out some other headlines from around the world for you this hour and pakistan's the top spy agency has arrested five people accused of informing the cia ahead of the raid in which bin ladin was killed and the owner of a safe house rented by the cia to watch bin laden's compound is believed to be one of the detainees another is an army major who reportedly copied the license plate numbers of cars visiting the al qaeda leader's compound but director of the cia raised the issue during a surprise visit to pakistan last. syria says it's now

safe for thousands of people who fled the violence. and they are now they are returning over eight thousand civilians have taken refuge in neighboring turkey following a military crackdown on the uprising against president bashar al assad the government says that security and communications have been restored in the town as well as electricity and water and meanwhile according to reports the crackdown is still widening across certain border areas. the u.n. has accused the sudanese government of blocking aid deliveries to thousands of people fleeing fighting in the disputed region and us president barack obama has called for a cease fire following a devastating bombing campaign near the north south border almost one hundred fifty thousand people have been displaced on either side of the border because of tensions ahead of south sudan's formal independence which comes into force on the ninth of july. ok time now for the business with katrina.

hello and welcome to the business bulletin here on r.t. russia's midsized banks look just look set to get a helping hand to the tune of one billion dollars the international financial corp is creating a new fund to support capitalization for lenders funny and hard to compete with the country's financial giants the russian government will invest fifty million dollars whereas the rest is to be provided by foreign investors richard haynesworth from the rating agency russ raising believes demand will be high. a fund like this is a mechanism for distributing the risk to the foreign and to any investor so an investor putting money into the fund. takes a risk on all of the bites not on any one particular group so even if an investor may be worried about the risk of a small i mean particular small rough and bright the category of small things these

are actually quite certain on the profitability of russian rights is very hot i think there will be a lot of foreign investors who would be very interested in this initial. attempt look at how the markets are performing crude is struggling for direction concerns about rising demand of supporting the profits as the american petroleum institute reports a decline in u.s. infantry's for the last week limiting gains so is the news that u.s. retail sales are not as bad as expected here appear in markets have made a soft stop for the day concerns are discussions about a bailout package for greece maybe more attractive than originally thought are also souring sentiment the banks especially are way down by the inability of the e.u. officials to come to an agreement over grades the footsie is currently down point one percent sorry for these down point four percent and the day also down from four percent. and here in russia the markets have started to rally after a subdued start to trading with both my sense and the r.t.s.

well over one percent this hour. let's have a look at some of the individual share moves energy majors bounce back from earlier losses with gazprom almost a percent our banks are also gaining spare bank point eight percent in the black supported by reports it's more than double the net profit in the first five months of the year and the electricity sector into route is on the rise on reports about the company's possible corporation with chinese firms shanshu of. russia is full speed ahead and its bid to become europe's. largest car market and foreign carmakers are getting in on the act six leading producers of agreed to strongly boost russian output in exchange for tax benefits each of them has to produce three hundred thousand vehicles a year it's not the russian market can handle that ambitious figure because it's still relatively unsaturated. if you look at the current age of the car park if you look at the current. number of cars current habitants.

russia is still a long long way to go to reach the levels like you have in other european countries now and this of course is the great potential that makes russia direct before. and volkswagen has agreed to jointly produce new cars with gas group which makes because l. and vulgar brands total investment will be up to two hundred million euros with the german company contributing more than half that amount the firms will assemble volkswagen and skoda models the first vehicles a g.m. to roll off the production line this is also the head of jazz group explains why the company has chosen volkswagen as a partner we have been very successful with our l.c.d. production and sales. secondly we had a nice you want to do with or personal. capacity and here we look at different options simple joy getting became the best option. and in this deal we will produce on the term joe's and vehicles for eighty years folks are

going to and we did invest some goes for opiates i mean your. the russian government has put its shares in s. seven airlines up for sale for the third time this time the company is being valued at two hundred sixty two million dollars making it's twenty five and a half the same blocking stake worth sixty seven million this is about a third cheaper than when it was put up the same in two thousand and seven analysts believe continued negative sentiment towards russia's aviation industry is behind the failure to sell its stake in the past and action will begin on the twenty seventh of july. business for the summit you always have find our stories online about si dot com forward slash business marina will be back in just under an hour but star kareena will be here in just under our stay with us for headlines next.

more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet this is and hard to dots and people have to be aware that they're far away from civilization sean combs discovers what makes on chart because so special and instructive for many life in antarctica is opposing and from the. expedition to the bottom of the earth artsy. wealthy.