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carry collection ramon the close of the on the maidens hotel to the leela park blows a movie don't notice and shift he was punished for taper cush permits. police fired tear gas at thousands of protesters who are furious at the hotshot cutbacks to qualify for yet another international aid. praga pulls out of helping america's european missile defense shield czech republic refuses to host facilities. in iran and confirms to russia it has no plans to possess a nuclear weapon said this happening during a key summit of asian leaders. in the west bringing deadly superiority to yemen u.s. drones allegedly kill schools that's to billions as the u.k. where these helicopters are going to come on days to send to the rest of region. and business the sa russ's midsized banks are set to get

a helping hand from the new funds that will help them compete with the country's financial giants bringing you the full story out this is important in terms of its . global news cliver from moscow this is r.t. on the research a welcome to the. program greece is that boarding point with police firing tear gas at crowds of angry protesters thousands of demonstrators are trying to block access to the parliament building where the government is discussing more cutbacks to secure a father rescue learns. is watching events unfold in athens. we did see clashes between the police and the process is just a little while ago a the police are letting take us into the crowd not still quite you can really feel that take us through such a state and in fact the square when it happened a lot of people trying to clear the area that a lot of people they say there was

a major question that was happening a lot of people caught up in that were actually is that being quite how does that is just what happened we were slightly further back and it happened very very quickly though speaking to one protester hey he said you know the people who were involved in provoking the police what did you know about that. i know for sure that . they were. provoked the police was. throwing stuff on them and then make them fight back to the real protest and that's how the system breaks. the fence lines and this endeavor by the home and we don't want to send everybody home because we want to stay here and fight. and everything we have works. and that's how the the bridge difference that's very interesting speaking earlier

today the organizing for the work is the new city may need you will deny the protests today and they said the same thing that until the end of keen until they see the faces right now they want these places to be peaceful and safe from what we think they have been relatively safe this violence breaking out when you get a sixteen point lead they get involved in just that and pulls this trouble. i think it's the basis of both places. at sixteen percent unemployment in. the latest i mean. this is the fault of the bank and the politicians and.

the reporting from the greek capital where there are plenty of ways to do it yourself and what's happening in athens you can just head for our twitter page where it r.t. underscore. details along with links to the latest analysis videos and pictures. all economic analyst and international lawyer. told us here it out to you that it's only the banks who benefit from the bailout. you don't help someone who isn't that much dead by giving them even more. now what seems to be happening to you is a massive transfer of wealth we're giving a transfer of. people across europe paying taxes lending it to the greek taxpayer. who is there in the middle of the investment banks hedge funds pension funds who were little bit too silly to lend to greece at a time when they thought all of the eurozone sovereign risk was exactly the same so one would hope greece only to be extent that it will prevent

a chaotic default at this point in time it will help keep our banks afloat. pension system afloat for the time being. and while greeks make their anger known about facing further cuts germans are no less furious about having to pay for it again next hour german and peter says that that's why you countries should take responsibility for themselves. in the treaties. it was regulated that there must be any bailout because. otherwise. you will. ruin the public finances of those countries who are contributing to it. as long as each country is responsible for its budget it has to take full

responsibility and the only right answer to that is no bailout. you without your life in moscow and coming up soon in egypt's freedom to oppress the country's military rulers are towering over the revolution that toppled president mubarak allegations of army abuses sparking anger among citizens. now a u.s. missile defense plans for europe have suffered a major setback prague is now refusing to take part in the system check officials say they're not happy with washington's offer let's get more details on this now. one. european missile defense shield supposed to be a key aspect of u.s. foreign policy why exactly are the czechs now scuttling washington's plans. well we understand according to the czech defense minister that brock wants a bigger role in this project the project of the european missile defense shield we

understand that the initial plan meant so that only a preventive missile detection system would have been placed in the czech republic while major other major components of the same. like the radar station or the missile anti-missile complexes in poland were meant to be placed in other countries like turkey romania and poland so the defense minister of the czech republic claims that now prague will be seeking a much more important role in this project asking washington to have a radio station either or a missile called place to be placed in this central european state it is very interesting that this turnaround happens now especially given the the upsets and the disappointments which have been voiced by moscow over the past few years in relation to this new defense plan by the obama administration worked out several years ago we are waiting for some comments to come from washington certainly but experts are now trying to guess whether this turnaround the fact that the czech

republic wants to withdraw from this is somehow related to moscow's continuous voice of discontent on that issue yes we know this whole missile defense shield is supposed to protect from rogue states such as iran but it was just weeks ago that i know some of the russian president who said you know come on guys the missile system is blatantly targeting russia and as a result moscow has been trying to cooperate with the u.s. and nato want to joint system is that what you're developing is that getting anywhere. well that has been talked about for the past several years certainly we know that there was an initial plan by the bush administration which was scrapped by the obama administration when he came to office in two thousand and nine the. year it's a small school with many claiming that this plan was directed against russia the obama plan seemed to be much better seem to be much more convenient for all sides in that but in the past several years we've seen lots of contradictions between the words in the actions and mosco is still pretty much unhappy about the way this project is being carried out saying that on many occasions washington does

something without the consent so the initial plan of the united joint defense system in europe is not working out so far with the statements by of the. you mentioned statements by president reagan saying that in fact there are no legal guarantees that this system would not be used against russia because the rogue states which this missile defense system should be protecting europe from do not have the missiles which the system is intended for those missiles only are in possession of russia so clearly old this makes great serious concerns in mosco and the war of words continues we'll have to wait and see whether this particular turnaround by the czech republic is somehow related to the to the. discontent in mosco but clearly we are waiting for more developments on this story and in particular comments from the pentagon in particular all right. live from kiev thank you. now iran says it has no plans to possess nuclear weapons this happening

during talks with russia a key summit of asian countries they've just wrapped up their meeting with leaders which focused on tackling the raft of economic and security issues which face them . something for us and bring us up to. quite a statement from president dimitri medvedev one of the details what do you know on this. along the meeting between russian president dmitri medvedev and identified it was a closed door meeting however afterwards prime minister for foreign minister that is did come out and said that and confirmed that mahmoud ahmadinejad's did confirm to a president medvedev that iran is going is that is in total renouncement of plans to possess nuclear weapons and there you have it the word said that according to mr lavrov had come from my dinner job now this is important because the nuclear powered nonproliferation has been

a major topic here at the summit as well as the controversial nuclear program of iran and also discussed at that meeting is the. plan of iran to work with the members the six men. burs here in order to get rid of the u.n. sanctions because the u.s. has really proving to be a hurdle. for membership but aside from president get it also met with. of course the drug situation in the country which is threatening to security russia as well as the potential business deals between the two countries big deals apparently because russia is willing to contribute a lot to the rebuilding of the country. coming from the iranian president. with security one of the region's. chief today.

that's right where we actually have a whole range of important issues that are happening in the world today as expected they had been a very vocal about the situation in north africa and the middle east and they have come up with an official statement which does reflect what they have been saying all along that the international. involvement in those parts of the world really have to adhere to international law particularly in libya they are calling for the troops there calling for nato particular to adhere to the u.n. resolution one hundred seventy three of nine hundred seventy that had allowed for the no fly zone over libya they do not agree with further military involvement in such situations also foreign minister lavrov had issued a statement on syria saying that russia has not and will not change its position on the matter and that russia would be against any u.n.

resolution on the syria again security in the region that was at the top of the agenda and they want to continue terrorism b.b.b. have been holding a lot of joint military operations. from what they have been saying today it is expected that they will continue these but also they want to bring the fight to cyberspace they also want to come up with security. presence of here has been very important it has brought a lot of issues to the table afghanistan is here as a guest and they want to be observer to the c.e.o. one of the key issues is the post made to a future of the country that he's members do believe that the stability of afghanistan is essential to stability be entire region and president hamid karzai had specifically said despite doubts of the past of the country's us and its ability to handle the situation in the country after nato leaves scars i had said that they are willing to take the responsibility and they are ready to handle the

situation also they have called for nato would foreign troops in the country to adhere to afghan law and he said that they are currently in a negotiation us is exactly how to win this and also of course topping that agenda with regard to afghanistan is the drug situation this is very important for russia and they have all acknowledged that they have to come up with a common strategy in dealing with this president the head of reiterating again and again how important this is for russia let's hear what he had to say on the matter . afghanistan. is a country with hugely important. information . now on the economic front one of the biggest areas they've been discussing

president medvedev had said that they have really have to hurry up in making a final decision on that special account that special funding that they want to set up which will be the source of the fire. a lot of the big projects that they have. clues of massive a railway projects pipelines as well as land communication and so this president did have said they have to get this go away and also they have made a statement on the fact that a unilateral missile defense system is going to be a threat to international security. they need a decision made by one country or by one group and also they had insisted that the members of the. nuclear nonproliferation treaty again the interesting because iran had been present and iran with its controversial nuclear program would have to adhere to that because it really is becoming a member of the ads. have explicitly expressed their intent to become full

members and it is hoped that by joining the c.e.o. this will ease the a rather tense relationship between the two countries so i think seems like the major. issues that. we are keeping a close eye on the asian summit with regular. among the. moves to become a member of the shanghai group. with the u.s. . also online a supernova. planetarium finally.

you are with let's get to some other news from around the world for you this hour and pakistani intelligence says at least ten alleged insurgents were killed in a u.s. drone attack in northwest pakistan a series of strikes targeting of a suspected militant compound near the main town of pakistan's south waziristan tribal area the region is known for housing many taliban insurgents who frequently carry out attacks against the government forces. syria is calling on refugees who fled to turkey to return to the town they abandoned after the army moved in to crush armed groups the government says it regained control and will continue to see what it calls the remnants of terrorist groups eight thousand people left the town and are now in a refugee camps on the turkish border syria has endured months of brutal crackdowns on protests to try and force the president to quit. a suicide car bomber has struck in northeast afghanistan near a governor's building killing seven including police officers the taliban's

admitted the attack which targeted the french ambassador and a military convoy a separate attack occurred at almost the same time south of the capital when a rocket was fired on a police training center the vice president and interior minister with there but there were no reported injuries. well the west is that weighing in yemen's ongoing unrest with deadly force officials in the troubled country say u.s. drone strikes have killed over one hundred people including civilians in the past two weeks now the u.k. is preparing attack helicopters and commanders squads for possible action in yemen . that has more on this from london. they are becoming more and more involved saying all the time but we don't want to get any more involved in the conflict in yemen any more involved in libya than we can help it any more involved in the middle east as a region as a whole apaches attack helicopters we've seen them in in general. in iraq and in afghanistan and of course most recently in libya where involvement was seen as

a marked escalation in the involvement of u.k. and french nato troops very low flying so the likelihood of casualties is much increased. presence there and it does need like an escalation of involvement again as we've said so many times about libya the legality of this is extremely. we are seeing u.s. drone attacks increasing numbers of u.s. drone attacks in yemen and the reasoning for that is. according to u.s. forces is taking advantage of what's going in going on that and moving into this power vacuum which is being created since president saleh left and went to saudi arabia for medical treatment moving into that being the activity taking advantage of general civil unrest to grab more support more territory the reason for the u.s. paying these drone attacks that's how it's justifying it but of course that power vacuum works both ways interestingly the u.s.

forces the military forces used to cooperate with the president on who to attack and when intelligence that kind of these kinds of territorial issues but now the u.s. can easily say that there's no authorities with with whom to cooperate the government is essentially not in operation anymore so if they if they wanted to one would have thought that they could just go ahead and they like and of course we've now seeing president obama. use cia drone sound cia drones will have a much more you really missed much. of targets that they can they can we've also heard reports from a deputy provincial governor in yemen saying that one hundred thirty people have been killed in drone attacks just in the last month and that many of them were. what appear to be innocent civilians and then of course the last thing is this secret cia base for drones that we hit is being built in the persian gulf region we're getting reports of that all the time and that is in case the yemeni government falls to. no longer permit these drone attacks in the country they need

a base with which from from which to fly there is really very much more involved in terms of both the u.s. and the u.k. . egypt's drive for democracy has seen thousands of arrests media censorship and a state of emergency all of this since replacing president mubarak it's not what adoptions were hoping for after the february revolution left hundreds dead many wonder whether the price was worth paying for national reports from cairo. egypt never sleeps. the eighteen day uprising that ousted president mubarak has woken up 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 protests that forced a tyrant to step down but even in free country the reason for fear and

frustration. right his brother was among fifteen young men killed in the violent really just drive 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 but even though he was a christian coptic it wasn't a muslim that killed a man his brother. and my brother dead a bullet went through his forehead and it came out on the side and i saw it was no one here has a weapon like this on this old. it's hard to grasp what happened. russia blames the army for taking the life of his younger brother and the revolution from giving the army so much power. and as. we expected the army to intervene to protect people

just don't milans free but instead they started to kill people themselves who didn't expect that at all that if 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 and to get another one in military one the power in egypt now since mubarak is out rest firmly in the hands of the military chiefs of staff. they were sitting in 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 to democracy the people who stood on deaf ears where we do bill and the regime that oppressed them for more than three decades was going. pharaoh as they call the dictator would

soon finally face justice for what he's done but months on the revolutionary euphoria has gone as well and people are asking themselves was that really was the hundreds of victims and did they really get a better country in. egypt is at the crossroads it could go towards chaos or democracy the worst scenario would be if the army continues to rule and the country sinks into blood from a civil war it's up to the people to decide. months since the free it shook the hell the arab world it's clear the revolution may now be part of history defined as far from over there if an ocean r.t. carries a. little bit later here on r.t. we explore the network of u.s. military bases which span the whole world that's after the business are tied with katrina. i.

however welcome to our business bulletin this hour russia's mid-sized banks looks 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 lead to finding it hard to compete with countries financial giants now the russian government will invest fifty million dollars whereas the rest is to be provided by foreign investors which attains worth from the rating agency russ rating believes demond 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 a fund. takes a risk on all of the banks on any one particular part so even if an investor may be worried about the risk of very small i mean particular small russian banks the category of small buying these are actually quite certain on the profitability of

russian banks is very hot i think there will be a lot of foreign investors who would be very interested in this initiative. let's take a look at how the markets are performing crude is struggling for direction concerns about raising rising to modest supporting the prices the american petroleum institute reports a decline and us an intolerance for last week limiting gains though it's the news that the u.s. retail sales are not as bad as expected. the european markets are losing ground with worries about greece regaining a momentum french banks are down after a related review of their ratings by moody's investor service and shares of swedish retailer hands and more it's going to see the salts. here in russia the markets brace turning against trading in the red this hour let's have a look at some of the individual share moves energy majors bounce back from earlier losses were gassed up one point point three percent banks are also gaining spare bank is up forty four percent supported by reports it's more than double that

profit in the first five months of the year electricity sector into rao is on the rise of reports about the company's possible cooperation with chinese saying one. russian financial corporation. has boosted its net profit by thirty percent to one hundred two million dollars in the first quarter of twenty eleven the company says the results reflected that income. from its core assets and all operations sistema owns a wide range of companies including controlling stakes in russian top level operator m.t.s. an oil company passionate. russia is full speed ahead in trying to become europe's largest car market foreign carmakers are getting in on the act six leading manufacturers will each try to produce three hundred thousand vehicles a year in return for tax breaks it's an ambitious target but one which analysts

think the and saturated market can cause. if you look at the car and each of the car parts if you look at the current serving number of cars per inhabitants there are russia is still a lot a long way to go to reach levels like you have in the eastern european countries alone and this of course is the great potential that makes russia turkey for this and that's your business i'll pay for that but i'll be back with more in about forty five minutes from now stay with us for headline news.