the great love these people have provided even one of the family every cut. we report from the from lloyd in athens as police fired tear gas at thousands of protesters furious at harsher cutbacks so greece can qualify for more international also. draw cools down from the ages european missile defense say that it wants a bigger role in this project all details in just a couple of minutes. iran confirms to russia its total renouncement of plans to possess nuclear weapons at

a summit they should leaders here in kazakhstan to join me for the details leader in the program. the west bring the deadly air superiority to yemen u.s. drones allegedly kill schools of civilians as the u.k. readies helicopters and to send to the rest of. internationalising come and live from our studios here in central moscow this is our t.v. greece is boiling point with police firing tear gas to crowds of protesters thousands of demonstrators are trying to block access to the parliament building where the government is discussing more cutbacks to secure the rescue learns first reports from inside the clashes that. the clashes between the police and the protest is

still going on at the time for the state. building. fired into the crowd you can see the dysfunction in following the feds flare that was killed at a time. people him watching it was going to go to the name of the police trying to find out the pilot still breaking out now if i see be not still i love the people on the street the scene i see people just implied with the gas must tell they really don't want anyone to feel that it's been said that the people who are behind the provoking the police the people still moving back into the central state even though you can disregard still think sets off by the place they turned out to protest against the proposal starting i said there i get a bad economic situation has been happening in that country and they would. probably have. turned violent it's still there and you can still happening in pakistan like this very moment that is absolute chaos of the state the

police force the place. had to take out something that so i can tell you is not a pleasant experience any kind of break up the numbers of people could. carry. people. today. many people are really nutty so. it's not the might relate to. the right then the police. going to be another round of take up some type of a. thing i want to feel nothing will. be self-serving say still standing right in the . rain but you still coming take a. girl may see right now it's very hard to tell because even afraid of the shit

they want to see this is a different. getting out of. the five. you've got to. you've got to. find. another thing at the moment a large number of these people are actually pretty grating the police he can see them. like he the phones are not the ones he tried to tell. me. we. still classy out the day but. i love the people who provide good even want to be filming every cut to you but. i was sarah further reporter there in the capital sarah still updating artie's twitter stream with details from inside the street protests there were a lot of tea underscores questions providing details now with links to the latest

analysis video pictures. and euro skeptic and british euro m.p. nigel for us as saving the banks is why politicians are so determined to bail greece and keep it in the euro zone. one of the reasons that everybody is so determined to keep greece in the euro is so that the banks don't have to take a serious hit all their faulty lending policies so there's something has gone seriously wrong with the banking system it's almost as if there's a little on the holy alliance of politicians and bankers versus all people i'm sure that's what the people on the streets of athens today feel like don't think the banking crisis is over i suspect but it's hardly begun and in many cases it might have been better to do what iceland did and say look these banks go bust these people lose their jobs these people lose their money that's unfortunate about life and i suspect we're going to regret keeping the banks afloat and imprisoning

countries like greece inside the current. the union to which they're just not suited. for coming up here in r t egypt's freedom to press the country's military rulers of the revolution that toppled president barack amid allegations of army abuses anger among citizens. u.s. missile defense plans for europe has suffered a setback prague is now refusing to take part in the system czech officials say they're not happy with washington's offers like she had a chef ski reports. brugge wants bigger role in this project the project of the european missile defense shield we understand that the initial plan mensah that only a preventive missile detection system would have been placed in the czech republic while major other major components of the system like the raider station or the missile anti-missile complexes in poland were meant to be placed in other countries

like turkey romania 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 seriously irritates mosco with many claiming that this plan was directed against russia the obama plan the plan seems 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 and the actions and moscow 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 a united joint defense system in europe is not working out so far with the statements by president reagan saying that in fact there are no legal guarantees that this system would not be used against russia because the route states which of 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 all this makes great serious concerns in moscow and the war of words continuous we are waiting for some comments to come from washington certainly but experts are now trying to guess whether this turnaround by the fact that the czech republic wants to withdraw from this project is somehow related to moscow's continuous voice of discontent on that issue. well let's go live to prague now and talk to young tomasz he's from the czech humanist movement thanks very much indeed for joining us there in prague on your web cam now you followed progs involvement in the missile defense plan for years you and i have been talking about this too over the last couple of years now why is the czech republic pulling out now. through difficult to say right now we only have information from one source from one press conference so maybe you will see more of your own the following few days right now we can only speculate what's behind this. from the information that i've read and seen is that the u.s.

reevaluating. the whole plan and decided to. make it part of of a broader nato project and. so there's no big important role in this new for the czech republic and therefore the czech republic here's the role that it should play in this new plan is not adequate and it would want a bigger role and therefore it calls out yes he said it wants a bigger role so it's actually a little premature to celebrate isn't it because apparently the czech officials have said that they want this bigger role in this missile defense system do you think that's going to be quite near in the future i mean what is it they're exactly looking for do you think is it perhaps some sort of lucrative side to this is about money or is it really about defense. well it is hard to say i would say there is some aspect related to money for sure i think. this project was initially estimated to cost somewhere around four billion u.s. dollars on u.s.

taxpayers money and that's a lot of money that would go to four or five minutes corporations mostly that would build this project for the u.s. military now the plan has somehow changed and now it should involve more nato countries but still the amount of money would i think remain in the same area in the same general area and so we're talking about a lot of money and it's possible that the czech minister of defense or the czech government wants a bigger piece of them. so you think your campaigning will have to continue then in the future. well i think we will continue for a long as it takes because from the polls that we've seen throughout the years it's clear that the czech people don't want such a thing here in this country we feel that this will actually undermine the security of both the czech republic and europe as a continent and so we think that it's completely contradictory to play such and such a system here in europe if it's some would say that the czech republic would be undermining nato by not being part of some form of missile defense system because obviously

it's a part of the nato alliance and it's got to be part of a defense system with nato. well i do believe that there's a better way for a true security not only for europe or the entire world and that is building on the international institutions that we have already in place most the united nations this project goes completely. aside of united nations is completely ignores this very important institution it only relies on on this military organization called me and i believe that is that is not going to make the world safer on the contrary it's going to increase tensions with china it's already made a lot of mess with the relations with russia and and it's not making the world safer it's actually making the international relations worse than they are on the other the argument is that there is making the world safer particularly europe because the argument is this european missile defense system is supposed to be

protecting europe from perceived tax from iran and north korea is that not a justified argument. those are claim that have been made claims that have been made but i believe they're completely groundless it's clear that if the program to north korea would decide to crack united states it would certainly not. across europe it would it would fire missiles eastward if iran would have such a capability and i'm not sure if it would but it doesn't have such a capability now so we're talking about some theoretical threat while in reality we do have some real threats so why don't we deal with the real threat why do we focus on some hypothetical i believe it's much much more important to focus on a real threat that exists right now on those threats that you put forward as you or i can what are your real threats the real threat for example is that this system without incorporating russia without talking to also other world super powers like

china like in the hour the following a superpower is that will be the biggest world economies in the the. it is really going to go a lot of tension on the global scale and so we should be wise and just started thinking about building the security mechanisms and structures that will include all the big superpowers not just some going to mass joining us live from prague on your webcam thanks very much for your time here r.t. thank you. iran says it has no plans to possess nuclear weapons a country of just been talking about with. interview the officials in iran say that during talks with russia at a key summit of asian countries they're saying that they do not pose any threats in terms of a nuclear weapon they've just wrapped up their meeting with leaders which focused on tackling the raft of economic curacy issues which currently face them and tests are cilia reports from that summit. on the sidelines of the

a shanghai cooperation organization summit russian president dmitri medvedev had sat down with eros mahmoud ahmadinejad in a closed door meeting and according to a foreign minister sergei lavrov an important statement had been made at that meeting. confirming to dmitri medvedev it's total renouncement of clients to assess of nuclear weapons and of course statement to be made at a time when there's a lot of international pressure on iran in this regard now russia had also raised the possibility of a more constructive cooperation between iran and be a five plus one nations referred to the a five permanent members of the u.n. security council plus germany as well as the importance of increasing transparency between iran and the international atomic energy agency now aside from the issue of the new its nuclear program and nuclear nonproliferation iran had also said that it is willing to work with s.d.o. members in it lifting u.n. sanctions now iran is seeking full membership by the c.e.o.

and the sanctions against it is proving to be a hurdle so it seems that iran is willing to work on this in order to clear the path for full membership into this group now aside from where the leader of iraq the president medvedev and also sat down with the president of afghanistan hamid karzai and as expected topping that meeting is to the issue of a drug trafficking and a drug production in afghanistan of course a very big a security issue for russia where ninety percent of the drugs in the country comes from afghanistan so russia willing to stand by afghanistan there in terms of investments in helping to rebuild the country. afghanistan. and its partnership with you can be closer as far as i understand it. is a country which hugely impacts. states yes syria has always been. an organization corporation. with different countries i'm sure

they were asked for the main a summit itself the c.e.o. had to produce a declaration at the end of it and they had come up with a common approach of composition to the situation in the middle east north africa and as expected that they had just said officially what they have been echoing for some time now that the international community's involvement in libya in particular should adhere to the international law specifically the u.n. security council resolution one thousand seven hundred seventy three which authorized the no fly zone and with regard to syria russian foreign minister sergei lavrov have issued a separate a statement saying that russia will not change its position that it is still against any military involvement in the country and it will not support any proposed u.n. resolution if syria previous c.e.o. had also made a statement on the missile defenses survey that said that they do the last roll missile defense system that meeting with decision made by one country or one move

on the matter is going to be dangerous threat to international stability and they have also said that members of the c.e.o. must adhere to with nuclear nonproliferation treaty so we'll get a vast vast a variety of important topics starting with discuss an agreed upon the shanghai cooperation organization summit. reporting there well full exclusive interview with the rolls nuclear envoy to the international atomic energy agency will be here for just over an hour from now. the west is weighing in to 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 commando squads for possible action. on this. they are becoming more and more involved whilst saying well the total 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 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 was like an escalation of involvement again as we've said so many times about libya the legality of this is extremely clear we are seeing u.s. drone attacks increasing numbers of u.s. drone attacks in in yemen and the reasoning for that is. according to u.s. forces is taking advantage of what's going and going on moving into this power vacuum which is being created since president left and went to saudi arabia for medical treatment moving into that the activity taking advantage of general civil unrest more support more and more territory so that's the reason for the u.s.

paying these 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 top of intelligence 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 where they like and of course we've now seeing president obama ok the use of cia drains our cia drones we have a much wiser much. lection of targets that they can take 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. that we hear is being built in the persian gulf region we're getting

reports about all the time that is in case the yemeni government falls to al qaeda and al qaeda no longer permit these drone attacks in the country they need a base. from which to fly they really are very much more involved in terms of both the u.s. and the u.k. . reporting there from london with other news from around the world the world. the story tellers and so that these fifteen alleged insurgents have been killed in a u.s. drone attack in northwest pakistan a series of strikes targeted a suspected militant compound near the main term in pakistan's tribal areas regions known for helping many insurgents who frequently carry out attacks against the government forces. syria is calling the refugees who fled to turkey to return to the term after the army moved in to crush the groups the government says it's regained control and will continue to pursue what it calls the remnants of terrorist groups eight thousand people left the town and the now in refugee camps

on the turkish border series of months of brutal crackdowns and protests to try to force the president to quit. a suicide car bomber struck a north east afghanistan near a governor's building killing seven including police officers the taliban's admitted the attack which targeted the french ambassador and the military convoy a separate code almost the same time south of the capital when a rocket was fired on a police training center was president an interior minister but there were no reported injuries. egypt's drive for democracy a thing fell's of arrests media censorship a state of emergency is replacing president mubarak what egyptians were hoping for after the if every revolution that holds well you know what there was a price worth paying the reports now 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 to amnesty international estimates at least eight hundred forty people were killed and more than six thousand wounded during the protests that forced the tyrant to step down. even of direct free country the resume for fear and frustration. right his brother was among fifteen young men killed in the violent religious strife but he 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 eleven 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 no one here has a weapon like this on a soldier's new it's hard to grasp what happened. rutted lames the army for taking

the life of his younger brother and the revolution for giving the army so much power. and as. we expected the army to intervene to protect people just while inside and instead they started to kill people themselves who didn't explode at all that 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 extract it all to find themselves under yet another one in military one power in egypt now since mubarak is out rest firmly in the hands of the military. they were sitting in literally in the pentagon war room when the twitter revolution started and they are running the show all there has been oldest question about

military power but this is a washington installed as i call it in my book called spectrum dominance totalitarian democracy the people who stood on that here is where we do bill and the regime that oppressed them for more than three decades was going to go how they're zero as they call the dictator would soon finally face justice for what he's done but most on the revolutionary euphoria has got 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 if the army continues to rule and the country sinks into blood from a civil war it's up to the people to decide him. once since to free it shook the hell the arab world it's clear the revolution i mean now do you part of history but if right he's far from over there if an option r t.

v will be exploring the network of u.s. military bases which spanned the whole world that will be our special report for you that will be after the business update with kareena stay with us. well welcome to business here in r.t. thanks for joining me this hour russia still struggling with the billion tating effects of the global economic crisis but expects its economy to fully recover by next year meanwhile prime minister putin says the country's already aimed at fulfilling bigger plans. just google for the next day you can you can make russia one of the five largest economies of the world and answer g.d.p. per capita to increase this figure from nineteen point seven thousand dollars to move in food for instance the people who do this we need to double productivity. material hard text three. thousand let's take

a look at how the markets are doing or as near one hundred dollars per barrel as us supplies for more than expected concerns about rising demand are supporting the price as the american petroleum institute reported a decline in u.s. interest for the last week limiting gains though it's news that u.s. retail sales are not as bad as expected or that u.s. stocks continue to fall as investors are concerned about the worsening debt crisis in greece both the dow jones and nasdaq aloose are losing over half a percent the price of consumer goods rose in may as the cost of food clothing autos and housing all accelerated offsetting the first drop in energy prices in eleven months here in russia markets closed in the red on wednesday with both key indexes likely lower the r.t.s. last point three percent and the miles it was down around point two percent so now let's have a look at some of the individual share moves energy majors will mostly lower gas probably lost more than a percent of british point nine percent of the red in the electricity sector into

raw was higher on reports about the company's company's possible cooperation with chinese from china one. russian presidential corp air cases gen y. has boosted its net profit by thirty percent to one hundred untrue until million dollars in the first quarter of two thousand and eleven the company says the results reflected stronger income growth from its core assets or operations on the wide range of companies including controlling stakes in russian talk more about operator m.t.s. and or company bash left. and that's it for this hour but don't forget you can always log on to our web site r.t. got. it with.

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