policies are going to be implemented. and of course the greek government is an accomplice to this of popular sovereignty i mean we're not one of anymore in the proper sense a sovereign country when the i.m.f. can dictate policy with the european when peaceably and the european union and the i.m.f. the so-called troika can come and say listen these are these are the measures you're going to implement you are going to implement them whether you like it or not we can see you know we were facing a very peculiar form of dictatorship by the european union the european central bank and the i.m.f. finance chiefs a desperate not to see the first year raising suffering default and they're rising concerns about the crisis that could trigger throughout europe i think very chance of a domino effect if. there are no answered the full this is their problem and this is the reason why the europeans are helping greece but in

fact we are here pingers because they don't want this domino effect and because they want to take all very short of greece. sixteen percent of the quick what full sun employees western economic conditions here increased the euro is a dream same's is a. want to listen to the people worse off than it would be full of. people up there were uprising or there would be a lot of violence in the streets the people said that when that turning out into the streets and then millions and the government continues to push ahead with the pace measures when they deign to have democracy anymore the government is trying to govern but the people refuse to be governed in this way every day that disconnect becomes more and more dangerous business a peaceful pay above the reef tops and nothing's really a world away from what's been happening on the streets recently the quest. a lot of

people you know just when will reach boiling point lenny when he was on the streets of athens to witness the violence that is already past that point the question a lot of people are now asking is really how much does this guy. was on the streets of athens when violent protests hit the capital you can read all about the revolt. blog you find it on our website at. greeks now face the prospect of financial cuts and tax rises talking up to twenty eight billion euro but european parliament member says it's actually banks who should be footing the bill. nobody is happy actually in the eurozone because we have had to save the banks who are ultimately to blame for what has happened in the crisis of two thousand and eight the financial crisis the banks did something extremely wrong or did not save themselves but what we do need is make the greeks

understand and i think most of them do understand that you cannot live with such a huge debt on your shoulders you have to get out of it now fortunately the greeks can raise much more taxes than they do now and they started already last year to raised two percent more taxes. than they did the year before from from thirty seven percent g. and i g a g.d.p. to thirty nine percent g.d.p. which is a huge increase in one year time it is very harsh for the greek it is very difficult for the greeks but it is unavoidable and i think that a tax on the banks which would make the burden the business a bit lighter for the greeks a tax on the banks in europe would be an important step a financial transaction tax with which we could we could do something for the greeks and other countries in difficulties. while they're still ahead this hour hostage to conflict as the number of civilian casualties used to rise here some believe the american government is now stuck in the conflict on the able to

withdraw from the campaign. and the missing russian writer use of instigating that's why it's being in jail. tens of thousands of candles have been former soviet republics today to commemorate the twenty seven million people who died fighting against hitler's army on this day seventy years ago nazi troops invaded the soviet union. the great patriotic war the bloodiest history thousands in moscow. for a time when the german army first attacked the city and a ceremony was also held in the city of west. which ground to which the nazis deployed an array of heavy artillery and weaponry only. to break systems parties through which is the us. being here in such the prettiest fortress on this

day seventy years after the start of the great passion of war makes you not only see the visual damage to this citadel of but is the forefront of that war you can also fill the human coast of those terrible times dance from the walls of the fortress maybe you can see clearly behind that smoke is the living reminds of all that the roches night thousands of people were buried alive on these four square kilometers on the night of the twenty second of june nineteenth forty one defending the prettiest fortress was the first battle for the soviet union in the great. war but it was also one of its most boyden chapters the nazi invade us expected that they would capture it swiftly but instead they came up against resistance which held out for months full thousand people managed to flee the territory of the fortress but most of them were killed shortly after both thousands others were besieged behind the fortresses was the last of the captured at the end of july nine

hundred forty one though some reports even suggest that isolated resistance was encountered even a month later because of that battle left behind inscriptions like the one with a knife on a wall i'm dying but i want surround we're not leaving the fortress. looking back seventy years since a japanese invasion of the soviet union leading british historian dr michael jones tells r.t. it was the great patcher tism of the soviet people that helped win the war. i believe it was just the science the technical side germany could very well have want to either a nine hundred forty one or nine hundred forty two but it with love of the modern extraordinary determination to carry on fighting the germans. it was a. profound truth that the red army recovered from the initial crisis

realized it was a battle for survival and what was that was not just the communist system but russia as a country and the soviet union was in the boardroom and it really did become a lot it was the germans they were carried away by their own success their previous successes blitzkrieg lightning war and they believed that if they hammered the right on the front too. but they are underestimated the red army and they underestimated the so. i thought you can see the full interview with dr michael jones in twenty minutes time here now to. go back to our top story now the death toll following a plane crash in russia's republic of korea has risen to forty five after a ten year old survivor died in a hospital doctors say they were unable to save him that his injuries were too severe so even the people remain in hospital fighting for their lives. is that the

site of the disaster. area terrible time for the relatives. that's right kerry as you mentioned earlier the death toll there has risen the ten year old boy who was in the hospital here there's a boy it's come to his injuries and he died in the hospital that there were initially three. we were left at local hospitals because they were too fragile to the critic condition too critical for them to be flown to moscow while the other five had been flown as for the families of the victims as well as the survivors of some of them will be making their way to the site to the hospitals and the morgue today and there's a bit of a delay it's been it happened on monday it's because a lot of the family members don't actually live in moscow so they've been gathering there today to be flown here it also has to be said that there were actually three ukrainians that were killed. announcement of two hours

for what's happening at the site locals are still coming in bringing a flowers to this side to giving their condolences you've also seen some officials laying candles and flowers on the ground here at the houses surrounding the road here where the plane actually crashed the witnesses still recovering from their own shock and experience they were in fact first on the scene. when we heard a man screaming. around to my house. and we were talking to some of those witnesses especially where the plane. was where the plane had actually landed in front of it and for most of the experience was harrowing the memory that they can't forget most is the fact that they were hearing cries for help at the site and so they do believe that there were more people alive

actually but then there were further explosions after the initial one and. only save as many as they could and only eight had survived initially and now seven are still alive in hospital. turning to the investigation of the main. course. it's still very early into the investigation what the statements that have been made are based on the physical evidence as you can see behind me this is actually be a forest where the plane had come through and hit some of the tree tops they're still working on the site behind me so based on the statements made that there was low visibility there was bad weather and also a control ground control here said that they had asked the pilot to make a second turn so the initial theories that had come out from this investigation are based on the block box is still be decoded it's in moscow they're going to find out more from the final communication so. i did not see.

a commercial plane that would have landed on schedule ended up in pieces and inflames this tuple of one three four carrying fifty two people from moscow the northwestern russia crash on a road around a kilometer from the runway airport officials say the plane hit a high voltage power line that cut off lights on the runway which also knocked out the town's electricity. at around midnight the lights went off in our house we were going to check the electric transformer when we heard the sound of a huge explosion we arrived at the scene of the accident plane was seriously damaged we could see its wing justing out of the bushes scattered all around the field there were lots of. three people out of the wreckage one was either a girl i could not sell but she was larger than the mine was haunt to see was dark and there was a man he also was unhappy he was launched. and then we carried out two more people

from the wreckage in the middle of the road another man reached out his hand towards me but i couldn't make it to him everything started exploding i could not get any closer everything was engulfed by fire so very. initial reports point to human error and bad weather conditions at the time as. possible causes of the crash ground staff at the local airport claimed they had asked the pilot to make a second approach but he said he'd make it the first time however investigators say there are several theories and nothing has been ruled out just yet. we're looking into several versions of what caused the tragedy these include the human factor such as an air of the crew or the ground services severe weather conditions technical failure and several other potential causes this is the twenty eighth crash involving a tuple of one three four tarnishing its reputation even more in two thousand and

seven russia's transport minister called the aircraft obsolete and should be replaced within five years but some would argue that in most plane crashes human error plays the biggest part. of which i don't think anything would go wrong with the plane itself in forty years of operation that you pull of one three four has proved an extremely reliable aircraft in previous catastrophes human error was always to blame and the same is true here the pilot should have made a second landing approach this is exactly what happened to the polish presidential airplane while investigators work on the case relatives of the victims and survivors are dealing with their own grief one shared by the people of beth as avoids declaring three days of mourning tesser celia r.t. in the russian region. the u.s. is tightening financial sanctions on the libyan government as some members of congress call for a one year extension of america's military role in the country while the intervention is hit by criticism over

a number of civilian deaths historian lawrence davidson says the u.s. and nato have made themselves hostages to conflict. what is causing to question is the original justification for american intervention which was humanitarian my own personal opinion is that that was always a just a media story for our domestic consumption you cannot enter being anywhere with this level of munitions and not kill civilians so ok you're going to protect civilians by intervening with the type of munitions that cannot avoid killing civilians i'm thinking that nato and its commanders and the president and the politicians involved in this are beyond a point of no return so they simply cannot stop in terms of their own mind what

they've invested in this and therefore they will end up doing whatever is necessary to secure victory in libya and they will project media stories to cover it. well for the latest news from there be good to our website at r.t. dot com online right now nato airstrike what are the kills of fifteen people as an explosion rocks the house of the top of the dump in the jungle it's ben stein's party into scenes of devastation. no gun moscow getaway car that gives in to hundreds to rob a u.s. bank saying that prison was was only chance to get health care going. russian a right a blood year old who disappeared in moldova almost a week ago has turned up in jail the author suspected of organizing protests in two thousand and nine against the results of the country's parliamentary elections

lottie's catarina sir that is the story. written off russian writer the walk by get of was last seen on june sixteenth in the moldovan capital keesha now. a week later it's turned out that he had been detained by local authorities for allegedly masterminding public riots in april two thousand and nine then thousands of unhappy moldovans took to the streets protesting the results of the country's parliamentary elections opposition leaders accused the ruling communist party of falsifying their votes by give himself frequently stated that he was in fact one of the organizers of the end rest but until now not many people took him seriously. i know he was there when the riots with taking place he doesn't deny that fact there anything but as far as organizing the riots would taking part in any kind of commotions that's ridiculous the only kind of action he would have gotten involved

that would have been with the ladies not the police. and authorities however took him very seriously so seriously they issued an order for his arrest and even though he will officially remain behind bars for another month not many officials in question now are willing to admit the fact let alone talk about it on bills or that he's been arrested by the prosecutors his warrant was issued by the prosecutors and it's the prosecutor's office that should be on string questions about him which is providing the cell where he's being held and prosecutors however aren't keen on admitting that responsibility in fact they're trying to avoid admitting anything at all when you don't have the most prosecutor general's office does not confirm nor deny the arrest of mr buy gear of those attempted stonewalling would have been effective had the russian consulate staff not gone and visited the men in prison wouldn't you consider on the twenty first of june the consular employees from the

russian embassy mildew for visited bigger of. he did not express any complaints about his living conditions or the way the investigation was going he's using the services of a qualified private lawyers currently an investigation is being carried out by moldova thirty it's in accordance with a court decision he'll be held for thirty days the embassy is money story in the situation. and the what i get of detention could have been completely were team legal process but the very fact that moldovan authorities are still refusing to part with any coherent information concerning the case is definitely not doing them any favors and it's showcasing the prosecutor's office and of their unfortunate light. catherine as are the r.t.e. moscow. five special forces officers have been killed and twelve others wounded is doing a shootout with militants in russia's republic of dagestan. terror operation that began on tuesday is continuing its attempt to combat the minutes that there was

intense fighting as insurgents try to break through the surrounding russian units as federal forces targeted the hideout with the military. of several different casualties for let's check on some other international headlines for you now. in mexico police have arrested the alleged leader of one of the country's top drug gangs senator simpson and is also known as a monkey taking control of the familiar after the death of its previous leader last year mexican president felipe calderon praise the capture as a great blow against organized crime. as a community of trafficking and selling drugs. was also sold most to monitor kidnapping and killing gang members. hundreds of rotters of karst with police in east belfast in a second night of sectarian violence crowds stones works and petrol bombs at police

. we want to tell a man were treated for gunshot wounds. or. flight saw slowly resuming from the south australian airports as the ash cloud which volcano moves off shore the country's largest airports have suffered two days of cancellations as a result of eruption cloud is now expected to move to new zealand where it's thought domestic flights will also be disrupted the volcano in chile which had been dormant for decades erupted on the fourth of june. argentine this president has announced she will stand for election ending months of speculation over her political future in two thousand and seven cristina fernandez to the post succeeding her husband died of a heart attack last of time or after describing argentina's power couple polls though show the leader lacks majority support in the country but could have been

the first vote against a divided opposition. but it just a few minutes we talked to a british historian to find out why those forces failed and they tried to invade the soviet union seventy years ago. it's a business that they were dimitri in just a few minutes they were. and then warm welcome to business your company money has been steadily flowing out of russia for the last nine months due to risk aversion among global investors a new state backed investment fund is part of the effort to reverse that trend and encourage foreign capital to take a longer view our correspondent nick paul caught up with the c.e.o.

of the new fund could have seen things before i started by asking him how the funding work. as the basic idea behind the plan to spur investment because actual budget meets your chairman of michigan on bain myself and some other key people who traveled around the investors and the world and we asked them how would you invest much more into the russian economy and basically they said that they would like to invest more but they need to have a good partner because for many people that their first investment the russians if have a partner so we're investment is a basic ideas of funds we'll invest in projects but it can invest in projects only if at least the same amount of money or invested by the leading international investor in the project to swell if you look at the broad a purpose of this fund what is it to achieve i think. many investors feel that as a result of a perception gap between real risk situation in russia and how some investors perceive it and you know we can go into the history of fed but everybody agrees

that the resists perception gap that basically investors think it's more difficult and more risky to invest in russia as an actual it is so defunct it will be a partner and that they need the part in it to feel more comfortable making investment and it's very similar for example if you invest in a rig in china you know would you invest on your own would you like the part that was the chinese fun so we're just making it easier to find a partner and we share the risk because russian state will become invested was also investors why should a guarantee be necessary isn't the kind of admission that there is a genuine risk that there are problems that call and be fixed fonts like exists funds that invest a lot in domestic economy exist in many countries and it's very important because many conscious france and pretty much all of the countries they want money to be invested inside if they want to make sure that instead companies grow inside so it's not something incredibly unique that we have doing is ten billion dollars

going to be enough well first of all been all going to get ten billion up from going to get two billion each year for the next five years and we believe it's. a good way to start chinese investment corporation because three hundred billion dollars to manage. two hundred fifty billion dollars to management so that small bills the largest one to the world but for what it is designed to do which is to bring international best risk into russia we believe that it will really war going to be sufficient amount of money to showcase forty very successful investment examples over the next my seven years. belew says yet another deadline before moscow pulls the lever and i was just the supplies of the country completely means has to pay the bill until the next monday the outstanding debt amounts to just fifty million dollars into route in russia some say moscow is trying to beef up its leverage over the cash strapped the russian economy then says it's the economic crisis that has sparked the mess and promises to settle the issue. take a look at the markets now we start with oil and we'll prices are still looking

mixed at this light sweet declining sixty cents brant is up one cent there is no not much positive movement despite support of the developments in the euro zone debt situation that's after the greek government want to keep confidence vote on tuesday and this is why investors in asia are gaining more confidence that greece will avoid an imminent default and therefore the nikkei is up one point eight percent on this specific sentiment bank saying is also point six. exports and from the limited is gaining more than five percent as most of its clients in europe meant to securities is losing weight in tokyo. there moscow trading as started on the r.t.s. it's up of a percent the my six will start trading in around the one and a half minutes. tuesday it was a positive session with both indices putting on around more than half a percent placed on energy and financial stocks gains on the rebound. and we will

be back next hour with an update.

time for the international headlines now here not. the ten year old victim of a russian plane crash has died in hospital and the number of those killed in an instant to fortify the news comes as aviation experts examine black box recorders from the passenger jets exploded into flames. the greek government survives a critical vote of confidence in itself stir to draw it amid fears protests that the will of the people is being ignored on the spot the side of its who has austerity measures worth billions of euros in order to secure a second. former soviet republics more in the

twenty seven million victims killed. the fight against terrorists troops this day seventy years ago beijing of the same from. the bloodiest conflict into history which became known as the great. next we talk to british historian and author dr michael jones well known for his books on world war two and he told r.t. what motivated to hitler's decision to invade the same union seventy years ago and what helped the soviet troops to win the war. today marks the seventieth anniversary of the start of operation barbarossa hitler's code name for germany's invasion of the save the union it became the largest ever military operation based in terms of share resources deployed and also casualties datsun michael james's new book tells the story of the rebel me during

the second world war dr james thank you for talking to r.t. today let's start from the beginning of operation why did decide to invade. always wanted to invade the soviet union the reason he gave out was that the soviet union would actually attack germany i think the evidence for that in nineteen forty one flights underneath that justification to his military were two main factors the first was hitler's hatred of communism. and that was what you really put out to your that it was a crusade against bolshevism bolshevism was a menace that needed to be destroyed but underneath the real truth about this war was race hatred and if one reads mind. book it's clear that you always want to carve out a living space. and do.