up and so on fire protesters march on the greek parliament in a violent display against a sturdy would have to be approved to secure an e.u. bailout and also. really concerned about the problem of real need to do very well prosecutors in the hague paula libyans to turn over colonel gadhafi for allegedly killing civilians we report from the coastal city of brega recently razed to the ground by nato bombs. activists say waynes that a photo was heading for gaza is carrying chemical weapons to use against soldiers are just attempts to undermine the mission.

you're watching r t eight pm here in the russian capital thanks for joining us now our top story violent clashes have broken out in greece during a massive a nationwide strikes and hundreds of thousands of workers are protesting ahead of a parliamentary vote on a harsh set of tax hikes and spending cuts twenty billion euros worth of cuts are needed before the e.u. agrees to hand us another cash bailout let's consider the country's last resort to avoid becoming the first rule as a nation to do it but the costs and the high interest bailout are deeply unpopular illustrated by the fact that police have once again clashed with protesters and fired tear gas during the mass march on parliament that's called study called this for now that's newspaper believes the bailout package is a catastrophic solution. only by desperate to ship. george papandreou has lost legitimacy in the greys and as a prime minister he is a dead man walking at the moment and the present from the european union is

tremendous we would talk about the blackmail i guess the greek government because they say that on listen you vote for this outrageous bill tomorrow enough and there will be no more loans and greece who will be left to default my petrol opinion is the this is a bluff from european union because if we agrees to goes before the then we'll have a domino effect or i guess the euro that will be a disaster for european union at large but unfortunately our government has not the narrower than bluff and this is the difficult part of the story in five years' time greece has to pay just for him there is no two for there is finance of the original loans just for interest at about one hundred thirty billion euros while the loan for the alleged bailout of greece was only one hundred and then

beating on euros. this interest payments would be more than the sum of what we pay for a duke is for health and or social insurance because you see what the memorandums and there was there in the package is result is they kill the goose that lays the golden eggs of development and this is unsustainable and yanni sveta fucking is lecturer at the university of athens believes the greek crisis is the result of the glaring flaws in the euro. i don't eighty percent of the population against what has been pushed to the parliament and even worse than that. to our own politicians even those who are voting for those measures do not believe in them these them believe were crossing themselves hoping to put a miracle bailout mark one was passed on a year ago in may of two thousand and ten and it failed spectacularly its logic was false and its application made the problem worse rather than better. and meanwhile

i'm of very much afraid that a new deficit is emerging a deficit of political legitimacy both in the service companies like germany and holland and in the deficit countries like greece and ireland the government is on borrowed time don't forget that this is a prime minister who only about ten days ago tried to fall on his sword and missed he was prepared to resign. that their hopes that he goes to sleep every night with that he will manage tool people holding together because these are state if you fill parliament today and tomorrow then go to brussels secured a massive new loan come back that i am completely saying that you seem to get if you got any basic euro these loan there can be no solution for the greek problem in the bend and plea of a solution for the us system crisis which is the issue at hand if europe continues to see the to see this as a good problem i'm a very much afraid that there would be no europe in the next year or so but i think the choice we have is going to be and says between letting the euro go and they

don't need their own currencies or fixing the euro. and the struggle in athens to keep the euro alive as some nations who have long wanted to join the e.u. are asking a new question is it worth it tom barton reports that your kid turkey is in asia minor not in europe turkey's place is not inside the european union turkey started seeking integration with europe in the one nine hundred fifty s. and was made a u. candidate in one nine hundred ninety nine but since then from some germany have remained opposed continually stalling negotiations turkey. and the european union have actually stalled the. relationship for such a long time now that the turkish public is tired of it the main reason turks think the europeans don't want them immigration first well

they come and steal our jobs like the polish plumber did. and second well they threaten us culturally but others see the real fair in paris and berlin as a loss of political power and this sort of. frank german condominium is already on the challenge but with the inclusion of turkey in the european union it would be totally impossible to sustain now embroiled in economic crisis the e.u. isn't as strong as it once seemed turks are starting to view the delays in joining less with frustration and more with relief frankly given. the state of the european union right now is the inability of taking decisions. fragile situation the rising racism and islamophobia in many countries.

it's it's becoming less and less attractive turkey is no longer waiting for europe to change its mind instead many speak of the axis of turkish interest shifting from west to east it's pursued a no problems policy with its neighbors in recent years that's yielded impressive results boosting trade and making turkey a leader in regional diplomacy and if we want to. combine our. power with others i think we should look at eurasia the bosphorus behind me has long been seen as a bridge between east and west but with turkey increasingly pushed away by europe over here and pull towards the middle east and asia over here turks no longer see all their hopes by looking west tamasin r.t. istanbul turkey. coming to you live from the russian capital you're watching r t and we've got more news stories coming up this hour. no one person in this country

have ever thore to present a united states and that have a very good stake in democracy away from us citizens are to look at how one american town has lost its elected officials. well. says the international criminal court is just a cover for nato attempts to kill colonel gadhafi and refuses to recognize its legitimacy all this came in response to the issuing of an arrest warrant for gadhafi and two of his confidants by the hague tribunal and many libyans believe that nato leaders should also be held to account for their actions. the road from the capital tripoli to brag he's lined with the aftermath of war towns abandoned as the population fled the bombardment. this is what's left of the civilian airport in the. home to one of the country's key oil refineries the last plane took off from

this runway just hours before it was hate. to say so it's only hitting the targets of military value well you call say these telecommunications towers so fifteen minutes west of there. has been destroyed in a time tag now this is a space between two strikes and they've also accidentally. two cars and killed two civilians since there is no t.v. in this area and as we can see. it has also been disrupted. there is no water and no. what used to be heaven this man says has become hell. now susan familiare. i have nine children and i send them all to my relatives abroad i don't want them to see their mother who is in such a condition. from the small poor not far from bread gas used to flow to europe. we used to produce fuel to send it to them and now see they destroy it all this is

terrible and ridiculous at the same time. the closer you get to the front line the more you feel it you can hear the war and you can even read it on the. jobs just before the bombs arrive. this run so as you can see there is a sign here arabic nato is here in libya to enforce and i'll fly zone over the country to protect civilians on the other side there is another sign also in arabic saying that nato can attack at a place at any time. any time happened three times over several hours while we were healing. regulators major weather front dividing the country into two parts into two swear it's going to put one flashpoint between the rebels and gadhafi forces it's a very important. case gets in a firm hand on this town i mean taken control over the country's economy. all

facilities seem to be a rare target that nato bombs never land on while it looks like the civilian population can hardly. they were like my family not just going to the shop to buy some food and this happened six of them died i couldn't believe it. and this used to be a restaurant or all company staff where friends gathered after work we were eating with my colleagues then there was a boom we knew what that was we run we try to help those who are strapped then the helicopters came too and still. as if they didn't want us to save our friends. from one street to another the stories are repeated. really can serve our problem i mean we don't need anyone in the food larry not to every man every day every day when being a big kid our civilians. from this country this is from libya well those voices

become more and more frequent is the sound of exploding bombs and warplanes the drowns them. out t. tripoli bragger. all the decision to indict gadhafi has outraged critics who claim the i.c.c. is being used as a political tool. of managing editor of the journal of international law says there are little concrete evidence to support the move this is a claim and the decision. some could expect that forty three pages we could found a lot of evidence a lot of proofs of the guilt of the accused but in fact we could see only accusations here such a decision could be issued. for everybody just change the names of accused.

there are a lot of references in these decisions but if we tried to check what all this evidence about it's all secret so in fact it's very empty decision and in my opinion such a decision could not be taken seriously it's highly unprofessional decision. well russia says the crisis in syria should be resolved through dialogue and wants the violence to stop it comes as a russian presidential envoy met with syrian opposition leaders in moscow in artie's peter all over the details. it's important to stress that this isn't an official visit from the syrian opposition although members of the group that do call themselves syrian opposition are in attendance here in moscow is also people from n.g.o.s and human rights groups now they've come to the russian capital to call on russia to put more pressure on president bashar al assad the syrian leader

to stop violence in the country now they've spoken with me. by senior russian diplomats a very experienced member of the the foreign ministry when it comes to this part of the world and he put forward russia's opinion on this we've seen because it's in our interests that there are forums announced by the syrian government are put into action political dialogue is important for us we should put an end to all forms of violence and armed clashes a soon as possible the political crisis in syria should the results via political dialogue. saying that russia would be vehemently opposed to any form of foreign intervention into the situation ongoing in syria they definitely do not want to see a repeat of the violence that we have in libya at the moment and we're very disappointed with the the way that foreign intervention has progressed they said that they russia and no circumstances will be backing any form of foreign intervention in syria they want to see peace coming through discussion and

diplomacy. artie's peter all of our reporting their land now the a modern world of promises technological breakthrough miracle medicine and a closer global community but the so-called garbage people of egypt say they're being left behind well coming up next hour a special report on those who say globalization is stripping them of their only means of survival. i was just thinking about my future. or the foreign companies k m i dreamed of owning a can cut in factory. but we have less garbage now. somebody that are soo come here and make fun of me. regular garbage boy i'm not bad like people think. i'm

a good person. it's just that people don't see me. but i feel that with time people like me. i feel people will start to appreciate us. israel says an international aid flotilla headed to gaza is carry chemical weapons which could be used on soldiers or the israeli defense force has been ordered to prevent the ten ships from making it to the palestinian territories the jewish state where article what tends to breach is blockade of gaza but as with drama threats to bad any journalists traveling with the fleet activists it's a marsh up here from jerusalem was on a similar age from tehran last year and he says israel a show indiscriminately at anyone who gets close to its borders. and it's

a very known trick you might say for all of the israeli army in the israeli government to try to make the peaceful activists as lethal and frightening as possible for the public in order to create public opinion against these people and keep on controlling the palestinians they will not let the gaza flotilla come to gaza but will kidnap it and it's also what we know from the footage of them of the marmora are the ones before it and the one that i was on in the jewish boat we also were attacked though we were only nine people and we were all israelis or jews the palestinian fishermen that wants to go out to fish cannot pass the three miles without getting shot about twenty five percent of the of the agricultural land of gaza has been taken by a death zone around gaza strip from the israeli border of gaza into gaza strip killing every culture of person fisherman on the seaside or farmer in the

land side killing people. and for more stories from our team you can always log on to our web site that's dot com and there you can read about the american tea party's presidential candidate who got egg on her face after mixing up a famous cowboy with a mass murderer and rapist. also russian scientists predicted they'll find a million a civilization's within twenty years or find out why they are so determined to seek out r t v dot com. now the u.s. state of michigan is giving up a prized asset to find a way out of its economic woes well it's decided democracy is too expensive on elected financial managers have taken the place of elected officials and given a free hand to make decisions unchecked artie's medina portnoy takes a look. at. the american state known for its great lakes has seen

the middle class feed and automotive industry crumble in michigan's poorest city benton harbor more than a quarter citizens are unemployed and elected officials have lost all authority to govern as an unprecedented democratic collapse plays out we believe that it's illegal immoral and unconstitutional no one person in this country have all that authority to preserve the united states and that have that authority in the face of massive public opposition michigan lawmakers recently democracy by giving the unilateral authority to officials known as emergency financial managers have independent authority to fire elected officials close schools void union contracts sell public property and privatized assets residents like scott elliott say his city could be the start of a changing landscape in american politics people throw around words like oligarchies and all that sort of thing i mean that's that's what it already is i

think for the average citizen is going to have less and less to say about. what is done with public assets these decision makers are appointed by the governor to oversee school districts and cities like benton harbor facing financial distress in april benton harbor z.m. out stripped the elected city council of its democratic power leaving a city of eleven thousand struggling americans under the rule of a man they didn't elect their hypocritic to you know their ex trying to export democracy for around the world but at home they're trying to suppress the citizens of this country at least four other cities including detroit have an emergency manager in the motor city the e.m.f. laid off some six thousand teachers and it's pioneering plans for corporations to privately run schools funded by public tax dollars while dr martin luther king. said injustice anywhere is

a threat to justice everywhere so it is benton harbor today but it could be mill york tomorrow or it couldn't be chicago next week bedsit harbor is one of roughly one hundred cities or towns in michigan reportedly on the verge of fiscal. and economic desperation that could pave the way for financial martial law to spread throughout the state critics say that would lead to a deepening demise of democratic rights the u.s. has always claimed to stand for. marina porton i.r.t. michigan. now to some other stories making headlines around the world this hour iran state media has shown a footage of what appears to be a test of short and medium range missiles in the scheme of a ten day nationwide military exercises in the country and iran's foreign ministry

said the drills are a purely defensive display in light of what he called israeli and u.s. aggression hat on monday tehran unveiled hidden underground missile launching pads ready to counter a possible attacks on the country's nuclear facilities. the international monetary fund is expected to pick its new director french finance minister christine lagarde is the clear favorite and if chosen she will become the first female i enough director in history but she has the backing of european members would count for nearly a third of the votes and also russia and china she will replace dominique strauss kahn who resigned after being arrested on sexual assault allegations and the guards opponent mexican carstens ran on the promise to give more say to emerging economies but he failed to rally support. for russia has partially lifted a ban on european vegetables and belgium and another was will be allowed to ship

their products as long as they have a special certificate moscow about all vegetables from europe after a deadly e. coli outbreak and so far it's been confirmed that forty eight people have been killed by the virus and four thousand others across europe fell sick moscow's embargo in response to the outbreak solid relations with the e.u. the european commissioner for health and consumer policy says the two sides are now putting previous threats behind the. certification. to. the who did the be a. bit to the certificate of the shipment that is made to the. and don't forget to day with the good will. be found a workable solution. requires simply hygiene measures if we keep the hygiene a practice. you know all the latest business news with

kareena is coming up next. hour welcome to business here in our to thanks for joining me the clock's ticking down long day the country will to falter in july if the e.u. doesn't provide a new bailout new austerity measures are being debated in parliament this week nigel randall from r.b.c. capital markets believes it's make or break time. the problem in greece is that we've had a lot of political difficulties we've had problems with the statistics which has misinformed both the government and the international community to sort of a. living at the eleventh for quite some time but i think we really don't have the five minutes to midnight and there really is no alternative they do have to proceed with this is thirteen there is a risk if you don't push through this historic you program we could see much more substantial impact on financial markets with a negative reaction overswing there are contingency plans the question is come and

review all ports and operation quickly enough to save the financial markets let's take a look at the markets now oil extends gains in new york on speculation u.s. fuel demand will increase on monday crude prices fell to the lowest in four months drop came on the heels of last week's announcement by the international energy agency it will release sixteen million barrels of oil the move is hoped to counter the effect of halted exports from media. so surprising on the hopes that greece may have voided default on its debts strong earnings from the nikkei and a rise in home prices also helped push the west and texas tech stocks again following strong trades in the internet arena on stocks such as google and yahoo for commodities are also advancing with crude oil futures nearing ninety two dollars a barrel. and european stocks on high as investors focus on this week's austerity falling greece footsies in the black supported by games wallbank it's called london

shares a prevention rose two percent after goldman sachs upgraded it to buy from neutral shares of siemens cable and wireless worldwide and called a losing culture as corporate announcements. and hearing most equity markets close in the block to my six and to the highest in more than a week as war rebounds from a four month low energy majors among the main gainers of the day by stronger oil now let's have a look at some individual channels here on the my six process. two biggest oil producers will call and gains point nine two point three percent respectively and electricity sector a five advanced only points it has successfully placed three year bonds however hydroelectric company rules hydro finished in the red state will sell seventy percent of the for the year and by the year end. at uni credit securities wraps up . it looks like the market is factoring into that greece is

going to result problems either by itself. or will come up with some sort of before greek government so the marketers discounting this differently as for the weak u.s. that we've been having so for quite a while it's not a surprise for the markets anymore so we want to see in the u.s. stock market for some quiet and the us really on this think it's also in the price and it's. sort of. doesn't have a direct influence on the russian stock market only for a while for us. and that's and that's it for this edition of business books and back with more in just. you.

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