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on a fire protesters march on the greek parliament in a violent display against a star which have to be approved to secure their bailout also look really concerned about your problem oh. the food while prosecutors in the hague call on the defense to turn over colonel gaddafi for allegedly killing civilians reported from the coastal city of brega recently brings to the ground by. the activists a claims that he told so much heading for gaza is carry chemical weapons to use against soldiers are just have to wonder it might be a question. nine pm here in the russian capital you're watching our teeth. thanks for joining us now

we go to our top story violent clashes have broken out in greece during massive a nationwide strikes hundreds of thousands of workers are protesting ahead of a parliamentary vote on a harsh set of tax hikes and spending cuts riot police have detained eight hundred people so far and fellow policemen have been hospitalized with injuries twenty billion euros worth of cuts are needed before the e.u. agrees to have greece another cash bailout let's consider the country's last resort to avoid becoming the first euro zone nation to default but both the cots and the high interest bailout the popular illustrated by the fact that police have once again clashed with protesters and fired tear gas during the mass march on parliament over now joined by financial journalist dmitri crean us from athens thank you very much for joining us mr snow the pictures we've been getting today have been getting steadily more violent and this is not the first protest

definitely by the greeks well can you give us an idea just how strong the opposition is right now well you see there they are much worse than they were on the fifteenth of june and as far as i've seen they're much worse than anything we've seen before the police got there truly violent the tear gas all the people in the in the those in the square so yeah it's it's got a pretty bad and i wouldn't say that all these protesters represent anywhere near the greek population that's really typically the anarchists in the private tours that start these these these type of problems we don't have these unless we have votes all right correct me if i'm wrong but from what we're seeing many of the protesters appear to be young people and they'll be bearing the brunt of bailout interest payments for decades to come now even if the vote passes will they accept the newest area messrs. no of course not i mean no one wants a certain measures even people who aren't in the public even people that are in

that are in the private sector who don't stand to lose pacifically have started measures they're not a fan of these measures because it's not just about cutting the public sector it's also about privatizing liquidating the nation liquidating the national assets selling off. public companies liquidation prices and collateralize ing national assets national resources so of course i'm not going to stand for it doesn't offer any one of the kind of future here ok well if they're not going to accept it and the government seems to be keen on still pushing for getting a bailout what's the deciding factor here where is the tipping towards at this point. unfortunately the government isn't giving anyone any real options and that's the problem the a certain measure unpopular widely unpopular amongst everyone in this in this country but at the same time they're not giving us any real solution they're just giving us threats you have our v.p. who came out yesterday he was this bill good morning bill and he said that. we have a return of the drug would be chaos we have tanks in the street and he may be he

may be right but that's only because this government isn't providing a real solution so the way i see it as it stands right now is the fault is inevitable option and people recognise that here and they're saying if we're going to default why should we default today i watch we default a year or two from now when we don't have any any assets left to salvage one of the fold now richard the drachma in a chaotic environment maybe use the euros for private transactions here but default now and save yourself a liquidation ok let's just look at what the government is doing just a week ago the greek prime minister offered to resign and that was rejected to pass leadership to a rival now does the government itself even believe another bailout will work provided they're not giving other options for you guys no. i don't i don't think that they're interested in whether a bail is going to work or not i don't think that was their interest in the beginning if they were if they were interested in having a bail they could work maybe they would have tried to. work out a deal with russia and china they have plenty of reserves no i don't think that they're concerned about the bailout working i think they're concerned about fulfilling the wishes of the troika and they're doing that right now they're

achieving any well that's that's it and i've made this point for anyone who's interested in receiving interest payments for their for their debt they're not doing what they should be doing what they're achieving is liquidation of assets and anything else is going to come out of the. from the i.m.f. ok you're mentioning liquidation of assets it's true because thirty laws being debated by parliament will compel the government to sell critical state assets but again they offered no guarantees that the work you've talked about it a little bit earlier so will it be like a house of cards just following them. no the bill can't possibly work because you've got a deflation going on while you're increasing the total debt load there's no way this government or the people of greece can possibly pay this debt back and that's why the primary interest is on the primary budget deficit because they're interested in getting the country to a point where the only thing that we're running a deficit for is interest so it's not going to work is going to collapse like a house of cards. yeah i mean i think that the only way for this to move forward is

to have a more default i don't see other solutions being implemented because you don't have willing parties that want to participate. ok well looking at how the greeks perceive the e.u. now the crisis and the response from the e.u. how is this affected the greeks public perception of the european union what do they feel towards it. i mean people have always been skeptical not just here in greece but in other countries because with the introduction of the euro that came coincided with hard times but and with higher prices and that's not entirely the fault of the euro per se but i think people are becoming more for the time of the drachma and as i said the drachma is going to solve the problems here but at least with the drachma you eat up the debt with inflation if you can't control the government spending which is what we were hoping we would achieve with the introduction of the euro we would have low inflation and low government spending so we had low inflation and high government spending so we had massive amounts of debt . i think i think that people are fed up with you here in general that's the major

the major feeling and they want a return to something some sort of national economy where they can implement a policy that benefits them because right now they understand they're under financial occupation which is what this is and they're not going to be able to get out of it as long as the e.u. the you see the and the troika are working together to bankrupt this country. thank you very much dimitri financial journalist talking to us from athens thank you. all the struggle in athens to keep the euro alive has some nations who have. law wanted to join the e.u. asking a new question is it even worth it artist tom barton reports let your turkey is in asia minor not in europe turkey's place is not in serbia you're union turkey started seeking integration with europe in the one nine hundred fifty s. and was made a new candidate in one thousand nine the since then from some germany have remained opposed continue storing negotiations for turkey. and

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 fear in paris and berlin as a loss of political power and this sort of. for a 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 us with frustration and more with relief frankly given. the state of the european union right now is the inability of taking decisions the. 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. now libya 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 arrest warrants for gadhafi and two of his confidant including his eldest son by the hague tribunal chief i.c.c. prosecutor has admitted that nato forces have no mandate to arrest but often call. it offers inner circle to assist however many libyans believe the great a leader should also be helped to work out for their actions. the road from the capital tripoli to bragg his 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 siege of. 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 call say these telecommunications towers so big to stop could. be destroyed any time now this is a safe two strikes and they've also accidentally burned two cars and killed two civilians since there is no t.v. in this area and as we can see phone lot has also been disrupted. there is no water and no. what used to be heaven this man says has become hell what was home now susan familiar. i have nine children and i send them all to my relatives abroad i don't want them to see their mother and says you condition. from the small poor

not far from drug 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 nature's leaf says jobs just before the bombs arrive. this runs has as you can see there is a sign here in arabic that nato is here to leave it to in force 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 any place at any time. this any time happened three times over several hours while we were filming. regulator's major port is where the frontline lies dividing the country into two parts into to swear one side is going to put one flashpoint between the rebels and gadhafi forces

it's a very important point as to take the quotation getting a firm hand on this town would mean taking 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 skate. 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 old 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 tried to help those who was trapped then the helicopters came to and started to shoot us as if they didn't want us to save our friends from one street to another the stories are repeated brick

and serve our problem i live. in the first lady and i took every madam every day every day bombing a big killed 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. 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 the syrian opposition leaders in moscow 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 they do coal themselves syrian opposition in attendance here in moscow's 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 of. the syrian leader to stop the violence in the country now they've spoken with me help by senior russian diplomats when it comes to this part of the world and he put forward russia's opinion on this and 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 result of my 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 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. life from the russian capital you're watching our team and we've got more news stories coming up this hour. no one person in this country have all that authority to present a united states that have that authority who's taking democracy away from us citizens looks at how one american town has lost its elected officials. as an international aid full tele headed to gaza is carrying chemical weapons which could be used on soldiers israeli defense force has been ordered to prevent the ten ships from making up to the palestinian territory. the jewish state of want what adults have students walking out of gaza has withdrawn threats to ban any journalist traveling with an activist marsha iraq risler was our. last year and he says russia discriminately anyone who gets close to the sport. it's

a very known trick you might say for all of the israeli army and the israeli government to try to make the peaceful activists as a 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 flotilla of the muslim or other ones before it and the one that i was on in the jewish boat we also were attacked we were only nine people and we were all israelis or jews the palestinian fishermen that wants to go out to fish and 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 street 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 two you can always log on to our web site that's our dot com and there you can read about the american party's presidential candidate who got egg on her face after mixing up a famous cowboy with a mass murderer and rapist. and also russian scientists predict they'll find alien a civilizations within twenty years find out why they're so determined to seek out all these at r.t. dot com. the u.s. state of michigan is giving up a prized asset to find a way out of its economic woes well it's the side of democracy is too expensive an elected financial managers have taken the place of elected officials and given a free hand to make decisions on checked. it takes a look. the american state known for its great lakes has

seen the middle class speed 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 the authority to pray to 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 m apps 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 that 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 hypocritical 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 lodi. martin luther king.

said injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere so is benton harbor today but it could be mill york tomorrow or it couldn't be chicago next week benton harbor is one of roughly one hundred cities or towns in michigan reportedly on the verge of fiscal collapse and economic desperation that could lead the way for financial martial law to spread throughout the states critics say that would lead to a deepening demise of democratic rights the u.s. has always claimed to stand for. artsy michigan. now here are some stories making headlines around the world iran's state media has shown footage of what appears to be a test of short medium range missiles even if this came in 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 automatic tehran and veiled 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.m.f. director in history well she has the backing of european members who account for nearly a third of the votes and also russia the u.s. and china where she will place a scot who resigned after being arrested on sexual assault allegations the guards opponent mexican student carstens ran on the promise to give more say to emerging economies but he failed to rally enough support. russia has partially lifted

a ban on european vegetables belgium and the netherlands will be allowed to ship their products as long as they have a special certificate moscow bad all vegetables from europe after a deadly e. coli outbreak and so far it's been confirmed the forty eight people have been killed by the virus and four thousand others across europe fell sick moscow's embargo in response to the outbreaks our relations with the u. but the european commissioner for health and consumer policy says the two sides are now putting previous threats to hind them. what the certification would be. to. the who did the be a. bit to the certificate every shipment that is made to russia. and in fact today i think the good window of a very long before i work. requires simply measures if we keep the hygiene in practice then we would put the thing down since

. now all the latest business with kareena is coming up in a few moments. hello and welcome to business here the clock is ticking down on greece is the country will default in july if the e.u. doesn't provide a new bailout 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 serve

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 you do much more substantial impact on financial markets with a negative reaction overswing there are contingency plans the question is can they review all ports and operation quickly enough to save the financial markets. look at the markets now or that stance gains in new york on speculation u.s. fuel to bad will increase on monday crude prices fell to the lowest in four months the drop came on the heels of last week's announcement by the international energy agency it will release sixty million barrels of oil stocks are right u.s. stocks are rising on the hopes that greece may have already falls on its debts strong earnings from nike and rising home prices also helped push them access higher tech stocks again following strong trades in the internet and we know stocks

just googling for commodities also advance with crude oil futures nearing ninety two dollars a barrel and european stocks ended higher on tuesday board buying creased optimism surrounding greece's debt situation the footsie finished point eight percent highest in by gains for world bank of scotland the german dax rose point nine percent lifted by a four and a half rise for shares a common stock but siemens fell one point nine percent trying to part the company said it expects new orders that revenue to increase its all third quarter. russian equity markets close in the black the by six and at the highest in more than a week as more bounce from the four months low energy majors among the main gain is of the day helped by a stronger or well let's have a look at some individual shareholders some of my six russians two biggest oil producers look oil. gain point nine point three percent respectively in the electricity sector j k five reports it has successfully placed three year bonds

however hydroelectric company whose hydro finished in the red state will sell seven percent of the from by the year end but they will because it's all very credits target scraps of a day strike. it looks like the market is factoring in that greece is going to resolve the problems either by itself europe will come up with some sort of before greek government so the mobster's discussing this differently that's for the weak u.s. we've been running through for quite a while it's not a surprise for the markets anymore so we want to see and market for some quiet interest from me on this think it's it's also in the price so it's. sort of. doesn't have a direct influence on the. market only for us. that's all the latest i have. for headlines thanks.