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the greek capital is braced for more bother and made huge protests and a general strike the parliament beautiful hotel even a partial austerity measures to avoid defaulting on debt. and return economic turmoil becomes the first challenge from a new i.m.f. chief christine a god also faces a tough task of fighting off the perception that modernization is base biased in favor of western countries. also fears grow dark on the rest in syria by struggling militant group hizbollah to move weapons at stormont there to lebanon that is battling to stoke up but the trouble in the region. and in russia as a push for better laws don't often make their way in the world are real and many are denied the state support they're entitled to.

though this is r.t. law from moscow twenty four hours a day welcome to the program budget cuts all bankruptcy tough choice for the greek parliament which is facing a crucial austerity vote in leaders have already warned that there are no other options but thousands of protesters are again expected to vent their fury. but the planned measure is at least forty six people were injured as a lot of places and strikes paralyzed attention on the eve of the vote. thousands streets police using tear gas to disperse the eighteen arrests made the e.u. is demanding twenty eight billion euros worth of cuts for the scene get more funds to these journalists you know as part of the means weeks to live the financial the patient. unfortunately the government isn't giving anyone any real options and

that's the problem they are certain measures are 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 i think people are becoming more in the style just for the time the drachma and as i said the drachma is going to solve the problems here but at least with the drag my view 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. petrus constantino economist for nothings newspaper believes the bailout package that has a strong fix lieschen back to anybody desperate. george papandreou has lost

legitimacy and agrees and as a prime minister he is a dead man walking at the moment there present from the european union is tremendous. luck may lie against the greek government because they say that unless you've called for these outrages there will be no more groans and greece who will be left before my trial opinion is the this is a bluff from european union because if we agreed to goes before then it will have a domino afraid i guess the euro. will be a disaster for european union at large but unfortunately our government has not been there all of them and this is the difficult part of the story because you see the memorandum sent there was very the package is the result is the. gold that eggs of development and this is unsustainable well the greek turmoil is one of the

first problems in the in trade head of the international monetary fund the french finance minister christine lagarde she won the overwhelming support of europe u.s. russia china making her clear favorites washington correspondent and she can has more on the implications of the point and the global economy christine lagarde appointment keeps the european at the head of the world's top lender keeping a long held tradition intact and in a debt crisis having one of its own chairing the international monetary fund could be more important than ever for europe i think that. intimate knowledge of those mechanisms. of the european community and the eurozone of its many leaders can help lead guards main competitor was augustine carstens from mexico who argued her appointment would only add to the perception of i.m.f. by its there could be some conflict of interest i mean they know their main borel's

institution will be europe so we'll have a situation where they will roll or stormin eighteen to create thirty institutional emerging economies the engine of global growth in recent years are vastly under represented in the organization with the u.s. and europe holding half of the votes in veto power karsten said he knew he had lost even before he announced he was running the fooling myself i mean it's like starting a soccer game with the five to see who will score and always suggest i am have bias has had a negative effect on the world's economy if you look back at the way that rescue packages and other loans have been made in the history of i.m.f. lending it is very clear that decisions are primarily bullet go based on the interests of the united states or europe and the i.m.f. lends money monitors the global economy and in theory at least prevents crises its

credibility has been shattered by the financial collapse in the advanced economies which it definitely did not spot they missed the two bigger biggest asset bubbles in the history of the world first the stock market bubble in the us in the late ninety's and then of course the housing bubble. states which he waited for him to presenter and i think they didn't want to go against all their friends on wall street and others there were making a fortune at the time some experts see the intimacy between the i.m.f. and u.s. corporations as a matter of concern there's always been a long healthy relation. ship between the big banks and the financial sector wall street and the us treasury department in the us by extension the i.m.f. all of the big decisions that are made by the u.s. treasury department then you had of the i.m.f. is more than familiar with the u.s.

corporate world for years she worked at a major american law firm representing the interests of big business and is a member of the u.s. poland defense industry working group advanced the interests of favor giants like boeing and lockheed martin helping them to seal multi-billion dollar deals you are seeing europe found christine lagarde the best paid for the job so that several emerging markets including russia and china but she faces the difficult task of appearing independent despite her past my animal struggle not to cement even further the perception that the i.m.f. exists only for the benefit of its creditors i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . that we've got more analysis of what christine the cause appointment is going to mean in terms of global finance websites you can read expert's opinion on that turned on the challenges that you had faces.

of nato has extended its operation in libya for three months and warned that it's not going to scale down its mission day the strikes. opposition to the operation continues with more protests in london and more activists demonstration comes amid reports of growing civilian casualties escalating costs and milind insight to the bloody conflict who says more than eight hundred civilians have been killed as a result of the airstrikes u.k. has already poured more than two hundred million dollars into the campaign and risks doubling that to. throw out some of the starts of us saying it's time nato was brought to account. all of the sergeants wailing and the people are suffering more and more the ordinary people of libya and at the very least the west to look at they should admit that they failed in this no fly zone in this intervention and should be calling for an end to it now and calling for serious political negotiations across this is that he is set to commits its pale into insignificance

beside those that george bush commits it in iraq or even in afghanistan and elsewhere. well jane fresh from trinity college in hartford told r.t. on his belief that the nato operations and weakening libya i do you know limited engagement is right to me you know always going to be given based on a u.n. resolution within a few hours of the war beginning with the french and american striking they had already violated their if you were in the solution and now it looks like libya is simply being played in a hundred years of work there are twenty four thousand sorties you know there is a very gradually pinpoint reading of libya to the extent where gadhafi is ally and then most of. libya is being made into what he wants

a giant from wailea. now israel has deployed new missile defense systems in its border with lebanon and follows reports that his beloved could be moving its weaponry stationed in syria back to lebanon as artie's points the reports to syria's president bashar assad goes there are fears the delicate balance in the region could spill further out of control. things all quiet on the israel lebanon border but many suspect it's a lull before the storm everything hinges on what happens in neighboring syria and what hizbollah decides to do with its stockpiles. opposition group that might take over in syria. will definitely consider these belies an enemy is a threat so for hizbullah it's the mass the most logical thing to do all to transfer the weapon they put in syria. into two two two two

lebanon four years hizbollah found an ally in syrian president bashar assad and so it's no surprise they want him to stay in power but if he goes and those who pressurising him to do so would do well to remember this the regional impact could be terrifying syria are like libya is part of an alliance and that alliance is very wide it begins in iran some elements in iraq's government are part of the syrian regime hezbollah in lebanon and hamas in gaza western intelligence reports suggest hizbullah has already started moving some of its advanced weaponry from its warehouses in syria to its forces in lebanon for fear that assad will be toppled but getting rid of him is one thing dealing with the consequences quite another situation in syria very volatile dangerous collapse the syrian government could be gender group. that could include

a new war between lebanon and israel already the weapons hizbullah has in its position are able to strike almost any corner of the jewish state the new stockpiles in lebanon would only aggravate an already tense situation as far as we know hizbullah has now accumulated around forty five thousand missiles of various ranges. there is one of the part of them that in fact the very much goes beyond three hundred and what's three hundred fifty kilometers which according to them at least they can reach the whole of israel until a lot in the south of the country which is something israelis know these missiles originated in syria they found their way to lebanon and then they were fired by hizbollah onto the jewish state back in two thousand and six this museum was set up about a decade ago so that the i.d.f. could display weapons ammunition and items that are captured from israel's enemies on the ground an almost ominous threat the lebanese palestinian and hizbollah flags

flying on the israeli border the message is clear here no country is immune to what happens to its neighbor and it won't take much to turn the region's precarious peace into all out war policy r.t. israel. that is the humanitarian the teller is preparing to sail for gaza israel is saying it will block any attempt to breach its sea blockade on the palestinian territory but does israel have the rights to stop the activists they just additional cross-talk people of balinese guests take on this polarizing issue. there is a chance that they are carrying weapons that they are carrying terrorist we saw that in last year's flotilla there were armed mercenaries aboard the turkish guards and your ship mavi marmara which lynch to try cylinder israeli soldiers and israel holding a lot. removed it was exactly the same disappearance gives the man because its journey is that israel's.

if you want. but it's a check now on some other international headlines for you. at least twelve guests and police were killed and eight wounded in the suicide and gun attack on the intercontinental hotel afghan capital kabul reports say militants wearing civilian clothes burst into the hotel while guests were having dinner for a four hour standoff two militants were killed by guards and four others who themselves up were killed by nato. troops it's not about has claimed responsibility for the attack. police firing tear gas it clashed with five thousand rock throwing protesters and gyptian title or even dozens injured the violence started outside the interior ministry shifted to talk. which was the

epicenter of the revolution frederick testers took to the streets to protest in this new constitution of security offices responsible for the deaths of more than eight hundred people uprising that toppled hosni mubarak. cuban state television has said footage of venezuela's president hugo chavez with fidel castro is doing surgery on the other two weeks ago one hundred it appeared on t.v. since the spot rumors that the mt washington leader was not conditional had cancer caught on t.v. saying when a child is what returned to venezuela. george's main opposition party has urged the country's chief prosecutor to investigate the actions of security forces during the violent crackdown protests last month they saw four people killed and three hundred arrested spoke to the party's leader new version of

the quick preview what's to come in just over fifteen minutes time. they surrounded us the people were in threat there was no way out there was no possibility to leave the square. as we understand special forces received special instructions to arrest all democrats more than nine hundred demonstrators have. to beat people brutally especially in hands. many people received serious injuries were transported to the hospital and they had a special instruction not to allow me to lead a self national assembly to leave. place. so. it was a real punishment to the people. but only a family and home was something every orphan dreams of many russians who grew up in

the evil from which is to set up a new families have a dream shattered that's despite the fast they're entitle to free housing and the government and all of our expense. dank dark and dilapidated this flap looks more like a prime candidate for demolition than a family home bird's twenty two year old mother of two lena has been told by social services that she's stuck here. perhaps they haven't seen this place inside they keep telling us true parents somehow believe here they showed me a paper on how to build a house i told them that i had no funds i have no job i have to take care of kids and i ended up renting a place they said it's the top problem. lina grew up in an orphanage in the city of to be on the russian law she should have received state housing once she left the institution this flat was given to lena's mother by the state and despite having no

money she's been told to fix it up but. this is an absolutely desperate they didn't give me work because i don't have a profession for them i don't exist perhaps hanging myself would be the best thing to do without even the most basic of a minute there's no way that lena family can live however here is exactly where the authorities have told her that she should bring up the children lena's case isn't unusual to those who work with oftens in russia say that it's when they leave the care homes that they need the most help the problem is orphans our kids are of smaller you know when they're little and everybody loves to help them with their small but presence that. whereas in actual fact they've got bigger needs but they get bigger and that's really where we need to be standing beside them housing is one of those big a need for all things leading care it's also in short supply and that which we made

certain calculations for one region and found out that it would take a child who's number in the queue for housing is ten thousand to three and a half thousand years to actually get a flat. currently only administrative penalties can be imposed on anyone standing in the way of those leaving care getting housing alexander gears a loaf form often himself as a campaigner for orphans rights he wants to see the courts more involved. some way we need to change the law in a way to make sure that someone can be held responsible in court in this case the orphanage this will make sure that there is no way a graduating orphan would have to go and live in a rundown home and know that there was nobody growing up i did what i thought and i don't. a change in the law might help people in the future but lena needs to find a solution right now. i ask them why all the mothers are given homes to raise their children why can't i have that easy because i don't know the laws or because i'm

not allowed to live because it's hidden for me to have family some people are trying to help me but to follow their efforts have been in vain. peter all over r t very. well there's a plenty more ahead here on our take in less than a thirty minutes some extreme action from our sports desk competitions where excitement and danger go and in hand we report on one of the newest yet most thrilling sports on the planet cliff diving. reporter that well the business update with kareen that will be coming your way very soon stay with us here not. to.

be able to order. street still keeps its secrets for down time to reveal versions of the soviet files. i was just thinking about my future before the foreign companies came i dreamed of owning a can cut in factory. but we have less garbage now. some visitors who come here make fun of me. figure out garbage boy i'm

not bad like people think. i'm a good person. it's just the people don't see me. but i feel it was time people like me. that i feel people will start to appreciate us. for welcome to prisoners here in our teeth thanks for joining me this hour russia's electricity expert monopoly into rao has pulled the plug on it supplies to battle starts up to man's failed to pay bills on time and missed an extended that line

stunning debt amounts to around fifteen million dollars says it's the economy it's the economic crisis in the country that sparked the problems with payment rushes into rouse says that supplies will be resumed once the debt is paid meets about ten percent of its electricity needs through us and supplies. and you could disaster in japan has shattered confidence in what was one of the most promising forms of alternative energy at least has decided not to restart its nuclear program while germany and switzerland decided to stop using the atom however the former head of the international atomic energy agency warns the world can't afford to follow their example. right now there's twenty nine countries that are lying on your side energy and the impact of north carolina going nuclear and you have huge energy deficits increased. prices of gas and oil. is not around the corner energy will increase forty two percent by twenty thirty or so we are between

a rock and a hard place you know we have to understand that there was ever new technology that is it is what we have to maximize the benefit and minimize that is what we need to do it out of the way we are working out of that nuclear energy is just try to focus on safety. let's take a look at the markets now all this fluctuates between small gains and losses with investors taking a pause after pushing all to stop gains on tuesday like sweet is trading at around one thousand three dollars per barrel this hour and bread at around one hundred nine dollars and across and asia the markets are trading in the black japanese stocks are rallying with good industrial data and we could get a boost to the market sentiment is adding. percent and panasonic around one and a half percent in hong kong. adding over one a half percent bucking the trend it's come a cut dropping almost six percent through putting my eighty four percent decrease

in its first quarter profit. here in moscow trading says a look at call from around two hours time will be our tests by six closed in the black on tuesday and as you may just were among the main game is of the day it's all about the company for months while. russian equities have largely shaken off negative sentiment coming out of the e.u. and the us however of a soft unicredit securities beliefs markets will be treating water in the summer months the greek into all problems will go either the. food for or against or you comes up with some sort of another plan to rescue them the event itself is just the reason for speculation nothing else but fundamentally everything should have been already discounted by the market i mean the weakness in europe the weakness in the u.s. so it's nothing new to markets in general in the russian market but it will be jittery and let's see moving. sideways and still be.

without any of the. swings all down swings i mean prices have fallen around ten percent since may the metal is currently trading at around twenty five hundred dollars per ton that is left of your. outlines the main factors that have been impacted upon. but on the one count we see them strong physicals and moms and the china and all the bricks contras continue developing but the government in china trying to slow down this process at the same time. this government trying to do it would slow down the process of going for the exam and you see the situation in europe unfortunately is not going well all of that different to me to not give us that a lot of optimism for should price quickly in the long term different the old the most surprising for them in particular different issues arising should be stable but medium term i could predict what that level should be stable as it is now. as

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