the greek capital is braced for more violence and stars as gather at the parliament building for a second day of protests hours before lawmakers are to vote on a fresh austerity package. the greek economic turmoil becomes the first challenge for a new i.m.f. chief christine lagarde also faces a tough task of pointing up the perception that organization is biased in favor of western countries. also fears grow that unrest in syria might drive the militant group hezbollah out weapons it stored there in lebanon threatening to stoke up further trouble in the region. and our top story in business russia's two main

forces are ready to merge it's part of the government's efforts to improve russia's the natural infrastructure and transfer market the global financial center join me for more details in our business bulletin in twenty minutes from now. world news and much more twenty four hours a day good to have you with us today but it cuts all bankruptcy a tough choice for the greek parliament which is facing a crucial stereotypic european leaders have already warned that there are no other options the testers are already flocking to the parliament thousands of them are again venting their fury and measures at least forty six people were injured as violent clashes and strikes paralyzed and sure the eve of the hundreds of thousands are on the streets with police using tear gas the spurs the nineteen arrests made

the e.u. is demanding twenty eight billion euros worth of cuts before releasing yet wolf constantly it's journalists demetri coffin a says being part of the means. living up to financial education. unfortunately the government isn't giving anyone any real options and that's the problem here started measure unpopular wildly 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 that iraq is not to say 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. all the e.u. is trying to blackmail greece by the different austerity ultimatum that's if you have pets constantino columnist for things based newspaper i think many. george spot on that has lost legitimacy in the breeze and as a prime minister he is a dead man walking at the moment and the pressure from the european union is tremendous we would talk about blackmail you know i disagree because they say that their lives see you vote for these outrageous there will be no more going on. greece who will be left before my petrol opinion is the this is a bluff from european union because if we agree to goes before then we'll have a go i guess the euro. will be a disaster for european union. but unfortunately our government has not been there

all because of them and this is the difficult part of the story because you see the memorandum sent it was there in the package is the result is the. gold that makes of development and this is unsustainable. for the greek turmoil is one of the first problems in the in trail you head of the international and french finance minister christine lagarde she might have won overwhelming support there but many analysts think another year here in bras means favorable treatment for some countries over others. christine lagarde appointment keeps a european at the head of the world's top lender keeping a long held tradition in can act 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 the guard's main competitor was augustine carstens from mexico who argued her appointment would only edge to the perception of i.m.f. by its there could be some conflict of interest by me not the end of the day you know the main war or of the institution would be a rule of europe and all so will have its inclusion were there war or stormy night . into tional emerging economies 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 and 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 only suggest i am have by as has had a negative effect on the world's economy and they would use their monopoly over.

and force certain policies. on countries in there were not in a national interest 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 invest the commies which it definitely did not spot they missed the two big hit big years as a pro bowls in the history of the world and the area with you know which publishes its world economic outlook every six months it is really in charge of monitoring these kinds of things just news there 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 say the intimacy between the i.m.f. and us corporations is a matter of concern all of the big decisions that are made by the u.s. treasury department then you had of the i.m.f. . he's 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 aviation giants like boeing and lockheed martin helping them to seal multibillion dollar deals you are seeing europe found christine lagarde the best paid for the job so did several emerging markets including russia and china but she faces the difficult task of appearing independent despite her past rising 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.e. . websites dot com and you can have your say on the part of question that god will bring all that so look at home voting so far well almost half of you think that a new chief would be a puppet trumpet aegis of the print companies well. the view that

as a nation will be exploiting a weak economies and deepening the crisis and others are split over two options you will help change the world's financial system which will set a new independent course for the ira. by looking on. better roofs has vowed to repay its debts for russia's electricity. missed its payment due overnight or school is now cut off with actual supplies to the country but it is suffering one of its worst economic crises with prices rising in the currency plummeting. short of the centuries this was short what lies behind all this so how bad though things and better is that it's even struggling to pay its bills it certainly is a troubling situation on the ground again side bellerose in fact the people are panicking making a run on the banks and making a run on any types of goods that they can let me give you a little bit of a hint of the situation on the. ground right now nikolai it's not called who is the

economic minister in the country at a press conference today in minsk said that he is sorry that he did not shoot himself and that he feels personally responsible for the current economic crisis inside the country now these could be comments that are dark humor if you will or made off the cuff but still for someone of that stature to be saying that such a thing is very troubling to say the least well on the ground inside the country people are going to try and exchange their rubles their belorussian roubles for russian rubles for u.s. dollars but there are no dollars to be found inside the country so they're coming up empty handed the currency itself as a devalued to such an extent that it's pretty much worthless there's a couple of instances where people are fighting over good to try to get what they can whether it's salt or food or even t.v.'s things that they can use as a barter system for trade inside the country because the currency is no good also taxi drivers are saying that it costs more for gas than it does for the fares that

they're receiving so if they are working at all that it's just a public service to the people inside the country as well now all of this of course is coming after the election in december where leadership one with a significant percentage of the vote too much in fact the international community is saying that it was staged that it was a fraudulent election now before this election in a move that was considered to be populist with the shake up raising the general minimum wage of the country about fifty percent and for government employees thirty percent it's this movement speculators say is what devalued the currency on such a level now dollars has tried to go to the i.m.f. then back in may at the end of may they went and started the process to try and get a loan but one of the conditions of the loan if they do go through the i.m.f. is that they have to go through a privatization of sorts within the country which would of course destabilize the checkers power to some degree but that process was supposed to wrapped up. in the middle of june of this month. going for about three billion dollars but experts are

saying that it's going to take between seven and ten billion u.s. dollars to bring some sort of normal see the country so right now. very bad situation. because our situation indeed reality sean thomas live from moscow thank you. nato has extended its operation in libya for three more months and one that it's not going to scale down its mission of daily airstrikes opposition to the operation continues more protests in london antiwar activists. demonstration comes amid reports of growing civilian casualties escalating costs and no end in sight to the bloody conflict shipley 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 in campaign and risks

doubling the operation drags on throughout the summer peace activists say it's time in nato it was brought to account. and the people are suffering more and more of the people of the here and at the very least the should look like they should have made. in this no fly zone in this intervention and should be calling for an end to it now calling for serious political negotiations. pale into insignificance beside those that george bush. left. russia professor of international studies at harvard told r.t. of his belief that the nato operation is aimed at weakening libya. meant. to me you know it was going to be good. the story of the u.n.

resolution within a few i was beginning with the french and american strike you. had already invited you didn't know if this is usually. looks like libya is being. bad but it went before i was in sort of you know there's a very gradually being leaving of libya. and then. being made into what he was giants while you. know israel has deployed its new missile defense systems there its border with lebanon and even strikes from his below is the most group that doesn't want its longtime ally syrian president bashar assad to be toppled and there's also speculation it might be willing to time that western pressure really from him by launching an attack against israel what's he's going to snow reports now and how that delicate balance on the beach could spill further out of control. things are 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 his knowledge decides to do with its stockpiles there and the opposition group that my people over in syria. differently consider his belies an enemy is a separate so for the mass the. logical thing to do to transfer the work been put in syria. into. lebanon for 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 and lebanon are how martin 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 looks walls are dangerous and collapse the syrian government gender group. that could include a new war between lebanon and israel already for weapons has blair has in its position are able to strike almost any corner of the jewish state and you stockpiles of lebanon would only aggravate an already tense situation as you know hizbullah has now with around forty five thousand missiles of interests. there is one of the old part of them that if the range goes beyond three hundred and those

three hundred fifty kilometers which according to them at least they can reach the whole of israel 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 his villa onto the jewish state back in two thousand and six this museum was set up about a decade ago so that the idea could display weapons ammunition and items that are captured from israel's enemies on the ground and almost administrate the lebanese palestinian and hizbollah flags flying on the israeli border the message is clear here a new country's image of what happens to its neighbor and it won't take much to turn of region's precarious peace into on our wall policy r.t. israel. well israel is also reading itself for trouble on the other side of the country as a new humanitarian for turner is preparing to sail for gaza the israeli military is saying it will block any attempt to reach its seabrooke

a palestinian territory and the latest edition of crosstalk people have other news guests debate this polarizing issue that's coming up later in the day but here's a preview from. the chance that they are carrying weapons that they are carrying terrorists we saw them in last year's flotilla there were armed mercenaries aboard the. ship mavi marmara which lynch to try so you really saw the. whole the only have a lot of this ill removed because it was the best service in the same to keep this is going into these journeys really israel's. the love of a social networking that's spreading among russia's top officials it's not passed on the whole government departments and foreign ministry has just lost its own twitter feed the english and russian which will focus on the country's foreign

policy the government's twitter isolation it's instigated by the russian president himself he's got his followers all in the first of the news about the country's spokesman on xander shavit explains why the foreign ministry has decided to keep up with a trend. that will be much more broad information on international of a major international bounce and some previews of their team just in the ministry and with the speech and all the leadership including the minister of course in the first place. that's. international headlines at least ten feet below reported killed and eight wounded a suicide and gun attack on a town of the afghan capital kabul reports say militants wearing civilian. close burst into the intercontinental yesterday. at least one militant and several others to positions on after a shoot out. a four hour standoff was ended by this strike from

a nato helicopter it's out about has claimed responsibility for it. has been fresh on the arrest in cairo where at least fifty protesters are going to the russians and police dozens were also injured on tuesday as the protesters to first and st guillen shifted to to where square said revolution free testers are angry about the slow process of prosecuting security officers accused of using the deaths and people and uprising that toppled as a. cuban state television has footage and photos of venezuela's president hugo chavez with the transcript of his underwent surgery on the island more than two weeks ago and haven't appeared on t.v. since it's not rumors that the storage near the washington leader was in a critical condition cancer reports on t.v. he say when a child is in terms of it as well. but i just ahead on our take

a look at last month's balance of dispersal of protests george up in our exclusive interview with the opposition leader that she's been in the very heart of the unrest and gives the first on the council a severe crackdown is a taste of what's to come next. for our international communities they know our real face of that country quite well of course the diplomacy means that they will never say it in public that countries play. lots of meaning this very year. with low beast and p.r. companies but nevertheless you can see a lot of strength. in by many states. raise money which they are partially. thank you what looks like to buy everything going to every lie for a short time to ruin but you can't lie for ever i thought everybody.

their lives are often blighted by a troubled childhood russian orphans of finding that their problems are often extended to the adult to their entitle to free housing from the government once they leave their character but has put over ports many of them aren't getting the support they need. and dilapidated. this looks more like a prime kind of a demolition than a family home births 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 phones i had no job i had to take care of kids and i ended up renting place they said it's not hard problem lino grew up in an orphanage in the city of tire on the russian law she should have received state

housing once she left the institution. was given saline his mother by the state and despite having no money he's been told mix it up. there's a tradition 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 mean at least there's no way. here however here is exactly where the authorities have told her that she should bring up her children i mean his case isn't unusual those who work with orphans in russia say that it's when they leave the care homes and they need the most help the problem is orphans our kids are all smaller you know when they're little and everybody loves to help others with presents and things that. whereas in actual fact they've got bigger and me but they get

bigger and that's really bad and we need to be standing beside them housing is one of those big needs for all and leaving care it's also in short supply and there's a. certain calculations for one region and find out that if a child is number ten thousand in a queue for housing it would take them some three and a half thousand years to actually get a flat open how can they live like this or not pharaohs you know. we can't bring them back from the dead and give them an apartment to work your currently only administrative penalties can be imposed on anyone standing in the way of those leaving care getting housing alexander gears a lot of all for himself as a campaigner for all and rights he wants to see the courts more involved it will take him so 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 and this will make sure that there is no way a graduating orphan would have to go and live in a real down home and. a change in the law might help people in the future but lina

need to find a solution right now. ask them why all of 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 had been for me to have a family some people are trying to help me but so far their efforts have been in vain. all these are all of us. to tear each of. the next we've got some extreme action from our sports desk social work site went in danger hundred thousand reports on one of the newest most thrilling and it. looks like next to it with kareena in a few moments stay with us. to

business thanks for joining with us their rivalry of the two russian stock exchanges ideas and put the final seal of approval on their merger. costs. after fifty years of better competition r.t.s. and my sex i'm going to leave because one single entity that had so posed look at strangers themselves signed a great more related to the merger and their combined value is an estimated at two point eight billion dollars now russia has begun hopes of this merger they hope that this will boost the units in the market and create this summit centralized unified infrastructure which will evolve but try to move toward investors there were some financial experts who fear that this would create a monopoly and that the post of doing business here but most things agreed that

this will go all the long way in helping the government sponsored establish small scale as if the mobile financial sense or not only time will tell if their hopes will be fulfilled but for now all we are waiting for is to hear their new name for the brand new socket frames. take a look at how the russian markets are performing of both purses the trading in the black the r.t.s. that it over a percent of the mindsets is up over cents let's have a look at some individual share moves all the i's x. and if you made is the main game is a spoiler bounce from a woman's low cross nafta is up around one point one percent in the mining sector machel is up the company has almost quadrupled its net profits in the first quarter of the year reaching three hundred nine million dollars above previous expectations banking stocks are also bouncing would be to beat up over two percent. and so let's move on to europe or markets rally as well ahead of a key vote to recall them and on additional sturdy measures to later in the session

both could see on the tax or up over eight percent banking says post strong gains with commerce back up zero for up one point eight percent in demonstrating the top gainer on the dax a minus interest of the gassed up gaining on the first six ams of oil is moving between small gains and losses with investors taking a pause that the pushing all to shocking on tuesday light sweet is trading at around ninety three dollars but the. friends at around one hundred nine dollars a barrel this hour. and i think the money bag has denied its plans to close its businesses and also use paper reports suggest the parent company general electric is getting out as a condition of a state bailout we have been announced or anything and maybe those rumors in the market but i mean we look at the portfolio of businesses throughout the world we look at what we're looking at a role should and for us in russia infrastructure businesses or what we're going to be focusing on with the two g. money we're very happy with the bank we're very happy with its performance and we

currently have no no plans to divest of the. that's the business news when i'll be back in less than one and less than one. twenty years ago in august country subsists took a sip of. what had been

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