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violence or wraps at the greek parliament has enraged crowds store police barricades through clouds tear gas line pictures here from tens of protestors are hoping to prevent a vote on austerity because. syria's on ras threatens to spread across the middle east israel is concerned that hezbollah is moving weapons to lebanon just in case president absolute is overthrown. and orphans in russia continue to struggle in adulthood a lack of government provided housing mean some have to live in wrong down homes that will help. my from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he said

now it's four pm here in the russian capital three pm in athens where it's make or break today in greece as the government sits down to vote on tax hikes and spending cuts well it's viewed as the country's last chance to stave off the fault something that could have ruined it. consequences for the euro as you can see in these live shots from athens public opposition has turned violent flames there are lots of tear gas being thrown scenes from downtown athens resemble a war zone really as protesters clashed with police amid of volleys of tear gas hundreds of thousands of people nationwide walk talk their jobs in the strike against austerity they say drowning the country in debt crippling interest rates has failed once and now again this week a cook book from the civil servants trade union is outside the parliament building and says there is no shortage of passion among the protesters as you can see in these wife scenes from the greek. we will continue demonstrating

until our government gets the measures and the only our government and the whole european union governments get the message and the message is that these politics don't get us out of the krises we want some other politics to be held or the socialist party that governs now has lost every. everyone who voted for. the socialist party they said other things before the elections and they do other things now and not only they do other things things but they are leading our country to get passed through faith and that is something we want tolerate it's a matter of leaving no death for the people of my country you have to understand that and when the mother is leaving or there is no government can stop as i have it today or tomorrow or two months later they were slow they are going to. tools vote for in the greek parliament is a law that says that everything that their own will. do and then the

prize which will be. would have members from the troika the i.m.f. and some greek people so these enterprise it private. the prize with the troika inside it will sell everything we'll sell everything this country owns if we don't stop this little we want to be a state in the mall there are many many ways of service problem not only here in greece but before utopian you and me and in the whole european union these days. it want the employees and the working class to pay for this crisis and we say no we say that's their it's people we say don't sell anything that owns this country we say that the public there they say we have to pay it's not our dept we didn't decide about it with didn't ask about it we didn't i wouldn't even have to pay for a five percent interest rate when the european. banks with one

percent. but as we heard from the spinner there one of the main grievances held by the protesters is that they're being made to pay for the mistakes of others most of them believe they'll never see a penny of the bailout that will saddle generations with. on the streets of our games the releases of distant tents growing louder. it's a war we did not create so we're not going to pay for this we want to become like a bug it's greed continues to fight against economic ruin the second bailout was an attempt to prevent greece from defaulting on its previous laman payments that the greek people will be feeling a penny. of this buyout money actually comes into the greek economy it all goes out the interest payments and repayments also battles on save the banks and

prevent a large scale financial crisis the people the price is simply too high they see their income going down they see taxes taxes taxes and nothing else their money does not go to a very early corner me a year a struggling against heart of stereotyping measures that the government now faces an electorate opposed to another bailout they are going to get all this they. i mean very proper and they are going to get almost everything. and live. off the good people they're going to get in this in this. first apply the bailout would certainly come as a high cost for the cuts in public spending raising taxes and in the quest of privatization program that would mean the sale of many quick public assets this is robbery this is theft this is attention on the streets of athens continues to mount

violent scenes with this recently disturbing testimony just how far situations to terry races. one of the reasons that everybody is so determined to keep greece in the euro is so that the banks don't have to take a serious hit of their full three lending policies it is almost as if there's a lot of other holy alone of politicians and bankers versus all repeat people it's a fight that the people say they're not prepared to. serve. athens. and as we report later in the program the greek crisis will be the top of the to do this for the new boss of the world's biggest lender find out how the choice of france's finance minister as the new boss of the i imagine is already drawing criticism. and our team meets the astronaut who became famous for her orbital fluke performance while on a five month long expedition to the. but first israel has

warned syrian president bashar asad it will target him personally if he attempts an attack on the jewish state that's according to an arab newspaper report where the morning came after reports of unusual troop movements in syria including the relocation of ballistic missiles able to reach israel israeli experts speculate also could go on the offensive to divert international attention from internal on rast another theory is that an attack could be staged by arsons longtime allies hezbollah from lebannon are just falsely or takes a look now at how the situation in the region threatens to spin 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 hizbollah decides to do with its stockpiles there and the opposition group that my take over in syria. definitely consider feasible lies and then the me is

a threat so for hizbullah it's the mass of the most logical thing. to draw to transfer the weapon they put in syria. to lebanon for years has been 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 as 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 you know hizbullah has now it collated around forty five thousand missiles of various ranges. there is one of the part of them that in fact the range goes beyond three hundred and about 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 true 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 and almost ominous threat the lebanese palestinian and his belief flags flying on the israeli border the message is clear here no country's 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. another problem facing israel is how to deal with the latest tale of bound for blockaded gaza r.g.s. peter lavelle and his gas debate the true nature of the mission as well as the state of israeli palestinian relations the full show is coming up at fifteen hundred g.m.t. here's a preview of. what is gaza really it is a giant prison for one point six million people eighty percent of the refugees from towns and villages destroyed towns and villages the in what is now israel

and israel wants nothing to do with them for one reason only and that's because the jews that's the fundamental racist nature of this blockade is completely falsifying the fact that israel has continuously offered the palestinians in negotiations a palestinian state built and establish land in the gaza strip and the west bank with continuity in a way of connecting those two parts with you but is this israel is already very close to three parts of knowing what they are by is that if there are twenty or so into their own their main interest is really citizens throughout the trial is going to israel don't really know who is there isn't going to. say they didn't. want. the international monetary fund has got itself a new leader in french finance minister christine lagarde she won with the

overwhelming backing of the e.u. the us russia and china but skeptics say another european boss means some countries will be favored over others. christine lagarde appointment keeps a european at the head of the world's top lender keeping the 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 the guards main competitor was augustine carstens from mexico who argued her appointment would only add to the perception of i.m.f. bias there could be some conflict of interest i mean they know the 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 and veto power and always suggest i.m.f. bias has had a negative effect on the world's economy they would use their monopoly over. to force certain policies. on countries in policies there were not in their 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 advanced economies which it definitely did not spot they missed the two bigger biggest asset bubbles in the history of the world 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 all of the big decisions at the i.m.f. 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 divest the interests of aviation giants like boeing and lockheed martin helping them to seal multibillion dollar deals the u.s. and europe. found the first seem like are the best fit for the job so did several emerging markets including russia and china but she faces the difficult task of appearing independent despite her past lies and will 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 our team. the crew that returned from the international space station last month have been holding their traditional meeting at russia's star city

outside moscow artist on barton went along as well to meet up with flight engineer kathy coleman who became famous for a somewhat unique performance on the station. you've been out there for six months now with the experiments you've been playing your flute your green living and working out. but you know back here on earth i just wanted to ask you about some of the every day things that you have to cope with up so i actually brought flutes from anderson jethro tull and also from the band the chieftains set at two hundred year old irish mint and also a ten whistle and then the and then once you get up there you want to share this and mr anderson came up with this a way to play a duet together and it's been very popular across the world we'll just have a quick listen to to that recording duet. that.

tell us a bit more about how you sorted out just the everyday things that we have to try and sort of i say the biggest inconvenience of not having gravity is that everything floats and i can be nice i mean i can move a thousand pound rock up a put there by myself and push it across the space station and put it in a new place so that floating around part it's not floating it's lying and somebody like me that was never the gymnastic queen you know high school can do all of those things and more and it's just really wonderful to fly. get more news stories and features on our web page r.t. dot com has the latest interviews and analysis here's who was there for you at the moment director michael apted known for his work in the chronicles of narnia a bomb blockbuster meets r t to discuss what makes a good movie. and it can't cheating russian university students were

kicked out for city exams for school leavers find out exactly what happened r.t.e. dot com. russian orphans face a tough childhood but being an adult is often even worse the government legally has to provide housing for anyone leaving care because peter all over reports that often doesn't happen. dunk in dilapidated. this flop looks more like a prime candidate for demolition than a family home but 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 not top problem lena 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 flood was given to lena's mother by the state and despite having no money she's been told to fix it up but. there's a tradition of 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 ities there's no way that lena family can live here however here is exactly where the thirties of told her that she should bring up children lena's case isn't unusual 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 on their small presents that. whereas in actual fact they've got bigger than me

but they get bigger and that's really when 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 the idea that if we made certain calculations for one region and found out that if a child is number ten thousand in the 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 they're not pharaohs you know. we can't bring them back from the dead and give them an apartment what you're currently only administrative penalties can be imposed on anyone standing in the way of those leaving care getting housing alexander gears a law of a form often him self as a campaigner for orphans rights he wants to see the courts more involved he will have taken my fifth and we need to change the law in a way to make sure that someone can be held responsible in court or 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 rather than. a change in the law might help people in the future but

lena needs to find a solution right now. you know i ask them all the mothers are given homes to raise their children why can't i have that easy because i didn't know the answer because i'm not allowed to live because it's had been for me to family some people are trying to help me but to follow their efforts have been in vain. to very. well look now at some world news in brief for you at twenty minutes past the hour at least eight civilians and two policemen have been reported killed in a suicide bomb attack on a hotel in the afghan capital kabul reports say militants wearing civilian clothes burst into the intercontinental while gas were having dinner at least one militant blew itself up and several others took positions on the roof after a shootout with police a four hour standoff was ended by an airstrike from a nato helicopter the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack.

over a thousand people took part in taiwanese military drills to simulate potential nuclear and biological attacks the country's military police and fire fighters also reenacted a hostage situation on a bus and a biological attack on board a ship government officials say the drills are aimed at improving the response to unconventional warfare. both areas has vowed to repay its debt for russian electricity payment to overnight was missed and moscow has to cut off the electrical supply to the country by the roosters in the midst of an economic crisis with prices rising and the value of its currency plummeting are just on thomas has more on why bell roost is struggling to pay its bills. people are predicting making a run on the banks and making a run at any types of goods if they can let me give you a little bit of a hint of the situation on the ground right now nicholai a small problem with the economic minister in the country had

a press conference today and it's said that he's sorry that he did not shoot himself and that he feels that first. 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 of their belorussian roubles for russian rubles or 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 goods trying to get what they can also try to drivers are saying that it costs more for gas than it does for the fares that they're receiving now all of this of course is coming after the election in december where leadership go 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 a shake up raising the general minimum wage of the country fifty percent and for government employees thirty percent it's this move that speculators say is what devalued the currency on such a level now or below says it 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 they were only asking 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 normalcy inside the country so right now. very bad situation inside belarus. well later this hour we've got some extreme action for you from our sports staff competition where excitement and danger go hand in hand we take a plunge into one of the most thrilling sports on the planet cliff diving. well check out the latest financial news after

a short break with dmitri in business. and in a warm welcome to business r.t. russian president dmitry medvedev has outlined budget guidelines for the next two years top of the list is increasing the tax burden on the gas industry that will go partly towards reducing the shortfall from a lower social tax the selling of state assets and revenues from oil and gas will also be used to make up the deficit and the fed if supported increasing alcohol and tobacco excise as the government wants to lessen the negative social impact of their consumption to discuss this speech in more detail i'm now joined by another

low vision of economist of a bank let me thank you so much for being with us so overall in general any surprises in that speech well i would say in the way it's a surprise to me at least was it found that the how the flexion been through the day has a real estate or that i would have to think about higher taxation a number of sets the scene or of course evolve the introduction of the taxation on the real estate so i think this is definitely there on the usual speech for the pre-election very unpopular measures it seems so about increasing reducing the social tax first of all do you think this how much of a burden will that be for the budget well i would say the cost of the social talk still the low of the social life kompany as low as twenty percent for small combin this potential brings the drop off roading is wrong four hundred blue with a year in two thousand and twelve so overall this is relatively smooth was this will suggest if all prices will go higher russia will still do well but this will definitely increase this institute at all prices so this is

a bad news but i think first says this decision definitely big it would like to address the concerns of the business community and this is of course. well executed the finance minister has always been saying that russia keeps on increasing budget expenditure do you think this has to stop was there any mentioning of that coming i don't know if you look at for the exit conditional for the first two or four months of this year you can see. that the increase of the expenditure side was ten percent a year while from sample their general to april two thousand providers increase a four ounce or two percent so there was this slow rate of for expenditure growth was true but it's true the data from his speech has national do need to increase the indexation of. increase in payments and social errors so i was watching the thing will not be able to stop the indexation finally increasing taxes on oil and gas sector apart from tobacco and alcohol how much of a burden is that for for the companies in this industry they've always been asking

for tax breaks while it's true also have not heard of this specific proposal just a general statement that the stocks bush has to go off it's also true that. doesn't fly on a very high burden so as opposed to the rest of the russian economy communist can potentially survive on the high at the station but the problem is definitely also that in this case it will invest less on bosses who limit the increase prevention of the russian expert capacity so the last russian has seen called the result is the right as any other which economists tell thank you so much for your letter and for your time and i'm afraid that's all we have time for we will be back in fifty minutes time with an update the headlines are next with then he said tuesday without.

i was just thinking about my future before the foreign companies came i dreamed of owning a can cutting factory. but we have less garbage now. some businesses who come here make fun of me.