no but still should image even if it was done to the sky from some of the c.s. slovyansk i poked in soldier historical who tells of its culture in the city so it's in the sky because most miliband. has a good up until close he strove for this to become the hutto. rage a rap on the streets of athens just minutes after the greek parliament approves more austerity cuts paving the way for billions more in e.u. belle-isle cast live pictures here from the greek capital. put syria's on ras threats to spread across the middle east israel is concerned that hizbollah law is moving weapons to lebanon long just in case president also is overthrown. and or friends in russia continue to struggle in adulthood a lack of government provided housing means some have to live in rundown homes with a little help.

from our studios in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now in six pm here in the russian capital our top story this hour the greek government has voted in favor of a new round of austerity cuts securing the next multibillion installment of cash from the e.u. and staving off a default but as you can see in live pictures here from athens furious protesters have reacted violently to the vote with prowse between police and demonstrators continuing just meters away from the part of the mint there bill scenes from our crossed out and says after noon resembled a war zone protesters fall with riot squads amid volleys of tear gas hundreds of thousands of people nationwide walked off their job search. a strike against the

austerity cuts they say drowning the country in debt at crippling interest rates has failed once and it all fell again for more on what that meant for greece than the e.u. we cannot cross lines. and we're joined by financial journalist. thank you for being with us mr kaufman this we're seeing some very disturbing. he was there we're seeing some very disturbing and you know i could hear him again you know hindsight we can see tear gas rising up you're right in front of the part of the audience getting cut out i can hear you were saying they're disturbing you just yet just describe to us what's going on behind you. i can't i'm sorry i can hear you i can hear the audio cut out one more time to madness can you hear yeah i can hear i can i can hear you now i can hear you when you're focused just give us a picture of what's happening right behind you there on that central square yeah i mean right right now at this very second where you're getting is they've cleared out which is the street that's in the front part of saddam of the constitution

square and. those special police forces of basically tear gas the entire area they've been tear gassing all day you can hear right now going off but they just continue to tear gas the square itself and all around the surrounding areas they have police in the surrounding streets just tear gas and continue to tear gas all day long spraying the area so that people can't come in from the top when i actually was coming in. for the interview i came about seven hundred meters away i was my eyes were already going to tear up so it's impossible to be outside without any any mask or any kind of model of solution or anything like that and yet people are continuing in fact to protest as we speak. now at the parliament has approved these cuts what's next for greece as you see it are people going to continue to fight this. yeah i mean absolutely absolutely nothing has changed but she is only getting worse and people are getting angry. one of the things that i've noticed now is that whereas before it was just anarchists and just the market tours and right now. you're seeing is yes the editors in the bucket tours but at night last night

a lot of middle class people normal people men and women of any age group were outside protesting i'm not saying that they were specifically the ones throwing rocks but they were supporting it so this is not something that's just a fringe part of a society be entire side the vast majority of people are against these measures so i don't see anything changing whatsoever. with that said tomorrow the parliament is set to vote on how to implement the sale of state assets a sensitive issue of course i'll mongery as well as the tax heights that vote a foregone conclusion do you think. i unless something dramatic happens here look the violence is so bad here that it's perfectly possible for someone to get seriously hurt or or something worse because they're throwing massive amounts of rocks last night even the protesters were throwing rocks into the police into special forces that were guarding the letters the parliament were having rocks thrown back at them so so there are people walking around and he was getting ahead and ahead we're going to see things and that could for me be the catalyst for

something much greater if something like that happens then all bets are off but i'm saying my god what i wonder what he spent how do you think this could all end you say something bigger happening what exactly well i mean in greece greeks greeks are very defiant people and they're not going to stand for someone being killed in in in the constitution square or at these protests or if someone dies there's something very tragic occurs that's going to be a catalyst for i think a fall this government there's no way this government can withstand that sort of violence i mean it's already escalating now and they seem to be completely indifferent to this reality so in my opinion if something traumatic occurs and you can hear right now it's a big dramatic occurs then all bets are off if something doesn't occur by tomorrow then i would expect the vote to be a foregone conclusion because this was a more important vote than actually just to enable the legislation to move forward in a faster more efficient fashion i just want to talk a little bit more about the financial side of this within five years greece will have paid more interest in fees than the sum of the bow combined how can the greek economy possibly grow under such stress what is the government telling the people.

it can't possibly girl i want to telling the people that own people the same the same pack of lies that you'd expect anyone to tell in passing these measures what will could you possibly expect. you can't you can't expect any truth i mean the government is under an extreme amount of pressure from the troika and they're also working for what other other other interest they're interested in but primarily they're under a great deal of pressure from the e.u. and the i.m.f. to pass these measures these are clearly unpopular measures by everyone in the society not just people in the public sector i've made that point before these are started measures include privatizations that are liquidations of corporate and and and national wealth and resources there collateralize nation of bonds so. yeah i mean i don't i don't remember what exactly you want to drive at but i just like to follow up on that are you saying that greece has been sacrificed to maintain confidence in fact in the euro. i mean i guess you could call this confidence for a european currency i the euro hasn't hasn't really crashed as

a result of these riots but it's a it's a catch twenty two with the euro because on the one hand you have that they're saying that if you monetize if you if you bail out more countries if you if you. hurt the integrity of the euro as a monetary currency then you'll save it but at the same time if you do that you're not exactly putting faith in investors the whole euro so in my opinion the euro the euro is a is a flawed currency and i don't see how whether you bail out greece or you don't feel like greece is going to save europe i think the only conceive the euro is if yeah go ahead i just want to look back for a second while it was clear what's at stake the government has made a point of ignoring public opinion as we can see on the streets now announcements what the protests hope to achieve i mean where did they think this is going to and . you know to be very honest with you i think i might experience has been being in a number of these rallies both through the day and night and experiencing this violence firsthand i would tell you that first and foremost there's just

a rage there's an anger and that is what you're seeing manifest here there isn't necessarily a stir a common a common sense or some sort of strategy that's that that you're seeing implemented right now it's rather a lot of rage you can see in the people here a lot of the people that are doing the violence right now are young people but behind the young people there's a middle class and there's even people across this this business aside of that are in support of of of voting against these measures because these measures are seen as an affront to the greek nation which is what they are and we've seen this before and there's nothing new here it's not like greeks have to stretch back into deep history to figure this out we can look at latin american people look at countries all over the world where the i.m.f. has come in and sacrificed and plundered the nation for corporate consolidation and that's what this is and greek people are smart they're not stupid and they understand that right samantha kaufman us live from athens financial journalist thank you very much. for your input be carried out there. but one of the main

grievances held by the protesters is that they're being made to pay for the mistakes of others like me three mentioned there most of them believe they'll never see a penny of the bailout that will saddle generations with debt. on the streets of athens the voices of discontent growing louder. it's a war we did not create this tour and are going to pay for this debt we want to become like a bug if greece continues to fight against economic ruin second day. and it can to prevent greece from defaulting on its previous lame payments that the greek people will be seeing a penny. of this buyout money actually comes into the greek economy it all goes interest bowman's repayments also battles on save the banks and prevent a large scale financial crisis for 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 very early a year a struggling against harsher sterett he measures it many government now faces an electorate opposed to another bailout they are going to get all this need of a bunch of state. property. to get almost everything. and live. off the good people they're going to get in this in this. first one. it certainly can it's a high cost for the cuts in public spending and raising taxes and an aggressive privatization program it would mean many quick public assets this is robbery this is theft. tension on the streets of athens continues to mount violent scenes witness recently disturbing testimony to just how far situations deteriorated

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 faulty lending policies and it's almost as if because i was on the holy alarms. of politicians and bankers vs ordinary people it's a fight that the people say they're not prepared to lose thirty r.t. athens. but as a report later in the program the greek crisis will be part of the can do this for the new boss of the world's biggest lender by how the choice of france is finance minister as the head of the i.m.f. is already drawing criticism. and are to meet the astronaut who became famous for her orbital flute performance while on a five not one expedition to the i assess. israel's military is on arab jabour intelligence reports of troop movements in syria and

across the border in lebanon it's concerned hezbollah might be moving weapons to strike at the jewish state to divert attention from its ally syrian president bashar asad or just because they're takes a look now at how the situation in the region threatens to spill spin further out of control. things are quiet on the israel lebanon border put 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 their. opposition group that my plea called in syria. will definitely consider this but lies an enemy is a through it and so forth hizbullah it's the mass of the. logical thing to do all the transfer the weapon put in syria. including to 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 their bias is very wide it big. in the iran some elements in iraq's government are part of a the syrian regime hezbollah in lebanon and hamas in gaza western intelligence reports suggest hizbollah 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 to the situation in syria. while the dangerous. syrian government. group wants and is really fear a new war in the region even if the syrian regime stays tell of a reported piece into message to president assad warning him that if he starts

a war with israel in order to divert attention from domestic problems israel would target him personally but such a war would also play into the hands of his below as far as you know hizbullah has now accumulated around forty five thousand missiles of various three interests though it's one of the part of them that in fact the range goes beyond three hundred dollars three hundred fifty kilometers which according to them at least they can reach the whole of the as well and results of the country were to something israelis know these missiles originated in syria they found their way to lebanon and then they were fired by his well onto the three state back in two thousand and six this museum was set up about a decade ago so that the idea could display weapons ammunition an item as it had 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 new countries 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 aid flight to look around for blockaded gaza parties peter the bell 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 next hour here's a preview. 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 that are the in what is now israel and israel wants nothing to do with them for one reason only and that's because they're not jews that's the fundamentally racist nature of this blockade is completely fails to find the facts israel has continuously offered the palestinians in negotiations

a palestinian state built and established land in the gaza strip and the west bank with continuity in a way of connecting those two parties with the employer is this israeli military system three parts of knowing that there is there are twenty percent of the arrow made in this israeli citizens throughout the show there are always really two is there is going to. say that if. it is. if you 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 u.s. russia and china that skeptics say another european poss mean some countries will be favored over others. christine lagarde of point man 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 carrying the international monetary fund could be more important than ever for europe seeing the. intimate knowledge of those mechanisms. of the european community and the eurozone of its many leaders can help the guard's main competitor was i was saying carstens from mexico who argued her point man would only edge to the perception of i.m.f. by its kooky some conflict the theme for it's going to be no they mean war or institutional u.v.b. it will europe and or so will her physically stronger they will rule or stormin eighteen to create the 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 only suggest i am have by as has had a negative effect on the world's economy and they would use their own monopoly over

. force certain policies. own country's. policies there were no 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 address the connally's which it definitely did not spot they missed it too big or biggest roles in the history of the world i think they didn't want to go against their friends on wall street and others they 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 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 divest the interests of aviation giants like boeing and lockheed martin helping them to seal multimillion dollar deals the u.s. and europe. found first seen love are the best for the job so did several emerging markets including warfare in 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 the reporting from washington r t. o on our website r t dot com and have your say on what the employee even of christine lagarde will bring let's take a look at how you've been voting so far the majority of you think that the new i.m.f. chief will be a puppet controlled by the interest of. interest call for the view that the organization will be exploiting week a commie and the crisis others are split over two options either the move will help

change the world's financial system or it will set a new independent course for the i.m.f. get involved by logging on to our dot com and let us know what you think. the group that returned from the international space station last month have been holding their traditional meeting at russia's star city outside moscow are just tom garden went along as well to meet up with flight engineer cady coleman who became famous first somewhat unique performance on the station. you can go to six moments now could be an experiment in playing your flute to being living and working out. but you know back here on earth i just want to ask you about some of the every day things that you have to cope with so i actually brought flutes from anderson i'll try to tell and also from the band the chieftains set a two hundred year old irishman and also attend a missile and then the spin 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 that recording for us. tell us a bit more about how useless about just the everyday things that we have to try and sort of 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 of equipment by myself and push it across the space station and put it in a new place in the floating around part it's not floating it's life and somebody like me and it was never the gymnastic queen and you know high school can do all of those things and more and it's just really wonderful to fly. to get more news stories and features on our web page archie dot com has the latest interviews and

analysis here's what's lined up for you right now at our comp director michael apted known for his work in the chronicles of narnia a bomb blockbuster meets archie to discuss what makes a good movie. and the only crew member to survive a plane crash that killed forty seven people in northwest russia last week explains how she made it out alive. 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 to speak or all over now reports that often doesn't help them. down and fill up the days and. this clark looks more like a prime candidate for demolition and a family home but twenty two year old mother of two lena has been told by social services that she's stuck. perhaps they haven't seen this place inside

it 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 have no job i have to take care of kids and i ended up renting place they said it's not our problem lena grew up in an orphanage in the city of to be under russian law she should have received state housing once she left the institution this flat was given saline as a mother by the state and despite having no money she's been told excellent. but there's a situation absolutely desperate they didn't give me work because i didn'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 i mean it is there's no way that a family can live here however here is exactly where this origins of told her that she should bring up children lena's case isn't unusual those who were quite often is 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 their small with presents and things. 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 in need for all things leading care it's also in short supply and the idea that if we meet certain calculations for one region and found 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 out of how to 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 housing alexander gears a loss of form often him self as a campaigner for orphans rights he wants to see the courts more involved he will

have the image 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 this will make sure that there is no way a graduating orphan will have to go and live in a rundown home and the. change in the law might help people in the future but lena we can find a solution right now we have a picture i ask him where all the mothers are given homes to raise their children why can't i have that is because i don't know the laws or because they are not allowed to live because for me and for me to have family some people are trying to help me but so far their efforts have been in vain. peter all of our r.t. very nature. but his business news is coming your way here on r.t. with dimitri stay with us. and as you know warm welcome to business see the u.

rivalry of two russian stock exchanges. have the final seal of approval on the edge it's a big part of government efforts to improve russia's financial infrastructure and start transforming moscow into a global financial center but in the course of a hasn't. signed sealed and delivered to our now one and itself the beginning of a bright new feature for russian markets the deal means the end of fifteen years a bitter competition between the rights we ask and my sense we can actually get through. to market real with the market in. the places which i'm sure is the issue with the idea is to make moscow more attractive to investors to boost liquidity on the market and create a solid centralized and good but infrastructure which will attract more foreigners than is going the other way so it's going to be a technically reliable platform which will make it easier for investors to access

the merge goals will have more influence over making decisions making the market more comfortable for international investors. but critics say that one exchange could lead someone locally what's clear cut the cost of doing business in russia they say that less competition could mean less and the ratio at the same time other experts say that this the long way in helping the government in the stablish in moscow as a global financial center for the force which doesn't have a name yet is expected to be up or morning by the end of this year and i keel is prime for twenty thirteen worth about one billion dollars. dollars take a look at how the russian markets are performing right now. gaining yes is up almost one percent my sex one third of a percent if we look at stocks. specifically energy majors among the main games as world rebounds from a four month low or snatch design point six percent natural is seeing

a lot of selling the stock is at its lowest in more than a month and that's a spike a company almost group building it's no profit in the first quarter of the year reaching three hundred nine million dollars banking stocks are also advancing with d.c.b. up thirty percent one of the biggest gains. european markets are rallying following greece's approval for seriously measures banking shares opposed strong gains with commerce bank over three percent and german trading one of the top here in a zone of that barclays is also gaining more than three percent on the footsie as well so our miners like to forget still. russian president medvedev has outlined budget guidelines for the next two years top of the list is increasing the tax burden on the gas industry that would go partly towards reducing a shortfall from the lower social tax the selling of state assets and revenues from oil and gas will also be used to make up the deficit present much better supported increasing alcohol and tobacco excise as the government wants to lessen the

negative social impacts of their consumption headlines are next on r.t. with an isa to stay with us. if. he.