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wraps on the streets of athens just minutes after the greek parliament approves more austerity cuts paving the way for billions more in the new bailout couch. series on rast threats to spread across the middle east israel is concerned that hizbollah lot is moving weapons to levanon just in case president assad is overthrown. and orphans in russia continue to struggle in adulthood a lack of government provided housing mean some have to live in rundown homes with little help. also in business as greece approves new austerity measures russia along with other markets was rallying on wednesday with the obvious ending up one percent my sex half of a cent more on that in our business goes on twenty minutes. it's

seven pm in moscow this is coming to you live now with our top story this hour the greek government has voted in favor of a new round of austerity comp securing the next multibillion installment of cash from the e.u. and staving off to fault but furious protesters have reacted violently to the vote with battles between police and demonstrators continuing just meters from parliament well scenes from downtown athens resemble a war zone as protesters fight with riot squads amid volleys of tear gas hundreds of thousands of people nationwide walked off their jobs for a two day strike against the austerity cuts they say drowning the country in debt crippling interest rates has failed one and it will fail again they are worrying reports of aspirating violence in constitution square with dozens reported injured or detained by police financial journalists to meet the couple months out of protest believes that the public's rage at being made scapegoats is only just beginning it's only just beginning to manifest itself. 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 continually 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 already being to tear up so it's impossible to be outside without any any mask or any kind of moloch solution or anything like that and yet people are continuing in fact to protest as we speak. now that the parliament has approved these cuts what's next for greece as you see it are people going to continue to fight this. i mean absolutely absolutely nothing has changed i think she's only getting worse and people are getting angry you know to be very honest with you i think my experience has been being in a number of these rallies both through the day and night and experiencing this violence firsthand i will 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 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 and one of the things that i've noticed now is that whereas before it was just anarchists and just provided 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 of the vast majority of people are against these measures so i don't see anything changing whatsoever 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 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 balcombe bind how can the greek economy possibly grow under such stress what is the government telling the people.

they can't possibly girl i ordered telling the people to tell the 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 austerity measures include privatizations that are liquidations of corporate and national wealth and resources these measures are seen as an affront to the greek nation which is what they are and we've seen this before as is the thing you hear something like greeks have to stretch back into deep history to figure this out we can look at latin american we can 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 the greek people are smart they're not stupid and they understand that. well as to me through was saying 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 debt. on the streets of athens the voices of discontent growing louder. it's a war we did not create this tour and we're going to pay for this we want to take our lives but it's greece continues to fight against economic ruin the second bailout. an attempt to prevent greece from defaulting on its previous leymah payments but the greek people won't be seeing a penny. of this buyout money actually comes into the greek economy it all goes out into the interest payments 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 corner me a year is struggling against partial sterett he measures that when the government now faces an electorate opposed to another bailout they are going to get all of this the problem. i mean very proper and they are going to get almost everything. and move the saving account of the good people they're going to get in this in this. first first apply the bailout it certainly can it's a high cost for the cuts in public spending raising taxes and an aggressive 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 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 on their faulty lending policies was almost as if there's a whole other holy alarm. of politicians and bankers vs ordinary people it's a fight that the people say they're not prepared to. see athens. where the grim economic situation in greece will be high on the to do this for the new head of the international monetary fund france's finance minister christine legarde for analysis on what to expect from her we're now joined live by daniel benoni a veteran financial journalist editor at fund strategy magazine thanks for being with us what's your take on this can we expect miracles from the new i.m.f. head will she find a way to finally pull greece and other economies like it straight out of this crisis. i'm afraid not i wish there was an easy way to do it but i don't think that will happen i think what we're likely to see from christine lagarde is more of the

same which is the i.m.f. trying to stabilize problems in the short cut short term deals but not really tackling the fundamental problems with the global economy. states are the chief clients of the world's top lender and the guard appears to cement european dominance obviously if the i.m.f. simply a self-serving institution. i wouldn't exactly call it self-serving i think it serves the interests of the western powers so not just europe i mean clearly europe has always had the head of the i.m.f. and continues to do so but has done a deal with the with america's america has the chief role in the world bank. but i think also it's a particular kind of technocratic institution you know the world is always trying to find technical solutions short term deals to stabilize the situation

rather than talk of the fundamental problems facing even europe or the world economy look at its only opponent mexican from the mexican central bank promise to give more influence to develop. being nations emerging economies yet didn't even have the support of some of those very nations why did he make it. what if although christine lagarde has just been formally announced as the new head of the i.m.f. i think their decision was really made weeks and weeks ago the deal was caught between the big european players and america to make christine lagarde the head of the new head of the i.m.f. so what we've seen over the last few weeks is much more of a p.r. campaign to say yes of course we care a bit about the emerging economies but not so much that they could have a head of the i.m.f. so i think something has changed i think they are becoming a bit more influential but it's still dominated by the western powers do you think that will ever change that we could ever see

a leader from an emerging economy or not the world's richest nations lead an institution like the i.m.f. . i think it could change possibly but i think even if. carstens had won this time i don't think it would change things that fundamentally because the problem with the i.m.f. is not just that it's headed by a european but a much more fundamentally that it's a very short term narrow technocratic institution to solve a lot of the problems facing the world economy we need political solutions with politicians tackling problems democratically elected politicians but we don't have that so we have them advocating responsibility just briefly do you think we could ever see emerging economies form a sort of i.m.f. of their own. you know again i think that's a possibility it's not just a question of where the head of the i.m.f. comes from or where the regional organization he represents but what kind of

a look at what kind of situation it is. all right daniel ben i mean financial journalist and editor of the func strategy magazine thank you very much for your analysis thank you. well plenty ahead for you this hour including our team meeting a multitalented nasa astronaut cady coleman became famous for her orbital flute performance on a five month long expedition to the i.s.o.'s find out how hard it is to play in zero gravity. but first israel's military is on edge after 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 polis leader 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 their. opposition group that might take over in syria. differently conceived of his belies an enemy is a spirit so for his blood it's the mass the most logical thing to do all to transfer the weapon they put in syria. into. 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 is part of an alliance and that alliance is very wide it begins in iran some elements in iraq's government are part of it the syrian regime hezbollah in lebanon 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 very volatile dangerous collapse of syrian government gender group. and israelis fear a new war in the region even if the syrian regime stays tell of a reportedly sent a 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 but as far as we know hizbullah has now accumulated around forty five thousand missiles of various ranges the is one of the op. out of them that in fact the range goes beyond three hundred m. and what's three hundred fifty kilometers which according to them at least they can

reach the whole of israel 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 bill of 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 on our wall policy r.t. israel. well another problem facing israel is how to deal with the latest aid flotilla bound for blockaded gaza 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 for you in fifteen minutes here on r t. france has become the first contrie to openly admit it has supplied the libyan rebels with weapons a french military spokesman said the arms including machine including machine guns and rocket propelled grenades were parachuted in by air to be says rebels meanwhile in washington the senate foreign relations committee has finally authorized american involvement in libya something president obama was strongly pushing for the resolution gives approval for u.s. warplanes and unmanned drones to continue limited strikes from one year forbids the deployment of ground troops we see a process professor of international studies at trinity college in hartford says the authorization is yet another legal violation i do you know over. to me you know all was going to be given based on a u.n. resolution within a few hours of the war beginning with the french and american striking libya they

had already violated their narrow terms of the u.n. resolution and now it looks like libya is simply being bled there have been a hundred days of attacks twenty four thousand sorties you know there is a very gradually being a point to bleeding over libya to the extent where gadhafi his ally and then defected. has said that libya is being made into what he calls giants so while you have the united states president has not over the last twenty years come to congress to seek authorization for a war there have been very poorly defined statements brought before congress the same thing in afghanistan if the united states had properly gone to war in afghanistan then it may not have been so i don't hear about the legality for instance of killing osama bin laden. we get more news and stuart news stories and features on our web page has the latest interviews and analysis here's what's there

for you at the moment director michael known for his work in the chronicles of narnia and of blockbuster meets r t to discuss what makes a good movie. was the only crew member to survive a plane crash that killed forty seven people in northwest russia last week explains how she beat out a lot. of the crew that returned from the international space station last month have been holding their traditional meeting at russia's star city outside moscow dumbarton went along as well to meet up with flight engineer cady coleman who became famous for what for a somewhat unique performance on the station. for six months now with the experiments you've been playing your flute to green living and working out. but you know back here on earth we 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 had

a two hundred year old irishman 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 it's been very popular across the world will just have a quick listen to to that recording duet. tell us a bit more about how you sorted out just the everyday things that we have to try and sort of say that the biggest inconvenience of not having gravity is that everything floats and that 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 you know that floating around part it's not floating. 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. but check out some other international headlines for you this hour at least eight civilians replacements have been reportedly killed in a suicide gun attack on a hotel in the afghan capital kabul reports say militants wearing civilian clothes burst into the intercontinental long gas were having dinner at least one militant blew himself up and several others took positions on the roof after a shootout with police the 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 work. russian orphans face

a tough childhood but being an adult can be even worse the government legally has to provide housing for anyone leaving care disputer all over reports that often doesn't happen dunk in dilapidated. this 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 leave 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 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 flat 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 historic ease 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 or thousands. of smaller you know when they're little and everybody loves to help them out their small but presents them deployed. whereas in actual fact they've got behind me but they get me there 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 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 up and 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 loaf form often himself as a campaigner for orphans rights he wants to see the courts more involved he was at the q my third and 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. a change in the law might help people in the future but lena needs to find a solution right now. i'll ask them why all the mothers are given homes to raise

their children why can't i have that isn't because i don't know the laws or because i'm not allowed to live because it's had been for me to have family some people are trying to help me but to file their efforts have been in vain. peter all of a party to very cheap. and that wraps up the main news pocky on our t.v. business is next after a short break. warm welcome to business with. the rivalry of the two russian stock exchanges. have put the final seal of approval on a big part of the government's efforts to improve russia's financial infrastructure

and transform global financial. reports. signed sealed and delivered to our now one and itself the beginning of a bright new feature for russian markets that the only means the end of the new years of better competition between our two yes i my sense is we can actually get through. the year. market over the counter market in. the places which are the sure. the idea is to make moscow more attractive to investors to boost liquidity on the market and create a solid centralized and get the five infrastructure which will attract more foreigners. so it's going to be a technically reliable platform which will make it easier for investors to access the merge bourse will have more influence over making decisions making the market more comfortable for international investors. but the critics say that one x.

aims could lead someone locally which could affect the cost of doing business in russia they say that less competition could mean less and that they should at the same time other experts say that this is the only way in helping the government and the sadness in moscow as a global financial center while the bourse which doesn't have a name yet is expected to be up and running by the end of this year and i.p.o. is planned for twenty thirteen worth about one billion dollars. the markets now european markets are up falling greece's approval for. banking shares were posting strong gains commerzbank one of the top gain is one of three percent now german trading. one of the top gives a mention on the dax barclay's is also gaining around four percent in london as our miners rally continues on the us markets on the optimism about the reduced risk of greece's default financials in the lead with bank of america three point two percent and also

a very similar situation here in russia as the closing picture for wednesday's trade but of course is in the black r.t.s. one percent my six percent if we look at the main gainers then yet again banks are in the lead v.c. be there are more than four percent of gross near energy shares are also higher on the higher crude one percent met shell actually in the mining sector was seeing a lot of selling the stock is that as low as the more than a month and that's despite the company almost quadrupling its net profit in the first quarter of the year which is three hundred and nine million dollars. russian president dmitry medvedev has outlined budget guidelines for the next two years and this quite an unusual speech for pre-election period because as outlined tax increases the burden will grow for the gas industry. to russian authorities tried many many times to approach the issue of increasing the tax burden for example you choose for export gas and it looks like that finally the decision has

been made yes the increase will be expected to be relatively significant if getting a dog who was in our studio early on i'll go partly towards reducing shortfall from a lower social tax and quite good news for investors as. from alpha bank. cost of the social talks to the low of thirty percent who watch complainers twenty percent for small companies. brings a drop off rating is wrong four hundred a year well so overall this is wrote the listener. will suggest that if oil prices will go higher russia will still do well but this will definitely increase a sensitivity at all prices so this is a bad news but i think first says this decision definitely. would like to address the concerns of the business community and this is a positive step. the selling of state assets and revenues from oil and gas will also be used to make up for the deficit first in the bed of supported increasing

alcohol and tobacco excise as the government wants to lessen the negative social impact of their consumption. so for now we will be back in fifteen minutes with an update coming up next i'll see the headlines with these. cultures that so much maybe you should be british.