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joining us now to our top story 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 furious protesters have reacted violently to the vote with battles between police and demonstrators continuing just meters from parliament all 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 hysterically cuts they say a drowning the country and death in for. has failed once and it will fail again well there are worrying reports of escalating violence in constitution square with dozens reported injured or detained by police. well for more on what the vote means for greece and the e.u. we're now joined live by a journalist who are you really talking to us live from athens thanks very much for

joining us and you just please give us the latest on what's happening in athens right now. with afternoon from athens a few minutes ago we heard grenades from constitution square it's about three to four minutes from here there is dense smoke in the air. the protesters are continuing to fight with the police they are throwing stones to the police and the policemen are answering throwing grenades and tear gas there is a dense smoke in the sky but also in the metro station of fog constitution square even inside the metro station there are people for trying to hide in the metro but there is smoke in there there are some doctors would talk from inside the metro and say that there are people who cannot breathe and there are some about there are some formation of. it we have only information from people who are there are here and for must worry here where there earlier now we have to say. our.

summer say that it's now resembling a war zone over there let's talk about the political cost of what has been the real political cost of this bailout for the government in terms of the next elections and the trust among the people. the maser for one hundred fifty five to one hundred thirty eight when the results where are the become known to the people of people reacted in aggressive way so now the government has to face the anger of the angry greeks who are on the road mr papandreou told earlier that we must avoid the countries co-ops are told ghost and the government thinks that this is about to is the only solution and you have to say that a and b. from the socialist mr croom please they cited to vote against the. plan

and socialist decide to throw him out of the party but on the other hunter on the other. from the conservatives decided to vote in favor of the misery and then decided to become independent these are the changes that we had today in the parliament it was a process that was due to begin to begin. but finally began three thirty and tomorrow where we are going to have a long process to. august and september we have another inspection and then we are going to see what the results from euro zone and i am if we have to add that to mr barroso and. express their satisfaction. i just want to know ask about the people of greece not the burden that these cuts will place on the greek taxpayer do you think it's worth the sacrifice of the costs

that will be put in place. of course it's a full of course of these sacrifice for greek people they don't want their taxes they pay enough the don't want to pay more money because they do not have more money but the m.p.'s voted for it so i don't know if they have they can do. they do have other choices mr owner and told me yesterday at public television that there is no plan b. we had to vote for the plan today. well thank you very much for your insight there's a car doing journalist talking to us from athens thank you very much well one of the main agreements is held by the protesters is that they're being made to pay for the mistake 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 so we're not going to pay for this we want to take out large but it's great continues to fight against economic ruin second bailout. an attempt to prevent greece from defaulting on its previous loan with payments that the greek people seeing 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 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 a very early corner me a year is struggling against harsher sterett he measures when the government now faces an electorate opposed to another bailout they are going to get all the state of. the i mean property and they are going to get almost

everything. and live. off the good people they're going to get in this in this. week is really just a ploy on the bailout would certainly come at 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 result as if there's a holy alarm of politicians and bankers versus ordinary people it's

a fight that the people say they're not prepared to. surf and r.t. athens. financial journalist dmitri who was out the protests believes that the public's rage at being made a scapegoats is only just beginning to be expressed or are they telling the people to tell the people the same the same pack of lies that you'd expect anyone to tell these measures what could you possibly expect. you can't you can expect in the truth i mean the government is under an extreme amount 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 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 and this 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. is come in and sacrifice 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 and the grahams economic situation in greece will be top of the in-tray for the new head of the international monetary fund and france's finance minister christine lagarde for analysis on what's of expect from we're joined live from washington by ricardo yahoo's a host of analysts at voice of russia radio thank you very much for joining us mr yele so first question was it a good decision keeping a european at the head of the i.m.f. in face of this rapidly deteriorating financial situation in the e.u. . well first of all as you know christine legarde is finance minister from france she's a well regarded in international monetary circles first of all but she's also quite frankly a good politician when she was touring touring asia she made some promises to the asian countries there that she would try to incorporate more asian people into the higher echelon of the i.m.f.

so the same thing to some of the folks in india when she was touring india so she is now known as a person who wants to bring those folks from the developing countries to the i am of a board over the higher positions in the international monetary fund so she's right now looking like a very good person to look toward especially as in the previous report about the greek debt she's going to have a lot of say over what's going to happen over there and again she's highly regarded so dancer question she is probably a very good choice for this for this role as you think that's the reason why she got the support of emerging economies such as you mentioned china because she's promising to incorporate them more. well again as you know positions like that depend on political swing and political pull and a person with that kind of influence must tell other people at some point that we want to work with you now of course there was pressure at certain times during the the selection process to bring a nine european in but she appears to be leaning toward making

a number two her number two possibly a nine european so i think that did play a big role in her selection but we also must look at something deeper here she's obviously very qualified she's a highly regarded in international financial circles but look at what happened to her predecessor he's caught in this scandal and i think the those people that selected her those who supported her also sending a message that the i.m.f. is not what the for the her predecessor was involved in is not a thing about that so i think even the really the selection of a woman in this case. it's good for the i.m.f. ok let's look at guards u.s. ties there are already accusations that he's just a puppet figure for wall street to influence global policies how true is that do you think. well i don't think it's really that true i think there are those people who did not want you there of course but when they say the puppet of wall street as you know world international economy you know what happens in the u.s.

affects the european nations affects russia what happens in china affects other developing countries in the developed countries the such an international or global community economically and financially that to say that she is merely a puppet is certainly not the case i mean the world does run the banking system so i think that there are simply those folks who have as they say here the united states there are some sour grapes over her selection. thank you very much for your insight ricardo young a host and analyst said voice of russia radio thank you. and plenty ahead for you this hour including our team meets multi-talented nasa astronaut cady coleman who became famous for her orbital performance on a five month long expedition to the u.s.s. find out just how hard it is to play in zero gravity. but israel's a military is on edge shafter intelligence reports of troop movements in syria and

across the border in lebanon it's concerned that hezbollah might be moving weapons to strike at the jewish state to divert attention from its ally syrian president bashar al assad artie's policy or takes a look at how the situation in the region threatens to spin a 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 any opposition group that might take over in syria. will definitely consider his belies an enemy is a threat so for hizbullah it's the mass the most logical thing to do all to transfer the weapon they put in syria. 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 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 and how martin western intelligence reports suggest has been 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 gender group. and israelis fear a new war in the region even if the syrian regime stays tell of a reported he 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 below as far as we know hizbullah has now accumulated around forty five thousand missiles of various ranges. the it's run of all part of. the range goes beyond three hundred and three hundred fifty kilometers which according to them at least they can reach the whole of. 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 it had captured from israel's enemies on the ground and almost ominous through it the lebanese palestinian and his bill of 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 in the region's

precarious peace into all out war policy r.t. israel and france has become the first country to openly admit it has supplied the libyan rebels with weapons a french military spokesman said the arms including machine guns and rocket propelled grenades were parachuted in by air to besieged rebels meanwhile in washington the senate foreign relations committee has finally authorized american involvement in libya something that president obama was strongly pushing for the resolution gives approval for u.s. warplanes and unmanned drones to continue a limited strikes for up to one here but forbids the deployment of ground troops. professor of international studies at trinity college in hartford says the authorisation is yet another legal violation. the idea of limited engagement is rather absurd to me you know the hall was going to begin based on

a un resolution but within a few hours of the war beginning with the french and american striking libya they had already violated the narrow terms of the un resolution and now it looks like libya is simply being bled being a hundred days of attacks twenty four thousand sorties you know there's a very gradually being followed leading of libya to the extent where gadhafi is ally and then defect most of whom has said that libya is being made into what he calls it giant so mali the united states president has not over the last twenty years come to congress to seek authorization for a war they've been very poorly defined statements brought before congress the same thing in afghanistan if the united states had probably gone to war in afghanistan then it may not have been so unclear about the legality for instance of killing osama bin laden. well get more news stories and features on our web page has the

latest interviews and analysis and here's what's there for you at the moment director michael apted known for his work in the chronicles of narnia and blah plus server meets artie 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. but the crew that returned for b. international space station last month have been holding their traditional meeting at russia's star city just outside moscow. along as well to meet up with flight engineer cady coleman who became famous for a somewhat unique performance on the station. for six months now do experiments you've been playing your. living and working out. 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. 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 we'll just have a quick listen to that recording. to. tell us a bit more about how you sorted out 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 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 it's line. 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. well let's check on some other international headlines this hour at least eight civilians three policemen have been reportedly killed in a suicide and gun attack on a hotel in the afghan capital kabul reports say militants wearing civilian clothes burst into the intercontinental while guests were having dinner at least one a militant blew himself up and several others took positions on the roof after a shootout with police or the four hour standoff was ended by an airstrike from a nato helicopter and the taliban has claimed responsibility for. the egyptian government has ordered an investigation into quassia so over the last few days in cairo which left over one thousand people injured police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse as the crowds the protesters were angry at the slow pace

of prosecution for police officers accused of brutality really about the uprising in february that revolution put an end to president hosni mubarak's thirty year. a 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 but as peter all over reports that often doesn't happen. this flap 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 our problem lena grew up in an orphanage in the city of to bear under 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. this is traditional 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 leave here however here is exactly where your thirties have 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 are killed at smaller you know when they're little and everybody loves to help them and their small but presence and that. whereas in actual fact they've got

bigger in me but they get better and that's really when we need to be standing beside them housing is one of those big needs for all things leading care it's also in short supply and those are which stored in that 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 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 currently only administrative penalties can be imposed on anyone standing in the way of those leaving care getting housing alexander gears a loaf for more from him self as a campaigner for orphans rights he wants to see the courts more involved he was at the human side 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 a change in the law might help people in the future but lena needs to find a solution right now. i ask them when 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 forbidden for me to have family some people are trying to help me but so far their efforts have been in vain. peter all of a. very. and now let's cross over to our business desk for more business news with. thanks and welcome to business the rivalry of the two russian stock exchanges. my sex for the final seal of approval on a big part of government efforts to improve russia's financial infrastructure and start transforming moscow into a global financial center. so

a line 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 of better competition between our two yes and my sense we can actually look at. the. market with the market in. the places which are the sure the russian be sure the idea is to make mosco 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 both will have more influence over making decisions making the market more comfortable for international investors. but critics say that one extreme split 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 force 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 thirty years worth about one billion dollars. paul says right now european markets are rallying following greece's approval for the measures banking shares are posting strong gains bank being one of the top barclays is gaining around. four percent on the footsie as mining stocks rally continues therefore on u.s. markets only optimism about the reduced risk greece's default financials are in the lead bank of america more than three point two percent. now for a closing picture of when things trade in russia and similar picture pretty much up one percent example percent these were mostly also driven by financial stocks

d.t.b. gaining four percent at the close and the majors were also high up one percent and in the mining sector machel is seeing a lot of selling the stock was at its lowest at the close in more than a month that's despite the company almost call drooping its net profit in the first quarter of the year reaching three hundred nine million dollars. russian president medvedev has outlined budget guidelines for the next two years the social tax for business will be reduced but instead the burden will grow for the gas industry analysts say it's quite an unusual speech for pre-election period because it has outlined tax increases. it has been a long story that the government authorities try to approach the increase of duties on. the export of gas and. always had enough arguments defend its positions and finally it looks like the paper managed to say it took to force on

force their decision at least as i see it as a secret because as i see if they have president announcing. it in its budget address i suppose that the big issue is solved. the selling of state assets and revenues from oil and gas will also be used to make up for the budget deficit spending that amount of support it increasing alcohol and tobacco excise as the government wants to lessen the negative social impact of their consumption. and coming up next on r.t. the headlines with doesn't go away.