i hope for a chance to rule the day. lines on our t.v. and bitter the protesters clashed with riot police of the streets of athens following the government's approval of harsh new astaire in the laws which paved the way for billions in the e.u. bailout lots of. syria's unrest broadens the spread across the middle east israel is concerned that has was moving drop and still eleven on just in case president assad is overthrown. and orphans in russia continue to struggle in adulthood a lock of government provided housing need some help to live in rundown homes and with little help.

eleven pm here in the russian capital you're watching r t thanks for joining us now to our top story the greek government has voted in favor of a new round of hysterically cuts securing the next multibillion installment of cash from the e.u. and staving off a default but furious protesters reacted violently to the vote with police and demonstrators engaged in running battles all scenes from downtown athens resembled a war zone with protesters of fighting riot squads amid a volleys of tear gas and hundreds of thousands of people nationwide walked off their jobs for a two day strike against the yesterday cuts well they say drowning the country to death at crippling interest rates has failed once and it will fail again there were reports of escalating violence in constitution square with dozens reported injured

or detained by police and national journalism you chicopee nasa believes the government is a living apart from the needs of the people. it's calmer now than it was before but it's still extremely violent even right behind me right now there are clashes with police going on. an interesting thing is some some bikers who actually rode down yesterday from northern greece and more and more people got on the on the bandwagon as they came down the road by parliament once again people get very excited when they come through it's very hopeful so it's i think it's a mixed there's a mixture of excited hope because of the the response but also there's a there's a concern a fear because there's a lot of violence and and that's a concern not only for the protesters obviously who have been injured but also for the government because with these with this type of violence it becomes much more difficult for them to kaiser study measures and privatization schemes that are widely unpopular in this country the first memorandum according to scholars here in resort constitutional scholars and former members of the government they claim that the measure completely unconstitutional the first place because you need one

hundred eighty members of parliament to pass a sort of legislation first of all second of all they can pass whatever they like but if the people don't agree to it and that people are not willing to sit down and take it it doesn't really matter what they pass and that's what we're seeing here right now you're going to see a fall this government at some point i said if things it really of the violence is a really big issue because if if the violence if this results in casualties not just massive injuries then that's going to it's going to lead to a collapse of this government will that mean that the next government will come in and actually do something productive maybe maybe not in the government have to fall to i don't see the people in this country lying down. all the greek parliament approval of the newest thirty cuts will be a relief for leadership but i have a ledger on a list simon young believes it's far too early to be celebrating especially given the burden the greek economy will now have to deal with. but certainly of the political level the reaction is very positive indeed chancellor merkel said today this was really a very good piece of news certainly it isn't the end of the woes as i understand it

we didn't wait to see whether these measures will have an effect of course everybody here is well aware of the argument by tightening the screws on the greek population by raising taxes and introducing these other stereotype measures that's not of course the best way to stimulate the economy in greece and what greece really needs is a massive reversal in its economic fortunes right now we need to see huge growth in greece over the next few years and i think. that's less likely to happen as a result of what's happened today so a whole lot of other measures are needed and of course there's no reason really to believe that the greek state coffers will be any full as a result of these measures given greece's track record in the past of avoiding paying taxes so tax hikes for instance are probably. the job and the

burdens on the greek greece's financial institutions of course will get a lot heavier so i don't see this is a short term solution it's certainly medium and long term solution if it is a solution at all and a grammy konami situation in greece will be high on the to do list for the new head of the international monetary fund francis' finance minister christine legarde for analysis on what to expect from her we're joined by claude barfield national trader searcher in washington thank you very much for joining us mr barfield so now all eyes are on how lagarde and what the i.m.f. is going to do about greece and other feeling economies or can we expect a new miracle plan for. no i do not think so. i think actually i am if there's too much involved in this in the first place and. i have a great admiration for the guard personally she has had a distinguished career i think we have complicated matters by placing the european head of the i.m.f.

at this crucial time i listened to your last few minutes with both of your correspondents and i think the the sense that they have is the sense that i have but this is just putting in terms of greece itself it's putting a band-aid on a problem that is a crushing one and that sooner or later we're going to have to face some sort of default by how over the europeans want to want to describe it by the greeks because you're not going to get as one of your correspondent said you're not going to get any kind of growth or any relief and i think politically the population won't won't stand for it is the guard is then put him in a very difficult situation she's going to part of the european policy making process in which she herself has showed herself as an admirable good negotiator it's very difficult to see how the european as head of the i.m.f. would not be seen no matter what she did as. much involved in the process or really or process well let's just have

a look at her background i mean she's an incredible as she may be out of the guard history of working with u.s. corporations that there are already voices out there say she's a puppet of wall street was that. no i don't think there's and i don't think she's a puppet of wall street i don't think she's a puppet of anyone but i think the problem that you face is that the for the i.m.f. is that for the next months and years the one of the major problem that the this institution will face all the it will have to do with europe and i agree with mr parsons who works for a rival from mexico so it would be better to have a nine european set of eyes looking at these issues and we don't know where this is going but she is a local european she is committed personally and her political history has been one of the saving the euro at all costs and it may very well be that greece has to leave the eurozone or the eurozone itself comes to face some very difficult

decisions and i think it would be much better to have had another someone from outside of europe dealing with this whatever her virtues and they are many of the let's look at what's happening in the u.s. now obama says he will raise the country's debt ceiling and that's despite an already stepped up a looming credit rating downgrade how will he get away with it again. well if he can't do anything by himself and into matter of fact he can't do anything with raising the debt ceiling is a question for congress to deal with in the congress with the republicans in congress as well as the democrats who have to negotiate with the president i must say your studio here is just handed me mr mr president obama's press conference today where he did not help himself by chiding it seems to me trying the republicans for not working hard enough i mean this is from a president who has never himself put forward a plan for getting for doing something about the debt and who we won back in the

phrase in terms of foreign policy to lead from behind so he didn't help yourself i think today in terms of the political atmosphere by the way by attacking republicans they both both sides are going to have to compromise and it doesn't help matters with this kind of this kind of accusation which is foolish in the first ones all right well thank you very much there for your thoughts claude garfield an international trade researcher in washington thank you. by israel's military is on edge shafter 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 al assad artie's policy or takes a look at how the situation in the region threatens the 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 any opposition group that might take over in syria. differently consider these belies an enemy is us through it. it's the mass of the. logical thing people who transfer the weapon put in syria. including. been 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 are 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 hamas in gaza western intelligence reports suggest

has been or has already started moving some of its advanced weaponry from its warehouses in syria to its forces in lebanon for fear that assad will be toppled but getting rid of him is one thing dealing with the consequences quite another situation in syria looks. dangerous won't collapse the syrian government. group joins me and is really fear a new war in the region even if the syrian regime stays tell of it 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 below as far as you know hizbullah has now with around forty five thousand missiles of various ranges. there is one of the all part of the range goes beyond three hundred and goes three hundred fifty kilometers which according to them at least they can reach the whole of israel and

the south of the country which is something israelis know these missiles originated in syria they found their way to lebanon and in the were fired by his below 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 three eight eleven nice 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 turn the region's precarious peace into all out war policy r.t. israel 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 ear to see troubles and former u.s.

diplomat george kenney says the consequences of this legal action are unpredictable it's completely contrary to the u.n. resolution apparently they have shipped a couple of white turnips and to the rebels as well but we don't know this was very foolish on the part of france because we don't know who these rebels are we don't really know what they're going to do with these weapons and i would suspect that some significant percentage of the workmen's will find their way into the hands of terrorists and will just become one other problem for us to have to deal with later on so i regret the fact that the french have done nurse but it's done and that's another thing that will have to deal with russian orphans face a tough childhood but being an adult can be even worse the government legally has to provide housing for anyone and leaving care it was artie's peter all of our reports that often doesn't happen. dank dark and dilapidated. this flat looks more like a prime candidate for demolition than

a family home births twenty two year old mother of two lena has been told by social services that she still. was perhaps they haven't seen this place inside they keep telling us true parents somehow believe here they showed me a paper on how to build a house i told them that i had no phones i had no job i had to care of kids and they ended our brain to place they said it's not hard problem lena grew up in an orphanage in the city of tire under russian law she should have received state housing once she left the institution. was given to lena's mother by the state and despite having no money she's been told fix it up. well. the situation is absolutely desperate they didn't give me work because i don't have a profession for them i don't exist perhaps hanging myself would be the best thing to do. without even the most basic of a mean at least there's no rate that. can live here however here is exactly where

it's origins of told her that she should bring up the children lena's case isn't unusual those who were often is in russia say that it's when they leave the care homes that they need the most help the problem is orphans are killed and smaller you know when they're little and everybody loves to help them when they're small with presents and that. whereas in actual fact they've got bigger needs but they get bigger and that's really where it is standing is that the housing is one of those big needs were orphans leaving care it's also in short supply and. 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 but 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 leaving care getting housing alexander gears a law a form often in self as a campaigner for all things rights he wants to see the courts more involved he will have a human so we need to change the law in a way to make sure that someone can be held responsible in court and in this case the orphanage 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 and find a solution right now. i ask them where 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 they're not allowed to live because it's forbidden for me to have family some people are trying to help me that's her father efforts have been in vain. peter all of. a thousand people have been injured in two days of violent

protests in egypt the unrest began over the slow pace of prosecution for police officers accused of the taliban leader in the mass uprising in every about revolution put an end to president hosni mubarak's thirty year rule for leaving the country in the house of a military council but to discuss the situation in egypt i'm joined live now by pepe escobar course part of the four times thank you very much for joining us tonight now what president mubarak was toppled in february after it violent wave of protests in egypt and now a jet fans are calling for the resignation of the current leadership why is that happening. because basically the rejean is truly a place. where now they're chanting to risk we're very similar chants and made no it's the people. of the field marshal which is in the rabbit even rhymes is very beautiful to listen to it as well it has a range to its original story in place and the political parties and the political

forces were articulating for the next elections be drunk yeah well this year just we're going. to grab political power elites along and young generation the connected young employed young intellectuals of egypt now they're back in the streets again because they see that essentially nothing has changed now it's here you say that the currently active government just doesn't care about anything people's demands is that why they can't seem to meet. the supreme leader terry counsel this is to price of the mubarak regime should wash the seventy five years old is an old man he was until recently. to consider by large gyptian population like. so there is no interest to investigate indeed to know the excesses that are to be. the minister of interior fact that on power use of foreign

ministry of defense it's interesting because he never got as many fronts in lavish so many signs as the ministry. as the minister of interior was doing the doing to move barack. and these people who committed these atrocities and say thank you civilians especially in february. you know at large. i would say it's a fair bet that they won't be going to trial for the next few months because most of the people who are actually protecting them still there and the minister of interior well he even a felon and that's a shame that mubarak's men are still in power still the first post revolution parliamentary elections are going to take place in about three months however many fear that the country's unprepared for september elections are what do you expect from this poll. yes it is true a really big problem here is these new forces in egypt. intellectuals the

unemployed to come back to the facebook generation to tweel generation they still don't have the political participation organized as well but the fact is that the list of brotherhood is already very well organized even do a progressive streak of the muslim brotherhood is splintering in the forming their own political party because these younger muslim brotherhood people they see that the old generation is too conservative and that's absolutely true and know what the rule has been allied with the muslim brotherhood for instance i mean looser former secretary of the arab league he's already campaigning so these we can see that this is still. there that he's running for power in the new hopefully new order in egypt these two were largely designed guys so who wait good coming back to square nowadays it's. good to shoot new still ships and say look we are

very alert we know what's going on even though we're not organized we actually start fighting for some reason christ or do we're fighting for unless people wear it like you know police brutality which was what first reasons for doing pollution in the first place i mr escobar now are that frankly speaking that the current military government is a military government are they interested in democratic elections in egypt which can undermine its authority again after all it's a military government it's a very good question no they're not the problem is how they're going to be treated by the emerging new political powers. the new and who's something the rights of the mohamed el baradei the rights here obviously beyond it will be protected and effective i mean won't even be even gave it my best new scenes and specially their economic rudeness was to be place if by any chance let's be very

hopeful here each three months we have a new political party with a new faces the young egyptian their generation to disclose situation in egypt it will be turned upside down and i was of the military will have to. be taken into account but i'm not sure this is going to happen unfortunately all right well thank you very much for your analysis that their school board their correspondent for the asia times thank you. of the crew that returned from the international space station last of all have been holding their traditional meeting at russia's star city just outside of moscow. along as well to meet up with flight engineer cady coleman who became famous for a somewhat unique performance on the station. you can know the six months now do experiments you've been playing your flute to green living and working up you know back here on earth we just wanted to ask you about some of the everyday things to

cope with so i actually brought flutes from anderson. and also from the band the chieftains side a two hundred year old irishman and also a ten whistle and then 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 will just have a quick listen to so that recording duet. can. tell us a bit more about how you sorted out just the everyday things that we have to try and sort of see the biggest inconvenience of not having gravity is everything floats and i can be nice i mean i can move a thousand pound rock about what it meant 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 mine and

somebody like me that was never the gymnastic we you know high school can do all of those things and more and it's just really wonderful to fly i'll be back with headlines shortly but first the business news for the dimitri. thanks tess of the rivalry of two russian stock exchanges over. the final seal of approval on the merger it's a big part of the government's efforts to improve russians financial infrastructure and start transforming into a global financial center as many in the course of. selling sealed and delivered to i now want and it's not the beginning of a bright new future for russian markets the feeling is the fifteen years of better competition between writes yes and my sex we can actually get through. the year will just market for you over the counter market. of the places with

which to look through the russian be sure 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 in the film if it's going to be a check if you will libel platform which will make it easier for investors to access emerge bourse will have more influence over law making decisions big in the market more comfortable for international investors. but critics say that one x. aims good leads to a monopoly which could affect the cost of doing business or russia they say that less competition could mean less innovation at the same time other experts say that this could go a long way in helping the government and the sadness in moscow as a global financial center for the force which doesn't have a name yet it is expected to be up and running by b. end of this year and i feel it's time for it's once you've heard seen worth about one billion dollars. look at the markets now and all eyes were on greece's approval

for steroids the measures there for you seeing a rally in europe london is up one and a half percent that's the fourth c.e.o. banks were some of the biggest again is the same thing on the backs commerzbank there being the biggest gator attacks again welcome some percent rally also continues on the u.s. third straight session grow on the optimism about the reduced risk of greece is the fault financials in the lead all cervical america up two percent without. medicalising picture in russia where the r.t.s. gain one percent my six half a percent financials will also in the lead v.c. be gaining four percent the energy shares are also feeling comfortable but net show was losing two and a half percent now the value of the stock is at its lowest in more than a month that's despite the company almost revealing its no problem the first quarter of the year beaching three hundred and nine million books. russian

president dmitry medvedev has outlined budget guidelines for the next two years a social tax for business will be reduced but instead the burden will grow for the gas industry analysts say it's a quite unusual speech for the pre-election period because he has outlined tax increases. it has been a long story about the government authorities tried proper increase of duties on the. export of gas and this problem always had enough arguments defend its positions and finally managed to. come forth and force their decision at least as i see it as a secretive because as a senior as a president and i'll see. it in its budget address i suppose that the big issue is solved. on the selling of state assets and revenues from oil and gas will also be used to make up for the budget deficit was an event of supported increasing at home to market excise as the government wants to lessen the negative social impact of their consumption. russia's electricity export monopoly enter roused by late

resuming supply developers the company says minsk has now paid its bills in full russia pulled the plug after the recent the paid by fifty million dollars about a tenth of the country's electricity supply comes from russia. and from the business desk for the day join my colleague in the really count will be here tomorrow morning eight am moscow time if you can of course tess is next oh hey.

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