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lines on our t.v. and bitter the protesters clashed with riot police of the streets of athens following the government's approval of a stair in the laws which paved the way for billions in bailout loans from. syria's on restaurant and spread across the middle east israel is concerned that has laws 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 how to live in rundown homes with little help . eleven pm here in the russian capital you're watching r t thanks for joining us and not toward top story the greek government has voted in favor of a new round of austerity cuts securing the next malty billion 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 scenes from downtown athens resembled a war zone with protesters fighting riot squads and made volleys of tear gas and hundreds of thousands of people nationwide walked off their jobs for a two day strike against the cuts well they say drowning the country in debt 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 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 they rode by again the parliament once again people get very excited when they come through it's very hopeful so it's i think there's a mix there's a mixture of excitement hope because of the the response but also there's a there's a concern and 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 pass or started measures and privatization schemes that are widely unpopular in this country the first memorandum according to scholars here in greece for 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 this 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 of this government at some point i've said if things get 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 that'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 but then the government have to fall to i don't see the people in this country lying down while the greek parliament approval of the newest already cuts will be a relief for leadership but dr bell a journalist simon young believes it's far too early to be celebrating especially given the burden the greek economy will now have to deal with. well 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 world as i understand it we then wait to see whether these measures will have an effect of course everybody here is well aware of the argument that by tightening the screws on the greek population by raising taxes and introducing these other hysterically 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 probably won't do the job and the burdens on the greeks greece's financial institutions of course will get a lot heavier i don't see this is a short term solution it's certainly medium and long term solution if it is a solution to top and the grim economic 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 trade the 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 well can we expect some new miracle plan from. no i do not think so. i think actually i am if there's too much involved in this in the first place and while i have a great admiration for miss le garde personally she has had to distinguish 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 sense that they have is the sense that i have that this is just putting in terms of greece itself it's putting a band-aid on a problem that is the gushing well and that sooner or later we're going to have to face some sort of default by how over the europeans are going 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 in in the very difficult situation she's been a part of the european policy making process in which she herself has showed herself as an admirable good negotiator it is very difficult to see how the european as head of the i.m.f. would not be seen no matter what she does is too much involved in the process earlier process well let's just have a look at her background i mean credible as she may be the guards history of working with the 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 an 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 institutional face will deal will have to do with europe and i agree with mr parsons who was for a rival from mexico said 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 all european she is committed personally and her political history has been one of almost saving the euro at all costs and it may very well be that either 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 and they were 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 the looming credit rating downgrade how will he get away with it again.

well he can't do anything by himself and into matter of fact he can't do anything the raising the debt ceiling is a question for congress to do with and the congress will the republicans in congress as well as the democrats will have them to go shit with the president i must say your studio here is just handed me the mr mr president obama's press conference today where he did not help himself by china it seems to me chiding 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 who in the phrase in terms of foreign policy likes 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 barfield an international trade researcher in washington thank you. they 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 to spin further out of control . things are quiet on the israel lebanon border but many suspect it's a lull before the storm everything hinges on what happens in neighboring syria and what hizbollah decides to do with its stockpiles there and the opposition group that might take over in syria. definitely consider these belies an enemy is a spirit so for hizbullah it's the mass of the most logical thing to do all

to transfer the weapon they put in syria. to to to 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 hamas in gaza western intelligence reports suggest hizbullah has already started moving some of its advanced weaponry from its warehouses in syria to its forces in lebanon for fear that assad will be toppled but getting rid of him is one thing dealing with the consequences quite another situation in syria very volatile dangerous collapse 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 below as far as you know hizbullah has now accumulated around forty five thousand missiles of various ranges. there is one of the all part of them that in fact the range goes beyond three hundred and well it's three hundred fifty kilometers which according to them at least they can reach the whole. 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 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 that are 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 no country's immune to what happens to its neighbor and it won't take much to turn the region's precarious peace into all out war policy r.t. israel 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 see troubles and former u.s. diplomat george kenney says the consequences of this illegal action are unpredictable but completely contrary to the u.n. resolution apparently they've shipped a couple of white tanks into the rebels as well but we don't. 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 weapons 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 this but it's done and it's another thing that will have to deal with russian orphans face a tough childhood but being an adult can be even worse for the government it legally has to provide housing for anyone that leaving care but as artie's peter all of our reports that often doesn't happen. dank dark and dilapidated this flap looks more like a prime candidate for demolition than a family home but twenty two year old mother of two lena is being told by social services that she's stuck here. or 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 the top 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 flyer was given to lena's mother by the state and despite having no money she's been told to fix it up. but. 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 the thirties of told her that she should bring up children lena's case isn't unusual those who work with oftens in russia say that it's when they leave the care homes that they need the most help the problem is orphans our kids are of smaller you know when they're little and everybody loves to help them out their small but

presents them that deployed. whereas in actual fact they've got a bigger enemy but they get bigger and that's really where we need to be standing beside them housing is one of those big needs for often is leaving care it's also in short supply and which stored in it 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're 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. the change in the law might help people in the future but lina needs to find a solution right now. group to me i ask them all the mothers are given homes to raise their children why can't i have done it isn't because i don't know the laws or because i'm not allowed to live but because it's been for me to family some people are trying to help me but to follow their efforts have been in vain. peter all of us. very cheap. 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 brutality during the mass uprising in february of that revolution put an end to president hosni mubarak's thirty year rule leave the country in the has of a military council to discuss the situation in egypt i'm joined live now by pepe

escobar a correspondent for the times thank you very much for joining us tonight now what president mubarak was toppled in february after a violent wave of protests in egypt and now egyptians are calling for the resignation of the current leadership why is that happening. because basically the region is still in place so square now they're chanting to reus queer is very similar to the chants and made february so now it's the people. of this field marshal which is in the rabbit even rhymes is very beautiful to listen to it as well it has a range to it the region was still in place and the political parties and the political forces who are stick ulit you forget max the actions they don't care about this they are just what you get nice and grab political power later on and do it 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 there you say that the currently active government just doesn't care about meeting people's demands is that why they kept seem to me. the problem. the supreme military council this is two part of the mubarak regime should wash out on towie seventy five years old he is an old man he was until recently and his students are by life so it's population like a mubarak pull so there's no interest to investigate in detail the excesses that are attributed to the minister of interior in fact that undoubtedly is a foreign ministry of defense it's interesting because he never got as many friends and lavished so many funds as the ministry of defense as the minister be to me it was doing to doing them a better creature and these people who committed these atrocities in fact the guest civilians especially in february. still 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 at the ministry of interior well ok even a felon and that's a shame that mubarak's men are still in power still in the first post revolution parliamentary elections are due to take place in about three months however many fear that the country's unprepared for september elections what do you expect from this poll. yes it is to a really big problem is these new forces in egypt and the young intellectuals the unemployed the connected the facebook generation to tweet or generation they still don't have the political participation organized as well but the fact is that the muslim brotherhood is already very well organized even do a progressive streak of the muslim brotherhood is splintering and forming their own political party because dizzee younger muslim brotherhood people they see that the

old generation is still conservative and that's absolutely true and mohamed el baradei who has been allied with the muslim brotherhood for instance i mean it was also. 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 and the need to hopefully new order in egypt there still largely disorganized so do a good coming back to square a knowledge base it's very good to shoot to use those ships and say look we are very alert we know what's going on even though we're not organized if we actually start fighting for some basic rights that you were fighting for it last february like you know police brutality which was well first reasons for the revolution in the first place i mr escobar now are the family speaking that the current military

government it is a military government are they interested a democratic elections in egypt which can undermine its authority again after all it's a military government that's a very good question no they're not the problem is how they're going to be treated the idea emerging new political power issue it's the army and whose sons are right on the mohamed el baradei is all right he obviously deon who would be protected in effect i mean won't even be investigated by past misdeeds and specially their economic groups will still be a place if by any chance will be very hopeful here in tree months we have a new political party with brand new faces young egyptian generation and just a new discourse situation in egypt it will be turned upside down and i was in the military have to be taken into account and i'm but i'm not sure this is going to

happen unfortunately. thank you very much for your analysis that basket bar there correspondent for the asia times thank you. and the crew that returned from the international space station last month had been holding their traditional meeting of russia stars. just outside of moscow. along as well to meet up with a flight engineer cady coleman who became famous for a somewhat unique performance on the station. for six months now we 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 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. 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 up a quick 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 lying and somebody like me that was never the gymnastic queen you know high school can do all of those things and more and it's just really wonderful to fly. back with the headlines shortly but first the business news of the dimitri.

thanks to the rivalry of two russian stock exchanges is over. but the final seal of approval on the it's a big part of the government's efforts to improve russia's financial infrastructure and start transforming moscow into a global financial center as many reports. say 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 now we can actually get through . the year we'll just market value over the counter market every year at the places we should 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

emerge both 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 which could affect the cost of doing business or russia they say that less competition could mean less and a vacation at the same time other experts say that this could go long way in helping the government in the stagnation 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. look at the markets now and all eyes were on greece's approval for stairs the measures there forcing a rally in europe london is up one and a half percent plus the fourth c.e.o. banks were some of the biggest to go. it is the same thing on the dax commerce bank there being the biggest gator attacks again one point seven percent rally also

continues on the u.s. third straight session grow on the optimism about the reduced risk of greece's default financials in the lead all serve bank of america up two percent on the down . and now the closing picture in russia where the r.t.s. gained one percent my sex half a percent financial also in the lead the z.b. gaining four percent their energy shares also feeling comfortable but machel was losing two and a half percent now the value of the stock is at its lowest in more than a month that's the spike the company almost called rootling it's no problem the first quarter of the year reaching three hundred and nine million dogs. russian president dmitry medvedev has outlined budget guidelines for the next two years in 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 as outlined tax increases. it has been the 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 groups like the paper managed to say it took to force on force their decision at least as i see it as a very 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. well the selling of state assets and revenues from oil and gas will also be used to make up for the budget deficit there's an event of supported increasing alcohol and tobacco excise says the governor wants to lessen the negative social impact of their consumption. russia's electricity export monopoly enter routes finally resuming supply. company says minsk has now paid its bills in full russia pulled the plug after bella loose on the paid by fifty million dollars about a tenth of the countries that use it to supply comes from russia and from the

business desk for today join my colleague the mini council be here tomorrow morning moscow time if you can of course tess is next with. culture is that so much different if you visit israel to find it more when freedom flotilla two point four thousand pro palestinian activists from twenty two countries perspective join freedom flotilla to.