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runs on our t.v. embittered protesters clashed with riot police in the streets of athens following the government's approval of a sturdy laws which paved the way per billion bailout loans. syria's unrest breton's to spread across the middle east israel is concerned that has belies moving weapons to loven on a just in case president assad is overthrown. and orphans in russia continue to struggle in adulthood a lack of government provided housing some how to live in a run down homes with little help. just after midnight in the russian capital you're watching our teeth thanks for joining us and now to what 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 reacted violently to the vote with police and demonstrators engaged in running battles well scenes from downtown up as resembled a war zone with protesters and riot squads amid all these and tear gas hundreds of thousands of people walked off their jobs for a two day strike against these sturdy 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 journal. the government is 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 that's 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 excitement of 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 pass a starting 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 the people are not willing to 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 said if things 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 all the greek parliament approval of the newest thirty cuts will be a relief for leadership but there chevelle 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 greek 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 at all. and the grim economic situation in greece will be high on the to do list for the new head of the international monetary fund that's france's finance minister christine lagarde well she's likely to keep up the institution's old ways

says danielle benami a veteran financial journalist and editor at fund a strategy magazine. 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 term and cut short term deals but not really tackling the fundamental problems with the global economy 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. it continues to do so it is done a deal with the with america's america has the chief role in the world bank even if . carstens had won this time i don't think it would change things that fundamentally because the problem of the i.m.f. is not just that it's headed by a european but a much more fundamentally that is a very short term it's narrow technocratic institution to solve

a lot of the problems facing the world economy we need political solutions with politicians tax and problems democratically elected politicians but we don't have that so we have been advocating responsibility it's not just a question of where the head of the i.m.f. comes from or where the regional organization who represents but what kind of look at what kind of institution it is now america's credit rating will be slashed from perfect to selective default if it fails to pay its bills by the fourth of august the u.s. national debt amounts to over fourteen trillion dollars at the moment and obama wants it to go even higher claude barfield that international trade research here in washington says that if the u.s. president wants to achieve anything in the economic sphere he should compromise and not attack the republicans. raising the debt ceiling is a question for congress to deal with in the congress will 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 the mr mr president obama's press conference

today where he did not help himself by china it seems to me try to get 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 back in the phrase in terms of foreign policy likes to lead from behind so he didn't help himself 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 israel's military is on edge shafter intelligence reports of troop movements in syria and across the border in lebanon well 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 smallest leader 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 any opposition group that might take over in syria. will definitely consider these 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 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 the syrian government could be 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 all part of them that in fact the range goes beyond three hundred and what's 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 his beloved 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 all out war policy r.t. israel. now 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 former u.s. diplomat george kenney says the consequences of this illegal action are unpredictable but completely contrary to the u.n. resolution apparently that ship a couple of white turns 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 would just become another 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 we'll have to deal with. well over 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 that revolution put an end to president hosni mubarak's thirty year long rule leaving the country in the has of a military council and beth escobar a correspondent for the ancient times says many are frustrated by the slow pace of change. the regime is still in place and the political parties and the political forces were articulating for the next elections they don't care about this they are just what again i sing to grab political power later on and do it young generation the connected deal employed young intellectuals of egypt now they're back in the streets again because they see that essentially nothing has changed 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 the problem is these new forces in egypt the young intellectuals the unemployed the connected the facebook generation into your generation they still don't have political participation organized as well the fact is that the muslim brotherhood is already very well organized even do a progressive a streak of the muslim brotherhood is splintering in the forming their own political party because these young muslim brotherhood people they seek that that the old generation is still conservative and that's absolutely true. russian orphans face a tough childhood but being an adult can be even worse well the government legally has to provide housing for anyone at leaving care but as peter all over reports that often doesn't happen. in dilapidated.

this flop 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 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 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 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 minute there's no way that lena family can live here however here is exactly where your thirty's 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 are killed are of small or you know when they're little and everybody loves to help them on their small but presence that. whereas in actual fact they've got bigger than me but they get better and that's really where 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 there's a rich girlish board 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 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 gear's a loaf form or 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 or. a change in the law might help people in the future but lena needs to find a solution right now. i 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 to be done 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 r.t. to vary. the crew that returned from the international space station last month had been holding their traditional meeting at russia's star city just outside moscow and artist tom barton went along as well to meet up with the flight engineer cady coleman who became famous for a somewhat unique performance on the station. you've been there for six months now . been playing your flu. living and working out. you know. we just wanted 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 duet. tell us a bit more about how you sorted out just the everyday things that we have to try and sort of i 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 flying 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. the georgian opposition leader has been in brussels recently as part of a round europe trip well the visit was aimed at giving an inside account of last month's violent police crackdown on protesters we're not told r.t.

the georgists costly p.r. campaigns can't hide the truth about president saakashvili well that's today's interview. week of protests. georgian president saakashvili ended in violent dispersal of protesters by their eyes police joining us now to talk of more about that particular circumstance in instances and georgian politics in general is the

recognized leader of georgian opposition you know. thank you very much for joining us today the first question unfortunately will be a somewhat sad one we will have to ask you about that which are attributed to your supporters. there on the night of the protest could you tell us more about what happened that night people to maybe government will use the force against the demonstrates that we said many times when we appealed. to the people who are standing in front of the parliament buildings it may be governmental years of course but these people were really very. many of them said to me and to us the leader so national assembly directly we are ready for. even for using the force against us but we will show example for the rest of the population of georgia we have to fight for our dignity and for our rights but of

course nobody was awaiting the. government will they use such a brutal force people. nobody was waiting that this will be just demonstration of force and this will be operation to punish the people who are in front of the parliament the georgian special forces surrounded us the people where in trip there was no way out there was no possibility to leave the square and as we understand special forces received special instructions to arrest all demonstrations and more than one hundred demonstrators have been arrested that night to beat people brutally especially in hands. and many people received serious injuries were transported to the hospitals and they had to special instruction not to allow me to leaders of the national assembly to leave. place.

so. it was a real punishment to the people and it's not an accidental when one of the main supporters of the war is this mr bender kids whose quality world knowledge even in . the places said that it was a kid is that the government used the such a brutal force against the demonstrations tomorrow as they will think twice until they will participate in any demonstrations so one person our supporters who died despite the fact that the government was broadcast thinking t.v. that he died because of car accident which thanks to my cars which is not. fortunately there where we do a footage which shows that this person had been beaten until the death by ten fifteen special forces representatives and you can see this video footage on

youtube and on our website what has to change in georgian politics for the country to move forward to step away from its i would say post soviet. style than move forward towards westernized country or to prosper you know i will not say right now that george is a pos so be it country it was in two thousand and three into selves and forward to selves and five until two thousand and late two thousand and eight even despite of the war right now it's a typical soviet style country. enjoyed your right now it's a real bullshit. we all signs of soviet regime while a sheen of elementary constitutional norms. while ation of elementary human rights control of media. police and we just doing everything despite of our legal obligations if it's coming from from the political decisions

towards a typical soviet country where every person who is against regime is the enemy of the country i remember in soviet time even when i was small. not afterwards during that period but before i read it in the books but every person who was criticizing soviet regime was. support us or. secret agent of imperioli right now in georgia it's the same you can change the world to imperialism with russia and every person who is criticizing saakashvili and who is against he's a regime all of them just beginning for me it's a very serious place we russia friendly we are just traders we are enemies of the people every single sane and you can't imagine

that every twelve in former soviet you. enjoyed your people right now not everybody of course for. many people are afraid. even to call to your place to ask you how are you so afraid to come to the funerals if. it's a family of so people who are not just agree with. regimes and if you have a different point of view if you are supporters of a position or you have huge respect very high risk to lose their job to find to find in your pocket drugs or god and you have a high risk to be really just outside there of not only political but real life in georgia so this is a typical soviet country modernized i call it the modernized soviet union. which is rolling right now in my country we're wishing you the best know your endeavors thank you very much for coming and talking to us again thank you.

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