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and bitter protesters clashed with riot police in the streets of athens the government's approval of their new laws which paved the way for. serious on preferences spread across the middle east peace israel is concerned that hezbollah is moving weapons to love but on just in case president assad is overthrown. more than a thousand people have been injured in clashes with police be egyptian capital of cairo demonstrators are demanding the prosecution of security forces accused of brutality during the uprising it led to the ousting of president mubarak in february. just after one of the morning here in the russian capital you're watching our

thanks for joining us and now to our top story the greek government has voted in favor of a new round of a stare any cuts securing the next multibillion installment of cash from the e.u. and a 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 fighting riot squads and made to follow. tear gas hundreds of thousands of people nationwide a walked off their jobs for a two day strike against the yesterday 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 journalists in ricci coffee nasa believes 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. people get excited when they come through it's very hopeful so it's i think it's a mixed there's a picture of excitement hope because of the response but also there's a there's a concern a fear because a lot of violence. and that's a concern not only for the protesters obviously we've been injured but also for the government because with these with this type of violence it becomes much more difficult for them to kind of hysteria measures and privatization schemes that are widely unpopular in this country that the first memorandum are going to scholars here in greece will constitutional scholars and former members of the government they claim that the measures are complete 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 the 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 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. well the greek parliament's approval of the newest study cards will be a relief three years leadership but the age of ella journalists and young believes it's far too early to be celebrating especially given the burden the greek economy will now have to deal with. 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 certainly medium and long term solution if it is a solution at all. and the grim economic situation in greece will be high i'll be

to do list for the new head of the international monetary fund that's france's finance minister christine legarde or she's likely to keep up the institutions old ways says danielle benami a veteran financial journalist and editor at find it 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 not just europe i mean clearly europe has always had the head of the i.m.f. it continues to do so based on 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 this narrow technocratic institution to solve a lot of the problems facing the world economy we need political solutions with politicians tackling problems democratically elected politicians but we don't have that 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 here represents but what kind of look at what kind of institution it is. and plenty ahead for you this hour including old habits die hard spend spend spend will find out how it tarnished america's once a glittering credit rating may soon become a plus still ahead for you at this hour as friends admits a dropping weapons to the libyan rebels we talked to former u.s. diplomat george kenney about the possible repercussions. and these rebels

military is on edge after 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 the syrian president bashar al assad polis leader 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 and the opposition group that my take over in syria. will definitely consider these belies an enemy is a surrogate so for his bailouts the mass 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 how mass in gaza 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 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 about what's three hundred fifty kilometers which according to them at least they can reach the whole of israel 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 that the arms including machine guns and rocket propelled grenades were parachuted in by air to besieged rebels a former u.s. diplomat george kenney says the consequences of this illegal action are unpredictable but completely contrary to un resolution apparently they have 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 we'll have to deal with. well over a thousand people have been injured in two days of violent protests in egypt the address began over the slow pace of prosecution for police officers accused of brutality during the mass uprising every about revolution of anti president by long rule leaving the country in the hands of a military council and that escobar a correspondent for the asia times says many are frustrated by the lack 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 the 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 they still there at the ministry of interior the problem is these new forces in egypt. intellectuals de unemployed the contractor 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 doing a progressive streak of the muslim brotherhood is splintering in the form of their own political party because dizzee younger muslim brotherhood people they seek that

that the old generation is still conservative and that's absolutely true. financial credit rating companies standard and poor's that's the right to downgrade american stabbing from aaa to a d. if washington fails to meet its interest repayments congress and the treasury department have until the fourth of august to raise the country's debt ceiling if it is to avoid a default situation the u.s. national debt amounts to over fourteen trillion dollars at the moment radio host and analyst ricardo young from the voice of russia radio says both republicans and democrats must agree on a new measures if the u.s. is to avoid a financial crisis unfortunate but the republican side of the party has decided to basically walk out of the talks and what they're saying right now is that president obama needs to show leadership as he said it is a news conference today show leadership on this issue but even he is saying look we've got issues to take care of here we got to get back to the table and talk about this most economists most analysts agree that at some point before august

fourth the national debt ceiling will be raised because if it doesn't there's going to be as many are saying a global effect if america defaults on any of its loans anything that the president of united states says about this economy and its debt problem is the global markets will react to so when there's no way that he can say this will happen and that'll happen because if he does that obviously the global markets will start reacting to what the president predicts or says so this point he simply says it should happen it will be bad but he does not get into specifics about what would happen but you must remember that this these debt talks it's still about politics you have to see it through the eye of politics the g.o.p. in this country the republicans have said repeatedly that after the two thousand and ten elections their job is to make sure that brock obama is a one term president and so when you look at this issue as grave as it is many believe the republicans are still using it as a political tool to make it look like president barack obama isn't leading that he

is the one to cause this problem. well for more on this and other stories log on to our website at r.t. dot com and here are some of what's online for you right now that room between pakistan and the u.s. following the killing of osama bin ladin find out about islam about the latest move . and a harrowing firsthand account from a survivor of last week's plane crash in russia's republic of korea that killed forty seven people. 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 artie's peter all of our reports that often doesn't happen. dark and dilapidated this looks more like a prime candidate for demolition than a family home births twenty two year old mother of two lena is being told by social services that she's stuck here. perhaps they haven't seen this place inside they

keep telling us troops leave here they showed me a paper on how to build a house told them that i had no phones i have no job i have to take care of kids and i ended up going to place they said it's not top. leno grew up in an orphanage in the city of tibet 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 generation 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 authorities have told her that she should bring up the 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 and their small but presence and that cloth and whereas in actual fact they've got bigger and me but they get bigger and that's really where we need to be standing beside them housing is one of those big in need for all things leading care it's also in short supply and which is stored in 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 gears a loaf form often himself 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 all the mothers are given homes to raise their children why can't i have that isn't because they don't know the laws or because they're not too low to live but because it's forbidden for me to have family some people are trying to help me but to follow their efforts have been in vain. peter all of a. very. other crew that returned from the international space station last month had been holding their traditional meeting at russia's star city just outside of moscow and artie's tom barton went along as well to meet up with

a flight engineer cady coleman who became famous for a somewhat unique performance on the station. you've been there for six months now you do experiments you've been playing your flute to green living and working out. 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 so i actually brought flutes from anderson jethro tull and also from the band the chieftains set at two hundred year old irish mint 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 it's been very popular across the world we'll just have a quick listen to to that recording of duet. tell us a bit more about how you sort it 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 rack up a quick mint by myself and push it across the space station and put it in a new place so that floating around part it's not floating it's life 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 of europe trip all the visit was aimed at giving an inside account of last month's violent police crackdown on protesters and what you're not so told r.t. that georgia's costly p.r. campaigns can't hide the truth about president saakashvili well that's today's interview.

protests. georgian president saakashvili ended in violent dispersal of protesters by their eyes police joining us now to talk of war about that particular circumstance in instances and georgian politics in general is the recognized leader of georgian opposition you know. mr jones you think you very much for joining us today the first question unfortunately will be a somewhat sad one we will have to ask you about the deaths which are attributed to

your supporters. there on the night of the protest dispersal could you tell us more about what happened that night people to maybe government will use the force against that demonstrates that we said many times when we appeal to the population into the people who are standing in front of the parliament buildings it may be governmental years of course but these people we are really very. very many of them said to me and to us the leader so national assembly directly we are ready for. even for even the poorest against us but we will show example for the rest of the population of georgia i think 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 as the case will be just demonstration of

force and this will be a operation to punish the people who are in front of the parliament joy just special forces surrounded the people where in trip there was no way out there was no possibility to leave the square. as we understand special forces received special instructions to arrest all demonstrations and then nine hundred demonstrators have. being arrested that night to beat people brutally especially in hants and many people received serious injuries and were transported to the hospitals and they had to special instruction and not to allow me the 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 broadcasting king t.v. that he died because of car accident which thanks to my cars which is not serious fortunately there were footage which shows that this person had been beaten until death by ten fifteen special forces representatives and you can see these three do for teach 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 post soviet 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 it's enjoyed you're right now it's a real. we are all signs of soviet regime violation of elementary constitutional norms. while ation of elementary human rights control of media. police which is 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 the 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 words imperialism with russia and every person who is criticizing saakashvili and who is against his 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 everything the same and you can't imagine that it wasn't for myself that you. enjoyed your people right now not everybody of course for. but many people are afraid even to call to your place to ask you how are you say afraid to come to the funerals if. it's

a family of so people who are not just agree with this regime and if you have a different point of view if you are supporters of a position you have huge respect very high res to lose their job to find find in your pocket drugs or gun and you have a high risk to be. only just outside of not only poland to call but real life into what so this is a typical soviet country modernized i call it the modernized soviet union no blood series which is the link right now in my country we're wishing you the best in all your endeavors thank you very much for coming in the talking to us again thank you .

culture is that so much of the internet there is a huge music history apparently on the mark with freedom flotilla two point zero four thousand pro palestinian activists from twenty two countries perspective joint freedom flotilla two. i was just thinking about my future before the foreign companies came i dreamed of owning a cannon cutting factory. but we have less garbage now. some visitors who come here and make fun of me. taking up garbage boy i'm not bad like people think. i'm a good person. it's just that people don't see me. but i feel it was time people like me.