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both for drastic spending cuts and a tax hike to secure another bailout despite days of clashes between police and protesters outside the greek parliament. as pressure mounts on syrian president assad to invest in president assad we investigate intelligence reports that missiles are being moved from the country under the control of the lebanese militant group hezbollah. a little more than a thousand people injured in clashes with police in the egyptian capital cairo demonstrators demanding the prosecution of security forces accused of talent during the mass uprisings that led to the ousting of president mubarak in february. six am in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story

protests continue on the streets of athens with demonstrators angered at the government's approval of fresh austerity measures during the night the center of the greek capital was blanketed with tear gas as a gang set fires and damaged property according to reports at least forty five people were injured amid the clashes with many others being detained the greek parliament voted through the cuts to secure the e.u.'s next twelve billion euro installment and stave off bankruptcy a two day general strike has brought the country to a standstill with thousands walking off their jobs in protest against the cuts financial journalist dimitri kovtun a says the government risks being overthrown if it doesn't address the people's needs. it's called more 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 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 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 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 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 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 that government have to fall to i don't see the people in this country lying down journalist a rainy witnessed wednesday's clashes in the greek capital. when the results where are the become known to the people of people reacted in a graceful way so now the government has to face the anger of the angry greeks who are on the road few minutes ago we heard their grenades from constitution square it's about three to four minutes from here and there is dense smoke in the air. and the protesters are continuing to fight with the police they are throwing stones to the police and the policemen are answering throwing grenades and tear gas there is a dense smoke in the sky but also metro station of constitution square even inside the metro station there are people who are trying to hide in the metro but there is smoke in there there are some doctors would talk from inside the metro and say that

there are people who cannot breathe financial guru max kaiser says many of the protesters in athens are misguided. for you for so-called communist masses you're not fighting against capitalism you're fighting against monarchs and oligarchs capitalism has got nothing to do with your problem you don't think all of our headlines are going to prove that they're wrong about that it is not capitalism it's rigged markets and that's not that's the opposite of capitalism it's like one of those suicide bombers that accidently blows themselves up like a hundred miles from the intended destination and there's a little turn of their cell phone like going to work at this ball again is what's a little. closer report coming your way throughout the day here on our t.v. stick with us for that. and the grim economic situation in greece will be high on

the to do list for the new chief of the international monetary fund france's finance minister christine lagarde she's likely to keep up the institutions always according to daniel ben army veteran financial journalist an editor at fun 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 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. deal with the with america america has the chief role in the world bank even if. costin's 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 it's a very short term 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 them 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. stay with us here on r.t. still ahead old habits die hard. spending spending find out how tarnished america's pristine credit rating may soon become. friends at mit's dropping weapons to dropping weapons to the libyan rebels we talk to former u.s. diplomat george kenney about the possible repercussions. but before we get to that

israel's military is on edge after intelligence reports of troop movements in syria and across the border in lebanon it's concerned hezbollah might be moving weapons to strike out the jewish state and divert attention from its ally syrian president bashar assad or his 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 any opposition group that might take over in syria. will definitely consider these belies an enemy is a spirit so for his belies 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 the syrian government could 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 but as far as we 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 with 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 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 france has become the first country to openly admit it 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 the besieged rebel forces former u.s. diplomat george kenney believes the consequences of the illegal action are unpredictable but completely contrary to the un resolution apparently they've shipped a couple of light 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. more than a thousand people have been injured in two days of violent protests in egypt again over the slow pace of prosecution for police officers accused of brutality during the mass uprisings in february that revolution put an end to president hosni mubarak's three decade long rule leaving the country in the hands of the military council passed the bar forest fire for the asian time 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 organizing 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

they get civilians especially in february. still at large and it said 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 the young intellectuals de unemployed the connected the facebook generation which we are doing in recent days do it don't have political participation organized as well the fact is that the list of brotherhood is already a very well organized even do a progressive a streak of them listen brotherhood is splintering in the forming their own political party because dizzee younger muslim brotherhood people they seek that that the old generation is still going to service and that's absolutely true. but anshul credit rating companies standard and poor's has threatened to downgrade

america's standing from aaa to d. if washington fails to meet its interest payments congress and the treasury department have tell august fourth to raise the country's debt ceiling if it's to avoid a default situation u.s. national debt amounts to more than fourteen trillion dollars at the moment radio host an adult list ricardo young from voice of russia radio says both republicans and democrats have to agree on new measures if the country is to avoid a financial crisis it's 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 now 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 that the global markets will react so in 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 at 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 barack 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. for more on this and other stories be sure to check out our web site r t v dot com here's what's a click away right now. as tension grew between pakistan and the u.s. following the killing of osama bin laden find out about as

a lot of odds latest move. to hollowing first hand account from a survivor of last week's plane crash in russia's republic of korea that killed forty seven people. are turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe in moldova six people have been detained on suspicion of smuggling more than a kilo of nuclear material according to police a criminal group from the former soviet republic tried to negotiate the sale of uranium to a north african country for twenty million euros the suspects were apprehended while carrying a lead canister that experts are now analyzing. that israel and government has postponed next week's summit of latin america and caribbean leaders saying president hugo chavez needs time to recover from surgery in cuba this comes after a state television aired video showing the fifty six year old chatting with cuba's fidel castro aiming to end speculation over chavez's deteriorating health according

to officials the date of that meeting that aims that at developing the thirty two nation a regional bloc that excludes the u.s. and canada is still unknown but expected later this year russian orphans face a tough childhood but being an adult can be even worse the government legally has to provide housing for anybody leaving state care about his or he's peter all over a ports that often doesn't happen. in dilapidated. this flap looks more like a prime candidate for demolition than a family home bird's 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 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 our problem lena grew up in an orphanage in the city of

to bear under russian law she should have received state housing once she left the institution this flat was given to lena's mother by the state and despite having no money she's been told 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 minute there's no way that lena family can live 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 for. our kids are smaller you know when they're little and everybody loves to help them and they're small but presents that santa clause and whereas in actual fact they've got

a bigger enemy but they get bigger and that's really when we need to be standing beside them housing is one of those big needs for all things leading care it's also in short supply and which that 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 currently only administrative penalties can be imposed on anyone standing in the way of those leaving care getting housing alexander gears a loaf form orphan 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 when all the mothers are given homes to raise their children why can't i have done it isn't because i didn't do the loans or because i'm not too low to live but because it's had been for me to have family some people are trying to help me but to follow their efforts have been in vain. peter all of us. to a region. the crew that returned from the international space station last month has been holding their traditional meeting at russia's star city outside moscow our team's tom barton went along to meet up with flight engineer katie coleman who became famous for a very unique performance aboard the station. you've been up there for six months now you do experiments you've been playing your flute to green living and working up. but you know back here on earth i 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 it's 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. 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 appointment by myself and push it across the space station and put it in a new place and a 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. georgian opposition leader and you know burjanadze has been in brussels part of a round europe trip visit was aimed at giving an inside account of last month's violent police crackdown on protesters she tells r t that georgia's costly p.r. campaigns can't hide the truth about president saakashvili that's coming your way next in our tease interview segment. you're.

a week of protests aimed 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 burjanadze. as 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 that which are attributed to your supporters. there on the night of the protests 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 parliament buildings it may be governmental years of course but these people were really very much of

a team. many of them said to me and to us a leader so national assembly directly we are ready for. even putting the force against us but we will show examples for the rest of the population of towards europe that 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 that people nobody was waiting as the case will be just demonstration of force and this will be operation to punish people who are in front of the parliament just special forces say surrounded. the people were 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 the hands. and many people received serious injuries and were transported to the hospitals and they had the 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 the next event today 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. 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 based video footage on you tube and on our website here what has to change in georgian politics for the country to move forward to step away from its i would say post soviet. style and move forward towards westernized country or to prosper you know i will not say right now that george is opposed to country it was in two thousand and three into cells and for dissolves 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 your right now it's a real no bullshit. we all signs of soviet

regime while a sheen 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. supporters or. secret agent of imperioli right now in georgia is 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 trade days we are enemies of the people everything the same and you can't imagine that as it was 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 this regime and if you have a. different point of view if you are supposed to stuff a position as you have huge respect the verdict hirees to lose their job to find finding your pulpit drugs or aagaard and you have

a high risk to be really just outside of not only political but real life to watch so this is a typical soviet country modernized i call it the more deny soviet union. which is rolling right now in my country we're wishing you the best in all of your endeavors thank you very much for coming in the talking to us again thank you.