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here we got here we kept out of our top stories are angry protests for the response to the greek government's yes to harsh new cuts in order to secure further financial support you need police fired tear gas and stun grenades at crowds of people throwing stones and special windows. at the u.s. secretary of defense robert gates prepares to say goodbye to the pentagon the cia chief who is taking over but critics question whether this appointment will end the wars currently thriving on the ever expanding military budget. and the u.k. braces itself for a massive strike of public sector workers which threatens to severely disrupt schools and transport more than half a million teachers and civil servants are staging a walked out against the government's plans to cut their pensions increase pay.

next week talk to british union leader mark so what could who says public sector workers won't stop until they achieve their goals. today i'm talking to mark hughes one of the brains behind the thirtieth of june nationwide strikes in the u.k. he's head of the public and commercial services union three hundred thousand members are walking out the proposed reforms to the pension scheme thanks for talking to r.t. today now this is possible to plan to cut public spending in this country just how drastic are these cuts going to be give us an impression of what they might mean for the cuts to the biggest that most people will have seen in their lifetime. projected to mean half a million jobs lost in the public sector six hundred thousand jobs in the private sector as a direct result. of welfare cuts in funding of education for

young people and also a tax on people's pensions in addition to that in many of the communities up and down the country will see libraries close cuts in social services everything that people have taken for granted as. you seem to see these cuts in terms of rights and wrongs almost a moral position but isn't there has to be respected for example they didn't see it it looks like they might be able to afford. this is the fifth largest economy in the world and if you look at historically the british economy for fifty consecutive years from one thousand nine hundred on words our debt as a proportion of our g.d.p. was double what it is now then we millions of houses schools hospitals and. recognizing actually economically these cuts will make it worse far better to cut the deficit by employing people who pay tax and insurance rather than throw them.

where actually they depress the economy and we think my friends with us you've said that the government. just. working. but how do you think the strike. affects the. ruling class is what having three quarters of a million people from four different unions on strike is something that doesn't happen in this country for decades it's a start. to the government is if they try to ignore we'll come back in the autumn and we may well see millions of people on strike so the idea is to build pressure so the government realise that working people the length and breadth of the u.k. are not just going to let them get away with what they're doing and we believe. force them to change direction to governments bill for pensions at the moment is around thirty billion pounds which does seem excessive a lot of money how do you suggest that they would you say. i don't think they should reduce i'm quite clear that the retirement of dignity and old age where you don't have to struggle to make

ends meet should be what we aspire for in the first richest country in the world so my view is public sector pensions and all pension provision is important and instead of a risk to the bottom where we see the worst pension provision in the private sector becoming the model i'd like to see a rising of pension provision and saying it's a priority for people to have a decent retirement could be done in many ways cutting the renewal of trident for example would save us enough money to pay for those pensions for three or four years. where the richest people in britain avoid paying over one hundred billion a year would actually mean these pensions look fairly cheap in comparison and you mentioned the private sector and private sector workers say that she the public sector has a very good deal when it comes to pensions a lot better than a lot of private sector provision do you think there's really public support for what you're doing the opinion polls seem to tell us already a majority of people actually believe the public sector pensions are important don't arrive at the right level or should even be higher that's incredible when you

think of the propaganda we've had over the last two years from politicians in the media telling everybody the public sector pensions are the cause of people. the problem my masters to private sector workers is they're being exploited by their shareholders and by the company chiefs not by public sector workers pensions and we should have a campaign that seeks to drive all pension levels up not cut down to the worst. what would you accept in terms of pension reform what i personally believe that it is not acceptable to make anyone to pay a penny more for their pension when the valuation of public sector pension schemes say they're costing less because that's not about pensions it's about raising taxes to solve the deficit i don't believe people should be forced to work longer and i don't believe people should have the levers of their pension slashed so where we are in the talks at the moment unless the government fundamentally accept they have to talk about those things then i believe the industrial action is going to take place you have said in fact that the government doesn't look like it's prepared to

negotiate say what's the point of striking. when the point is to change your mind and saying you won't negotiate just when they're having a chat with a few people in a room is one thing saying you won't negotiate when there could be millions of people taking strike action is entirely another we actually believe that the six million trade unionists plus the thousands and thousands or hundreds of thousands of pensioners and students all becoming a joint campaign is going to be pro lexically very powerful we've already seen in britain a march of one hundred five hundred thousand people three months ago transformed the political mood in this country from march can do. as well what could strikes actually do how exactly do you think that change the political needs is transformed in that it was on the front page of the newspapers it was on every t.v. station and it gave people the confidence that however small the community and i have a small they see for example keeping a library they understood they were part of a much much wider problem and i think that's given us confidence to move from

a march to now for unions balloting members or members voting overwhelmingly for a strike so it's. clearly transforming people's confidence but the opinion polls clearly. whereas a majority before said they oppose strikes now in the most recent polls a majority says they are sympathetic to the crisis that we're seeing in the main it was called. reckless financial services do you think there is political will now to create a more responsible banking community. or i would always question whether. the. twenty three multi-millionaires and when they have members themselves who have benefited in the past by playing fast and loose with. all the ego clearly not morrow therefore i don't actually believe there is a political will. to actually ensure that the rich should pay for the problems that the rich caused but the banking sector should pay for the problems the banking

sector caused and as we're doing this interview members on fifteen thousand pounds a year struggling to make ends meet the holidays facing having their pensions slashed when they see bankers who are already million as trousering millions more in bonuses to be fundamentally unfair since the crisis. has entered into a new war in a foreign country and recently. said he needed more money to sustain in libya. do you think there is a moral vacuum in westminster that causes things to happen that the government spending and. what i think there isn't any politico consistency quite clearly we have been told that. everything that we hold dear has to be slashed and yet we can still talk about. fighting wars overseas irrespective of the cost my own view is that the war in afghanistan and the current war in libya wrong misjudged

what people claim. we should actually find a way out of those pretty quickly not make the situation in those countries worse as well as at the same time. valuable resources that could go into schools and hospitals and finally you opposite number at unison the country's biggest union is stressing this wave of industrial action. are you prepared to join us oh absolutely we've made it clear that our struggle is the start of a process we want more and more people to be involved not because we want to be on strike because we want the government to set up and take notice so i very much welcome the comments of the apprentice and you know i want to work very closely with him and all the other trade unions in britain to ensure that when working people are making a protest the protest is as soon as possible because it's designed to get the government to change their minds not so welcome thank you very much thank you.

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angry protests were the response to the greek government's approval of. the war to secure further financial support from the e.u. police fired tear gas and stun grenades of crowds of people throwing stones and smashing windows. the u.k. braces itself for a massive strike of public sector workers which threatens to severely disrupt schools and transport and million teachers and civil servants are staging a walkout against government plans to cut their pensions and freeze pay. as u.s. secretary of defense robert gates prepares to say goodbye to the pentagon the cia chief who's taking over critics question whether this will end the driving an ever expanding but a true budget. more on those stories in the course of. sports. down to just four in the men's event at wimbledon or the carry in form. of the

losing. of the semifinals despite a foot injury details on that in just a moment stick around. hello and welcome to the sport on ard see. these are the headlines. destress. battles from two sets down to knock out six time champion roger federer while nadal job creation and murray also progress on a thrilling men's quarter final day at wimbledon. blue sprints for success new chelsea manager andre village boss reveals his plans to bring trophies back to stamford bridge. and gone with the wind in russia's top kite surfer breaks the record after crossing the gulf of finland in a little over three hours. first to tennis and

a major upset at wimbledon were. staged a magnificent fight back to come from two sets down so knock out six time champion roger federer in the quarterfinals it's the first time the sixteen time major winner has lost a grand slam match shots are taken the first two sets the swiss masters storms a six three seven six lead with apparent ease so it was a true feed but mounted and historic come back to win all three remaining sets six four and three hour affair the frenchman now goes into his maiden semifinal wimbledon and only his third at a major. court. it was quick. it was just perfect. well next. the world number two and bernard sosnick just sensational run with

a force that went to reach its fifth straight grand slam semi final joke of the first set six two before fought back to take the second six three and go a break up in the third before the serbian six three then the eighteen year old australian qualifier overturned a break in the fourth by joke of each game through to take it seven five. i had to work out for my points and in some periods of the match i was not feeling great. meaning i wasn't moving well and you know it's kind of spending a lot of on those rallies. but you know to go through another semifinal as is the important thing in the. meanwhile defending champion rafael nadal stormed to his nineteenth straight without rules and with the force of victory against american more to fish nets nadal will face and demur in a reprisal flashier semifinal match that's all prank spaniard admitted it will be

his last thirty minutes for the next thirty days or so citing his put it three despite having to play under an anaesthetic nadal is ready to go all the way to the finals taking it a match at a time. another word about my food because i went to the hospital. we didn't see nothing really important so if you have something really important. you have to enter the tournament and i think really important and local favorite andy murray had the easiest passage of the day and was never broken as he eased past alyse on a low plays a straight sets in just under two hours making it five wins out of five against a spanish player the number four seed rushing into his third successive wimbledon semi final.

seconds. to try and put pressure on you. because a. lot of the core. football now in the in the biggest managerial signing of the european off season in chelsea coach andre village borscht says he must win titles immediately and he plans to do it with flair after holding his first media conference as the blues boss the pressure is on the portuguese prodigy to deliver the goods as he arrives at stamford bridge asked for leaving port so it's the treble in his first season last year his master plan for chelsea is at sac minded winning football and he's appointed the former west brom boss and blues midfielder roberto di matteo as his assistant boss is just thirty three years old and the youngest manager in the

english premier league but has calls for russian on chelsea a record twenty one million us dollars he signed for three years but it's understood anything other than reclaiming a top flight title from manchester united in his first year in london would be considered a failure we have a compromise. with a certain amount of trophies i mean that's the challenge that we have some of the not only in the football business book you know any business everybody wants to do to thrive to be doing something and to be successful and. i'm just i'm just one. big. that wants to be successful every. of boxing and latin america klitschko says he wants his unification balance against david haye to go down to the wire as the ukrainian fighter targets his fiftieth career knockout on saturday the younger klitschko brother turned up to see his work out ahead of the hamburg showdown but the brits and didn't reveal any of his

tactics for the match the w.b.c. world champion trained in the usual south pole stance and hardly delivered a punch during the public session nor did he stay to watch the idea you'd be able to champion slug it out with his sparring partner in your face attitude was good enough reason for klitschko it's a wish there meeting will be a long and painful experience for his rival. will not to overestimate them and gives them a duty and they will of course you see in your platoon if you go they will see that's my wish for last two years now. it's going to be a long twelve rounds for duty in the last in the final round it will knock him out and he's going to be number fifty. and while saturday's fight between klitschko and they may be sealing the limelight and defeat of the american floyd mayweather is also preparing for its title ballots the thirty four year old appeared at a media conference in new york with his next opponents toward peace who's ten years younger but still will go and so unless they get sold on september the seventeenth

ortiz is the raving w.b.c. welterweight champion and way weather is looking to add that belt to his collection of nine world titles he's unbeaten in forty one career matches and with a dream fight against manny pacquiao still to call mayweather is preparing for a pitched battle against or disease. and that's what the fans won't just i want to get a fan but it takes one step at a time i can overlook victoria t.'s ok no look he's tough he's tough and he's on the right and out of twenty nine twenty two knockouts i don't want to hear about if he lost before as right now he's world champion and ought to be in goal is for me to go in and face the world champion and do what i do best. russia. has become the first russians to successfully kite surfer across the gulf of finland and it's i know of just three hours it was a tough going for the twenty four year old world champion as alaca when hampered his progress but says richard reports he managed to overcome the elements to

complete the eighty kilometer distance from a stone to finland. after much frustration point b. c there's no peach here might be able to stand his attempt to kite surfer across the gulf of finland but with the conditions that hindered him up till now and even now in what was his latest efforts the elements were once again proving to be unfavorable as distinct lack of wind was always going to prove a problem however he made a promising starts and what seemed no time at all he was already miles away from a stone in coastline and his coach aleksey was pleased with his progress quarter of a way eighty kilometer journey with the windows pretty quiet but according to work . once we get. a lack of wind continue to cause peter problems so much so he fell into the water as there wasn't enough wind to keep his clients airborne however he was soon back on his board let's finish coastline which is also his

finishing line through ever close this hole challenger is a completely new experience for the twenty four year old russian he may be a world champion current surfer but normally he's used to performing tricks over a short period of time in good conditions and know how to surf a distance of around eighty kilometers with the elements against him as you see with the knee and the wind drop so i was barely keeping going in the luckily there was i was on the way so i go in tight as you. see in the square or the pressure on the feet and the way it was up and down was so hard to go up when the bit so. not surprisingly he was shattered after his endeavors does he have to work doubly hard due to the lack of wind however you cannot rely on. so completing this fantastic feats has been a fine efforts well once again the weather conditions haven't been on pages side but the lack of wind really hindering is progress but number less he's become the first russian to kite to cross the gulf of finland an impressive time of just over

three hours he may have completed this challenge the pay chair has no intention of putting his feet up he still wants to underline his status as one of the world's best current surface but also in the future trying to kite serve down the river in his native simpy just richard from pole fleet antti finland. your comments are more than welcome on our you tube channel at artsy sports news i will be back though in a less than a couple of hours with another update thanks for watching. we'll . bring you the latest in science and technology from around the world. we've got the huge you're covered.