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streets of greece as parliament votes for higher taxes and yet more job cuts claiming it's the only way to pull the country out of its financial quagmire. more strikes hit another path that u.k. braces itself for three quarters of a million teachers and civil servants voicing their anger against the government's massive cut backs. plus we look at whether the new head of the pentagon and the wars that flourished for the outgoing secretary defense robert gates. question equity markets open higher with energy and banking stocks among the main gate is germany for the details and markets in about twenty minutes from now. on there and online twenty four hours

a day welcome to what greece has erupted into more civil unrest with thousands of angry protesters flooding the streets after parliament gave the green light to tough new cuts in order to secure a further financial lifeline from the e.u. european officials welcome the greeks could have been less happy with the pending a stair to gather in the center of athens in the second day which. like. threw stones at police and set fire to these for sponsible. she's continued the night when dozens of police and protesters were injured while many demonstrators were detained weeks now face twenty eight billion live with cuts and tax rises we condition to assume that least without the money police will default on its loans with a week's financial. stands the government addresses the needs of the people could have a revolution on its hands i've been to a lot of these protests and

a lot of these rallies are usually the things down after they get very violent or at least when we head into the night time there's a there's a brief period where things calm down before an interesting thing is some some bikers who actually rode down yesterday from northern greece and more and more people got on the on the bandwagon as they came down they rode by again in front of 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 excited and hope because of the the response but also there's a there's a concern and a fear because there's a lot of violence and and that's a concern not only for the protesters obviously who have been injured but also for the government because with these with this type of violence it becomes a much more difficult for them to study measures and privatization schemes that are widely unpopular in this country forty scholars here in greece will 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 sit down and take it it doesn't really matter what they pass and that's what we're seeing here right now what you're looking to have happen is you're you're going to see a fall discovered at some point i've 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. but then the governor will have to fall to i don't see the people in this country lying down people they're very angry here and they're very upset and they understand what's going on and these measures are not going to help them and their future there are a lot of educated people this country a lot of capable people a lot of people living outside of greece who want to come back to this country because they love it and they're not about to see it get liquidated. for some morsel of bread and some islands in the aegean that might have natural gas underneath that's not going to happen. agree canopies a set to hold another. state decide how the cuts are going to be implemented when it's greeks cry out against the tough issues it's the germans who are going to bear

the brunt of pain out. as the greek rescue package. fear of contagion credits as a risk. we have a bail out probation in the european treaty article one hundred twenty five which expresses says that we have a monterrey union monetary union without collective financial officer solidarity there's only solidarity in case of natural catastrophes like earthquakes the requires is not the earthquake it's a governance problem it's generated by police and it's greece is a responsibility as a matter of fact as people believe that the greek crisis might create a contagion to other more developed economies politicians are afraid of people who are afraid take very very unreasonable decisions the first decision was to allow greece to have a very generous credit last year and a credit to

a sovereign country means that as long as the sovereign country hasn't been bruised has not paid to credit all people who have been creditors will remain at risk so we are in a very very dangerous phase of european monetary policy. institutional policy because we have stayed away straight away from the institutional a normal diversity which is laid down in the treaty and overnight again on the ninth and tenth of may on the french influence of the european economic. community and in particular the european monetary union has been redesigned without any vote by populations who have consented to giving up the money amongst those the germans and very bitterly i feel. lawyer marcus occur but they're arguing that the greek bailout is actually outside egypt stiction. well it's not only greece that seeing massive civil unrest in the u.k.

around three quarters of a million public sector workers are said to protest against government plans to change their pensions and freeze pay many schools will be closed and transport is likely to be severely affected as workers embark on a one day strike ati's reports. down tools up with industrial action an autumn of discontent starts here as the u.k. braces for a wave of strikes not seen for decades this time it's three quarters of a million public sector workers walking out on happy with the planned reform of their pensions which they say will see them paying a lot more and getting a lot less we don't think that should be vice to the bottom with pensions we think if one deserves to have security retirement people are talking about withdrawing from the pensions game because they can't afford to pay the mortgage at the same time as paying for the conventions and people are really angry that time went bonkers and making back up by in a sense yeah getting by being asked to take a pension in our pensions to pay more for our pension it's reality is we've got to

for the rest we're just using these people do a huge variety of key work from teachers and lecturers to air traffic controllers and coast guards unisons the u.k.'s biggest public sector trade union deputy chief bob abbott leases his one point three million members already for prolonged industrial action and we're almost a war footing we've got thirty million pain set aside and we've got a strategy work but i must strangers that's not what we want to do we want to talk to the government and negotiate a sensible package a normal ridiculous package of their proposal at the moment that package involves raising the retirement age from sixty to sixty six raising pension contributions by workers and having payouts based on average career earnings rather than final fowler a the unions admit public support is fundamental to having

a successful strike action the government is very unlikely to change its mind about reforms if the public at large doesn't back the unions but that's by no means assured public sector workers do already get very generous pensions in the. the cost of those pensions is very much sort of a cop it turns the burden falls on to the next generation it really is absolutely essential that public sector pensions are reformed and even after they are reformed public sector workers will get far better pensions and less private sector workers the unions want to apply enough pressure to force the government to change its mind and it's no stranger to you turns it was hell bent on reforming the health service too until it decided to take longer to think about it causing friction in the coalition the government is doing this to reduce the current fifty billion dollar pension bill but it may be cutting off its nose to spite its faced the wider issue here according to the u.k. pension. plan that made it public sector work if no don't think that what

while they may stop you think that if there was a widespread withdrawal pension funds would collapse and that would leave u.k. p.-l. the very short of investment just what it means that more than ever begins we'll be tracking that but is the government listening to your avatar tweet loved it. while the scale of the walkouts in the u.k. hasn't been seen for decades later we hear from british trade union leader mark so what kept you says if the government fails to take notice this time people will return to protest an even greater numbers. having three quarters of a million people from four different unions on strike or something the harvest hasn't happened in this country for decades it's the start not the finish our message 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 the working people the length and breadth of the u.k.

i'm not just going to let them get away with what they're doing and we believe that pressure ultimately come force them to change direction saying you won't just when they're having a chat with a few people in a room is one thing so you want to go when there could be millions of people. the construction 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 politically very powerful and already seen in britain march of one hundred or five hundred thousand people three months ago transformed the political mood in this country from march can be our river walk it strikes actually do. we can watch the full interview with british trade unity that locks work in just over an hour's time here lotty. but coming your way shortly tensions are still high over the long awaited change in egypt capital yet again which is boiling point the

stars of protesters accusing the interim government over the uk of action deaths paul's point police during the recent war. and history repeating itself we find out about the hardships of the nation of people forcibly displaced from going to get back to their native land. for almost five years he's been the band at the helm of the us military responsible for the billions of dollars of the flows into the president's coffers from washington now the secretary defense robert gates is retiring even behind three wars and an ever growing defense budget the director of the cia is stepping into his shoes critics doubt there will be much change in the president's course in the church accountable. whoever's in the white house in the pentagon it's business as usual robert gates was secretary of defense to two different presidents obama was elected on

a promise to end the wars of his predecessor george w. bush but america's worse continued and one more was even added to the plate of the inconclusive campaign levy when administrations change or change between parties there really isn't a great deal of change in the pentagon under robert gates his watch america's annual defense spending approach the trillion dollars rising at the pace of about five percent a year but statements from his office were often contradictory fence spending that nearly doubled the base budget over the last decade the gusher has been turned off and will stay off the u.s. is supposed to leave iraq by the end of the year but it seems that there's line is not final he gives all kinds of contradictory statements for instance not long ago he said that anyone who advise is to put u.s. land army in the middle of an asian conflict should have his head examined yet at

the same time. he's done everything you can he's flown over several times to baghdad to leave with nouri al maliki government. that please please could u.s. soldiers day after the deadline at the end of this year the pentagon says they expect the iraqi government will ask them to stay beyond their scheduled december thirty first departure date but with the announced troop withdrawals from iraq and afghanistan the u.s. started actively waging a different kind of warfare what they call an intelligent war one that's waged with drones without sacrificing the lives of their soldiers in countries like pakistan yemen and libya and men. they say that's the major shift that happened in military operations under robert gates a shift that some say can only lead to more destruction of. the united states has

increased the intensity of the focus on the student terms of drone strikes those remotely piloted vehicles while targeting terrorists the us has been criticized quick killing mostly civilians it's also making us less secure from a policy standpoint we can intervene all over the world it just fuels insurgencies and fuels and i am americanism and always say the deaths of thousands of civilians in afghanistan are part of the reason why the u.s. has failed at curbing insurgency there now the u.s. is preparing to pull out a third of its troops by the end of next year many afghans fear that less troops doesn't mean less bombs dropped on their homes as the u.s. that stop aerial strikes in the region the possibility of waging a war without having to justify the deaths so the american troops has become more palatable for the pentagon the cia has been at the forefront of america's

undeclared wars and with a new secretary of defense leon panetta who was the head of the cia the trend is on likely to change i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. egypt's interim leadership is facing the strain with renewed violence on the streets officials have ordered a probe into clashes in cairo which of left more than a thousand people injured during two days of protests police used tear gas to disperse them straight to the post offices with stones before the bombs the rest of the slow pace of prosecution senior officials and police officers accused of boots how to teaching the less uprising agree to this calling for the speedy implementation of reforms demanded during the revolt that top. and that's to ask of us has been frustrated that change. the regime is doing place and the

political parties and the political forces were articulating for the next elections they don't care about this they are just one 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. are still at large and. 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 and young intellectuals the unemployed the connector the facebook generation into your generation they still don't have the political participation organized as well the fact is that the

muslim brotherhood is already very well organized even do a progressive streak of the muslim brotherhood is splintering in the forming their own political party because these younger muslim brotherhood people they seek that that the old generation is still conservative and that's absolutely true. well if you've missed something we've been covering on the air you can always find it online called more news and videos of their fuel cell phone calls then the hell they may point to prophecy by in taking it including your clothes but it seems that airport scanners also pose a health risk to new data use high levels of radiation. and the very unlikely friendship when the russians were fox has adopted the rooster instead of having a dinner chantelle top of the something he.

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that's who the charges are still recovering from surgery and she took it comes off to state television showed the fifty six year old talking to fidel castro deeply speculation that. chavez would also miss must celebrations marking the two hundred year anniversary venezuela's independence from spain in the future like what it was didn't. it was rushed into surgery and this man suffering from the pelvic abscess. african union has condemned france for supplying weapons to the rebels and she said the move threatens to put the entire region at risk. falls within the first nato country to open the admit to arming tribal fighters striving to topple colonel gadhafi state from africa meeting the equitorial guinea late on thursday for a summit with libya is expected to be high on the agenda. for the first tropical storm or hurricane season through the floods and mudslides to mexico's

central gulf coast states oil companies watching the situation ready to order the evacuation of oil platforms and necessary every rains have already been boiling and forecasters say many parts of the country could be swamped central gulf coast region is still recovering from major flooding last year. almost seventy years ago an entire nation of people were displaced from their homeland four hundred thousand were scattered around the globe and even today are still not made to feel welcome in the country of their ancestors. takes up the story. as it turned out this colorful ad which aired across the world was an inviting everyone and in toy people can make their way back to georgia the land of their ancestors we heard him say bush we want to come back to our land to miss hartill georgia that's what we've been fighting for and dreaming of for many years there are some four hundred thousand people with this dream spread across the globe there

have been left with no homeland mishaps and turks are often described as the twice deported people they were forcibly displaced first from georgia and then from respect to stun and after almost seventy years of there are no magic existence their only hope now is that one day they will be able to. turning to their own age if it was the still in regime which deported over ninety thousand miss houghton turks to central asia in nine hundred forty four but they had to flee again after a violent ethnic was in his back is done in nine hundred eighty nine most of them now live in azerbaijan and turkey as well as russia and the united states georgia finally adopted a repatriation law under pressure from the european council in two thousand and seven but even four years on the law doesn't appear to have changed anything. they know georgia isn't the richest or the most stable of countries that's the first thing secondly they seem to realize they're not welcome to come to an

entirely new country to go into the unknown not everyone is capable of that. came into power but was surrounded by so many bureaucratic barriers to collect so many documents that make coming back almost impossible the chairman of the world organization of metatron turks saleman but about cancer has traveled to georgia repeatedly in the fight to make that we patch relation a lot more effective but last yasser the man was arrested in georgia and imprisoned for eleven years he was accused of forging documents and fraud but his supporters say the charges were trumped up. there is no proof that he's guilty i'm sure he was arrested for bush go on national his decrees and we can do anything to help him for now most miss houghton turks continued to live a lot of scattered far from where they consider home and in distant lands their hopes of return still slim equally remote in a question r.t. reporting from the north caucasus. but next on the business news with.

her welcome to business thanks for joining me russia's gas giant gas problem is holding its annual general meeting the company has announced it may increase its investment program. level artie's lie in a close or a half. we're expecting to hear about a record breaking dividends gas problem is planning to give out just on the four roubles per share which is a sixty one percent increase from two thousand and nine and if it is approved gastro says it will be the biggest amount of money ever given any corporate history now also there will be change in the rules as to how and when that money will be the spurs shareholders can expect to receive their dividends up to sixty days from the day the decision is made and it will be dispersed simultaneously to all of them now twenty time results for gas from more positive their cells revenue went up twenty six percent and their debt was historically low for the company and now

they're looking ahead they're planning to increase their spending to accommodate higher spot prices and higher demand in europe they will be raising output and export targets and production is now set to increase by about two percent to five hundred nineteen billion cubic meters of gas also that will be increasing their investment program to a record forty four billion dollars and directors expect their average rise about twenty two percent to fifty eight billion dollars and of course all these decisions will be finalized with a new board of directors who will be elected later today. russia is about to realize its biggest investment dream the country's newly created ten billion dollar fund will come up with for us projects in september they have the problem is outlined its investment priorities. agricultural prices are increasing dramatically so are good businesses very important health care again health care can be much more efficient and can be improved dramatically with proper investments i was

proper and know how energy efficiency we all know that we are so much dependent on energy prices under all sorts of new energy efficient technologies that produce very significant cost savings so it's not venture projects it's not for research projects so for the projects where we can see sort of predictable cash flow and such as energy efficiency it will produce good results but also good for the country. or continues to gain after rallying two percent on wednesday the increase followed a u.s. inventories report that showed a sharp decline that surpassed analyst expectations light sweet is trading at around ninety five dollars a barrel and brand and at around one hundred twelve dollars a barrel asian she has pulled higher on thursday with hong kong leading the advance that's not the greece move closer to receiving more aid to avoid a sovereign default japan's nikkei is trading up a more modest point two percent among japanese lenders mitsubishi financial group gained over two and a half percent while sumitomo mitsui financial group tapped nearly two percent

tokyo listed shares of citi group were up over three percent after the lender's u.s. stock ended higher now some airlines lost ground or prizes china southern airlines down two and a half percent and hong kong. and russian equity markets open higher with energy companies among the main games the r.t.s. opened a half a percent hi adam isaacs is trading also half a percent in the black the growth was maybe supported by energy and financial stocks now let's have a look at some individual share moves over my six energy mages among the main gate is as oil rebounded from a four month low gazprom is a bad thing point eight percent the company's c.e.o. said at gazprom is annual meeting that gas exports have risen twenty six percent in the press half. two thousand and eleven compared with the previous year google is also gaining just under five percent while last telecom is up over two percent.

greece's approval of the hotly debated austerity plan has some tensions on the markets however sort of gay so they're also believes other events will have greater implications positive or two in greek is mostly priced a bit new to the markets tracked in the past few in the past several days but on the other investors whole part of the greek problem also will multi pia at least one next several months the most important after greek root will be at the end of quantities and in the us on the thirtieth of june and the fact only can attend the start of corporate report and susan in the states for the second quarter we expect this will take a bigger role than very cold this practice will outline the trend of the market in the beginning. that's the business news for now but i'll be back with more about forty five has struck me that.

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