for the full slate we've got it from the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. graves on the streets of greece 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. similar problems for the u.k. where around three quarters of a million teachers and civil servants are staging a mass protest to take their pensions from being slashed. first retiring u.s. secretary of defense robert gates and leaves three wars to deal with his successor many question whether in the coming cia chief to turn the president's course around .

where you're watching our team your world needs twenty four hours a day on kerry just now greece has erupted into more civil unrest with thousands of angry protesters flooding the streets south of parliament gave a green light to tough new cuts in order to secure a further financial lifeline from the e.u. european officials welcome the move greeks could not have been less happy with the ending or static as a cavity in the center of athens on the second day of a general strike but this is threw stones at least smashed windows and set fire to probably police responded with tear gas and stun grenades clashes continued in the night with dozens of police in protests were injured while many demonstrators were detained greeks now face twenty eight billion euro worth of cuts and tax rises in condition to a second they are released and the money reese would default on its loans in weeks

with financial journalist metrical says unless the government addresses the needs of the people he could have a river. i've been to a lot of these protests and a lot of these rallies usually these 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 and 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 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 pass or started measures and privatization schemes that are widely unpopular in this country forty dollars here result constitutional scholars and former members of the government they claim that the

measure quickly 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 said if things get really out 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 in that government have to fall to i don't see the people in this country lying down people are very angry here and they're very upset and they understand what's going on and then are sent 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 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 first some for some morsel of bread and some islands in the aegean that might have natural gas underneath that's not going to happen. we can't set to hold another

place on thursday this side how the cuts are going to be implemented because greeks cry out against a tougher stance since the germans who are going to bear the brunt in the house. this is the greek package as a result of the e.u. fear of contagion. that it is that risk. we have a bail out probation and we are in treaty article one hundred twenty five which expresses says that we have a run for union and one for union without collective. fiscal solidarity very very slowly over here in the case of natural catastrophes like earthquakes and we crisis in order to create governance problem it's generated right he's only greece's responsibility so as a matter of fact there's people believe that the greek crisis like create a contagion to other. economies politicians are afraid of people who are afraid take very very unreasonable decisions the first decision was to allow greece to

have very very generous credit last year and a credit to a sovereign country means that as long as some country has a lean to have a page they can credit all people 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 powerful institutional unarmed referred to which is laid down in the treaty and overnight again on the ninth and tenth of may under french influence of the european economic. community and in particular the european monetary union has been redesigned without any good operations who have consented to giving up the money around the germans. and very bitterly i fear there was. a great bailout is actually outside egypt stiction. but

it's not only greece that seeing massive civil unrest in the u.k. around three quarters of a million public sector workers a sense of protest against government plans to change their pensions and freeze meat many schools will be closed and transport is unlikely to be severely affected as workers embark on a one day strike teams in other parts. down tools are with industrial action and all some 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 unhappy 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 there should be if i still got some with pensions we think they can possess some security let on it's a little bit about withdrawing from the pension scheme because they can't afford to pay the mortgage at the same time as paying for the pensions and people are really

angry that time and bankers are making back of bonuses yeah ok we're being asked to take the country in our conditions to pay more for pensions the reality is we've got supply 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 paul babbly says his one point three million members are ready for prolonged industrial action and we're almost a war footing we've got thirty million pain steps aside and we've got a strategy work but i must stress that's not what we want to do we want to talk to the government and negotiate a sensible package and not the ridiculous package of the approach of 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 fall or a the unions admit public support is fundamental to having a successful strike option the government is very unlikely to change its mind about reform if the public at large doesn't back the unions but that's by no means assured public sector workers who already get very generous pensions in the. the cost of this pensions is very much to the culprits and the burden falls on for the next generation it really is absolutely essential that public sector pensions reform than 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 u. 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's doing this to reduce the current fifty billion dollar pension bill but it may be cutting

off its nose to spite its faced the white issue here according to the u.k. pension fund you can bet that if a company if public sector work is no don't get that pension what while they may still be thinking that if that was a widespread withdrawal pepsin funds would collapse and that would leave u.k. p.-l. the very source of investment just what it means that more than ever the unions will be correcting that but is the government listening nor am it ought to be looked at. but the scale of the walkouts in the u.k. hasn't been seen for decades until we hear from british trade unity that marks the world cup and says if the government finds to take notice this time it will return to protesting even greater numbers. having three quarters of a million people from four different unions on strike or something to how this hasn't happened in this country for decades it's the start not the finish matters to the government is if they try to ignore will 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 for them to change direction saying you want to go 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 to construct. the action is entirely another and 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 prolifically very powerful and already seen in a march of one hundred or five hundred thousand people three months ago transform the political mood in this country from march can do however is a work of strikes actually do. i think watch the full interview with british trade unity that marks the one and just

haven't it's time hear about see but also coming away tensions are still high over the long awaited change in egypt the capital yet again reaches boiling point as thousands of protesters accuse the interim government of the lack of action of the deaths caused by these can you see the world. and history repeating itself finds out about ships of the whole nation people forcibly displaced and asked to get back to the land. for almost five years he's been the man at the helm of the u.s. military under sponsible for the billions of dollars of the flowed into the pentagon's coffers motion to say computer fence robert gates is retiring leaving behind three wars and an ever growing defense budget for the director of the cia stepping into his shoes critics doubt will be much change in the president's course i think if you kind of. 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 worst continued and one more was even added to the plate of inconclusive campaign we deal with administration with change or change between parties there really isn't a great deal of training in the plan. 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 fan 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 bad line is not final he gives all kinds of contradictory statements for instance not long ago he said that anyone who would buy this course of u.s.

land army in the middle of an asian conflict should have his head again. yet at the same time. he's done everything you can clone over several times to back their leave from nouri al maliki government. but please please call us 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 it would be announced troop withdrawals from iraq and afghanistan the you must started actively waging a different kind of warfare what they call an intelligent war one that's waged braun's without sacrificing the lives of their soldiers in countries like pakistan yemen and libya and many say that's the may shift that happened in military operations under robert gates a shift that some say can only lead to more destruction. to the united states has

increased the intensity of the focus on the student changing drone strikes those were not the kind we didn't hear. while targeting terrorists the us has been criticised quick killing mostly civilians it's also making us less secure from a policy standpoint we can't intervene or. all over the world it just fuels insurgencies and fuels and i am or can as an analyst say the deaths of thousands of civilians in afghanistan are part of the reason why the us 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 proves 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 fragile interim leadership is facing the strain with renewed violence on the streets officials have ordered a probe into clashes and cairo and left more than a thousand people injection in two days of protests rightly sees take asked the first demonstrators with offices and bombs rest began the slow pace of prosecution senior officials and police officers accused of brutality in the mass uprising to bring. one of the women taishan rooms the manager of both top of prison back a list of pepe escobar says men for skating 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 dealing poor like the 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 i still look at large . i would say it's a fair bet that they won't be good to trial for the next few months because most of the people who are actually protecting them do still there at the ministry of interior the problem is these new forces in egypt and young intellectuals to unemployed to come back to the first the generation that we are generation they still don't have political participation organized as look the fact is that the

libyan brotherhood is already very well organized even do a progressive a streak of the muslim brotherhood it's interesting in forming their own political party because these younger wasn't brotherhood people think that the old generation is too conservative and that's absolutely true. well if you've got the something we've been covering on there you can always find it online or on t.v. dot com or news and i catching bill yesterday and it was well this is a trace in the u.s. more and more states are relinquishing their duties of running prisons as profit potential is thriving critics say it's because of the millions of dollars in situations making also. music souls to new heights as a nasa astronauts joins that in three geoffrey thomas front not out of this world

do it on windows r.t. dot com. now there's an audience national stories and very two french journalists who were being held hostage in afghanistan in free. iraq and marcus wareing one hundred forty seven days in captivity two men are suffering from in good spirits could see the reporter and his camera man who were captured in late two thousand and nine while fooling around in this area of the country. venezuela has delayed next week's major summit of latin american and caribbean leaders as good chavez and started covering from surgery in cuba comes out the state television show the thirty six year old talking to you know appearance which builds a close working relationship with his health of its own segments the celebrations marking the two hundred year anniversary of when as well as independence from spain and country not since it was rushed into emergency surgery earlier this month suffering from an abscess. the african union has condemned

france for supplying weapons to begin rebels he said threatens to the entire region the risk of wednesday runs from canada first nato countries to openly admit arming trouble fighters striving to talk over doffing words of state from africa are all to meet an editorial candidate on thursday for a summit with the. expected to be highly. almost seventy years ago tarnation people were displaced from their home that four hundred thousand were scattered around the globe a day. to feel welcome in the country of their ancestors. picks up the story. as it turns 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. but we want to come back to our land to miss hart here in

georgia that's what we've been fighting 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 heard so often described as the twice deported people they were forcibly displaced first from georgia and then from was about to start and after almost seventy years of there are no magic existence their only hope now is that one day they will be able to return to their own age if once it was the stolen regime which deported over ninety thousand mishaps in turks and central asia in nine hundred forty four but they had to flee again after violent as nic was in his back is down in the one nine hundred eighty nine most of them now live in azerbaijan in turkey as well as pasha 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 george isn't the richest of the most stable of countries that's the first thing secondly they seem to realize they're not welcome here to come to an entirely new country that's going to be our new everyone is capable of learning. came into power but we're surrounded by so many bureaucratic barriers you have to collect so many documents and it makes coming back almost impossible. the chairman of the world organization of massage and turks saleman but about cancer has traveled to georgia repeated li in before i to make the reports relation lot more fact it's that last yeah saleman was arrested in georgia and imprisoned for less than years he was accused of forging documents and fraud but his supporters say the charges were trumped up. there is no proof though he's guilty i'm sure he was arrested for pushing don't want to stick reasons we can't do anything to help him for now most mishaps in turks continue to leave the law and scattered far from where they

consider home and in distant lands their hopes of return still slim equally remote r.t. reporting from the north caucasus. but next door day's business news with korea. welcome to our business policy here in r.t. thanks for joining me russia's gas giant gas problem is holding its annual general meeting the company has announced it will increase dividends and may boast investment or record level about the war let's cross over to a very low cost around who is at gazprom headquarters marina. hi currying of all the latest from the meeting is that the best he chairman aleksei miller said the company is exploring new opportunities in europe and they see germany as a very attractive market he also said that the importance of natural gas is that it's one of their main areas of focus we also found out that export volumes

increased by twenty six percent in the first half of twenty eleven now that's compared to the same time period in twenty ten but we are of course all waiting to find out about those record breaking dividends gas home is proposing to give just under four roubles per share which is a sixty one percent increase from two thousand and nine and if this amount is approved then it will be more than expected for everyone and of course the company is also planning to change the rules as to how and when this money will be dispersed shareholders can expect to receive the money up to sixty days from the moment a decision this is made and it will be dispersed simultaneously to everyone else once you turn results for gas for work positive sales revenues went up twenty six percent compared to the year before up to one hundred eighteen billion dollars and that was historically low and export volumes reached pre-crisis levels now they'll be increasing spending this year to accommodate higher stall prices and higher

demand in europe they are raising output and export targets and production is not forecast surprise supercenter to five hundred nineteen billion cubic meters of gas in twenty eleven and we're also here in my gas one will be increasing its investment program to a record forty four billion dollars and the directors expect this year's to increase by about twenty two percent to fifty eight billion dollars and of course all the decisions will be made with a new board of directors who will be elected later today. because very poor am from gas from headquarters in moscow i will be posting you on the results of that meeting throughout the day now to other stories russia is about to realize its biggest investment dream the country's newly created ten billion dollars fund will come out with the first projects in september out ahead of the fan has outlined its investment products. that are cultural prices are increasing dramatically so now your business is very important health care again health care can give much more

efficient and can be improved dramatically with four pretty fast months i was proper in ohio energy efficiency we all know that we have so much of the ground until manager prices under all sorts of new energy efficient technologies could produce very significant cost savings so it's not venture projects it's a lot of early stage projects so for the projects where we can see sort of predictable carriage flow and such as energy efficiency it will produce good results but also good for the country. let's take a look at how the market's doing or continues with games after rallying two percent on wednesday the increase followed a u.s. inventories report that showed a sharp decline that surpassed expectations like susan is trading at ninety five dollars per barrel and grant is around one hundred twelve dollars per barrel here's an asian pull higher on thursday with hong kong leading if they advance that's up to greece to move closer to seeking aid to avoid a sovereign default japan's nikkei is trading at

a modest point two percent among japanese lenders need to be financial group gained over two and a half percent while still meets all of its only financial group tacked nearly two percent took you listed shares of citi group were up over three percent after the lender's us talk and is higher now some airlines lost ground zone for an oil prices china southern airlines down two point four percent in hong kong and stocks in europe are higher with market attention focused on the other situation in greece now banking shares advance met by law. as banking group it soared seven percent after the bank announced it will cut fifteen thousand more jobs and pull out from most of its international markets in order to save going to help in pounds other u.k. banks are also gaining with world bank of scotland jumping from the four point two percent and barclays adding one point one percent. and russell recording markets are trading higher energy companies are gainers now let's have

a look at some individual shambles all the noise that's got strong is the balancing point eight percent the company's c.e.o. said at gazprom that in reading that gas exports have risen twenty six percent in the first half of two thousand and eleven compared with the previous year where a bank is also on the rise held by reports its eighty r.'s have been approved for trading in all of them frankfurt and ross telecom is up over two percent after it announced a six percent increase in net profit for the first quarter. now russian equities are struggling for the rx and but sergei suvorov bank says blue chip names are still pick a crop for future plans but as general mistrust for second the use of the investors don't invest uncertainty is the youth of the elite who can resumes. most would learn many very they do symbol chips as we are here probably the most free one of the free will to. buy the markets but there are some concerns that the obama camp

there is nothing in the supply they need look will be sold in the mud on them in the markets and some discount and the solution we. buy is a user stuff from has been about in just a moment of the use and plaintiffs i'm in texas and also run for the profit something muslim stubs but most blue chips cheap or not the both ways us and i think of the for general optimism my wife's in the market the people that will buy most affordable chips. that's a business is that over stay with us for headlines with carry up next.

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