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raids on the 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. similar problems for the u.k. where around three quarters of a million teachers and civil servants are staging a mass protest pensions from being slashed. retiring u.s. secretary depends what gates leaves three wars to deal with his successor many question whether incoming cia chief turned the president's course around. where you're watching our t.v. your world needs twenty four hours a day on kerry johnston now greece has erupted into more civil unrest with thousands of angry protesters flooding the streets and out of 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 move greeks could not have been less happy with the pending austerity as they gathered in the center of athens on the second day of a general strike but this is threw stones at police smashed windows and set fire to property police responded with tear gas and stun grenades clashes continue tonight dozens of police in protests were injured while many demonstrators were detained greeks now face twenty eight billion euros worth of cuts and tax rises precondition to a second bailout being released under that money greece would default on its loans within weeks of financial journalist and says unless the government addresses the needs of the people it could have given. 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 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 excitement 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 pass a study measures and privatization schemes that are widely unpopular in this country forty scholars here recently 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 a sort of legislation first of all second of all they can pass whatever they like but if the people don't agree to it and 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 what you're looking to have happen is you're you're going to see a fall of this governor at some point i've said if things get 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 governments 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 the see it get liquidated for some for some morsel of bread and some islands in the aegean that might have natural gas and any that's not going to happen. to hold another but it's one thing as they decide how the cuts are going to be implemented but as greeks cry. it's against the tough austerity measures it's the germans who are going to bear the brunt of pain that i helped marcus says the greek which is a result of the e.u. fear of contagion. credit is at risk. we have

a bailout 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 for the prizes and all the earthquake it's a governance problem it's generated by the senate greece's responsibility so as a matter of fact as people believe that the greek crisis might create or contagion to other more you know becoming politicians are afraid of people who are afraid to 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 they come some country has will be imposed as a paycheck to 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 institutional unarmed diverted which is laid down in the treaty and overnight in on the ninth and tenth of may under 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 their will and very bitterly i feel. that was our lawyer marcus kerber arguing 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 the public sector workers are set 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 forty's and it reports. down tools are with industrial action and also 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 that should be a vice to the boats and with pensions we think. of security retirement people talk about withdrawing from the pensions game because they can't afford to pay the mortgage at the same time as paying for that kind of chance and people are really angry that time and bankers are making record buying this is yet a guy we're being asked to take a pension in our pensions to pay more for our pensions reality is we've got to fire 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 avidly says his one point three million members already a prolonged industrial action where almost fourteen 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 nor the ridiculous package they're proposing 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 salary 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 and the. the

cost of those pensions is very much to the culprit turned the burden falls on to the next generation the great is absolutely essential the public sector pensions reformed and even after they are reformed public sector workers will get better pensions and 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 face the wider issue here according to the u.k. pension fund you can bet that a lot of me public sector workers know don't think that pensions are what while they may start contributing to that if that was so widespread with pension funds would collapse and that would leave u.k.p.

out of the very short of investment just what it means that more than ever begins we'll be addressing that but is the government listening you are admitting to me. well the scale of the walkouts in the u.k. hasn't been seen for decades later we hear from british trade unions. he says if the government finds to take notice this time people will return to protesting even greater numbers. having three quarters of a million people from four different unions on strike something or 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 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 that pressure ultimately come forced them to change direction saying you won't negotiate just when they're having a chat with a few people in a room is one thing saying you want to go when there could be millions of people

taking strong. 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 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 to our viewers well what could strikes actually do. and you can watch the full interview with a british trade union leader marcus to walk in just twenty minutes time here in l.t. . 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 but lack of action of the deaths caused by police during the recent revolt. and history repeating itself we find out about hardships of the

whole nation of people forcibly displaced and probably to get back to the new 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 that flowed into the pentagon's coffers motion to secretary of defense robert gates is retiring leaving behind three wars and an ever growing defense budget but with a director of the cia stepping into his shoes critics doubt there will be much change in the president's course and the chicken reports 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 the inconclusive campaign we've yet when it ministrations to change or change between parties there really isn't

a great deal of change in the pan. 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 spend 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 would vices support us a land army in the middle of an asian conflict should have his head examined yet at the same time. he's done everything and can flown over several times to baghdad to leave nouri al maliki government. that please please put

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 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 of. the united states has increased the intensity of the focus on pakistan in terms of drone strikes that is remotely piloted vehicles while targeting terrorists the us has been criticized for killing mostly civilians it's also making us less secure from

a policy standpoint we can intervene on. all over the world it just fuels insurgencies and fuels and i am americanism analysts 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. steps up 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

fragile interim leadership is facing the strain with renewed violence on the streets officials have ordered a probe into cash isn't tara which of left more than a thousand people injured during two days of protests riot police used tear gas this first demonstrators have with offices with stand by bombs arrest began the snow pace of prosecution senior officials and police officers accused of brutality during the mass uprising to bring to this calling for the speedy and human taishan forms demanded to know both toppled present that list says many for straightened 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 the guest civilians especially in february. are still at large and they'd 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 still there at the ministry of interior the problem is these new forces in egypt the young intellectuals de unemployed the contractor the facebook generation which we are doing in recent days still don't have political participation organized as well the fact is that the muslim brotherhood is already very well organized even doing a progressive streak of the muslim brotherhood is splintering in the form of their own political party because dizzee younger muslim brotherhood people they seek that 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 on t v dot com more news and eye catching videos are there for you as well and these are taste in the u.s. more and more states are relinquishing the duties of running prisons and this private detention is thriving critics say it's because of the millions of dollars that institutions are making also. music souls to new heights as a nasa astronauts joins three tongues from not going out of this world do it. you don't go. to some other international stories in grade two french journalists who were being held hostage in afghanistan been three. back to spending one hundred forty seven days in captivity two men ourselves we improve

health and good spirits the t.v. reporter and his camera man were captured in late two thousand and nine while filming in a mountainous area of the country. venezuela has delayed next week's major summit of that's in there and kind of been leaders as good chavez is still recovering from surgery in cuba comes off the state television show the fifty six year old talking to peter castro appearance which failed to quell speculation over his health and that's with all said miss celebrations marking the two hundred year anniversary of venezuela's independence from spain and if that you know less than two was rushed into the room to see surgery earlier this month suffering from over absence. the african union has condemned fronts for supplying weapons to libyan rebels chief said the move threatens to put the entire region in risk on wednesday once became the first nato country to openly admit arming tribal fighters striving to topple tell gadhafi it's of state from africa are all to meet in equitorial guinea late on

thursday for a summit with libya. expected to be high on the agenda. though almost seventy years ago an entire nation of people were displaced from their home that four hundred thousand were scattered around the globe today. to feel welcome in the country of their ancestors ortiz takes up the story. as it turns out this colorful ad which aired across the world was an inviting everyone and entire people can make their way back to georgia the land of their ancestors we heard them say we want to come back to our lands miss hart to you in georgia that's what we've been. 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 us that is done 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 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 clause in his back is done in nine hundred eighty nine most of them now live in azerbaijan in turkey as well as washoe and the united states georgia finally adopted a repatriation law under pressure from the european council in two thousand and seven but even for years own 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 here to come to an entirely new country that's going to be our new you know everyone is capable of that. came into power but it 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 mr houghton turks through the month but about cancer has traveled to georgia repeatedly in the fight to make that we pan tree more effective but last yesterday man was arrested in georgia and imprisoned. he was accused of forging documents and fraud but his supporters say the charges were trumped up charges that there is none prove that 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 miss houghton turks continue to leave the law it's counted from where they consider home and in distant lands their hopes of return still slim equally remote. reporting from the north caucasus. business news so far with career. power and

a welcome to our business full of here in our to 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 over record level now for more let's cross over to marina course around who is at gazprom headquarters marina. high curry noble the latest from the meeting is that the deputy chairman aleksei miller said that 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 and so that is 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 well is proposing to give just under four roubles per se which is a sixty one percent increase from two thousand and nine and if this amount is

approved there it will be more than the. 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 the decision is made and it will be dispersed simultaneously to everyone now twenty time results for gas for war 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 requires this levels now they'll be increasing spending this year to accommodate higher 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 hearing that gas from 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 the new board of directors who will be elected later today. of course we're reporting from gas from headquarters and moscow i will be posting you on the results of that meeting throughout the day to other stories russia is about to realize its biggest investment dream the country's newly created ten million dollar fund will come up with the first projects and september the head of the font has all clients its investment priorities. agricultural prices increasing dramatically so agribusiness is very important health care again health care can be much more efficient and can be improved dramatically investments i was in the house and there's a efficiency we all know that we have so much dependent on energy prices and they're all sorts of new energy efficient technologies that produce very significant cost savings so it's not venture projects its military research were

early stage projects so it was a project 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. let's take a look at how the markets are doing all 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 lights whose is trading at ninety five dollars per barrel and brant is at around one hundred twelve dollars per barrel just in asia pulled higher on thursday with hong kong leading and they had bounced the top to greece move closer to seeking more aid to avoid a sovereign default japan's nikkei is trading off a modest point two percent among japanese lenders me to be she financial group gained over two and a half percent while sumitomo mitsui financial group attacked new two percent tokyo listed share as citi group were up over three percent after the lenders u.s. stock and it higher now some airlines lost ground zero i'm for

a much more price is that china southern airlines down two point four percent in hong kong and stocks in europe are higher with market attention focused on the situation in greece now banking she hasn't bounced led by lloyds banking group it soared seven percent after the bank announced it would cut fifteen thousand more jobs and pull out from most of its international markets in order to save one to have going to and pounds now other u.k. banks are also gaining with world bank of scotland jumping in four point two percent and barclays adding one point nine percent. and russian equity markets are trading higher with energy companies among the main gainers now let's have a look at some individual shampoo sell them isaac's gas problem is a balancing point eight percent the company's c.e.o. said at gas pumps annual meeting that gas exports have risen twenty six percent in the first half of two thousand and eleven compared with the previous year burbank is also on the rise held by reports eighty r.'s have been approved for trading in

london and frankfurt and rolls telecoms up over two percent after it announced a six percent increase in net profit for the first quarter. now russian equities are struggling for direction. but sergey saw her off at deutsche bank says blue chip names are still the pick of the crop for future dates but as general mistrust for second investors don't invest one second to do three and we can do it there are reasons. that are not good but are many pray that you soon move sheeps as one will probably is the most free one who sheeple why the markets but there are some concerns the thought overcome the risk that they in the september the book will be sold in the month put on them to the market with some discount and the solution with. why is the interest from has been bumping dustball mother knew something of some impacts us all so one for me profit the something not on the steps but most move chips chip on multiples. and i think is

a for general optimism not a wife's in the market people will buy most of the chips. that's all the business is fidel but stay with us for headlines with carry up next. twenty years ago in the largest country in the. disintegrating.