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mass protests have shaken greece over the government's plan to pull the country out of its debt hole by raising taxes and cutting jobs. and the u.k. braces itself for mass disruption as hundreds of thousands of public sector workers prepare to begin twenty four hour industrial action in response to planned changes to their pensions and pay. because moscow points out double standards at the u.n. over the organization's hard line position on syria saying the crisis there warrants only a peaceful solution of. foreign minister sergei lavrov says the u.n. security council shouldn't be contemplating taking action against syria while stake knowing what he calls a civil war taking place in yemen a lot more not so that later on.

live from our studios in central moscow you're watching archie with me and he said now a it's four pm here in the russian capital three pm in athens where greece is gearing up for another day of protests after thousands clashed with police on wednesday following parliament's decision to pass tough austerity measures the government now house to implement the agreed cuts in order to secure a further financial lifeline from the e.u. we cannot cross to financial journalist domestic until last who joins us live from athens you're on syntagma square of course the focal point of these protests how are the events unfolding in the greek capital ahead of this new vote. really quiet here no one i gather to get the protesters supposed to take place around six o'clock where they're supposed just. collecting on the on the square on the afternoon right now most people are probably home resting or looking at footage from last night there's a lot of police brutality footage that's been circulating around i got

a lot of phone calls from friends that have been at the rallies that asked me if i'd seen the footage so i think that's a big part of what's happening also. another piece of news is that the the head of the national parma groups pharmaceutical cessation here in greece will be suing for what i understand the government along with other people for the use of chemical agents that included. and he is fixing once again fixating agents i mean fixating agents and other other harmful chemicals so that's what's going on right now but no no action from parliament yesterday the greek parliament voted of course for massive new austerity measures what are these cuts mean for the average greek family. well if you're a public sector employee means a lot because on the one hand you have your salary being cut your benefits being cut and you've got taxes going up it's particularly horrible for anyone who's on a pension because you've been you've been on a pension for a while and it's hard to get a job in this environment so for those people it's particularly difficult but

everyone everyone's feeling it oh in one way or another even if you're not in the public sector the increased taxes especially be increased value added tax that's a big issue here these and us three measures increase the value added tax of twenty three percent for a lot of things like. soft drinks and other you know consumer items in addition to all the previous increases we saw so the tax increases are a big part of the of the pain is going to be felt here from these austerity measures at this moment how it wants to ordinary greeks care about clinging to their eurozone membership. and that's a really good question and i don't think it can be answered very easily i think i would say the majority of people are fed up with the e.u. and would like to go get out of it but that may also be because they don't fully understand the implications of leaving the euro zone that being said. they're justified in believing that there may be another option for at least for the for the government to return to paying its public sector with with drachma and

borrowing money and perhaps the rest of greece can get them to use the euro in a kind of buy currency union but i think that people are pretty fed up with the situation and they understand that with the eurozone comes a lack of autonomy and control many analysts have drawn similarities between the arab spring and the greek riot stephen there could be the uprising really that began with anger against the government economic policies that we're seeing now turn into a full on revolution. sure but i don't know it's going to obviously be different here than anywhere else and and revolution is a generic term and every revolution is different i think that what's clear here is that the violence is not going to go away in the protests are not going to go away people are very angry and as i've said this is shifted from being you know anarchists or provocateurs or whatever to being the the large breadth of the protesters who are engaging police so is it going to be a revolution in the way that we think of them well i think that that you're going

to have an overthrow this government at some point and overthrow than actually until they get what they want to the protesters in the greek people get some sort of solution that addresses their problems and their national aspirations so in that sense yeah it's difficult to put a timeline on it but it's going to be different than in egypt because in egypt you had a big military you had a different situation here it's different every revolution is different but yes i believe that eventually you're going to have an overthrow this government probably shortly and then. had overthrown the next government and the next government till a solution is implemented. finance journalist live from athens thank you very much for that update thank you. well your opinion counts this on our website dot com and have your say in our latest poll on greece today we asked you what should people do once the new set of austerity cuts are approved so far most of you think. they should defend their rights until early elections a close second with thirty two percent is the opinion that they must prepare for even worse costs with bankruptcy still looming other less favorable responses are

that greeks should consider emigrating and that they have lost the fight and must tighten their belts. we have more for you today log on to our website to learn how police prevented a terrorist attack during a drug raid. also this day more than ninety years ago saw the legendary and mysterious fall of the top meteorite in central siberia across cost worldwide scientific excitement has bought from russia to study the phenomenon. well it's not only greece that seeing massive a lot of brass in the u.k. around three quarters of a million public sector workers are protesting against government plans to change their pensions half of the country's state schools are closed and transport is

disrupted as workers embark on a one day strike are just more amyt listen to the many voices of frustration. down tools 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 vice to the bottom 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 bonuses yeah guy we're being asked to take a pension you know pensions to pay more for our pensions reality is we've got to fight the rest we're just interested in 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 apple a says his one point three million members are ready for a prolonged industrial action and we're almost at war 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 earning. rather than final salary the unions admit public support is fundamental to having a successful strike option 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 cost of those pensions is very much a culprit and the burden falls on to the next generation with great is absolutely essential that public sector pensions reform don't 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 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 that the wider issue here according to the union u.k. pension fund fugitive that they didn't pay for that made it public that to work it no don't think that pensions are what while they may stop contributing to that if

that was a widespread withdrawal pension funds would collapse and that would leave u.k.p. out of the very shores of investment just what it means that more than ever begins we'll be addressing that but is the government listening your avatar to me. the russian foreign minister has highlighted double standards at the un over the organization's approach to the arab world sergey lavrov says the crisis in syria and yemen are provoking vastly different and unjustified approaches let's cross live to our peter oliver has outlined the state duma for us peter there is talk in the u.n. security council of course over action to stop the violence in syria why is moscow unhappy about that. well mr lavrov was addressing a meeting of the foreign affairs. committee of the duma just behind me you know he highlighted in sess out really where russia stands concerning the ongoing situations in the arab world now he gets outside what he sees as

a western desire for regime change in the middle east saying that this was unacceptable and that russia would not support it on the any circumstances he also went on to highlight the fact that this was actually against international law bellman russia feels a little disappointed to say the least about the way. the the situation in libya has progressed russia of course abstaining from the vote on the u.n. resolution that allowed international intervention there they very disappointed at the way they see that mission has gone beyond the parameters laid out in that u.n. resolution and came to avoid a similar a similar situation occurring in syria yemen now said gill of roll falling no punches he hit out at those that have of criticize russia's stance on the u.n. security council and also had a few words to say himself about what he sees as a lack of consistency by the u.n.

body. which. many have been criticizing russia and china's position on the u.n. security council's resolution on syria for the fact that we consider such a resolution in appropriate i'll give you a simple example the situation in yemen is no easier than in syria there's a difficult civil war going on there but nobody's going to the u.n. security council to try and stop it. from there reiterating in some ways words he has said before that russia wants to see a peace brought around brought about in the arab world to discussion and diplomacy and not to international intervention something that they will not support. but artie's peter oliver live from outside the state duma here in moscow. there's fallout within nato as france has defined the u.n. arms embargo on libya paris is under verbal fire from alliance officials about why it has taken unilateral action to arm libyan rebels it's the first time

a member of the coalition has admitted supplying weapons to the country since bombing began over three months ago there are coalition splits too over the interventions goal some officials claim a peacekeeping role while others going as far as confirming that colonel gadhafi is on the hit list well the u.n. mandate allows military action to protect civilians but false short of authorizing ground invasion and arm supplies paris based political analyst john laughlin says three countries have hijacked the mandate. the admission that france is arming the rebels is very obviously an admission that what's going on in libya is a fight between the government and armed rebels and armed rebels are not civilians so any attack by the government on armed rebels in libya is therefore not necessarily a war crime in other words this news is not only incompatible with the case that's being made for war in libya it completely contradicts it there is no doubt that the three countries britain france and america who are waging this war under the

disguise of nato of course wish to see the rebels seize power by force and overthrow gadhafi we must be careful about using the word nato this war is being fought by britain france and america they use nato figley but nato itself is of course much bigger and there is not unanimity in nato only a few days ago the italian foreign minister said that there should be a ceasefire in order to allow humanitarian aid through so i think that this latest news from france will possibly increase tensions within the coalition although i repeat that the war is being waged by three countries using nato as a disguise. u.s. secretary of defense robert gates has announced his retirement after almost five years in the job but with three ongoing wars involving america his replacement former cia director leon panetta isn't expected to make dramatic changes to pentagon policies and each camp has a story. 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 to leave yet 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 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 there's line is not final he gives all kinds of contradictory statements for instance not long

ago he said that anyone who would buy his. 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 flown over several times to baghdad to leave nouri al maliki government. that please please good 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 and yemen and libya and. many 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 student terms of drone strikes those remotely piloted vehicles while targeting terrorists the us has been criticised for 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 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 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. the houses of former ukrainian prime minister units have been frozen by prosecutor she stands accused of abuses of power the acts premier is accused of stealing highly unprofitable gas fields with russia in two thousand and nine these are said to have constant crane around four hundred million dollars investigators claim she had no authority to sign such contracts and did not secure cabinet approval to sanker claims the case has been fabricated by her political rival president victor had a quote which if i'm guilty too much i could face up to ten years in jail.

a look at some world news in brief for you this hour and the gyptian court has ordered a provence of the case against two policemen accused of brutally killing a man whose death helped trigger egypt's uprising the slow pace of legal action against the police sparked a riot in cairo earlier this week which left over a thousand people hurt activists are angry at the country's interim government saying it has made no changes to the country since president hosni mubarak resigned in february. don and rival forces have agreed to withdraw from its border ahead of southern independence next week the agreement follows separate deals to end the fighting in two border areas which for some one hundred seventy thousand people to flee to worse the two are still to agree on how to divide don't spoil well after separation the region has seen more than two decades of civil war which claimed over two million lives. two french journalists are back at home after eighteen long months of captivity in afghanistan the men had been held hostage by the taliban are

said to be in good health and good spirits the t.v. reporter and his cameraman were taken along with afghan colleagues in late two thousand and nine while filming in a remote mountain it's the longest seizure of french nationals since the lebanese hostage crisis in the one nine hundred eighty s. . now almost seventy years ago the people of an entire nation were just place from their homeland four thousand mess he turks exiled by the stalin regime were scattered around the globe and even today are not made welcome in their ancestral land. takes up their story. as it turns out this column for. the world was an inviting everyone and into people trying to make their way back to george and the lines of their ancestors. we will just come to miss home to georgia that's what we've been. dreaming of to maybe. 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 from a speck a stone 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 native it was the stolen 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 russia 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 there to come to an

entirely new country that's going to be on 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 mattachine turks saleman but about cancer has traveled to georgia repeatedly in the fight to make that we patch 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. there is no proof that he's guilty i'm sure he was arrested for boys you don't want to stick reasons we can't do anything to help him for now most miss houghton turks continued to leave a lot of scattered far from where they consider home and in distant lands their hopes of return still stem equally remotes. artsy reporting from the north caucasus

. more headlines are coming your way shortly after the business update with dimitri stay with us. on welcome to business as the gas giant gazprom is holding its annual general meeting the company's announced it will increase the evidence. to a record level from all its course over the course of that which is money you know what did you make out of this meeting today what was most important in your piece. they hear a lot of topics for discussion but one thing is for sure and that is that gas promise trying to take a bigger share in the world market they're looking at opportunities in europe in germany and particular exports in the first half of the year increased by twenty six percent and that was due to higher demand in europe a decline in production they're also looking towards asian markets they're trying to strike

a deal with china south korea and india and this could increase their exports by fifty percent and their overseas earnings could reach record highs now twenty term results were positive sellers revenues reached one hundred eighteen billion dollars shareholders will be receiving just under four roubles per share which means it's the most amount of money ever given by the company and now this year gas problem will be increasing its spending and it's also considering increasing its investment program to a record of forty four billion dollars and of course from now on all the decisions will be made by a new board of directors which wasn't like that here today. keeping us up to date with what's being said at the annual general meeting of russia's largest company thank you so much. all right let's now move to the markets well prices rather this week increase in the trees report which are sharp declines of past on this the expected. nights weeks is trading at ninety four dollars and a half brant is

a just over one hundred twelve dollars program. european stock markets are high as greek lawmakers approved additional steroids the measures to positive i have to say the footsie is up by half a percent with lloyds banking group surging to be in the lead one of the biggest gainers another bank world bank of scotland of barclays also adding five and two percent respectively the energy sector is also active shares of oil major b.p. jumped one point two percent world at shell rose almost to the same. russian stocks positive for the south lots of positive i have to say again though the artist is up by a third of a percent in my sex by just a notch energy majors of last round with well actually slightly secular get some individual share movers truck maker come out as is gaining supported by news that could create a joint venture with its pro russian rival mass by the end of the year burbank is

also on the rise held by reports that say a.d.r.'s have been approved for trading in london frankfurt and telecom is one of the biggest gainers up one point seven percent after announced a six percent increase in their profit first. business out c we'll be back next hour and fifteen minutes to be exact and join me.

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