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four thirty pm moscow time these are the top stories from r t greece is shaken by protests over government plans to pull the country out of its debt hold are raising taxes and cutting jobs a final vote to outline implementation of the radical austerity measures is underway. the u.k. braces itself for mass disruption as hundreds of thousands of public sector workers prepare for twenty four hours of industrial action they responded to planned changes to pay and pensions. and moscow points to double standards at the un over the organization's position on syria saying the crisis there warrants only a peaceful solution foreign minister sergei lavrov says the security council should be calling for action and if ignoring what he calls a civil war in yemen. next we talked to british union leader mark who says

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

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

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

meet should be what we aspire for in the fifth richest country in the world so my view is public sector pensions and all pension provision is important and instead of a risk to the bottom where we see the worst pension provision in the private sector becoming the model i'd like to see a run using the pension provision and saying it's a priority for people to have a decent retirement could be done in many ways cutting the renewal of trident for example would save us enough money to pay for those pensions for three or four years. where the richest people in britain avoid paying over one hundred billion a year would actually mean these pensions look fairly cheap in comparison and you mentioned the private sector and private sector workers say that she the public sector has a very good deal when it comes to pensions a lot better than a lot of private sector provision do you think there's really public support for what you're doing the opinion polls seem to tell us already a majority of people actually believe the public sector pensions are important arriving at the right level should even be higher incredible when you think of the

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

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

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

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

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

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today's top stories greece is shaken by protests over government plans to pull the country out of its debt hole by raising taxes and cutting jobs a final vote to outline implementation of the radical austerity measures is underway. in the u.k. braces itself for mass destruction as hundreds of thousands of public sector workers prepare for twenty four hours of industrial action they're responding to plan changes to pay and pensions. also moscow points to double standards at the u.n. over the organization's position on syria saying the crisis warrants a peaceful solution foreign minister sergei lavrov says the security council should be calling for action public nor in what he describes as a civil war in yemen. will supporters next year in our tea with kate stay with us.

hello welcome to the sports news on lady semifinal day at wimbledon and these are the headlines the last for maria sharapova meets wild card sabine lisicki victoria azarenka attributes of up to seven hundred eighty semifinals at wimbledon. well meanwhile fed distress joe will beat tsonga battles from two sets down to knock out six time champion roger federer nadal djokovic and murray also progress in the men's quarter finals. going with the wind. cave it becomes the first russian to cross the gulf of finland just over three hours. but there's only one place to begin and that's on the grass courts of the all england tennis club in london where former champion maria sharapova is fine to return to the wimbledon final for the first time since that title winning performance back in two thousand and four russian fifth seed faces to be in this it seems that you haven't wildcard ousted friendship. and number nineteen marion bartoli on her way to this last four

clash but traficant has found a rich vein of form and just gets to drop a set so far while in action now as world number five victoria has a rank there is a second down against eight ranked metric bit of work from czech republic. i mean while there is a major upset in the men's draw where jo wilfried tsonga staged a magnificent fight back to come from two sets down to knock out six time champion roger federer in the quarterfinals it's the first time the sixteen time major winner has lost a grand slam match after taking the first two sets the swiss master storm to a six three seven six lead with apparently reese so it was a true feat by stronger than magic and historic comeback with all three remaining sets six four eight right through our affair the french one that goes into his maiden semifinal at wimbledon and over his third to major. well next up a song that is novak djokovic the world number two ended byrne our tomac sensational run with a force that went to reach his fifth straight grand slam semifinal truck which took the first set six two tovarich fought back to take the second six three go break up

in the first before the serbian took that six three then the eighteen year old australian qualifier overturned a break in the fourth that jacket which came through to take it seven five. meanwhile defending champion rafael nadal stormed his nineteenth straight win it wimbledon with a four set victory over american mardy fish exposed and marry at last year's semifinal the top ranked spaniard admitted this will be his last tournament for the next month after admitting the foot injury he picked up in monday's win against one martin del potro is troubling him but despite having to play off injections the dog is ready to go all the way to the finals they can get a match at a time. while local favorite andy murray had the easiest patches of the day the number four seed was never broken as he made it five wins out of five over spending the only. those states that were just under two hours to reach his third successive. final.

chapter to cave which has finally managed to defy the elements and has become the first russian to successfully kite surf eighty kilometers across the gulf inland in a wreck or time of just three hours as which about port reports. after much frustration to find the sea so peach here might be able to stand his attempt to kite surfer across the gulf of finland the weather conditions that hindered him up till now and even now in what was his latest efforts the elements were once again proving to be unfavorable as a distinct lack of wind was always going to prove a problem however he made a promising start and what seemed no time at all he was already miles away from a stone in coastline and his coach aleksey was pleased with his progress quarter of the way through the eighty kilometer journey with the shadow of the wind the story to quote but according. to congress once we get political about it was

a lack of wind continue to cause p.t. problems so much so he fell into the water as there wasn't enough wind to keep his kind airborne however he was soon back on his board let's finish coast trying which is also his finishing line through ever close this hole challenger is a completely new experience for the twenty four year old russian he may be a world champion kite surfer but normally he's used to performing tricks over a short period of time in good conditions and not having to surf a distance of around eighty kilometers with the elements against him as he who is actually with the on the wind drops so i was barely keeping going in the luckily there was a long the way so i go in and try to get. in there's quite a lot of pressure on the feet and the way i was up and down was so hard to go up when the bit so. not surprisingly he was shattered after his endeavors as i have to work doubly hard due to the lack of wind however. you cannot relax so completing this fantastic feat has been

a fine efforts well once again the weather conditions haven't been on pages side but the lack of wind really hindering is progress but number less he's become the first russian to kite surfer across the gulf of aden and an impressive time of just over three hours he may have completed this challenge the preacher has no intention of putting the streets are up he still wants to underline his status as one of the world's best current surfers but also in the future trying to kite serve down the river nearby in his native simpy just richard rumpel fleet r.t. finland. now to boxing and says he wants his unification battle gets david haye to go down to the wire as the ukrainian fighter targets his fiftieth career knockout on saturday the younger kids go brother turned up to see his public workout ahead of the hamburg showdown but the briton didn't reveal any of his tactics for the match the w.b.c. world champion trained in an unusual sas for stance and hardly delivered a punch during the session nor did he stay to watch the i.d.f.

and w b o champions slug it out with his sparring partner hayes in your face attitude was good enough reason for klitschko to wish their meeting would be a long and painful experience for his rival. will not or overestimate them and there's the mayor do they and they will of course you seem able to do that they will see that's my wish for last two years now. there is going to be a long twelve rounds for the in the last in the final round it will knock him out and he's going to be number fifty football now and if relegation and the cross city defection of their manager weren't enough more misery could be in store for english club birmingham city as their own a cause and young has been charged with money laundering in his native hong kong the fifty one year old businessman appeared in court to face five counts of the offense totaling more the ninety million us dollars however young doesn't think any of the charges will that the club called two years ago they're going to change their first trophy in forty eight years last season by the aging last. truthfully cup but they fail to survive in the premier league and lost their manager alex

mcleish to arch rivals aston villa earlier this month. and staying with football and former dilemma moscow coach under a copy of has been named as the new manager of bottom side previous the better off in the russian premier league the forty two year old has signed a three year deal centers do not my boss last year he is expected to drastically restore the fortunes of the some are aside something his predecessor alexander pecan of failed to do and was fired on tuesday of the clues to neil home defeat to fellow strugglers spot at no cheek at the weekend which it sent the side to the bottom. and while korea were losing tesco wanted to know as i'm counter extend their lead to four points at the top overs a neat who could only manage a goal a strong attempted terror attack all together twenty three goals were scored in eight games on sunday and as the russian top flight now takes a month long summer break let's recap on all those strikes his goals go to. live

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