which began in germany. where did it take. mass protests have shaken greece over the government's plans to pull the country out of its top hole by raising taxes and cutting jobs a final vote outline implementation of the radical austerity measures is underway. the u.k. braces itself for mass destruction of hundreds of thousands of public sector workers there to begin twenty four hours of industrial action in response to planned changes to their pensions and pay. those concerns in moscow over double standards at the un after the organization's hard my position on syria he says the crisis there warrants only

a peaceful solution so. foreign minister sergei lavrov says the u.n. security council shouldn't be contemplating taking action against syria while stakes during lunch he calls a civil war taking place in yemen are more not so the late rolled. around russia's largest company gazprom has announced its boosting exhibit of payments and investment program to record levels find out more what's coming out from the annual general meeting of the governing in twenty with a side of the sultan. it's five pm in moscow this is r g coming to life i'm used to now with our top story this hour greece is gearing up for another day of protests after thousands clashed with police said wednesday following parliament's decision to pass tough austerity measures the government now has to implement the agreed costs in order to secure a further. financial lifeline from the e.u.

financial journalists. at square the focal point of the protests with more. things really quiet here no one's not i gathered yet the protests are supposed to take place around six o'clock or they're supposed to start first with start collecting lists and this where 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 and got a lot of phone calls from friends that have been at the rally is that asking 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 party because pharmaceuticals his vision here in greece will be suing from what i understand the government along with other people for the use of chemical agents that included i succeed in agents and other other harmful chemicals and us very measures mean crease the value added tax of twenty percent for a lot of things like. soft drinks and other you know consumer items in addition to all the previous bad increase we saw so the tax increases are

a big part of the of the pain that's going to be felt here from either started measures 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 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 no not 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 draco's be perhaps the rest of greece getting to use the euro in a kind of buy currency union but i think that people are are pretty fed up with the situation and they understand that with the eurozone comes a lack of autonomy in control i think that what's clear here is that the violence is not going to go away and 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 breath of the of the protesters who are engaging police i believe that eventually you're going to have an overthrow of this government probably shortly and then. i don't know the next government and the

next government till a solution is implemented. so your opinion counts here at r t you can visit our web site r t v dot com and how do your say you know our latest polls on what's happening in greece today we asked you what you agree people do once the new set of austerity cuts are approved so far most of you think they should defend their rights to early elections a close second with thirty four percent is the opinion that they must prepare for even more scots with frank ropes and still looming other glass favorable response and that police should consider emigrating and that they have lost a fine must tighten their belts let us know what you say drop us a line at our team dot com. we have more for you online today. learn how police prevented a terrorist attack during a drug raid. for

more analysis on the situation in greece and in athens we can turn to journalist mona stuff for lock you in the greek capital for us as we've just heard the government is being accused of using illegal chemical agents to disperse protesters a person who is great in the middle of the action of course in central athens what do you make of the measures taken against the people. i think the people who are very very angry during these days do see the this is a very huge bike it's a huge budgets with no future why they say no future because the situation is very dramatic here for our personal income for example. a medium. i mean my own salaries about forty percent of the seventy seven percent of

money. must be to the banks so they see that their speed measures are very hard and i think out of the on the other one p.c. worked this time from to gender until now. it's month and transferred to banks outside of greece the tax revenues have decreased three point five billion. and this is so you would be. in the seventy five percent of the national budget payment so they don't see a future because the what they see is now they pay they pay they pay for the first by goods and the government has collected only one billion euros that's a very crucial situation when they see the whole the next month from next month they will loose even the next bill which is very hard but german chancellor angela merkel has praised the move taken by your government to implement new can't think that it's good for the country and good for the stability of the euro what about

greek people how are they looking at this i mean what good comes out of these measures for about. we've this was stirred by kids the program for the people but for the next four or five years there we see that jobs are you know risk because we have an unemployment of seventeen percent at this time for the next year the european union says that unemployment would be about fifteen percent there on the other ground you see that the taxes are increased their pension only income is minimized and when we need to in the five years to target what we believe this is the situation in greece. did it be we'd be you know zero or a little more about zero and what the deficit would be very very high and the this situation would not change so the think that we are going to

suffer for five or four years and the situation will not change that's a problem. but experts are saying that increase doesn't receive this bulk of european aid that it could go bankrupt as soon as august is about the worst economic scenario for any country. if we go over a bunker a bit like brothers would be the worst scenario in aguas so hours before they always do because of the situation where the amount of taxpayers is absorbed by the lenders this can not be continued so. that what we pay here what money do we have goes directly to the lenders at the same time through week of effective vision of all thirty billion spiegel says the one for six come to be transferred to the bank accounts were options about sixty billions so if it's to see what's happening seventy five percent of us if unemployed employed people. say

the statement. in less than ten thousand a year and only three thousand people. say that the end more than one hundred thousand years the enormous amounts where people see where does the money where the money is going because this is government so just in the beginning but we have money so it will see big bones of money and at the same time if we go bankrupt the situation will be more hard right now i'm going to suffer a lot p.s.y. from athens thank you very much for your analysis this hour. to the u.k. now we're up to three quarters of a million public sector workers are preparing for industrial action their voice in their opposition to plan changes to their pensions and pay both part of the government's austerity measures a third of schools are expected to close with. and u.k. airports bracing themselves for destruction our teams are going to loose is in

london following developments. to make it not action they think in london about the one hundred fifty thousand people that can and cannot. teachers subtlety members of politics. all expect this not to expose their sons in this enough in the sense that some pundits are playing by the government as obviously know it's not just the college students and people that are in the cycle but we do not say that about ninety percent of london's. such a multitude such as belong to airports because customs and immigration officials are also taking as well all of these people are demanding that the cuts will not be processed the government is not told what the cuts they do say that the lawsuits against the flu season not long to work longer hours than let's. say it will.

come up the most subtle but to the six states it will take sixty votes in the wrong direction so they're not being made to see it because the sponsor of the current financial crisis. those most responsible for our current predicament. largely don't touch the government seems to be writing the terms of some agreements halfway through without due consultation to the people most of. the changes that it may consider pensions will find it necessary to this way to address so i think we do need to make it a. crime to try to teach which is why so much of this is where nothing that seems to need to disturbances under the laws that possible travel to seven states takes place at the same time there are organizations such as this does not work the toll

on people trying to learn these are all the rage against the current let's call this in something maybe along a little bit polity the same time we also must not allow the fact that a. i also take his feet and make him damage. but other than that people are expected to protest peacefully again if one of the million people there are going to be marching down the center of london to want to make their voices heard that the pension plan my government. russian foreign minister has highlighted double standards at the un over the organization's approach to the arab world so good luck rob says the crisis in syria and yemen are provoking vastly different and i'm justified approaches archies peter oliver reports from moscow. mr lavrov was addressing a meeting of the foreign affairs committee of the duma just behind me you know he highlighted and sets out really where russia stands concerning the ongoing

situations in the arab world he gets outside what he sees as a western desire for regime change in the middle east saying that this was unacceptable and the russians would not support it and the any circumstances he also went on to highlight the fact that this was actually against international law though the russian feels a little disappointed to say the least about the way that the the situation in libya has progressed russia of course abstaining from the vote on the u.n. resolution that allowed inside optional 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 king to avoid a similar fate a similar situation occurring in syria or yemen sigil of rule pulling no punches he hits out at those that have criticised russia's stance on the u.n.

security council and also had a few of the same cells 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 facts that we consider such as. resolution inappropriateness i'll give you a simple example the situation in yemen is no easier than in syria there's a typical civil war going on there but nobody's going to the un security council to try and stop it so. they're reiterating in someways 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 through international intervention something that they will not support. sergei lavrov has also announced that moscow is waiting for confirmation from libyan rebels that they have received weapons from france if proven true the russian foreign minister says it would be a serious violation of the u.n. arms embargo french officials earlier admitted their military has airlifted arms to

the country it's the first time a member of nato has owned up to supplying weapons to the since the bombing began over three months ago alliance officials want paris to explain its unilateral action the u.n. mandate on libya allows military action to protect civilians but authorize the 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 bills are not civilians so any attack private 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 as the feedly but nato itself is of course much bigger and there is not unanimity in nato only a few days ago the attorney and 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. the assets of former ukrainian prime minister yulia tymoshenko have been frozen by prosecutors she stands accused of abuse of power and experimenter is accused of stealing highly unprofitable gas deals with russia in two thousand and nine these are said to have a price ukraine around four hundred million dollars investigators claim she had no authority to sign the contracts and that she did not secure cabinet approval

tymoshenko claims the case has been fabricated by her political rival president over its guilty to most and go could face up to ten years in jail. a look now at some world news in brief for you this hour in the gyptian court has ordered a probe into the case against two policemen accused of brutally killing a man who helped trigger the country's uprising the slow pace of legal action against police sparked a riot in cairo earlier this week which left over a thousand people injured activists are angry at the country's interim government saying there has been no improvement in the country and president hosni mubarak resigned in february. forces in sudan have agreed to withdraw from the border areas ahead of southern independence next week the agreement follows separate deals to end fighting in two border areas which for some one hundred seventy thousand people to flee the two sides are still to agree on how to divide sudan's oil wealth and for 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 have been held hostage by the taliban but are said to be in good health and good spirits because the reporter and his cameraman were taken along with afghan colleagues in late two thousand and nine filming in remote mountains it's the longest caesar of french nationals since the lebanese hostage crisis in the one nine hundred eighty 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 and the out of panetta is expected to make dramatic changes to pentagon policies can has the story. clutters 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 edits to the plate of inconclusive campaign aides leave the one administrator strange or change between parties there really isn't a great deal of training in the pentagon under robert gates his watch america's annual defense spending approach that really in dollars rising at the pace of about five percent a year the statements from his office were often contradictory fence bending 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 headline is not final he gives all kinds of contradictory statements for instance not long ago he said that anyone who advise us or us a land army in the middle of an asian conflict should have is headed there. yet at

the same time. he's done everything you can he's alone over several times to baghdad to leave nouri al maliki government to 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 it will be announced troop withdrawals from iraq and afghanistan you must start actively waging a different kind of warfare what they call and intelligent war one that's waged was wrong without sacrificing the lives of their soldiers in countries like pakistan yemen and libya. 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 pakistan in terms of drone strikes those remotely piloted vehicles while targeting terrorists the us has been criticized for killing mostly civilians it's also making us who are secure from a policy standpoint we can intervene all over the world it just fuels insurgency needs 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 of 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 only we can change i'm going to shut down reporting from washington our team. russian court has found that some scientology literature distributed in bullshit is illegal writings by the father of scientology l. ron hubbard have been ruled extremist and anti social why now aren't you sorry for things outside the scientology borders here in moscow sara scientologists always lead a controversal existence in russian around the world really what does this latest development spell for a church. with this court ruling means that some of the books by the founder of scientology. will be banned in russia. what is scientology she can feed to the both of the main building here they go to big still has some of these books that will now not be legal in russia but as you said

a very controversial history and scientology actually very used to fighting these legal battles and not only in russia but this particular ruling mirrors everything that happened it was last year in the siberian city is to get. a very similar decision was reached a team of experts that included psychologists and sociologists found that some of these materials contain cools the social religious hatred and the hymn drinks of law enforcement activities and so it was banned but in that instance the justice ministry actually eva turns the decision so it's not entirely sure at the moment whether or not this particular court ruling here in most cases will be allowed to stand it's a consulate she attracts a lot of attention for its controversial practices it's going to have a ten million followers worldwide some famous thought is including. travolta at the very used to fighting legal battles so the potential now for them to take this everything to the justice ministry we have to see from that whether the ruling was

allowed to stand at the many countries around the world considering scientology not to be a religion in fact but to be a cult or sex or to use our first wives from our central moscow thanks for that update. this business here in. with me to stay with us. thanks and he said welcome to business russia's largest company the gas giant castro is holding its annual general meeting the company has announced it will increase dividends then maybe just investments to a record level for more let's cross over to money michael so a powerful man who's out problems have so what happens today at the a.g.m. . well it's pretty clear that gas problem is trying to increase its share in the market they're looking for new opportunities in europe especially germany they said that their exports in the first half of this year increased by twenty six percent

and that was the to higher demand in europe and made decline in production and also looking to work with asian partners and in particular they're trying to sort of deals with south korea india and china and this could see them increase their exports by fifty percent and their overseas earnings could reach of record highs twenty ten results were quite positive they saw themselves revenues research one hundred eighteen a billion dollars and of course they're expected their shareholders will be receiving just on the four roubles per share which is the biggest amount of money ever given by the company and for this year they're planning to increase their spending and they're also planning to increase their investment program to a record forty four billion dollars and from now on all the decisions will be made by the new board of directors who were elected here today all right thank you so much money and of course the word you're bringing us the latest update from the headquarters of gas problem when something inside me to. move to the markets and

oil prices next to the. full light sweet crude twenty eight cents for bread to schooling eleven cents this is following a u.s. injuries reported showed a sharp decline in the so fast and this actually. stations if you look at the market reaction and in terms of stock markets in europe they are in the black that says greek lawmakers approved additional authority measures this would help the country get more aid and avoid a default. banks like world bank of scotland and barclays are in the lead in london the energy sector as well so after the shares of four major b.p. are up one percent world a shill mr percent. russian stock markets have one more hour of trading the r.t.s. is up one point four percent m i six point just a notch some energy majors are losing because of this uncertainty in terms of the oil price there you go rules now down half a percent this is like banks are slightly higher as well bank up point four percent

and last telecom shares up more than one percent after its announced the six percent increase in net profit for the first quarter. kind of like so now see the headlines with and he said to stay with us for that. if. you.

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