the final vote on plans to implement new austerity measures is underway in greece after days of massive protests against radical measures to pull the country out of its debt hole. the u.k. braces itself for mass destruction of hundreds of thousands of public sector workers prepared to begin twenty four hours of international action in response to climate changes to their pensions and pay. concerns in russia were double standards at the un over the organization's hard line position on syria moscow calling for a strictly diplomatic solution. foreign minister sergei lavrov says the un security

council shouldn't be contemplating taking action against syria while steak knowing what he calls a civil war taking place in yemen i'll have more thoughts of the later old. not from our studios in central moscow you're watching our team with me and he said now it's six pm here in the russian capital five 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 cast tough austerity measures the government now has to implement the agreed cops in order to secure a further financial lifeline from the e.u. financial journalists may take off in la is that where the focal point of the protests with more details. things are really quiet here no once not i gather to

get the protests are supposed to take place around six o'clock but they're supposed to start first were circulating i was in 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 it got a lot of calls phone calls from friends that have been at the rally is 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 pharmacare pharmaceutical situation here in greece will be suing from what i understand the government along with other people for the use of chemical agents that included plastics eating agents and other other harmful chemicals and us very measures increase the value added tax of twenty percent for a lot of things like. soft drinks and other consumer items in addition to all the previous that increase we saw so the tax increases are a big part of the of the pain is 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 or 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 rack was perhaps the the rest of greece can continue 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 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 said this is shifted from being you know anarchists or provocateurs or whatever to being the the large breadth of the of the protesters who are engaging police i believe that eventually you're going to have an overthrow this government probably shortly and then i never throw the next government and the next government till a solution is implemented. your opinion counts visit our web site dot com and have

your say on line poll today we ask you what sort of greek people do once the new set of austerity cuts is approved so far most people think they should defend their right to early elections a close second with thirty four percent is the opinion that they must prepare for even worse hot bankruptcy and still looming on their last payroll. sponsors are that greek should consider emigrating and they have known right and must tighten their belts. long time for you today to learn how the police prevented a terrorist attack tory. the u.k. now we're up to three quarters of a million public sector workers are preparing for industrial action they're voicing

their opposition to plan changes to their pensions and pay but part of the government's austerity measures there a third of schools are expected to close with court hearings postponed and u.k. airports bracing themselves for construction. is among. not. taking in london and allocated hundred thousand people. each least double the number is the policy. polling that this is not to. be sent. by the government. and people think that already. to say that about. london. it's a whole city except belongs to airports because customs and immigration officials are all so. well these people are demanding that the government

just. because they do say. to work. let's. say that's the way they would. it's the cuts. veterans here don't. see it is small to believe in her financial crisis. mostly for her predicament. largely untouched the government seems to be writing the truth so. powerfully through with a new constitution if people see. the changes that it may consider pensions but unnecessary to this way to address so i think we do need to make cutbacks is being. tried in the private teacher which is why so much of it is not we're not

seeing any disturbances out of it is that possible trap the disturbance to take place at the same time there are organisations such as the teaching how to network hold on people to turn. these are all the rage against the more let's put this in something maybe two months get a little bit knowledge at the same time we also must not love the fact that it is my old take to the. damage. but other than that people are expected to protest peacefully again it's one of the million people that are going to be marching from the center of london to watch the olympics to make their voices heard in the tension coffee shop playing by the government. that's a new just news just in here on our t.v. we are in fact hearing that the greek parliament has passed that second austerity law which of course clears the final hurdle to get that crucial balance from the

e.u. it is expected that there will be protests in outlands in about an hour with especially this news coming from the car the met want analysis and live updates for you from greece throughout the day so stay with us for that but moving on to some other news the russian foreign minister has highlighted double standards at the u.n. over the organization's approach to the hour. world sergei lavrov says the crisis in syria and yemen are provoking vastly different and i'm justified approaches artist peter oliver reports from moscow. mr lavrov was addressing a meeting of the foreign affairs committee of the duma just behind me he highlighted and said so really well russia's stance concerning the ongoing situations in the arab world though he gets outside what he sees as the west in desire regime change in the middle east saying that this was unacceptable and the russians would not support it and any circumstances he also went on to highlight the fact that this was actually against international law. russia feels

a little disappointed to say the least about the way. the the situation in libya has become 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 fate a similar situation occurring in syria yemen no possibility of parole pulling no punches he has how to 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. many have been criticizing russia and china's position on the u.n. security council resolution on syria for the fact that we consider such a resolution the inappropriateness 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 with nobody's going to the u.n. security council to try and stop it so. they're reiterating in some ways words he has said before that russia wants to see peace through its around about in the arab world to discussion and diplomacy and not to do. international intervention something that they will not support. well for more perspective on what's happening in greece one of our top stories today of course and with this recent news that the government of parliament has in fact passed a law to implement the austerity package that they passed on wednesday we can cross live to athens georgia newness who is a greek activist has been fined by fine with the protesters out throughout all of this what does this news mean to you mr new list the second law has been passed what are we going to see on the streets of athens. georgia no less. a lawyer also politician and these days that's things that we see happens

here it often is not good for democracy is not good for this idioms and i think is not good for the euro. crisis do you think that it are going to get worse with the news just in the parliament has passed the implementation of the austerity package. you know the question is not passing go or not. these votes the question is if exists if it's. the law of the. projects because i think all the people here in greece don't accept to have. to exit through to him. because he's other hands to have a. low and other hands to exist hello you know proxies so all of the people here to greece a majority of them are the most majority of the ninety percent of greeks don't want

this because yesterday i see. very good and very. very careful local for the united nation they cannot make quality of united nations and say that's their measure of about european union and i.m.f. takes. against greece it's no good it's not in the good direction that's what the united nations i'm not i wired to interrupt you what do you think an alternative to the radical austerity measures can be then what's the solution as the protesters see it. first of all if you have always restored if you are so it's already with and without development you know if we for one year take measures of the result is zero this year it would take a good measure of the result is zero because you know if we have a good or a better. seat and the numbers of their citizens to the poor to you can don't

have poverty persons poverty citizens and. states so if the citizens is not accept this poverty state not be more taxes to take to collect so it's very very very important to understand with the measures that you take you have to go all this he says to the poverty and look the stories to the state to the to the most reach powerful and collected same points so you must see the measures that of economic growth of united nations say to unite in two european union and greeks and i.m.f. to take concretely measures. measures that i don't see in this program of government and so of the people here. in riots in the in the left in the center of political. action don't want this program don't don't don't want to know so i

think this low is only letter is no for us it doesn't exist doesn't exist all right george howell is the greek activist live with us on the line from athens thank you for that. but. of course the situation in the u.k. is similar to what's how. happening on greece at least the pictures that we're seeing from london as people their civil servants plan to go on strike let's cross live to andrew birkin from the coalition of resistance in the british capital and joins us live of course i tell us the u.k. government is saying that there proposition is fair to taxpayers and to the public sector and that the austerity measures are required to get britain out of the crisis don't you think people should be a little more supported is there another way out of this. you know we don't think that people should be more supportive of. draconian austerity measures that this

government is say it's closing live or is it's closing shore star sensors you senses it's causing tension since crossing benefits to disabled people is the poorest and most vulnerable to fall on the ends of these austerity measures in order to resolve the crisis and from our point of view the bankers the rich the wealthy in this country as is the case in greece still remain rich and wealthy. and we support the action that unions taking today in highlighting their concerns over the pension cuts to public sector workers do you think that the industrial action is likely to have any effect on the government's proposed plans. in the short term the industrial action will not have a direct effect on the government's plans i mean this today is a strike of four unions is the beginning of an industrial struggle from

a low level of industrial action in this country but in new york it is very possible that there will be many millions of workers on strike and the government will be forced then to take notice of what what what we're seeing is the same. as i said as we've been seeing in greece and spain i mean cultures throughout the european union that the there is a growing wave that distance discontents about the measures being imposed upon the peoples of europe before we get to all of them there's a lot of talk about summer of protest is this strike widely to have a domino effect on other sectors perhaps do you think that we can expect a large wave of demonstrations across the u.k. . well certainly the there was at the end of march on the twenty sixth the box that was the largest ever trade unions demonstration that took place in the structure of

well over half a million half a million people i mean it's is trade unionists activists coming together in order to to express their disconcerts and. all and no hearts message they were opposed to government transparency measures as the cuts crisis deepens if for example greece the full still see a massive financial crisis which will affect the british banking system it's the british banking system which actually carries the sets of a large amounts of. great public debt sits insured through the british banking system this this will lead governments to try and get that further austerity measures that will lead to further process of protests are planned throughout the summer but also this is as i said earlier a long. of campaigns strike struggles demonstrations that will be building up over the next year or so just briefly some experts say that the strikers as

a result of failed coordination between the government and the unions is britain's coalition government showing signs of weakness as you see it. well that this is a very weak government because it was the it was a conservative government that couldn't be elected on its own platform and so it had to go to an alliance with the liberal democrats. the smaller the smaller governing party it's it's it's made some reversals of policy in relations with national health service here they also want to sell the forests which they have to store so it's an incredibly weak government but i mean they have not been they have not been negotiating in good faith with the unions and this is a source of great concern to the unions that the government has been imposing these pension charges which mean very large cuts in people's pensions and very big increases in the about so they have to pay to ensure its use pension but the government had not seen it go see

a fairly big unions in the union supports the title it's been in their opinion to take the action that they take. right andrew bergman from the coalition of resistance live with us on the line from london thanks for your analysis. the assets of former ukrainian prime minister. have been frozen by prosecutors she stands accused of abuses of power the expression year is said to have sealed highly unprofitable gas deals with russia in two thousand and nine these are said to have caused a crane around four hundred million dollars investigating as claims she had no authority to sign the contract and that she did not secure cabinet approval to machine call claims the case has been fabricated by her political rival president corbett who found guilty of could face up to ten years in jail. russian court has ruled that some literature distributed in russia by the church of scientology is illegal saying the text is both extremist and anti-social are too

sorry for this outside the scientologists moscow headquarters. this court ruling means that some of the books by the founder of scientology our own hubbard will be banned in russia. what is scientology he can feed it to the bottom of the main building where they've got a big still. about how some of these books will now not be legal in russia the very controversial history and scientology actually very useful i think these legal battles are not only in russia but this particular ruling mirrors everything that happened it was last year in the siberian city as it gets and in that case 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 and religious hatred. a hindrance of law enforcement activities and so it was bad and that in that instance the justice ministry actually eva turned the decision so it's not entirely sure at the moment

whether or not this particular court ruling here and most they will be allowed to stand as we say scientology and love attention for its controversial price it's going to have a ten million followers worldwide so famous including tom cruise and john travolta at the very used to fighting legal battles a potential out for them to take this everything to the justice ministry we have to see whether that ruling was allowed to stay many countries around the world are considering scientology not to be a religion of be a cult or sex. now some international stories we're covering for you today in brief and egyptian court has ordered provenge the case against two policemen accused of brutally killing a man steps helped trigger the country's uprising slow pace of legal action against police sparked a riot in part of this week which left over a thousand people injured activists are angry at the country's interim government saying there has been no one from the country since president hosni mubarak

resigned in february. rebel forces in sudan have agreed to withdraw from its border areas ahead of southern independence next week follows two separate deals to end the fighting which for some one hundred seventy thousand people to flee the two sides still have to agree on how to divide sudan's oil wealth after to separate. the region has seen more than two decades of civil war which claimed because of two million lives. and two fronts journalists are back at home after eighteen long months of captivity in afghanistan the men have been held hostage by the taliban a quarter said to be in good health and good spirits it's a reporter and his cameraman were taken along with afghan colleagues in late two thousand and nine while filming in remote mountains is the longest seems or a french nationalist since the lebanese hostage crisis in the one nine hundred eighty s. . almost seventy years ago the people of an entire nation were displaced from their homeland four hundred thousand refugees and turks were exiled by stalin from

a dream and scattered around the globe and even today they feel on welcomed in their ancestral land party's image a question or takes up their story. as it turns out this colorful ad which aired across the world was an inviting everyone and enjoy people can make their way back to georgia the lines of their ancestors you heard them said bush we want to scum back to our lands and it's hard to do in georgia that's what we do find and dreaming of for many years there are some four hundred thousand people with this dream spread across the globe there have been left with no homeland mishaps and turks are often described as the twice deported people they will force of the displaced first from georgia and then from was that they started and after almost seventy years of their illness existence their only hold now is that one day they will be able to return to their own age if was it was the still in regime

which deported over ninety thousand as had to interest in central asia in nine hundred forty four but they had to flee again ultraviolent as new clause in his back is done in eighty nine and most of them now live in azerbaijan and turkey as well as russia and the united states georgia finally a georgia repatriation law under pressure from the european. so in two thousand and seven even four years on the law doesn't appear to have changed anything. you know george 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 everyone is capable of that group of law came into power but we're surrounded by so many bureaucratic barriers to collect so many documents it makes coming back almost impossible the chairman of the world again he's asian of the stature in terms saleman better because there has traveled to georgia repeated li in the fight to make that we catch region

a lot more factious last year saleman was arrested in georgia and imprisoned for life and years he was accused of forging documents and fraud but his supporters say the charges were trumped up. is that there is no proof that he's guilty i'm sure he was arrested for quote you don't want to stick reasons we can't do anything to help him for now most mishaps in turks continue to leave allied scattered far from where they consider home and in distant lands they are holds of return still simm equally remote r.t. reporting from the north caucasus. up next is the latest business news with dmitri here in r.t. stay with us. thanks very much and on a warm welcome you're watching business kastrup russia to freeze the price of pays for gas had an exclusive right to buy russian gas at a lower price than the european average however the benefits were planned and to

this year there was a verse or say the country has a right to cheaper deliveries a key argument being that belarus and russia creating a common can on exult and price levels should equal analysts say gazprom could lose six hundred fifty million dollars this year prices are frozen next year it could amount to we believe in dollars and losses. but as gas giant gazprom is holding its annual general meeting the company has announced an increase of its investment program to a record level he's betting the cost of having tails. 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 due to higher demand in europe i mean declining production they're also looking to work with asian partners and in particular they're trying to strike a deal as with south korea india and china and this could see them increase their

exports by fifty percent and their overseas earnings could reach a record highs twenty exam results were quite positive this sort of sells revenues reach one hundred eighteen a billion dollars and of course they're expected their shareholders will be receiving just in the form of those 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. so they go to the markets now and the u.s. is on the street with the dow gaining for the full session in a row out of a cent this hour h.p. and zero are up more than two percent the markets will surprise weak willed makers approved additional certain measures this will help the country get aid and avoid a default closes up with lloyds banking group sitting around nine percent on

a well received cost cutting plan other banks are also strong the world bank has called regaining three percent one hundred stocks will also accept this out. russia's just fifteen minutes to go before the end of first a session we all see as my six. and as you majors are somewhat losing ground however because of the uncertainty in the oil price and individual share movement rawson after is down point four percent as well as looking for directions where a bank is also on the rise health report since eighty dollars have been for. for trading in london and in frankfurt and more center called here's up almost one off though so one of the strongest stocks alter announced a six percent increase in net profit for the first quarter. up that's not seen the headlines when he said.

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