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a 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 disruption of hundreds of thousands of public sector workers prepared to begin twenty four hours of industrial action in response to plan changes to their pensions and pay. concerns in russia over double standards at the un over the organization's hard line position on syria with 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 stake knowing what he calls a civil war taking place in yemen i'll have more nuts of it later on. my

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 pass tough austerity measures the government now has to implement the agreed cots in order to secure a further financial lifeline from the e.u. financial journalists. where the focal point of the protests with more. things are really quiet here no one's not i gather to get the protests are supposed to take place around six o'clock or they're supposed to start collecting 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 and got a lot of 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 farm workers pharmaceutical situation here in greece will be suing from what i understand the government along with other other people for the use of chemical agents that included fixating agents and other other harmful chemicals and us very measures increase the value added tax at twenty percent for a lot of things like. soft drinks and other you know consumer items in addition to all the previous fat 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 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 draco's be perhaps the rest of greece can get in 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. euro zone comes a lack of autonomy and 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 large breadth of the protesters who are engaging police i believe that eventually you're going to have an overthrow this government probably shortly and then. overthrow the next government and the next government till a solution is implemented. your opinion counts visit our website r.t. dot com and have your say in our latest online poll today we ask you what should people do once the new set of austerity cuts is approved so far most of you think they should defend their rights until early elections a close second with thirty four percent is the opinion that they must prepare for even a worst caught with bankruptcy still looming other less favorable responses are that

greek should consider emigrating and that they have want to fight and must tighten their belts. for you today and learn how police prevented a terrorist attack during a drug raid. in the u.k. now we're up to three quarters of a million public sector workers are preparing for industrial action there voicing their opposition to planned changes to their pensions and pay both 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 disruption i mean it is in london. not that. they came in the london and that one hundred. people who

tend to be zero tell the teacher you. and there is a policy. that is not to explain their plans in this enough to be sent but since the trip planned by the government was obviously you know it's not just the college students and people that are inside that but without the say that about ninety percent of london. is that it's a also there in texas belong to the airports because customs and immigration officials are also taking as well hold these people are demanding that the cuts will not be held such that the government is not told because they do say that they do want to continue to continue to not want to work longer allocate the blood and guts to. come up. to the six states where the six cuts are being made in the wrong direction so

they're not being made to see it because the sponsor of the current financial crisis is. most responsible for predicament. largely untouched and the government seems to be driving the truck so some agreements halfway through without consultation to the people most of. the changes that it makes it a pension will find it necessary to some way to address so i think we do need to make. something. in the pilot seat which is why so much of it is a model where nothing that seems to meet the disturbances of the laws that possible travel to seventy could take place at the same time there are organizations such as the shootout is that what the told people to turn to is it all the rage against the foreign led coalition sunday may be the ones who may get

a little bit knowledge of the same time we also must not love the fact that it is my. take the heat and make them damage easy 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 washington monument to make their voices into what we tend to mention for the job planned by the government. it'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 out from the e.u. it is expected that there will be protests in athens in about an hour with especially this news coming from the parliament while analysis and live updates for you from greece throughout the day so stay with us for that 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 arab world sergei lavrov says the crisis in

syria and yemen are provoking vastly different and i'm justified approaches are just bitter all over reports from moscow. but the love rove was addressing a meeting of the foreign affairs committee of the duma just behind me you know he highlighted and said so really where russia stands concerning the ongoing situations in the arab world though he gets outside what he sees as the western desire for regime change in the middle east saying that this was unacceptable not supported in the any circumstances he also went on to highlight the fact that this was actually against international law though. russia 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 international intervention there they very disappointed that the way they see the mission has gone beyond the parameters laid out in the

u.n. resolution and came to avoid a similar fate. similar situation occurring in syria or yemen sigil of rolf pulling no punches he hits out at those that have criticised russia's stance on the un security council and also had a few words to say himself about what he sees as a lack of consistency by the un body. many have been criticizing russia and china's position on the un security council's resolution on syria for the fact that we consider such a resolution inappropriate use 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 so. they're reiterating in someways words he has said before that russia wants to see peace brought around brought 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 the parliament has in fact passed a law to implement the austerity package that they passed on wednesday we can cross live to athens georgia notice who is a greek activist has been fined by five with the protesters and throughout all of this what does this news mean to you mr new with the second law has been passed what are we going to see on the streets of athens. georgia no less. a lawyer also a politician. that thinks that we have friends here or not this is not good for democracy is not good for the civilians and i think it's not good for the euro. crisis and you know they said it was 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. know. the question is if exists to the reality the law of the. projects because i think all the people here in greece don't accept to have. to. do to have it in because other hand to have a. law and other hands to exist alone in the practice so all of the people here in greece a majority do them in the most part or do the ninety percent of greeks don't want this because yesterday i see. a very good and very. careful local for the united nation they call me united nation and say that's their measure of european union and i.m.f. takes against greece it's no good it's not in the good direction that's what united

nations i'm not i wanted to interrupt you what do you think an alternative to the radical austerity measures can be then what's the solution as the protesters. first of all if you have always or. with and without development you know. before one year would take measures of result. here it would take a good measure of the result is zero because you know if we have a good. seats and the numbers of citizens to the poor you can. see the. states so if the citizens is not accept this state not be more. to take to collect so it's very very very important to understand the measure that you

take you have to go all this he says to the poverty and not the stories to the state to the to the most rates fall. so you must see the measures that normally go for united nations seat from united in the european union and greeks and i.m.f. to take he's going create the measures. measures that i don't see envious of government and so of the people here. are left in the center of. the program don't want this you know so i think this is only. is no for us is does exist doesn't exist all right george known as the greek activist live with us on the line from athens thank you for that. of course the situation in the u.k. is similar to what's happening on greece at least the pictures that we're seeing

from london as people their civil servants planned 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 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 the people should be a little more supportive is there another way out of this. we don't think that people should be more supportive of. your code me an all star team measures that this government just say it's closing libraries is closing sure start senses you senses it's causing tension it's cussing benefits to disabled people is the poorest and most vulnerable. on the ends of these austerity measures in order to resolve the crisis from our point of view the bank is the rich the wealthy

in this country as is the case in. grey's still remain rich and wealthy. and we support the action that the unions are 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 for 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 in spain and in cultures throughout the european union that the there is a growing why even distance discontents about the measures being imposed upon the peoples of europe before we get to order 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 in the end of march on the twenty sixth of march that was the largest ever trade union demonstration that took place in this country of well over half a million half a million people i mean it says trade unionists activists coming together in order to to express their disk and sense and on a note hearts message they were opposing the government's austerity measures as the cuts crisis deepens for example greece the fold still see

a massive financial crisis which will affect the brain. banking system it's the british banking system which actually carries the day it's a very large amounts of. great public debt so it's insured through the british banking system this this will lead governments to try and get that further all sorts of measures that will lead to further process some 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 a it was a conservative government that couldn't be elected on its own platform and so it had to go and so in the laws with the liberal democrats the smaller the smaller

governing party it's it's it's made some reversals on policy in relations with national health service here they also want to sell the forests which they have to stop so it's these 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 have been imposing these pension changes which mean very large cuts in people's pensions and very big increases in the amounts they have to pay it's when sure it's a nice pension but the government have not seen it go see it fairly with unions and the unions are quite. mean in their opinion to take the action that they've taken. right andrew birkin from the coalition of resistance live with us on the line from london thanks for your analysis. the assets of former ukrainian prime minister here

have been frozen by prosecutors she says of queues of abuses of power the expression here is said to have sealed highly on. profitable gas deals with russia in two thousand and nine these are said to have constant prying around four hundred million dollars by investigators claim she had no authority to sign the contracts and that she did not secure cabinet approval to machine claims the case has been fabricated by her political rival president victory on a cord which if 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 the legal saying the text is both extremist and anti-social or too sour for of his outside the scientology moscow headquarters. this court ruling means that some of the books by the founder of scientology. will be banned in russia. what is scientology he can feed to the bottom of the main building here they've got a book still has some of these books that will now not be legal in russia

a very controversial history and scientology actually very used to fighting these legal battles and not only in russia but this particular ruling mirrors a reading that happened in april 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 contained cools the social and religious hatred and the hindrance of law enforcement activities and so it was banned but 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 in most cases will be allowed to stand if they say scientology attracts a lot of attention for its controversial price is going to have a ten million followers worldwide some famous fathers in creating tom cruise and john travolta very used to fighting legal battles so the potential now for them to

take this ruling to the justice ministry and we have to see from that whether that ruling was allowed to stand by but many cunt. around the world considering scientology not to be a religion of be a cult or sex. some international stories we're covering for you today in brief and egyptian court has ordered a probe into the case against two policemen accused of brutally killing a man who stabbed 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 have been no improvements in the country since president hosni mubarak resigned in february. rival forces and saddam have agreed to withdraw from its border areas ahead of southern independence next week their government 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 the separation the region has seen in more than two decades of civil

war which claimed over two million lives. in two french journalists are back at home after eighteen long months of captivity in afghanistan the men had been held hostage by the taliban but 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 ball filming in remote mountains it's the longest seizure of french nationalists 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 mess he shot and turks were exiled by stalin's regime and scattered around the globe and even today they feel unwelcome in their ancestral land. takes up their story. as it turned out this colorful and. the world was an inviting everyone and in time people trying to make their way back to georgia the land of their ancestors. we will just come

back to on loan to miss hans you and joe. that's what we've been fighting for 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 were forcibly displaced first from georgia and from was that is done and after almost seventy years of there are no magic existence their only hope now is that one day they will be able to return to their own age if it was the still in regime which deported over ninety thousand miss houghton turks to central asia in nine hundred forty four but they had to flee again after a violent ethnic was 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 on the law doesn't appear to have changed anything. they know georgia isn't the richest or the most stable of countries that's the first thing secondly they seem to realize they're not welcome here to come to an entirely new country to go into the unknown not everyone is capable of that. came into power but was surrounded by so many bureaucratic barriers to collect so many documents that make coming back almost impossible the chairman of the world organization of mr houghton turks saleman but about cancer has traveled to georgia repeatedly in the four and to make that we patch more effective but last year saleman was arrested in georgia and imprisoned for eleven 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 boys don't want to show his decrees and we can do anything to help him for now most miss

houghton turks continue to leave a lot of scattered far from where they consider home. and in distant lands their hopes of return still seem equally remote making a question are easy reporting from the north caucasus. up next is the latest business news with dimitri here in r.t. stay with us. thanks very much in a moment a warm welcome you're watching business out cash strapped bellary says i asked russia to freeze the price to pay for gas the roof had an exclusive right to buy russian gas at a lower price than the european average however the benefits were planned and this year there was a virtual say the country has a right to cheaper deliveries a key argument being that belarus and russia are creating a common konami's zone and price levels should be equal and the say gazprom could lose six hundred fifty million dollars this year prices are frozen next year it could amount to we believe in dollars in losses. russia's 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 made in the course of a details. 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 a decline in production they're also looking to work with asian partners and in particular they're trying to strike up 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 reach 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 so i 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 i go to the markets now and the u.s. is on the street with the dow gaining for the fourth session in a row this hour h.p. and dell are up more than two percent european stock markets also hides greek lawmakers approved additional certain measures this will help the country get more aid and avoid a default up with lloyds banking group sitting around nine percent on a well received cost cutting plan other banks are also strong the world bank of scotland gaining three percent and. also active this out. russia has just fifteen minutes to go before the end of a session. and as you majors are somewhat losing ground however because

of the oil price in individual movement rosneft is down point three percent as well as looking for directions where a bank is also on the rise health reports it's been for. for trading in london and in frankfurt and a role seller call gives up almost one off the said one of the strongest stocks all to announce a six percent increase in net profit for the first over. up next i'll tell you headlines with a nice.