the greek parliament has taken the final step towards receiving crucial european ballot funds the government has voted on a detailed plan to implement the country's second wave of austerity measures. the u.k. braces itself for mass disruption as hundreds of thousands of public sector workers begin industrial action in response to prime changes to their pensions and pay. thousands of teachers civil servants and border patrol officers our state i don't mean the work of these engines as the first industrial protest against the government's austerity measures is taking over london. also this hour 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 stated during what he calls a civil war taking place in yemen all aboard not so good later old. and of the risk of greece is the fault is reduced russian markets put on the another office number for the obvious a nice rights group putting the street two or three days in a row more on that in the business as you put it in. that seven pm in moscow this is archie coming to you live and he's now with our top story this evening greece has voted on

a second bill in the final step towards implementing the next wave of austerity measures is the last hurdle that athens has to jump to qualify for a new stack of european ballot funds while the plans may have the public resistance with two days of rioting that's left more than three hundred people injured. live to the heart of athens where financial journalist timothy coffin joins us he's seen he's been at most of the protests throughout the last couple of days now it's no surprise of course that this bill has been passed it was expected after wednesday's vote but would there have been anger in the streets with or without the vote. would there have been anger in the streets if they voted if they voted not to pass the austerity is all you're asking i'm saying would there have been protests throughout this evening if they had gone on with not implemented i mean really we knew that this vote was coming but either way are we expecting protests. well there

we were expecting people to gather in the square around six o'clock so it's six right now so people have been gathered in mass here it's not clear whether they're going to gather later or whether they're going to take a break for the day they'll be back i'm sure but as it stands right now it's it's hot out here the smell of tear gas is still omnipresent. there's a lot of chemicals in the air so it's not entirely surprising that people take a little bit of a break. more than three hundred people have been injured in these riots and you've been telling us throughout the day about the measure of that security forces have been taking i mean what more can the people really do now to get the government to listen to them. i'm sorry to look at the into the to say that one more time i'm sorry what more can the protesters do to actually get reaction from the government right i mean they can continue to protest they can strong parliament i mean it's really it's

a bare knuckle fight out here it's it's corner quarter street to street it's not there's nothing else that people can really do other than engage in in physical acts of the finance because the political avenues of change have been closed off to them so this is all that's really left for the people and what you're seeing in the square. seeing around parliament is people reacting physically to what they are not just these are starting measures but years and years of them feeling like they're their opinions and their desires and their ambitions have not been answered by political sabotage or that's concerned more about feeding itself and and passing around goodies to each other than it is about implementing a sound policy for economic growth and political participation in this country. we've been hearing from many pundits throughout the day basically that greeks see no sense in these cuts why ask was broken down between people and the government. why have talks broken down we trust you people not honest trust broken down trust you can't trust yeah all this anger. i mean trust has broken down over many years

here it's not each person has his own or his or her own period where he or she began to lose faith in this government it could have been thirty years ago couldn't twenty years ago it even five years ago i feel lympics it's not really clear when it started for each person but things just kind of got out of control the past year plus because you have a huge public sector and though the most unpopular thing here is there staring cuts to people in the public sector people that can't find work so i think that a prolonged period of anxiety around employment look you talk to people here a lot of people whereas it used to be two people the family had job now is one a lot of their kids are unemployed people are living at home so it's a very difficult environment and the further down you go to the social political ladder the more you're going to find people that are disenfranchised and disenchanted in this country and what you're seeing i think is is the inevitable consequence of hard economic times bringing more and more people towards the bottom or near the bottom where they can see that they may fall off and and that's what

people are expressing your anxiety and anger frustration that's what they're doing that's why they're engaging police that's where they're engaging the politicians right to make financial journalists live from athens thanks for that. great journalist and i notice that who has told r.t. that people do not believe the. cuts will improve the economy but will worsen their lives. during these days do you see the this is a very huge buy kids a huge brokerage with no future why they see no future because the situation is very dramatic here for our personal income from gender until now. it's month and transferred to the banks outside of greece what they say is now they pay it for the first by goods and the government has collected only one billion euros that's a very crucial situation when they see that for the next month for the next month we do see the next bill was very hard with this is third back into the program for

the people. for the next four or five years unemployment would be about fifteen percent are there on the other kind you see the taxes are increased their personal income is minimized and when we reach that in five years the third get what we believe this is the situation in greece. did that we'd be below zero or a little more above zero. what the deficit would be very. very boldly think that we are going to suffer for five or four years and this situation will not change that's a problem. in your opinion counts for us visit our website our team dot com and have your say in our latest our mind hold on what's happening in greece today we ask you what should greek people do once the new set of austerity cuts are approved so far most of you think they should defend their rights until early elections a close second with thirty four percent is the opinion that they must prepare for

an even worse cut bankruptcy still looming other less favorable responses are that reach should consider emigrating and that they have to fight and not tighten their belts. also on line for you to learn how police prevented. terrorist attacks drink . see. to the u.k. now where up to three quarters of a million public sector workers are preparing for industrial action their words in their opposition to prime changes to their pensions and pay part of the government's austerity measures there a third of schools are expected to close with court hearings close phones and u.k. airports bracing themselves for obstruction charges or is the same thing if

not seen the odd. things in the london about seven hundred cheap thousand people visit sent these. teachers and there is a policy. polling that this now takes less than nice enough in these things that should not deter playing by the government and certainly no it's not just the college students and people think teachers that are in strike although we do want to say that about ninety percent of the london sleep easy i'd say over there except it's belongs to airports because customs and immigration officials are also taking as well the people are demanding that the front seat not be processed them does not go with the cuts they do say if you want sixteen to eighteen months of work longer hours let's. save. some

lives some. people say they'd like to see what it takes sixty votes in the wrong directions here. to see if you could sponsor the current financial crisis. those most responsible. for getting them. largely untouched. by the. way through without consultation with the people most of. the changes that i make until eventually we got it necessary to his way to address so i think we do need to make it seem like something. trying to hide the teacher pensions by side business model we're nothing nothing to meet again distances down to the possible trap the descent into this could take place at the same time there was organization such as the t.c. captives network told people to turn their. rage against the

tory led coalition something maybe. get a little bit rowdy the same time we also must not blow the budget and it might also take to the street and damage. but other than that people are expected to protest peacefully again if. people are going to be marching from the center of london to want to make the most of. the canteen coffee shop planned by the government. political activist professor chris knight says that the industrial action is a response to the government's mis handling of the financial crisis so what's happening here is that a crisis caused by bankers and. politicians or their pockets it's their first product as are making us proud as if. hardworking teachers hardworking civil servants hardworking actress and others are responsible for this crisis we

all know that's not true so let's deal with it let's deal with the for the for the problem at its roots let's crack down on what i regard as actually electoral fraud and from criminal activity we have already seen the discovery is actually very weak i mean nobody voted for it so with it has already made a couple of you turn so we definitely think we can force. you turn on this one and what's going to happen of course is that it's not going to be just white collar workers we're building towards it looks good for government down preparing for something that was something an absolutely enormous with building towards something we haven't seen in this country should not be going to take a general strike and that's going to be very powerful and the government will befall if it comes. on the way scientology controversy find out why some of the work for l. ron hubbard the leader of the visit of church have been declared illegal here in russia. first 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 unjustified approaches are just bitter all over reports from the scalp. but the love rove was addressing a meeting of the foreign affairs committee of the duma just behind me you know he highlighted and says oh really where russia stands concerning the ongoing situations in the arab world though he gets outside what he sees as the western desire to regime change in the middle east saying that this was unacceptable and the russians would not support it is under any circumstances he also went on to highlight the fact that this was actually against international law. russia's 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 at the way they see that mission has gone beyond the parameters laid out in the u.n.

resolution and keen 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. six. the council 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 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 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 in diplomacy and not through international intervention

something that they will not support. it's. also announced that moscow is waiting for confirmation from libyan rebels that they have received weapons from france 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 into the country it's the first time a nato member has owned up to supplying weapons to libya since the bombing began for three months ago the alliance is pressing paris to play why active unilaterally without consulting grapples un mandate on libya does allow military intervention to protect civilians by force sort of authorizing ground invasion and arms supplies her space 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 rebels and armed rebels are not civilians so any

attack by the government on the 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. it's war under the disguise of nato of course a 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 to use nato figleaves but need to itself is of course much bigger and there is not unanimity of 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 the war is being waged by three countries using names who isn't a surprise. the russian court has found that some scientology literature

distributed in russia is illegal writings by l. ron hubbard the founder of the church have been extreme mist and anti social might now are to sara for a to south side the scientology headquarters here in moscow sara scientology has never had an easy existence in russia or anywhere for about matter are we now one step closer to being banned in the country altogether tell us more. well scientology here in russia and indeed in many countries around the world has created controversial law so debate about whether it should actually be considered a religion there are lots of countries do you think scientology is actually more of a cult or now this court decision we saw today concerns the banning as you said of the books by the founder scientology l. ron hubbard if they were actually at the main headquarters then you could see that they got on the lower floors they sell some of the materials that were considered by the court to. contain calls for extreme activities now this ruling actually

the ruling that we saw in a court in april of last year that was in the siberian city is good and in that instance it was very similar books that were thought to being found to contain calls for the religious hatred. people to work against law enforcement activities now in that instance the justice ministry actually overturned the decision we had today the court decision hasn't actually been enforced as it is but haven't yet been banned from being sold as they still are in this so we actually spoke to the p.r. director of the church is that and so that we could hand out what she had to say about the decision. because the decision is surprising l. ron hubbard's writing has been doing around the world for sixty years people across hundred and sixty five countries have been using his books to make their lives better and new contract has found them to be extremist who think the keys was

handled and appropriately and will make an appeal i'm to because decision is brought into force who keeps just like. those he says he does have a long history of venturing into these legal battles in fact in two thousand and seven the church. took the officials to the european court of human rights where they criticized the musky government allowing of the church to register register as a religious organization as you said it's not just russia many countries across the world have the same ac about whether you consider a religion ten million followers worldwide and those he said scientology often cutting into the limelight they called subversive prices and again this is another example of where that happens it's interesting to see what tom cruise and john travolta will have to say about this for an hour to refer live product central mosque. for the assets of former ukrainian prime minister yulia tymoshenko have

been frozen by prosecutors just accused of abuses of power the ex premier is said to have sealed highly unprofitable gas fields with russia in two thousand and nine these are said to have cost ukraine around four hundred million dollars. investigators going she had no authority to sign the contracts and that she did not secure cabinet approval to a psycho claims the case has been fabricated by her political rival president victor going to call rich if found guilty too much ego could face up to ten years in jail. a look now at some world news in brief for you this hour and a judge should court has ordered a probe into the case against to policeman accused of brutality brutally killing a man whose death helped trigger the country's uprising the slow pace of legal action against these sparked a riot in cairo earlier this week has 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. rebel forces in sudan have agreed to withdraw from its border areas ahead of southern independence next week the agreement follows two separate deals to end the fighting for some one hundred seventy thousand people to free the two sides still have to agree on how to divide sudan's oil wealth after the separation takes place the region has seen more than two decades of civil war that's claimed over two million lives. in france journalists are back at home after eighteen long months of captivity in afghanistan the men had been held hostage by the taliban are said to be in good health and good spirits the t.v. reporter and his camera man were taken along with afghan colleagues in late two thousand and nine welcoming in remote mountains it's the longest seizure of french nationals since the lebanese hostage crisis in the one nine hundred eighty s. . almost seventy years ago the people of an entire nation purchased place from

their homeland four hundred thousand miss he should turks were exiled by the stalin regime and scattered around the globe even today they feel unwelcome in their ancestral land. takes up the story. as it turned out this colorful ad which aired across the world was an inviting everyone and entire people can't make their way back to georgia the land of their ancestors we heard him say we want to scum back to our lands and it's hard to in georgia that's what we've been fighting for and dreaming of for many years there are some four hundred thousand people with his dream spread across the globe there have been left with no homeland that's interred so often described as they twice deported people they were forcibly displaced first from georgia and then 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 native where it was the still in regime which deported over ninety thousand this had interest in central asia in nine hundred forty four but they had to flee again after violent as nic was in his deck is done in nine hundred eighty nine most of them now live in azerbaijan and turkey as well as russia and the united states george are finally adopted a repatriation law under pressure from the european consul 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 it's going to be a new everyone is capable of that. came into power but it was surrounded by so many durocher barriers to collect so many documents and make coming back almost impossible the chairman of the world organization of metatron turks saleman but

about cancer has traveled to georgia repeated li in the family to make that we patrick moore factious 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 choice. there's were trumped up. there is no proof that he's guilty i'm sure he was arrested for bush don't want to stick reasons we can't do anything to help him for now most miss houghton turks continued to live alongside scattered far from where they consider home and in distant lands their holds of return still seem equally remote makes no question r.c. reporting from the north caucasus. is next here in r.t. with dimitri. but will welcome to you watching business r.t. cash strapped bella ruse asked russia to freeze the price of place for gas but i

will reserve an exclusive right to buy russian gas at a lower price than the european average over the benefits were planted and abuse here those officials say the country has a right to cheaper than the breeze and they claim that those in russia are creating a common economic zone and therefore price of it should be equal and the say gas from could lose six hundred fifty million dollars this year prices are frozen and next year could amount to read the bills. russians braun is holding its annual general meeting the company has announced an increase of the investment program to a record level where there are things met in a course or reports. 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 may decline in production they're also looking to work with asian partners and in particular they're trying to strike

a deals 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 term results were quite positive these are the cells revenues reach one hundred eighteen a billion dollars and of course they're expected to shareholders that 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 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 like here today. all right let's move to the molecule and it's all about greece oil prices are continuing to recover after a dramatic fall last week also as the u.s. and injuries reported through the shell line that so passed on this expectations there for light sweet is up seventy eight cents brant sixty one cents stock markets

the u.s. is on a lucky streak gaining before the session you know a row it's up one point two percent this was all an optimism about greece's bailout . into a wall around three percent each. european stock markets have one more hour to go before closing greek lawmakers approved additional austerity measures therefore the optimism seen here this will help the country get more aid and avoid default the footsie is up with lloyds banking group surging around nine percent on a well received very impressive other banks that wasn't strong willed by muskogee three percent. and you start this act two. russian stocks are also positive at the closing of the trade this is the closing because of the recession the r.t.s. is up a good point six percent nice six point four percent main drivers here actually energy stocks as well recovered by the end of the session lukoil gain more than one

percent banking shares were also strong was burbank up half a percent on knob samisen that it's eighty yards have been approved for trading in london and frankfurt close telecom slipped into the red by the closing of trade but it was topping up all day up to announced a six percent increase in their profit for the first quarter. and we will be back with an update in fifteen minutes time coming up next hour as you head.

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