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the greek parliament has taken the final step towards receiving crucial european bailout 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 planned changes to their pensions and pay. the teachers civil servants and border patrol officers are staying with the plan that we want to work with these pensions 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 by 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 state during

what he calls a civil war taking place in yemen all aboard not the delayed roll. and of the risk of greece's default is reduced russian markets put on the another for the obvious m i six crew putting the streak to three days in a row more on that in the business as you put it. at seven pm in moscow this is r t coming to you live 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 it's the last hurdle that athens has to jump to qualify for a new stack of european ballot funds but 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 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 now i'm saying would there have been protests throughout this evening if they had gone on with the vote or voted to not implemented i mean really we knew that this what was coming but either way are we expecting protests. well the we were expecting people to gather in the square about 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 it's there's

a lot of chemicals in the air so it's not entirely surprising that people have taken a 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 measures 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. i mean they can continue to protest they could storm 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 the people can really do other than engage in physical acts of defiance 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 it's

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 establishment 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. and r t we've been hearing from many pundits throughout the day they say that greeks see no sense in these cuts why is trans broken down between people in the government. why have talks broken down with people in government trust broken down drug taking drugs 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 could've been twenty years ago could've been five years ago after the olympics 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 through 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 a job now it's one of the 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 here 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 think of him last financial journalist live from athens thanks for that. great journalists on notice who has told me 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 transferred to the banks outside greece what they see is now they say they pay for the first by goods and the government is the only one billion euros that's a very crucial situation when they see that for the next month from next month with elusive the next bill which is very hard with this is thirty five kids the problem for the people who see the for the next four or five years unemployment would be about fifteen percent there on the other kind you see that the taxes are increased their personal income is minimized and when we reach the in five years the target what will be this is the situation we. did to we. over

a little more above zero. what the deficit will be very very high so they think that we are going to suffer for five or four years and the situation will not change that's a problem. your opinion counts for us visit our website our t. dot com and have your say in our latest online poll 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 caught bankruptcy still looming other less favorable responses or that should consider emigrating and that they have won the fight and lost tighten their belt. buckle online for you learned how police prevented. terrorist attack right.

to the u.k. now where 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 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 to struction. isn't london. the thing it's not that they take things in the london about seven hundred fifty thousand people to turn to these protests the teachers the team members apology the. whole incident this now takes less than a synopsis be sent to mention the trip planned by the government and certainly no

it's not just the college students and people think teachers that already strike that but we do want to say that about ninety percent of london sees signs. that say also they're expected to belong to the airports because customs and immigration officials are also striking as well all of these people are demanding that the cuts will not be held such that the government does not go with the cuts they do say that they do want to retain the dignity they did not want to work longer hours let's. save. some. time let's. say that six here the way they would fix the roads are being made in the wrong directions here and. see if you just sponsor it in her financial crisis. smokiest her into predicament. largely untouched.

through without consultation to the people. the changes that are making to the pension but it necessary to this way to address so i think we do need to make cutbacks in something. like teaching which is why so much of it is too hot we're nothing nothing. turns it down a little possible traffic disturbance take place at the same time there are organisations such as the key to this network. people to turn. against all this in something maybe. the same time we also must not love the fact that it might take to the streets and damage. but other than that people are expected to protest peacefully again it's people that are going to be

marching in the center of london. to make their voices to tell the pension plan by the government. political activists 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. the politicians in their pocket it's theirs products are making us proud as if. hard working teachers hard working 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 problem at its roots let's crack down on what i regard as actually electoral fraud and criminal activity we have already seen that this government is actually very weak i mean nobody voted for it that's the way that it has already made a couple u. 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 tulips it looks as if the government doesn't back down to something it was something an absolutely enormous we're building towards something we haven't seen in this country so it's not a general story and that's going to be very powerful and the government will befall if it comes to that. on the way scientology controversy find out why some of the works of l. ron hubbard the leader of the visitor church have been declared illegal here in russia. but first the russian foreign minister has highlighted double standards at the u.n. over the organization's approach to the arab world so again lavrov says the crisis in syria and yemen are provoking vastly different and unjustified approaches are just peter all over 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 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 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's feels a little disappointed to say the least about the way. the the situation in libya has progressed russia of course abstaining from the vote on the u.n. resolution that allowed international intervention there a very disappointed at the way they see that mission has gone beyond the parameters laid out in the u.n. resolution and came to avoid a similar fate a similar situation occurring in syria or yemen. sigil of rule pulling no punches even so to 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. that was 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 in appropriate 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. also announced that moscow is waiting for confirmation from libyan rebels that they have received weapon term 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 airlift arms into

the country it's the first time a nato member has owned up to supplying weapons to libya since the bombing began three months ago the alliance is pressing paris to plain why acted unilaterally without consulting u.n. mandate on libya does allow military intervention to protect civilians by force sort of authorizing ground invasion and arms supplies paris based political analyst says three countries have hijacked the mandate. mission 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 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 contradict it there is no doubt that the three countries britain france and america who are waging. swore 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 from america they use nato is the belief that nato itself is of course much bigger and there is not unanimity in nato only a few days ago the italian foreign minister said that there should be a ceasefire in order to allow humanitarian aid through so i think that this latest news from from possibly increased tensions within the coalition although i repeat that the war is being waged by three countries using nato as a disguise. a russian court has found that some scientology literature distributed in russia is legal the writings by l. ron hubbard the founder of the church have been ruled extremist and two social might now are to sarah for a to south side the scientology headquarters here in moscow sarah scientology has never had an easy existence in russia or anywhere for that 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 proved controversial lots of debate about whether it should actually be considered a religion there are lots of countries that do things scientology is actually more of a cult or. this court decision we saw today concerns that banning as you said of the books by the founder scientology l. ron hubbard if they were actually at the main headquarters then you can see the big job they've got on the lower floors they sell some of these books that they've materials that were considered by the court to. contain calls for extreme activities now this ruling actually mirrors a similar thing 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 be found to contain calls for religious hatred. people to work against law enforcement activities

now in that instance the justice ministry actually overturned the decision is we've heard today the court decision hasn't actually been in full. haven't yet been banned from being sold as they still are in the show we actually spoke to the p.r. director of the church of scientology so we can head what she had to say about the decision. because. the court decision is surprising l. ron hubbard's writing have been going around the world for sixty years people across hundreds of sixty five countries have been using his books to make their lives bitter and new country has found them to be extremist who think the keys was handled and appropriately and will make an appeal until the court's decision is brought into force who keeps only because just like. those he said scientology does have a long history of entering into these legal battles if i can t. thousand and seven the church. took the officials to the european court of human

rights where they criticized the most government allowing. you 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 religion ten million followers worldwide and those as we said scientology often coming into the limelight for a controversial practice and again this is another example of where that's happened it's interesting to see what tom cruise and john travolta will have to say about this for now our chief our first live from central moscow. for the assets of former ukrainian prime minister yulia tymoshenko have been frozen by prosecutors she stands accused of abuses of power the ex premier is said to have sealed highly unprofitable gas deals with russia in two thousand and nine these are said to have cost ukraine around four hundred million dollars. investigators claim she had no authority to sign the contracts and that she did not secure cabinet approval to

most claims the case has been fabricated by her political rival president victor going to call rich if found guilty too much could face up to ten years in jail. a look now at some world news in brief for you this hour and gyptian court has ordered a probe into the case against two policemen accuse of brutality brutally killing a man whose death 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. rebel forces in sudan have agreed to withdraw from the 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 flee 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 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 the t.v. reporter and his cameramen were taken along with afghan colleagues in late two thousand and nine while filming in remote mountains it's the longest seizure of french national 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 mis he turks were exiled by the stalin regime and scattered around the globe even today they feel unwelcome in their ancestral land. the story. as it turned out this colorful ad which aired across the

world was an inviting everyone and in time people can make their way back to georgia the land of their ancestors. we want to come back to atlanta miss hardy and georgia 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 as 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 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 four 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 metatron turks saleman but about cancer has traveled to georgia repeatedly in the fight to make the repatriation a lot 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 choice. yes were trumped up. there is no proof that he's guilty i'm sure he

was arrested for bush don't want to show his decrees and we can do anything to help him for now most mismatch in turds continue to leave a large scattered far from where they consider home and in distant lands their hopes of return still sim equally remote making the question our city reporting from the north caucasus. this is next here on our t.v. with dimitri. a welcome to you watching business r.t. cash strapped bellerose asked russia to freeze the price to pay for gas they'll receive an exclusive right to buy russian gas at a lower price than the european average however the benefits were planned and this year those officials say the country has a right to cheaper deliveries 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 if prices are frozen

and next year could amount to three billion dollars. russians gas giant gazprom is holding its annual general meeting the company has announced an increase of the investment program to a record level where the team has met in a cost 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 made a decline in 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 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. all right let's move to the markets 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 decline that surpassed on this expectations the full light sweet is up seventy eight cents brant sixty one cents to stock markets the u.s. is on a lucky streak gaining before session in a row it's up one point two percent this is all in optimism about greece's bailout . 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. fault footsie is up with lloyds banking group surging around nine percent on a well received very impressive. three percent and. pretty active two. russian stocks are also positive at the closing of the trade this is the closing picture first a session the author says up was to point six percent my six point four percent main drivers here actually energy stocks as well recovered by the end of the session lukoil gained more than one percent thank you shares were also strong was burbank up half a percent on the optimism that eighty yards have been approved for trading in london frankfurt telecom slipped into the red by the closing of three when there was talk all day of announced a six percent increase in their profit for the first quarter. and we will be back

with an update in fifty minutes time coming up next hour you had. wealthy british style some spare time.