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has taken the final stuff towards receiving crucial european bailout funds the government has voted on a detailed plan to implement the country's second wave of a sturdy mesures. 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 control officers are unstable the plans mean bora-bora to the reduced pensions as the first industrial protest against the government's austerity measures is taking over london. russia expose us double standards of 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 whilst ignoring what

he calls a civil war taking place in yemen all aboard not so good later on. just after eight pm here in the russian capital you're watching r t thanks for joining us now to our top story greece has voted on a second bill in the final step towards implementing the next wave of a steady measures well it's the last hurdle that athens has to job to qualify for a new stock of european bailout funds but we will. you have. a journalist joining us later on in the program who was right there in the middle of the action let's go to be a u.k. now where up to three quarters of a million public sector workers are preparing for industrial action they're voicing their opposition to plan the changes to their pay and pensions both part of the government's austerity measures

a third of schools are expected to close with court hearing spaceport and u.k. airports bracing themselves for destruction. is in london following developments. the biggest mass action the day to day came in the long day and about seven hundred fifty thousand people the turn to turn up at these hotels teachers double team members apologies. all expenses paid out to express their funds in nice enough to be sent but since the trip planned by the government as far as we know it's not just the college students and people that are in stock but we do have to say that about ninety percent of london. does it say also there are exceptions belong to the airports because customs and immigration officials are also making as well all these people are demanding that the cuts will not be processed but the government does not go along with the cuts they do say that they do want to change it you can

see they did not want to work longer hours but let's. say it will. come up some of the teachers will be back to the six states where they can fix the 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. those most responsible for our current predicament. largely untouched the government seems to be writing the terms of some agreements halfway through with new consultation of the people most of. the changes that it makes it a pension but it necessary to be some way to address so i think we do need to make cutbacks it takes up a. cry in the pilot teacher which is why so much of it is too hot we're not seeing any significant disturbances other than the laws that possible traffic

disturbance this could take place at the same time there are organizations such as the tradition to the network the told all. people to turn learned. all the rage against the tory led coalition cindy maybe once he get a little bit knowledge in the same time we also must not love the fact that anything might also take to the streets and make them damaged. 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 war to the parliament to make their voices heard to protest the pension policy job planned by the government. reporting there and on the way scientology controversy will find out why some of the works of l. ron hubbard the leader of the divisive church have been declared illegal in russia . and over for if you don't remember it's going to be brought mine

for. all this unfold that you describe really hope it is the great just humanitarian it is he himself claims the remarkable achievements he was a lawyer and a cheat pretty quickly the russian foreign minister has highlighted double standards at the un over the organization's approach to be arab world so gay lover of says the crisis in syria and yemen are provoking a vastly different and unjustified approaches archies peter all of our reports from moscow. mr lavrov was addressing a meeting of the foreign affairs committee of the duma just behind me he highlighted and sets out really where russia stands concerning the ongoing situations in the arab world now he gets out of what he sees as a western desire for regime change in the middle east saying that this was unacceptable and the russians would not support 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 yemen. sigil of rolf pulling no punches he's out of those that have criticised russia's stance on the u.n. security council and also had a few of the same self 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 inappropriate 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. reiterating in some ways words he has said before that russia wants to see peace brought to round about in the arab world to discussion and diplomacy and not international intervention something that they will not support. welcome back to our top story greece has voted on a second bill and it's the final step towards implementing the next wave of the measures and still protests are going on in athens well let's cross live to the heart of athens joining us now is financial journalist you need to thank you very much for being there with us now how are the people of athens reacting to thursday's vote. well they they already started to gather around the parliament right now they're quickly starting to amass a number on the street in front of constitution square and on this on the streets

perpendicular people are starting to gather here before about an hour they were there weren't really that many people they were supposed to gather by six but as the sun begins to set and the heat dissipates it becomes a lot easier for people to gather here and that's what we've seen in the past in this we're seeing again tonight ok well there are reports of the government is being accused of using illegal chemical agents to disperse protesters but from what you've seen over there how real are those claims. i mean i can't tell you if the chemicals are or are not tear gas or something else but i can tell you that the that the amount of chemicals in the air is substantial because even if you go down to concert square right now and your you go near any of the shops that were hit with tear gas you'll you'll find that specially when the wind picks up your eyes will tear and it's very difficult to breathe and and as far as the claims are the legitimate or not you're talking about people like the head of the national pharmaceutical so say shown here in greece and other people who are claiming that some of these substances are illegal on their person agenda so these are experts

that should know who are making these claims ok well we have been there for a couple of days now and you're right there in the action talking to people i suppose what ideas have been put forward there in terms of solutions to this to possibly getting out of this crisis right there from the people themselves. i mean the most common solution is a default and there aren't that many people around here who have a clear sense of how that would go about there are some economists in greece and other people who are proposing solutions but those solutions that are really being proposed for the most part are solutions or require a cooperate of party like the e.u. and the i.m.f. to cooperate to restructure the debt right now the principal problem for those people people trying to tad vacate for a solution like that is that they don't have a willing party they don't have an i.m.f. or an e.u. that wants to restructure this debt so right now the only viable option available to greece that people are discussing realistically is a default or default possible return to the drachma possibly ideally by currency system a dual currency system where you have the drachma for public expenditures keeping

borrowing costs down and interest rates high for the government and keeping inflation kind of barred to the public sector and a euro for domestic purposes and and private private use hopefully no capital controls that's that's a big fear for a lot of people in the private sector here who want to invest and want to build this country up their capital controls is a real concern if we do if we do default ok well all of those are a lot of ideas and as you had said earlier it does require the cooperation of a lot of big institutions but greece is finding itself in a crisis but how how much time do you think before another round of crisis bigger than what is currently happening hits it. doesn't have i mean this is the thing is that there in the day they released these trenches a bit by bit so remember it was a year ago where we passed that one hundred ten billion euro bailout that exacted the wrath of the northern europeans in this country but the the amount of money from the that bail does not come all at once it's tranche by tranche and it's i think was the fifth or fourth i think was the fifth installment and it was

something like twelve billion euros it was pocket change in terms of what what the greek government would need overall. and because this is how they're implementing the measures bit by bit and because the debt burden is so large and it continues to grow remember it grows ever larger and we're in a deflationary period right now here in greece so the debt just keeps mounting on the backs of the greek people you can expect to see this crisis drag on and roll and build like a giant snowball down a hill because that's that's the nature of a large debt load it just keeps growing and growing and it's just going to more and more pressure on this economy more and more pressure on these people and that's going to result in more violence more protests and a fall of this government eventually i will thank you very much for keeping us updated their financial journalists reporting from athens thank you. well staying in athens we now cross to the activists in the square. thank you very much of mr top brass for joining us on the line so from your perspective there what's the

atmosphere since the vote was passed. can you hear me. yes yes i do but i just want to know all right i just want to know that from where you are there what has the atmosphere been like a since the vote was passed. they have a national here it's very electric you know specially after what happened yesterday here. people now start to really be angry because of what happened yesterday here. because never have been in the last forty years from up from the one i remember myself here in greece i'm forty seven years old and never saw something similar in this country yesterday the very first thing about the bus cruelty towards democracy itself because those who have been in years of the world's area of war from police and government against against the british citizens and taxpayers who are called to finance their own of the problem of the crisis here in

greece first time to first find out they're sold here in this country policeman to keep kids to keep cool money and to throw. in the metro station in the shops in the coffee shops it's visual is really something very very first time here and we were very hungry for that. but i think that is not the enough people it was more the more they would receive back from would be able in terms of protest all right well you're describing the scene there for us and you're calling it a real war according to reports some three hundred people have been injured since the protests began how realistic is this number i think it's about two hundred fifty thirty three your figure is correct but considered to be doing this to be found of people there are at least two hundred fifty people with broken legs in a broken hints ok but people who could be seeing coverage you know we know the

videos of what's happening there at the square have been on the internet on television could do dramatic coverage of the riots stopped people from taking to the streets would they be afraid. look people were people. they didn't get afraid from yesterday i think about tomorrow or later. people will start again to go to constitution square they will continue to protest even today and even tomorrow and even to the next day because i was thirty meters that this government has imposed to the citizens and that is that spears is no it is not fair at all because the coal seam to seize is in its taxpayers to pay the losses of the banking system in greece and all around the world here will have been deceived agents and taxpayers to pay their losses in the damage is that the international.

financial crime syndicate is it's a created being first in the united states and then you're being union all right well just very briefly now how are the greeks feeling about decisions taken in their brussels concerning the economic future of their country. people are very angry. people in this country at the moment. because they don't believe anymore. because the problem. is you know they're european. it's first and then. because of the financial crisis was created by. governments all around. there is.

viable means cannot be the same politicians who created the problem. was there with the wall the problem they will never find a solution people being over. them they don't believe in the more and this is it is on very they are every day were. very very good. all right well thank you very much for your thoughts they are an activist in this entire. thank you. well your opinion counts you can visit our website that's our dot com and have your say in our latest online poll and today we asked you what should people do once the new set of a sturdy cots 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 worse cuts bankruptcy still looming and other last favorable responses are that greeks should consider emigrating and that they have lost the fight and

tighten their belts. and they have more for you online log on to our website to learn how police prevented a terrorist attack during a drug trade. a russian court has found that some scientology literature distributed in russia is illegal the writings by l. ron hubbard the founder of the church have been ruled extremist and anti social is outside the scientology headquarters in moscow. 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 do you think scientology is actually more of a cult or sex now this court decision we saw today concerns the banning of all of

the books by the found scientology our own hobbit no actually the main headquarters ten you can see the big job they've got on the lower floors they sell some of these books to those materials that were considered by the court to contain cools 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 tickets and in that instance it was very similar books that was thought to be found to contain cools the station religious hatred and people to work against law enforcement activities now in that instance the justice ministry actually. the decision is we've heard today the court decision hasn't actually been in full these books 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 and we can handle what she had to say about the decision. 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 if you found them to be extremist who think the key issue is how moved and appropriately and who make an appeal until the court's decision is brought into force who keeps telling to because just like. ten million followers worldwide and that is we said scientology often coming into the limelight for that controversial practice and again this is another example of where that's happened. well pakistan has urged the u.s. to shut down and leave an air base in the country southwest the facility has served as a launch pad for washington's drone attacks against taliban and al qaeda targets on the afghan border or relations between the two allies have been on a downward spiral for months deteriorating after american forces killed osama bin laden in early may before this we can talk now to episodic political analyst a medical writer joining us live from islamabad thank you very much for joining us

the announcement comes as the relations between the two countries are already strained since the a cia killed al qaeda leader osama bin laden in may now is this direct retaliation do you think yes it is it is in a way a direct retaliation but there are there is of course another reason the and that is being the u.s. is not is no longer paying for using pakistan even cillit isn't boxed on the basis is the name for these payments was the c.s.f. that's the coalition support fund and the u.s. was paintbox down under this heading for the past decade for using different types of bucks on the facilities the u.s. has to stop doing that for various reasons u.s. officials have not said we're not going to pay you but what they've said is we have some problems in the in the congress in releasing the funds and so forth. delay tactics basically you so the pakistani officials apparently got the message so one of the main reasons is the stoppage of the payment of c.s.f.

of funds to pakistan by the united states but also it is also in a way a retaliation for what happened on me to ok well pat assad used to speak of it sara fighting partnership with the u.s. now because of this strain does this mean the end of that relationship. i think it would be very fair to say that box done is gradually edging toward declaring or announcing the end off its participation in the war on terror as it existed since two thousand and one as you know and many are partners in the coalition of the willing that participated with the us military with nato with ice in afghanistan over the period of the past five or six years did review their participation and their terms of engagement in afghanistan and some of them with grue and some redefining their role in afghanistan and i think the one of the only countries probably that did not do this over the past decade is focused on boxed on

continued its blanket support to the united states and whatever the u.s. was doing and continues to do in afghanistan but i think pakistan now is edging closer to actually announcing the end of its off its participation in the war on terror as it existed since after nine eleven in afghanistan and maybe pock some with either pull out of this war or redefine. i would assume i would think that maybe pakistan is moving toward the second option to end its its participation in the war on terror but continue to help and cooperate with the united states to reach a peaceful resolution enough comes to enable ending our participation they have been working actively together what would this mean first for pakistan and for the u.s. i'm sorry what would this mean for the u.s. and their own war on terror and what would it mean for pakistan are they afraid that extremism will flourish in pakistan they couldn't handle it on their own as we

have seen from recent events. one of the main reasons for the for the continuation of violent activity on the pakistan of ghana's done border is the mess that the us military has created inside of coniston over the past decade the mess there the way they have alienated a large portion segment of the afghan population in terms of the push to try the way they have conducted the war on terror there the way they have alienated a large pockets really of the country is a big reason for why we have a continuation of violence in afghanistan and how that violence is spilling over into pakistan and and frankly speaking many in fact most pakistani commentators believe now that one of the ways short short cuts really to controlling violence and extremism on the pakistan afghanistan border is really to end the war on terror the way the u.s. military and the way the cia has been conducting this war over the past ten years

one step forward is of course what president obama has declared but still words we're yet to see really actions on the ground and we have yet to see whether important agencies within the u.s. government like essential intelligence agency the cia would really cooperate as you understand as you might well know that the cia has now a huge presence in afghanistan a large project afghanistan is a large project for the cia to go out and we want to see whether they would really wind down right ok just very very quickly i just want to know because of what you're saying about what could possibly happen in that relationship do you think washington crossed the line this time and the operation over there. i think they have created a our series distrust specially on me too they used their own clem destined network of informants inside pakistan and i'm talking not about just cia contractors or agents i'm talking about pakistanis who were recruited by cia and some of them

apparently had some links or connections with different parts of the us government i'm sorry the different parts of the pakistani government or even pakistani military there was a serious breach of trust from the pakistani perspective and i think the americans really blew it this time this was a great opportunity the cooperation oregon has done for both countries to really get over the past but it is really very unfortunate that there are some people some hawks really who are based in afghanistan have mishandled the situation of i thank you very much for your thoughts political analyst stomach or talking to us from islamabad thank you and i'll be back with the headlines shortly but first the latest business news with dmitri. thanks as a healer in a warm welcome to business cash strapped bella bruce's ostroff it's a phrase the price of pays for gas valerie's had an exclusive rights by russian gas at a lower price than the european average however the benefits were plant and this year

that was officials say the country has a right to see but the liveries they claim the two countries are creating a common economic zone and their full price levels should be cool and the say gazprom could lose six hundred fifty million dollars this year prices are frozen and in two thousand and twelve it could amount to three billion 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 as many in the course are 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 they declined 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 to 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. could look at the markets we saw with commodities in oil is mixed yet again looking for direction fourteen cents brant is down thirty seven cents if we look at the reaction on the u.s. is our lucky streak with the dow gaining for a full session in a row with more than one percent this sell this is all in optimism about greece's bailout. more than the. european stock markets ended today. because of proving additional measures that's providing optimism this will help with country get more than avoid

a default he was up led by lloyds banking group around nine point seven percent on the. russian stocks also ended the day mostly in point six six point four percent. was actually one of the gain is gaining more than one percent of the close by bank of exactly one hundred. roubles up half a percent at the close as it converts shares into a.d.r. the stock trading in london and in germany and also the calm end of the session down while it was talking a whole session look. and feel that's all we have time for we will be back next hour with more stories.