in the movie. parliament has taken the final step towards receiving crucial european bailout funds the government has voted on anything to help plan to implement the country's second wave of this dirty bastards. the u.k. braces itself of mass destruction as hundreds of thousands of public sector workers began industrial action in response to climate changes to their pensions and their pay. down the teachers the civil servants and border control officers are staying behind me in the work of the reduced pensions as the first industrial protests against the government's austerity measures is taking over london. russia exposes

double standards happy way over the organization's hard line position on syria with moscow calling for a strictly defined how the solution the 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 i'll have more notes of that later on. russia's largest company gas giant gazprom has announces boosting dividends on his investment program to record levels from the company's a.g.m. and all business proceedings wednesday. just after nine 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 a bill in the final step towards implementing the next wave of

a sturdy measures was the last hurdle that athens hostage jumped to qualify for a new stock of european bailout funds but plans met with resistance more than three hundred people injured in two days of riots national journalist dimitri coffee mass is in the heart about this are frustrated crowds continue to grow. 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 the on the streets perpendicular as the sun begins to set and this abates it becomes a lot easier for people to gather here and that's what we've seen in the past as we're seeing in tonight 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 that require a cooperate of party like the e.u. and the i.m.f. to cooperate to restructure and that right now the principle problem for those people people trying to pad vacate for 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 that so right now the only viable option available to greece that people are discussing realistically as 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 parts of the public sector and a euro for domestic purposes and and private private use remember it was a year ago when we passed that one hundred ten billion euro bailout that exact of the wrath of the northern europeans in this country but the amount of money from that that pales has not come all at once it's trashed by trying to dissipate was the fifth installment in a supply twelve billion euro so it's pocket change in terms of what what the greek government would need overall. and because this is how they're playing the measures bit by bit and because the debt burden so largely continues to grow remember it grows ever larger and where to deflation period right now here in greece so the debt just keeps mounting on the backs of the greek people and 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 that the nature of a large debt load it just keeps growing and growing and it's going to put 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 all of this government eventually. for more insight we're joined live from via u.k. by university of lot of professor cost us a doozy hello there mr dizziness thank you very much for joining us now you've written in an article that greece is standing up to e.u. new york or new is and what exactly do you mean by that. i mean neocolonial has both an economic and political sense of the term economically what is happening to greece now and what has happened over the last year is that we have imposed upon a groupie and kountry what we used to call an economic structural adjustment this is exactly what the i.m.f. used to do to. to various other places in the developing world and i was thinking

this paper the guardian said yesterday the measures that are now being imposed from greece sound like a wish list of i.m.f. bankers just before they went to ben aside and let me say she thinks about these measures these measures mean that the salaries and pensions of people in the public sector has been cut up to forty percent they mean that and employment going up to about sixteen percent with forty five percent for the few thousand flowing men in it which means that the whole generation of young people is being destroyed they mean one hundred fifty thousand jobs lost in the public sector and they mean that some of the most important utilities like. night and efficiently power what is being sold books now this is absolutely unprecedented in any western european country for the last one hundred us so that is a normal part of it this is an i.m.f. composed totally neocolonial set of measures but politically also what has happened

over the last year is that the higher you may have the view and they seem to be keep sending every couple of months young guys are gang technocrats lucky they go to the ministry they ask to look at the goods and then they decided what should be done and what's not be done and now they're setting up a company to settle off the family silver all these public assets and it is again the europeans who are going to decide how to sell it what the senator from north and politically again piecemeal colonial because if you look at the government that has been asked. to accept these measures there were insistent demands that the opposition all opposition parties should accept it so we have a situation in which the main power structure of greece has no move from athens into brussels and the other european centers and the greek politicians and the greek public has been last really to implement what they would

have been decided the purchaser does and i just following on that train of thought there are those that would argue that the formation of the euro zone is is more of a political move a more than anything else well what sort of political ramifications do you think we could expect if greece about as the eurozone. they would be loads of case with but let me start by saying that it's not really clear how greece would be expelled or how greece could leave the eurozone because the treaties creating the euro zone have absolutely no provision about either expelled from the withdraw so it would be a major institutional increased use of a problem or you know how you're going to actually administer such a huge event having one country leave the form of power so that there's the first drop that if not were to happen it would have to come at the back of a major restructuring of the whole lead to freeze the institutional and legal aid official begin to be and you know now of course if hypothetically these were to

leave or indeed to be expelled everyone says that the whole eurozone would suffer from what is now called a contagion to spread the end of the disease that immediately the credit rating agencies and hedge funds and so on will move to been met by a lot of members of the eurozone portugal blood perhaps to spain it course involved with property the whole view of what would be with them would come to grief but there's also another compete you know that it's been happening in the contagion i would call it a political contagion because what people realized is that both in greece and in you when the big people stood up and for forty days of the old guide the central square ruffins and about sixty squares full of greece the government was seen to lose all its legitimacy and it is now a government with a very limited so fly for it is a kind of bed money working but inside as i just want to follow on that part you

were talking about contagion i mean we have seen it bawling like dominoes erode if what sort of signal do you think of the events in greece are sending to the europeans at this moment do you think they are concerned at all i mean practically speaking that this could be happening in the countries that you had mentioned. absolutely absolutely. athens had this series of protests over the last year one day general strikes but nothing much had happened in the sense people had accepted of they have to take some punishment they felt that they were a little guilty they were scared because the government was saying that unless we have the these measures pensions are listen not going to be paid but then the last forty days when people peacefully without any violence people from all parties from no party all the ideologies all ages all of the patrons came to this quest just south of there that subs there and kept saying that you do not represent us anymore you do not longer follow and support great interest but you have become the agency

for european bankers that point things start to change and they change not just in greece they change all over you over the last week the major western media from the new york times to the guardian to morrow to frankfurt they all changed their mind for the first time they realized that people who had been hurt by these measures it was put just the distance it will go to figures on a spreadsheet and was he realized that the light changed the guardian yesterday the guardian a major debate in british newspaper actually in its leader in the main political position of the paper. right for the first time that greece must perform right well thank you very much i mean certainly dizziness for your thoughts there live from the u.k. university of lot of professor gives you no thank you. oh your opinion counts visit our website r.t. dot com have your say in our latest on long poll and today we asked you what should

people do about the new set of asperity cards is approved so far most of you think they should defend the rights until early elections a close second with thirty three percent is the opinion that they must prepare for even worse cuts with bankruptcy still looming and other less favorable responses or the greek should consider ever grating and that they have lost their pride and must tighten their belts. only have more for you online log on to our websites learn how police prevented a terrorist attack during a drug raid. both to the u.k. now we're up to three quarters of a million public sector workers are preparing for industrial action well they're voicing their opposition to plan the changes to their pay and pensions both part of

the government's a sturdy mushers a third of schools are expected to close with a court hearing specific u.k. airports bracing themselves for destruction. is in london following developments for us. not. being in the london about seven hundred thousand people tend to make these. teachers very symbolic. of all it's not just not to let them. be sent mentioned by. the signs we know it's not just people in love and people think that all are inside but we do want to say that about ninety percent of the. same either it's going to be a long delayed airports because muslims integrate. the cells are also striking as well all these people are demanding that the cuts will not be processed the

government does not go along with the cuts they do say that they do consultation to take liberties and not willing to work longer hours let's. see if she gets. some of this. to the six states where it takes sixty votes are being. sincere not to be made to see if it is a small sliver of financial crisis. those most responsible for her predicament. largely untouched. seems to be right in the terms of some agreement half way through without consultation of the people most of. the changes that it may consider pensions voted necessary to his way to address so i think we do need to make cutbacks in things are being. cut in the pilot teacher pensions by sight much

as if it's too hot we're nothing nothing in any significant distances other than the is that possible traffic disturbance to take place at the same time there are organisations such as the case now to this network for old people to turn in cities and all the rage against the tory led coalition sending maybe two months to get a little bit rowdy the same time we also must not love the fact that anything might also take to the streets and make them damage. but other than that people are expected to protest peacefully again it's one of the million people that are going to be marching from the center of london to go to the parliament to make their voices heard the public says the pension fund each up by the government. the russian foreign minister has highlighted double standards at the un over the organisation's approach to the arab world so gay lover all says the crisis in syria yemen are provoking a vastly different and unjustified approaches are peter all of our reports out 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 to what he sees as a western desire regime change in the middle east saying that this was on the acceptable and the should 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. the the situation in libya has progressed 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 that u.n. resolution and keen to avoid a similar

a similar situation occurring in syria yemen. sigil of growth pulling no punches he's out to those that have 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 in appropriate i'll give you a simple example the situation in yemen is no easier than in syria there's a civil war going on there but nobody's going to the u.n. security council to try and stop it. sergei lavrov there reiterating in some ways words he has said before that russia wants to see a peace crawls around in the arab world through discussion in diplomacy and not through international intervention something that they will not support. a lover of

has also announced that moscow is waiting for confirmation from libyan rebels that they have received weapons from france well if proven true the russian foreign minister says it would be a serious violation of the u.n. arms embargo french officials earlier at middlebury military has airlifted eyeless into the country it's the first time a nato member has owned up to supplying weapons to libya since the bombing began over three months ago the alliance is pressing the paris to explain why it acted unilaterally without consulting brussels the un the mandate our lives we have does allow military intervention to protect civilians but fall short of authorizing grounded bishan and arm supplies paris based political analyst says three countries have hijacked them and it. 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 armed rebels and 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 contradicts it there is no doubt that the three countries britain france and america who are waging this war under the disguise of nato of course wish to see the rebels seize power i force and overthrow gadhafi we must be careful about using the word nato this war is being fought by britain france and america they use nato as the figley but 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 france will possibly increase tensions within the coalition although i repeat that the war is being waged by three countries using nato as a disguise. an egyptian court has ordered a probe into fresh clashes between police and protesters in cairo hundreds of

people were injured as more riots swept through the country activists are angry at the interim government is saying there have been no improvements since hosni mubarak was toppled in february but for more this let's talk to journalists. is in a london for us i'm interested restaurant see we are starting to see more violence on the streets of egypt again why is that it looks like a very serious situation indeed the government such as it is hasn't responded to the concerns of the people the strikes at the suez canal transportation workers people being killed again on the streets of cairo a lot of people are out of the corporate media and meanwhile we have william burns in cairo talking with mr turn tally the provisional head at the moment of the government and even the trial of the interior minister who is hated so much on the interior minister and also has been adjourned people are not getting what they thought they were getting when they toppled hosni mubarak. talking about the

military government they're in power now is there a danger that this military government could hold on to power. well the americans seem to be wanting one to get that way they're into space and as i said william deputy secretary of state along with the c.e.o. of general electric and the head of coca-cola the middle east i want to what they're talking about at least the egyptian government such as it is did refuse the three billion dollar loan which would have been in return for mass privatization and all the things that many of those protesters that we saw in tahrir square earlier in the year would not have wanted to particularly the loss of sovereignty they had a loss of sovereignty anyway they certainly weren't fighting a revolution for a loss of sovereignty because of the plans by dominique strauss kahn or christine legarde would it wouldn't that just provoke more protests if the u.s. is one thing keep its military government in power and if people want a more democratic government in place. well the obama administration is now in

talks with the muslim brotherhood causing some tensions now with israel so the obama administration on the scene thinks that by going over talking to the muslim brotherhood they can stave off more demonstrations are going to overthrow what is in power at the moment i wonder if the muslim brotherhood is going to be wise about this and presumably they're going to make gaza part of the equation so i'm not sure the american strategy will work in this case as it didn't work when there was that flip flopping by the obama administration before we must remember that joe biden and hillary clinton didn't want to go barak to go through all the mubarak and his cronies so many of them are retaining power he's a very dangerous situation and we mustn't forget what's crucial here for the international it's a national outlook is this is going to hell that's where trade goes through and it is the most populous country arab country in the arab world and we're not hearing anything about this in the corporate news it's as if revolutions done and dusted in the egyptian people if you're talking here what you're saying is that the u.s.

is talking to the military government also talking to the muslim brotherhood let's talk about the actual egyptians themselves they did fight to talk of a bar during much of violent protests and they don't seem to like the current regime any more than the last one so what's going to come out emerge out of all this well i'm sure that those people in tahrir square that were injured in the last forty eight hours will be thinking of the rubber bullets and tear gas and their made in usa and made in israel markings the people of egypt are not going to forgive the united states or or its allies any time soon for eight years of misery caused by their proxy government ok just very briefly do you think there's any real hope for democracy in egypt. absolutely amazing thing that they did get rid of all against us had your wallet concerns i think the future still looks bright but. let's hope the demonstration which as we've called for eighth of july that's

absolutely true is that what they want. thank you very much that was journalist option or times you talking to us live from london thank you. and now to some international stories we're covering for you today you had a back to tribunals has issued arrest warrants in a connection that would be a murder in two thousand and five of lebanon's former prime minister rafik hariri official savior warrants named for senior members of hezbollah are members of the group denouncing the tribunals one hundred vowed action against it rafik hariri was killed along with twenty two others in february two thousand and five in central beirut when a bomb exploded as his part passed by. a rival 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 which forced some one hundred seventy thousand people to flee or the two sides still have to agree on how sudan's oil wealth will be divided once the separation

takes place the region has seen a more than two decades of civil war which claimed over two million lives. two french journalists are back at home after eighteen along parts of captivity in afghanistan the man had been held hostage by the taliban but are said to be in good health and good spirits of the t.v. reporter and his cameraman were taken along with afghan colleagues in late two thousand and live while filming in remote mountains it's the longest seizure of french nationals since the lebanese hostage crisis in the right eighty's. all in around five minutes the latest in our series of reports on life in the former soviet republics the first meeting years here with business update. thanks to say hello and welcome to business artie castro bell russa's asked russia

to freeze apprising place for gas belew said an exclusive rights to buy russian gas at a lower price than the european average however the benefits were planned to end this year elissa fishel say a country has a right to cheaper deliveries they claim the two countries are creating a common economic zone and price levels should be equal and there's a gazprom could lose six hundred fifty million dollars this year if prices are frozen in twenty twelve it could amount to three billion dollars but as gas giant gazprom has held its annual general meeting in the company has announced an increase of the investment program to a record level as are things many in the course of 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 i mean declining production they're also looking to work with asian partners and in particular they're trying to strike of 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 terrorise also are quite positive these are the cells 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. most of the markets in the world prices. a pretty strong session before actually went down already this was down twenty cents brands. if we move to stock markets in the u.s. the market was still in iraq lucky streak with the dow gaining for the fourth

session in a row itself around one percent this hour this is all on optimism about greece's bailout tech stocks h.p. and so on in the lead they're up around three percent. european stock markets ended the first day session on a positive note. the dax one point one percent this is all again the based on greece's optimism the lloyds banking group surged around nine point seven percent on a well received cost cutting. and russian stocks ended moderately high point six percent my six point four percent if you look at the major stocks will see that lukoil. it's up one percent of the close all the energy companies were not as lucky as burbank also on the rise held by reports it's eighty hours of proof trading in london and frankfurt and ross telecom slipped into the red by the closing of trade while it was talking you know all day long after it announced the six percent increase in net profit for the first quarter and the about then a from gas from the bank wraps up today's trade. it's already

a summer in the it's worth thirty outside of the window they should look at everything is credible between russian and international warrants we're sure looking with probably a little more optimism because with the market was really nervous about different things and greece first of all and when it's at least in terms of the boarding it's all done. you should be some relief on the market. central bank has left the key interest rate unchanged the first time since november the refinance rate has been kept the eight point two five percent of the two increases earlier this year the decision comes amid slowing inflation and europe's debt crisis spreading to do rail rebound in global growth and russian farmers may harvest ninety million tons of grain this year good weather continues into july that's a third more than last year after a record drought damaged around a third of the crops the move comes as a moscow lifts grade exports to the export ban rather introduced to avoid domestic

shortages and we will be back next hour with an update the headlines are next with . twenty years ago in the largest country in. the sense of a sense of. what had been. begun a journey.