three. three. three stooges three. three blown call it video story or media project a free media gun to our teeth dot com. there is growing frustration outside the greek parliament as people gather to protest against the final bill that clears the way for european bailout funds to be released well it's a decision that means higher taxes and fewer jobs for ordinary people. and the u.k. braces itself for mass destruction as hundreds of thousands of public sector workers begin industrial action in response to plant the changes to their conscience and pay. thousands of teachers the civil servants and border patrol officers are staying in the plans mean more and more of the reduced mentions as the post-industrial protests against the government's austerity measures is taking over

london and. expose us double standards at the un over the organization's hard line position on syria with moscow calling for a strictly diplomatic solution. the 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 olive oil not so later on. russia's gazprom says it's boosting its investment program and raising dividends to record levels find out more block him out of the a.g.m. of the company in our business. just after ten pm in the russian capital you're watching r t thanks for joining us and now to our top story. greece has voted on

a second bill and the final step towards implementing the next wave of hysteria measures it's the last hurdle that athens has to jump to qualify for a new stock of european bailout funds all the plans met with resistance with more than a three hundred people injured in two days of riots financial journalists and media is in the heart of athens where 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 this on the streets perpendicular 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 seen going 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 the debt right now the principle problem for those people people trying to pad 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 greeks that people are discussing realistically as a default a 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 barter to 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 exacted the wrath of the northern europeans in this country but the amount of money from but that bail does not come all at once it's trost by trying to dissipate was the fifth installment of 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 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 or 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 killed 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 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 this government eventually. professor accost us news in oxford the university of london told r.t. earlier that greece is being enslaved by europe economically what is happening to greece now and what has happened over the last year is that we have imposed upon of european countries work we used to call an economic structure of adjustment these measures mean that the salaries and pensions of people in the public sector have been cut to up to forty percent they mean that unemployment is going up to about sixteen percent to forty five percent of youth unemployment ili 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 electricity power what is being sold off of this is absolutely unprecedented in any western european country for the last one hundred years this is an i.m.f. imposed totally new york along a set of measures but politically also what has happened over the last year is that the i.m.f. the e.u. and the e.c.b. keep sending every couple months young guys like gang technocrats latham's they go to the ministries they ask to look at their goods and then they decide what should be done and what should not be bad so we have a situation in which the main power structure of greece has now moved from athens into brussels and the other european sentence and the greek politicians and the greek public has been asked really to implement whatever

they've been decided and where. well your opinion counts you can visit our web site that's r t dot com and have your say in our latest online poll and today we ask you what's a greek people do once the new set of a sturdy cards is approved so far most of you think they should defend the rights until early elections but close second with thirty four percent is the opinion that they must prepare for even a worse cots bankruptcy still to me and other less favorable responses are the greeks should consider emigrating and that they have lost the fight and must tighten their belts. we have more for you online so log on to our website to learn how police prevented a terrorist attack and during a drug raid. to the u.k. now we're up to three quarters of

a million public sector workers are preparing for industrial action they're voicing their opposition to plan that changes to their pay and pensions both part of the government's austerity measures well a third of schools are expected to close with a court hearing specific to add to u.k. airports bracing themselves for disruption artie's it is in london are following developments for us. the biggest mass action. to take place in the long dead about seven hundred thousand people thousand people the turn of the. teachers the team members apologies. all expenses up to explain their sons in this enough to be sent but since the teacher planned by the government now it's obvious we know it's not just the college students and people saying that all are inside but without to say that about ninety percent of london. does it say also there is such belong to the airports because customs and immigration officials are also taking as well

all of these people is announcing that the cuts will not be tells us that the government is not told because they do say that if you want to change it you can teach in not willing to work longer hours than let's. say it will. come up the most. people say let's see where. the cuts are being made in the wrong direction so they're not to be made to see if it is the sponsor of the current financial crisis. those most responsible for her and predicament. largely untouched by government seems to be writing the truth so it's a. half way through without consultation of the people most of. the changes that it makes it a pensions will find it necessary to see some way to address so i think we do need

to make. something. try in the pilot teaching which is by so much as if it's too hot we're nothing that seems to meet the distances other than the laws that possible try out the seven states take place at the same time there are organisations such as the education cuts is not one bolt on. people to turn learned . all the rage against the more liberal the since and they maybe didn't get that melody the same time we also must not love the fact that it is my goal to take to the streets and make them it's easy but other than that people are expected to protest peacefully again it's one of the million people that are going to be marching from the center of london to watch them to make this test the pension plan by the government. more on the situation in the u.k. we'll cross live to daniel garvin an activist from anti tax avoidance group u.k.

on cuts who is unlocked at a for us now thank you very much for joining us now the u.k. government says the plan changes to pensions are fair to taxpayers under called accept or do you think britain should be more supportive of their government during a time of crisis. that repeat do you think britain should be more supportive of their government. well we know basically the government's line is you know any any changes to the pensions or any other public set of cuts are entirely necessary because we have such knowledge that we need to remember where this came from this came from eight hundred fifty billion pounds that was pumped into the banking sector a couple of years ago and still continues to this day so you know we have a debt and now we've got to ask ourselves how do we deal with that and it's sort of going after the cause the financial crisis and some of the wealthiest people in our society were avoiding some twenty five billion tax pounds in taxes every single year the government plans to basically go after it would marry working people and

so they didn't struggle for pensions is just one of many public sector cuts to come over the next cult following years so it basically is a huge amount of anger in this country because it's incredibly unfair that ordinary working people who have nothing to do with the financial crisis are being asked to pay for a crisis that was caused by the by ok well there's talk of more protests to come in the u.k. over the next few months how likely is that i mean you're talking about a lot of anger but do you think this could gather steam along the way. well i mean we wait to see you know maybe their house and have the greatest reputation of the militancy of a country such as greece however you know people are already pretty angry and the cuts are yet really coming in britain the moment the cuts are kind of academic debate they're about to really start hitting people's pockets they rather start getting. people going to notice jobs being lost are going to notice their welfare

payments being caught people going to start losing their homes etc and when once this really cuts through those cuts begins really probably i think that's when we're going to start seeing relying on the streets and the unions are already ramping up the rhetoric that we're going to call for of why the general strike and also so i think things are beginning to build up and you know the student movement of last year they're talking about further mobilization is in new york city so if you combine that with the unions i think you know definitely in the run up to christmas this year i think we're going to start to see some real disruption in this country ok well this is the first industrial action faced by u.k. government and years does that mean or does it show that the coalition government is too weak to handle this kind of discontent with the public. well you know the government is putting on a brave face and it's going to be no easy fight to stop these cuts we're dealing here with an incredibly ideological government they are making the deep its cuts since nine hundred nineteen they're making deeper more ideological cuts than

moderates that she didn't she certainly wasn't an easy pushover and nobody no means to anybody in this country think this is going to be an easy pushover and that is why i think really the unions and everyone in this country really has to start you know one strike one day is not going to be enough no one thinks it's going to be enough so really we have to see sustained industrial action if this is a sustained protests on the streets you know the students really have to come back to that kind of militancy you know look what happened in greece even boughts pressure wasn't enough to stop the government giving way so you know really i think we really have got to really really push through really disruptive protests and full of full industrial action which hopefully you know the coming months and maybe coming years things will start to develop ok just very briefly if you can give it to us in the bullet points if you will what are the government's options practically speaking away from the theoretical measures. what are their options

regarding alternatives i mean to steer the country out of this crisis. i mean they say there are no it is they say you've got to you've got a debt the only way to cut that is to stop spending what we're seeing is that you know the other alternative is to go after the banks that are making huge amounts of profits again and giving huge amounts of bonuses this dark let's let's look at getting money off them to pay for the financial crisis and also you know let's go to go look at tax avoidance twenty five billion pounds every single year is lost by the wealthiest individuals and corporations minimizing it and spill that means we're losing vast sums of money which could pay for so many of these cuts. ok well thank you very much for your thoughts daniel barden an activist from the u.k. i'd cut talking to us live from london thank you. and still on the way for young scientology controversy find out why some of the works of l.

ron hubbard the leader of the divisive church has been declared illegal in russia. now the russian foreign minister has highlighted double standards at the u.n. over the organization's approach to the arab world so the law says the crisis in syria and yemen are provoking vastly different and unjustified approaches 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 to what he sees as the west in desire for regime change in the middle east saying that this was on except to russia would not support any circumstances he also went on to highlight the fact that this was actually against international law bellman russia feels a little disappointed to say the least about the way that the the situation in

libya has progressed russia of course abstaining from the vote on the u.n. resolution that allowed international intervention 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 fate a similar situation occurring in syria yemen now sergei lavrov 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 with 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 crawls around in the arab world to discussion and diplomacy and not international intervention something that they will not support. simply love rod has also announced that moscow is waiting for confirmation from libyan rebels that they have received weapons from france or if proven true the russian foreign minister says it would be a serious violation of the u.n. arms embargo french officials earlier admittedly our military has lifted arms into the country it's the first time a nato member has owned up to supplied weapons to libya or that since bombing began over three months ago the alliance is pressing paris now to explain why it acted unilaterally without consulting brussels the u.n. mandate of libya does allow military intervention to protect civilians but it falls short of authorizing ground invasion and arm supplies but paris based political

analysts darkland 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 armed 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 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 by 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 leaf but nato itself is of course a 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. and now was some international stories we're covering for you today a u.s. backed tribe you issued arrest warrants in connection with the murder in two thousand and five of robin and former prime minister rafiq hariri official say the warrants named for senior members of hezbollah are members of the group denounce the tribunals and have vowed action against it rafik hariri was killed along with twenty two others in frederick two thousand and five in central beirut when a bomb exploded as his car passed by. rival forces in sudan have mutually agreed to withdraw from its border areas ahead of southern independence next week the agreement follows two separate deals to end the fighting which for 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 thus the suffer a shift 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 along parts 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 camera ready were taken along with their afghan colleagues in late two thousand and nine when filming in remote mountains well it's the longest seizure of french nationals since the lebanese hostage crisis in the nineteen eighties. the russian court has found that some scientology literature distributed in russia is illegal the writings by l. ron hubbard the founder of the church had been ruled extremist and anti social r.t. sarah ferguson outside the sidewalls which 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 respects now this court decision we saw today concerns the banning of all of the books by the founder of scientology our ron hubbard were actually the main headquarters then you can see the break up that they got on the lower floors they sell some of these books or those materials that were considered by the court to contain calls for extreme activities now this ruling actually mirrors a simmering that we saw in a court in april of last year that was in the siberian city if they could and in that instance it was very similar books that was thought to have been found to contain cools the station religious hatred and people to work against law enforcement activities now in that instance the justice ministry actually overturned the decision is we've heard to date the court decision hasn't actually been enforced yes it is but i 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 head what he had to say about the decision. the decision is surprising l. ron hubbard stretching has been going around the world for sixty years people across hundred and sixty five countries have been used to make their lives better and new country ever found him to be extremist think the keys and appropriately make an appeal because decision is brought into force. is just like. ten million followers worldwide and those he said scientology often cutting into the limelight for their controversial practice and again this is another example of where that happens. all the back shortly with a recap of our top stories and some sports news coming your way as well before the dimitris here with the business update. thank you very much tessa hello and welcome to business r.t.

cast strapped to better results russia to freeze the price a place for gas but always had an exclusive right to buy russian gas at a lower price than the european average however the benefits were planned and this year there was official say the country has a right to cheaper deliveries they claim the two countries are creating a common economic zone price levels should therefore be equal and the say gas from could lose six hundred fifty million dollars this year if prices are frozen in two thousand and twelve it could lose of two free billion dollars russia's gas giant gazprom as held its annual general meeting the company has announced an increase of its investment program to a record level i think in the course of as details. it's pretty clear that gas problem is trying to increase its share in the market they're looking for new opportunities in europe especially germany they said that their exports in the first half of this year increased by twenty six percent and that was due to higher demand in europe and the decline in production they're also looking to work with

asian partners and in particular they're trying to sort 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 term results were quite positive these other cells revenues reach one hundred eighteen a billion dollars and of course they're expected to shareholders that 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. it's now well prices are mixed rallying earlier today now light sweet is up to fifty three cents well brant is fooling sixteen cents this is on the back of confidence about restoring them as greece is now one step closer to avoiding the full the u.s.

is on a lucky streak with the dow gaining for the fourth session in a row it's up a percent this sell this is all of course on optimism about greece's bailouts textbooks. more than three percent higher this hour. european stock markets and of . greek lawmakers approved additional storage measures this will help the country get more aid in the fold things up with awards banking group around one point seven percent of voters the cost cutting. and the rush also ended thursday session on a positive note with the point six percent my six point four percent. energy shares were actually mixed with rosneft declining why not look or was up one percent surveying also on the rise held by reports it's eighty years have been approved for trading in london and in frankfurt prices that exactly hundred roubles for share growth telecom slipped into the red by the closing on trade while it was one of the top came as all day after another six percent increase in the profit for the first

quarter and from gazprom bank wraps up today's trade. it's already this summer and it was sort of the window to make this kind of little bit of the national alliance we're sure would probably a little more optimism because obviously the market was getting nervous about different things in greece first of all with when it's at least in terms of being involved in it's all done. should be some relief on the market russian central bank has left a key interest rate unchanged for the first time since november the refinance rate has been capped at eight point two five percent after two increases earlier this year the decision comes amid slowing inflation and europe's debt crisis frightening to the rail of rebound in the growth. and russian farmers may harvest nineteen million tons of grain this year good weather continues into july that's a further more than last year after record drought damage crops the move comes as

moscow lifts grain exports than introduced to which a perceptual just. and that's from this edition of business hours he will be back in fifteen minutes with more.

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