there's growing frustration outside the greek parliament as people gather to protest against the final bill that clears the way for a european bailout funds to be released well it's a decision that means higher taxes than you are jobs for ordinary people. the u.k. braces itself for mass disruption as hundreds of thousands of public sector workers and begin industrial action in response to one of the changes to their pensions and pay. the teachers civil servants and border control officers are staying in the plans mean want to go into the reduced pensions as the first industrial protest against the government's austerity measures is taking over london. russia exposes a double standards at the un over the organisation'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 are not so good later on. just after midnight here 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 in the final step towards implementing the next a wave of a sturdy measures well it's the last hurdle that athens has to job to qualify for a new stock of european bailout funds well the plans met heavy public resistance with two days of rioting that's left more than three hundred people injured the national journalist amaechi coffee loss is right in the middle of the action at the syntagma square. in the front where you might hear some screaming that's where people are standing in front of my yes which is a street that passed in front of parliament and that's where more of the tonton

goes on that's where the laser police that's where they taunt police so you have you have the political type of movement that's that is growing right here in the center and over there you have the time thing you have more of what could potentially be violence but that's an important dichotomy because this is growing it's getting bigger and bigger and if there is going to be a political solution if it's going to be a political movement is going to come from over in there it's not going to come from inside the parliament and the people know that and that's why that crowd is drawing in size here is where you feel an immense amount of hope you can't help but feel that way the energy is amazing the atmosphere is charged with optimism and that's what these people feel that's why they're responding and you can't help but the habs be you know find yourself caught up in it and i think that's what's so special about what's happening right now is it transcends the violence the violence is simply a result of temporary frustrations that people feel when when the cause may tear gassed them or what not but this is what the greek government and the world should be focused on because that's where the future of this country rests what the greeks can do is what they're doing right now what they can do is they can go in into

custody and square amount of political resistance that's their only option that's the only constructive option because fighting this thing with sticks and rocks is not going to provide a constructive solution i'm a top of this government and they sent a country to anarchy but that's not what we want when we want to real political alternative greeks in particular. need very strong leadership we've seen that in the past in our history the people that are able to leave lead this nation of people of exceptional character and this is a marketplace a marketplace of ideas and a marketplace of politics it's a free market of of political ideas and that's what you're seeing here and it's where a possible leadership movement can emerge that can not just topple this government but provide a real answer a real solution and a real model for ireland and portugal and spain and other countries that are tired of their political elite and want something that's real and true and to the ground and response to what people want and to people's hopes and and ambitions and not to their fears. professor cost us dues in us from b. 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 had imposed upon a european kountry what we used to call an economic structural 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 i'll employment is going up to about sixteen percent with forty five percent of youth unemployment which means of the whole generation of guiding 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 both of this is absolutely unprecedented in any western european countries for the last one hundred years this is an imposed totally neo colonial 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 of months young guys like gang technocrats to the things they go to the ministries they ask to look at that and then they decide what should be done and what should not be done so we have a situation in which the main structure of greece has now moved from athens into brussels and the other european centers and the greek politicians and the greek public has been the last really to implement what they would have been decided them. well of course your opinion counts a visit our web site r.t. dot com and have your say in our latest online poll and today we ask you what should greek people do once the new set of a sturdy cots is approved well 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 with bankruptcy still looming and other less favorable responses

are that greeks should consider emigrating and that they have lost the fight and must tighten their belts. in course we have more online for you you can go to our website to learn how police prevented a terrorist attack during a drug raid. to the u.k. now we're up to three quarters of a million public sector workers are on strike well they're voicing their opposition to plan the changes to their pay and pensions both part of the government's austerity measures well the u.k. is bracing itself for disruption in several public services lucia has been following developments for us. and i would say that one hundred fifty thousand people at the turn to turn up at these hotels teachers bottle team members

apologies. all expenses up to express their condemnation of the recent mention the trip planned by the government as far as we know it's not just the college students and people since teachers that are in strike go but we do have to say that about ninety percent of london police. say also there are exceptions belong to the airports because customs and immigration officials are also striking as well all these people are demanding that the cuts will not be tells us that 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 that the blood banks have to pay it will. come up some of the teachers will be cut to the sixty eight it will take sixty votes 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 our current predicament. largely untouched the government seems to be writing the terms of some agreements halfway through without due consultation to the people most of. the changes that it may consider pensions will find it necessary to his way to address so i think we do need to make cutbacks in things i think. trying to pry the teacher pensions by so much as if it's too hot we're not expecting any significant disturbances other than the laws that possible traffic disturbance could take place at the same time there are organisations such as the education initiatives network the toll on people to turn first to these are all the rage against the four legs. since then they maybe do once you get to the same time we also must not love the fact that i don't think my old 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 want to make their way to. the pension plan by the government. largess daniel garvin says that the government is penalizing the wrong people with its tough spending cuts government. you know any any changes to the pensions or any other public said the cuts are entirely necessary because we have such a large debt 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 this sort of going to cause the financial crisis and some of the wealthiest people in our society who are avoiding some twenty five billion times in tax every single year the government plans through that to basically go off to ordinary working people and if you've

been struggling with the pensions is just one of many public sector cuts to come over the next four years so basically this is a huge amount of anger in this country because it's incredibly unfair that ordinary working people have nothing to do with the financial crisis are being asked to pay for crisis that was caused by the by. the way for you scientology controversy if i don't want some of the works of l. ron hubbard the founder of the divisive church and have been declared illegal in russia. the russian foreign minister has highlighted a double standards at the un over the organization's approach to the arab world so good lavrov says the crisis in syria are provoking vastly different 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 says out really where russia stands concerning the ongoing

situations in the arab world now he gets outside 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 it on the 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. 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 came to avoid a similar fate a similar situation occurring in syria or yemen sigil of rolf pulling no punches he hit out at those that have have criticised russia's stance on the u.n.

security council and also had a few words to say him 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's resolution on syria for the fact that we consider such a resolution inappropriate i'll give you a simple example the situation in yemen is no easier than in syria there's a 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 some ways words he has said before that russia wants to see peace brought around brought about in the arab world through discussion and diplomacy and not through international intervention something that they will not support. said a lover of has also announced that moscow was waiting for confirmation from libyan rebels that they have indeed. 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 admitted their military has airlifted arms into the country it's the first time a nato member has owned up to supply weapons to libya since bombing began over three months ago the alliance is pressing paris 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 paris based political analyst john locke one 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 contradict 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. least 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. pakistan has urged the us to shut down to leave an air base in the country southwest the facility has served as a launch pad for washington's drone attacks against militants on the volatile afghan border pakistani political analyst thinks the only way to stop the violence

is to end the war on terror one of the main reasons for the for the continuation of violent activity on the pakistan of gonna stand 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 to 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 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 he has been conducting this war over the past ten

years one step forward is of course what president obama has declared but you still words were good to see really actions on the ground and we have yet to see whether important agencies within the u.s. government like the central intelligence agency the cia would really cooperate. afghanistan is also leading our top stories for this hour as many as twenty people were killed southwest of galveston when a landmine exploded under a passenger bus the bus was traveling from kandahar to name it was a route also used by afghan police military and the u.s. led coalition forces the official say women and children are among the victims the incident took place in the same area where two buses had roadside bombs last year killing thirty people. a u.n. back tribunals has issued arrest warrants in connection with the murder in two thousand and five of lebanon's former prime minister rafik officials say be the warrant name for senior members of hezbollah and members of the group did now also

the tribunal and have vowed action against it because he was killed along with twenty two others in february two thousand and five in central b. 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 forced one hundred seventy thousand people to flee the two sides still have to agree on how sudan's oil wealth will be divided once the separation takes place so the region is see more than two decades of civil war which claimed over two million lives. 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 nationals since the lebanese hostage crisis in the one nine hundred eighty s. . now which officials have ordered a probe into fresh clashes between police and. tester's in cairo hundreds of people were injured as more riots were up the country activists are angry with the interim government saying there have been no improvements since hosni mubarak was toppled in february the journalist afshin rattansi says that the current government has ignored it the people's demands the government such as it is has not responded to the concerns of the people there strikes at the suez canal transportation workers people being killed again on the streets of cairo not a peep out of the corporate media and meanwhile we have william burns in cairo talking with mr we 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 mubarak has been adjourned people are not getting what they thought they were getting when they toppled hosni mubarak we must remember the joe biden and hillary clinton didn't want to go as well as mubarak and his cronies so many of them are retaining power and it's a very dangerous situation and we mustn't forget what's crucial here for be international. outlook is this is going to 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 it in the corporate news it's as if that revolutions done and dusted in the egyptian people of. the russian court has found that some scientology literature distributed 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 the books by the found scientology our ron hubbard they were actually the main headquarters then you can see the big job they've got on the lower floor 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 a good and in that instance it was very similar books that was thought to be found to contain cools the station the 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 today the court decision hasn't actually been in full say these votes 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. the coots 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 books to make their lives bitter and new country if you found them to be extremists who think the case was handled and appropriately and who make an appeal until the court's decision is brought into force who keeps just like. ten million followers worldwide and those we said scientology often coming into the limelight for that controversial practice and again this is another example of where that's happened and next we talked to british union leader mark sort of walker who says a public sector workers won't stop until they achieve their goals.

today i'm talking to mark hughes one of the brains behind the thirtieth of june nationwide strikes in the u.k. he's head of the public and commercial services union three hundred thousand members are walking out the proposed reforms to the pension scheme mr walker thanks for talking to r.t. today now this is possible to plan to cut public spending in this country just how drastic are these cuts going to be give us an impression of what they might mean for the cuts of the big most people. are projected to mean half a million jobs lost in the public sector six hundred thousand jobs in the private

sector as a direct result. in the delivery of welfare cuts in funding of education for young people and also a tax on people's pensions in addition to in many of the communities up and down the country will see libraries close cuts in social services everything that people have taken for granted as. you seem to see these cuts in terms of rights and wrongs almost a moral position but isn't there has to be respected for example they didn't reform and soon it looks like they might be able to afford teachers or nurses. in greece this is the fifth largest economy in the world and if you look at historically the british economy for fifty consecutive years from one thousand nine hundred on words our debt as a proportion of our g.d.p. was double what it is now then we millions of houses schools hospitals and.

recognizing actually economically these cuts. far better to cut the deficit by employing people who pay tax and insurance rather than throw them onto wealth where actually they depress the economy and we think my friends with us you've said that the government. just attack working people. but how do you think the strike. affects the. ruling class is what having three quarters of a million people from four different unions on strike is something that hasn't happened in this country for decades it's the start finish to the government is if they try to ignore we'll come back in the autumn and we may well see millions of people on strike so the idea is to build pressure so the government realise that working people reeling from the u.k. are not just going to let them get away with what they're doing and we believe. force them to change direction to government bill for pensions at the moment is around thirty billion pounds which does seem excessive a lot of money how do you

suggest that they would you say. i don't think they should reduce it i'm quite clear that retirement of dignity and old age where you don't have to struggle to make ends meet should be what we aspire for in the fifth richest country in the world so my view is public sector pensions and all pension provision is important and instead of a risk to the bottom where we see the worst pension provision in the private sector becoming the model i'd like to see a rising of pension provision and saying it's a priority for people to have a decent retirement could be done in many ways cutting the renewal of trident for example would save us enough money to pay for those pensions for three or four years. where the richest people in britain avoid paying over one hundred billion a year would actually mean these pensions look fairly cheap in comparison and you mentioned the private sector and private sector workers say that she the public sector has a very good deal when it comes to pensions a lot better than a lot of private sector provision do you think there's really public support for

what you're doing the opinion polls seem to tell us already a majority of people actually believe the public sector pensions are important and arriving at the right level or should even be higher that's incredible when you think of the propaganda we've had over the last two years from politicians in the media telling everybody the public sector pensions are the cause of people. the problem my masters to private sector workers is they are being exploited by their shareholders and by the company chiefs not by public sector workers pensions and we should have a campaign that seeks to drive all pension levels up not cut down to the worst. what would you accept in terms of pension reform what i personally believe that it is not acceptable to make anyone to pay a penny more for their pension when the valuation of public sector pension schemes say they're costing less because that's not about pensions it's about raising taxes to solve the deficit i don't believe people should be forced to work longer and i don't believe people should have the levers of their pension slashed so where we are in the talks at the moment and that's the government fundamentally except they

have to talk about those things and i believe the industrial action is going to take place you have said in fact that the government doesn't look like it's prepared to negotiate so what's the point of striking. when the point is to change your mind and saying you won't negotiate just when they're having a chat with a few people in the room is one thing saying you want to go see it when there could be millions of people taking strike action is entirely another and we actually believe that the six million trade unionists plus the thousands and thousands or hundreds of thousands of pensioners and students all becoming a joint campaign is going to be prolifically very powerful we've already seen in britain a march of one hundred five hundred thousand people three months ago transformed the political mood in this country from march can do to our viewers but what could strikes actually do how exactly do you think that march changed the political needs is transformed in that it was on the front page of the newspapers it was on every t.v. station and it gave people

a confidence that however small the community and i have a small they see me for example keeping alive they understood they were part of a much much wider problem and i think that's given us confidence to move from a march to now for unions balloting members or members voting overwhelmingly for a strike so it's. clearly transforming not just people's confidence but the opinion polls clearly are shifting whereas a majority before said they oppose strikes now in the most recent polls a majority says they are sympathetic to them not so welcome thank you very much thank you.