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today's top stories in a review of the week twelve billion euros in the e.u. eight are coming to the rescue of greece's economy while violent protest against a group harsh new cards took the country. one of the crimes against humanity as the international criminal court issues an arrest warrant for the cut off he's the son of the libyan leader alas is out of the decision exclusively telling r t the court it's. a u.s. captain of a gaza flotilla ship that's impressive by greek authorities after several vessels were seasoned forward following what activists believe as pressure from israel and the u.s. . a mass walk out of public sector workers hit schools airports and job centers across the u.k. as people protested against their pensions being slashed.

at a national news live from moscow this is r t with me today we take a look at the top stories of the week greece has erupted into some of the worst civil unrest it's seen this week asked thousands of angry protesters flooded the streets of athens the eurozone has agreed to expand a life line to the canonically crippled country but people raged against tough new cuts and tax hikes which were needed to secure the second handout face was twenty eight billion euros worth of the stair new measures protesters gathered and front of the parliament building for stones at police massed windows and set fire to property police responded with tear gas and stun grenades dozens from both sides were injured while many demonstrators were detained the e.u. and the international monetary fund they're preparing to release an extra twelve

billion euros in the next two weeks without the money greece will default on its loans within days but financial journalist demetri coffee now says the greek government has simply bought itself a stay of execution. i think the people here pretty much given up on the three hundred members of parliament that reside in the in the part of the building across the street from the constitution square i think the only real option for them right now is for the protesters and for the greek people is if some sort of political option or movement develops out of the society out of the ranks of ordinary people who are intelligent or capable who come from universities who have some idea of what the country needs according to scholars here in greece or constitutional scholars and former members of the government they claim that the measure completely unconstitutional the first place because you need one hundred eighty members of parliament to pass a sort of legislation first of all second of all they can pass whatever they like but if the people don't agree to it and the people are not willing to sit down and take it it doesn't really matter what they pass and that's what we're seeing here right now what you're looking to have happen is you're going to see

a fall of this government at some point that's. if things go it really the violence is a really big issue because if if the violence if this results in casualties not just massive injuries then that's going to that's going to lead to a collapse of this government will that mean that the next government will come in and actually do something productive maybe maybe not but then the governor will have to fall to i don't see the people in this country lying down one of the things that is circulating here is a video that shows police not just police brutality with there's a lot of that but also police working with provocateurs agent provocateurs with the escorted into a safe location that they were communicating with and relaying information from there's a report that the head of the pharmaceutical national karma superstation here in greece is going to be filing a lawsuit along with other people against the government for use of illegal substances because these weren't just it was just tear gas there were other chemicals and including us fixating agents and that's why you see a lot of people here i saw them myself and a lot of people other people saw them passing out not being able to breathe people

inside the metro station not being able to breathe the hospital for that reason and people are very angry here and they're very upset and they understand what's going on and they understand these measures are not going to help them and their future. despite the violent protest e.u. officials have welcomed the greek astaire the measures saying the move will help a conjured get back into a path of recovery but as r.t. sara first has been finding out manny greeks believe the plans are to rescue the banks not the people. on the streets of athens the voices of discontent a growing louder. it's a war we did not create this so we're not going to pay for this that we want to take but it's greece continues to fight against economic ruin second day in. an attempt to prevent. its previous lame with payments that the greek people will be feeling a penny. of this buyout money actually comes into the greek economy it all

goes out. interest payments repayments the battles on save the banks and prevent a large scale financial crisis for the people the price is simply too high they see their income going down they see taxes doxies taxes and nothing else their money does not go to very early corner me a year is struggling against partial sterett he measures has meant the government now faces an electorate opposed to another bailout or people here have been saying is that for. me i am the european central bank in the. finance the initial bailouts the chain of one hundred ten billion a year when bell stopped looking at ways of continuing to push loan money towards i'm really coming to a plan b. in fact when it comes to the choice many people now in greece simply don't want their help their actions is being born as a self interest throw. away to get as much as they can.

get out. to get all this they. i mean. they are going to give almost everything. below it's certainly come it's a high cost for the cuts in public spending a raise in taxes and an aggressive privatization program that would mean the sale of many great public assets one of the reasons that everybody is so determined to keep greece in the euro the banks don't have to take a serious hit on their faulty lending policies and it's almost as if there's a whole other holy alarms of politicians and bankers versus ordinary people it's a fight that the people say they're not prepared to. r.t. athens. eurozone finance ministers are working out the finer details of the athens

rescue package but law professor costas us from the university of london says the bailout will effectively hand over greek sovereignty to the e.u. and the international monetary fund. these measures mean that the solution of people in the public sector has been caught up to forty percent they mean. by the romans going up to about sixteen percent it was forty five percent on the floor and 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 duty to this is being sold by so logical moment part of this is an aluminum he told the new york alone and said the best and for you to play a game with these neocolonial because of the looks of the government that have not to accept these measures there were. demands that the opposition all of which is the party should accept so we have

a future in which the main structure of greece is no move from athens to brussels and the other european centers and the greek politicians and the greek public has been relieved to implement what they would have been decided that. now is law professor cos is talking about how the bailout is taking decisions out of greece's hands. on monday the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for levy as colonel gadhafi excusing himself crimes against humanity in the hague has grounds to believe he ordered attacks of civilians during the beginning of levy as unrest with scores thought to have been killed the african union said it will not cooperate with the tribunals demand an exclusive interview with r t colonel gadhafi saif al islam who is also under the court's arrest warrant international justice is nothing more than a sham. the score is it is it is it may come off court come on the accuse me of

killing people what about you know the sentence against. the compulsion so they decided to kill. and and it did kill my brother and destroyed my house so this is me to execute you so now you are talking about arrest me to demands are going to kill me and you are after me every day you are trying to to find me and to get me over there my father so it is simple number two just to tell you that it's a free court under the table they are trying to negotiate with us a deal to if you accept this deal we will take care of the court what does mean that means is is controlled by those countries. which attack us every day it's just to put. a political pressure that.

even see the full interview was safe on islam in about twenty minutes time here in r.t. or it can find it on our website com. many libyans feel the criminal court is just a cover for nader's attempts to kill colonel gadhafi saying it's the alliance's members who should be held to account for the bombing campaign artist maria for an arson investigator the consequences of the continuing airstrikes which are said to be directed only at the military targets. the road from the capital tripoli to brag his lined with the aftermath of war towns abandoned as the population fled the bombardment. this is what's left of the civilian airport in the siege of that also a new home to one of the country's key oil refineries the last plane took off from this runway just hours before it was hate. to say so it's hardly hitting the targets of military value well call say these telecommunications towers so fifteen minutes west of the tower to be destroyed in a time now this is

a safe two strikes and they've also accidentally burned to cars and killed two civilians since and there is no t.v. in this area and as we can see the phone light has also been disrupted. there is no water and no. what used to be heaven this man says has become hell towards home now who's unfamiliar. i have nine children and i send them all to my relatives abroad i don't want them to see their mother and says you condition. from the small poor not far from bread to live in gas used to flow to europe. we used to produce fuel to send it to them and now see they destroy it all this is terrible and ridiculous at the same time the closer you get to the front line the more you feel it you can hear the war and you can even read it on

a tuesday leaflets jobs just before the bombers arrive. this runs has as you can see there is a sign here in arabic. nato is here leave it to in force and i'll fly zone over the country to protect civilians on the other side there is another sign also in arabic saying that nato can attack any place at any time. any time happened three times over several hours while we were filming regulators major parties where the frontline was dividing the country into two parts into two. sides is going to put one flashpoint between the rebels and gadhafi forces it's a very important point to quote case gets in a firm hand on this town would mean taking control over the country's economy all facilities seem to be a red target that nato bombs never land on while it looks like the civilian population can hardly skate. they were like my family not just going to the shop to

buy some foods and this happened six of them died i couldn't believe it. and this used to be a restaurant or old company staff where friends gathered after work. with my colleagues then there was a we knew what that was we tried to help those trapped in the helicopters came and started to shoot at us. from one street to another the stories are repeated really conserve our problem a little. later not so every madam every day every day did bombing a big killed our civilians lived another with this country this is from libya well those voices become more and more frequent is the sound of exploding bombs and warplanes the drones than. tripoli. moscow has raised concern over france supplying weapons to libyan rebels and over ambiguous interpretations of the u.n. security council resolution i'll leave you france's admission as a first time

a nato member has opened up to air lifting arms to the country since the beginning . the campaign russia has also criticized what it calls the double standards being applied to the situations unfolding in syria and yemen moscow's opposed to adopting a un resolution condemning crackdowns on protesters in syria fearing such a mandate could ask even more violence foreign minister sergei lavrov said the continuing turmoil in the two countries is being treated in completely different ways. with many have been criticizing russia and china's position on the un security council's resolution on syria for the french 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. still ahead here in our team no man's land

french finance minister christine legarde steps into the global economies temple as the first woman ever to have the international monetary fund. and we find out whether egypt could yet again become a boiling point pot in the middle east as thousands take to the streets accusing the interim government of a lack of change. but captain of a gaza aid ship has been arrested by greek authorities after trying to leave port without permission several ships with activist and humanitarian aid for the blockaded palestinian territory were stopped in the port of peron your athens on friday campaigners claim greece is working under the orders of israel abd the us the flotilla is drawing parallels to the gaza about a convoy that was stormed by israeli marines last year and resulted in the deaths of nine people at r.t. correspondent is on board one of the ships that's been seized she says people are still determined to carry on with their mission to spy greece's actions. that

you're not listening to will not give up there are twelve members of the european and other national parliaments among the free gaza act. and they're trying to pull strings to force their governments to influence greece's decision to block the ships in its harbors lawyers from the freedom flotilla are suing the greek government actions are unlawful because the ships cannot be prohibited from going to gaza and they should not be restrained from leaving freely i've seen every part of the ship i'm on now there are no weapons or anything that could be used as weapons the people who participate in the free gaza flotilla are harmless most are elderly many are over sixty and even seventy. that was already correspond and there's a i was aboard one of the ships stopped by greek authorities from sailing to gaza. also as they the u.k. partly came to halt was more than half of all state schools forced to close and disruption brought to air and ground transport hundreds of thousands of civil

servants took to the streets against the government's plans to slash their pensions and increase their retirement age lorimer to follow the action. down tools up with industrial action an autumn of discontent starts here this time it's the public sector workers walking out on happy with the planned reform of their pensions which they say will see them paying a lot more and getting a lot less but i think if it was happening. if. i worked for me it didn't take me back to fifty eight it would take to change is that i may consider pensions or very necessary safety way to address it so i think we do need to make cutbacks in things i think. cry and try to teach extensions by side much as it is these people do a huge variety of key work from teaches and lecturers to air traffic controllers and coast guards unisons the u.k.'s biggest public sector trade union deputy chief

ball babble a says his one point three million members already for prolonged industrial action and we're almost a war footing we've got thirty million pain set aside and we've got a strategy work but i must stress that's not what we want to do we want to talk to the government and negotiate a sensible package nor the ridiculous package of their proposal at the moment that package involves raising the retirement age from sixty to sixty six raising pension contributions by workers and having payouts based on average career earnings rather than final salary the unions admit public support is fundamental the government's very unlikely to change its mind about reforms if the public at large doesn't back the unions but that's by no means a short public sector workers do already get very generous pensions and the cost of

those pensions is very much returned to the cockpit and the burden falls on to the next generation a great is absolutely essential that public sector pay. reform the new even after their reforms public sector workers will get small but a pensions and this presence or two workers the unions want to apply enough pressure to force the government to change its mind and it's no stranger to u.-turn so it was hell bent on reforming the health service too until it decided to take longer to think about it causing friction in the coalition the government is doing this to reduce a current fifty billion dollar pension bill but it may be cutting off its nose to spite its face at the white a superior court if you pay pension funds to pay for that made public that the work is no don't think that what while they may still be saying that if there was a widespread withdrawal pension funds would collapse and that would be u.k.p. i will be very short of investments just what it means that more than ever your

avatar to be loved it. she is the first woman at the helm of one of the world's most powerful financial organizations but the new i am after christine lagarde isn't shy away from putting the heavy burden of the earth's problems on her shoulders got into account as more on the implications of the points for the global economy christine lagarde appointment keeps a european at the head of the world's top lender keeping the long held tradition intact and in a debt crisis having one of its own chairing the international monetary fund could be more important than ever for europe saying that's mine. intimate knowledge of those mechanisms of the european community and the eurozone of its many leaders can help the guard's main competitor was augustine carstens from mexico who argued her point mind would only add to the perception of i.m.f. bias there could be some conflict of interest i mean at the end of the day now the

main borel of the institution will be europe so we'll have a situation where they will rule or stormin eighteen to create their institutional emerging economies the engine of global growth in recent years are vastly under represented in the organization with the u.s. and europe holding half of the votes and veto power and always suggest i am have bias has had a negative effect on the world economy they would use their monopoly over. to force certain policies. on countries in policies there were not in their national interest the i.m.f. lends money monitors the global economy and in theory at least prevents crises its credibility has been shattered by the financial collapse in the advanced economies which it definitely did not spot they missed the two big or biggest asset bubbles

in the history of the world i think they didn't want to go against all their friends on wall street and others that were making a fortune at the time some experts see the intimacy between the i.m.f. and u.s. corporations as a matter of concern all of the big decisions that the i.m.f. are made by the u.s. treasury department then you had of the i.m.f. is more than familiar with the u.s. corporate world for years she worked at a major american law firm representing the interests of big business and is a member of the u.s. poland defense industry working group divest the interests of favor giants like boeing and lockheed martin helping them to seal. billion dollar deal the us think europe found christine lagarde the best for the job so did several emerging markets russia and china but she faces the difficult task of appearing independent despite her past and will struggle not to cement even further the perception that the i.m.f.

exists only for the benefit of its creditors i'm going to check our reporting from washington our. age of fragile interim leadership is facing the strain with a renewed violence on the streets this week officials have ordered a probe into clashes in cairo which left more than a thousand people injured after recent protests riot police used tear gas to disperse demonstrators who pelted officers with stones and fire bombs the unrest began over the slow pace of prosecution for senior officials and police officers accused of brutality during the mass uprising in february activists are also calling for the speedy implementation of reforms demanded you were in the revolt that toppled president mubarak journalist afshin rattansi says the current leadership is ignoring 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 time 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 mubarak has been adjourned people in north getting what they thought they were getting when they toppled hosni mubarak we must remember that joe biden and hillary clinton didn't want those mubarak 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 the 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 have. well if you've missed something we're covering on air you can always catch it on line here's a taste of what's there for you right now to dot com a man of this really gets live behind bars after murdering his two year old daughter to get back at his ex partner but before stabbing the child to death he

announced his intention on facebook. get around triple of the action from this year's moscow international film festival where a spanish movie snatch the top prize for all the glitz and glamor log on to our website r t v dot com. belarus remains at a financial quagmire whether its economy paralyzed prize is rising in the value of the local ruble plummeting hard currency has all but disappeared from the country as well as most important goods now the bill russian government is hoping for a several billion dollar bailout from the i.m.f. that would depend on deep economic reforms in place that threatens the regimes hold in power many have been showing their discontent of the government's policy of staging silent protest on the streets of the capital and more than a hundred are saw it's to have been detained. now let's take

a look at some other stories from around the world thailand's holding a general election that it's hoped will and the country's long running political crisis incumbent prime minister faces a tough struggle against the opposition his victory would bring the country's first ever female premier violent political protests have repeatedly shaken tile and since the former government was toppled a military coup in two thousand and six. hezbollah's sheaves has ruled out the arrest of four senior members of his group suspected of the assassination of former lebanese premier. instead hassan the straw said a special tribunal investigating the death should be asking questions of israel he also rejected each and every accusation by the un based court saying the charges were in attack on his movement how weary was killed along with twenty two others february two thousand and five in beirut life huge bomb exploded as his motorcade passed by. eleven people including young children have been killed in mexico after

tropical storm arlene drenched the country was heavy rains most of victims died after being buried alive in their homes by mudslides or drowning in powerful streams it landed season's first tropical storm came ashore over mexico central gulf coast early on thursday almost three hundred thousand have been left homeless or otherwise affected by the storm. well shortly we're bringing you our exclusive interview with colonel gadhafi son who says international justice is following him a goes back and call but first i'll be back to recap this hour's top stories for you don't go away.

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