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top stories in a review of the week twelve billion euros an easy you and eight are coming to the rescue of greece's economy while violent protest against approved harsh new cuts shocks the contrary. one to crimes against humanity as the international criminal court issues an arrest warrant for the kid office the son of the levy and leader a lashes out at the decision exclusively telling r t the court is corrupt. a u.s. captain of a gaza flotilla ship is arrested by greek authorities after several vessels were seizing port following what activists believe is pressure from israel and the u.s. . has 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.

you're watching our z. coming to you live from moscow this sunday morning we're bringing you the top stories of the week greece has erupted into some of the worst civil some of the worst civil unrest it's seen this week s. thousands of angry protesters flooded the streets of athens the eurozone has agreed to stay at a lifeline to the economic only crippled country but people raged against tough new cuts and tax hikes which were needed to secure the second handout faced with twenty eight billion euros worth of hysteria the first protesters gathered in front of the parliament building they threw 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 are preparing to release an extra twelve billion euros in the next two weeks without the money greece will default on its

loans with and days of financial journalist demand says the greek government has simply bought itself a stay of execution. i think that 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 this 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 this government at some point i've said if things go it really of the via.

this 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 government have to fall to i don't see the people in this country lying down one of the things that is circulating around 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 would be 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 pharmaceutical station 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 a lot before the hospital for that reason and people they're very angry here and

they're very upset and they understand what's going on and anderson these measures are not going to help them and their future. despite a violent protest e.u. officials have welcomed the greek astaire to measure saying the move will help the country get back into the path of recovery but jared's lending from the u.s. based trans research institute billie's the measures are actually a way to rescue the banks at the people's expense the banks are failing and they want the people to bail them out because they after all they don't like to take a hit these big guys so they call it austerity measures and privatization the i.m.f. is nothing more than the international mafia federation they had a long shocks of last resort and the people know it they call it privatization adults call it stealing valuable public assets and selling it to your friends really cheaply the politicians only represent the people that give the most amount of money. so that people know that show there it's going to continue to be

a tug of war and the greek people know that if you don't stand up they're going to mow you down when you get really hungry you're going to see the riots continue to escalate because what are these so-called those sterett he measures what do they really bring all of they bring a lot more poverty oh they bring a whorish g d p o they bring more unemployment so the politicians are doing nothing more than the bidding for those that pay them or. slanty from the u.s. base trans researches are talking about how sturdy measures are going to affect the greek population. on monday the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for libya's colonel qadhafi accusing him of crimes against humanity the hague has grounds to believe he ordered attacks on civilians during the beginning of libya's unrest with scores thought to have been killed the african union said it will not cooperate was the tribunals demand in an exclusive interview with r t

colonel gadhafi sonce a thought as this also under the court's arrest warrant says international justice it's nothing more than a sham the score is it is it is it because most court come on the accuse me of killing people you know the sentence against. capital punishment so they decided to kill and. understood my brother and to destroy the house so this is me to execute you so now you are talking about me today months ago to kill me and i have to be every day you are trying to find me and to give me everything and with other so just a number two just to tell you that it's a free cold. they are trying to negotiate with us a deal to have this deal with ticket of the court what does mean that means is is controlled by those countries. attacking us. every day is just to put.

a political pressure but if. you can see the full interview it was safe on islam next hour here in r.t. or you can find it on our web site r.t. dot com many of the bands feel the criminal court is just a cover for nader's attempts to kill colonel gadhafi saying it's the alliances members who should be held to account for the bombing campaign artie's marouf an arson investigator the consequences of the continuing airstrikes which are said to be directed only at military targets. the road from the capital tripoli to brag he's 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. 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 only hitting the targets of military

value well call say these telecommunications power so fifteen minutes west of the. destroyed. this is a safe strikes and they've also accidentally. two cars and killed two civilians since then there is no t.v. in this area and as we can see phone light has also been disrupted. there is no water and no electricity what used to be heaven this man says has become hell towards home now susan familiar. i have nine children and i send them all to my relatives abroad i don't want them to see their mother who is in such a condition. from the small poor not far from drug 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 nature's leaflets jobs just before the bombs arrive. base runs has as you can see the reason 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 feeling really good neighbors major is where the front dividing the country into two parts into to say one side is going to put one flashpoint between the rebels and gadhafi forces it's a very important point to case it gets in a firm hand on this town would mean taking control over the country's economy all facilities seem to be a rare 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 stall where friends gathered off to war. with my colleagues then there was a we knew what that was we tried to help those trapped in the helicopters came in and started to shoot at us. from one street to another these stories are repeated really conserve our program although we don't live in fear but they are not so easily madame and to be able to be bombing a big killed our civilians but there's been another. country this is probably view well those voices become more and more frequent is the sound of exploding bombs and warplanes the drones that. cheaply.

french are still ahead this hour here in our t.v. french finance minister christine lagarde steps into the global economies temple as the first woman ever to have the international monetary fund and discover why many russian orphans find a live even harder as a free adult then when they were in care. the 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 walk aid of palestinian territory were stopped in the port of karami or athens on friday campaigners claim greece is working under the orders of israel and the us the flotilla is drawing parallels to the gaza bound 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 despite greece's actions for the

now what it said you're not looking at to look will not give up there are twelve members of the european and other national parliaments among the free gaza activists and they're trying to pull strings to close their governments to influence greece's decision blow to. the ships in its harbors lawyers from the freedom flotilla are saying 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 and 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 r.t. correspondent. who was on board one of the ships stopped by greek authorities from sailing to gaza. on thursday the u.k. part they came to a halt was more than half of all state schools forced to close and destruction right 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 kept saying. that if. i work for me it didn't take me back to fifty i think it. was it changes that i make it a pension or very necessary to fix a way to address it so i think we do need to make cutbacks in things i think. tried and tried to teach iraqis by so 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 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 of a cop it turned the burden falls on to the next generation a great is absolutely essential that public sector pay. all reformed and even after they are reformed public sector workers will get far better pensions and best private sector workers the unions want to apply enough pressure to fulfill the government to change its mind and it's no stranger to you turns 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's doing this to reduce a current fifty billion dollar pension bill but it may be cutting off its nose to spite its face the wider issue here according to new u.k. pension funds to pay for the me public sector work if no don't think that pension is what while it may start to be a figure that if there was a widespread withdrawal pension funds would collapse and that would be u.k. p.l.o. the very short of investments just what it needs it more than ever your avatar to

love that. the borders between russia belarus and cause a stock have been broken down when it comes to trade as july first saw a customs union joined three neighboring countries it's been in the making for more than fifteen years and draws parallels to how the e.u. works by making shipping goods between countries simpler and easier but there is another candidate which could soon become part of this newborn enterprise and next year she asked the reports from k f. as the change of power in the crane revived ties with the moscow talks of the key of joining the customs union between russia belarus and kazakstan began a possible move many experts describe as highly beneficial for all sides the world of goods and services produced in ukraine more or less meet market standards and are needed in these countries and the larger the market the more countries specialize in producing certain goods at the moment all of the loose ukrainian

cassocks done produce competing goods and are not using their natural advantages customs union will help them become more focused at the same time ukraine never hit its aspirations to join the european union and despite moscow's reassurances that the customs union can co-exist with the free trade space with europe we would all members of the customs union join the door its presence is no hindrance to this process russia which is also a member of the customs union will seek the creation of the free trade zone with the european union i hope that this task isn't going to be a long run prospect russell did not seem too happy at crane trying to sit on the tears as a stern warning to ukraine came from the european parliament which said should the country join the customs union with russia or still the e.u. will be shot for ever for ukraine and despite this statement coming not from the highest ranks in the e.u. it caused heated debate in kiev. well the post soviet states finds itself at the crossroads president going to court which trying to negotiate between the east and

the west created a special commission on deepening ties with the customs union we don't try to choose between trouper two ninety three and try to find a formula that would let us use both for the benefit of our economy and unfortunately strong position of all european partners is that ukraine cannot be a member of customs union if it was to her refrigerator and so that's why we have to and we do searching for a formula that can allow us to be close partner of customs union to be good to fracture of a partner of the russian russian cover thought to an economic sphere but north becoming a full scale member experts say it is impossible to tell whether such a formula would be found but many stressed that the demand for most ukrainian goods and produce would definitely be higher in the russian market that in the e.u. room of the european market is huge but it has very high standards and is heavily

regulated and it's really difficult to work there even for some european producers ukraine would struggle to fit in the market in the customs union a smaller book of goods produced by ukraine would be in high demand there while key of carefully balancing between the east and the west for two or three of ukrainians say that despite european pastures being seemingly greener russia is after all closer to them and not only geopolitically lets you assess reporting from clear ukraine. she's 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 shying away from putting the heavy burden of the earth's problems on her shoulders and if she can is more on the implications of the point for the global economy. christine lagarde appointment keeps the 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. 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. by its there could be some conflict of interest i mean they know their main borel's 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.m.f. 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 the 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 at 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 aviation giants like boeing and lockheed martin helping them to seal. multi-billion dollar deals the u.s. and europe found christine legarde the best fit for the job so did several emerging markets including 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 team. if you've missed something we're covering it here and you can always catch it online here's a taste of what's there for you right now. a man of this trail you 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 you know tension on facebook. and gather round up of the action from this year's moscow international film festival where spanish movie snatch the top prize for all the glitz and glamour

a log on to our. russian orphans face a tough childhood but life as an adult can be even worse while the government legally has to provide housing for anyone leaving care as peter all over reports all too frequently that doesn't happen dunk and dilapidated. this flap looks more like a prime candidate for demolition than a family home bird's twenty two year old mother of two lena is being told by social services that she's stuck here. perhaps they haven't seen this place inside they keep telling us true parents somehow believe here they showed me a paper on how to build a house i told them that i had no friends i have no job i have to take care of kids and i ended up renting a place they said it's the top problem lena grew up in an orphanage in the city of to be on the russian law she should have received state housing once she left the

institution this flat was given to lena's mother by the state and despite having no money she's been told to fix it up but. there's a tradition of absolutely desperate they didn't give me work because i don't have a profession for them i don't exist perhaps hanging myself would be the best thing to do. without even the most basic of a mean ities there's no way that lena family can leave here however here is exactly where the thirty's are told her that she should bring up children lena's case isn't unusual those who work with oftens in russia say that it's when they leave the care homes that they need the most help the problem is orphans are killed by other smaller you know when they're little and everybody loves to help them and their small presence and deploy. whereas in actual fact they've got behind me but they get there and that's really where we need to be standing beside

them housing is one of those big in need for all things leading care it's also in short supply and the idea that if we made certain calculations for one region and found out that if a child is number ten thousand in the queue for housing it would take them some three and a half thousand years to actually get a flat how can they live like this they're not pharaohs you know. we can't bring them back from the dead and give them an apartment while you're currently only administrative penalties can be imposed on anyone standing in the way of those leaving care getting housing alexander gears a lot of the form often him self as a campaigner for orphans rights he wants to see the courts more involved he will have taken my fifth and we need to change the law in a way to make sure that someone can be held responsible in court in this case the orphanage this will make sure that there is no way a graduating orphan would have to go and live in a rundown home until. a change in the law might help people in the future but lena

needs to find a solution right now. and i asked them all the mothers are given homes to raise their children why can't i have don't use it because i didn't know the answer because they knew too low to move because it's forbidden for me to family some people are trying to help me but their efforts have been in vain. to reach it. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world thailand's holding a general election that's hopeful and the country's long running political crisis the incumbent prime minister faces a tough struggle against the opposition whose victory would bring the country's first ever female premier violent political protests have repeatedly shaken thailand since the former government was toppled in a military coup in two thousand and six. hezbollah's chief has ruled out the arrest of four senior members of his group suspected of the nation of former lebanese premier a feat careering in status on this for a loss at

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 an attack on his movement hariri was killed along with twenty two others in february two thousand and five in beirut when a 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 with heavy rains most of victims died after being buried alive in their homes by months lives or drowning in powerful streams with land axes and 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. shortly we explore how georgia has changed since the collapse of the soviet union but before that i'll be back to remind you of the week's top stories.

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