flood achieved every green lower job in total. today's top stories in our view of the week twelve billion euros and you eight are coming to the rescue of greece's economy while violent protest against the prove our new cards shook the country. wanted for crimes against humanity as the international criminal court issues and arrest warrant for the could obvious the son of the levy a new leader a lashes out of the decision exclusively telling r.t. the court is corrupt. a u.s. captain of a gaza flotilla ship is arrest of by greek authorities after several vessels were seized in or following what activists believe is pressure from israel and the us. a mass walk out of public sector workers hit schools airports and job centers

across the u.k. people protested against the are pensions be slashed. in the russian capital you're watching r t with me we take a look at the top stories of the week greece has a rocket into some of the worst civil unrest it's seen this week s. thousands of angry protesters flood of the streets of athens the eurozone has agreed to extend a lifeline to the canonically 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 mistery measures protesters gathered in front of the parliament building they threw stones at police smashed windows and set fire to property police responded with tear gas and stun grenades down. from both sides

were injured 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 within days a financial journalist a magical phina 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 heart of the building across the street from the hostages where i think the only real option for them right now 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 cable company universities who have some idea of what the country needs according to scholars here in greece well constitutional scholars and former members of the government they claim that the measure simply 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 discovered at some point i said if they missed it really of the violence is a really big issue because if if if if if this results in casualties not just massive injuries then that's going to the lethal collapse of this government will that mean that the next government will come in and actually do something productive maybe maybe not but then that governments have to fall to i don't see the people in this country right now one of the things that is circulating around here is a video that shows police not just police brutality when there's a lot of that but also police working with provocateurs agent provocateur which would be escorted into a safe location and if they were communicating with and relaying information from there's a report that the head of the pharmaceutical national pharmaceuticals or 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 here gas there were other chemicals 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 people are very angry here and a very upset and they understand what's going on and understand these measures are not going to help them and their future. the spine of violent protests e.u. officials have welcomed the greek a steady measure saying the move will help the country get back on that path of recovery but serious lanty from the u.s. based trans research institute believes that measures are actually a way to rescue the banks at the people's expense the banks are failing and they want their people to bail them out because if they're all they don't like to take a hit because big guys so they call it are 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 a friends really cheaply the politicians only represent the people that give them the most amount of money so that people know that so that it's going to continue to be it's all go to war in the greek people know that if you don't stand up they're going to bow you down when you get really hungry you're going to see the riots continue to escalate because what are these so-called osteria the measures what do they really bring oh they bring a lot more poverty oh they bring a worse g d p o they bring more unemployment so the politicians are doing nothing more than the bidding for those that pay them. that was your excellency from the u.s. base trans research institute 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 on grass with scores thought to have been killed the african union center will not cooperate with the tribunals demand in an exclusive interview with colonel gadhafi son save on islam who is also under the court's arrest warrant says international justice is nothing more than a sham but the score is and is a court among the accused of killing people over it with the sentence. of the capital punishment so they decided to come and. kill my brother and sister in the house so it's nice to excuse you so know you i thought you were irish to me but the mines are going to kill me and you are after me every day while the other kids were there my brother so he's been going no go through just to tell you that the supreme court under the table they are trying to negotiate with us

a deal that if you accept is the. court what it means is controlled by. attacking us everything is just psychological and political pressure. and you can see the full interview with saif al islam next hour here in our t.v. or you can find it online dot com. maybe libyans feel the criminal court is just a cover for nader's attempts to kill colonel gadhafi saying it's the alliance members who should be held to account for the bombing campaign artist maria for national investigative the consequences of continuing airstrikes which are said to be directed only at military targets. the road from the capital tripoli to bread is lined with the aftermath of war towns abandoned as the population fled the

involvement. this is what's left of the airport in the city of but also home to one of the country's old refineries the last plane took off from this runway just hours before it was hit places they said it's only hit in the targets of military value local state these telecommunications towers so people to the west of the town of weeks troy in a target i doubt if this is a say they've been two strikes and they've also accidentally. two cars i've killed two civilians since and there is no t.v. in this area and as we can see the night has also been disrupted. there is no water and no to. what used to be heaven this man says has become hell holes home now feels unfamiliar. i have nine children and i send them all to my relatives abroad i don't want them to see their motherland in such a condition but. from the small pool not far from drug gas used to flow to europe.

we used to produce field to send it to them you know 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 jew's leaflets jobs just before the bomb has arrived. this runs as you can see there is a sign here arabic nato is here to 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. really delivers major parties where the front line lies dividing the country into two parts into two swear one side is going to put on flashpoints within the rebels and gadhafi

supporters it's a very important point to take location yet in a firm hand on this count would mean taking control over the country's economy all facilities seem to be a rare target. never land on. population can hardly scale. they were like my family not just going to the shops to buy some foods and this happened six of them died i couldn't believe it. or restaurant or all company stuff with friends the other day after work. waiting with my colleagues then there was we knew what that was we tried to help those trapped in the helicopters came in and started to shoot at us. for once to need to know their stories are a key to. our program. and in the food they know it so every moment every day every day when doing a becomes our civilians for politico know there was

a contribution is probably view well those voices become more and more frequent as the sound of bombs and warplanes the drones in. tripoli. so i hear on our t.v. no man's land french finance minister christine lagarde steps into the global economies temple as a first woman ever to head the international monetary fund. and signs of discontent is the pan's government promises to relax restrictions on locals living near the stricken nuclear plant more and more people believe claims by the authorities are hollow. 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 blockade of palestinian territory were stopped in the port of rommany or athens and friday campaigners claimed reeses working under the orders of israel amby us what

tale is drawing parallels to the cause of our convoy that was stormed by israeli marines last year and result of the deaths of nine people that r.t. correspondent is on board one of the ships that's been seized and she says people are still determined to carry on with their mission despite greece's actions. of a gardener at the war but make sure the captain of the american ship knew when he was doing and he was determined on his attention pulled one by talk to the captain of a ship and he's ready just soon as you can see mission he says there should be new restraints the lawyers seek research done on the ships leaving it is unlawful it greek government gave no grounds won't stop the flotilla in the first place and commits remain optimistic. i believe the fact that the fertility school such a stern was diffused a symbol of enormous moral strength israel has been spreading speculation direct chemical weapons and. true ships would have been so every new can county the american ship is only carrying three thousand legends john children of gaza and

that's what israelis are you know i know it's canada who mission is drawing so much attention to an awful blockade of gaza and it's making phenomenal efforts to stop the ships from getting to their destination points you know. there was r.t. to respond ideas the work of a hose on board one of the ships stopped by greek authorities from sailing to gaza . on thursday the u.k. part of that came to hold was more than half of all state schools forced to close and destruction broady 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 the retirement age or am it all the action down tools with industrial action and all some of discontent starts here this time it's the public sector workers walking out unhappy with the planned reform of their pensions which they say will see them paying a lot more and getting

a lot less. but. it will be back if it looks here it will take six to the changes that it make to the pensions what it necessary to is a way to address it so i think we do need to make cutbacks in things i think. trying to apply the teaching ridge is why so much of it is to these people do a huge variety of key work from teachers and lecturers to air traffic controllers arms coast guards unisons the u.k.'s biggest public sector trade union deputy chief avonlea says his one points. three million members already 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 strangers 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 fowler eight the unions of mixed 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 service workers do already get very generous pensions and the cost of those pensions is very much sort of a cop it's on the burden falls on to the next generation it really is absolutely essential that public sector pensions are reformed and even after they are reformed public sector workers will get far better pensions and less private sector workers the unions want to apply enough pressure to force 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 the current fifty billion dollars pension bill but it may be cutting off its nose to spite its face that the wider issue here according to be if you keep a pension fund talk you to put it in a car that made it public sector work it's never going to think that pensions are what while they may stop contributing to that if that was a widespread withdrawal pension funds would collapse and that would leave u.k. p.l.o. the very source of investments just what it needs it more than ever your avatar to be numb to. the borders between. russia belarus and kazakhstan have been broken down when it comes to trade as july the first saw at customs union joined us 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's

another candidate which could soon become part of this new born enterprise. reports from. as the change of power in crane revived ties with the moscow talks of the key of thorny customs union between russia belarus and kazakstan began a possible move many experts describe as highly beneficial for all sides the world of the goods and services produced in ukraine more honest meat market standards and are needed in these countries and the larger the market the more countries specialize in producing certain goods but at the moment all of the russian believes ukrainian conflicts can produce competing goods and are not using their natural advantages to this customs union will help them become more focused at the same time he craned never hit its aspirations to join the european union and despite moscow's reassurances that a customs union can co-exist with the free trade space with europe we would all members of the customs union joined in its presence is no hindrance to this person

is russia which is also a member of the customs union will seek the creation of the three trade zone with the european union i hope that this time isn't going to be long runs constantly brussels good not seem too happy and cried trying to sit on the tears a stern warning to ukraine came from the european parliament which said should the country join the customs union with russia who are 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 and. now the post soviet states kind itself at the crossroads president going to be trying to negotiate with the east and the west creating a special commission on deepening ties with the customs union we don't try to choose between a trooper to ninety three try to find a formula that would let us use both for the benefit of our economy and unfortunately a strong position of our european partners is the deep brain cannot be

a member of customs union if it was to how refrigerator so that's why we have to and we do search and. formula there can. be close partner customs union to be a group to fracture for a partner of the right for russian government honor and i can only fear but north becoming a full scale member experts say it is impossible to tell whether such a formula would be pretty stressed that the market for most ukrainian goods and orders would definitely be higher in the russian market that in the e.u. . the 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 are very rocky of rebalancing between the east and the west were two or three of ukrainians say that despite european pastures being seemingly greener russia is arturo closed

the program are not only geopolitically lets you assess the r.t. reports from kiev ukraine. christine lagarde has become the first woman at the helm of one of the world's most powerful financial organizations but the new i'm after she isn't shying away from putting to have a burden of the earth problems on her shoulders granted she can is more on the occasions of the poignant for the global economy but it's christine lagarde appointment keeps the european at the head of the world's top lender keeping a 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 i think. 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 bridge they know they mean borel's and it's a commission would be a rule europe will so we'll have a situation where they were or stormin a name 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 only suggest i am have gone as has had a negative effect on the world economy and they would use their monopoly over. to force certain policies. own countries in there were not in their actual 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 start they missed it too 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 say the intimacy between the i.m.f. and us corporations is a matter of concern all of the big decisions that 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 advanced the interests of aviation giants like boeing and lockheed martin helping them to seal multi-billion dollar deals that you are seeing here of the. christine lagarde 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 life 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 r.t. . and if you've missed something we're covering on the air can always catch an online here's a taste of what's there for you right now. a man in israel you get slimed behind bars after murdering his two year old daughter to get back at his ex partner but before stabbing the child to death you now it's his attention on facebook. and get a roundup of the action from this year's moscow international film festival worst spanish movie snatch the top prize for all the glitz and glamour log on to our t.v. dot com. japan says it will lift the record for some districts around the stricken because she medically a plan that requires people to evacuate in an emergency if necessary measures are to be considered when an initial step to bring the plant under control was completed in mid july but as our t.

sean thomas found out man you no longer trust the government's promises. in a culture that is generally non-confrontational and obedient when thousands take to the streets of tokyo against nuclear energy it is a serious sign of just continued after this crisis is true that the people are more conscious and we need to take advantage of it this is the first time since the second world war that the japanese people have no trust in the government he wants to be a coastal city devastated by the earthquake the tsunami and on the edge of the radiation exclusion zone is starting on the long road to recovery but the people living here say the government just isn't doing enough from the city hall about york city they said different things like perfect or they said different things and the government is that different things. they're not together here or still part of the country. here the are a part but some believe it is too early to tell what the real danger is of the

situation or scientists and know that large doses of radiation given in one blast is a significant health threat but they say there isn't enough information about long term exposure to lower doses of radiation and the types of damage it can do if you kick it here or ideation level and then you take degrees and when you take water you always feel half different values because it's so close and so changing so you can hardly say but it's really exceeds what a normal person would have by a year one of the frightening things about this entire incident is that there are no concrete boundaries that can clearly guarantee your safety one example is this looks like a beautiful lush green valley behind me but in fact this is the very head of the twenty kilometer exclusion of the that the government has set up in fact we try to get a little bit closer but we're supported by a police officer and a couple of personal now although this is supposed to be a safe area the radiation levels here are still brain seven and ten times higher

than normal weather for misinformation or mis understanding the people who live in the affected areas don't always take the proper precautions here a volunteer works to clean up toxic radioactive hot spots with hardly any protection at all the problem that some say is compounded by government propaganda accentuating the benefits while neglecting to inform about the dangers of nuclear waste. the first thing the government should do is let their citizens know the real cost of nuclear energy and so now the priority has been to profit from energy a p.r. machine of the government has been emphasizing the benefit of nuclear energy and the citizens have been brainwashed to believe it now in the wake of an international crisis and there are allegations that the government and the power companies have worked out a deal to help each other and that the media. has been going on. t.v. channels and even money from advertisement and the nuclear energy companies pay a lot without this money they cannot survive and for that reason i have to shut up about the situation the newspapers have this problem as well

a move that if true keeps the important information hidden from the people saving face for those in charge in japan showing thomas. and i'll take a look at some other stories from around the world in thailand has a poll showing the opposition party is on course for a majority victory in the country's general election the party is headed by the sister of an alpha prime minister the elections hope and the country's long running political crisis violent protests have repeatedly shaken silenced since the former government was toppled in a military coup in two thousand and six. as boss chief has ruled out the arrest of four senior members of his group suspected of the assassination of former lebanese premier rafi career instead of sadness for a loss at the 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 harry was killed along with twenty two others in february two thousand and five in beirut want to 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 victims died after being buried alive in their homes by mudslides or drowning in powerful streams that landed season's first brought the storm came ashore over mexico central gulf coast early on thursday almost three hundred thousand have been left homeless or otherwise affected by the severe weather. well shortly we discover the story of andre saw the widely known saw me a dissident constantly hounded by the k.g.b. and yet oppressed by the country's leadership that's after we kept our week's read stories in a moment.