the. today's top stories and a review over the weekend twelve billion euros in the e.u. aid a coming to the rescue of greece's economy all of this while violent protests against approved harsh new cuts shook the country. wanted for crimes against humanity as the international criminal court issues on arrest warrant for the khadafi is the son of the libyan leader lashes out at the decision exclusively telling our see that the court is corrupt. the u.s. captain of a guards a flotilla ship is arrested. after several vessels were seized in port following what activists believe is pressure from israel and the united states. a massive

work out of public sector workers who schools airports and job centers across the u.k. as people protested against their pensions being slashed. with r.t. and we highlighted the week's main headlines on the recent show and welcome to the program now this week greece erupted into some of the worst civil unrest it's seen as thousands of angry protesters flooded the streets of athens the eurozone has agreed to extend a lifeline to the economically crippled country people raged against tough new cuts and tax hikes which were needed to secure a second hand out now faced with a twenty eight billion euros worth of austerity measures protesters gathered in front of the parliament building stones of police smashed windows and set fire to property police was. ended with tear gas and stun grenades dozens from both sides

were injured many demonstrators were at the time and the e.u. and international monetary fund are preparing to release an extra twelve billion euros in the next two weeks without the money greece would default on its loans within days but financial journalist dmitri says that the greek government has simply board itself rather 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 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 a 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 quickly 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 discover at some point i've said of things it really of the violence is a really big issue because if it's a violent 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 that governments have to fall too 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 it was a lot of that but also police working with provocateurs agent provocateur which would be escorted into a safe location and they were communicating with and relaying information from there's a report that the head of the pharmaceutical national karma super 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 just tear gas there were others. recruiting

is for exceeding agents and that's why you see a lot of people here 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 in a very upset and they understand what's going on and understand these measures and i'm going to help them and their future. despite protests e.u. officials have welcomed the greek austerity measures saying the move will help the country to get to a path of recovery but it's also finding out many greeks believe plans are to rescue. people. on the streets of athens the voices of discontent a growing louder. it's a war we did not create this tour we're going to pay for this we want to become like a bug the squeeze continues the fight against economic ruin. and a chance of preventing. previous lame attainments people we'd be seeing

a penny. of this money actually comes into the greek economy. also battlezone save the banks and prevent a large scale financial crisis for the people the price is simply too high they see their income gone going down they see taxis taxis taxis and nothing else their money does not go to. a year a struggling against conscious stares he measures it meant the government now faces an electorate close to another bailout or people here have been saying is that. the european central bank. the greeks finance the initial bailouts that scene of one hundred ten billion that you. start looking at ways of continuing to. come to plan b. if that when it comes to the choice many people now in greece

simply don't want their help their actions is being taught and to self interest the british a. good person much as they go. out. and get all this they probably should sleep properly i mean. they are willing to give almost everything of course. it certainly can it's a high cost for the cuts in public spending and raising taxes and an aggressive privatization program that would mean the sale of many greek public assets one of the reasons that everybody is so determined to keep greece in the euro is so that the banks don't have to take a serious hit on their faulty lending policies and it's almost as if there's a holy alliance of politicians and bankers versus ordinary people it's a fight that the people say they're not prepared to lead. r.t.

athens. on the time eurozone finance ministers are working out the final details of the athens rescue package but law professor cost us from the university of london so the bailout will effectively hand over greek sovereignty to the e.u. and the international monetary fund. these measures mean that the salaries and pensions of people in the public sector have been cut out to forty percent the new . unemployment going up about sixty percent to forty five percent of huge unemployment which means that the whole generation of young people is being destroyed. a hundred fifty thousand jobs lost in the private sector. but some of the most important utilities is being sold for the ticker on the part of this is an . old totally new set of us and politically again with these new york along you because it is not just the government that has been asked to accept these measures

there were insisting demands that the opposition all of the usual parties should accept it so we have a situation in which the main part structure of greece has now moved from athens to brussels and the other european centers and the big politicians and the greek public has been really to implement whatever they've been decided. and it was more professor costas it was in us are talking about how the bailout is taking decisions out of greece's hands. well on monday the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for libya's colonel qadhafi accusing him of crimes against humanity but he has grounds to believe that he ordered attacks on civilians during the beginning of libya's unrest with schools of thought have been killed african union said it will not cooperate with the tribunals come on in an exclusive interview with us here at r.t. to talk about the son saif al islam who's also under arrest sees me because i

arrest warrant says that international justice is nothing more than a sham for the score is it is it is if you can ask or come on the accuse me of killing people everybody in order to sentence. against me the capital punishment so they decided. to kill and kill and kill my brother and destroy my house this is me too excuse so now you are arrest me three months ago it's ok to kill me and you are after me everyday you are trying to kill file me i could give you everything and my brother so all these people are not going to just to tell you that the supreme court. they are trying to negotiate with if you did if you accept this the. court what does that mean it means it is controlled by. which i think. everything this is just reported because you can buy

a political. person. and you can see the full interview with saif al islam about twenty minutes time here on r.t. of course otherwise you can find it on our website that spot dot com. many libyans feel that the criminal court is just a cover for nato's attempts to kill gadhafi saying it's the alliance's members who should be held to account for the bombing campaign has more of a national investigated the consequences of continuing our strikes which are said to be directed only at military targets. the road from the capital tripoli to greg is lined with the aftermath of war towns abandoned as the population flowed the bombardment. this is what's left of the 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 hit. me so it's only hitting the targets of military value.

telecommunications power so to get to stop it. has been destroyed. this is a space between two strikes and they've also said granted. two cars and killed two civilians. there's 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 what was home now feels and familiar. 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 least small pull from greg gas used to flow to europe. to the we used to produce field to sen 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. this runs as you can see there is a sign here in arabic but let me tell you is here leave it to inforce 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 any time. any time happened three times over several hours while we were feeling really good leaders major parties where the front line lies dividing the country into two parts into two smear one side is going to put one flashpoint between the rubble of them god baseball says it's a very important point i suspect it's a quotation getting a firm handle on this town mean taking control over the country's economy all facilities seem to be a rare target the needs of one's never land on. the civilian population can hardly

state them. they were like my family not to contradict shop to buy some food and this happened six of them died they couldn't believe it. and this used to be a restaurant for oil company staff where friends gathered after work and we waited with my colleagues then there was a we knew what that was we trying to help those troops in the helicopters came in and started shooting us. through once to me to another as stories are repeated. by our problem i don't really. mean the food so this imagine everybody agreed it did them being a big kid there were civilians but there's no no good this is a country this is from libya well those voices become more and more frequent as the sound of exploding bands and warplanes the drowns them. out t. only bragger. now moscow has raised concern over france supplying weapons to libyan

rebels and over big u.s. interpretations of the un security council resolution on libya france's admission is the first time that a nato member has owned up to air lifting arms in the country since the beginning of 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 that such a mandate could escalate even violence foreign minister sergei lavrov said of the continuing turmoil in the two countries is being treated in completely different ways. because then you have been criticizing russia and china's position on the un security council's resolution on syria for the fact that we consider such a resolution in appropriate 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 it's now a quarter past the hour here in moscow and still ahead for you in the program here on r.t. no man's land french finance minister christine lagarde steps into the global economy as the temple as the first woman ever to help the international monetary fund. and a rift between allies pakistan is on a mission to expel the americans drove from within its borders. the captain of a guard ship has been arrested by greek authorities after trying to leave port without permission several ships with activists and humanitarian aid for the blockaded palestinian territory stopped in the port of karama near athens on friday campaigners claim that greece is working under the orders of israel and the us the flotilla is drawing parallels to be guards about a convoy that was stormed by israeli marines last year and resulted in nine people on r.t. course one of is currently on board one of the ships that's been seized says the

people are still determined to carry on with their mission but despite the actions of chris. gardner it all but make sure you catch your gay marriage can ship knew what he was doing and he was determined in his attempt to leave port which i talked to the captain of a ship and he's ready to see listen if he gets permission he says there should be new restraints the lawyers see greece is banning the ships leaving is unlawful the greek government gave no ground when it stopped the flotilla in the first place. activists remain optimistic they believe the fact that the flotilla has scored such a stern is because the symbol of enormous moral strength israel has been spreading speculation there are chemical weapons on board but if it were true the ships would have been searched every new can cranny the american ship is only carrying three thousand letters to our children of girls and that's what israel is it for you know no it scared the whole mission is drawing so much attention to the unlawful blockade of gaza and it's making phenomenal efforts to stop the ships from getting

to a destination. that was r.t. correspondent i go to talk of walkabout whose are on board one of the ships stopped by greek authorities out from upselling to gaza. well thursday the u.k. partly came to a halt with more than half of all state schools forced to close and destruction brought to bear i'm a ground transport hundreds of thousands of civil servants took to the streets against the government's plans to slash their pensions an increase their retirement age are things on or about follow the action. down tools up with industrial action and autumn 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 again if it was perfect. if it worked for me fifty fifty a week if it if it changes that it make it

a pension or very necessary citizen way to address it gets out i think we do need to make cutbacks in things that bring. in the quality to projects by so much business like these people do a huge variety of key work from teachers and lecturers to air traffic controllers and coast guards unisons the u.k.'s biggest public sector trade union deputy chief paul pavel e says his one point 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 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 the 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 follow 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 service workers do already get very generous pensions and the cost of those pensions is very much returned to the carpets and the burden falls on for the next generation it really is absolutely essential that public sector pay. reform than even after they are reformed public sector workers will get far better pensions and this 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 dollar pension bill but it may be cutting off its

nose to spite its face that the white issue here according to the u.k. pension fund. is a part of me if public sector workers know don't think that the work while they may not keep you think that there was a widespread with the pepsi problem with the law and now with the u.k. p.l.d. the very source of investments just what it means more than ever your and it's our duty not to. you without you with our t.v.'s our twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital christine legarde has become the first woman at the helm of one of the world's most powerful financial organizations but the new i.m.f. chief isn't shying away from putting the heavy burden of the earth's problems on her shoulders. and has more on the implications of the appointment 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 i think. internet knowledge of those mechanisms of the european community and the eurozone of its many leaders can't help but the guards main competitor was augustine carstens from mexico who argued her point mind would only edge to the perception of i.m.f. by its there could be some conflict of interest i mean at the end of the day now their main borel are of the institution with me they were all of europe or so will have its inclusion were they war or stormin eighteen the 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.m.f. guy is has had a negative effect on the world's economy and they would use their monopoly over. in

force certain policies. own countries. says there were no 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 the wrist into bigger biggest robles in the history of the world i think they didn't want to go again so all their friends on wall street and others there were making a fortune or some experts see the intimacy between the i.m.f. and us corporations as a matter of concern for 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 divest the interests of aviation giants like boeing and lockheed martin helping them to see. billion dollar deals the us think 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 by animal 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. . to bear in mind if you've missed something to be covered on air you can always catch up on my i had to tell you that was there for you right now or so you thought column a man in australia gets a life behind bars after murdering his two year old daughter to get back to his next partner before stopping the trial to death he announced his intention on facebook. and get a roundup of the action from this year's not so international film festival where

a spanish movie snatch the top prize for all the glitz and glamour just log on to party dot com. egypt's fragile interim leadership is facing a strain with 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 firebombs the unrest began over the slow pace of prosecution for senior officials and police officers accused during a mass uprising in february activists also calling for the speedy implementation of reforms demanded it during the revolt that toppled president mubarak journalist afshin rattansi says the current leadership is ignoring people's demands. the government such as it is hasn't 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 turmel 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 are not getting what they thought they were getting when they toppled hosni mubarak we must remember that joe biden and hillary clinton didn't want to go back to go that's the last 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 as rational it's rational outlook is this is going to hell 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. pakistan has the u.s. to shut down and leave the country southwest the facility has served as a launch pad for washington's drone attacks against militants on me volatile afghan border pakistani political analyst. believes that the only way to stop the violence

is to end the so-called war on terror. one of the main reasons for the for the continuation of violent activity on the pakistan of honest on border is the mess that the us military has created inside of coniston over the past decade the mass 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 they are the way they have alienated a large pockets really a country is a big reason for why we have a country nation 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 use the words we're going 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. right now let's get to some other world news for you in brief this hour in thailand exit polls show that the opposition party is on course for a major victory in the country's general election the party is headed by the sister of an hours to prime minister the elections hope to end the country's long running political crisis violent protests reputedly shaken thailand since the former government was toppled in a military coup in two thousand and six. as chief has a root out the arrest of four senior members of his group suspected of the assassination of former lebanese premier rafik hariri instead has done it not rather 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 that the charges were an attack on his movement career he was killed along with the twenty two others in february two thousand and five in beirut when each huge bomb exploded as his motorcade passed by. eleven people including children have been killed in mexico after tropical storm arlene drenched the country with heavy rains most of the victims died after being buried alive in their homes by mudslides or drowning in powerful streams the atlantic season's the first tropical storm came ashore over mexico's central gulf coast early on thursday almost three hundred thousand have been left homeless or otherwise affected by the severe weather. well actually we bring you our exclusive interview with the libyan leader's son who tells us how the international criminal court is more concerned with pleasing nato than pursuing justice but first i'll be back with a recap of the week's top stories for you in just a moment. more

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