today's top stories and a review all of the week here on arts heat twelve billion euros in the e.u. coming to the rescue of greece's economy while violent protests against approved harsh new cuts shook the country. wanted for crimes against humanity as the international criminal court issues arrest warrant for the. son of the libyan leader lashes out at the decision exclusively telling r.t. that the court is corrupt. a u.s. a captain of a guard ship was arrested by. several vessels were seized in port it's following what activists believe is pressure from israel and the u.s. . public sector workers hit schools airports across the u.k. as people protested against their pensions being slashed. they're

watching their weekly here are not see it's where we highlight the top stories of the week 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 but people raged against tough cuts and tax hikes which were needed to secure a second handout faced with twenty eight billion euros worth of austerity measures protesters gathered in front of the parliament building they threw stones at police the smashed windows and set fire to property police responded with tear gas and stun grenades doesn't. both sides were injured while many demonstrators want to tighten the e.u. and the international monetary fund 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 at the retreat says to the greek government has simply book 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 for the protesters and for the greek people is if some sort of political option or movement develops out of a 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 for constitutional scholars and former members of the government they claim that the measure on constitutional the first place because you need one hundred eighty members of parliament to pass this 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 i've said of things it really 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 they 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 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 in including us fixating agents and that's why you. 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 for the hospital for that reason 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. as the greeks cry out against the tough austerity measures it's the germans who are going to bear the brunt of bailing them out marcus says that the greek rescue package is a result of the e.u. sphere of contagion and puts athens creditors at risk people believe that the greek crisis might create a contagion to other more developed economies politicians are afraid people who are afraid take very very unreasonable decisions the first decision was to allow greece to have a very generous credit last year credit to a sovereign country means that as a sovereign country has will be imposed has not paid to credit all people have been creditors will remain at risk so we are in a very very dangerous phase of european monetary policy. institutional policy

because we have stayed away straight away from the power of institutional unama diverted which is laid down in the treaty overnight on the ninth and tenth of may under the french influence of the european economic. community and the european monetary union has been redesigned without any vote by populations who have consented to giving up the money and the germans and very bitterly. mark you talking about what the greek bailout means for the wider euro zone. on monday the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for libya's colonel qadhafi accusing him of crimes against humanity that he has grounds to believe that he ordered attacks on civilians during the beginning of the. he was under arrest with score support have been killed the african union said it will not cooperate with the tribunals demand in an exclusive interview with r.t. colonel gadhafi his son saif al islam is also under the court's arrest warrant says

that international justice is nothing more than a sham this chorus is it is it is a mickey mouse court come on the accuse me of killing people everybody nor the sentence. of your capital punishment so they decided to kill and kill and they did kill my brother and destroyed my house so it's nice to execute you so now you are talking about arrest me demands are going to kill me and you are after me every day you are trying to find me and to give me over there my brother so is the world number two just to tell you that it's a free court. they are trying to negotiate with us i did to this day and we've ticket of the court what does that mean it means is it is the court is controlled by those countries. which attack us every day it's just to put. political pressure that it.

and you can see the full interview with saif al islam next hour here on r.t. or just find it on our website r.t. dot com. so many libyans feel that the criminal court is just a cover for nato's attempts to kill colonel gadhafi that the alliance is members who should be held to account for the bombing campaign. investigated the consequences of the continuing strikes which are said to be directed only at military targets. the road from the capital tripoli to brag is 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 sea and also home to why they can't. the last plane took off from this runway just hours before it was hate. to say so it's only been the targets of military value will call say these telecommunications

towers so thick to stop the. destroyed. this is a sight to strike they've also accidentally. two cars and killed two civilians since there is no t.v. in this area and as we can see. it has also been disrupted. there is no water and no. what used to be heaven this man says has become hell is 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. 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 lead it on.

jobs just before the bombers arrive. this run so as you can see the reason sign here in arabic that nato is here to leave it to enforce 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 these were the front line allies dividing the country into two parts into two switch sides it's been a quick one flashpoint between the rebels and gadhafi forces it's a very important point to take location gets in a firm hand on this town i mean to. 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 that they had just gone 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 all companies staff where friends gathered after work. we waited with my colleagues then there was a boom 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 their stories are repeated. by our problem i think we all need a new. late night talk every man every day every day one being a big killed our civilians but there's no nothing this country this is from libya well those voices became more and more frequent is the sound of exploding bombs and warplanes that drowns them out. r t tripoli preg. now moscow has raised concern over france of supplying weapons to libyan rebels and

big u.s. interpretations of the u.n. security council resolution on libya france's admission is the first time that a nato member has owned up to air lifting arms to 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 even escalate more violence foreign minister sergei lavrov said continuing turmoil in the two countries is being treated in completely different ways. which. many 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 you are with r.t.

it's good to have your company today and still ahead here on the program no man's land french finance minister christine lagarde steps into the global economies temple as the first woman ever to head the international monetary fund. and a rift between allies why pakistan is on a mission to expel america's drones 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 were stopped in the port of power rama near athens and it happened on friday campaigners claim that greece is working under the orders of israel and the us the foot soldiers are drawing parallels to the garza bound convoy that was stormed by israeli marines last year and resulted in the deaths of nine people one 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. are at the door but make sure you're the captain of the american ship knew what he was doing and he was determined in his attempt to leave port i talked to the captain of a ship and he's ready to set c. list soon as he gets permission he says there should be no restraints the lawyers see greece's ban on the ships leaving it is unlawful the greek government gave no grounds why it stopped the flotilla in the first place activists remain optimistic they believe the fact that the flotilla has caused such a stir 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 the children of gaza 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 their destination point. that was r.t.

course one of the and i don't talk about whose are on board one of the ships stopped by a creek or thought it was from sailing to gaza. on thursday the u.k. partly came to a halt with more than half of all state schools forced to close and destruction being 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 return. an age that laura might 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'm worth the money it's seventy fifty i think it takes a while to change is that i make it a pension or what is necessary to fix the way to address it so i think we do need

to make cutbacks in things happening. in the pilot teaching wrenches why so much of 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 bob apple 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 pounds 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 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 most 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 is doing this to reduce a current fifty billion dollar pension bill but it may be cutting off its nose to spite its face the light is here according to the u.k.

pension fund to pay it but let me public sector work if no don't think that what while they may not be a stick to them if there was a widespread with the pension fund would collapse and that would leave u.k. p.l.o. the very source of investment just what it means more than ever your avatar to be lumped in. with r.t. live from moscow now the borders between russia and kazakhstan have been broken down when it comes to trade as the first customs union joined the 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 new born enterprise. reports from kiev as the change of power in the crane revived ties with moscow talks of the key of joining the customs union between russia belarus and. 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 concepts stand produced competing goods and are not using them. vantages customs union will have to 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 a free trade space with europe we would all members of the customs union join the its presence is no hindrance to this process russia which is 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. gracile did not seem too happy at ukraine trying to sit on top cheers

as a stern warning to ukraine came from the european parliament which said should the country join the customs union with russia doors to 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 cost heated debate in kiev now 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 trooper to notice we try to find the formulas. used. for the benefit of our economy and unfortunately strong position of our european partners is that ukraine cannot be a member of craft and tyranny and if it was to her refrigerator so that's why we have to and we do searching for formula thirteen can allow us to be close partner of customs union to be good to fracture of part of the russian russian cover fun

and 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 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 but the goods produced by ukraine will be on high demand there while a key of this carefully balancing between the east and the west for two or three of ukrainians say that describes european pastures being seemingly greener. after all closer to a gram or not only geopolitically alexy resets reports and promptly year ukraine. now if you if you've missed anything that we cover you can always find it on line

has a taste of what's there for you right now at r.t. dot com a man in australia gets life behind bars after murdering his two year old daughter to get back at his ex partner but before starting the child to death ian asked his intention on facebook. fans get a round up of the action from this year's a moscow international film festival where a spanish movie snatch the top prize for all the glitz and glamour right on to our two top cops. christine lagarde has become the first woman of 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 he's got an education 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 that my. intimate knowledge

of those mechanisms. of the european community and the eurozone of its many leaders can help the guards 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 institutional with u.v. europe so we'll have a situation where they will roll 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 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 a v.a.

giants like boeing and lockheed martin helping them to seal multibillion dollar deals that you are seeing here of the. 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 rising animal sparboe not to cement even further the perception that the i.m.f. exists only for the benefit of its creditors i'm gonna check our reporting from washington hard to. see how a twenty five minutes past the hour here in moscow pakistan has the u.s. to shut down and leave an f.a. so the country's southwest facility has served as a launch pad for washington's drone attacks against militants on the volatile afghan border pakistani political analyst believes 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 ghana's done 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 there the way they have alienated a large pockets really of the country is a big reason for why we have a country new ation 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 has been conducting this war over the past ten years one step forward is of course what president obama has declared but you still words where you get 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 are

now let's turn to some of today's world news and pray for you this hour. policemen have been kidnapped and killed in iraq after gunmen attacked a checkpoint in the west of the country the group was ambushed while guarding the road that links iraq with syria and jordan the gunman who are believed to be insurgents were wearing police uniforms and driving a stolen police car violence in iraq is fallen significantly since two thousand and six but deadly attacks still happen on a daily basis. in thailand exit polls show 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 ulster prime minister the election is hoped to the country's a long running political crisis the protests will be shaken thailand since the former government was toppled in a military coup in two thousand and six. hezbollah's chief ruled out the arrest of four senior members of his group suspected of the assassination of former lebanese

premier. instead. said that 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 theory 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. shortly we followed the life of three teenagers born into the trash trade in the world's largest rubbish village of the outskirts of cairo but first i'll be back to remind you of the week's top stories stay with us.

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