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headlines today on the top stories all this week. rescue. package to the greek debt crisis and. the country. cost. hundreds of thousands of public sector workers in the u.k. take part in a national day of strikes in an attempt to define the government's plans to change their pensions. give good. this is the time. to do that. speaks exclusively with. about why his country is at war.

believe the u.s. and israel. with the stories that made headlines this week you're watching the weekly here on. the latest e.u. bailout funds for the greek economy will be released in the next two weeks that's according to the eurozone finance ministers without the money to fulfill. loans within days but the rescue package comes at a price which as the public outraged earlier this week the greek parliament passed a radical austerity measures demanded by the european union an international monetary fund and peace back at the prime despite protests on the streets of athens three days of demonstrations left hundreds injured. clashed with police who responded with tear gas and stun grenades financial journalist dimitri us has been

with protesters at square focal point of the unrest. 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 where constitutional scholars and former members of the government they claim that the measure unconstitutional 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 you're going to see a fall discovered at some point i said if things go it really of the violence is a really big issue because if if the violence if this results in casualties not just massive injuries then that's going to that's going to lead to a collapse of this government will that mean that the next government will come in

and actually do something productive maybe maybe not but then they have to fall to i don't see the people in this country lying down there's a report that the head of the pharmaceutical national association 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 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 hospital for that reason people are very angry here and they're very upset and. understand what's going on and understand these measures are not going to help them and their future. won't help backed up by critics of the bailout who argue that the money will be used to pay off banks not help the people of greece. explains. on the streets of athens the voices of discontent growing louder.

it's a war we did not create this tour and we're going to pay for this we want to bug the streets continues to fight against economic ruin. and attempts to prevent greece from previous lame payments that the greek people seeing a penny. of this buyout money actually comes into the greek economy it all goes out. the battle zone save the banks and prevent a large scale financial crisis for the people the price is simply too high they see their income don't going down they see taxes taxes taxes and nothing else their money does not go to very early a year a struggling against harshest areas he measures has meant the government now faces an electorate opposed to another bailout that's been lost and people are asking when the. european central bank and the e.u.

provided. to the tune of one hundred ten billion euros going to look past the bad and move on to plan b. because the thought the quest to manage another bailout package and pay back that loan for a lot of people realistic is that when it comes to the troika many people now in greece simply don't want that help. being born as a self interest they try. to get as much as they. get out they are going to get all their state. i mean they're really proper and they are going to give almost everything in court. then i would certainly can that's a high cost for the cuts in public spending 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 of their full three lending policies and it's almost as if there's a whole other holy alliance of politicians and bankers versus ordinary people it's a fight that the people say they're not prepared to. r.t. athens. and are still to come in the program here at r.t. the not so international monetary fund the french finance minister is elected as the new head of the i.m.f. it's sparking concern the fund could remain western oriented. greece was not the only country to be hit by protests this week u.k. public sector workers took part in a national day of strikes on thursday hundreds of thousands of teachers and civil servants voiced their discontent with the government plans to change their pensions half of the country's state schools were closed and disruption was caused to air traffic during the biggest industrial action in decades artie's lore and it has the

story. down tools up with industrial action an autumn of discontent starts heya 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 it was crap and. yet if. i was familiar with seventy second street i think i can see where. the changes that i may consider pensions are already necessary to fix a way to address it so i think we do need to make cutbacks in sad things like being . tied to teacher branches by side much as it is to 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 a prolonged industrial action and we're almost a war footing we've got thirty million pain set aside and we've got a strategy work but i must stress that's not what we want to do we want to talk to the government and negotiate a sensible package nor the ridiculous package of their proposal at the moment that package involves raising the retirement age from sixty to sixty six raising pension contributions by work has 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 under the carpet and the burden falls on to the next

generation a great is absolutely essential that public sector pay. reform didn't even after they are reformed public sector workers will get better pensions and worst 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 the current fifty billion dollar pension bill but it may be cutting off its nose to spite its face the wider issue here according to the u.k. pension fund. is a part of me public sector workers know don't think that pensions are what while they may still be a stick to them if that was so widespread with pepsi. and now with the u.k. p.-o. the very source of investment just what it means more than ever your avatar to be.

nato says it's stepping up as drugs on libya to turn the course of its pain against his forces leaflets dropped from coalition planes say a bombing run can happen quote any place any time reliance claims to be hitting only military targets but a growing number of innocent libyans say they fear death from the skies brussels has already apologized for killing civilians by mistake although tripoli claims the number of reported deaths is said to be much higher than nato is willing to admit. to retaliate against europe unless the air strikes stop. is on the front line for us. the road from the capital tripoli to brag is lined with the aftermath of war towns abandoned as the population fled and. this is what's left of the airport in the. home to one of the country's key oil refineries

the last plane took off from this runway just hours before it was he. hate. to say senate's only hate in the targets of military value will call say these telecommunications towers so thick to stop it. now this is a safe thing to strike so 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 lot has also been disrupted. there is no water and no electricity what used to be heaven this man says has become hell what was 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 least small pool not far from break even 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 frontline the more you feel it you can hear the war and you can even read it on. jobs just before the bombs arrive this runs has 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. this any time happened three times over several hours while we were filming regular is made to all parties where the frontline lies dividing the country into two parts into to swear one side is going to put one flashpoint between the rebels and gadhafi supporters it's a very important point to quote case gets in a firm hand on this town would mean taking control over the country's economy all

facilities seem to be a 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 staff where friends gathered after work. we were eating with my colleagues then there was a we knew what that was we tried to help those traps then the helicopters came in and started to shoot at us from one street to another the stories are repeated really conserve are a problem i live. in the food they know to every madam every day every day did bombing a big killed our civilians but there's been nothing from this country this is from libya well those voices become more and more frequent is the sound of exploding bombs and warplanes the drowns them. out t.

tripoli bragger. meantime the african union is calling on a member states to refute the arrest warrant issued by the hague this week against colonel gadhafi if the organization doesn't back the criminal court's request then the libyan leader would be able to travel freely across africa ati's again exclusive access to karl could offer his son who is also wanted for war crimes saif al islam says that war is a sham after nato is attempts to kill him and his family. this core of this is it is a mickey mouse court come on the accuse me of killing people everybody knows the sentence . of the capital punishment so they decided to kill me and can and did kill my brother and it is two in the house so this is me to keep you so now you are talking while i rest me three months ago you said to kill me and you are after me every day you are trying to find me and to give me everything and my

brother so is the number two just to tell you that it's a fake court under the table they are trying to negotiate with us a deal of this the year we've ticket of the court what does it mean that means is the court is controlled by those countries. which attack us every day it's just to put. political pressure that. you can see our full exclusive interview with colonel gadhafi son saif al islam in around fifteen minutes time here on our team but if you can't wait that long just log on to our two top com where you can watch it right now. by moscow has raised concerns over big u.s. interpretations of the u.n. security council resolution on libya after france supplied weapons to the rebels the paris admission is the first time a nato member has owned up to air lifting arms to the country since the campaign

began russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says to be very wording of the resolution is being abused. there's a new suit the first illusion one nine hundred seventy three contains chapter four which allows anyone to do anything this very chapter it was the cause of our problems with the mandate in all other aspects we support it and as we have warned now we're facing rather unpleasant situations when it can be interpreted in most different ways i think morse code in paris and other u.n. security council members are interested for the body to release concise documents to the international law does not need to put up with ambiguity. here without a live from moscow now the french finance minister christine legarde has been elected as the new chief of the international monetary fund this week but there is concern that a european in charge of the i.m.f. will spell even more western bias and unfair privileges. nature can explains

christine lagarde appointment keeps a european at the head of the world's top lender keeping the long held tradition intact and in a debt crisis having one of its own chairing the international monetary fund could be more important than ever for europe i think that my 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 appointment would only add to the perception of i.m.f. bias there could be some conflict of interest i mean up in those a bit they know their main borel's institution will be europe so we'll have a situation where they will roll or stormin eighteen to create thirty 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 analysts suggest i.m.f. bias has had a negative effect on the world's economy they would use their monopoly over credit . to force certain policies. and countries in policies there were not in their national interest the i.m.f. lends money monitors the global economy and in theory at least prevents crises its credibility has been shattered by the financial collapse in the advanced economies which it definitely did not spot they missed the 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 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. ssion giants like boeing and lockheed martin helping them to seal multibillion dollar deals the u.s. and europe. 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. and still to come this hour the aftermath of japan's the biggest nuclear disaster. there are no concrete boundaries that can clearly guarantee your safety one example is this looks like a beautiful green valley behind me but in fact this is the very edge of the twenty

kilometer exclusion zone that the government has set up japanese people lose faith in their government as they accuse it of being reckless with their safety. from leaving its ports under arrest at one of the captains to the authorities accuse the vessels with hundreds of activists on board departing without permission campaigners have suggested the greek government gave in to pressure from the u.s. and israel who they accuse of trying to sabotage their mission flotilla is drawing parallels to a gaza bound convoy that was stormed by israeli marines last may that resulted in the deaths of nine turkish activists but it's a corresponding reports from one of the seized ships lawyers are calling athens actions unlawful activists hope that justice will prevail. at the garden or at the door but make sure you are the captain of the american ship knew what he was doing and he was determined in his attempt to leave port i talk 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 israelis are for you know i know it scared the whole mission is drawing so much attention to the un an awful blockade of gaza and it's making phenomenal efforts to stop the ships from getting to your destination point you know. we have more exclusive coverage of the freedom flotilla story for you online of course i just log on to see dot com ati's our

correspondent on the way remains on one of the detained for the boats she's providing regular updates from the scene on our web site. also online if you missed it this year as a moscow international film festival on to r.t. dot com to get a roundup of all of a glamorous action. you're watching at the weekly here on our t.v. about egypt's interim government has come under pressure as a violent protests swept through the country this week police used tear gas to disperse a crowd of angry protesters holding stones and petrol bombs nearly two thousand people joined a program ocracy activists to call for faster reform. and demand justice for the eight hundred fifty people killed during the spring uprising demonstrators are frustrated with the government for not meeting the demands of the revolution that

toppled president mubarak and investigation has been launched into the clashes which left more than eight thousand people injured journalist afshin rattansi says the current leadership is ignoring people to say. the government such as it is hasn't responded to the concerns of the people there are strikes at the suez canal transportation workers people being killed again on the streets of cairo not a peep out of the corporate media and meanwhile we have william burns in cairo talking with mr time tally the provisional head at the moment of the government and even the trial of the interior minister who is hated so much on the interior minister and also mubarak has been adjourned people 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 also to mubarak to go as well as the 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 international it's rational outlook is this who 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. all right zero twenty five past the hour here in moscow let's check out some other international news in brief for you today in iraq five policemen were kidnapped and killed at a checkpoint in the western province of anbar the sunni controlled area is a known al qaeda stronghold and the center of iraq's insurgency the attack took place on a major road linking iraq with syria and jordan the gunmen were in uniform and driving a stolen police vehicle. hezbollah's leader has rejected the prosecution of four senior members of the group suspects in the murder of the former lebanese prime year rafik hariri. suggested that israel should instead be the main subject of the investigation he called the special tribunal for lebanon part of an israeli plot saying it is financially and morally corrupt hariri was killed along with twenty

two others in february in two thousand and five in beirut and a huge bomb was detonated near his passing motorcade. exit polls in thailand suggest the opposition party is due to a landslide victory in the country's general election headed by the sister of. prime minister thaksin shinawatra it's expected to gain over half of the five hundred parliamentary seats violent protests have repeatedly shaken thailand since the former government was toppled by a military coup five years ago it's hoped the vote will end the country's long running political deadlock. but japan is no closer to resolving its nuclear crisis triggered of course by the march earthquake and tsunami high levels of radiation continue to be detected near the stricken fukushima power plant despite the government declaring it safe for people to live by its articles or short thomas discovered when it comes to their safety the people of japan no longer

have faith in their government. 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 discontent if after this crisis it 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 the walkie of 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 or like iraq city they said different things not perfect or they said different things in the government they said different things. they are not together. or part of the country. they are a part but some believe it is too early to tell what the real dangers of the situation or scientist to 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 check it here. or ideation level and then it's a good breeze and when you take water you always feel half different values because it's so close and it's 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 zone that the government has set up in fact we're trying to get a little bit closer but we're supported out by a police officer and a top. now although this is supposed to be a safe area the radiation levels here are still between seven and ten times higher than normal weather for misinformation or me. 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 a 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 the citizens know the real cost of nuclear energy until now the priority has been to profit from energy the p.r. machine of the government has been emphasising 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 bought off the t.v. channels need the money from advertisement and the nuclear energy companies pay a lot with at this money they cannot survive and for that reason i have to shut up about the situation the newspapers have this.