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with the week's top stories this is artsy costly rescue the e.u. approves a twelve billion euro bailout package to tackle the greek debt crisis and violent demonstrations rocked the country in protest of the high cost. hundreds of thousands of public sector workers in the u.k. take part in a national day of strikes in an attempt to defy the government's plans of changing their pensions. in the accordance to control libya. is the only good this is the target. and the libyans will not allow them to do that . so the fight will continue as nato steps up its air assault on libya speaks exclusively with colonel gadhafi son about why his country is at war. and all at sea for the activists destined for gaza as athens bans its departure from greek

ports campaigners on board believe the u.s. and israel are behind the unlawful suspension of their trip. we are highlighting the stories that made headlines this week welcome to the weekly the latest e.u. bailout funds for the greek economy will be released in the next two weeks not months according to eurozone finance ministers without the money athens will default on its loans within days but the rescue package comes at a price which has the public outraged earlier this week the greek parliament passed a radical austerity measures demanded by the european union international monetary fund and backed the plan despite protests on the streets three days of demonstrations left hundreds injured as angry crowds clashed with police who responded with tear gas and stun grenades financial journalist dmitri coffee has

been with the protesters at syntagma square that's the 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 the society out of the ranks of ordinary people who are intelligent who are 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 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 going to see a fall this government at some point have said if it really 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 the government 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 and including us fixating agents and that's why you see a lot of people here i saw them myself and a lot of people other people saw them passing out not being able to breathe people inside the metro station not being able to breathe the hospital for that reason people are very angry here and they're very upset and they understand what's going on and then are sent these measures are not going to help them and their future. and the fear that the e.u. cash won't help is backed up by critics of the bailout who argue the money will be used to pay off banks and 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 become

like a bug squeeze continues to fight against economic ruin second bailout. an attempt to prevent greece from defaulting on its previous limit payments that the greek people seeing a penny. of this buyout money actually comes into the greek economy it all goes out. and repayments also battlezone save the banks and prevent a large scale financial crisis for the people the price is simply too high very see their incomes going down they see taxes taxes taxes and nothing else their money does not go to the real economy here is struggling against harsher sterett he measures has meant the government now faces an electorate opposed to another bailout there's been a lot of people asking when the choice. european central bank and the e.u. provided that initial to the tune of one hundred ten billion euros 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 is that they are realistic in fact when it comes to the troika many people now in greece simply don't want their help their actions is being born as a self-interest try. to get. out if they are going to get all this they. i mean. they are going to get almost everything that. the bailout would certainly come as 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 on their faulty 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. see. you with r.t. live from moscow and still to come on the program ukraine at a crossroads forward on a decision on whether to join a trade union with its eastern neighbors or lean to the e.u. . 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 are voiced their discontent with the government plans to change their pensions half of the country's state schools were closed and destruction was caused to air traffic during the biggest industrial action in decades artes and it has the

story. down tools up with industrial action and 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 even if it. might have worked for me it didn't take me back to fifty a week it's a. bit changes that i may consider pensions or very necessary cities a way to address it so i think we do need to make cutbacks in set things have been . tried and tried to teach extensions by so 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 for 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 workers and having payouts based on average career earnings rather than final salary the unions admit public support is fundamental the government's very unlikely to change its mind about reforms if the public at large doesn't back the unions but that's by no means a short public sector workers do already get very generous pensions and the cost of those pensions is very much of a cop it turned the burden falls on to the next generation a great is absolutely essential that public sector pain. reform didn't even after

they are reformed public sector workers will get far 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 a current fifty billion dollar pension bill but it may be cutting off its nose to spite its face the wider issue here according to the u.k. pension fund. a part of me public sector workers know don't think that what while they may talk if you think that if there was a white bread with pepsi would collapse and that would leave u.k. p.l.o. the very source of investment just what it means that more than ever your avatar t. loved it. so our ten minutes past the hour here in moscow nato says it's stepping

up their strikes on libya to turn the course of its campaign against colonel gadhafi is forces leaflets dropped from coalition planes saying that a bombing run can happen any place any time the alliance claims to be hitting only military targets but a growing number of innocent libyans are saying they fear death from the skies russell 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 colonel gadhafi is now threatening to retaliate against your strikes stop . right there on the frontline for us. the road from the capital tripoli to brag he's lined with the aftermath of war towns abandoned as the population fled the bombardment. this is what's left of the civilian airport in the sea and also home to one of the country's key oil refineries the last plane took off from this runway just hours before it was hate. they said it's only been the

targets of military value well call say these telecommunications towers so thick to stop. destroying. this is a safe strikes and they've also accidentally. two cars and killed two civilians since then there is no t.v. in this area and as we can see phone lot has also been disrupted. there is no water and no electricity what used to be heaven this man says has become hell towards home now susan familiar. i have nine children and i send them all to my relatives abroad i don't want them to see their mother who is in such a condition. from the small paul not far from bragg 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 nature's leaflets jobs just before the bombs arrive. this one so as you can see there is a sign here in arabic that nato is here in 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. anytime happened three times over several hours while we were filming regulators major parties where the frontline was dividing the country into two parts into to say one side is going to put one flashpoint between the rebels and gadhafi forces it's a very important point to 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 red 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 for 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 the stories are repeated. by our problem i mean we don't need any food. every man every day every day did when being a big killed our civilians. in this country this is from libya well those voices became more and more frequent is the sound of exploding bombs and warplanes drowns them out. r t tripoli.

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 courts request the libyan leader would be able to travel freely across africa or to use again exclusive access to colonel gadhafi son who is also wanted for war crimes saif al islam says the wind is a sham after nato is attempts to kill him and his family. this chorus is it is it is a mickey mouse court come on the accused me of killing people everybody in the sentence against it are going to the capital punishment so they decided to kill and. and they did kill my brother and destroy the house so this is me to execute you so now you are talking while i rest me demands are going 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 world number two just to tell you that it's a free court under the table they are trying to negotiate with us a deal if you accept this deal with ticket of the court what does that mean it means is it is a call is controlled by those countries. which attack us every day it's just to put psychological and political pressure that it. and you can watch out. full exclusive interview with colonel gadhafi your son saif al islam in about fifteen minutes time right here on r t but if you can't wait that long i just log on to our web site that's dot com. now moscow is alarmed by the ambiguous interpretation of the u.n. security council resolution on libya the concern has been raised at a meeting between russian and french foreign ministers after paris admitted to supplying weapons to the rebels is the first time since the campaign began that

a nato member has owned up to air lifting arms to the country france insists the framework of the resolution allows for all the means when it comes to protecting peaceful civilians it's something that russia calls an abuse of the vague wording of the document. isn't suited person lucia nine hundred seventy three contains chapter four which allows anyone to do anything this very chance 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 moscow and 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. and still to come this hour here on r.t. the aftermath of japan's biggest nuclear disaster. there are no plan create boundaries that can clearly your safety one example is this looks like

a beautiful watch green valley behind me but in fact this is the very edge of the twenty kilometer exclusion zone that the government has set up a japanese people lose faith in their government as they accuse it of being reckless with their safety. greece has banned a humanitarian aid flotilla destined for gaza from leaving its ports and even arrested one of the captains the authorities accuse the vessels with hundreds of activists on board of departing without permission campaigners have suggested the greek government gave in to the. pressure from the u.s. and israel here they accuse of trying to sabotage their mission the flotilla is drawing parallels to a similar gaza bound convoy that was stormed by israeli marines last may result in the deaths of nine a turkish activists resulting as a corresponding reports from one of the scenes to ships lawyers are calling athens actions unlawful and that activists hope that justice will prevail. or at all but make sure you 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 say greece is banning 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 afraid i don't know 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 you know and we have more exclusive coverage of the freedom for tell us story for you on the line that's at sea dot com r.t.

correspondent remains on one of the detained a flotilla boat she is providing a regular updates from the scene that's again our web site r.t. dot com. also online if you missed it this year is a moscow international film festival log on to r.t. dot com to get a roundup of all the glamorous action. now we're twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow after fifteen years of eager anticipation the customs union between russia and stan is up and running from early july the union it created to ease mutual trade could be joined by another candidate ukraine but it's. reports the country is at a crossroads deciding whether to turn east or west. as the change of power in

ukraine revived ties with the moscow talks of fear of joining the customs union between russia belarus some classics than began a possible move many experts describe as highly beneficial for all sides the world of goods and services produced in ukraine more or less meat 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 done produce competing goods and are not using their natural advantages children's customs union will help them become more focused at the same time ukraine never hit its aspirations to join the european union and despite moscow's reassurances that the customs union can co-exist with a free trade space with europe we would all members of the customs union join the door its presence is no hindrance to this process russia which is also a member of the customs union will seek the creation of the free trade zone with the european union i hope that this task isn't going to be

a long run prospect brussels 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 or still the e.u. will be shot for ever for ukraine and despite this statement coming not from the highest ranks in the e.u. it caused heated debate in kiev 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 trouper trinity three try to find a formula that would let us use both for the benefit of our economy and unfortunately strong position of our european partners is that ukraine cannot be a member of crofton tyranny and if it was to her refrigerator so that's why we have to and we do search and. formula that can allow us to be close partners

presently and to be good to fracture for part of the russia russia and other fun and economic sphere but not become 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 because goods produced by ukraine will be in high demand there while key of this carefully balancing between the east and the west for jury to have ukrainians say that despite european pastures being seemingly greener russia is after all closer to them and not only geopolitically lets you assess the r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine. for now let's check out some other international

news recovering in brief 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 the police car. hezbollah's leader has rejected the prosecution of four senior group members suspects in the murder of former lebanese prime of. their son that now is rather suggested that israel should instead be the main subject of the investigation because the special tribunal for lebanon part of an israeli plot saying it is financially and morally corrupt theory was killed along with twenty two others in february two thousand and five in beirut when a bomb exploded near his passing motorcade. to thailand now where preliminary results suggest that the opposition leader has won the runoff vote and will become

the first woman to take the country's top ranking position headed by the sister of ousted. what food thai party is 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. or japan is no closer to resolving its nuclear crisis of course triggered by the march 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 nearby but as i see it sean 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 after this crisis it is true that the people are more

. yes and we need to take advantage of it this is the first time since the second world war the japanese people have no trust in the government 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 city they said different things like perfect or they said different things and the government they said different things if. they're 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 scientists who 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 air here. at ideation level and then you check debriefs it when you take

water you always feel have 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 edge of the twenty kilometer exclusion zone that the government has set up in fact we're trying to get a little bit closer but were escorted out by a police officer and a tepco of 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 from misinformation or mis understanding that 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 problem as well a move that if true keeps the important information hidden from the people saving face for those in charge in japan sean thomas or t.v. all right are you without a life in moscow where it's now a six twenty eight pm on sunday just

a few few minutes away now from the headlines and our exclusive interview with colonel gadhafi his son to stay with us.