this is. for the week's top stories this is a costly rescue the e.u. approves a twelve billion euro bailout package to tackle the greek debt crisis and chronic 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 to change their pensions. get good business good i think it is going to complain libya. is going to really get 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 and maybe i'll teach speaks exclusively with colonel gadhafi about why his country is at war.

and activists from a humanitarian fertility just in from gaza demanding authorities explain why they called voice being banned from leaving reports meanwhile the palestinian leader except athens offered to deliver the aid to being played on behalf of the campaign . given that back at the top stories from the past seven days and the latest developments this is the weekly take. the latest pay out of e.u. bailout funds for the greek economy will be released in the next two weeks that's according to euro zone finance ministers without the money i things will default on its loans within days but the rescue package comes at a price which has the public outraged about it this week the greek parliament cost radical austerity measures the money by the european union and international. a

prime protests on the streets of athens three days of demonstrations left hundreds injured the crowds clashed with police who responded with tear gas and stun grenades. and. with protesters at syntagma square focal point of the us. i think the only real option for them right now for the protesters and for the greek people is if some sort of political option or movement develops out of the society out of the ranks of ordinary people who are intelligent or 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 claimed that the measure quickly unconstitutional the first place because you need one hundred eighty members of parliament to pass a sort of legislation first of all second of all they can pass whatever they like but if the people don't agree to it and the people are not willing to sit down and take it it doesn't really matter what they pass and that's what we're seeing here right now what you're looking to have happen is you're going to see a fall discovered at some point i've said of things 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 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 pharmaceutical station here in greece is going to be filing a lawsuit along with other people against the government for use of illegal substances because these weren't just it was just 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 for the hospital for that reason people are very angry here and they're very upset and they understand what's going on and understand these measures are not going to help them and their future. and the fear that the cash won't help is backed up by critics of the bailout he was that the money would be used to pay off banks and not help the people of greece but

he said first explains. on the streets of athens the voices of discontent growing louder. it's a war we did not create this tour we're going to pay for this debt we want to be called large but. continues to fight against economic ruin second bailout. and attempt to prevent greece from defaulting on its previous lame payments people will be seeing a penny. of this money actually comes into the greek economy it all goes out. on save the banks and prevent a large scale financial crisis for the people the price is simply too high they see their income going down they see taxes taxes taxes and nothing else their money does not go to the real economy here is struggling against hostile stares he

measures that many government now faces an electorate opposed to a bailout a lot of people are asking when the. european central bank and the e.u. provided a missile to the tune of one hundred ten billion euros get a little past the bailout. plan b. because the. another bailout package and pay back that loan for a lot of people they are realistic in fact when it comes to the troika really people now in greece simply don't want to help them out chin's is being born as a stealth interest. to get as much as. they get out they are going to get all this need. problem. almost everything. would certainly come at a high cost cuts in public spending and raising taxes and an equally they should.

program there would need to sell many quit 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 keith will say and not prepared to. see. most of congress are the aftermath of japan's biggest nuclear disaster. there are no plans. clearly guarantee your safety one example is this much like a beautiful watch green valley behind me this is the very edge of the twenty kilometer exclusion zone that the government has set up. the japanese people lose faith in their government as the queues it of being reckless with their safety.

still to come for you this hour but first greece was not the only country to be hit by protests this week as 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 government plans to change their pensions after the country's state schools were closed and destruction was caused to air traffic during the biggest industrial action in decades. and it has a story. down tools up with industrial action an autumn of discontent starts here this time it's 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 thanks it was meant. to fight and work for me to think he'd be better to live here take a quick fix the changes that make it a pension or very unnecessary city is a way to address it so i think both we do need to make cutbacks in say things like

bring. in the private teacher pensions by so much as it is 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 babbly says his one point three million members already for prolonged industrial action we're on a war footing we've got thirty million plane 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 a normal ridiculous package of their proposed in that 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

thousand 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 act the unions but that's by no means a short public service workers who already get very generous pensions and the cost of this pensions is very much of a cop it turns the burden falls on to the next generation it really is absolutely essential the public sector pain. reform the new even after their reforms public sector workers will get saw that a 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 to until it decided to take longer to think about it causing friction in the coalition governments 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 give me if you pay pension

fund fugitive making a living if public sector work it's no joke to think that pensions are what while they may start contributing to them if that was a widespread withdrawal pension funds 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 average hockey love that. political activist chris knight says the industrial action was in response to the government's mishandling of the financial crisis. what's happening here is that but a crisis caused by bankers and. politicians or their pocket is what they're both politicians are making us pay as if. hardworking teachers hardworking civil servants hardworking electorate and others are responsible for this crisis we all know that's not true so let's deal with it let's deal with the problem at its roots let's crack down on what i regard as actually electoral fraud and criminal activity we have already seen that this government is actually very weak i mean

nobody voted for it that's put to start with and it has already made a couple u. turn so we definitely think we can force a u. turn on this one and what's going to happen of course is that it's not going to be just white collar workers we're building towards it looks as if the government down the building for something it was something an absolutely enormous we're building towards something we haven't seen in this country since ninety two it's a general strike and that's going to be very powerful and the government will will will will fall if it comes to that. still to come this hour cross clash find out why the devil is in the religious monuments crane has led to blood and. the story still to come for you this hour but first nato says it stepping up air strikes on libya to turn the course of its campaign against colonel gadhafi forces leaflets dropped from coalition planes say a bombing run can happen any place any time he claims to be hitting only military targets but a growing number of innocent libyan state they fear they're 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 and nato is willing to admit and that is now threatening to retaliate against europe unless the air strikes stop what he's written ocean or is on the front line. the road from the capital tripoli to is lined with the aftermath of war towns abandoned as the population. this is what's left of the airport in the siege your. home to one of the country's key oil refineries the last plane took off from this runway just hours before it was hit places they said it's only hit in the targets of military value they call say these telecommunications towers some fifteen minutes west of the tower of pisa troy. now this is a site to air strikes and they've also accidentally. two cars and killed two civilians since there is no t.v. in this area and as we can see the phone light has also been disrupted. there is no

water and no electricity what used to be heaven this man says has become hell i was home now susan for me here. i have nine children and i send them all to my relatives abroad i don't want them to see their mother and in such a condition. from least small poor brother even gas used to flow to europe. we used to produce fuel to send it to them and you know see they destroy it all this is terrible and ridiculous at the same time the closer you get to the front line the more you feel it you can hear the war and you can even read it on a tuesday for jobs just before the bombs arrive. this runs as you can see the reason sign here in arabic nato 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 they took an attack any place at any time. any time happened three times over several hours while we were feeling really good neighbors major allport is where the frontline rise divided the country to two parts into to see one side is going to put one flashpoint within the rebels and gadhafi supporters it's a very important point to pick location 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 the nato bombs never land on. a civilian population can hardly scape . they were like my family that had just come into 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 start with friends the others after work. we were eating with my colleagues then there was

a blast we knew what it was we tried to help those who were trapped but then the helicopters came and started to shoot at us. from one street to another the stories are repeated real concerns are a problem only. for food. there's a man every day every day ben being a good killed our civilians but the. country this is probably via well those voices are more and more frequent as the sound of exploding bombs and warplanes a drowns them out. r t sleepily. the african union is calling on member states to refute the arrest warrant issued by the hague this week against colonel gadhafi if there were doesn't back the criminal courts request the libyan leader would be able to travel freely across africa but he's going to exclusive access to the colonel son who is also wanted for war crimes so you get after he says the work is a sham after nato has attempts to kill him and his family. this core of the is is

it is that is if we can mask or come on the accuse me of killing people nobody will be nor the sentence. of the chemical attempt of punishment so they decided to kill and kill her and kill my brother and it is time house so this is me to ask you so now i don't know why i ever asked me three months ago is so to kill me and you are after me every day you are trying to find me and to give me only a mother so is the world number two just to tell you that is a fake or a military one we are trying to be sure but our idea of to if you are so busy and we think you are of course what does mean. is controlled by those countries. which attack us every day it's just to put. political pressure.

and other where you can see our full exclusive interview with colonel gadhafi son in around fifteen minutes from now but if you want to see it before then just log on to r.t. dot com where you can watch it right now. moscow is alarmed by the ambiguous interpretation of the un security council resolution on libya concern has been raised to the meeting between russian and french foreign ministers after paris admitted surprising weapons to the rebels it's the first time since the campaign began that a nato member has owned up to lifting arms to the country for months and says the framework of the resolution allows for all means when it comes to protecting peaceful civilians something russia calls an abuse of the vague wording of the document. there's a little something for solution one hundred seventy three contains chapter four which allows anyone to do anything that's very chance it was the cause of our problems with the mandate in all other aspects we support it and as we have warns now we're facing rather unpleasant situations but it can be interpreted in most

different ways i think moscow and paris and other un security council members are interested in the body to release concise documents to international law does not need to put up with ambiguity. activists from the a flotilla destined for gaza have taken to the streets of athens in defiance of the authorities decision to ban the vessels from leaving port at monza for the release of their ships and one of the captains and to continue their humanitarian voyage towards palestine campaigners claim the athens decision is due to pressure from the u.s. and israel and the queues are trying to sabotage their mission if the teller is being compared to a turkish convoy that was stormed by israeli marines last may resulting in nine deaths meanwhile the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas has accepted a greek offer to deliver humanitarian aid to gaza in place of the flotilla that is correspondences in the greek capital with the latest. damage activists from the so-called freedom flotilla to have gathered in athens to protest decision

to ban their vessels from leaving greek ports. coolers understand the decision of authorities is unlawful as adults have not provided any explanation to why the flotilla has been leaking in the first place and members of european parliament who are part of the humanitarian mission are planning to pressure the un to interfere and stop greece from laying off he pleaded innocent ports. and of other way we have more exclusive coverage of the freedom flotilla story for you online just log on to r.t. dot com a report that remains on one of those detained but if it's providing regular updates from the scene or so a lot of the moment if you missed this year's moscow international film festival log on to get a roundup of all the glamorous action. hundreds

of ethnic cossacks have been involved in a mass brawl with ukrainian special forces over the removal of a religious monument in the crimean peninsula he also talks christian cross was erected in the result city a few of those syrian may defying a local authority ban on the. one month as a result it was demolished earlier this week despite opposition from local residents almost three hundred christian cossacks marched through the city in protest towards the start of the cross but was soon dispersed by riot police violent confrontations then broke out resulting in fifteen people being seriously injured. but let's check out of the international news we're covering in brief in our world update bangladesh police have arrested over one hundred people in the capital dhaka they were demonstrating against a gas exploration deal with the us which they say could rob the country of its natural resources officials claim the contract is needed to me is growing energy demand strikeforce local stores schools and businesses in the capital to close on a day. 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 in the center of iraq's insurgency he attack took place on a major road linking iraq with syria and jordan a common where in uniform and driving a stolen police vehicle. italian police again clash with demonstrators west of the city of children protesting against the construction of a high speed rail way tunnel through the alps stones and petrol bombs were thrown at officers who responded with tear gas to disperse the crowd several arrests were made and at least thirty policemen were injured many residents who live between children in the french quarter say that building a rail link would ruin the landscape. tyler now where preliminary results suggest the opposition leader has won the runoff vote and could become the first woman to take the country's top ranking position headed by the sister of us the premier talks in general the few type party going there got half of the five hundred parliamentary seats results in the former leader may return home from self-imposed

exile in the by a vote for his five years of political chaos not by violent protests and military. japan is no longer it was i should say no closer to resolving its nuclear crisis triggered by the march earthquake and tsunami high levels of radiation continue to be detected near the stricken for kashima power plant despite the government declaring it safe for people to live nearby but as r.t. shaun 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 val's ins 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 the japanese people have no trust in the government he watched a coastal city devastated by the earthquake tsunami and on the edge of the

radiation exclusion zone is starting on the long road to recovery but the people living here see the government just isn't doing enough from the thirty hole like iraq that he they said different things not perfect or they said before opening a government if they're developing. the alligator the or stiff part of the country last year they are apart but some believe it is too early to tell what the real dangers of the situation or scientists 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 your radiation level and then you should get breeze and then you take water you always will have different values because it's so close and so changing so you can hardly say but it's really exceeds what

a normal person would have by a year one of the frightening things about this entire incident is that there are no concrete boundaries that can clearly guarantee your safety one example is this looks like a beautiful wife 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 tried to get a little bit closer but were thwarted by a police officer and a couple of personnel now although this is supposed to be a safe area the radiation levels here are still brain seven and ten times higher than normal weather for misinformation or mis understanding the people who live in the affected areas don't always take the proper precautions here a volunteer works to clean up toxic radioactive hot spots with hardly any protection and of 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 on a deal to help each other and that the media. it's been blown off the t.v. channels need the money from advertisement and the nuclear energy companies pay a lot with writers 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. . but the russian police say they've released all of the journalists who've been detained among protesters during celebrations of the twentieth anniversary of the country's independence according to human rights organizations around two hundred people were arrested as attempted to hold silent protests not only by classic independence day celebrations come as the government struggles with

a financial crisis hoping to secure a multi-billion dollar bailout from the i.m.f. the country's currency has been sharply devalued while the budget deficit mounts a longer wave of protests as recently emerged and many of which are organized online outside the established opposition. right now to bring it up to date for the moment our exclusive interview with colonel gadhafi son that's coming up very shortly will be after a recap of the top stories with me in about four minutes from now stay with us live here in moscow this is outing.

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