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the week's top stories this is all to be a costly rescue the e.u. approves a twelve billion euro bailout package to tackle the greek debt crisis as violent demonstrations rocked the country in protest of the high cost help. hundreds of thousands of public sector workers in the u.k. take part in a national day of strikes in the attempt to defy the government's plans to change their pension. if your goal is the government the goal is to control in libya. this is the target. and the libyans will not allow them to do that. so the fires will continue as nato steps up its air assault on libya t.v. speaks exclusively with colonel gadhafi son about why his country is at war. and activists from a humanitarian flotilla destined for gaza demanding authorities explain why their convoy has been banned from leaving brick ports meanwhile the. palestinian leader

excepts athens offered to deliver the aid to the enclave on behalf of the campaign . for the back at the top stories from the past seven days and the latest developments this is the weekly. the latest payout 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 athens will default on its loans within days but the rescue package comes at a price which has the public outraged that it is we should treat radical starts the measures demanded body european union and international monetary fund and peace back the plan despite protests on the streets of athens three days of demonstrations left hundreds injured as angry crowds clashed with police responded with tear gas and stun grenades financial journalist dimitri kovtun us has been with protest as it syntagma square 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 for a movement develops out of a 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 where constitutional scholars and former members of the government they claim that the measure completely unconstitutional the first place because you need one hundred eighty members of parliament to pass this sort of legislation first of all second of all they can pass whatever they like but if the people don't agree to it and the people are not willing to sit down and take it it doesn't really matter what they pass and that's what we're seeing here right now what you're looking to have happen is you're going to see a fall discovered at some point i've 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 the governor will have to to fall. i don't see the people in this country lying down there's

a report that the head of the pharmaceutical national pharmaceutical situation 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 this 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 a hospital for that reason and 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 e.u. cash won't help is backed by critics of the bank to argue that 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 the growing louder. it's a war we did not create this so we're not going to pay for this we want to think.

it's greece continues to fight against economic ruin second day in. an attempt to prevent. its previous leymah payments that the greek people won't be seeing a penny. not of this buyout money actually comes into the greek economy it all goes out the interest payments and repayments also battlezone save the banks and prevent a large scale financial crisis for the people the price is simply too high they see their income going down they see taxis taxis taxis and nothing else their money does not go to a very early corner me a year is struggling against partial sterett he measures has meant the government now faces an electorate opposed to another bailout there's been lots of people asking when the troika that the i.m.f. european central bank and the e.u. provided. to the tune of one hundred ten billion euros we're 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 simply aren't realistic in fact when it comes to the troika many people now in greece simply don't want to help them actions is being born as a self interest they try. to get as much as they can. get out there are going to get all this they. i mean. they are going to get almost everything in the bailout would certainly come as a high cost for the cuts in public spending and raising taxes and an aggressive privatization program that would mean to sell as many quick public assets one of the reasons that everybody is so determined to keep greece in the euro 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 hole on the holy alarms of politicians and bankers versus ordinary people it's a fight that the people say they're not prepared to. r.t. athens. no professor costas do the nuts from the university of london told r.t. that the bailout would effectively hand over greek sovereignty to the e.u. and the international monetary fund this measures mean that the salaries and pensions of people in the public sector have been cut to up to forty percent they need the island is going up to about sixteen percent to forty five percent of youth unemployment in it which means that the whole generation of young people is being destroyed they mean a hundred fifty thousand jobs lost in the public sector and they mean that some of the most important utilities is being sold off so logical moment part of this is an involved not only in new york alone

a set of measures and politically again with these neo colonial because of the looks of the government that has been asked to accept these measures there were insisted demands that the opposition all of the usual partition should accept so we have a situation in which we may bar structure of greece has now moved from athens into brussels and the other european centers and the greek politicians and the greek public has been the last really to implement what they would have been decided and. greece is 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 for the country state schools were closed and disruption was caused to air traffic during the biggest industrial action in decades no more emmett's has the story for us from the. 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 it was meant to get if. i was familiar with the lack of faith here i think that everything that changes that i may consider pensions or very necessary to fix the way to address it so i think we do need to make cutbacks in ten things i think. tried to teach approaches by so much as 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 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 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 returned to the cockpit and the burden falls on to the next generation a great is absolutely essential that public sector pain. reformed and 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 at the white issue here according to the new u.k. pension fund to be a part of me public sector work it's no don't think that pension what while it made me stop hippies think that if that was so widespread with the pension funds. and now with the u.k. p.l.o. the very short of investment just what it means that more than ever your avatar to eat. well still to come the drone you can find out why the u.s. is being banned and it's been using in. court on kids and decision on whether to

join a trade union with its eastern neighbors or mean to the e.u. . the story still to come but first nato says it stepping up and strikes in 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 claims to be hitting only military targets but a growing number of innocent libyans say they fear death from the skies brussels 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 kind of gadhafi is now threatening to retaliate against europe unless the air strikes stop artie's is on the front line. the road from the capital tripoli to brag he's lined with the aftermath of war towns abandoned as the. relations fled the bombardment. this is what's left of the

civilian airport in the city of. home to one of the country's key oil refineries the last plane took off from this runway just hours before it was hate. to say so it's hardly hitting the targets of military value well call say these telecommunications power so thick to stop. destroying. this is a safe strikes they've also accidentally. two cars and killed two civilians since found there is no t.v. in this area and as we can see the 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 in such a condition. from the small poor not far from drug gas used to flow to europe.

we used to produce fuel to send 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 read it on nature's leaflet drops just before the bombers arrive. this runs as you can see there is a sign here in arabic nato is here 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. really good neighbors major parties where the front dividing the country into two parts into two. sides is going to put one flashpoint between the rebels and gadhafi forces it's a very important. case it's 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 learned. while it looks like the civilian population can hardly. 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. this used to be a restaurant or all company staff with friends gathered 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 story to another the stories are repeated brigham said by our problem i learned. in the letter not to every man in every be able to do them being a big killed or civilians but there has been nothing 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. r t tripoli bragger. the african union is calling on 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 requests the libyan leader would be able to travel freely across africa what is going to exclusive access to the colonel's son who's also wanted for war crimes so if gadhafi says the warrant is a share of tomatoes attempts to kill him and his family. this chorus is because it is a mickey mouse court come on the accuse me of killing people everybody in the sentence . of the chemical capital punishment so they decided to kill me and i did kill my brother and destroyed my house so this is you it's me to execute you so no i don't know why 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 father so distant number two just to tell you that it's a fake court under the table they are trying to negotiate with us a deal if you accept this the we will stick it out of the court what does mean it means is is controlled by those countries. which attack us every day it's just to put psychological and political pressure upon us that it. and you can see our full exclusive interview with colonel gadhafi son in the next hour here on. activists from the aid flotilla destined for gaza have taken to the streets of athens in defiance of the authorities decision to ban the vessels from leaving port their demands are for the release of their ships and one of the captains and to continue their humanitarian voyage towards palestine campaigners

claim that the athens decision is due to pressure from the us and israel with their cues of trying to sabotage their mission the flotilla is being compared to a turkish convoy that was stormed by israeli marines last may resulting in deaths meanwhile the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas has accepted the greek offer to deliver humanitarian aid to gaza in place of the flotilla parties correspondent is in the greek capital with the latest. activists from the so-called freedom flotilla to have gathered in athens to protest decision to ban their vessels from moving greek ports greek coolers understand the decision of authorities is unlawful as actors have not provided any explanation to why the flu too has been detained in the first place a members of european parliament who are part of the humanitarian mission not planning to pressure the e.u. and the un to interfere and stop greece from laying off we keep leaving us was in port. and we have more exclusive coverage of the freedom flotilla story for you online simply log on to our website it's our dot com reporter remains on one of

those detained for tell about its providing regular updates from the scene also online at the moment. he just as he has moscow international film festival log on to get a roundup of all the action. leon panetta has been sworn in as the new u.s. defense secretary replacing robert gates who held the post for of a for you as panetta now faces the challenge of assuring victory in america's overseas wolves and auntie's been told by a retired u.s. army general that if the military is to succeed it needs to be more energy efficient and i don't think we're going to see any major changes in pentagon policies i'm hoping though that he will do something about the

a tremendous energy expenditure because of the united states army to expand the iraq and afghanistan we have a tremendously inefficient energy base over there and we need to do something about it i'm hoping that it will bring about some change for the money should be used in the united states to work domestic programs i mean we're essentially bankrupt a elements of of our nation in order to win this war in iraq and afghanistan but my point is that we can be expending energy there but what smarter than we are if you understand the relationship between energy efficiency and military effectiveness then you can see we can win the war and we can actually actually save a lot of money and i'm hoping that secretary panetta will do something about that my point is that there is a very typical easy pragmatic approach and that is essentially insulating our structures in iraq and afghanistan and we can say really we're presently spending about twenty billion dollars a year simply dirty dish being inefficient structures in our combat zone well i think americans should be outraged that we're not doing more to spend or energy

consumer energy miss marlay pakistan is turning up the heat on washington urging americans to leave a military base in the country during strikes on the afghan border region have been launched from the site like a stone has been protesting against the attacks for years calling them a violation of its sovereignty train bombings have killed scores of civilians by mistake on many occasions pakistani political honest i'm a question but leave the violence will continue until washington ends its war on terror. one of the main reasons for the for the continuation of violent activity on the pakistan of gonna stand 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 continuation 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. 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 police fired tear gas and beat up activists in running up some two hundred people in the capital minsk protesters

are taken to the streets to hold another silent protest marked only by clapping after a similar event during the week independence day celebrations come as the government struggles with a financial crisis to secure a multi billion dollar plane out from the i.m.f. the country's currency has been sharply devalued project as it melts the younger way just as recently emerged outside the established opposition activists using the internet to organize. after fifteen years the customs union between russia and kazakhstan is up and running with no vehicle checks at the borders between the countries since the first of july the union created to ease mutual trade could be joined by another candidate and that is ukraine right as artie's election ever so secure ports the country is at a crossroads deciding whether to turn east all west. as the change of power in the crane revived ties with the moscow talks of the key of joining the customs union between russia belarus and kazakstan 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 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 cassocks done produced computing goods and are not using their natural advantages childers 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 the free trade space with europe we would all members of the customs union join the don't 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 gracile did not seem too happy at crane trying to sit on the tears as

a stern warning to ukraine came from the european parliament which said should the country join the customs union with russia door still the e.u. will be shut 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 trooper tuna fish we try to find the formulas 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 customs union if it wants to have a free trade area so that's why we have to and we do searching for a formula that can allow us to be close partner of customs union to be good to fracture of partner of the russian russian government on 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 from 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 in high demand there while key of this curiously balancing between the east and the west or do it's your view craning and say that despite european bastards being seemingly greener after all closer to the ground and not only geopolitically lets you assess the r.t. reports and promptly you will ukraine. let's check out other international news stories we're covering in brief for you here you know the world of a bangladeshi police have arrested over one hundred people in the capital dhaka

they were demonstrating against a gas exploration deal with the west which they say could rock the country of its natural resources officials claim the contract is needed to meet bangladeshis growing energy demand the strike force locals all schools and businesses in the capital to close for a day. in iraq five policemen were kidnapped and killed at a checkpoint in the western province of anbar these sunny control there is a known al qaeda stronghold in the center of iraq's insurgency the attack took place on a major road linking iraq with syria and jordan the gunman were in uniform and driving a stolen police vehicle the. italian police are again clashed with demonstrators west of the city of cheer in protesting against the construction of a high speed rail route 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 lived between children in the french quarter say that building

a rail link would ruin the landscape. also in a world update. to thailand 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 ousted premier docks in china one of the few type r.t. going to hoff of the five hundred parliamentary seats the results could mean the former leader may return home from self-imposed exile and the by the vote for his five years of political chaos marked by violent protests and a military coup. well in a moment a special report on life in caro's so-called garbage village before that i'll be back with an update of our main news stories for you this hour as an about turn off in its now stay with us live here in moscow this is the weekly on our team. all.

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