the. thousands of protesters are filling cairo's tahrir square in what's being dubbed a million man march to protest against the interim government that they say stole their revolution. from flotilla to fly to pro palestinian activists while their ships for planes to reach gaza after a convoy of humanitarian vessels was halted includes. at the last ever launch of shuttle atlantis marks the end of the u.s. space shuttle program leaving at the end of an end of an era leaving tens of thousands also without jobs we'll bring you live pictures of that in a few hours from.

four pm in moscow match reza very good to have you with us here on r t our top story of a million strong marches expected to happen in egypt is thousands gather in cairo's tahrir square demanding a faster pace of reform he aims to keep pressure on the country's military rulers who have been in power since hosni mubarak was ousted as president in february archies and he's in our reports from tahrir square. protesters state are going to keep fighting to the ends of the way it all played out of course back in the winter was that some eight hundred people ended up getting killed the seven thousand injured nationwide and really they say that their revolution was still good because none of the changes had actually happened in fact some people are saying that they think it's even worse now that mubarak is gone but it's more oppression rights

media freedom and that's why they're coming back to tough here and that's the chanting that we're going to be hearing today mr to step out of the site so that you take a look at what's happening on the square and really bad i visually counting numbers but it does look like there's a large scale least the front two thousand people here if not more they're chanting don't feel the change we came back to tough we're also we the people demand the defeat of the regime and that's something we're going to be hearing throughout the day are i have to say one of the most interesting things that i've seen this morning is that there's really no police here there's no security at all civilians making sure in fact that police don't make their way onto the scene where civilians are doing security checks i was frisked by a woman who was very serious found my make up she found by a pick up russians to come to my i phone five she was very skeptical of why i was coming here and then we should realize i was unarmed when she found me started kissing me with joy so when people realize that people are really coming to the square not to invoke violence not sponsor them it's about their voices being heard

they're quite happy quite welcoming and the mood here is rather joyous last night there was a bit of tension the muslim brotherhood for the first time is taking part in these protests and some people though might that because recently back in the winter they were against it now more and more political parties with a distance apart taking part in it said up to a million people could come out to talk fear i'd say what they want to do what they're saying is to take back their revolution. their revolution was hijacked and they want it back. egypt's uprising might have ousted president mubarak but to them he's far from god when you go through the books of the mubarak's that people should just live from where the taste of freedom was short lived the military is in full power mass media is being choked and oppression still rampant worth them before

i think they werent catching activists as much as they are doing now. take them through a prison i guess now they're being really violently want to kill the revolutionary school in the first place he's known simply as uncle horst and here in egypt a social network or with a twitter army of some thirty thousand followers the military trials of civilians have to stop immediately immediately this is you know one of the major grounds for putting forward one of many demands including transparent trials for the falling regime and the purging of corrupt officials unfortunate for the people. and they had this kind of revenge with water that when he fell down because it's over everything is going to be fine and the country is full of cleaned up. but that's it's not the that's too. early in the week protesters began setting up camp here on

talk we are for what they're calling the next phase of the revolution but this time they don't just want hundreds of thousands to come here they want to take rere across egypt and get rid of all but little people like myself have been arguing for thinking. they can. be used to the word pieces and meaning that in every single word police we have in egypt because i mean you know what it was never interested in politics until january she was shot with twenty three pellets by riot police twenty of which are still in her like the pain is finally gone but her perseverance is not the barrier of fear is gone. and she will continue to fight to the end i want every every egyptian citizen to be treated as a human being every pro chester has their own vision of the egypt they're fighting for some want to constitution and then free elections others think the new laws

should follow the vote but one thing that brings them all together is that this egypt is not the end and he said no way are cheap kyra. staying with affairs in the middle east hundreds of protocol a student activists are being blocked in their attempts to reach gaza by air and defy israeli policies when you're being stopped at european airports while two american campaigners have been deported upon arrival in tel aviv the move comes a week after a photo of a dozen ships bound for gaza were prevented from leaving port greece for more on this we're joined live by our team's polis we're live in airport good to have you with us paula so i think airport where the activists are expected is there any tension there ahead of his planned arrival. well the city is tension here at israel's international been going in airport just a short time ago a scuffle broke out between a handful of protesters and these weighty package here and the police the protesters were holding up signs saying welcome to gaza free palestine they were

chanting free gaza but almost immediately the police shuffled them out of this terminal building into a waiting police vans outside and israeli passengers here were also shouting traitors go to syria so certainly tensions here are running high with roughly about six hundred israeli police and security officers deployed both inside and outside the airport now a flight that has arrived from geneva has been diverted we understand it is some fifty activists some forty they going to be coming through a neither terminal we know that she will marry can passengers who actually arrived in israel are being deported we hearing of clashes in both france and in belgium and in geneva we know that fifty passengers in france were prevented from boarding a flight there it is important to say that the israeli government is being criticized for a near hysterical response this is a very heavy handed response to what is essentially a peaceful effort by some five to six hundred activists they've come together under

the banner of freedom to palestine will come to palestine they have they're working with some sixteen palestinian n.g.o.s and they've made the point quite consistently in fact clearly that the mission is a peaceful one they want to be the full week they want to meet with palestinian families and they really want to lend their support to the people of palestine and to attention to the proc aid on gaza. this isn't the first time we've seen activists try to reach gaza where the campaign is playing to make this one a success. well it's important to remember that it's all has imposed a blockade on gaza since two thousand and seven when they had mass government came to power last year around this time they was a flotilla where the half dozen ships trying to reach gaza to deliver much needed humanitarian supplies and they would start this year there is a second freedom for to let it's also been started peace at this stage there are eight ships that are off the coast of greece they being refused permission from athens to set sail so bad if that alongside this effort and this if it is in court

a flight has really been dealt a heavy blow by the israeli authorities and again the protesters are saying we are peaceful we just want you to attention to the plight of the palestinian people particularly in gaza in gaza you have some one and a half million people living in one of the most densely populated areas on earth and entertain organizations report that the supplies both medical and food there are running critically low we hearing the word catastrophe and here humanitarian catastrophe is on the cards and that is what we're hearing from moscow saying that it hopes that israelis and palestinians can work close together if they can find common ground so that missions like these are no longer needed all right art is there live for us at israel's ben gurion airport thanks for that. well you can log on and have your say on what's being done to fly on our website r t dot com and take part in our latest online poll right now we're asking whether pro palestinian activists will be able to convince israel to lift the gaza blockade so far whop of

respondents say it would only happen if activists arrived in overwhelming numbers around a quarter of them don't think israel would yield to any pressure nineteen percent say the activists can succeed since they have the truth on their side and a minority believes the blockade will only be lifted if the palestinians stop attacking israel. also online for you google eyes shut down millions of internet sites after it's decided they're malicious and don't need suitable standards find out what they're pretty repercussions are for the rest of the web. and rumors about barack obama's trial could continue to swirl as a u.s. journalist claims the president is parents the thought of giving him up for adoption. for the first.

stay with us here on our t.v. still to come this hour stop the press the latest twists in britain's phone hacking scandal it's already seen the axe fall in the country's biggest selling newspaper now a former executive who is feeling the heat as he was arrested by police last. without the space program or pretty much nothing i mean this is a place you know has to be just built on the space program you know just a lot of people are going to be an indiana jones millions of way the last launch of the space shuttle atlantis but for many this historic moment is bittersweet. but first georgia claims the high profile photographers arrested in the capital tbilisi have been spying for a foreign state before detained are accused of providing information to another country to the best. herman of georgia's interests among them is the president's personal as well as an employee for the european press photo agency the target first denied the allegations come as nine other people were jailed for up to

fourteen years for spying for moscow the russian foreign ministry says to police these actions indicate the state of democracy and freedom in the freedom of speech in the country meanwhile the number of georgia a member of the georgian opposition tells r t that the spy claims are meant to foster anti russian sentiment as a means of boosting president saakashvili his control. clinton you. see. there mr. and mean i'll be right he should hear. power because the second care. and. he's going through. an. explanation for. why. lie.

and. he's going to get. russian agents or since. turning now to the u.k. where a former downing street media chief has been arrested in connection with a phone hacking scandal of the country's biggest selling newspaper and he colson was editor of the news of the world at the time the alleged hacking happened the scandal has prompted the prime minister to announce two inquiries into the ethics and practices of the british press good morning one hundred sixty eight year old papers accused of hacking into the phones of thousands of targets including murder and terror victims dead soldiers and politicians the papers owner rupert murdoch's news international has shut down the newspaper despite it being the most popular in the u.k. media analyst hilary says although the scandal is a blow to the company it's strong enough to weather a storm. i think something changed this week you know for decades british prime

ministers have been on they need to that to the murdoch press because they knew that when the sun which is the main daily newspaper get in britain when the sun supported a british politician running for prime ministership you know they want me and then you find on the next day you find that prime minister reading the sun looking like an idiot saying well there's some got me elected i mean so you've got this meaning oh please democracy. see if that mission of democracy really which the murdoch press was at the heart of that i think and there was a for silence as well because important people needed the murdoch press and they couldn't be they couldn't attack it because of that and i think a line was crossed. a very finely tuned business brain he has a lot of things going on now one of them is to purchase the largest satellite network in britain called b. sky b. and that decision is about to be approved by the government that was in jeopardy and i think he felt that as a businessman he had to sacrifice the news of the world because it in terms of the whole news international it's

a tiny part of or about but i tell you the most important thing bill in my view is that the political class had been sucking up to rupert murdoch for so many years including prime minister david cameron he now has to stand back and say no i can't do it anymore it's going to bag. stay with us here on r.t. still ahead the latest on our russia closer series europe or in a safe area and doctors invention of skill changing people's lives having some overcome disabilities and others to regain their confidence to stand tall. first though nasser's final shuttle flight is due to blast off in the next few hours though bad weather conditions could cause a delay or two a million spectators are waiting to witness the historical large but. reports it's also a poignant moment for those who build their lives around the program. empty shells of what was once florida's thriving space coast. up to

ten thousand people will be out of a job as soon as the last shuttle makes its final voyage back to earth home to many of the kennedy space center workers rock which is on the verge of becoming a ghost town without a space program or pretty much nothing i mean this is what you know cocoa beach is built on the space program you know just a lot of you are going to be on the job sorry me out people out there left and right food stamps anthony chris a fully spent twenty three years with the shuttle launch team as an engineer with a client his blasting out for its final mission it means the end of his career with nasa and the beginning of uncertainty a year ago he started looking for a new job to no avail i have applied for jobs and so far haven't gotten any concrete response and there's not that many jobs out there for sure for us scrap that shuttle program and now wants the private sector to come up with ways to get astronauts to space several companies are working on new vehicles but it's not

clear when they'll be able to deliver them one thing is certain though they'll be able to hire only a fraction of the skilled space industry workers will be out of work soon this is the first shuttle ever it never made it through space but it was used for tests before the columbia shuttle first launch into space in nineteen eighty one a total of five shuttles had been used for space missions says that two of them were last thing tragic accidents a nine hundred eighty six and in two thousand and three those lawsuits and the skyrocketing price for each launch gradually less to the cancellation of the program but critics say it's hard to estimate the losses that the end of the shuttle program will bring about both for the space industry and the people involved i think it's a really bad thing for the united states. to lose the skilled workforce it's going to be difficult to rebuild it for years the shuttle is the only vehicle that could ferry crew and a massive load of cargo to space officials say one of the reasons the program was

scrapped is that it's safer and cheaper to send cargo and people separately something that russia for example has been doing for many years but whatever the reasons for scrapping the thirty year old program for those who devoted their lives to it is the end of their dream job it's kind of sad because i've already seen a lot of my friends go in they'll be building more people that will probably never see it again it also means the end of the once vibrant scientific community that's grown up around the shuttle. r t. in turkmenistan recovery efforts are underway after a series of explosions at an ammunition depot in the city of abidjan tore down near by buildings authorities say the incident happened at a fireworks warehouse caused by summer heat according to local media reports there are casualties though the exact number is still unknown thousands of people were evacuated from the buildings immediately after the after the blast and witnesses

say i mean ition from the burning depot was scattered on the streets some of it has reached neighboring towns and large sections of the city lost power and water supplies but have since been restored security has been tightened with police patrolling the streets. throwing out of some other stories making headlines across the globe pakistan has denied allegations made by america's top ranking military chief that it sanctioned the killing of a journalist who written about its naval links with al qaida it's also called the u.s. claims extremely irresponsible so he was abducted near his home in may his body bearing marks of torture was found in a canal two days later his odds vitally believed to have been seized by pakistan's intelligence officials after getting threats from the agency military chief admiral mike mullen said that all said all of that couldn't be controlled. yemen's president has made his first television appearance since being seriously injured in a bomb attack at his compound last month and in his speech ali abdul said he had

undergone more than eight successful operations and is now recovering in saudi arabia he criticized the protesters accusing him of misunderstanding democracy he also gave no hint that he intended to step down from office and said he's ready for a dialogue with the opposition to end the crisis. french prosecutors have started a problem in every inquiry into a woman's claim that former i.m.f. chief dominique strauss kahn tried to rape her in two thousand and three writer tristan banon says strauss kahn assaulted her powerless while she was attempting to conduct an interview with him he also denied charges of sexually assaulting a new york hotel maid in may strauss kahn was recently freed from house arrest in the u.s. after the credibility of his accusers evidence was called into question. when it comes to world leading researchers russia is still holding its own in the scientific community this time in our close up series we explore a doctors medical sensation.

taken out of a quarter in a region in southern siberia the middle of the twentieth century became a center for soviet orthopedics with a surgeon there are developing a revolutionary method of bone restructuring decades later the technique is still being used to help people overcome disabilities as artie's or so on avoid. the soviet union and russia give the world many great inventions and what stachel about them is that the technology behind the snow house is often very simple very basic yet they remain in service for many many decades take me so use the rocket for example it was designed back in the sticks to the design hasn't changed that much to these day it remains the most reliable and actually at this point of time the only means of transporting humans to the international space station today we want

to introduce you to now the great invention of which proved just as durable and this is the frame of the. it was first designed back in the fifty's but it still remains the main orthopedic technique for treating bone fractures all sorts of deformities and injuries as well as for a limp lengthening our next story is about that. could go for it's about walking tall eight year old in his leg in left leg and twenty seven year old japanese engineer with lighting self-confidence. didn't choose his predicament could their much good. of an average hard for manager because of some employers refused to hire me one of them told me directly but i was too short to do with the clients could you just already spend three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to add the coveted seven centimeters to his stature it may seem like it's

a. order but the actual surgery is fairly simple though painful inventive british game still bit off the beat is good value is there of in the night in fifty's these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly cooling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was sort of was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life piecing together patients shallow bones in their shattered lives. professing the result of design since first brain using bicycle parts sixty years later as his invention has increasingly been used to help people who are eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller than the ultimate goal is still the same fixing some of his lies both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted to be was out of censuring now days seeking syringe refocus medical reasons most of them are man and most are not what you would call

vertically challenged professing novick of who operated on many of them sas it usually comes down to man's pride some of the first patients return to us with a leg lengthening the quest was two meters fifteen centimeters tall we still want a surgery because his partner was tooled than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their head maybe nothing wrong with them from the people interview but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their lives fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries are banned in many countries and even when allowed there pressure here because expensive but in russia the entire course costs about one tenth of the similar package in the united states. financial considerations were one of the reasons they brought this washington state native to western siberia if his name for the surgery had to do with how he fares him and others in america advertised as one seventy

five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight and so on eight centimeters would probably write down every answer is what is your average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be sure it's not a big dorky guy it's like expect to be a plumber just before your peroration notice mad a russian girl who found he's a regional hide why didn't deering yet he still wanted to have a gay surgery adding seven more centimeters to his self-confidence she told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. it's an hour's work or you're so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations i sound like an artsy gun region. criminality and joins us next with all the latest in the world of business a with us here on r.t. . well welcome to business program this hour russia is looking for pay before pumping

when it comes to supplying gas to china from now wants to spain one of the brands payments for its future energy deliveries but a mystery newspaper says it could make up to forty billion dollars from offering a discount in exchange but is being seen as another obstacle in the long running energy talks both parties are trying to agree a new thirty year supply contract on. banks around the world has zero six seven thirty five tons of gold from the bank for international settlements last year that's the largest will fall in more than a decade and it's a shock reversal as banks have been adding to that because it's so-called bank of central banks central banks hold their all thirty thousand tons of billion of the yen and reserve and many of them lend it out at lower demand for gold in the past decade is driving interest rates on have to record levels traders say some central banks may have decided not to lend their gold i don't. have

a look at the markets european indices are flat this hour the vote season's a positive territory and the german dax is lower share the utility. holds four percent after reporting financial times and the company may discuss a share sale in august meeting the company spokesman declined to comment banks are also on the downside she has a commerce bank one hundred percent and social bank is down half a percent market players are keeping an eye on us money from pay moles. and here in russia the us has an ally that the trading in the blackout thursday's rally which saw both and this is post the largest daily gain in two months investors here are also looking forward to digest the data from us. now let's have a look at some individual movers on the. why six energy majors among the main gainers despite we conclude look oil is up half a percent the solid bucking the trend is d.t.b. it is down more than half

a percent cola news moody's has public rating for the newly acquired bank of moscow it was another story yesterday would be to be on the rise despite the forecasts from some analysts it's debt risk because from the takeover of bank of moscow adams's bank is also in the red it's point six percent about. russia's biggest retail group has boosted its revenue by fifty one percent in the first half of the year the company says the seven point eight billion dollars came from stronger sales and consolidation from the recently acquired make a store. that's all of this i'll be back with more in just on that stay with us for head like.