it's time to. look. at the. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy cause a report on. thousands of protesters pour into cairo's tahrir square and what's being dubbed a million man march against against the interim government which they say stole their revolution. from flotilla to fly to lot of pro palestinian activists stop ships for planes to reach gaza after a convoy of humanitarian vessels was halted in greece it's always on high and it's expected to be a rival of those containers made you get a pulitzer despite tell if it's replaced just something from the flying joy means a few moments for an update. and i tell business story russia's gazprom is looking for pay before pumping gas to china proteas are trying to agree on

a new thirty year supply contract accounting agree on price details coming up in our business bulletin and putting aside. money in the last several launch of atlantis marks the end of the u.s. space shuttle program and the end of an era leaving tens of thousands potentially without work we'll bring you live pictures of the launch when it happens. five pm in moscow i matras are good to have you with us here on r t our top story of a million strong marches expected to happen in egypt as thousands gather in cairo's tahrir square demanding a faster pace of reforms the aim is to keep pressure on the country's military rulers who've been in power since hosni mubarak was ousted as president in february or he's and he's an hour away reports from the square. protesters say they're 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 will barak is gone that is more oppression must meet your freedom and that's why they're coming back to tough fear and that's what chanting that we're going to be hearing today i'm just going to step out of the shot so that you take a look at what's happening on the square and really bad i busily counting numbers but it does look like there's are still least a hundred thousand people here if not more they're translating we 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 fearing throughout the day are i have to say one of the most interesting things i've seen this morning is that there's really no police or there's no security it's 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 my woman was very serious found my make up she found by a pick up russians to come to my i phone five s. was very skeptical of why i was coming here and then we should realize i was unarmed and she found me started kissing me with joy so when people realize that people are really coming to the square not to go violence are not supporting them it's about their voices being heard they're quite happy to fight 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 don't like that because originally back in the winter they were against it now more and more political parties within distance are taking part in it said up to a million people could come out to talk beer i'd say what they want to do what they're saying is take back their revolution. their revolution was hijacked and they. wanted back egypt's uprising might have ousted president mubarak but to them

he's far from gone. we go through. life on the way the taste of freedom was short lived the military is in full power mass media is being choked and oppression still rampant worth then before i think they werent catching activists as much as they are doing now. taken to prison and i guess now they're being really violently want to kill. these schools in the first place he's known simply as uncle horse and here in egypt a social network or with a twitter army of some thirty thousand followers the military troilus of civilians have to stop immediately immediately this is you know one of the major demands we're putting forward one of many demands including transparent trials for the following regime and the purging of corrupt officials unfortunate for the people.

they had this kind of revenge with water that when he fell down they felt it's over everything is going to be fine and the country is. cleaned up but this it's not the truth 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 our career across egypt and get rid of the little people like myself have been arguing for taking you to the factories they can hire you to go to. the work places meaning that 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 the 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 protester has their own vision of the egypt they're fighting for some want a constitution 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 r t cairo. for the latest news on egypt you can follow when he says updates on twitter r t underscore caused. hundreds of propellants to mean activists are being blocked in their attempts to reach gaza by air and to fire israeli policy policies many are being stuck to european airports while two american campaigners were deported upon arrival in tel aviv the move comes a week after a flotilla of a dozen ships bound for gaza was prevented from leaving port in greece artie's

policy here is at ben-gurion airport where the activists are expected. well they said he 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 public area and the police the protesters were holding up signs saying welcome to gaza free palestine they were chanting see gaza almost immediately the police shuffle been out of this terminal building into waiting police vans outside and israeli passengers here well off the shouting traitors go to syria city tensions here are running high with roughly about six hundred israeli police and security officers to point both inside and outside the airport now a fight that has arrived from geneva has been diverted we understand it is some fifty activists on board they going to be coming through a never 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 cats interest in france prevented from boarding a flight there it is important to say that the israeli government is being criticized for a mere 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 fifteen palestinian n.g.o.s and they've made the point quite consistently and quite clearly that the mission is a peaceful one they want to be here for a week they want to meet with palestinian families and they really want to lend the support to the people of palestine and to attention to the blockade on gaza israel 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 one half dozen ships trying to reach gaza to deliver much needed humanitarian supplies and they were stopped this there is

a second seat in fertility it's also been stopped at least this stage there are eight ships that are off the coast of greece they've been with us. commission from athens to see failed so badly in fifty longside in this and the fifteen point eight flights it has really been dealt a heavy blow by these bagel toys even the game approaches the same we are peaceful we just wanted 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 the humanitarian organizations reports that the supplies both medical and feet are running critique you know hearing the good that's defeat and the a humanitarian catastrophe is on the cons and that is why are we hearing from moscow saying that it hopes that he's made some palestinians can work close together if they can find common ground so that missions like these are no longer needed. so you can have your say on was being dubbed the fly tila by logging onto our web site r.t. dot com taking part in our latest poll right now we're asking what are pro

palestinian activists would be able to convince israel to lift the gaza blockade so far half of respondents say it would only happen if activists arrived in overwhelming numbers more than a quarter don't think israel would yield to any pressure eighteen percent say the activists can succeed as they have truth on their side and a minority believes the blockade will only be lifted if the palestinians stop attacking israel. also online for your approval as shut down millions of internet sites after it's determined their malicious and don't need suitable standards i know what the repercussions could be for the rest of the web. and the rumors about barack obama's trial hood continue swirling in the us as an american journalist claims the president's parents thought of giving him up for adoption would go over to argue dot com for the full story.

stay with us here on our to you still ahead this hour stop the presses the latest. twists in britain's phone hacking scandal it's already seen the axe fall of the country's biggest selling paper now a former executive is arrested toss. this out of the space program or pretty much nothing i mean this is a play you know has to be just built on the space program you know just a lot of people are going to get. millions away at the time a launch of the space shuttle atlantis for many the historic moment though is bittersweet. but first georgia claims the high profile photographers arrested admit capital tbilisi have been spying for a foreign state before it detained are accused of providing information to another country to george's detriment among them is the president's personal photos as well as an employee for the european press photo agency the photographer has denied the allegations the arrests come as nine other people were jailed for up to fourteen

years first spying for moscow the russian foreign ministry says to police these actions indicate the state of democracy and freedom of speech in the country meanwhile a member of the georgian opposition tells r t despite claims are made to foster anti russian sentiment as a means of boosting president saakashvili its control. writes no it was the. russian. see the main. reason it was the. end mean i'll agree is the ways that line he should. apply work because if you start from the second care. and some of the community is going through the accused her and her through the explanation for your group your partners why. why. the only explanation. she she. and not the group but he's going to be

so will the russian agents or since. more. turning out of the u.k. where a former editor of the news of the world has been arrested in connection with a phone hacking scandal of a country's biggest selling newspaper the paper's former royal editor has also been arrested on suspicion of bribing police scandals prompted the prime minister to announce two inquiries into the ethics and practices of the british press the hundred sixty year old paper is accused of hacking into the phones of thousands of targets including murder and terror victims dead soldiers and politicians the owner of rupert murdoch's news international has announced the capable close after sunday's final edition and media analyst phil reste t.v. although the global scandal is a blow to the company it's strong enough to weather the storm. i think something changed this week and you know for decades british prime ministers have been on their knees to the to the murdoch press because they knew that when the sun which

is his main daily newspaper here in britain when the sun supported a british politician running for prime ministership you know they wanted and then you'd find in the next day you'd find the prime minister reading the sun looking like an idiot saying well the sun got me elected i mean you've got this meaning of british democracy it initiates democracy really which the murdoch press was at the heart of but i think there was a fourth 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 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 back 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 be bad. stay with us here on r t still ahead the latest in our russia close up series we report in a siberian doctor's invention that still changing lives today helping some overcome disabilities and others regain their confidence and play. first though not as final shuttle flight for the next few hours with up to a million spectators waiting to watch a historic launch it's the hundred thirty fifth white in the thirty year history of the u.s. space shuttle program experts say there's a good chance the launch could be delayed by bad weather conditions though preparations continue as our he's got a champion reports it's also a poignant moment for those who have devoted their lives to 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 the space program or pretty much nothing i mean this is what you know beach is built on the space program you know just a lot if you're going to get a job sorry me out homes people on welfare left and right food stamps anthony chris a fully spent twenty three years with the shuttle launch team as an engineer with a plan to splice thing there 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 responses there's not that many jobs out there for sure the u.s. scrapped its 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 bill 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 to strange but it was used for tests before the columbia shuttle first launch into space in nineteen a new line a total of five shuttles had been used for space missions says that two of them were last thing tragic accidents in nine hundred eighty six and in two thousand and three those lawsuits and the skyrocketing price for each launch gradually latched 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 in cost i think it's a really bad thing for the united states to reduce the skilled workforce it's going to be difficult to rebuild it for years the shuttle has been 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 kind of sad because i've already seen a lot of my friends go in there they'll be more people that are probably never see again it also means the end of a once vibrant scientific community that's grown up around the shuttle going to check out our team. in turkmenistan recovery efforts are underway after a series of blasts at an admin and ammunition depot in the city of abu dhabi tore it down nearby buildings authorities say the incident happened at a fireworks warehouse caused by summer heat according to local media there are casualties though exact numbers are still unknown thousands more about he waited

from the buildings immediately after the explosion witnesses say he i mean issued from the burning depot was scattered on the streets some of it even reached neighboring towns large sections of the city lost power water supplies have said and water supplies have said since been restored and security has been tightened with police patrolling the streets. carrying out of some other stories making headlines across the globe security forces in the pakistani city of karachi have been ordered to shoot on sight after three days of violence in which eighty people have so far been killed gunmen linked to rival political parties when i'm shooting sprees in several neighborhoods the city has been virtually locked down with shops and schools shops schools and roads deserted many people are staying indoors fearing more violence the government says an extra thousand troops have been have been deployed to deal with the situation. yemen's president has made his first t.v. appearance since being seriously injured in a bomb attack at his compound last month in

a speech ali abdul criticized the protesters and accused them of misunderstanding the ocracy he also gave no hint that he planned to step down from office but said he's ready for dialogue with the opposition to end the crisis yemen has been a rock by months of anti-government demonstrations calling for an end to president sali regime. french prosecutors have launched an inquiry into a woman's claim that she was a raped by dominic strauss kahn tristan banon says former i.m.f. chief assaulted her in paris when she was conducting an interview with and in two thousand and three if the second claim made against strauss kahn he was arrested in new york in one day over allegations he. the hotel maid heard since how his bail conditions relaxed after the credibility of his accuser was questioned. when it comes to cutting edge scientific research it seems russia is still a major player this time in our close up series we take a look at a doctor's amazing medical legacy.

today or in a corridor a region in southern siberia in the middle of the twentieth century it became a center for soviet war computer with a surgeon there developing a revolutionary method of bone restructuring decades later and a medical breakthrough still used to help people overcome their disabilities as artie's oksana boyko reports. the soviet union and russia gave the world many great inventions and what special about them is that the technology behind the snow house is something very simple very basic yet they remain in service to many many decades take the so use the rocket for example it was designed back in the sticks his design hasn't changed that much to these day it's remains the most reliable and actually at this point of time the only means of transporting humans to the international space station but today we want to introduce you to now the great

invention of which proved just as durable and this is the frame all of the riders 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. for both of them it's about walking tall eight year old he's lagging left leg and twenty seven year old japanese engineer with liking self-confidence at least in she gone didn't choose his predicament very much did something useful to the average transfer manager. because i heard someone poor has refused to hire me one of them and told me directly but i was too short to deal with clients computers already spent three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to add the coveted seven centimeters to his stature if we seem like a tall order but the actual surgery is fairly simple though painful invented by the

same still being of that beauty is good for you is that of in the night in the fifties these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly cooling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration elizabeth was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life recent to the other patients shallow bones in their shattered lives. professing the result of design since first brain using bicycle parts sixty years later his invention is increasingly being used to help people quite eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller than the ultimate goal is still the same six thing somebody is live both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted he was out of censure now days seeking syringe refocus medical reasons most of them are men and most are not what you would call

vertically challenged professing not because operating there are many of them sas it usually comes down to man's pride some of the first patients return to us with a leg length i mean our quest was two meters fifteen centimeters tall we still want a surgery because his partner was tool than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their head but maybe nothing wrong with them from orthopedic point of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their lives fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries abound in many countries and even when allowed there pressure here to do expensive but in russia the entire course costs about one tenth of the similar package of the united states. financial considerations for one of the reasons they brought this washington state native to west and say bierria he's main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fares among others in america average height is one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight and so on eight centimeters would

probably right the average users want to be average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be sure it's not a big deal like your guy is like expected to be just before the operation moses mad a russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite in dealing yet he still want to have a surgery adding seven. g.'s self-confidence she told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. it's an hour so they call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations i sound like an artsy gun region. back with a recap of our top stories but first the business news with korean american stay with us.

those end of the. little college the international sanctions those didn't change they simply was enjoying the only contents. of this living collections by russian designers in the most beautiful xander city of central russia. business agreements and living fair children's function surely slowing the sights of presiding over the rest of the. russian president james this is. how welcome to the program for joining me ross is looking for paid for pumping when it comes to supplying gas to china the company now wants advance payment for its future energy deliveries that its newspaper says it could make up to forty billion dollars with castro 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 but can't agree on price. some of the banks

around the world have pulled six hundred thirty four tons of gold from that bank of international settlements last year that's the largest word saw in more than a decade it's a sharp reversal as banks have been adding to that deposits are the so-called bank of central banks central banks hold their own thirty thousand tonnes of pull yen and reserve and many of them lend it out five lower demand for gold in the past decade is driving interest rates on it to record levels traders say some central banks may have decided not to lend their gold at all. that's a look at the markets as parroted second week of games and speculation that fuel supplies sufficient to meet the boost in consumption from the economic recovery investors are also cautious head of the us jobs report insight into the pace of economic recovery. on the world's biggest oil consumer. and european indices are lower this hour the fourth seed and the dax are in the red shares a utility card e.g.

tumbled percent after a report of the national times' portion of the company may discuss a share sale in august meeting company spokesman declined to comment banks are also on the downside shares of commerzbank fell one point four percent dollars for banks it was was how percent lower and here in russia the out has an unwise ics and raise their gains now trading in the red and isaacs is losing a point eight over one percent and the art has a trading point eight percent now let's have a look at some individual movers on the rise ics energy majors are losing ground gas problem is dropping. one half percent banking stocks are also in the reds burbank is losing over two percent to the star. and russia's biggest retail group x five has boosted its revenue by fifty one percent in the first half of the year the company says the seven point eight billion dollars come from stronger sales and consolidation in the recently acquired co pick

a stock. that's only up there for this hour but don't forget you can always own home but sites are the dot com sized business to find most times.