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find out what's really happening to the global economy is cause a report on our. thousands of protesters pour into cairo's tahrir square was being dug a million man march against against the interim government which they say stole their revolution. from flotilla to fly to be an activist swap ships for planes to reach gaza after a convoy of humanitarian vessels was halted in greece. is on high alert expecting the arrival of those containers made to you would be in a ports despite tell if it's replaced to stop things from flying join me in a few moments for an update. and tell business story russia's gazprom is looking for pay before pumping gas to china both parties are trying to agree on you thirty year supply contract accounting price details coming up in our business bulletin and twenty minutes time. and the last ever 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 good to have you with us here on our t.v. our top story of a million strong march is 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 have been in power since hosni mubarak was ousted as president in february artes and he's in our way reports from the square. the protesters say they're going to keep fighting to the end of the way it all played out of course back in the winter was that some eight hundred people ended up getting killed and some 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 but it's more oppression less media 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 to let you take a look at what's happening on the square i'm really bad at visually counting numbers but it does look like there's i could say at least a hundred thousand people here if not more there tenting 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 hearing throughout the day 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 it's all civilians making sure in fact that police don't make their way to 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 my makeup brushes she found me in my i phone five she was very skeptical of why i was coming here and the

materialize i was unarmed and she found me started kissing me with joy it's what people realize that people are really coming to the square not to go violence not to bother them it's about their voices being heard they're quite happy quite welcoming and then 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 were the distance apart taking part in it said up to a million people could come out to top gear to say what they want to do what they're saying is to 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 the books of the mubarak's dictatorship. 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 them before i think they werent catching activists as much as they are doing now and take them to prison and i guess now they're being reading violence they want to. kill them in the first place he's known simply as uncle horst i'm here in egypt a social network or with a twitter army of some thirty thousand followers the military 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 fallen regime and the purging of corrupt officials unfortunate for the people. they had this kind of revenge. that when he fell down they felt it's over everything is going to be fine and the country is. cleaned up but this is

not the truth. early in the week protesters began setting up camp here on top career 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 career across egypt and get rid of all but little people like myself have been arguing for taking the high you to the factories taking you to the universities taking you to the wood places meaning that every single word police we have in egypt. now whatever was never interested in politics in till january she was shot with twenty three pellets by riot police twenty of which are still in her like the pain. has finally gone but her perseverance is not the barrier of the fear is gone. and she will continue to fight to lee and i want every every. citizen to be

treated as a human being every protester has their own vision of the egypt they're fighting for some want to 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 column. hundreds of propellants to mean activists are being blocked in their attempts to reach gaza by air and to fire israeli paul policies many are being stopped at 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 and greece artie's policy clear 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 protestors and the israeli public care 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 waiting police vans outside and israeli passengers here were also sheltering traitors go to syria so said the tensions here all 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 that there's some fifty activists on board they going to be coming through a mother terminal we know that she will marry can passengers who actually arrived in israel are being deported we're 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 to this is

a very heavy handed response to what is essentially a peaceful effort by some fine of 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 their 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 their 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 have massed government came to power last year around this time they was a flotilla where the hof dozen ships trying to reach gaza to deliver much needed humanitarian supplies and they were stopped this there is a second freedom fatality it's also been stopped at least at this stage there are eight ships that are off the coast of greece they've been with for. a mission from athens to state failed so bad if it alongside in this if it and this if it is being

called a fly until it has really been dealt a heavy blow by these radial toys he then again the protesters will say we are peaceful we just want you to attention to the plight of the palestinian people particularly in gaza and in gaza you have some one and a half million people living in one of the most densely populated areas on earth humanitarian organizations reports that the supplies both medical and food there are running critic even though we are hearing the word catastrophe and mere humanitarian catastrophe is on the cons and that is why we hearing from moscow saying that it hopes to be israelis and 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 what's being dubbed the fly by logging on to our website r.t. dot com taking part in our latest on line poll right now we're asking whether pro palestinian activists will be able to convince israel to lift the gaza blockade so far half of respondents say 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 you google eyes shut down millions of internet sites after it's determined their malicious and don't need suitable standards find out what the repercussions could be for the rest of the web. and rumors about barack obama's childhood continue swirling in the u.s. as an american journalist claims the president is parents thought of giving him up for adoption click over dorothy dot com for the full story. stay with us here on r t still ahead this hour stop the presses the latest. twists in britain's phone hacking scandal that's already seen the axe fall on the country's biggest selling paper now

a former executive is arrested. without the space program or pretty much nothing i mean this is way just built on the space program you know a lot of people are going to be out of. millions await the final launch of the space shuttle atlantis for many of the historic moment though is bittersweet. but first in 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 george's detriment among them is the president's personal photo 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 tbilisi's actions indicate the state of democracy and freedom of speech in the country meanwhile a member of the georgian opposition tells r t the spy claims are meant to foster

anti russian sentiment as a means of boosting president saakashvili as control. for writes novels the. russian. sees the main be. domestic and mean are libya's new ways the line he she in power because the second general. and it into some of the uncertainty is going through the accused her and got a few of the on the floor in europe. her to live. in the. nation. and not as we should but he's going to get. the russian agents or since. turning out of the u.k. were a former editor of the news of the world has been arrested in connection with

a phone hacking scandal at the country's biggest selling newspaper the paper's former royal editor has also been arrested on suspicion of bribing police the scandals prompted the prime minister to announce two inquiries into the ethics and practices of the british press the hundred sixteen 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 paper will close after sunday's final edition and media analyst phil recent tells r.t. although the blow scandal is a blow to the company it's strong enough to weather the storm i think something changed this week you know for decades british prime ministers have been on their needs 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 it and then you'd find in the next day you'd find that prime minister reading the sun looking like an idiot saying well the sun got me elected i mean so you've got this

demeaning of british democracy admission of democracy really which the murdoch press was at the heart of that i think and that was that 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 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 all that 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 bad. stay with us here on our team still ahead the

latest in our russia close up series we report on a siberian doctor's invention that still changing lives today helping some overcome disabilities and others regain their confidence to stand tall. first though nasa has final shuttle flight due to blast off in the next few hours with up to a million spectators waiting to watch a historic launch it's the hundred thirty fifth flight 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 are he's got a chicky on 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 rochlitz is on the verge of becoming

a ghost town without the space program or pretty much nothing i mean this is what you know because your beach is built on the space program you know just a lot of you are going to be out of jobs sorry to be out of homes people on welfare are left and right feet stand anthony chris a fully spent twenty three years with the shuttle launch team as an engineer with a plan to splice thing down 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 i 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 will 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 spraying spot it was used to put tests before the columbia shuttle first launch into space in nineteen eighty one a total of five shuttles have been used for space missions since the two of them were lost in tragic accidents a nine hundred eighty six and in two thousand and three those lawsuits and the skyrocketing price for each launch gradually led 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 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 is kind of sad because i've already seen a lot of my friends go in there because 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 on our team. in turkmenistan recovery efforts are underway after a series of blasts at an admin and ammunition depot in the city of tore 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 evacuated from the buildings immediately after the explosion witnesses say the ammunition 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 security has been tightened with police patrolling the streets. turning now to 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's 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 a 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 his speech ali abdullah saleh 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 iraq by months of

anti-government demonstrations calling for an end to president saleh 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 him in two thousand and three if the second claim made against he was arrested in new york in may over allegations. hotel maid but since had 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 the corridor a region in southern siberia the middle of the twentieth century became

a center for soviet orthopedics with a surgeon there developing a revolutionary method of bone restructuring decades later the medical breakthroughs 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 often very simple darry basic yet they remain in service and many many decades take this they use the rocket for example it was designed back in the sticks to the design hasn't changed that much yet 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 of the. it was first designed back in the fifty's but it still remains the main office the basic

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 if he's lagging left leg and twenty seven year old japanese engineer with liking self-confidence and didn't choose his predicament very much did. have a response from men in japan. because of that some employers refuse to hire me one of them told me directly but i was too short to deal 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 a tall order but the actual surgery is fairly simple though painful invented by the famed soviet orthopedic is give really result of in the nineteen fifties these frames for initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and

slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able to reshape arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life be sent to the other patients and in their shattered lives. or when professing designed his first frame using bicycle parts sixty years later his invention is increasingly being 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 somebody is live both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted she was out of center now days seeking series three focus magic reasons most of them are men and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor novick of who operated on many of them says it usually comes down to a man's pride some of the first patients you turn to us with a leg length i mean request to meet is fifteen centimeters to be still want to

surgery because his partner has to than him would like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their head maybe nothing wrong with them from the p.d. 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 a band in many countries and even the will out there pressure he bitterly 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 that brought this washington state native to western siberia if his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in auditors in america advertises one seventy five hours one sixty seven or one sixty eight in so eight centimeters would probably write the average user just wanted to be average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be short and it's not a big deal i think

a guy is like expected to be popular just before the operation moses mad at russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite endearing yet he still would want to have a surgery adding seven more centimeters to his self-confidence she took told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now or so they call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations of sound like an artsy korg on the region. back with a recap of our top stories but first the business news with korean americans stay with us. those. little pellets the international sanctions has to do takes place in paris on july ninth and tenth. live introductions by russian designers to the most beautiful

example cities of central russia. listeners are going it's a little unfair children's function surely slowness like presiding over the press to the. russian president. this is. how welcome to the program the south thanks for joining me russia's looking for paid for pumping when it comes to supplying gas to china the company now wants advance payment for its future energy deliveries betterness newspaper says it could make up to forty billion dollars with gazprom 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 plans. central banks around the world have pulled six hundred thirty four tons of gold from the bank of international settlements last year that's the largest withdrawal and more than a decade it's

a sharp reversal as banks have been adding to their deposits at the so-called bank of central banks central banks hold the wrong thirty thousand tons of bullion and reserve and many of them lend it out by the lower demand for gold in the past decade is driving interest rates on it to record lows traders say some central banks may have decided not to lend their gold at all. that's a look at the markets oil has parroted second week of games on speculation that fuel supplies a sufficient to meet the boost in consumption from the economic recovery investors are also course head of the us jobs report insight into the pace of economic recovery of the world's biggest. consumer. and european indices are lower this hour the footsie and the dax are in the red shares a utility r.w. tumbled four percent after a report of financial times dortmund a company may discuss a share sale at an all this meeting company spokesman declined to comment banks are also on the downside shares of commerzbank fell one point four percent. it was was

half percent lower than here in russia the odds he has an m i z x have raised their gains now trading in the red i'm isaacs is losing a point. over one percent and the odds against a cheating point eight percent now let's have a look at some individual movers all the wise ics energy majors are losing ground gazprom is dropping. one half percent banking stocks also in the reds burbank is losing over two percent this hour. 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 a store. that's all the update for this hour but don't forget you can always log onto our website r.t. dot com slash business to find most stars.