to lose a club school it's so close photos of the big building so close or chill. cringe in the steepness run to some this is real and can fin skin we could switch to look you look of skin on skin. now so it's. thousands of protesters frustrated with the rate of reforms are filling up pyros tahrir square and what's being dubbed a million man march against the interim government. from flotilla so fly until a pro palestinian activist was ships for planes to reach gaza after a convoy of humanitarian vessels was halted increase. its hold is on high and it's inspecting the final of those containers made if it's just going to tell if it's a place to stop them from flying during these few moments when updates. and the last ever launch of troubled land just marks the end of the u.s.

space shuttle program and the end of an era leaving tens of thousands potentially without jobs and we'll bring you live pictures when it happens. six pm in moscow i'm mad reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story thousands of egyptians are gathering right now in cairo's tahrir square demanding a faster pace of reforms just five months after the ousting of president hosni mubarak dubbed as a million man march they were is expected to be the biggest demonstrations since the uprising protesters want to keep up pressure for change on the country's interim military rulers and see former regime officials brought to trial we'll be talking with correspondent lisa now way in tahrir square a little later in the program. first though hundreds of profile studion activists are being blocked in their attempts to reach gaza by air and defy

israeli policies many are being stuck to european airports to american campaigners have been deported upon arrival in tel aviv the move comes a week after a full flotilla of a dozen ships bound for gaza were prevented from leaving port in greece or he's paulus leader has more from granbury an airport ready activists are expected. 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 this way thank you kerry and the police the protesters were holding up signs saying welcome to gaza free palestine they were chanting see gaza but almost immediately the police shut them out of the terminal building into waiting police vans outside and israeli passengers here who also shouting traitors go to syria the city 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 onboard they're going to be coming through a not a 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 were prevented from boarding a flight there it is important to say that the israeli government is being criticized for a net hysterical funds that this is a very heavy handed response to what is essentially a peaceful effort by some five to six hundred activists to come together under the banner of sweden to palestine welcome 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 gain their support to the people of palestine enjoy tension to the proc aid on gaza israel has imposed a blockade on gaza since two thousand and seven when they've amassed government

came to power last year around this time it was a flotilla one hundred thousand ships trying to reach passage to deliver much needed humanitarian supplies and they were stopped there is a picture of freedom to tell that the city and stuck to the stage there are eight ships that are off the coast of greece they've been with the. used commission from athens to say failed to bet yet that alongside this if it and this if it is being called a flight that has really been dealt a heavy blow bodies waiting for it he can again 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 then attain organizations report that the supplies both medical and food there are running critically low hearing the word catastrophe and near humanitarian catastrophe is on the cards and that is why are we 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. you can log on and have your say on what's being dubbed the flight to law on our website r.t. dot com taking part in our latest online poll right now we're asking whether pro policy me and activists will be able to convince israel to lift the gaza blockade so far close to half of respondents say they will happen and activists arrived in overwhelming numbers more than a quarter think israel would not yield to any pressure one thousand per cent say the activists can succeed since they have the truth on their side and a minority believe the blockade only be lifted if the palestinians stop attacking israel. also looks like a way right now google has shut down millions of websites after its decided their militias and will be suitable standards find out what this means for the rest of the web. and rumors about barack obama's childhood continue swirling in the u.s. as one american journalist claims the president's parents thought of putting him up

for adoption. dot com check it all. still to come here on the program stop the presses the latest twists in britain's phone hacking scandal already had seen the axe fall of the country's best selling newspaper and now a former executive is all the rest of it. is how the space program are pretty much nothing i mean this is a place you have to be just builds on the space program you know just a lot of people are going to get a job story in the end and. millions await the final launch of the shuttle atlantis but for many this is story moment is bittersweet. before we get to that georgia claims a high profile photographers arrested in the capital tbilisi have been spying for

a foreign state the four detained are accused of giving information one other country to the detriment of georgia is a. interest among them is the president's personal photos as well as an employee for the european press photo agency all of them deny the allegations the arrests 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 of speech in the country meanwhile a member of the georgian opposition tells r t the spy claims are meant to foster anti moscow sentiment as a means of boosting president saakashvili as power. so it's not true it writes no it was the continuation of. c. the may be. the most closely and me i would be easy ways to write he should care. because the second terror. cell should be inserted he is going through the wiki is there an. explanation of.

why georges will. lie. your way explanation. of georgia and not google but he's going to give. us an agent's orson's. to the u.k. now or a former editor of the news of the world's been arrested in connection with a phone hacking scandal at the country's biggest selling paper the paper his former royal editor has also been arrested on suspicion of bribing police scandals prompted the prime minister to announce to increase into the ethics and practices of the british press one 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 it's owner of rupert murdoch's news international has announced the paper will close after a sunday final edition media analyst phil rees says that although the scandal is

a blow to the company it's strong enough to survive. i think something changed this week you know for decades british prime ministers have been on the needs to the to the murdoch press because they knew that when the sun which is his main bailey needs pay to get in britain when the sun supported that british politician running for prime ministership you know they want me and then you find on the next day you find the prime minister reading the sun looking like an idiot saying well this some got me elected i mean so you've got this hidden meaning of to see if the missing. democracy really which the murdoch press was about property but i think it 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 rupert murdoch has 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 the 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 bad 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. now so as final shuttle flight is due to start in the next few hours with up to a million spectators waiting to watch the historic launch it's one hundred thirty first flight in the thirty year history of the u.s. space shuttle program experts say there is a high chance the launch could be delayed by bad weather and those preparations are continuing. reports that 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 cocoa beach was built on the space program you know it's like if you're going to be on a job sorry me. people are not welfare left and right food stamps and sony chris a fully spent twenty three years with the shuttle launch team as an engineer with a client kiss 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 i haven't gotten any concrete responses there's not that many jobs out there for sure the u.s. scrapped it 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 this is the first shuttle ever it never made it through space but it was against protests before the columbia shuttle first launch into space in nineteen eighty one a total of five shuttles i've been used for space mission says that two of them were last name project 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. we're difficult to rebuild it for years the shuttle it's 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 fewer of my friends go in the building more people there 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 explosions at an ammunition depot in the city of abidjan tore down nearby buildings authorities say the incident happened at a fireworks warehouse caused by intense summer heat according to local media reports there are casualties though the exact number is not known thousands of

people were evacuated from buildings immediately after the explosion witnesses say i mean ition from the burning depot is scattered on the streets some of it's even reached neighboring towns large sections of the city lost power and water supplies but have 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 the site after three days of violence in which eighty people have been killed a gunman willing to rival political parties went on shooting sprees in several neighborhoods the city is virtually been shut down with shops schools and roads all deserted most people are staying indoors hearing more violence the government says an extra thousand troops have been deployed to deal with the situation. yemen's president has made his first t.v. appearance since being seriously injured in a bar mcdonogh attack at his compound last month in his speech eliot dualists

criticized protestors and accuse them of misunderstanding democracy he also gave no hint that he plan 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 saleh regime. japan's prime minister has admitted to a series of mistakes after ordering stress tests to be carried out on nuclear plants weeks after declaring them safe to restart the stress tests had been designed to dispel people's safety fears but two thirds of the country's reactors have been shut down since the devastating earthquake and tsunami in march the destruction of the fukushima plant caused radiation leaks that have led to a worldwide review of nuclear power. and fresh prosecutors have launched an inquiry into a woman's claim that she was raped by dominic straus caught chris came down on says the former i.m.f. chief assaulted her in paris when he was conducting when she was conducting an

interview with him in two thousand and three it's the second the rape claim made against he was arrested in new york in may over allegations he assaulted a hotel maid but has since had his bell conditions were relaxed after the credibility of his accuser was questioned. if. he chooses. to. see. the first cream remove old hold of a clear cut. second explosive blast to go deeper than the period.

heard the remainder. of. the feel. or heard russia's prime minister vladimir. now his recent rendition of blueberry hill could dominate the dance floor check this out.

a top russian d.j. has remakes the premier's performance of the song it's already getting a fair bit of radio play last year who revealed his musical side when he took to the stage at a star studded charity concert in st petersburg to perform the fats domino classic in english the video attracted two million hits on you tube it was that it isn't it was this that inspired d.j. smash to read excluding his vocals in hopes the premier will use it as a ring tone for his fall. back now to our top story thousands of people are gathering in egypt's tahrir square to voice their anger at the interim government over the country's sluggish

rate of reforms artes and you say now way is live for us in cairo we go to her now . hello a nice oh so the scenes that we're seeing are obviously similar to what we saw earlier in the year describe what's going on for us right now. well there are certainly i think we can think fairly thousands of people on top of your square i'll just step out of the side to give you an idea of what's happening as we speak it's very peaceful there are no police here no military presence at all civilians in plainclothes that are actually doing the checks here i'm there also directing traffic throughout the city so it really is a kind of team effort that they put together although it has to be said that many different groups of the protesters have very different ideas of what they want but their vision of the future egypt should be some people think the constitution should be written for the boat other people think it should be vice versa but. they really come together on one thing and that's that they don't think that there really is a big difference with the interim government and that egypt has really changed

after getting rid of muslim mubarak out one of the things we were hearing is that there might be friction because the muslim brotherhood which is an organization that is in fact banned in russia and many other countries has the biggest stage here on talk radio and to talk more about the situation in fact i'm joined by my old order ben with a financial analyst he says i shouldn't call him a protester but he's taken part in all of these protests so tell us why have people come back to be honest i cannot speak up for everyone what are your thoughts on here to. basically say to the government or to the army that we're watching them and we need to speed up the process of the trials of the old regime on notice you can see some a lot of mistakes and to move the to move managing the transitional can i think this is a mini war. i think there are use of the lot of people are you from different backgrounds of the from political even groups on the everyone white house is on the

mound but i think people came here because you want to be nice but then i think i'm basically i think again they want to show the government on the arm that we are watching them. our people have i should say criticize the muslim brotherhood they didn't take part in january in the protest now they are here some might say that they're inflating their popularity with these protests what do you think. what we're talking the accusation for mostly for something from islamists on the kurds over the last few new few ounces i don't think this is very healthy i mean it's not it's not really hurts to see you speak on who's not but i'm sure the twenty eight so for john kerry the muslim brotherhood were there on the perspective very strong . notice they are very want to revise they've been working on the ground on the ground but on the ground for a long long time period not the most on the kids or a swindle. thank you what's most of all the results and we have to give them some credit for them i think though inflated them not us clear and the power for their

own has been inflated their hope that's real and i do think. they are not as ready as we think of a russian stock like that. though denies. i think some of the people it's a living them for a lot of plays well i mean if you go through here. i mean if you don't have to just decide to come to match them if you want on the other hand because he works for a long time underground sometimes you see a lot of silly stuff and you consider stuff in the underground the inner city something sits in something city of the people puts you tube on the facebook and twitter on the go to national t.v. is this is where people start to pick on and so. this is certainly a social network revolution i think we can say just briefly do you think that we'll see any kind of violence tonight on top. of harness tomorrow. not on you know the world of people especially the people who are committing the solution more video on their own tradition don't bring it into

a billion i don't read. i don't think we're going to zoom down and say it's not so much on fictions you might see some thoughts here and there but i don't think something that has not gotten. much for your time here in our state i as you can see thousands of people out here on top here they all see different visions of egypt but they join together because the people we've spoken to feel like their revolution has been stolen. a revolution was hijacked and they want it back egypt's uprising might have ousted president mubarak but to them he's far from gone. we've got rid of mubarak but. just a life and when the taste of freedom was short lived and military is in full power mass media is being choked. and oppression still rampant worse than before i think they werent catching activists as much as they are doing now. to

prison i guess now they're being really violently want to kill the revolutionary school in the first place he's known simply as in here in egypt a social network or with a twitter army of some thirty thousand followers the military throws of civilians have to stop immediately immediately this is you know one of the major advance for putting forward one of many demands including transparent trials for the phone regime and the purging of corrupt officials unfortunate for the people. 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 if it's not. true. 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 the career across egypt and get rid of all but little mubarak's people like myself have been arguing for taking to the factory and sticking. to the word pieces meaning that in every single word police we have an egypt that is i mean you know what it 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 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 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 are cheap cairo. is back with a recap of our top stories surely first the business with current stay with us. business the south thanks for joining me russia is looking for paid for pumping when it comes to supplying gas to china the company now wants about statement for its future energy deliveries its 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 u. thirty year supply contract. on parts. that's a look at the markets now your stocks are shall be low at the opening after the government said businesses added fewer jobs in june and over a year the unemployment rate rose to nine hundred ten percent of course created

only eight hundred thousand jobs last month a fraction of what economists expected banking stocks all topping loses list on the dow this hour j.p. morgan chase and bank of america are both down more and i have to say that the european indices are lower the puts in the dax are holding the red shares of utility are to meet e.g. tumbled four percent after a report that sometimes trends that the company may discuss the shell sale in august meeting company spokesman declined to comment banks are also on the downside shares of commerzbank fell one and a half percent those are back is down one percent and here in russia the aussie has an m i six have raised their games trading in the red by six and is losing over one percent of the r.t.s. is trading point eight percent let's have a look at some individual movers on them isaac's energy majors are losing ground gazprom is dropping over one one and a half percent banking stocks are also in the red would spare bankers and older

stuff this. is biggest retail group expiry it 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 of the recently acquired take a strong. sets of banks around the world pull six hundred thirty five tons of gold from the bank for international settlements last year that's the largest withdrawal in more than a decade it's a shock it's a shock reversal as banks have been adding to their deposits of the so-called bank of. central banks hold around thirty thousand pounds of reserve and many of them lend it out at a lower demand for gold in the past decade as driving interest rates to record lows traders say some central banks may have decided not to land and gold. as it for now will be back with more in about forty five minutes stay with us for

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