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thousands of protesters frustrated with the rate of reforms are filling up cairo's tahrir square and what's being dubbed a million man march against the interim government. from flotilla to fly until a pro palestinian activist ships for planes to reach gaza after a convoy of humanitarian vessels was halted in greece. he told is on high alert expecting the final of those campaign is made. despite tell if it's a place to stop them from flying joining me in a few moments for an update. and the last ever launch of shuttle atlantis 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 that have.

six pm in moscow 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 the raw is expected to be the biggest demonstration 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 the niece and now weigh in tahrir square a little later in the program. first though hundreds of propeller studion activists are being blocked in their attempts to reach gaza by air and defy israeli policies many are being stopped to european airports two american campaigners have been deported upon arrival in tel aviv the move comes a week after a flotilla of

a dozen ships bound for gaza were prevented from leaving port in greece artie's paulus leader has more from ben-gurion airport where the activists are expected. well they said he is tension here at israel's international ben going 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 were shuffled there also this terminal building into waiting police vans outside and israeli passengers here were also shouting 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 it is some fifty activists on board 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'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 net hysterical there's tons to this is a very heavy handed response to what is essentially a peaceful effort by some fine have to six hundred activists have come together under the banner of freedom to palestine welcome 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 a palestinian families and they really want to lend their support to the people of palestine and to attention to the proc aid 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 a half dozen ships tried to be transferred to deliver much needed humanitarian

supplies are never stopped this year there is a fictional freedom flotilla it's also been stopped at least in the states there are eight ships that are off the coast of greece they being with us. used commission from athens to see if sales are bad if it alongside this if it and this if it is being called a flight tell it 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 humanitarian organizations report that the supplies both medical and food there are running critically low we're hearing the word catastrophe and mere humanitarian catastrophe is on the cards and that is why we hearing from moscow saying that it hopes that israelis and palestinians can work close together that 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 any

and activists will be able to convince israel to lift the gaza blockade so far close to half of respondents say would only happen if activists arrived in overwhelming numbers more than a quarter think israel would not yield to any pressure nineteen percent say the activists can succeed since they have the truth on their side and a minority believe the blockade will only be lifted if the palestinians stop attacking israel. it also looks like a way right now google has shut down millions of websites after its decided their malicious and don't be suitable standard to find out what this means for the rest of the web. and rumors about 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 it's seen the axe fall of the country's best selling newspaper and now a former executive is all the rest of it also. without the space program or pretty much nothing and this plane is built on the space program you know it's a lot of people are going to. be at home. millions await the final launch of the shuttle atlantis but for many of those historic moment is bittersweet. before we get to that georgia claims the high profile photographers arrested in the capital tbilisi have been spying for a foreign state the four detained are accused of giving information to another country to the detriment of georgia's interest. along them is the president's personal photo 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. source not construed it writes no it was the continuation of the russian syria see the main be for the don't wish to see and mean i would be easy ways to find he she cared. power because the start shoots second. and some of the insurgent he is going to will appease her and he documented explanation for european compeers why georgia is still going to lie. in the only explanation to.

keep georgia and not with google but he's going to get. the russian agents or since. 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 of the country's biggest selling paper the papers 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 one hundred sixty eight year old paper is accused of hacking into the phones of thousands of targets including murder and terror victims dead soldiers and politicians its owner rupert murdoch's news international has announced the paper will close after of sunday's 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 daily newspaper here in britain when the sun supported a british politician running for prime ministership you know they wanted it and then you find in the next day you 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 is that missing of democracy really which the murdoch press was at the heart of it but i think it was there for a 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 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 bad. now says final shuttle flight is due to blast off in the next few hours with up to a million spectators waiting to watch the historic launch it's the hundred thirty fifth 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 though preparations are continuing our teams guy in a chicken on 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 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 because the beach was 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 are going on welfare left and right food stamps and city 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 space but it was going to put tests before the columbia shuttle first launch into space in nineteen eighty one a total of five shuttles have been used course. yes mission 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 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 involved i think it's a really bad thing for the united states to lose this skilled workforce it's going to be difficult to rebuild it for years the shuttle has been the only vehicle that could very 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 they'll be more people that are probably may 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 a 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 in mediately 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 herat she have been ordered to shoot on the site after three days of violence in which eighty people have been killed gunmen linked to rival political parties went on shooting sprees in several neighborhoods the city's virtually been shut down with shops schools and roads all deserted most people are staying indoors fearing 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 bomb attack at his compound last month in his speech ali abdullah saleh criticized protesters and accuse them of misunderstanding democracy he also gave no hint that he planned to step down from office but said he's ready for a dialogue with the opposition to end the crisis yemen's been iraq by months of

anti-government demonstrations calling for an end to president assad 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 radiate. leaks that have led to a worldwide review of nuclear power. prosecutors inquiry into a woman's claim that she was a rape. paris when he was conducting when she was conducting an interview with him in two thousand and three it's the second claim made against he was arrested in new york over allegations he assaulted a hotel maid but. the credibility of his accuser was question. prime

minister vladimir putin. could dominate the dance floor. 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 putting 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 was this that inspired d.j. smash to remakes putin's vocals hopes the premier will use it as a ring tone for his phone. come. 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 use and now way is live for us in cairo we go to her now . hello a nice 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 say fairly thousands of people on top here's where 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 plain clothes that are actually doing the checks here and they're 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 what their vision of the future of egypt should be some people think the constitution should be written for the vote 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 muslim of barakat 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 while our ben was 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 well to be honest i cannot speak of everyone what i know of that on here too. busy to 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 and obviously you can see some a lot of mistakes in terms of the term of managing the transitional. i think this is a many while. i think you are you said the lot of people already from different backgrounds of the from political even groups and everyone my house is on the mound but i think people came here because they want to be nice to the game i think and basically i think again they want to show the government on the arm that we are watching them. 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. when we have the form of the parson in from islamists on liberals over the last few months and i don't think this is very healthy i mean it's not it's not really has to do so you put spit on who's not what i'm shooting twenty eight so for john kerry the muslim brotherhood were there on the perspective very strong. to be honest they are very well revised 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 at least when i will start to know what's muslim brotherhoods about. and we have to give them some credit for them but i think that inflated does not ask we want the power for their vote is that inflated that we hadn't thought would think. they are not as ready as we think to the election and stuff like that. but they're organized and i think some of the

people of the blaming them for a lot of things what i mean if you don't really. i mean if you don't have to just decide to come to much good if you want on the other hand because he works for a long time underground sometimes they say a lot of silly stuff and you can say it is stuff we'll underdog but then when you see some two sinks in something city of the people puts you tube on the facebook and twitter on the go to national t.v. this is what people stopped to pick on me 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 arnold's tomorrow i hope not but you know the world of people especially the people very well connected to should most media and the young generation they are very i think very ugly or angry . i don't think we're going to see any violence or not you must see some frictions you might see some fights here and there but i don't think something that is must

go. much for joining us tonight here in our state 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. their 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 go through the. dictatorship is still alive and well 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. take them to prison yes now they're being greedy violent they want to kill you. in the first place he's known

simply as uncle forced in 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 because it's over everything is going to be fine and the country is. cleaned up. but that's not. 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 top career across egypt and get rid of all but little mubarak's people like myself have been arguing for taking

you to the factories or you to the universities seeking to hire you to the world places meaning that in every single word police we have an egypt that is i mean you know what i 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 be and 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 bend 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. you're back with

a recap of our top stories surely first the business with current stay with us. hello welcome to our business the south thanks for joining me russia's looking for pavia for pumping when it comes to supplying gas to china the company now wants advance payment for its future energy deliveries that it was to use paper says it could make up to forty billion dollars with gas 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 u. thirty year supply contract category. that's a look at the markets now u.s. 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 point ten percent of course created only eighteen thousand jobs last month a fraction of what economists expected banking stocks all topping loses list going down this hour j.p. morgan chase and bank of america are both down more than i had to set the european

indices are lower the pussy and the dax are both in the red shares of utility art of. course percent are reporting that sometimes. the company may discuss the shell sale in august meeting company spokesman declined to comment banks are also on the downside shares of commerzbank one and a half percent bank is down. and here in russia the r.t.s. and m i six have raised their gains and trading in the red line six is losing over one percent of the r.t.s. a starting point eight percent let's have a look at some individual hoovers on the rise x. energy majors a million ground gazprom is dropping over one point to help the sound banking stocks are also in the red with square bankers in over two thirds. 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 of the recently acquired. central banks around the world have pulled 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 shopper it's a shop reversal as banks have been adding to the deposits at the so-called bank of . central banks hold around thirty thousand tonnes of yourself and many of them blended out at lower demand for gold in the past decade is driving interest rates to record lows traders say some central banks. i may have decided not to land and gold at all. that's it for now i'll be back with more in about forty five minutes stay with us for a headline please.