the. beasts which brightened a few. songs from feinstein question. start totty dot com. all artsy thousands of protesters frustrated with the rate of reform are filled cairo's tahrir square it was being dubbed a million man march to protest against the interim government. also from flotilla to flight pro palestinian activists swapped herships for planes to reach guards there after a convoy of humanitarian vessels was halted in greece. dozens of activists interrogated think that only one manages to step through the streets there in just a few moments. to watch europe live. and in the

final blas the last of a launch of atlantis marks the end of the u.s. space shuttle program and the end of an era as we report. this is r.t. welcome kevin owen it's eight pm here in moscow right now our top story for you thousands of egyptians have been gathering in cairo's tahrir square demanding a faster pace of reform just five months after ousting hosni mubarak as president there's a million man march the rallies expected to be the biggest demonstration since the uprising protesters want to keep up the pressure for the change on the country's interim military rulers and seen former regime officials brought to trial we're going to talk to our correspondent listen now in tahrir square just little bit later on in the program. that will be coming up shortly tonight let's move on from

now hundreds of pro palestinian activists have been blocked in their attempts to reach garza by air as they try to defy israeli policies many are being stopped at european airports was several have been deported as they arrived in tel aviv so far only one activist has managed to cross the israeli border and fall asleep here spoken to. dozens of activists are being interrogated as i speak to you here at penguin international airport only a few have actually managed to trickle through and it's not quite clear how the israeli police and security have an album to go through because there are still hundreds of police and security officers both inside and outside benghazi an international now happy hour to latif and pakistan solidarity campaign and she's one of the few people who's actually managed to come through you on the phone with the activists who are being interrogated here at the airport what are they telling you. this telling me that they were taken from passport control especially on the phone they said the heavy smoke coming in and they were about to be interrogated i

actually think i literally slipped through the net just mean as far as i can tell there is only one of us there are forty or fifty people waiting hoping to be deported liking to be the bullshit and there's me so it's up to me to be their voice and to put forward the points of view especially people in the u.k. that there are people from belgium and from france and scotland from all over the u.k. waiting to come through i don't know why netanyahu wants to whip people's passions up the whole time as if we were a threat i mean look at me look at me i'm a british woman i can't deeply about peace and justice i care deeply about a just peace both sides we folded and some and yet netanyahu sees us as a threat he says us as a threat to the legitimization of israel can we be a threat and yet he whips out these crazy kids care of the poor going to the

airport he gets the british police the french police to stop activists coming out we never come to demonstrate we've always planned to be here and be good for this day and ensuring the cultural activities of the city and the truth with these ratings. i think you have it and it's true as far as we can tell that is the only activists who have actually made it through to the arrivals hall here and as i'm speaking to you there must be dozens of security officers i'm looking at there surrounding the area and yet she has managed to come through and talk to us here in r.t. paulus leo they're bringing us up to date now you can have your say on what's been dubbed the fly to load by logging onto our website r.t. dot com you can take part in the latest poll we've got there for you online tonight we're asking whether a pro palestinian activist will be able to convince israel to lift the blockade on gaza this is what you've been telling us so far close to half of you say would only happen if the activists arrive in overwhelming numbers over

a quarter of you as you can see there think that israel would yield to any pressure seventy percent say the activists can succeed as they have got on their side while a minority believe that the able only been lifted if others didn't stop attacking israel thanks for voting and to need to do that throughout the night. also online and google have shut down millions of internet sites after deciding they're malicious and they don't meet suitable standards find out what the repercussions are for the rest of the way. and rumors about barack obama's childhood continue to swirl as an american journalist claims the president's parents of giving them up for adoption and to r.t. dot com for the lowdown on that story to. this is our team from moscow coming up this hour stop the press the latest twists

in britain's backing scandal but it's already seen his biggest selling newspaper shut down and now its former editor has been arrested. next though georgia claims the high profile photographers arrested in the capital tbilisi have been spying for a foreign state before detained are accused of. hiding information to another country to the detriment of george's interests among them is the president's personal snap as well as an employee of the european press photo agency of a telegraph is denied the allegations now those arrests come as nine other people were jailed for up to fourteen years for spying for moscow the russian foreign ministry says tbilisi's actions indicate the state of the mock received freedom of speech in the country meantime a member of the georgian opposition told us about saying that despite claims about the foster anti moscow sentiment as a means of boosting president saakashvili control for suckers writes novels the

continuation will. see the maybe. the most appalling and mean i would be is that right he should care. power because the second care. and to solve those issues going through all his her. explanation for european partners why georgia's. three lie. your way explanation. of georgia and he. is rightly. so called russian agents or since. libyan rebels have battled their way past government forces on a key road south of tripoli the moving towards the gadhafi held town of guardian which controls access to one of the main roads leading to the capital and it's considered the most significant advance the rebels have made in the past two weeks

but they say their progress has been slowed down by a lack of army nation and inadequate support from nato this is the u.s. continues to fund the campaign despite the opposition of congress let's bring into the conversation mideast specialist william bateman is on the line from liverpool in the united kingdom for us on a skype line very good even q mr president thanks for being on r.t. why is greater than being so slow to respond do you think the rebels need if what they say is true is it a political problem here or other other issues at stake. in new york. from their home country. they're going to see. you know it's. expected. to fall since. you're not sure exactly

what the outcome is going to. look like. there was a lot more enthusiasm. actually. starting the. surprising strength. as you say a lot of question marks here about where ice is going to go they're saying. no intention of a ground invasion in libya after months of air strikes that are still saying no results as you're saying where is it going to go. this is a good question. you scramble your sons

and ridiculous. you are absolutely going to mean seen how their resistance to. this is this has actually read. their supporters i think all of your should understand the. rivalry between the eastern portion of libya and what's important. to the present in the beginning of the twentieth century. was from the eastern portion of the country. from the western part of the. so there. is not necessarily opposition to. the civil war. nato forces thirty to take the side. of the opposition

forces from the so what does good things have sort of we've got a slightly awkward like you on skype it's breaking up a little bit when i ask a few more questions if i can what does come about how thing now i have you know seventy eight days of nato bombs laid out there is people still within as he suggests a. tribal society. only. we're losing thanks for. the program we got the most of what you were saying there thanks for bringing us your thoughts william beeman specialist i mean he studies at university of minnesota in liverpool england tonight thank you. all right now nasa

has final shuttle flights blasted off as almost two million spectators were there witnessing the historic launch it is the hundred thirty fifth mission of the thirteen year history as america's racial program but it was a born of a high chance of a loan from be delayed by bad weather but in the end the astronauts did leave with a delay just about a minute walk for problems and last minute checks anyway as these gun agency plan unfolds is also a pretty poignant moment tonight for those in devoted their lives to this program. empty shells that's 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 cocoa beach is built on the space program you know it's a lot you're going to be sorry me and people are going on welfare left and right food stamps anthony chris a fully spent twenty three years with the shuttle launch team as an engineer with atlantis blasting our 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 charges 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 bill 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 used for this before the columbia shuttle first launch into space in one thousand nine hundred lines a total of five shuttles had been used for space missions since the two of them were lost in tragic accidents in nine hundred eighty six and in two thousand and three those losses and the style rocketing 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 reduce the skilled workforce it's going to be difficult to rebuild it for years the shuttle has been the only be called 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 devote their lives

to it is the end of their dream job kind of sad because i've already seen a lot of a few of my friends go in the building more people are probably may never see again it also means the end of the runs scientific community that's grown up around the shuttle. archie. the other side of the story that we often don't talk about some mixed feelings there among those involved in this thirty year program is get some thoughts on the space shuttle final flight of the close of the program with william l. anderson he's an associate professor of economics at frostburg state university in maryland very good evening to you from moscow thanks me with this let me sum up for us if you will how big of an impact on the community the end of the space shuttle is really going to have well it's a good question why do i think you are because you're going to have a lot of people who are losing their jobs and and on the local economy there in florida boy. the other side of it is it does free up resources to go other places

and i think over time believe it or not this is going to be a net plus because over the last several years we have treated the show in all of the law the space program as a pure jobs program for smart people and when you do that how do you you you go to lou so what about the knock on effect to the broader economy the u.s. economy as a whole is that going to have an effect on that in any way no i don't think so i really don't i think that it's more local good people up here in a lot of places aren't going to feel that and the truth of the matter is there are going to be some very talented people on the market looking for work i know it's tough we're going but also these people have skills that could be transferred elsewhere and that's going to be a net plus that's going to take a few years down the road but that's a no plus as i see it all right not affecting the national economy but what about the national pride. i don't know i think did it one time did it

look back in one nine hundred sixty nine and i remember very well when the moon we had a moon landing and we were in competition with the rule skis and oh my gosh we can lead this so you get to the moon before austin all but the problem is this the. economy is not a game and resources are it when you're cut off when you talk about using resources in ways that maybe we shouldn't be using and maybe they're too costly i think it's some point national pride in it and the space program but you really should go by the way i mean i've always be honest i have a lot more pride in after all in the things that they're doing now then i have in the space program times move on don't they you know it's going to have a good effect i guess as far as the rush is concerned lately has been a heck of a lot of cooperation between russia and nasa of russia's been basically tossed with taking this forward for the most part isn't it oh yeah and i think that's a good thing for the russians i'll tell you this those. i think in the united

states what we need to do is get the government get the bureaucracy out of the space program and let's see what the entrepreneur is going to do and let's think about this one just steve jobs had been employed by now so instead of coming up with the idea city has it after all i want to work technology would be equipped we probably wouldn't be looking at you know the communication with skype and all these things had it not been for people like that so you know i think it's good for russia i think russia i don't mind having americans growing up on russian space ships it's a whole lot better than the cold war you know i lived through most of my life you know the last twenty years we've been in peace with russia and i kind of like that and so if we can use their space craft that's a good thing william h. anderson associate professor of economics the frostburg universe the state university of maryland thank you for being with us appreciate it thank you very

much. all right now news from a stun tonight their recovery efforts are underway after a series of explosions have now been issued in the city of up or down or down nearby buildings authorities said the incident took place at a fireworks where they all went up because of the summer heat according to local media reports they've been up to two hundred casualties it's not clear if anyone else has been killed thousands of people were evacuated from the building to media witnesses said i mean issued from the burning and scattered on the streets some of it's reached neighboring towns the pictures there basically telling the story completely large sections of the city lost power as well and water supplies they have since been restored we hear security has been tight there's one of the police patrolling the streets tonight. you know twenty past eight pm here in moscow also the news this friday night a passenger airline twelve crashed at kissing danny international airport in the.

democratic republic of congo as it was trying to land an initial reports say at least forty survivors have been pulled from the wreckage officials suggest strong winds and heavy rain could have caused that accident the country seen numerous crashes in recent years with its jets plagued by maintenance problems. security forces of the pakistani city of karachi have been ordered to shoot on sight so after three days of violence in which eighty people have been killed government linked to rival political parties went on shooting sprees in several neighborhoods and cities virtually been shut down with shops schools and roads deserted most people are staying indoors fearing more while it's the government says an extra thousand for have been deployed to deal with the situation. yemen's president made his first t.v. appearance since being seriously injured in a bomb attack of his campaign last month in his speech silly criticize the protesters and accuse them of misunderstanding to not proceed he also gave no hint that he planned to step down from office and said that he is ready for dialogue with the opposition to end the crisis we haven't been rocked by months of

anti-government demonstrations now calling for the end of president salih regime. use of japan the prime minister there has admitted to a series of mistakes after ordering stress tests to be carried out on those nuclear plants weeks after declaring them safe to restart the stress tests were designed to dispel people's safety fears two thirds indeed of the country's reactors have been shut down since the devastating quake and tsunami in march the destruction of the fukushima plant caused radiation leaks which have led to a worldwide review of nuclear. bring up to date on our top story thousands of people have been protesting in egypt's tahrir square all day and into the night now indeed to voice their the interim government over the country's sluggish rate of reform i think in this now is the latest from cairo. the protesters are back on monday or they're calling it the second phase. because they think their freedom was sure they got rid of mubarak you know they're like making officials but now egypt is the same way it was before january so a little bit this is

a little mubarak the meaning the right. thing them running the country. was still going to become the way this revolution was born and now they want to take the edge of the universities they want to take back here to the factories to the places and make speeches where it's really been we don't know how many people was going to stay some way they're going to sacred to take school to the real changes here in egypt to this new security and you believe me it's. better to be i didn't see any risk just as you can see that. we are going to keep on fighting until the egypt that was thinking can work. with this kind of silly don't like different things the one thing they can come together are the facts that. you know not the reason they begin to change is

that they're going to keep coming back. pretty. hard and we'll be hearing much more from minnesota for the evening as well she's covering those demonstrations for you and if you want to keep abreast of it as well on twitter you can she's up there in no regulation at all the details on the breaking developments from tahrir square eye witness accounts fresh updates on the protests not on the finest said r t underscore. six twenty three pm thanks for being with r.t. from moscow is coachable true to many accounts ago or the latest business news now for the day. welcome to business this hour russia has increased its annual crude or production forecast to five five. five hundred nine million tons over the quality of russian oil products is still very low it's becoming more and more urgent for

russia to modernize its refinery capacity and prime minister person is going to make sure it will happen as r.t. satanically corporate part. prime minister was obviously unsatisfied that rush of the world's biggest oil producer has such a weak refighting industry he says it's still as it was fifty years ago demand for high quality fuel in russia grow that's double digit rates annually however refining has been called by there in volumes or in quality experts say legislation russian made it more profitable for oil producers to explore its crude all over quality oil products but now putin says the measures to reverse the trend will be taken. we need to monitor the implementation of the modernization plans by the oil companies and if he didn't meet their obligations his street would have the right to ply sanctions including the seizure of unreasonably of change. just to

remind you in may of russia banned the export of high quality fuel the country was facing gasoline shortage the mastic clear as producers chose to exports more cashing in on high oil prices now with the russian economy picking up and growing even faster than expected demand for high quality fuel is expected to grow at more than ten per cent annually and the prime minister made it absolutely clear producers will have to invest billions of dollars to more than ours their refining capacity and. present a look at the markets now crude oil dropped during the second week again after the us out of fewer jobs than forecast in june futures well as much as two point three percent right accrue from ninety nine cents and let's we've lost dollars towards. now as we look at the markets u.s. stocks are sharply lower after the government said businesses added fewer jobs in june and over a year the unemployment rate rose to nine point two percent and poor's created only

eighteen thousand jobs last month a fraction of what economists expected banking stocks are topping the losers list on the down three morgue. chase and bank of america are both down one hundred percent as stocks in europe fell sharply on friday after a disappointing weak us drop today that has under pressure especially in very peripheral markets ahead of european bank stress tests next week shares of commerce bank fell one point seven percent and the ocean bank was down one point four percent in the retail sector chose a metro fell over two percent while in paris shares of care for london have sons and russians dogs raised gains and head for their biggest loss in more than a month as the world drops in the eyes exposed last point nine percent energy majors the biggest losers on growth with horses let's have a look at some individual moves although my six. down point six percent i'm the one percent in the red banking stocks also closed lower as bear buying fell over

two percent. now russia's biggest retail group x five has boosted its revenue by fifty one percent of the first half of the year the company says seven point eight billion dollars come from stronger sales and consolidation from the recently acquired paper story which is looking for pay before pumping when it comes to supplying gas to china that the company now wants advanced payments for its future energy deliveries better mr newspaper says it could make up to forty billion dollars with gas. in exchange but it's being seen as another obstacle in the long running energy talks. trying to agree on you thirty year supply contract can't agree. that's a business update on the back with more and about forty minutes from now you can.

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