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in israel is available in some hotel time period hotels jerusalem. thousands of protesters frustrated with the rate of reform of filled up cairo's tahrir square and other cities across the country to voice their anger against egypt's interim government. also coming up from the flotilla to fly pro palestinian activists swap their ships for planes to reach gaza or offer a calm voice humanitarian vessels was halted in greece. dozens of activists interrogated international if only one manages to step through we speak to her in just a few moments. two one zero and liftoff plus the final blastoff a last of the launch of atlantis marks the end of the u.s. space shuttle program and the end of an era.

hello there very good evening from moscow my name's kevin owen you're watching the r.t. international news channel it's now eleven pm here in moscow and to our top story thousands of egyptians have been protesting in cairo's tahrir square demanding a fast pace of reform just five months after ousting hosni mubarak as president dubbed deserve a million man march the rally is the biggest demonstration since the uprising protesters want to keep up the pressure for change on the country's interim military rulers and see former regime officials brought to trial we're going to be talking to a correspondent in this scenario in tahrir square a little bit later in the program. in fact we're talking to a tough information good to see here mr know if it's of communication problems with you tonight with all this going on there very glad to see you i hope you can hear

me i mean thousands of people have been gathering there on the streets to voice their anger all day long as i can hear now and probably see in a minute behind you all night what is the security situation there right now. you know when i was coming here to talk to you i was thinking how well organized today really was basically civilians are doing the security checks they're directing traffic and taking care of everything that we've been hearing rumors that they caught a couple of they call the fog people who come here sort of provoke violence make it look like they're coming to really stage under wraps here in the egyptian capital and they're catching these so-called frogs and tying them up in fact i haven't seen that with my own eyes but a lot of people are talking about that i just want to step out of the side and give you a vision. a look at what's happening more and more people are coming to talk to me or as night falls here in cairo and as i was saying i was impressed with the organizing of the protesters really it seems like what they want is to have a peaceful. protests but as we were coming to speak to you here we're doing our

live shots from the only really international t.v. station that is that is that is that the term that the egyptian authorities have allowed to work here is a turkish company and when we got here none of the staff was in the hotel it was very quiet and we were told that it was very dangerous in fact to be here because apparently some of these thugs they're wearing sort of bands around there has had told them that they could really do and you live shots from here so and we're hearing that it was actually the government who sent these thugs to do that in fact we were supposed to speak to get what i guess this hour and he said that he was just too afraid to come and speak to us on r.t. because of the situation that we saw as we came to the hotel here it seems like everything is ok they left the building and some of the staff is beginning to come back but that's a sign that these protesters are really ready for anything in the sense that they say they wanted to remain peaceful and the government has promised to stand away i haven't seen one police officer here today but that they're sending people in

plainclothes it's really instigate violence so a lot of people on edge that something could happen overnight here on talk radio you know one of the protesters saying about how long they'll stay there. while some of the protestors including the workers union is basically has launched the sit in today so it's likely what we saw back in the winter they're going to basically live on talk here until they get what they want and what they want is to get rid of all these so-called mini mubarak's they feel like they have the president now sit in a lot of high ranking officials but they want corrupt officials to be removed from the universities from the factories all workplaces across the country they want military trials on civilians to stop they want free press and have full coverage of what's happening here in central cairo so some people will be staying here until the very end then you have the muslim brotherhood who didn't take place didn't come and join the revolution back in the winter but this time are taking it. critics say

that they're really trying to just inflate their position that if there are elections that they can gain some support it's a group that in fact is abandoned in many countries including russia. it seems that there is caution about any kind of links to terrorism but they are one of the groups that is protesting here are talking here but they are not spending the night will be coming back tomorrow but like i said a lot of these protesters are here until they feel that the egypt they've been fighting for has finally happened our correspondent there bring you some today the latest from tahrir square in cairo as those demonstrations continue in this the thank you and of course if you want to catch up with more from egypt if you want to be abreast of the latest as it's happening you can follow in this and those latest twitter updates school the details of the breaking developments on tahrir square good eyewitness accounts for you and fresh updates on the protests log on to twitter you can find the sort of tea under school com. first marco werman from oxford university told me that the revolution is only added to egypt's economic

woes meantime has brought about reforms and it's not about the reforms that people wanted. the expectations that the fall of mubarak will be followed by a change of regime hasn't really come about in effect with barak and his family and closest bruni's have been imprisoned or accused will go on trial next month have all sorts of crimes against the people against the interests of the country but of course field marshal tantawi members of the military rule in council for his appointees to a great extent across egypt people don't see that their local boss the local head of the biggest ration has changed so there's a sense that the old regime was decapitated but minus mubarak it's still in power the revolution comes about because people are very discontented have reasons for profound economic discontent but it the process the revolution causes so much disruption that we see tourists stay away from egypt that kills a lot of business we see people worried about investing there because they wonder

who's going to be in power in a few months time so ironically one of the big reasons for the revolution people's economic discontent social this contentious irritation at unemployment and so on actually the process of getting rid of a barak has made in the short term the economy worse but i do think really there's an easy answer to egypt's economic problems because global oil prices global food prices and so on are rising and egypt is essentially importer. this is r t coming up arresting developments new espionage charges abroad would you as opposition members explain why tbilisi just can't get enough of its. next though hundreds of propellers to be an activist have been blocked by israel in their attempts to reach garza by dozens were detained for questioning in tel aviv on arrival while the majority of prevented we've been reaching israel at european airports across the paulus leah for our teachers been a big airport for us joins us now live hi there paula i mean how these events unfolded what we know about those activists that actually made it into israel.

well for the last few weeks there have been some six to eight hundred international activists who've been planning this so-called fly turner united under the banner of welcome to palestine and representing some fifteen in geos these mostly french activists made the point from the beginning that they were intention was to bring attention to the plight of the palestinian people particularly the people of gaza they said that their intention was peaceful the plan was to arrive today friday and to spend a week particularly in the west bank visiting palestinian families and really giving them a message of hope and encouragement from the international community but of course the attention also needs to be on gaza where since two thousand and seven since the must came to power israel has imposed a blockade and the latest word we hear from humanitarian organizations operating in gaza is that the situation is almost catastrophic we're hearing figures of as much as eighty percent of the population who do not have access to basic necessities the

problem is that the israeli authorities heard about this friday and already on thursday they issued the names of three hundred and forty two people that were not and lolled to into this country and they gave those names to foreign airlines and warned them that if they bought those people here they would have the expense of the responsibility of sending them back to their home countries we know that two hundred people were stopped in european capitals but of the roughly a hundred who made it through to israel most of them are being questioned are being interrogated and as far as we can tell only one woman from england made it through the arrivals board we caught up with her just before she made her way to big for him in the west bank. netanyahu sees us as a threat he says us as a threat to the legitimize a show of israel how can we be a threat and yet he whips up the israelis he gets here he pouring all over the airport he gets the british police the french police to stop activists coming out we never planned to demonstrate we always planned to be here and be here for this

day and enjoy the the cultural activities of the palestinians or on the west bank and true with the israelis as well. the israeli authorities have been criticized for the near hysterical response to this whole operation in fact israeli media has been heavily criticizing the government saying that it's almost as if they preparing for a military operation and not for a protest i mean looking at this on the face of a poor begs the very simple question why is a group of peaceful activists cause such a stir. and added to that question is the irony that is radio authorities by sending some sixty seven hundred police and security officers to israel's being green airport to deal with these demonstrators israel is also only helping these activists bring attention to their plight which is essentially to draw the world's attention to the state of one and a half million gazans who are trapped in one of the most densely populated areas in

the world now israel is dealing a heavy hand largely because of what happened roughly this time last year which is when the first fatality try to sell to garza it had humanitarian aid on board and we all know it ended with nine turkish activists did we have seen a second freedom flotilla tamed at this stage the eighty ships that are part of the effort to learn are stranded off the coast of greece athens has imposed a blanket ban preventing them from sailing to gaza so certainly a lot of attention in the international community trying to help the people of gaza and israel being very heavy handed very worried and very militant in its response artie's policy joining us live from jerusalem tonight thanks to bring us up to date on that story and of course just reminding you if you've got something that you want to say about it let us know what is your thought about this story and the flight you can log on to our web site r c dot com and take part in our latest poll if you like there we're asking whether probe palestinian activists will be able to

convince israel to lift the blockade on gaza what's your take here but this is what you've been telling us so so far if you take part so far seeing as we're close to half of you say it would only happen if the activists arrive in overwhelming numbers of a quarter of you don't think israel would yield to any pressure anyway they. say the activists can succeed as long as they've got the truth on their side which you say they have a minority who they're still twelve percent believing a blockade only be lifted if palestinian stop attacking israel if you think about this story almighty knives online while you're there as well these stories may grab your attention to google it shut down millions of internet sites are to decide. when they're malicious and they don't meet suitable standards find out what the repercussions could be for the rest of the web on the developing story also rumors about barack obama's childhood continuing to swirl as an american journalist claims the president's parents had thought of giving him up for adoption of one stage you are more about that as well as of our team dot com.

still to come this stop the press the latest twists in britain's phone hacking scandal that's already syria's biggest selling paper shut down and now its former editor has been arrested. ga claims a group of high profile photographers detained in the capital tbilisi have been spying for a foreign state the arrest comes nine others were jailed for up to fourteen years for espionage for moscow artie's catarina over explains what's behind georgia's spy saga an event that i still spy with my little eye george is continuing its for of encounter espionage campaign and this time around the people in the spotlight are those who usually stayed behind the scenes for photo journalists have

been detained including the president's personal photographer and employees of the associated press and the european press agency the a.p. photographer was later released without charge but the other three remain in custody. of them either misapply but i have met with my client he's got injuries to his face at the moment he still hasn't been charged with anything and we waited on the prosecutors to file the case and to question and formally charge my client. so for a georgian authorities haven't specified exactly who they believe these journalists were spying for their previous buying a. however i have mostly been aimed at russia for writes novels the. russian. for. donors to. and. why he should care. the power because the

second player. is going to tour. for a number of partners why george. why. do you always. keep the independence of georgia. but he's brought me to. washington agents or since. the recent hysteria began with yet another alleged spy story last year thirteen people were detained and accused of being spies on russia's payroll earlier this week nine of them were found guilty and sentenced to between eleven and fourteen years behind bars but what lies behind this frenzied espionage clampdown. the judges are so quick to. anyone i guess is just

a level of democracy and that has been noticed not just by russia. even so it seems international disbelief and numerous arrests and convictions are not enough to put the paranoia of georgian officials to rest georgism terry a minister claims that there are more alleged spies there and that he knows exactly who they are where they are and what they're doing home while official b.b.c. hails these efforts many seem to be of the opinion that it's just plain wishful thinking. that's what is r r t v. it's a. big story in the u.k. now or a former editor of the news of the world newspaper has been arrested in connection with the phone hacking scandal the country's biggest selling newspaper its former all correspondents also been arrested on suspicion of bribing police the furious prompted the prime minister to announce two inquiries into the ethics and practices of the british press one hundred sixty year old one hundred sixty eight year old

papers accused of hacking into the phones even as a fountain of targets of the years including murder and terror victims dead soldiers as well as politicians its own rupert murdoch's news international's events the paper now is set to close up and sunday's edition jon gaunt who used to work for one of murdoch's newspapers told me it's the elite few controlled media in the. many of us who are calling for a full public inquiry led by a judge and cameron has been dragged into this position he's now willing to let it happen six truly embarrassing for him he's part of what's called the chipping camden set which is a rural part of britain he lives down there at the weekend rebecca brooks lives down there sir and columnist lived down there and there's a whole set you've got to make socially that set was a different set when labor in power would tony blair but all of it is too cozy and too comfortable if you don't have a real democracy you have to have a separation between the press surely and indeed the political establishment and

the government of the day you also need to have separation between the judiciary and those two areas in britain and the united kingdom they've become too close over the last thirteen or fourteen years and i believe that last may not all narry people in britain their views have not really been represented either in the newspapers or in the political arena last bad for democracy so david cameron should start investigating himself that's far as i'm concerned and one would your employer a man who's already had to resign over phone hacking allegations why would you take him to the heart of government where he could have access to top secret dossier as an information it's a sorry sorry day let me tell you not just for the british press but for british democracy. nasa's final shuttle flights blasted off with up to a million spectators witnessing the historic launch ships the one hundred thirty fifth mission in the thirty year history of america's space shuttle program exposed

one of the high charms of the launch should be delayed by bad weather but in the end the astronauts did leave earth with a delay of only about a minute as a team is gone if you can report it was also a poignant moment for those who devoted the whole lawyers to this program the start of the summer middle 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 rockledge is on the verge of becoming a ghost town without the space program or pretty much nothing i mean this is what you know the beach is built on the space program you know just a lot of people are going to be out of jobs are even be out of homes people are going on welfare left and right food stamps and city chris a fully spent twenty three years with a shuttle launch team as an engineer with a plan to splice thing there for its final mission it means the end of his career

with nasa and the beginning of uncertainty a year ago he started looking for a new job to no avail i have applied for jobs and so far 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 bill be able to hire only a fraction of the skilled space industry workers will be out of work soon this is the first shuttle ever it never made it to 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 for space missions since that two of them were last named 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 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 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 may never see again it also means the end of a once vibrant scientific community that's grown up around the shuttle going to

shut down. in turkmenistan recovery efforts are underway after a series of explosions at a factory in the city of up or down toward down a nearby buildings reportedly hundreds an ammunitions death toll of official so the blasts wrote a fireworks factory where the according to local media reports have been up to two hundred casualties it's not clear who's been killed indeed witnesses say the ammunition from the burning depo is scattered on the streets some of its reach neighboring towns they say large sections of the city lost power but water supplies have since been restored security has been tightened up with police patrolling the streets. also in the news this late friday night from moscow a passenger airliner with a hundred twelve people aboard a scratch. on the international airport in the democratic republic of congo as it was trying to land the initial reports say at least forty survivors have been pulled from the wreckage officials suggest strong winds and heavy rain may have caused the accident the country's seen numerous crashes in recent years with its jets plagued by maintenance problems security forces in the past the city of

karachi have been ordered to shoot on sight after three days of violence in which eighteen people have been killed gunmen linked to rival political parties went on shooting spree in several neighborhoods the city's been virtually locked down with shops schools and roads deserted most people staying indoors fearing more violence the government says an extra thousand troops have been deployed trying to deal with the situation. yemen's president has made his first t.v. appearance since being seriously injured in a bomb attack at his compound last month in a speech ali abdullah saleh criticised the protestors and accuse them of misunderstanding democracy he also gave no hint that he planned to step down from office but said that he is ready for dialogue with the position to end the crisis has been rocked by months of anti-government demonstrations calling for the end of president saleh regime. a lot more ahead for you on our team top stories cross-talk guests of course people of well but all that after artie's business bulletin wraps

up the highlights of today's financial headlines from moscow. hello and a very warm welcome to our business bulletin russia has increased its annual crude oil production forecast to five hundred and nine million tons however the quality of russian oil products is still very low the country needs to modernize its refinery capacity and prime minister putin is going to make sure it will happen as outies template reports. 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 grows at double digit rates annually however refining hasn't caught up either in volumes or in quality experts say legislation russian made it more profitable for oil producers to explore crude oil low quality oil products but now putin says the measures to reverse the trend will be taken.

when you do we need to closely monitor the implementation of the modernization plans by the oil companies and if they don't meet their obligations the street will have the right to apply 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 will speccing gasoline shortage domestically as producers chose to export more cashing in on the 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. let's have a look at the markets now crude oil dropped pairing a second weekly gain well as much as two point three percent brant crude down forty

six cents in light sweet losing two dollars and forty cents us stocks are trading lower at midday that's up to the government said businesses added fewer jobs in june and over a year employers created only eighteen thousand jobs last month a fraction of what i call expected the report hopes for a quick rebound for the economy slow this spring here in russia stocks have raised gains on friday showing their biggest loss in more than a monk. as oil drop in the mines exposed last point nine percent energy mages the biggest losers on both the bores and let's have a look at some individual movers on the my xix closed down point six percent and gas from over one percent in the red sox also finished lower over two percent. 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 from the recently acquired a store. russia is looking for pay before pumping a when it comes to supply gas to china the company now wants advance payment for its future energy delivering better mr newspaper says it could make up to forty billion dollars with gas pump offering a discount in exchange but is being seen as another obstacle in the long running energy talks both parties are trying to create a new thirty year supply contract but can't agree on the cops. well that's all from me in the business team here on our team join us next week for more financial news from russia and around the world headlines are next stay with us.