fed up and shutting down greeks go on a major all strike possibly the biggest in years as leaders prepare to vote on even more crippling. syria's two-way violence with soldiers reportedly turning on each other and being killed during anti-government protests fueling fears of a fully fledged civil war. robinson rescued a man found alive alone on an island in russia's north for more than a fortnight with barely any food and water his survival story coming up.

ten am in moscow i matter as a good to have you with us here on r.t. our top story greece bracing itself for what's being called the mother of all strikes are expected to be the biggest protest since the financial turmoil that's crippling the country parliament's still pressing ahead with another key vote to squeeze spending even further to stave off a catastrophic national bankruptcy archy's sarah ferguson is live in athens with more hello sarah so we've already seen strikes and sit ins bring greece to a halt but now it looks like it's getting even worse tell us more. like make or break week. how it. begins. that's ahead of the parliament. well it's the even more. any summits of the weekend way. downstream close to the site but still to the continuing take lysis now at the main. here in aspen you've got garbage on every single street corner

that's over two weeks a strike action that's continuing and we sort of the beginning of the month they had the public sector strike and today expect a very similar thing to what we saw them get even bigger because even more people are going to be turning out hundreds of thousands of people expected to take part in the action of obviously concerned so we can see more take us in the final clashes between protesters and the right place a very difficult situation at the moment indeed for the country the court really between this and bill position him from the people but also a lot of pressure from the foreign investors to really get to grips with this and we think he is really struggling to find a solution not a lot of the honest i've been speaking to here but it is in the past weeks and months in saying that really the only does need to be looking at a different option at the very beginning of this entire crisis we heard some of the

strong things coming in saying there is no plan b. now obviously we've got to talk to the possible default for greece of haircuts on the debts but they can they still trying to push through these federal standards he may just to get that next tranche of money the eight billion euros a lot of people abroad now feeling that out of the very good money after bad and people live here the people are increasingly turning out to take everything they've breaking point with these severe austerity measures and that really is the focus of a lot of people's attention on the cool certainly for here in the country but internationally to a different approach this entire crisis because with such strong opposition from the populations in these countries what people are starting to really until you make the people a part of the solution and not part of the problem you nobody can find an else is so who is really for most social approach to the entire people. are to serve for reporting for us from our. financial analyst patrick young says the situation in

greece is so dire more belt tightening won't help shed it stuck. i think we're actually coming close to the end because ultimately the greek economy is in such a mess there's simply nothing can be done i mean what we're trying to do here is take the world's most obese person and give them a crash diet so they're going to turn into i don't know cindy crawford by the end of next year i mean it's simply impossible you can't do the greek railways for example i mean the salary bill something like a hundred million euros the total amount of income is like one hundred million euros in total it costs about seven hundred million euros i believe to run the railway system you cannot possibly manage to change those numbers in such a short period of time the simple truth is greece has too much debt and no matter of belt tightening is going to change it now and what's going to happen news we're

going to have to take what we call in banking terms i haircut on the debt and ultimately it's not going to be cutting of the hair a lot of people are going to be left somewhat bald. well keep on top of greece's biggest shut down throughout the day here on our t. here's what's coming your way later. u.s. troops head for uganda there's a guerrilla war going on there and there's a hotel nearby we assess a possible motives. first hand how wall street activists turning some of their anger against new york police over what they see as excessive use of force hundreds of people have been arrested during the five week long protest with police using pepper spray at rallies despite this the root cause of the campaign still winning over a hard pressed americans are he's aloof in our reports. the popularity of the movement does seem to be growing not just among the demonstrators but with the regular americans as well in fact here in new york a recent poll that came out showed that seven in ten new yorkers support the

movement of identify with the big frustrations the major prostrations that the demonstrators have expressed namely what they see as corruption in wall street or washington in undue influence by wall street over a pool of politicians and the political system in washington d.c. the nation's capital now we have seen unfortunately an increase in some island and heavy handed responses by the police departments here in the new york city area we've seen of course in mass arrests over the weekend in times square as well as arrests that have spread across the country for example in seattle a total of nine protesters were arrested after failing to evacuate the camp after being asked by police to do so in chicago about one hundred seventy five protesters were arrested in arizona more than one hundred protesters were arrested after demonstrating and what they say is a nonviolent civil disobedience tactic but we do know that several of the officers implicated on video with some of the violent haptics are being investigated now the

movement does not seem to show any signs of it giving up steam in fact there's a new global day of action that's being planned for up to over twenty nine not just here in new york but all across the country as well as across the world in different cities worldwide we also know that the financial situation for the protesters here in new york of these has improved protesters recently announced that they have earned some three hundred thousand dollars from donations both money that's dropped in box buckets throughout the park as well as to online donations what they will do with that money remains to be seen but they are getting more and more support it appears at least by the american people. or to. suzy coffin of reporting from the thick of protests in new york you can follow her twitter feed for the very latest as it happens. the unrest in golfing syria descending into all out conflict with the growing violence claiming

lives on both sides eleven soldiers killed by army defectors this week shortly after the u.n. warned there is a high chance of opposition forces taking up arms if a crackdown on protesters continues or he's test has more from damascus. this is the office of the trader weeds one of the messages on the wall israel and the u.s. were able to buy you with a thousand dollars says another. this is where several opposition leaders work like a higher he had been a vocal critic and had spent fourteen years in jail a very bad time he recalls like many opposition members he thinks there's really very little room for reconciliation under the current environment. because troops. clear voices and a regime that. is listening to. us he insists peaceful protesters were forced to respond to attacks by security forces

and the acknowledges that now it's simply not black and white responsibility for the violence goes both ways. and so this killing civilians some civilians killing. soldiers yes son was one of the first soldiers killed since protests began in the country he was killed in daraa on march twenty three. or four immediately knowledge that too many of the army and national guard lost the lives so how can some people say that on group stage exist he kidnapped these civilians and only members like my son how did amin members kill other members this is impossible the media that says it is plainly lying. and therein lies the problem the moment. there is confusion about what's really going on information is taken by each side and used to defend their position so if you hear only arguments from one side you'll likely believe them amid this atmosphere

of confusion and misinformation the question for reforms continues what's a lingering very forms this is another question whenever a new legislation is made we see an escalation of the security situation. cd unbecoming by the guns but we come up. on the government as i mean some circles trying to propagate the voices from both sides are calling for dialogue to sit down and talk the serious themselves agree that if this crisis is to be resolved that foundation of trust should be first laid out but with each threat or death syria of a school rising and already widening political. does or so you are damascus. it may be calls for talks in syria but across in libya words are much tougher especially for washington wanted dead or alive. and the sooner the better hillary clinton says the united states is going to seek the captured or

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dozens of palestinians free by israel in exchange for a soldier gilad schalit had been flown into exile qatar and turkey are among nations receiving them as part of a deal with the israeli government which saw hundreds swap for shall leave after five years held by hamas more will be released next month a gaza political analyst tells r.t. that there is too much global focus on one man rather than israel's thousands of palestinian prisoners. the international community as well as these were enemy the i was very busy over the past five years bring to the issue of these very disabled are going to add. to the attention of the of the world community all the time but it hasn't been said much about the palestinian prisoners even though the palestinian authority and the palestinian resistance to groups have tried all the time to bring the usual call austin and prisoners to the attention of the world

community and many international conferences many risk on fences have been held over the past years to bring this is to the attention of the world community but unfortunately the israeli media those are visible and all over the world would a much stronger in bringing the issue of gilad shalit more than bringing the issue of more than seven thousand palestinian prisoners who were some of them have been nailed for decades inside this way to jails and prisons. that story is online at interactive right now authorities facebook page watch our middle east correspondent reporting explaining why palestinian israeli swap deal has left some jewish families also far from happy to share your thoughts on the world big stories at r.t. dot com right now we want to you to tell us what you think is the significance of the lodge sheldon's really it's just a for half of you believe the event is about media hype and really changes

a little affair think the swap is an indisputed hamas victory and deals a blow to the jewish state either a fifth think it's about netanyahu needing into a deal to win public support in a small fraction think it's a genuine step toward peace in the middle east cast your vote at our team dot com. u.s. chief diplomat hillary clinton says washington hopes to see ousted libyan leader colonel gadhafi captured or killed soon and stephen came during her an unannounced visit to tripoli with a mission to offer aid to the and support the country's new rulers professor paul sheldon foote from california state university who's worked in a number of arab countries as clinton's added today is to be expected. well as you know. america and many others a large interests economic interest in libya which is actually amazing because gadhafi was doing everything that the west wanted in fact he was wasting his people's money on investments in a soccer team middle of

a financial times those are not in the interest of the libyan people but if i don't know what the lesson is supposed to be for other leaders around the world if what more can you do for the west than the gadhafi was doing fine don't forget who hillary clinton is in two thousand and eight if you go to youtube and type in hillary clinton no good really run as a candidate for president she threatened to kill every man woman and child tourney run into a wastebasket there and. there was no outrage because most americans didn't hear it in the beach or american media. and usa i for frosty relations with iran is what crosstalk gets to grips with at seven thirty g.m.t. as officials rally to prove tehran was plotting to kill the saudi ambassador to the u.s. but not everyone is convinced here's a sneak peek. this person who seems to be mad goes to mexico he said he. too drug runner then i have

a cousin who is a high general in the iranian armed forces and then they wired one hundred thousand dollars i mean even if the people who made up the story had read a couple of spy novels they know that they don't wire money especially from iran and to mexican drug dealers they were getting cash then he when he is in prison he calls this so close an iranian general and he tells him on the phone to carry out the operation i mean come on on the phone a senior iranian commander on an international line to the united states to the good point about reading spy novels i think that goes both ways i think if the claim but mr already seems to be making the obama administration simply invented this plot out of whole cloth well you know they've read spy novels too so you might think they would do a better more convincing job if they were just simply trying to snow the rest of the world. us tonight is this recent interest in uganda is connected with the region's newly found or oil the

white house deploying one hundred troops to the african country to help authorities in a fight against a guerrilla group that's been dragging the conflict for two decades but award winning correspondent eric margolis tells r.t. that if washington had humanitarian interests in mind it wouldn't be going it alone . well the u.s. is concerned about penetration in the region and the chinese leadership will resources. influence with regional governments. to stop this trying. to. get with the. legitimate in feel as they begin conjunction with a number of other just interested in asia and russia for example we're turkey or. something for. us it's sending troops on its own

that it's going to look through base this region it's the earth we're. both suggested this is. almost. any kind of internationalist. further east in somalia at least four people dead from a suicide car bombing that happened here before and made capital mogadishu several others injured it came somalia and kenya leaders met on a point to get these laws the city that's been largely pushed out of the capital but vows further attacks earlier this month a suicide blast killed more than one hundred people mostly students and other to world news this hour. a week of heavy rains across central america has left at least ninety one people dead and several hundred to ask for international aid severe weather is causing bridges to collapse and flooded hundreds of homes el salvador and nicaragua all declared states of emergency heavy rains are expected to carry on in the region. seventeen days alone scrambling for food and water are real

life robinson crusoe rescued from a remote island in russia's north and although he was eventually found his discovery was only by chance. has a shipwrecked sailor story. the moment sergey ganesh of knows he saved these rescuers are the first people has seen for seventeen days they didn't search for him no one reported sergei's disappearance but found him by complete accident his chance of survival had been slim when i was here to collect seaweed but the weather was bad and my boat capsized and crashed i swam to the island but there was no one there my cell phone was wet and didn't work there was no food or thought that i survived by drinking rain water and eating kelp i was very scared he made a shelter to hide from the rain but soon despair then. for the first ten days i was

looking out for boats and planes but over the last three days i had no hope doctors say sergei has suffered physical and psychological trauma. he is suffering from hypothermia and nourishment he was sake of logical damage to hit me to try and he was on the verge of suicide said ganesh of will recuperate in hospital for the next fortnight perhaps the most surprising aspect of the story is in the third game was able to survive on the spiny island or the fact that rescuers managed to locate him considering the hundreds of similar islands in the area but the fact that for two weeks nobody not his friends or his family thought it necessary to report him missing you. well is it your fingertips that r.t. dot com where on top of the stories you might not find other places including us now for ukraine's president he's been a rock being a locked out girl walking up the councils of trip to brussels after

a controversial jailing of the country's former prime minister. star wars security plan for russia any nato to jointly develop a global guard not just against missiles but also asteroids and other possible threats from space you've got the idea how wide all arrived at r.t. dot com. business next stay with us. good morning and welcome to business russia and most of its partners have agreed to create a free trade zone the simplified were achieved at a meeting of commonwealth prime ministers on tuesday the deal reduces all fees on

a number of goods between the countries and some expect the rules to come into force next year however was it by john those biggest unanswered men to stand with the only members of the eleven strong union to stay out of the new trades or still have the opportunity to join its before the years and if they change the trade is relaxation rather hoped to give a major boost to developing economy economic ties with the in the c.i.s. . global markets continue to march into negative territory after last week's a rally the sell of sentiment was spurred by poor u.s. and chinese data as well as the dampened hopes of a faster resolution of the eurozone problems see jacobson from saxo bank explains. the market right now is creating the germany in the e.u. talks will side with the side of solidarity over discipline what all of it in my opinion is just more of what i call extend and pretend standing buying time in

pretending you have a credible solution so i think it's even irrelevance as i understand what happens because ultimately we need to go to what i call crisis two point all we're just where we have the rationality bag in the market right now we're based on leverage were based on the idea that you where every time you have a problem you froze liquidity so what i'm saying is that there is sixty percent chance of a ten percent rise in the market and a forty percent chance of a twenty five percent. in the market which means risk weighted i think there's a great race there we see a lot more of it or i will let's take a look at what's happening in the markets right now a lobster a drop in europe we actually saw some positive for movement in the united states and in commodities light sweet is recovering sixteen cents bread thirty nine cents that's after an unconfirmed report in the guardian that europe's bailout fund will be significantly expanded its take a look at how asia is reacting to this report and there's also

a positive movement after a sharp drops especially in hong kong banks are coming back up after drops on tuesday just b.c. is up two percent bank of china's two point three percent higher in japan financial group is one point two percent of black while it shouldn't say bank is one of the strongest performers it's three point four percent higher. this is the opening picture for the russian markets also been on a positive note with the r.t.s. some rights are one and a half percent nice six point four percent growth is supported by stronger the oil prices as we're seeing right now and very much the only company which is trading in the negative zone is new coil is down point four percent because the kaliningrad the monopoly authorities are looking into price fixing. and it's all good if you go from one nation's capital believes the markets eyes will focus on where america will be heading there also were there any surprises from

a detonator. on the american c.p.i. will be pretty much important. being headline inflation and the core inflation will be high and it will read use the room for fear in that for the easing of the month the reporter said but i think that the major news which will be driving the markets will begin from here over the course of the mean for usually and they expect a check and that's not true p.p.s. is looking to increase its exposure in russia by strengthening its retail operations the group has stakes in silver and gold mining and polymath so and in russia's largest consumer electronics retailer eldorado now they're focusing on developing clothes toys and sports goods. our current outside school plus that's going to show this is something great seven a lot of. the snow something like sixty seventy per cent of the

world cup sets. are speaking. what is reasonable for. something that has a lot of patience something like one billion of us and that makes sense for us or it must be something i don't score because it's like i don't doubt it could be increasing the number of so significant that we are doing well you know it's been something like one hundred million years ago or so i'm not out of. some additional acquisitions. and that's all from this edition of the business news on r.t. we will be back next hour with an update the headlines are next with matthew stay with us.