ten am in moscow i matras are 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 or he's sorry for his wife and with more hello sorrow 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. is being described as a make or break week. general strike is going to begin today that's ahead of the parliament. even more stairs to measure and these summits on the weekend way easy it is. close to the site to the continuing take lysis now at the moment here in athens you've got garbage every single street corner. for two

weeks the strike action is continuing and we sort of the beginning of the month they had the public sector strike today expect very similar thing to what we saw them but even bigger because even more people are going to be turning out hundreds of thousands of people expected to take part in that oversee concerns are they going. to take asked in the final clashes between protesters and the right place a very difficult situation at the moment indeed for the conch. between the position from the people but also a lot of pressure from the foreign investors to really get to grips with this and we've seen e.d. is really struggling to find a solution not a lot of the honest i've been speaking to here the pulse weeks and months in saying that really need to be looking at a different option at the very beginning of this entire crisis we had some of the strong statements coming from him saying there's no plan. he will now obviously

we've got to talk to possible default for greece and haircut from the again they're still trying to push through these. measures to get that next tranche of money the eight billion euros a lot of people abroad now feeling that that's a very very good money after bad and people at home here the people in greece will be turning out stay everything that 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 further a different approach this entire crisis because we start strong opposition from the populations in these countries what people really until you make the people a part of the solution and not part of the problem you nobody going to find an answer so cool is really for most social approach to the entire plan. to sorrow for reporting for us for math and science about. financial analyst patrick young says the situation in greece is so dire more belt tightening won't help shed

its debt. 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 that the greek railways for example i mean the salary bill something like one 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 no matter of belt tightening is going to change it knowing what's going to happen use 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 bowled. well keep on top of greece's biggest shut down throughout the day here on our t.v. here is what's coming your way later. u.s. troops head for uganda there's a guerrilla war going on there and there's oil nearby we assess possible motives. but first anti 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 archy's lucy coughing all 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 and identify with the big frustrations the major frustrations that the

demonstrators have expressed mainly what they see as corruption in wall street in a washington undue influence by wall street over. the political system in washington d.c. the nation's capital now we have seen unfortunately an increase in some ireland and heavy handed response 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 we do know that several of the officers implicated on video with some of the violent tactics are being investigated now the movement does not seem to show any signs of it giving up steam in fact that there's

a new global day of action that's being planned for up to over twenty ninth's 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 at least 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. enough reporting from the thick of protests in new york you can follow her twitter feed for the very latest as it happens. the unrest and 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 the crackdown on protesters continues artie's test has more from damascus. this is the office of the trader meets one of the messages on the wall easel and the u.s. were able to buy you with a thousand dollars says another. this is where several opposition leaders work like . 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 truth. must be with their backs. is a regime that i know. is listening to people. he insists peaceful protesters were forced to respond to attacks by security forces but he acknowledges that now it's simply not black and white responsibility for the

violence goes both ways. and. 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. all foreign media acknowledge that too many of the army and national guards have lost their lives so how can some people say that groups didn't exist. the civilians and the members like my son how could amin members kill other members this is impossible the media that says it is plain 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 push for reforms continues what's angering very forms this is

another question whenever a new legislation is made we see an escalation of the security situation in syria by the guns but we come up absolutely put the blame on the government as i mean some circles. to propagate all voices from both sides are calling for a dialogue to sit down and talk to the syrians themselves agree that if this crisis is to be resolved that foundation of trust should be for a slight down but with each threat or death syria respond to rising an already widening political gap. desert. damascus. there may be calls for talks in syria but across in libya words are much tougher especially from washington wanted dead or alive. and the sooner the better hillary clinton says the united states is going to see captured or killed more on that just ahead.

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dozens of palestinians free by israel in exchange for a soldier gilad schalit have 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 shell lead 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 bringing the issue of these very to soldier gilad shalit to the attention 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 issue of palestinian prisoners to be a thin ssion of the world community and many international conferences many press

conferences have been held over the past years to bring this is shoot to the attention of the world community but unfortunately this is why in the media photos of israel all over the world would a much stronger and bringing the issue of god. bringing the issue of more than seven thousand palestinian prisoners who were some of them have been nailed for decades inside this way to prison. that story is online at interactive right now at artie's facebook page watch our middle east correspondents report explaining why palestinian israeli swap deal has left some jewish families also far from happy to share your thoughts on the world big stories that r.t. dot com right now we want you to tell us what you think is the significance of the lodge really. just over half of you believe the event is about media hype and really changes a little a fifth think the swap is an indisputable hamas victory and deals a blow to the jewish state another fifth ink 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 the statement came during her an unannounced visit to tripoli with a mission to offer aid to the and support to 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 attitude is to be expected. as you know already america and many others have large interests economic interests 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 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 of what more can you do for the west than the gadhafi was doing it don't forget who hillary clinton is in two thousand and eight if you go to youtube and type in hillary clinton no glitterati run as a candidate for president you threaten to kill every man woman and child tourney run into a waste basket or an ashtray there was no outrage because most americans didn't hear it in the major american media. the u.s. has ever frosty relations with iran is what cross talk gets to grips with at seven thirty g.m.t. as officials rallied 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. drug runner that 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 would do it in cash then he when he is in prison he calls this pose 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 command on an international line to the united states to the point about reading spy novels i think that goes both ways i think if the claim that mr marandi seems to be making that 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. on us tonight as 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 the fight against a guerrilla group that's been dragging on conflict for two decades but ward winning correspondent eric margolis tells r.t. that if washington had humanitarian interests in mind it wouldn't be going it alone . the u.n. says i should be concerned about treaties and the train should the region and the chinese are going up will be economic resources. influence with regional governments. to stop this trying. to central africa it would be more. legitimate. to be in conjunction with a number of other interests the nations russia for example were turkey but. frankly u.s. is sending troops on its own that it's going to new military bases in the region if

the earth were. both suggest that the u.s. is doing. any kind of internationalist duty 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 and leaders met on a joint action against islam the service he has 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 prompting several countries to ask for international aid severe weather is causing bridges to collapse and flooded hundreds of homes. 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 the shipwrecked sailor story. the moment sergei ganesh of knows he's 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 chances of survival had been slim. 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. 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 set in. 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 seiko logically damage to hit me to try as he was on the verge of suicide. that ganesh of will recuperate in hospital for the next fortnight perhaps the most surprising aspect of the story isn't that sergei was able to survive under stylee 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. r.t. . worlds at your fingertips at 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 lot being a locked out walking out cancels with trip to brussels after the controversial jailing of the country's former prime minister. and star wars security the 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 online at r.t. dot com. business next stay with us. good morning and welcome to business russia and most of its c.i.s. partners have agreed to create a free trade zone a simplified were achieved at a meeting of commonwealth prime ministers on tuesday the deal reduces all fees on the number of goods between the countries and some expect the rules to come into

force next year however azerbaijan those biggest menace down were the only members of the eleven strong union to stay out of the new trade zone but still have the opportunity to join it before the years and if they choose 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 rally the sell off sentiment was spurred by poor u.s. and chinese data as well as the damp and hopes of a fast resolution of the euro zone problems seem jacobson from saxo bank explains. the market right now is betting that germany in the e.u. talks will side with the side of solidarity over discipline but all of it in my opinion is just more of what i call extend and pretend you're extending buying time and pretending you have a credible solution so i think it's even irrelevant to some extent what happens

because ultimately we need to go to what i call crisis two point all we do see where we have the rationality bag in the market right now we have paced and leveraged based on the idea that you where every time you have a problem you throw the credit so what i'm saying is that there are a 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 that's a great risk that we see lower market 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 movement in the united states and in commodities light sweet is recovering sixteen cents bread thirty nine cents that's up to an unconfirmed report in the guardian that europe's key 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 off to show drops especially in hong kong banks are coming back

up drops on tuesday just b.c. is up two percent bank of china's two point three percent higher in japan mitsubishi financial group is a one point two percent black while it shouldn't say bank is one of the strongest performance it's three point four percent. this is the opening picture for the russian markets also been on a positive note with the r.t.s. some write up one and a half percent my six point four percent growth is supported by stronger prices as we're seeing right now and pretty much the only company which is trading in the negative zone is down point four percent because the kaliningrad monopoly authorities are looking into price fixing. from a nation's capital believes the market's eyes will focus on where america will be heading and also whether any surprises from. the data on the american c.p.i.

will be pretty much important. if the headline inflation and the core inflation will be high and it will use the room for fair not for the easing of them wanted to report to see but i think that the major news which will be driving the market will begin from europe because they mean for usually and they are on expected. check investment or p.b.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. store plus that's going to show this is something bright seven a lot of it i shall see. something good in sixty seventy per cent overall but since we are speaking about. what the city's in

a book or. something that has a modification something like one billion that i see makes sense for us or it must be something i don't see that's why i don't want to go out i would be increasing the number of so significant that we are doing now you're missing something right one hundred percent out of it out of. some additional acquisitions. and that's all from this edition of the business news on r c we will be back next hour with an update the headlines are next with matthew stay with.

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greece begin a massive all out strike that's expected to be their largest since the financial turmoil began the major shutdown takes place in parliament prepares to vote on even more troubling cuts over national bankruptcy. it's feared syria's unarrest is turning into a full fledged civil war with soldiers reportedly turning on each other eleven troops were killed this week adding to the three thousand or more who died since the crackdown the anti-government protests began in march. and israeli soldier gilad schalit has filed.