the fed up and shutting down greeks start a major all out strike possibly the biggest in years as leaders get ready to vote on even more crippling cuts. serious to wave violence soldiers reportedly turning on each other being killed during anti-government protests fueling fears of a full fledged civil war. also a third deadline by nato ordering service to remove border barricades in northern kosovo as the standoff situations batted back to politicians to end the impasse. and of robinson who rescued a man found alive but alone on an island in russia's north after more than

a fortnight with barely any food or water his story of survival coming up. noon in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story greece is closed for forty eight hours flights are grounded schools shops factories all quiet as the country enters what's being called the mother of all strikes arguably the biggest protest since the financial turmoil that's crippling the country started more cuts though could be coming. for a life for us in athens so sorry we've already seen strikes and sit ins bring greece to a halt but tell us how far reaching this stoppage goes. well he can see behind me already the numbers praying outside that parliament building the beginning of the full. general strike adelante let's not even panning out we got the riot police in

front of the parliament building that i make or break week think we thought being described the upcoming states important thing even more austerity measures to eat pasta to try and meet the demands. the foreign investors and we can't eat leaders will be meeting in brussels to decide really what on earth they going to do about this that crisis but we've been here this fall we had a strike at the beginning of the month there was a public sector strike even more people expected today and i think that the moment you could think of it already lining the street the rubbish collectors have been on strike people have simply reached their breaking point and who's really now for a much more social response because the people here said the sort of tax based measures that have been used by the government and e.u. leaders to try and plug this nothing in the budget simply isn't having the desired effect and you can see the anger on the street people really have had enough of

this is very very tricky this really what you feel at the moment is a very safe the iceberg because was actually going on in this country is that they're suffering from crippling unemployment from this he's types like most people in greece have had their wages cut some by up to about thirty percent to very difficult times for them indeed and people here say you know what you have people as part of the problem the not is part of the solution then the simply not going to be able to reach an answer so wealthy e.u. leaders are discussing the financial rescue plan and fiscal policies really they're going to be want to be considering how they get the people in these countries back onside and how to regain growth in these countries such a difficult time all right our part of the story for us from inside. financial analyst patrick young says the situation in greece is so dire that more belt tightening won't help should it's dirty. i think we're actually coming close

to the end because ultimately we 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 do cindy crawford by the end of next year i mean it's simply impossible you can't do that greek real ways 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 no matter of belt tightening it's going to change it not what's going to happen news we're going to have to take what we call in terms of haircut on the debt and ultimately it's not going to be talking about a hair a lot of people are going to be left somewhat balls. tell us what you think of the

greece or the way greece is the way he says way out it could be by clicking on r.t. dot com and cast your vote at our home page so far almost half advise athens to follow the u.s. footsteps and invade an oil rich region over a third say it's up to greeks to work harder and spend less ten percent think greece needs to go cap in hand to the e.u. when plead for help and while a few others backed the idea of the countries selling or mortgaging part of its territory to escape economic collapse tell us how you solve greece's problems at r g dot com. anti wall street activists are turning some of their anger against the n.y.p.d. over what they see as excessive use of force hundreds of people arrested during the five week log protest with police using pepper spray at rallies despite this the root cause of the campaign still winning over hard pressed americans are attorneys who see caffein are 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 frustrations that the demonstrators have expressed namely what they see as the ruction in wall street in a washington undue influence by wall street over politicians and the political system in washington d.c. the nation's capital and we have super rich increasing some ireland 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 and chicago about one hundred seventy five protesters were arrested in arizona and 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 b.t.o. with some of the violent acts are being investigated now why the movement does not seem to show any signs of giving up steam in fact there's a new global dail action that's being planned for up to over twenty ninth 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 a bay have earned some three hundred thousand dollars from donations both money that's dropped and bought 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 the. parties we see current. reporting she's been reporting from the figure of protests in new york since they started last month and updating her twitter feed as events unfold so you

can follow along the lines of the other arrest engulfing syria is descending into an all out conflict with 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 continue those are the steps are so yeah as more and asks. this is the author of the traitor reads one of the messages on the wrong he's rail of the us were able to buy you with a thousand dollars says another. this is where several opposition leaders work like i've been as these i was hired and had been a vocal critic and had spent fourteen years in jail there that time he recalls like many opposition members he thinks there's really very little room for me conciliation under the current environment. because troops. there. is and the regime playing no hold.

listening to people. insist this will protesters were forced to respond to attacks by security forces the knowledge is that now it's simply not black and white sponsibility for the violence goes both ways. so this killing civilians some civilians killing. soldiers they are son was one of the first soldiers killed since protests began in the country it was killed in daraa on march twenty three. all foreign media acknowledged that too many of the army and national guards have lost their lives so how can some people save its own group states exist. these civilians are normally members like my son how could all new members kill other members this is impossible the needed it says this is plainly lying. and variant lies the problem the moment. there is confusion about what's really going on in relation to staking by each side and used

to defend their position so if you're hearing the arguments for one second you'll likely believe that amid this atmosphere of confusion and misinformation the push for reforms continues what's an enduring vary from this is another question whenever a new legislation is made we see an escalation of the security situation in syria and they can buy guns but we cannot absolutely blame on the government as i mean some circles are trying to propagate voices from both sides are calling for dialogue to sit down at the serious themselves agree that if this crisis is to be resolved that foundation of trust to be first laid down with each direct order syria will school rise in an already widening political gap. yes or so yes r.t. i'm asking us. or maybe talk calls for talks in syria but across in libya words are much tougher especially from wash. ten wanted dead or alive and apparently the

sooner the better hillary clinton says the u.s. is keen to see khadafi captured or killed more on that coming up plus. in our business lives in russia and the c.i.s. not taking it to a new level of economic integration all but three countries of this commonwealth have agreed to create a free trade zone one added around twelve minutes. but first nato forces have given the serbs another twenty four hours to work out a compromise over road barricades in northern kosovo if not they will act they were built in protest at kosovo police and customs officials being placed at two border crossings with serbia but the situation is at a standstill to previous nato deadlines to dismantle passing with no action from either side or cheese maria for a notion it has before. the deadline set by the nato led peacekeepers in kosovo known as the four has already been postponed twice although in the months from certain communities leaders here in kosovo because of an serbs the ethnic minority

in the mostly abandon populated course they have been protesting against the custom and police officers working in the northern part of kosovo many are very skeptical there about a possible way out of this conflict describing it as as a bad law and saying. either turn into another frozen territory of conflict only to more violence just days ago when some of the barricades and we're taking away all possible people were injured and even killed several days ago a french officer from k. four committed suicide have the checkpoint we haven't heard any official statement about but this is clear that this iteration this impasse both serves in the balance as well as international going as ations functioning in kosovo found themselves is playing its negative and possibly even legal row ahead of today's meeting between

all the parties been involved in this conflict we have been able to speak to the serbian minister for quite a bit here and he told us that everybody is looking for compromise right now but at the same time no one is ready to be healed. because. you know. no one can say for sure at this moment where the end of this is going to be taken today with expectations and hopes are really high when the world is at your fingertips at archie dot com where you can find the stories you might not find elsewhere including us love for ukraine's president being locked out for locking up the e.u. cancels his visit to cross. after the controversial jailing of the country's former prime minister once. star wars security a plan for russia n.a.o. to jointly develop

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for your media project c.e.o. don carty dot com. dozens of palestinians freed by israel in exchange for captive soldier to lodge shall leave had been flown into exile qatar and turkey among the countries receiving them as part of the deal with the israeli government which saw hundreds swap for shall eat after five years held captive by hamas or will be released next month gaza political analyst though tells r.t. that there is too much focus by the global law community on one man rather than israel's thousands of palestinian prisoners the international community as well as these were enemy of the i was very busy over the past five years agreeing to be issued. these way 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 the attention of the once the unity and many international conferences many press conferences have been held over the past years to bring this issue to the attention of the world community but unfortunately i think israeli media photos of israel only over the road would 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 held for decades inside this way to jails and prisons you can find that story online interactive authorities facebook page and there you can watch our middle east correspondent report explaining why the palestinian israeli swap deal has left some jewish families dissatisfied. america's

top diplomat hillary clinton says washington hopes to see ousted libyan leader colonel gadhafi captured or killed soon the statement comes during an unannounced visit to tripoli with a mission to offer aid and support to the country's new leaders professor paul sheldon footage from the california state university who's worked in a number of arab countries says clinton's added to it is to be expected. as you know already america and many others were gingers 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 in italy a financial times those are not the interests of the libyan people 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 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 glitterati run as a candidate for president she threatened to kill every man woman and child tourney

run into a waste basket there and i wish her a. the u.s. ever frosty relations with iran is what crosstalk has to grips with at seven thirty g.m.t. officials rallied to prove that tehran was plotting to kill the saudi ambassador to the u.s. but not everyone is convinced here's what's coming up. this person who seems to be mad goes to mexico he said he says to a drug runner that i have a cousin who is a high general in the running an armed forces and then they wired one hundred thousand dollars i mean even if the people who made up this story had read a couple of spy novels they know that they don't wire money for it especially from iran and to mexican drug dealers and they would do it in 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 the phone senior iranian commander on

international lying to the united states good to the point about reading spy novels i think that goes both ways i think a claim by mr marandi 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. for another some other stories making headlines across the globe starting in somalia at least four people dead after a suicide car bombing at the foreign ministry of the capital mogadishu several others injured this comes as somalia and kenya and leaders met on joint action against the islamised insurgency that's been largely pushed out of the capital but vowing further attacks earlier this month a suicide blast killed more than one hundred people mostly students. a week of heavy rain across central america has left at least ninety one people dead

prompting several countries to ask for international aid severe weather caused bridges to collapse flooded hundreds of homes. forced thousands into shelters el salvador and nicaragua all declared national disasters that their looting is expected to continue for at least another week. seventeen days alone scrambling for food and water a real life robinson caruso rescued from a remote island near russia's north although he was eventually found his discovery was only by chance. has a story. the moment sort of gave ganesh of knows he saved these rescuers are the first people who'd 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. i was here to collect seaweed the weather was bad and my boat capsized and crashed i swam to the island but there was no one back my cell phone was wet and didn't work there was no food. i survived by drinking

rain water leaking kelp i was very scared. i made a shelter to hide from the rain but soon despair. for the first ten days i was looking out for boats and planes but over the last three days i had no hope. talk to say said kaye has suffered physical and psychological trauma. he's suffering from hypothermia and nourishment he was taken logically damaged to meet a trance he was on the verge of suicide. that began to break in hospital for the next fortnight perhaps the most surprising aspect of the story isn't gay was able to survive under star any island although five did rescues manage 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. well the latest with the world of business coming up next with dmitri stay with us. thanks very much matter alone a warm welcome to business r.t. russia and most of its serious partners have agreed to create a free trade zone simplified terms were achieved that the meeting of the commonwealth prime ministers on tuesday but you reduces all fees on a number of goods between the countries and some expect the rules to come into fools next year but azerbaijan is make a stand and turkmenistan were the only members of the eleven strong union to stay out of the new trade zone but still have the opportunity to join us before the year's end if they choose to trade relaxation is hoped to give a major boost to developing economic ties within the c.i.s. . to move to the markets quickly now while is slightly better there

was when we last look that said pretty flat looking for direction light sweet is up eight cents this hour in electronic trading in asia brant is one hundred eleven dollars twenty two cents per barrel some of the stocks now european stocks are positive that's after an unconfirmed report in the guardian newspaper that europe's key bailout plan would be significantly expanded but moody's has downgraded the spanish credit rating with a negative forecast this is limiting gains we have on the end of the axe. in asia stocks are also high after that report banks are coming up sharply drops on choose day with h.s.b.c. of more than two percent bank of china by the pretty much the same out in japan mitsubishi financial group and it should say bankers some of the strongest performers are up more than two percent. russian markets initially opened positive but they're losing their steam the r.t.s. is up point four percent of my success come down two point seven percent in the red

sea so what's moving the mice legs energy mages are look. for direction also lukoil has been pretty much in the red zone all session long as killing grads and the monopoly watchdog looks into price fixing at the potential price fixing i should say at the company's local retail outlets suburban ank is among the biggest gains of three percent this sell federal grid company f s k u s is that just are not china itself or the company posted almost two fold increase in first net effect. only this week investors were selling off after poor u.s. and chinese states seen jacobsen from saxo bank believes the volatility will stay in for some time the market right now is betting they 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 are standing buying time

and pretending you have a credible solution so i think it's even irrelevance is obvious then what happens because ultimately we need to go through what i call crisis to point all we do swear we have the rationality back in the market right now we have paved the leverage we based on the idea that you every time you have a problem you froze liquidity so what i'm saying is that there are sixty percent chance of a ten percent rise in the market and a forty percent chance of a twenty five percent. jump in a market which means risk weighted i think it's a great risk that we see lower markets and it's on the computer for the nation's capital believes it's better for investors to stay on the sidelines for a while. after the caring terai when the market went up fifteen slash thirty three percent from the bottom i would be just staying in cash because all the beat and meanness like i still make it was like financials like fertilizer. they were taught quite

a lot of the possibility of war for correction the downside is pretty much substantial. i wouldn't say that there are some defensive sectors seen in these markets right now especially on these levels that's why it's better to be on the safe side check investment or p.b.s. is looking to increase its exposure in russia by strengthening its retail operations the group has stake said silver and gold miner polymaths oh and in russia's largest consumer electronics retailer eldorado now they're focusing on developing clothes toys and sports equipment. our current i said slow process a little shot this is something great seven a day as lawyers but i shall see something good in sixty seven percent overall but since we are speaking about. what is the reasonable for us is something that has really creation something like one billion rising to make

surprise or it must be something i don't see quoth i live i suppose like i don't want to go out oh it could be increasing cough number of strokes significant they are doing well they are going to spend something like one of the greatest doors come out out of their already beat somebody sure like residuals. global grew s.a.b. miller has agreed to transfer the spear operations in russia and ukraine to fs of. the value of s. a beagle is enterprise in the two countries estimated to be worth one point nine billion dollars in return london based company gets a quarter of the turkish would be a maker as even miller and fs will jointly become the second largest brewer in russia with the synergy savings of about twenty million dollars. business r.t. will be back in fifty five minutes time with an update i'll see that.

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