russian events are the nine spying allegations in a british court but at mit she had an affair with a married and. live from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now it's six pm here in the russian capital five pm in athens where arguably the biggest protest in years has descended into violence greeks are venting their anger against a new package of austerity measures likely to be adopted as soon as thursday artie's sour first is there and now reports. police we've seen the violent clashes breaking out again between the riot place and the protests that are to show you what's happening at the front of the parliament building still you've got protesters

mollett of coke tells into was the riot place we've seen take has already be yes' a lot of flash bangs going off that's the loud noises that are thrown into the crowd to stun the people there that as he said the biggest protest to greece is seeing since this financial crisis started it's estimated in the hundreds of thousands and so really the situation very tense in a lot of concern about this escalating now because the people here are extremely angry about what's been going on the president's going on in parliament to try and history even more austerity measures we got the year is a needed meeting for a nice summit at the weekend to try and decide just what to do with this debt crisis that is crippling greece and we're on the streets earlier talking to the people here and there was a big turnout from the u.s. maidment so again that's very worrying there were a lot of young people to say i'll show you again what's happening outside the front you still got there is going up to gas being nice to get on the crowd here as are

saying to be concerning to there was a strong the turnout today rather the same the fighting not just the feature of the country but for the future to start asserting you can see the masses is a try and push but there's really nowhere for them to go the streets are absolutely packed with people not just on syntagma but all the main streets leading off that is well sir it is there's nowhere really for people to run from if this situation escalates any more you can see the riot police to suring up the numbers as well they've got hundreds outside the front of the parliament building really very concerning indeed no wondering exactly where this is going to end as we said the biggest protest to greece the same for a long while and a lot of anger on the streets of athens said today. well to get up to the minute developments directly from greece you can follow sarah's twitter page as she follows the protests that are sweeping athens well for more analysis on the agonizing greek economy as well as the state of europe as

a whole we're now joined live by well the chief economist at the institute for studies and economic analysis in italy he joins joins us live from rome now greece is been in a vicious cycle of ballot austerity and protests for months now how far can this spiral especially if new cards are in fact improved on thursday let me first of all a recall that once upon a time i mean towards three years ago when you were seated sense were happy we do you roll now with the situation looks like. very different. it seems like a trial separation. we have. taxpayers versus bankers bankers. say in this world for. the i mean to problems that

is. normal that. try to respond. and bring try to his bones will be used a cold. but i think the greek people would say that their government is not responding in fact to their requests. yes but their primary is that these are continental wide issue so you try to tell. the problem is that there are a lot of the in d.v.d. or least you could behavior at the moment about the real. first best solution would be continental wide the corporative solution which at the moment seems like mission impossible just because of these fairly enough in d.v.d.

release that could behavior by bankers taxpayers and even. people in the streets i mean everybody these all. have responsibility and everybody everyone's going to protect their own interests but what impact would it have in greek greece in fact did default on the e.u. economy as a whole. clearly if. greece. we go out from the eurozone and the program we increase in my opinion even more even farther if you look at the c.d.'s or the store market rule morsi and the. other psychological effect. the degrees inside or outside the eurozone move. c.d.'s and

the volatility of this stock market saw you may june that. if the greece. hold the euro up won't be able to help greece to solve their problems and possibly there would be much more damage then not then save the greeks but there's certainly a lot of people that would argue with you and say that it's much easier to have greek to greece default and and get out of the euro zone in that would save other european economies. and i'm saying there's certainly a lot of critics that say that greece should go ahead and default get out of the euro zone and let other european economies get back to being healthy. yes and that's clear that there is cause some benefit analysis between.

the greek default instead of say but. nobody knows. in my opinion the problem is that because. we seem to have have lost your sound they're very sorry about that joining us live from rome their chief economist at the institute for studies and economic analysis . well with europe's best economic and political minds founding to get the greek economy back on track we ask what you think the way out might be so make your votes on our team dot com home page this is the way things are looking so far today almost half of you advise athens to follow america's footsteps occupy an oil rich region just over a third say it's up to the greeks to work harder and spend the last nine percent

believe greece needs to go cap in hand to the e.u. and plead for more help wall of smoke you back the idea of the country selling or mortgaging part of its territory to escape economic collapse have your say log on to our tea dot com and vote. well later in the program we continue our coverage from the u.s. which has been overwhelmed by anti wall street protest. aggressive police tactics against peaceful demonstrators drives even more discontented protesters onto the streets of america that's coming up. well fighting across syria is claiming lives on both sides amid growing global concerns the country is edging closer to a full blown civil war over a dozen troops have been killed recently by alleged army defectors following the u.n. warning of more opposition activists taking up arms because artie's tests are sillier

reports many are still quick to only demonize the assad regime. this is the office of the trader reads 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 . 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 because the lesion under the current environment. because troops must meet with their backs clear voice 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. this killing

civilians that we have some civilians killing. soldiers yes son was one of the first soldiers killed since protests began in the country he was killed in 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 on groups didn't exist . the civilians and army members like my son how could all mean members killed other members this is impossible the media that says it is plain lying. and variant lies the problem the moment. there is confusion about what's really going on in the organization is taken by each side and used to defend their position so if you hear only arguments from one side you'll likely believe that 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. but we cannot. put the blame on the government as. trying to propagate the voices for both sides are calling for 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 first laid down but with each threat or death syria respond the rising already widening political gap does or so you are damascus. a new wave of protests romps in new york and the wall street activists accuse the city's police excessive use of force hundreds of people have been arrested during the five week long protest across the country as police were condemned mostly for using pepper spray and confident now reports the movement has found sympathy with

many americans. 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 corruption in wall street and washington undue influence by wall street over politicians and the political system in washington d.c. the nation's capital now we have sued unfortunately an increasing some violent and heavy handed response by the police department here in the new york city area we've seen of course the 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 while 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 about twelve or 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 that they 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. well that was

lucy confident of their new york you can get more analysis the latest pictures and comments from the u.s. protests on all of our social network accounts. a russian woman accused of spying in the u.k. has begun her fight in court against deportation to vets or admits having an affair with a politician she used to work for but denies accusations of being a russian intelligence honeytrap for the n.p. artie's ivor bennett is following the case. the main point it was focused on in the trial so far has been to live yet as relationship with mike member of parliament she was working for as a researcher up until two thousand and ten choi before her arrest and you know it's always rumored after her arrest that she was conducting an inappropriate relationship with him because he's married and has emerged as fact yesterday that she was conducting an affair with him for four years from two thousand and six when they met to two thousand and ten shortly before her arrest now it also most

yesterday in the trial that she was actually writing about this in her diary heard an excerpt from that about the first night they met which is when she was working as a chaperone for foreign diplomats in moscow he approached her for sex that first night offering her a cd and money even to try and persuade her she said no but their relationship did blossom soon after that when she moved to england to study for a masters it was suggested yesterday by the representative for the government the home office which is trying to deport her suggesting that she was working as a spy that she was tasked by the russian intelligence services to work as a honeytrap targeting mike can call the m.p. because of his position it also emerged that. she was can she had previously conducted other relationships with other senior government officials in diplomats one with a thirty year old dutch diplomat when she was eighteen and also later an affair

with nato representatives as well she denies the claims that she was working as a spy and she admits to the affairs that she says she's innocent that's why she's trying to fight deportation case is expected to conclude in six days time. america's to differ watt hillary clinton says washington hopes to see ousted libyan leader colonel gadhafi captured or killed soon the statement came during her unannounced visit to tripoli with a mission to offer aid and support to the country's new rulers while professor paul seldon foote from california state university has worked in a number of arab countries says 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 and a soccer team in italy at 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 and 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 wastebasket or an ashtray. well america's ever frosty relations with iran is what crosstalk is about next hour as officials rally to prove terror ron was plotting to kill the saudi ambassador to the u.s. not everyone is convinced here's some of the debate ahead for you. 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 poses an iranian general and he tells him on the phone to carry out the operation i mean come on the phone a senior iranian commander 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 say you know the rest of the world. i think serbs in northern kosovo say under no conditions will they dismantle their barricades at the border with serbia until albanian constant with their souls and police are gone from the checkpoints that's as nato extends the deadline for their

earlier ultimatum insisting protesters clear the road blocks or face action from the alliance. is in the region for us following the story and now joins us live on the line it's the latest deadline for the protesters tell us how things are developing on the border where you are. well the barricades will only be listed on the roads in the northern coast so it will only be reopened when open and custom and police officers currently working at the checkpoints at the border with syria leave the area as. the name activists got from council leaders following their meeting today in the town of president as a consequence we have right now as you know refused calls to his two thousand and eight for quite independence still regarding its part of through been through most three months already have been blocking the main route routes cultivate to prevent these regions acne many leadership from extending a control over the part of schools like dominated by. nature led peacekeeping force

and call for the otherwise known as before has been complaining repeatedly they contacted its troops in the north and demanded freedom of movement for soldiers transportation and why delivery terms have accused them of assistance christian setting up things to do in the northern coast of and lending them for exceeding their mandate the u.n. security council resolution twelve forty four which is actually the only legal basis of their presence here before has warned earlier it would take action if serbs don't do time served don't remove the barricades from the main road st. the northern coast for the last month they already tried actually g.'s force or at least blockade a new rubber bullets and tear gassing a protest and injuring at least seven civilians that was violence at the time that

they had of the nahant cost of the town's many challenges today have remained defiant responding to the case for the month it certainly does have retreated the ultimate authorities and the badlands are to blame for the entire everybody goes strategy. it's actually very hard to say very hard when everybody being involved. in this long running conflict it was the be full of these they chosen by. coincidence serves as the day when they are ready to make a decision about the situation will move actually be able. to change things right now the heads of the northern coast of a municipality meichi to escape for a cheesesteak they've made it clear they'll trade to surrender and the peacekeepers have repeatedly been saying earlier they will only accept complete freedom of movement it's clear resolution will not be easy and actually right now is a vote for a change for

a peaceful one and he steps for it are reporting there from the kosovo serbian border where the standoff continues that wraps up our main news block here in our city this hour a live business update is heading your way with your to stay with us. thanks honey so time to delve into the world of business and russia and most of it saw us partners have agreed to create a free trade zone the simplified terms were achieved at a meeting of commonwealth prime ministers on tuesday the move could significantly increase trade between the countries it's already risen fifty percent in the first tough of the year to more than one hundred thirty billion dollars more in acosta has the details. this comes after two decades of debate and even though it's not a done deal it's definitely headed there and possibly some store in the process most of the c.i.s. countries have signed on and those include armenia valorous kazakhstan kyrgyzstan

moldova rochelle forces ballast of tickets than any crane the country's still thinking about it and could i say why john respect the son answered the man assad and they're expected to make a decision the by the end of the year now and most certainly union with the former states has been bottom or putin's priority since announcing this kind of the see in the upcoming presidential elections the prime minister says that will cancel export and import duties on certain groups of goods but at this time as a raise concerns especially with the government considering creating a new regime you are some say is intended to compete with the european union and the fact that the e.u. started with free trade now has some isomers on alert internally it's seen as a precursor to russia's and tree into the w t o it's especially as some of the participants are already members and the word here is it's not about competing over placing anything it's all about providing

a better conditions for establishing new joints and surprises and increasing the competitiveness of the economies involved. let's have a look at the markets now oil is trading near its highest price in more than a month. after goldman sachs predicted upside potential i mean signs u.s. crude stockpiles are increasingly less rapidly than previously forecast blunter is trading at one hundred ten dollars per barrel while the w t i e's at eighty eight dollars per barrel. and european stocks are higher conflict to newspaper reports germany and france have agreed to further boost the euro area bailout fund banking shares are leading begins on the foot sea and in other news from the region moody's has downgraded spain's credit rating with a negative forecast. and the russian markets are moving between gains and losses as oil prices fell while your current lost one and a half percent and investors here are also betting euro bulls sold with steps

prices after the guardian newspaper report on the rescue fund boost let's take a look at some of the individual show moves on the mice it's energy shares a mixed with one of the health percent pascaline rights anti monopoly watchdog enterprise fixing up the company's local retail outlet outlets financial stocks are leading the index higher as burbank is among the millions in this with shares up just under two percent while the company sells the priorities they should of its seven point six percent stake is unlikely to happen this year due to market and certainty and telecom shares are fooling with losing almost two percent a sour. that's all we have time for not europe today to join me for another business update in less than one us time here on r t. six six six. six.

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