deny spying allegations in a british court but admit she had an affair with a married and he. brushed her and most of it so i ask partners to greet your greatest free trade zone more in business in twenty minutes. at seven pm here in moscow this is r t coming to you live i'm nice now with our top story this evening in athens arguably the biggest protest in years to send it into violence greeks have been venting their anger against a new package of austerity measures likely to be adopted as soon as thursday or two sarah firth is following developments in the greek capital and now joins us live sorry we've seen some very dramatic pictures from athens throughout the day is the dust settling now. well the riot police have managed to clear much of the area here

on syntagma we can still hear the occasional bangs going off in the distance can see there's not so many people around now they need them very quickly when we started to see some of the buildings in the area going up and of course very very concerning steve got people in a lot of these buildings they divide police moving in and managing to clear a lot of the air and there's a big police presence here on the street but it was some of the worst scenes we've seen since this financial crisis began extruding me concerning and show you really of just how angry this public eye was the government were inside the parliament building discussing just how to do with this crisis people pushing against the lines of riot police out the front chanting saying that they won't accept any more of these measures that they feel they've had imposed on the now we've got a big week for greece they've got the summit coming up at the end of the week in brussels where either leaders are going to be discussing whether there is this.

lieschen to this crisis but a lot of frustration here is well because i really can't describe sieges what it was like to witness once again these things break out on syntagma we were just two watching in horror really as the place just went up in smoke and protesters being chased by the riot police and throwing molotov cocktails at them it was very very chaotic indeed as we said a real sign of just how much these are starting measures have angered the people here and they seem to even witness to really just the peak of it behind that is views of a stereotype that the people have suffered under speak say they've had their wages cut by up to thirty percent in some cases a lot of job losses and then we have these continued tax hikes and people have really said that is simply untenable and through all of this really the focus has been on just how to find a solution because there is only just keep coming up with these rescue plans we keep seeing these votes in the statements made the prime minister here just pop

enjoy making or just the other day calling the solidarity in his country and people simply have no time for those hollow words at the moment because you can see quite clearly from the scenes that erupted today there is no unity here in the country the people are calling for something completely different and very unique here in greece they lead to the socialist government the pasok ruling party it was a socialist government that they thought were going to lead the way for them and we've heard the people we spoke to today saying they feel that these guys are simply now dull thing to the choice because change they don't have any time any more of these measures being passed they don't think it's going to have any as they say real concern really moving forward about exactly what happens in calls from a lot of the analysts he's spoken to to look for a more social solution to this year it in crisis because you don't make no mistake about it when you see him here today in greece is going to impact a lot more countries it's not just greece that is under threat here and it's not just queen. this is

a risk that's been another of the big concerns of the us a need is that contagion fear this is now getting to spread if we suppose if we say it's the usa next in line for the speculators will be countries like portugal like italy and spain that we could achieve big to fail but we can see that that is the way is happening somewhat something needs to give a cake today people have reached the breaking point is being described as a make or break week for grace well here at the moment on the streets of athens people are wondering where they have a lot going to pick up the pieces are in order to start first reporting live from athens thanks for that. you can get up to the minute developments direct from greece on sars twitter pages she follows the protests sweeping him now with europe's economic best minds and political as well fouling to get the greek economy back on track we asked what you think the way out my feet can submit your votes on the r g dot com home page here what here's one thing the results are looking like

so far almost half of you advised to follow america's footsteps in our oil rich region just over a third say it's up to the greeks to work harder and spend less nine percent believe greece needs to go cap in hand to the u.n. plead for more help while a small number back the idea of the countries selling or mortgaging part of its territory to escape economic collapse have your say drop us a line and vote at our dot com. well later in the program we continue our coverage from the u.s. which has been overwhelmed by wall street protests. aggressive police tactics against peaceful demonstrators drives even more discontented protesters onto the streets of america that's coming up for you. but first ethnic serbs in northern kosovo say under no condition will they

dismantle their barricades at the border with serbia until albanian customs officials and police are gone from the checkpoints that says nato extends the deadline for their earlier all tomato insisting protesters clear the road blocks or face action from the alliance. is in the region for us now joins us live on the line maria it's the latest deadline for the protesters to move what's happening now at the border. well let me think been a hard wednesday for all parties been involved in it's a lot of running conflict they were hopes and expectations actually before today's meeting all because conserves they did and then they meet he was caged for nature let peace keeping force here in ca so i could finally preen along the way to solutions but unfortunately no way out has been found first thing has of the not been called to the municipalities came to the times and sat at the very capable only believed it and the road in the northern ca so they will only be reopened when

that in customs and police officers can be working as a checkpoint at the border with syria in the north to leave the area served serbs and as you know refuse posters two thousand and eight now for claiming attendance. here regarding cultural it's part of service are clear that they don't recognize the border the border to them between syria and the cost of the proper border and they will never accept customs here for all that's why for almost three months already they've been blocking the main route fraught calls today to prevent these regions as didn't help any leadership from extending its control over these part of course dominated by troops by the way and for the case for instance month to reopen supply routes for troops in the north they said they are ready to allow the peacekeepers to go through saying that they just need permission from the mayor is all that for north. northern coast of the town the key for us to provide

with freedom of movement a legs as well the european police functioning in the region from the serbs rejected during the meeting with k. four after that as. leaders. told us before we left the meeting and this is how the talks actually talk without any solution without any resolution so we've asked the. also windsurf it is just so what we can expect next and whether we can see any audience any time soon because we know that . it would take action if it turns removed a very case from the main vote. anytime soon and last month people already tried to use force to make blockade be used rubber bullets and tear gas against protesters angel at least seven civilians so we know how case for came.

about whether we can see any ballance anytime soon. told us that they cannot predict anything and i think that actually the reason high chance we can see ballance at the border and at the barricades. and with the next hour is any time right artie's mansa notion of reporting from the kosovo serbian border thank you very much for that update and maria of course is online for us at our t's twitter page posting the latest developments from kosovo as they happen in confined her tweets that are to underscore calm to me through russia's i'm going to nato explains why the local kosovan serbs are refusing to dismantle their barricades. when need to suddenly start dismantling barricades between the consequence when nato vehicles. policeman cruising the streets with the

aim of simmering the last remaining communication channels between. then it becomes clear that nature was exceeding its mandate no one is going to like dogs. well you can also log on to our web site for background analysis and comments on the situation in kosovo there's also plenty of other stories for you at our teeth dot com including space right globe lost its rival to america's g.p.s. into pole position as it plans to pump the project with billions of dollars. and we offer you an animated angle on the world's headlines discover our current cartoon on line humor hobb all that and much more for you at our t.v. dot com.

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 that's following the u.n. warning of more opposition activists taking up arms tests are sillier reports many are still quick to only demonize the assad regime. this is the office of the traitor it's one of the messages on the wall these rail and the u.s. were able to buy you with a thousand dollars says another. this is where several opposition leaders work. 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 under the current environment. because troops 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. killing civilians but we have some civilians killing. soldiers lay our 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 save its own groups didn't exist. these civilians are normally members like my son how could only members kill other members this is impossible the media that says it's plain lying. and variant

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 given by the guns but we come up absolutely put the blame on the government as i mean some circles. well voices from both sides are calling for dialogue to sit down and talk but the syrians themselves agree that if this crisis is to be resolved the foundation of trust should be first laid down but with each threat or death syria respond to rising over the widening political gap. damascus.

well a new wave of protests erupt in new york is anti wall street activists accuse the city's and y p d of using excessive force hundreds of people have been arrested during the five week nationwide protest as police were condemned for mostly using pepper spray let's not get the latest marty's loose accomplice who joins us live from the occupy wall street as it's called and known around the world lucy how are things unfolding in new york on the streets well on the streets right now it's extremely wet said jim we're just trying to sort of say dry and i apologize that the connection will give out but yes as you mentioned a lot of excessive tactics by the n.y.p.d. the police department here resulting in i think a total of nine hundred ninety two arrests now since the occupy wall street demonstrations had begun most of the people here are demonstrating peacefully there are they call this. nonviolent civil disobedience tactics for example simply we had any on the street trying to call attention to the cause and still they've been met

with a very heavy handed response by the police department here which is riles many activists as well as regular older citizens here in new york a recent poll that came out actually found that seven in ten new yorkers support of the cause of this movement they stand with the occupy wall street demonstrators not a very good development if you're the mayor of new york city and continued to deploy police officers on horseback on scooters that seem to sort of that's delayed and get out of hand whenever any sort of protest develops now yesterday evening we had a sort of mini march by some of the protesters to protest against what they perceive as police brutality here in new york several other protesters had also gathered around one of the restaurants here where the governor of new york was meeting with clients and situated himself several protesters ended up getting arrested simply for being in the street there and refusing to leave as you can see behind me the

house hopefully you can see behind me. the weather is not really operating with us today but a lot of but the spirits were made by a lot of folks are here under tarps sort of where we're huddled over right now at the moment trying to ride out the negative weather but we do expect things to improve in terms of the weather throughout the week and the numbers to return right now i would say there's probably a couple hundred protesters in the park a little bit less than the thousand or so that we've been seeing throughout the week but again the weather does seem to have some small impact on this movement but the movement does continue to grow across the country and across the globe. you are trooper lucy lucy has been at occupy wall street since the very beginning hang in there stay dry thank you profit off live from downtown new york where you can get more analysis of the latest pictures and comments from lucy and the rest of the team on those u.s. protests on all of our social network accounts. now during her

announced visit to libya u.s. chief diplomat hillary clinton stated that washington hopes to see ousted leader colonel gadhafi captured or killed to discuss the situation in libya and the country's international relations we're now joined by an emotional and a former m i five intelligence officer. thank you for being with us what do you think about hillary clinton's very frank admission there concerning the fugitive colonel. well i mean you know they seek him here they seek him there i mean colonel gadhafi has been a very wily foe of the west for many decades and i don't he's going to give up without a fight it's been interesting watching the whole libyan war unfold over the last few months because they've really been quite and shamed in their statements about actually yes they would quite like regime change which of course is highly illegal but also interesting to see that they're saying this openly now whereas of course in the one nine hundred ninety s. they were trying to assassinate him covertly through proxy organizations in libya

we now know that some nato countries have certain advisers to the region what role are they playing there as you see it. well i'm sure they're probably going there with the best of intentions to ensure that humanitarian aid and human rights are upheld but i have to say that the way that the whole mess in libya has unfolded i mean let's not forget that the u.n. sanctions change of heart was put in place now it appears on very dubious moral grounds unsubstantiated rumors of genocide and may garvey so they're probably going there to try and help but to be quite frank what's been going on in places like certainly has just been breathtaking hypocrisy the west goes in nato goes in to bomb gadhafi regime out of existence because they're threatening it's really the benghazi and now we're looking at a whole range of human rights abuses not to mention about eighty thousand civilians inserted formed by the nato and t.n.c. forces and nobody seems to be really stepping up to the mark to try and protect them plus of course we are hearing a lot of rumors of loyalists soldiers loyalist forces or even just people who are

suspected of working for those forces of being arbitrarily snatched detained and even tortures which of course goes against all the standard rules of warfare so libya is really descending into one awful mess but still there's some resistance remaining from gadhafi loyalists i mean the conflict is an officially over yet what do you make of the timing of clinton's visit. i think it's probably a trying to send out a message of reassurance to the international community and to reinforce the myth that we've been talking about nato humanitarian intervention gadhafi was an odious dictator there is no doubt about it and he was a thorn in the side of western countries for three decades. but for the majority of libyans living in that country who weren't perhaps particularly politically active they lived their quality of life was perfectly fine and you know they had free education free health they could study abroad when they got married they were given

a certain amount of money so they were actually rather the envy of many other citizens in african countries now of course since the nato humanitarian intervention the infrastructure of their country has been bombed back to the stone age effectively they will not have the same quality of life women probably will not have the same sort of degree of emancipation and any new transitional government and the national wealth is probably going to be siphoned off by western corporations so yes gadhafi was odious he cracked down on distance he did use torture but i have to say now i mean the west is becoming rapidly morally equivalent to that where we see dissidents and activists in new york with the occupy movement we see distance and activists in across western europe being maced and arrested on trumped up charges where of course we've now seen plentiful evidence emerging that our western intelligence agencies have been involved in extraordinary rendition and torture so the moral equivalence is there and i think perhaps the standard of living in libya might have been slightly higher than it

perhaps is now in america in the u.k. with the recession so it's it's rank hypocrisy alright emerson forum i fired off an intelligence officer joining us live on the line from germany thank you very much for your analysis. a russian woman accused of spying in the u.k. has begun her fight in court against deportation. admits having an affair with the politician she used to work for but denies accusations of being a russian intelligence honeytrap for the m.p. party's ivor bennett is following the case in london. 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 short 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. 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 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 convinced 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. and that wraps up our main news block this hour here in our to stay with us for a live business update with you. that's right time to bring you the latest from the business desk a very well command russia and most of it c.i.s. partners hey great to create a free trade zone the simplified terms were cheated to meeting of commonwealth prime ministers on tuesday the move could significantly increase trade between the two countries it's already risen fifty percent in the first half of the year to more than one hundred thirty billion dollars are just muddying the course and one

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 took a stand and ukraine the country still thinking about it and could i say why john respect the sun and tremendous sun and they're expected to make a decision by the end of the year now a closer in union with the former states and 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 this has a raised concerns especially with the government considering creating a eurasian union which 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 entry 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. from small kyrgyzstan is good. to join the customs union of russia better routes and kazakhstan with it comes the opportunity to get funds from the eurasian economic community to support its struggling economy another of russia's neighbor to stan has also expressed interest in joining the customs union. time for a check on the markets oil is trading near its highest price in more than a month after goldman sachs predicted upside potential meet signs you has brought stockpiles are increasing less rapidly than previously forecast brand blunter is

trading at one hundred ten dollars with barrel while the w. is that eighty eight dollars per barrel. european stocks are higher meet conflicting newspaper reports germany and france have agreed to further boost the euro area bailout fund banking shares are leading the gains on the footsie and in other news from the region moody's has downgraded spain's credit rating with a negative forecast. and the russian markets were moving between gains and losses on wednesday as oil prices fell you're also heard lost one point five percent and investors here walls of better europe will solve this debt crisis after the guardian newspaper of course on a rescue fund boost let's take a look at some of individual share moves in the my is that energy shares were mixed could look well down one percent last kaliningrad it's down to monopoly watchdog looks into price fixing at the company's local retail rochlitz financial stocks were leading the index higher this burbank shares were rallying more than three

percent and the company says the privatization of a seven point six percent stake is unlikely to happen this year due to market uncertainty and telecom shares are falling with the world's telecom losing about one and a half percent. so for this hour stay tuned for the headlines next with a nice.

more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. sheinkopf oration to rule the day. culture is the same ocean looks different and there's a huge music history the person on the mark when one reads like a cheap hollywood movie script around is accused of being behind a plot to assassinate the saudi ambassador to the us. soon which brightened if you move soon from phones to pressure to these.

means for instance on t.v. don't come. there were two yards the line from moscow or it's seven thirty pm these are our top stories and now from is a mosque hundreds of thousands desperately in that greeks built onto the streets venting their anger over a new raft of top posterity a measure of clashes broke out between police and and protesters who say they are bound up with attempts to stop the country's financial freefall. strength stand still serves a northern kosovo they will only clear their roadblocks if albanian officials abandon border checkpoints despite nato's ultimatum urging them to leave or be forced out.