spying allegations in a british court but admits she did have an affair with a married m.p. . and in business russia and most of it see i asked partners in the group to create a free trade zone in twenty minutes. here in moscow will welcome to you watching our two international with me kevin go into night and our top story in athens arguably the biggest protest in years has descended into violence today greeks should be venting their anger against a new package of austerity measures likely to be adopted as soon as thursday first spring there was a riot police still moving to clear the remaining protesters that hair on syntagma square nowhere near the amount of people we saw earlier when hundreds of thousands turned out it's the biggest protests we sustained since the beginning of the

financial crisis and we saw more of these violent clashes that we've seen before but i really i can't quite describe to you i mean i'm sure you've seen the pitch is by now the scenes that we still have of devastation really as a violent clashes broke out you can still see is very dark at the moment that there are a lot of riot police still on the streets me do you have sort of more advocates movements that remain on the streets here they're still having these run ins with the riot police but certainly they've managed to calm the situation a lot but as we said scenes of devastation just devastation on the streets of athens the street has just been destroyed they had a lot of the buildings on fire earlier all the windy fronts have been smashed there was a very large meat east me from there and they were saying you know they're trying to live under these conditions that watching their parents struggle there have been heaved job losses in the country with these continued attacks like this incredibly hard thing to say this is the. country in the future that they're going to inherit

you know it's very concerning earlier when we saw the chaotic situation breaking up very very quickly these things always escalate quite fast just the sheer number of children that we've seen a stick being seventeen years old had been down there telling us think they felt that obligation to fight this battle as well and it really is a battle here that will battle scenes that we saw earlier today as the violence broke out and very disturbing indeed and koos really now the eurozone leaders to find a different approach the criticism right from the start has been the failure to adapt to the situation to the eurozone quite as we've heard analysts saying that they believe their own rhetoric they didn't think that a crisis would ever happen in the usa and it did and the institutions in the mechanisms to do it it has simply not been in place and say tonight we're still seeing a small outbreaks of the tensions bubbling over people so mystically had enough they they can't work under these conditions anymore and they want things to change

sort of first with me just a bit earlier now you get up to the minute developments wrote from greece on sarah's twitter pages she follows the protests sweeping outwards and with your expressed economic and political minds failing to get the greek economy back on track we're asking you what you think could be the way out of this big old mess tonight submit your votes on the r.t. dot com home page says we've been telling you so far thanks to both of you have almost half of you advise our friends to follow america's footsteps and occupy all rich region so you have somewhat tongue in cheek 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 do you plead for help while a small number about the idea of the country something or mortgaging part of its territory to escape economic collapse what you think is best way forward dot com is a place to have your say you know too but later in the program we'll be continuing our coverage from the united states as well which is of course overwhelmed by those anti wall street protests.

i guess peaceful demonstrators drive even more discontented protesters out onto the streets got more details about that more important for you also the story of a miraculous escape modern day robinson crusoe discovered only by chance there is the man who fought for his life in the wilderness for over two weeks. ethnic serbs in northern kosovo say on the no condition will they dismantle the barricades at the border with serbia until all bailing customs officials and police are gone from the checkpoints that says nato extends the deadline for the really old tomato insisting protesters clear the road blocks or face action from the alliance or if an option is in the region for us it's been a hard line. needs a lot of running conflict they will have an expectation is actually before the two days meeting all the calls from serbs leaders and then they meet he was caged for nature lead paint keeping fourteen calls that i could finally read along the way to solutions but unfortunately no way out has been found first thing has of the not

recall so they need to tell the truth i came to the times inside it is very capable only believe it and the road in the northern ca so they will only be reopened when that in customs and police officers walking out of the checkpoint at the border weeks european in the north to leave the area sure don't recognize the gold it is the border to them between caribbean and coast to the proper border and they will never accept customs to here for all that's why for almost three months already they've been blocking the main route fraught culturally to prevent these regions as think of any leadership from extending its control over the part of k. four asked to provide. a legs as well the european police functioning in the region from the serbs rejected during the meeting with the case for after that as. serbs leaders. told us before last

a meeting and this is how the talks actually talk without any solution without any resolution we know that the case for high school and earlier would take action if the terms don't remove a very tape from the main road it doesn't coincide any time soon and last month people were trying to use for sleep locate the used rubber bullets and tear gas against protesters injuring at least seven civilians. and. told us that they cannot predict i mean. i think that means it's actually. a high chance that we can see violence at the border and at the barricades from. well i think if you want to keep up today with the very latest on this story maria's online and artie's twitter page posting the latest developments as they happen in kosovo you can find there would r.t. underscore com to be sure it goes in russia's envoy to nato explains why the local kosovan serbs are refusing to dismantle those barricades. when need to suddenly

start dismantling barricades between a consequence sites where nato vehicles filled with cost of being in policeman start cruising the streets with a clear severing the last remaining communication channels between serbia and course of the serbs then it becomes clear that nato is exceeding its mandate no one is going to like it but it was. advised you can log on to our web site as well for more background ellison comments on the situation in kosovo and while you're there plenty of other stories as well including ways that might be interested in space prayers of russia send. rivaled america's g.p.s. system to pole position because blow the pump will catch its way up into space they're far more about their story tonight online from us and we're offering unanimated angle on world headlines discover our cutting cartoons and our online humor to get it r.t. dot com offensive but if we could.

be watching r.t. from moscow fighting across syria is claiming lives on both sides of the growing global concerns the countries edging closer to a full blown civil war over a dozen troops have been killed recently by alleged army defectors following a un or warning of more opposition activists taking up arms but as artie's test for a similar reports blame still being placed firmly on assad regime. this is the office of the trader reads one of the messages on the wall is real and the us 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 alleviation under the current environment. because

troops must be 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. and. this killing civilians that we have some civilians killing. soldiers they are 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 the members like my son how could only 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 in there in 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 cannot absolutely put the blame on the government as i mean some circles try. to propagate all voices from both sides are calling for dialogue to sit down and talk to 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 will spill the rising already widening political gap. does are still

you are to damascus. now show cross-talk gets to grips with america's frosty relations with iran right now nine hundred thirty g.m.t. tonight but officials attempts to prove to ram is plotting to kill the saudi ambassador to the u.s. doesn't seem to have everyone convinced. 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 a wire one hundred thousand dollars i mean even if the people who made up the story had read a couple of spying 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 so pose an iranian general and he tells them on the phone to carry out the operation i mean come on on the phone

a senior iranian commander on an international line to the united states with a good point about reading spy novels i think that goes both ways i think if the claim that 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. or for people to see the programs on air in full in just over two hours time. but the present british m.p. mike hancock who's been connected with a russian woman accused of spying in the u.k. has quit is role on the defense committee but announcement came as catches a to the voters deportation hearing began this week in a london court she's admitted having an affair with the politician a former employee but denies accusations of being a russian intelligence honeytrap for the m.p. artie's i have a balance to follow in the case i have a good evening so how has the case but i'm folding so far what's been said. well

you really couldn't script this one actually has been dubbed by the british tabloid press as the spy who loved him and it was really only a matter of time until mike hancock the m.p. catches the livia to was working for as a researcher in parliament was swallowed up by this after the details emerged of their affair that was going on for four years and we now know from two thousand and six when they met in moscow to two thousand and ten and during that time halfway through that period she started to work for him in the house of parliament now today we've heard from him called he's stepped down from his position on the defense committee and the reason why is because he feels his position is really untenable on that before he actually said that he didn't have any inappropriate relationship with. but now those details have emerged obviously is quite embarrassing so he stepped down from that committee at least until the trial is over now why the defense committee well that's where the questions are really being

asked he denies passing any classified information that wasn't already in the public domain to mr live yet and nevertheless that the government lawyers in this in this trial they accuse her of acting as a honeytrap. front for the russian intelligence services targeting mr hancock's specifically a because of his vulnerability they term it with extramarital affairs and b. because of his position on that defense committee and because of his access to what would have been very highly classified information now. yet as she denies acting in this way she says she was not a spy she was never in contact with any intelligence officials never has been and maintains her innocence that's why she's fighting her deportation and also says she's never given any access and also to those classified documents now also today her lawyers actually said that there was quote a genuine feeling between her and mr hancock and so that's the line. they're going

down and also there actually questioned a witness today who is an m i five agent now. identified identity remained anonymous and it was put to that witness by the live yet as lawyers that the only reason why the security services are interested in this case became interested in it was because of that anna chapman was actually chucked out of the u.s. on spy charges and when questioned what evidence is there for this case against the . well the agent merely said that because of secrecy laws they could neither confirm nor deny whether any evidence exists at all. on who is a former m i five agent herself suggests that there might be an all teary motive to this case i think any decision made on her deportation will be probably down to some sort of political backroom deal for thinking because of course there has been friction between russia and the u.k.

i suppose for whatever political reasons if they deem it to be something they could use to embarrass russia they might well deport her whatever the facts of the case but if they want to for trying to factor a professional all secure some sort of deal then they might well say no she can stay but i would've thought it's probably more likely given the recent meeting between cameron and medvedev. and the lack of willingness of our prime minister to open up communications between our spy agencies and the russian spy agencies again i think it's probably likely that the continuing coolness will continue and i'm not sure where it is ever been reporting earlier on from london now a new wave of protests or ups in new york wall street activists accuse the city's police of using excessive force hundreds of people have been arrested during the five week long nationwide protests as police were condemned for using pepper spray . and offspring following the demonstrations in new york. 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 iraqis now since the occupy wall street demonstrations have begun most of the people here are demonstrating peacefully they are they call this. nonviolent civil disobedience tactics for example simply standing 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 has 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 to continue to deploy police officers on horseback on scooters that seem to sort of escalate and get out of hand whenever any sort of protest develops now yesterday evening we had a sort of mini mart protest against what they perceive as police

brutality here in new york several 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 providing in the street there and refusing to leave as you can see behind me her house hopefully you can see behind me the weather is not really cooperated with us today. a lot of folks are here under tarps sort of where we're huddled around right now at the moment that trying to ride out the negative while there are we do expect thanks show proof 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 a thousand or so that we've been seeing throughout the week but again the weather does seem to have some small impact on its movements but the movement does continue to grow across the country and across the globe. and we're following very closely all to see come from no further you get more news nonis is the latest pictures and

comments from the u.s. protests and the first social network pages. remain as government is approved the placement of u.s. anti missile defense elements on its soil the country's now just one parliamentary agreement away from becoming the next link in america's missile shield chain in europe moscow has concerns the system may be directed against russia washington's offered written assurances to the country but not legally binding got into these senior lawmaker moscow told r.t. that the offer is welcome but it's not enough. the written declarations are to be

issued and or to be withdrawn in case something changes in the leadership of the united states so the legal binding documents like agreements conventions protocols is the only instrument which will satisfy the russian concerns the recent reaction of on this program was rather harsh and court because the system is definitely meant not just against iran or north korea it is meant to compensate the russian nuclear strategic potential so i thing that the american politicians the people who work with the president of the united states now seek an option they want to propose something to russia in order to satisfy the russian concerns but written declarations are a good step forward but this is not enough. constantine kasich off around the world

no brief british police have started the eviction of a community travellers on the side with a vote for more than a decade officers had to use riot gear and sledge hammers to overcome resistance from the residents and their supporters protesters chained themselves to the barricades and torched a mobile home as police moved in the travelers say the eviction is ethnic cleansing but the local authorities insist the site was established illegally. turkish forces have reportedly killed fifteen kurdish rebels on the iraqi border after the country launched a military campaign the operation comes just hours after the rebels killed at least twenty six to the soldiers in the deadliest attack for several years kurd militants of course continuous violence in the country for decades trying to forge their own government. mason story next no food no water no cell phone to call for help or fallen comfortable reality for one would be robinson crusoe the man spent seventeen days alone trying to scramble for his life on

a small russian island before he was rescued purely by chance. for his remarkable story of survival. the moments that a gay 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 to gaze disappearance but found him by complete accident his chances of survival had been slim jims 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. 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 you just. 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's suffering from hypothermia and nourishment he was psychologically damaged to hit me to try and he was on the verge of suicide. that began to shift recuperate in hospital for the next fortnight perhaps the most surprising aspect of the story isn't that so gay was able to survive under spiny island or the fact that rescuers managed to locate him considering the hundreds of similar islands in the area but the fact that for two weeks nobody not his friends or his family thought it necessary to report him missing. r.t. real close shave and that now coming up a lesson of america's most explosive academy on shortly that program but next it's the latest in the world of business units here. hello and a very warm welcome tria business update russia and most of its c.i.s.

partners have agreed to create a free trade zone the simplified terms for itchy ved at a meeting of commonwealth prime ministers will choose day the move could significantly increase trade between the countries it's already risen fifty percent in the phones top of the year to more than one hundred thirty billion dollars archies morning of course or 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 causing some stir in the process most of the c.i.s. countries have signed on and those include armenia valorous kazakhstan turkmenistan moldova rochelle forces ballast object istanbul and new crate the country still thinking about it and could i say why john respect the son answer a man a son and they're expected to make a decision by the end of the year now i've closer in union with the former states and has been bottom or putin's priority since announcing his 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 raise 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 so why summers 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. and small kyrgyzstan is going to join the customs union of russia belarus and. with it comes the opportunity to get funds from the euro asian economy community to support its struggling economy another of

russia's neighbor don has also expressed interest in joining the customs union let's not have a look at the markets european stocks were higher conflicting newspaper reports germany and france have agreed to further boost the euro area's bailout fund. and the russian markets were moving between gains and losses on wednesday as oil prices fell urals crude lost one and a half percent and investors here were also betting europe will solve its debt crisis after the guardian newspaper reported on a rescue fund boost. let's take a look at some of the individual share moves on the my six look oil was down one percent financial stocks were leading the index higher as burbank shares were rallying more than three percent the company says the product is ation of its seven point six percent stake is unlikely to happen this year due to market uncertainty and telecom shares a folding but they're also telecom losing about one and a half percent. owners of the new i phone four ask the now trek their

location using the russian glow in the us and that a geisha system the smart phones now support not only g.p.s. but also its russian rival by using both together you could reduce time and prove the quality of positioning it's not the first phone which has this feature some soon and russian mobile provider m.t.s. have also released devices supporting both systems russia have invested five billion dollars in to put england last into operation and making it even more precise than rival g.p.s. . that's all we have time for no more stories on our website our two dot com slash business.

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this is r.t. moscow i there our top story tonight enough is enough. of desperately in debt greeks spill onto the streets venting their anger over a new raft of tough austerity measures clashes have broken out between police and protesters who say they're fed up with attempts to stop the country's financial freefall. straight standstill serves. only clear their roadblocks if officials abandon border checkpoints despite nature's ultimatum urgent and leave all be forced out. serious to a violence with soldiers reportedly turning on each other and being killed during anti-government protests fueling fears of a fully fledged civil war now.