who did the use of breaking marbles throwing more loads of cocktails and then the police men answering or throwing tear gas is when we have seen fires all in the streets are around the scene that must where our own greek parliament they have also looted many many stores around around the streets and according to information at the ballot until now we have about fifteen fires on the fifteen stores have been on fire and. least fifty people are injured these harsh measures include even lowering the minimum wage by twenty percent this is very hard because the net wage that. that somebody will receive its four hundred euros. very small a small amount of money my family is very difficult to leave but with with

a four hundred euros and there with unemployment being being much higher than twenty percent so people say that they will not stay at home they will continue to react we will continue to demonstrate today we have even people from. from around from regions are around that it's not only out and before this demonstration become become violent of course it was peaceful demonstration with thousands of people more than ten thousand people had been here reacting but to be honest maybe we have to put the blame on our politicians because they should have reacted much earlier they should have implemented some of the measures that. europeans and officials had demanded. and a former senior about him and p. alert verney's told r.t. that the e.u.

is trying to save the euro and not solve greece's wiles but they're trying to do in brussels to me is not saving greece but they're trying to do is save the euro zone which is not exactly the same now i think they're all some of them must have already made up their mind and greece is going to have to leave the euro zone but remember the e.u. so far the european commission this is not a social democratic. organization this is a neo liberal economic organization they have other of priorities than the people of the e.u. than the ordinary people in ordinary working mand or people who live from a salary the only real solution is not what the e.u. is now imposing on your own solution is social democracy the arab league is calling on the u.n. security council to pass a resolution creating a joint peacekeeping force for syria and also also international support for the opposition and hopes to pile for the pressure on the regime. as the latest from

cairo where they pan body has been meeting. syria will probably see un peacekeepers arrive in the country in order to try and. arab league meeting in cairo on sunday took them about eleven hours to come up with a with a decisive response to the situation in the country which has seen a lot of bloodshed over the past eleven months the arab league has asked for tightening sanctions which i have already been imposed on syria they aborted the observers program which was halted in january of this year bridling said the country has been escalating the opposition says hundreds of people are being killed and weekly basis of the same time the authorities saying that around two thousand syrian military officers have been killed since the unrest have begun also you have the mounting pressure from washington from the white house who have put together a sort of a coalition of the so-called friends of syria who are going to meet in february in

order to further details about what exactly they're going to do about the bloodshed that's going on in syria russia has been adamant about the fact that it's up to syrians in order to. put it all together in order to reconcile their differences they were trying to do their best to get the opposition and the syrian authorities to. lay down their arms and come together and sit down for a peace talks but unfortunately even though the. syrian president bashar bashar assad actually did say that he was ready for talks especially following. on tuesday with russian delegation unfortunately the opposition isn't so keen on those that negotiations let's have a listen to russians invested or to the united nations it's not a chicken on the matter as the mission of that i believe was the as the situation was evolving everybody saw that the government troops were pulling out of certain.

in cities that territory was taken over by armed rebel groups that would mean that the. armed confrontation will continue and those armed rebel groups which you. just mentioned have actually provided to be a lot of concern for the syrian authorities they claim that those groups are supported by unknown until now and from abroad you end up with a very volatile situation which really is incredibly hard to solve so again right now all we can do is observe and also john that stuff he told us at the u.s. and fighting side by side in syria to protect common interests the arab league is being used presumably as some kind of proxy because we know that the united states and the european union have. eventually. could happen

should have some sources even saying british just pressure forces already in the ground so maybe there is already foreign intervention we have heard about al-qaeda in syria now and they could police the guns and weapons going into syria now that would be a great thing and could do. this once again the united states and european union states as usual supporting al qaeda as they did in afghanistan prior to nine eleven u.s. troops and al qaeda side by side fighting against president assad of syria this really shows what exactly the americans are up to they are not protecting the interests of u.s. citizens and or european union leaders i would hear a statement to back any attacks we saw with lethal consequence in aleppo twenty eight dead in december forty four dead in damascus this is this is getting out of hand this is getting dangerous. still ahead here on our c.v.

yes it is the toppling of mubarak but instead of celebrations across egypt at general strike its people feel betrayed by the military rule is and won't change that still doesn't come. under the politically active russians take the matter of elections transparency into that own hands by organizing the voters lead. that slate about the fallout iran says it will soon reveal some major advances in its nuclear program and speaking of the thirty third anniversary of the islamic revolution president ahmadinejad said tehran would never stop enriching uranium it will insist its nuclear program is to serve its domestic energy but the united states and its allies the u.n. a zero suspect tehran could be pursuing nuclear weapons and they've been piling up sanctions against it. was that europe's planned all the bangle will backfire spain one of its. biggest consumers of iranian oil sanctions would hurt it more than any

other european state and madrid based. believes there has been forced upon. what we're seeing here is not a decision that comes actually from european countries to spain never wanted to survive go to to prove to be put in place this is something that comes externally from the united states pressure on the european union so it calls into question spain's. foreign policy decisions i mean it's not just the spray neutrally also greece imports lots of oil from from iran it could be hard hitting away that would bring them bankrupt in the coming future that would be a complete disaster for the european union and for europe and that can happen because of the political move your opinion you actually had a very good relationship in terms of the economy and trade with iran it was literally been in the last twenty years the connection that has been lost after the

iranian revolution the situation was improving until we can introduce a new tension that has been in my view to a great extent artificially created. on the first anniversary of the ousting of former president hosni mubarak egypt's activists have called for a general strike to ramp up the pressure against the ruling military council they want the council to step down immediately saying they're blocking reforms the military said it won't accept any ultimatum and will transfer. when the presidential elections are shared june but many people fear they will remain in power beyond this date and cairo based journalist boucherie says a trip shows have every right not to trust the military people are unsure about whether actually transfer power in june so far the military the ruling military council has yet to fulfill any of its promises that said since it came into power also just generally on the streets we're seeing massive human rights violations towards protesters where people are expressing their freedom of speech and we've

seeing excessive use of tear gas and cartouche they call it here which is birdshot and maiming protesters there's been absolutely no reform of the police i was simply fired by the football disaster a few weeks ago which saw over seventy four people die so essentially we've seen very little reform since mubarak stepped down and people are basically anxious that nothing will change and it will just slip into a new new dictatorship i think most people here would post it would say they do say that the revolution never ended but it's called the continuous or the ongoing revolution really since january even after mubarak stepped down this time last year they've been continuous sit ins and protests and violent clashes with egypt's security forces pushing for protesters pushing for change they haven't seen yes. an amazing with america's top military officer seated general defenders the clampdown on international non-governmental organizations in cairo the country's armed forces want to restrict the work of then she goes and have ordered an investigation into

their contacts claiming some are working to destabilize the country and reports from cairo. egypt's new government crackdown on nigeria's has raised many questions and they may want to is why now the groups many which funded by washington have been on the ground here for a while they were at the vanguard of the uprising against mubarak that eventually brought the supreme council of the armed forces to power last february and no one has ever seems to care about their sources of income that is until they directed their criticism to the new military leadership laman skaf for the slow pace of reform some of them are used by the. court in people of your work. and they are the ones that evolution they have. won the radicals who live there this is very much dangerous for the radicals this is specially led to prosecutors raiding seventeen offices of advocacy groups forty

three activists including americans germans and egyptians are now facing trial for illegally using foreign funds to promote unrest in the post mubarak country activists how one would claim they are the victim of scarves reluctance to give up power with dreaming the people about with their brights with the scaf looking for enjoy. some agent against the regime and all the mind the round up of activists has also not had a son and you asked mr taishi secretary ray la hood for the fueling tension between cairo and washington. isn't simply because. of them in a sort of plans for. i don't think that. anything at all so this is america whose military aid to egypt reduces one point three billion dollars annually has been very serious there has been weeks to condemn this car

when in the days of blank checks are over or they condemned. the end of the day continued on flowing that the provide the support also continue. all the washington's so-called support for democracy get in the middle east washington wants to study law as the situation as much as possible in order to guarantee its interests they don't care about democracy meanwhile even those on the streets protesting against car sharing the council's concerns are being jews motives the usa has had a hand in chips policy making for years but the whole n.t. and your campaign has become the first serious disagreement between america and the countries your story to cairo wanted to send washington and message that it's no longer the silent dog it was under mubarak but an independent state which will last tolerate any outside interference some doubts though they really minute the end to military movement growing ever bigger you can see it over there is a vision council of the armed forces or scaf now running egypt is in

a very vulnerable position and this nationalistic pronouncement may just be a nationalist show put on to calm the people down and to win back a shred of credibility. in cairo. this is to come this hour despite mounting. fines for not it was drawing the number of later asked charts in afghanistan could actually be increasing to explain why they came up. here or for some fathers be you are some other private accused by washington of treason receives a nomination for the nobel peace prize. fair and transparent that's how people in russia want to see the upcoming presidential election and march polling stations across the country are being equipped with webcams to avoid any wrongdoing but a group of proactive citizens has decided using technology alone is not enough your

group is going off explains how they're planning to secure on this developing. it doesn't take long to find videos of alleged violations during the recent parliamentary vote in russia just a couple of clicks is enough and scores of these files have flooded the internet and even though most of the allegations are still to be proven in courts tens of thousands of people have been taking to the streets demanding fair elections with marches presidential vote is just around the corner events are unfolding quickly with so many different people want to vote responsibly and to know where their votes go they want political competition independent courts and media forming voters league is not our achievement the idea was floating in the air the voters league was officially founded in january by a group of journalists and bloggers activists artists writers and other public figures and statements way g.d.s. clegg t.v.

host and now activist but one of the ladies asked or the head of a charity fund and blogger he does any of the bianca also known as dr lisa. or other school martha cordoning or over the blue buckets movement fighting for equal rights on roads for everyone. our league is an opportunity to gather people who are not indifferent to what's happening the more people with a similar position there are the better the league's main goal is to ensure fair elections is published a list of initiatives on the web divided into groups that everyone can be a part of public discussions and online votes are the key instruments and letters have been sent to all presidential candidates asking them to cooperate with the league and even though the project is less than a month old everyone has so far agreed including pledging middleton another candidate businessman mikhail prokhorov has already struck a deal with the leak you have to go on willing to authorize one hundred fifty

thousand league observers we've also arranged to put. together unified database to keep track of the election through trickles according to its founders around ten thousand observers are needed to ensure a fair election in moscow alone. it's great that the civil society wants to be more active but it's really important not to cross the line an observer is not only a position it is serious so if limitations not to teach sides in the political process. the league's founders say those shut the organisation down if it ever starts turning into a political movement they are keen to work with all candidates equally there's no doubt society has changed more people want to have more influence on russia's political life perhaps that's why it took less than one month for the vote was leaked to establish ties with both the authorities and the opposition and with the help promise from the candidates the league just may secure enough access to

effectively monitor the vote in march as long as it avoids taking sides and protects its neutrality you've got this going off for tea moscow afghan president hamid karzai accuse nato killing children and as track on wednesday officials launched an investigation later claiming foreign forces wrongly targeted civilians after receiving an incorrect report that all men were preparing an attack in the area the bombing came just a week after the united states announced it might stop combat operations in afghanistan earlier than expected but the strike started already trained strained relations between karzai and his western a backers of a mouse death toll documentary filmmaker clegg label things that describe the condemnation of civilian casualties in the country will continue to rise. he had to put on a certain pretenses. do you have any viability is a legit in the sea as an afghan woman or something like this happens but he is

basically a tool of the american occupation there so we can expect any real demands to change from here this kind of thing obviously doesn't win hearts and minds this happened in the same area were afghan soldiers recently killed french troops on ports and i think because the u.s. is planning to pull out of the new movie next day for him because of the injured are moving their troops out we can expect more airstrikes and more civilian casualties in afghanistan we already saw two thousand and eleven percent. of two thousand and ten in terms of civilian casualties i'm afraid we're going to see that trend continue in two thousand and twelve precisely because they know that they have to pull out safely because they noted against. the u.s. on their private bradley manning accused of passing secret documents and evidence of well crimes to weaken makes has been nominated for the nobel peace prize has

been put forward by peace research center in the us and that isolating icelandic parliamentary group a twenty four year old is awaiting a court martial in the faces life in prison and the brigade young stars here who needs the icelandic nominations exposing crimes shouldn't be regarded as one. bradley manning deserve this honor because he is being criminalized or along the whistle on war crimes it is not a criminal act to blow the whistle world or to blow the whistle on any crime and we feel that. by these leaks for example the video calero murder. the wall. and particularly pete you people that have. put their name to war in afghanistan and iraq through their governments need to know why this meeting going on there and by knowing what was going on there then we citizen can apply

more pressure on our governments to be accountable for the crimes that have been put in our neighbor so we do not and let the bradley manning case be because of his in just treatment to be the course of silencing all the people the courageous people who want to do their civic duty by reporting on crime spear who are it's state or or military. and some other international news in brief you this hour israeli airstrikes on the gaza strip have left one civilian dead and for this injured the mahmoud also a god to follow his radionic confirms the bombing saying they were aimed at sides belonging to terror groups and who are in response to short range rocket attacks from gaza. excuse have pulled by your old girl and live from the rubble of the house flattened by a massive avalanche that killed at least nine people in southern kosovo officials

say she was found buried under ten meters of snow after officials heard her voice and a mobile phone ringing they haven't launched a cell it's over such a day destroying several houses rescue efforts continue for one pass and missing. hope legend chris whitney houston has died they just saw the scene where it was found in the beverly hilton hotel room on the eve of the grammy awards in los angeles her career was marred by her age and drug abuse authorities have yet to determine the exact cause of. death. can be just. another walk with a recap our top stories in just

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welcome back this is big week here on r c the headline it's. the greek parliament gives the green light saying new set of harsh austerity cuts demanded by the u.n. they i met before their hand over a hundred and thirty billion euro bailout that despite mass protests in the center of athens which saw dozens hurt in clashes with police as rioters torched buildings and looted shops. the arab league is calling on the yuan to play to enjoy its keeping force with syria past regroup reins to mount pressure on president assad.

and iran pharmacist to reveal major advances event's nuclear program which it insists is full peaceful purposes despite the lonely still western sanctions imposed against it. and up next as he talks to pakistan's foreign minister who explains why should things that u.s. drone strikes and how country are only making things worse instead of helping fight insurgency. she's the youngest foreign minister and a world that has to deal with some of the toughest security challenges he not rabbani khar pakistan's foreign minister is joining us now on our t.v. thank you very much for your time minister it's been more than ten years since pakistan joined the u.s. military operations in afghanistan do you think that was the right thing to do you see if. you would you know things look very different but of course. the collaboration that pakistan has had in the last ten years.