and during the whole day i always have seen violence heard violence in the streets of athens it was the worst day since the violence we had in two thousand and eight we have seen. young people who did the who did the use of breaking marbles throwing more load of cocktails and then the policeman answering or throwing tear gas is when we have seen fires all over in the streets are around the scene that was where our own greek parliament they have also looted many many stores around around the streets 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 we will continue to react and we will continue to demonstrate today we have come 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 a 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 to

demand it. and former senior belgian m.p. load the news told r.t. that the us trying to save the euro and not solve greece's was what they're trying to do in brussels to me is not saving greece but they're trying to do is saving 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 eurozone 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 to you is not imposing on your own solution is social democracy the arab league is calling on the u.n. security council to pass a resolution crazing a joint peacekeeping force for syria and also wants more international support for

the opposition and hopes to pile further pressure on the regime. has an eight or so kyra for the pan our body has been me. 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 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 on a 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 you know what it's 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 peace talks but unfortunately even though the. syrian president bashar bashar assad actually did say that he was ready for talks especially following his meeting on tuesday with russian delegation unfortunately the opposition isn't so keen on those that negotiations have listen to russians and bassett or to the united nations it's not

a chicken on the matter as the mission of that i believe was the situation was evolving everybody saw that the government troops were pulling out of certain. as a city is 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 journalist ashton returns he told the senate the u.s. and al qaida 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 the united states and the european union have all but. 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 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 for you ideas is the toppling of mubarak but instead of celebrations across egypt a general strike as people feel betrayed by the military rulers and want to change that still hasn't caught. on to the political actually russians taking them out of elections transparency into their own hands by organizing of voters believe. that slate about thursday iran says it will soon reveal some major advances in its nuclear program speaking on the set inside of our sphere of the islamic revolution president ahmadinejad said tehran would never stop enriching uranium iran insists its nuclear program is to serve its domestic energy needs at the united states and its allies the unas routes us back to iran could be pursuing nuclear weapons they've been piling up sanctions against the country but the one of the shard was that europe's planned all embargoed will backfire spain one of the biggest you can

steam is a reunion or satisfaction with that of more than any other european state madrid based journalist. believes the embargo has been forced upon europe. what we're seeing here is not a decision that comes actually from the european countries to spain never wanted this bargo 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 tanami foreign policy decisions and there's not just the spray no need to also greece imports lots of oil from from iran it could be hard hit in a way that would bring them bankrupt in the coming future that would be a complete disaster for the european union and for europe and that's going to happen because of the political move your opinion actually had a very good relationship in terms of the economy and trade with iran it was

retrieving in the last twenty years the connections that have 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 general strive 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 side it won't accept any ultimatum and will transfer june when the presidential elections are scheduled but many people fear they will remain in power beyond this date and kyra based journalist says addictions have every right not to trust the military. people are unsure about whether you actually transferred 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 the people 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 that will just slip into a new new dictatorship i think most people here would post it would say or do you say but the revolution never ended but it's called the continuance of 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. in a meeting with america's top military officer egypt sr gen your old defenders the clampdown on international non-governmental organizations in cairo the country's

armed forces want to restrict the work of n.g.o.s and have ordered an investigation into their contacts claiming that some are working to destabilize the country maria who notion reports. egypt's new government crackdown on n.g.o.s has raised many questions and they may want 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 other. that according people of the world. they're the ones that evolution they have.

won the radicals who live there this is very much a dangerous war the rhetoric this is especially 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 and arrest in the post mubarak country activists however 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 if you asked mr taishi secretary ray la hood for the fueling tension between cairo and washington. wasn't simply because. of them in a sort of plans for. i don't think that. anything at all so this was america was military aid to egypt to reduce one point three billion

dollars annually has been very serious though has been weak to condemn this car when in the days of blank checks are over or the condemned. the end of the continued on flowing that the provide the support also continue. all washington's so-called support for democracy in the middle east washington wants to study laws 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 share the council's concerns about the 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 dream 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. we've. seen in cairo. with such a comfort to the sound despite mounting civilian deaths on fire there was told a number of nato as trying to set up gonna start could actually be increasing explain why. i'm here or for some than others the glass on the private accused by washington of treason receives a nomination for the nobel peace. by. and transparent that's how people in russia want to see the upcoming presidential election large polling stations across the country are being equipped with

a web cam star void of any wrongdoing but a group of proactive citizens have decided using technology alone is not enough new yorkers can offer explains how they're planning to secure on us watching. 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 votes just around the corner events are unfolding quickly with their point not sure people want to vote responsibly and to know where their villages go they want political competition independent courts and media forming the 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 stayed its way g.d.s. like t.v. host and now activists who want to get ready for africa or the head of a charity fund and blogger it is the idea of the bianca also known as dr lisa. or other school martha ordinator of 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 it's 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 little to 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. together unified database to keep track of the election political news 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 and observers not only are positioned it is serious so if limitations not to teach sides of 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 the moscow i've been president hamid karzai accuse native killing eight children in an air strike on wednesday officials launch an investigation later claiming foreign forces wrongly targeted civilians after receiving an incorrect report that armed men were preparing an attack and the area they bowing came just a week or so the united states announced it might stop combat operations in afghanistan earlier than expected but this strike could stoke already strained relations between karzai and his western backers of a mounting death toll documentary filmmaker clay things that despite the condemnation civilian casualties in the country will continue to rise. he put on certain pretenses. do you have any viability is 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 playing a pull out the new movie next day for him because of pressure or moving their troops out we can expect more airstrikes and more civilian casualties in afghanistan we already saw two thousand and eleven eight 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 again it's up. to us on the product bradley manning accused of passing secret documents and evidence of war crimes to weaken

links has been nominated for the nobel peace prize has been put forward by pace for such scenting in the u.s. and an icelandic parliamentary group the twenty one year old is away say a court martial in the us and faces life in prison and m.p. brigade yes until her mates they are assigned a combination exposing crimes shouldn't be regarded as one. but demanding to so this honor because he has been criminalized for a long whistle on war crimes but is not a criminal higher law most war crimes or to blow the whistle on any crimes. we feel bad. now by these leaks for example the radio collateral murder. the wall. and in particular repeat the people that have. put their names to the war and are gonna start in iraq to the governments need to know what is really

gotten on there and by knowing what is going on there and we see this and can apply more pressure on our governments to be accountable for the crimes that have been conducted in our lives we do know. about the bradley manning case being because of his in just treatment to be the course of silencing all the people the courageous people the want to do their civic duty by reporting all crimes the corporate state or military. some other international news and brief for you this hour israeli airstrikes on the gaza strip have left one civilian dead and for those injured they've been killed was a guard at a farm israeli army co-founder steve bobbing saying they were aimed at signs belonging to terror groups and were a response to short range rocket attacks from gaza. rescuers have pulled

a five year old girl alive from the rubble of a house flattened by a massive avalanche let's go ten people who saw the course of our official say she was found buried under ten meters of snow after officers had her voice and a mobile phone ringing the avalanche their job reset itself on saturday destroying several houses rescue efforts continue suppressing. the grammy awards pay tribute to pope legend and actress whitney houston has died at the age of forty eight that she was found in the room at the beverly hilton hotel on the eve of the ceremony shores to attend in los angeles despite massive global success for over three decades her career was marred by a turbulent marriage and drug abuse an autopsy has been performed but no information on its findings has been revealed at the request of detectives

investigating the case. and i'll be back with a recap our top stories in just a few minutes stay with us. culture is the same of g.r. you know you go on hurting the more so because all the worst comes to the folks in

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can vouch for the wiki here on all she the headline in. the greek parliament gave the green light a new set of harshest arijit can't demanded by the e.u. and they are met because they will be harmed by one hundred and thirty billion euro bailout that despite mass protests in the center of athens which still doesn't matter the clashes with police as riots is torched buildings and neutrals. also the arab league is calling on the do want to create a joint peacekeeping foods for syria group brains to mount pressure on president assad. underground promises to reveal major advances in its nuclear program which

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