finally passed this austerity package it was a crucial vote 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 i guess young people who did the who did the youth breaking marbles throwing my lot 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 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 it's four hundred euros. very small a small amount of money my family is very difficult to leave 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 we will continue to demonstrate today we have come even people from. from around from regions are round out and 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. under four was seen as. a load of unease told aussie that the us 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 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 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 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 and that's the only 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 damascus has already rejected the proposal which also includes calls for more international support for the opposition intended to pile further pressure on the regime on his arena. syria will probably see un peacekeepers arrive in the country in order to try and the 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 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 authority 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 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 except listen to russians invested or to the united nations it's not a church in the matter. of that i believe as the situation was evolving everybody sort out that the government troops were pulling out of certain. it 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. i was just mentioning 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 afshin rattansi told us said where the u.s. and fighting side by side is the right 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 happen from sources even saying british just national forces already in the ground 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 the un could do all those borders are notorious 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 americans are up to the north 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 it's getting dangerous. you know with our sea and still ahead here it gets into the toppling of liberal aren't but instead of celebrations across each of the journals china gets people feel betrayed by the military rulers and one chinese that still hasn't caught. on to group of politically active russians take the matter of election transparency into their own hands by organizing voters believe. iran says it will soon reveal some major advances in its nuclear program speaking on the session started about zero of the islamic revolution president ahmadinejad's that iran would never stop enriching uranium iran insists its nuclear program is to serve its domestic energy needs but the united states and its allies the suspect tehran could be pursuing nuclear weapons have been piling up sanctions against the

country but the mother shot warns that europe's planned all embargoed will backfire spain one of the biggest you consumers of iranian oil sands the sanctions would hurt it 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 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 tanami. 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 the euro and that can happen because of these political move your opinion 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 of that has been lost after the iranian revolution and 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 president hosni mubarak ages activists have called for general strive to ramp up the pressure against the ruling military council so they want the council to step down immediately saying they're blocking performance the military side it won't accept any ultimatum and will transfer power to one of the presidential elections are scheduled but many people think they will remain in power beyond these days and kyra those journalists about three says objections have every right not to trust the military. people are unsure about whether they were 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 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 seeing very little reform since mubarak stepped down and people are a basically anxious that nothing will change and it will just slip into a new new dictatorship i think most people here would posit 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 protestors pushing for change they haven't seen yes. an

amazing with america's top military officer egypt senior general defenders they clamp down 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 conduct claiming some are working to destabilize the country maria finish and reports now. egypt's new government crackdown on ninety years has raised many questions and they may want is right 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 the baraka 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 layman skaf for the slow pace of reform some of them are used by the. court in people of the world. and they are the ones that evolution they have.

won the radicals who live there this is very much a dangerous world 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 unrest in the post mubarak country activists how would claim they are the victim of scarves reluctance to give up power with dreaming the people about with their brights but the scaf looking for inge all. sub isn't against the regime and all the mind the round up of activists has also noted the son of you asked mr taishi secretary ray la hood for the fueling tension between cairo in washington. isn't simply because. of them in a sort of plans for. i don't think. so

this is america whose military aid to egypt reaches one point three billion dollars annually has been very serious there is a big week to condemns car one in the days of blank checks are over. but at the end of the continued on flowing but the provide the support also continue. to washington's so-called support for democracy here in the east and 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 policymaking for years but the whole n.t. and your campaign has become the first serious disagreement between america and the countries your story takes 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 very callous 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. and still to come for you this hour despite mounting civilian. and it withdrawal the number of nato as tribes in afghanistan could actually be increasing explain why in just a few months. and he refers to sound the l'enfant that is the u.s. army private accused by washington of treason receives a nomination for the now about his. that's later before that

far and transparent that's how people in russia want to see the upcoming presidential election march polling stations across the country are being equipped with a webcam star void any wrongdoing but a group of proactive citizens has decided using technology alone is not enough just going off explains now how they're planning to secure on this. 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 since years 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 a meter but not sure if people want to vote responsibly and to know where their votes go the ones 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 stayed its way g.d.s. like t.v. host and now activist. the ladies advocate or the head of a charity fund and blogger it is the idea that bianca also known as dr lisa. or other school martha cordoning or 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 civil 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 have to go on willing to authorize one hundred fifty thousand league observers we've also arranged to. together unified database to keep in check with the election through to police 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 a serious set of limitations not to teach science 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 go if it's going to or t. moscow afghan president hamid karzai accuse nato of killing eight children and asked trike on wednesday officials launched an investigation later claiming foreign forces wrongly targeted civilians after receiving an incorrect report that armed men were preparing an attack in the area they came just a week after the united states announced it might stop combat operations in afghanistan earlier than expected but this chai could stoke already strained relations between cause i miss west and back is over a mounting death toll documentary filmmaker clay label things that despite the condemnation of civilian casualties in the country will continue to rise. he had to

put on certain pretenses. have any viability any legitimacy 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 the injured are moving here to south we can expect more airstrikes in most of the 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 if they have

to pull out safely because they know that against. the u.s. on the private bradley manning accused of passing secret documents and evidence of war crimes to weaken makes has been nominated for the nobel peace prize has been put forward by a peace research center in the u.s. and an icelandic poem entry group the twenty four year old is awaiting a court martial in the u.s. and faces life in prison and. needs they are frantic nomination says exposing trials shouldn't be regarded as one. but demanding to so dishonor because he has been criminalized for long whistle on war crimes but is not a criminal i are long with homework crimes or to blow the whistle on any crimes. we feel bad. now by these leaks for example little collateral murder. the world. and in particular repeat the people that have. put their name to

war and are gonna start in iraq through the governments need to know what is really gone on there and by knowing what is going on there and we citizens can apply more pressure on our governments to be accountable for the crimes that have been productive in our lives we do know. about the bradley manning case being because his in just treatment of the records of silencing all the people the courageous people want to do their serious duty by reporting all crimes the corporate state or military. unless you check some other international news stories in brief for you this hour is rated as strike on the gaza strip left one civilian dead and for those injured the man killed was a guard at a farm the israeli army confirms the bombings saying they were aimed at friends belonging to terrorist groups and were a response to

a short range rocket attack from gaza. rescuers have pulled a five year old girl alive from the rubble of a house flattened by a massive avalanche that killed ten people a southern course of our official say she was found buried under ten meters of snow after officers heard her voice and a mobile phone ringing the avalanche hit the village of estelle that sound saturday destroying several houses rescue boats for one bus and still missing have been suspended for a time due to bad weather and subzero temperatures. the grammy awards have paid tribute to pop legend and actress whitney houston has died at the age of forty eight she was found in a room at the beverly hilton hotel on the eve of this ceremony is sure was 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. that was the news for this hour our interview with pakistan's foreign minister is coming up next after another quick look at the headlines.

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welcome back to our tease it will clear the headlines. the greek parliament gives the green light saying new set of harsh austerity cuts demanded by the u.s. and the i.m.f. before they hunt over a hundred and thirty billion euro bailout that this podcast protests in the sound of athens which saw dozens hundreds of clashes with police has rises torched buildings and looted shops and. the arab league called on the yuan to create a joint peacekeeping since the serial i thought when i was a show ends to mount more pressure on president assad and damascus has rejected the

proposal that. underground promises to reveal major advances in its nuclear program which it is safe is for peaceful energy papa says despite the long lived the western sanctions imposed against it. and the next hour he talks to pakistan's foreign minister who explains why should things that you are as drone strikes in her country are only making things worse instead of helping fight insurgency. she's the youngest foreign minister and of all but has to deal with some of the toughest security challenges he not robotic car 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 would you know things look very different but of course.