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 who did the use of breaking marbles throwing more lot of cocktails and then their police men answering or throwing tear gases 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. least fifty people are injured these harsh measures include even a 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 live with with a four hundred euros and they're with unemployment being being much higher than twenty percent so the people say that they will not stay at home they will continue to react we will continue to demonstrate today they 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

demanded. for was. told r.t. that the use trying to save the euro and not solve greece's woes. what 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 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 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 crazy 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 third afresh on the regime. 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 a 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 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 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

we tell each working on the matter as the mission of that i believe was there and 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 stache told us the u.s. and our kind of 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 question 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 u.n. could do all the 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 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 for you here on our see again this is the toppling of president mubarak but instead of celebrations across egypt a journal strike as people feel betrayed by the military rule is and will change that still hasn't caught. a group of political actually russians take the matter of elections transparency into their own hands by organizing about is leave. iran says it will soon reveal some major advances in its nuclear program and speaking out they said that in the best year of the islamic revolution president i didn't run would never stop enriching uranium iran insists its nuclear program is to serve its domestic energy at the united states and its allies do you suspect iran could be pursuing nuclear weapons they've been piling up sanctions against the country but my dinner shot was that europe's planned all embargoed spain one of the

biggest you can see was a ringing in oil sands the sanctions would hurt it more than any other european state and madrid based journalist miguel mubarak to believe has been forced on your. what we're seeing here is not a decision that comes actually from the european countries to spain never wanted to 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 to spain and italy 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 the euro and that can happen because of the political move european union actually had a very good relationship in terms of the economy and trade with iran it was

retrieved 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 former president hosni mubarak egypt's activists have called for a general strike to run the pressure against the ruling military council they want the council to step down immediately saying they they're blocking reforms the military side it won't accept any ultimatum and will transfer power in june when the presidential elections are scheduled but many people fear they will remain in power beyond this date kyra based journalist who says egyptians have every right not to trust the military. people are unsure about whether actually transfer power in jean and 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 exemplified 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 a 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 yet. at a meeting with america's top military officer egypt's senior general defined as the clampdown on international non-governmental organizations in cairo the country's

armed forces want to restrict they work of engineers and have ordered an investigation into their contacts claiming some are working to destabilize the country where if a national report. egypt's new government crackdown on n.g.o.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 took our 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 scaff for the slow pace of reform some of them are used by the other because. they are quoting people of the world. and they are the ones who are the revolution we have. in the radicals who live there this is very much

a dangerous world the rhetoric this is especially led to prosecutors really 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 the people about with the rights with the scaf looking for enjoy. some against the regime and all the mind the round up of activists has also netted the son of u.s. transportation secretary ray la hood for the fueling tension between cairo in washington. was in 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 has been quick to condemn this car when in the days of blank checks are over or they condemned mubarak tons of times but at the end of the continued on flowing that the provide the support also continue. to order washington's so-called support for democracy here in the middle east and washington wants to stop annoys 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 being jews motives the usa has had a hand in tips 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 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 so the rate any outside interference some doubts though they really minute the end

to military movement growing ever bigger you can see it over there this is in council of the armed forces or scaf now running egypt is in a very vulnerable position and this nationalistic pronouncement may just be and nationalist show put on to calm the people down and to win back a shred of credibility. you know. so it's a comfy this sound despite mounting civilian death. toll the number of nato airstrikes in afghanistan could actually be increasing explain why the interest if you wanted . to some villain for others to go was on the toilet at least by washington of treason receives a nomination for the nobel peace prize. and transparent that's how people in russia want to see the upcoming presidential election and mileage polling stations across the country are being equipped with

webcams star void any wrongdoing but a group of pro active citizens has decided using technology alone is not enough or here's a group is going off explains how they're planning to secure. 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 when . 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. have already asked or the head of a charity fund and blogger he does any of the bianca also known as dr lisa. or two other school martha poured in a tour of the blue buckets movement fighting for equal rights on roads for everyone for smoothness 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 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. together unified database to keep track of 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 and observers not only are positioned it is serious so for the mutations 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 candidates there we 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 moscow i've been president hamid karzai accused nato of killing eight children and i was trying can one state official launched an investigation claiming foreign forces wrongly targeted civilians after receiving an incorrect report that armed men were preparing an attack in the area they were going came just a week after the united states announced it might stop combat operations in afghanistan earlier than expected but this strike was told already strained relations between karzai and his western backers over a mounting death toll documentary filmmaker clay clay born things that just fired the condemnation of civilian casualties in the country will continue to rise. here . have any viability any legitimacy as

an afghan google 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 important i think because the u.s. is playing a poll on the new movie next day for him because i think there are moving their troops out 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 they have to pull out safely because they know today against. the u.s. army private bradley manning accused of passing secret documents and evidence of

war crimes to weaken mix has been nominated for the nobel peace prize has been put forward by the peace research center in the us and parliamentary group the twenty four year old is always have court martial in the us and faces life in prison and on paper the young to whom a stay icelandic nomination says exposing crime 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 it's not a criminal i have to blow my whistle war crimes or to blow the whistle on any crimes. we feel bad. now by the leaks for example the radio collateral murder. the wall. and in particular repeat the people that have. put their name to the war and are gonna start in iraq through the governments need

to know what admitting go in on there and by knowing what is going on there and we citizens can apply more pressure on our government 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 that want to do their civic duty by reporting all crimes the corporate state or military. let's have a quick look at some other international news stories this hour israeli air strikes on the gaza strip have left one civilian dead and for those injured the man killed was a god of the farm israeli army confirms the bombing saying they were aimed at sides belonging to terror groups and were a response to a short range rocket attack from gaza. rescuers have pulled at a five year old girl there live from the rubble of a house flattened by

a massive avalanche that killed ten people in southern cos of an official say she was found buried under ten metres of snow after officers heard her voice and a mobile phone ringing the avalanche hit the village of ross tell it sounds saturday destroying several houses rescue efforts one person still missing have been suspended for a time due to bad weather and subzero temperatures. the grammy awards have paid tribute to paul bludgeoned and actress whitney houston has died to add age of forty eight she was found in the room at the beverly hilton hotel on the eve of the ceremony and she was a ten shore star turned in los angeles despite massive global success for over three decades her career was marred by a tavern and drug abuse an autopsy has been but no information on its findings has been revealed at the request of detectives investigating.

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