so one hundred thousand people in attendance and they're growing in anger throughout the course of that evening in the end we saw clashes taking place with police and that resulted in a certain amount of petrol bombs being thrown at police by some anarchists in the crowd also police or tally a thing by firing tear gas into the crowd there resulting in total in dozens of injuries we also saw dozens of buildings of flame all this of course taking place in central athens now there is still a lot of discontent as well within harlem and we saw that take place last night a number of m.p.'s forty three from the ruling coalition made up of socialist conservatives they repelled against this latest measure of was there a few cuts now what we're talking about here really is fifteen thousand job cuts in the public sector also that's going to be accompanied by slashing by twenty percent of the minimum wage and cuts the pensions so really those who are being affected

but those who are probably most exposed by these crisis conditions have to bear in mind this is something that greece is really where the for some time it's a situation they are all too familiar with for about five years now they've been in such crisis conditions and had measures for a number of years impose them by international bodies and there hasn't been that many positive financial indicators since you seem g.d.p. slumping in two thousand and eleven so the main message coming from the demonstration taking place yes they said and the protests this is that what price are they expected to pay for these bailouts. jake of greece reporting live from athens thanks for that. artie's cross-talk also focuses on greece's financial predicament coming your way later today the hidden costs of the bell our rescue. the change is clear and germany you give me the cash to survive given my debt

problems i'll give you my sovereignty but will the public actually comply will they agree to accept the pain of this austerity and will they agree to submit the most important sovereign aspect which is your this school your budget to technocrats in brussels that are not answerable to your population through. the move monitoring the greek economy there's nothing and that's why it's a might be provocative here but that's always the that is if you jeanne it will be a moment that he funds. well after more than two decades the effects of one of the world's worst industrial disaster still linger in bhopal india now that scandal is fixing itself to london's attempt to stage a green a limp big games this summer or it is over but it has more on a controversal new partnership. organizers claim it's the greenest most

sustainable limping games ever but a poisonous cloud of controversy hangs over london twenty twelve because of links to this bhopal gas leak nineteen eighty-four one of the worst industrial disasters of all time they left a toxic legacy still claiming lives the company responsibles now owned by dow chemical a major olympic sponsor meredith alexander was part of the game's ethics watchdog but is just quit in protest all of it is supposed to be about the years and instead all of us are going to have a toxic legacy of doubt how calls are hundreds fifteen thousand people died when poisonous gas leaked from a factory in rural india a subsequent fall out killed another ten thousand congenital birth defects in the area ten times the norm in the rest of india for ten of the time the gas she inhaled left permanent damage and as well. that how

it was over in high and the money's been too far got just one thousand dollars compensation part of a four hundred seventy million dollars payout in one thousand nine hundred nine by union carbide factory owners dow chemical bought that company in two thousand and one but denies any lingering liabilities but the indian government disagrees demanding dow stumps up one point six billion dollars to clean up the contamination that lives on people's building girl down a dead. tree children are being born with. people have more ground there's group the delegation and boy there is there is a good health problem with their periods all kinds of issues their health have. it isn't allegedly that has been left behind by this poisonous factory dow chemical is

paying for the fabric wrap that will be draped around the stadium olympic rules forbid any advertising during the games itself is allowed to splash its logo all over that curtain before the games actually begin but it's now said it's not even going to do that it says it's nothing to do with the protests but it does mean it's paying seven million pounds for something that won't even show its name but dow will still be able to call itself a sustainable a limb pick partner and organizers say their conscience is clean supposedly thanks to a green light from the ethics watchdog absolutely i deny that it was the question was asked to look at the process and there were discussions in the question and i lie self-centered a lot of evidence. and then i was shocked to see a public statement come out i would never have signed off that state that dow

chemical refused to speak to us so did london organizers instead they issued this statement from twenty twelve chief lord coe. i absolutely stand by your preacher man process and joe were by a distance the most sustainable solution to a rock and we're comfortable with a boy called from indian athletes has been called off but india is a limpid committee is still demanding down to be dropped with just six months to go it's unlikely they'll get their wish and even claims in a sustainable legacy severely in doubt either bennett r.t. london. time now for the latest business news here on r.t. with korea. our welcome to our business update here in r.t. thanks for joining me there's been a burst of interest and russian share since the beginning of the year returning growth in the u.s. progress with europe's debt is fueling appetite for risk this has helped reverse

the trend in capital flow more than eighty billion dollars fled the country so far this year has been an outflow story an inflow of one billion dollars for more i'm joined by to church china from a real a sense asset managers thank you for joining the program so tell me do you think there's been a change in attitude of interesting vesting in russia in the last couple of months well absolutely we have seen a change of attitude because if you see how the russian market has performed relative to other markets around the world we have actually outperformed significantly so russia ease up nearly twenty percent year to date if you compare that to the u.s. market for example which is a federal indictment m.s.c.i. emerging markets with troops down closer to twelve fifteen percent so clearly russia has been very much the hot spot in there we continue to see more money flowing into the russian market and still how undervalued russian stocks. it is

quiet on the pirates in fact if you look. russia is the cheapest market in the world the p. for russian stock cecil not reachable five point two five and a half times and it compares to over six and a half seven times for the market in general so clearly we have about a forty percent from devaluation of russian which is relative to other markets in the world so we continue to believe that russia will continue to attract interest while they're very reason so for you from your point of view how much of a role is politics playing here what changes do you expect after the presidential elections in march for instance. well clearly the presidential election sees something which are people are watching around the world we don't be less than a week left until we know he's going to be the president with a lot of the uncertainty in the markets or rather the perception of uncertainty seems to be going away which is very much the reason they're trashing equities have done well. the market expects the pushing to come back in power we expect

a lot of reform in the market and this is really what is giving us a lot of optimism there trash will continue to reform russia will continue to grow and will continue to outperform other markets in the world well there has been some progress in the resolution of the greek tech crisis we see that but will that give a boost to russian equity markets it's like absolutely one of the main concerns that we have at the end of last year was that because of the possible default of the greece government we could see significant slowdown in economic growth there is still a concern to some extent with the likelihood that greece defaults on its back going away specially the end of last week and told her that we can't that would very much help russian growth because we are going to have a more healthy economic growth in the rest of europe and europe is

a major trading partner for russia so it is of crucial importance that the economy of european countries continues to be healthy ok and just in short what's your target for the r.t.s. and wise it's by the end of the year. that's a very difficult question we think that they said least another ten fifteen percent possibly twenty percent upside from current levels obviously very very much depends on what happens in the rest of the we still have some uncertainties in the market that we need to follow up and see how they develop through the rest of the. asian growth for the we're going to see a slowdown there u.s. numbers have been very positive but again we need to see more evidence that the u.s. economy fell out of the woods and we continue to have someone so thinking oh if i can only grow things here so all of these factors will continue to play a dummy on troll own when markets. ok thank you chan and portfolio manager from our

nation's asset managers thank you for joining the program and that's all the business has for now i'll be back in about fifteen minutes away what financial deals are not a tax watch. the whatever. the. wealthy british science.

market find. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. report on our feet. at four thirty pm moscow time these are the top stories from one. she rushes sides of regrets the arab league winding down its observers work in syria and stresses the proposed peacekeeping mission can be deployed only once the government and opposition forces agree to a cease fire. fiery protests in athens troubled by chaos the looting and public outrage escalates outside the greek parliament passes a new austerity pill to cure another battle. and olympic probably use

undermines this summer's day was in london risks being marred by a controversial starts or should deal with a chemical giants linked to one of the world's most worst industrial disaster. now in our t.v. our interview with investigative journalist also when stanley focusing on the turbulent situation in and around syria. today i'm joined by a so when stanley an investigative journalist rajan on the middle east his latest piece delves into the discrepancies amongst the casualty figures in the syrian crisis and he said thanks for speaking to r.t. now one of the most quoted sources for those casualty figures is the syrian observatory for human rights but you've recently found out information that suggests you can't necessarily always be trusted why is that i think first of all

you have to establish who really is this the syrian observatory for human rights. in our investigation we didn't really uncover any particular reason to doubt the genuine obliterate trees figures. but there is another group led by this man with a very as figures a slightly higher than the original trade groups the syrian observatory for human rights and their program they have two or. makes a point to be they say you know they're independent their human rights group and so they were called all deaths whether they're soldiers syrian soldiers loyal to the regime or the defectors or their protesters where as. and i was there it's group printed as well but their figures for the number of. military dead are much much lower. this seems to be you know a certain agenda there and grind it all seems to me basically. although both sides

deny differences in in military intervention essentially in political differences there is different trends in the syrian opposition mainly between people who support outside intervention and the protestors who don't so you've got groups like the syrian national council which are now openly in favor of a no fly zone which to me seems ridiculous because you know there isn't any even claimed that i know of. the syrian. for all its many crimes there's no claim that it's problems people so no fly zone just seemed the political pretext to invade to me. and the original syrian observatory for human rights group is against that that it was close and said we don't support a no fly zone they said that to me and sounds of least these two sorry these two groups they both seemed to other they denied direct links to different factions of the opposition they seemed their position seems to

line up why hasn't this for internal reform within the syrian opposition been more widely reported he said it's damaging for the potentially damaging for the original syrian observatory for human rights if they get into a slanging match about or with just two sides fighting each other sort of thing and they would they i mean they didn't want to speak about as i read something the original syrian observatory group because of that last one fact another fact is just embarrassing for example for the b.b.c. to say we didn't properly track this guy and we put him on n.b.c. news channel as a spokesperson for the syrian observatory which has become a really highly quoted source in the news can we still trust that they think this is a good question and i think i think it still needs to be looked into more i think it's very difficult that this this is racial in syria it's very very difficult to get reliable information from anyone. and the main reason for that is the

fact that the regime has not allowed free access to journalists because of is the ongoing crime that is committed wish to seem to be. hopefully not but things do seem to be spiraling towards the scenario of survival i think while it's what is good it's journalists are open to the views of activists on the ground which is i mean essentially what was the syrian observatory for human rights that's where they get their information from these activists and eyewitnesses on the ground i think it's good for journalists to be open so that at the same time they do need to check them so i think there is a tendency for. the media in this country in america to accept more uncritically the views of activists on the ground in the case of syria and also around because it they're seen as anti western regimes whereas if it's in the case of things like

palestine for example they far far far less regular for them to take the views of activists on the ground how willing has the foreign media would you say i mean its consumption of the figures published by the azhar we group a lot of the mainstream news channels were taken in by is very and he's appeared on the b.b.c. and he's appeared on zir english and c.n.n. and probably others. as a spokesperson for the. grammy or direct lines since he was never a spokesperson for them his kind of narrative which has become increasingly shrill working it plays into the narrative of to do something we meaning you know the west or the british government or the american government or whatever we need to intervene and we need to do something it plays into that kind of narrative i mean for example you periods last month on. our stream t.v.

and the news there were genocides which of what's happening now i mean. and that seems to me exaggerated for all the crimes of the bashar assad regime is kind of seems to be inflating it which to me is is damaging to your position and that's what people who i've spoken to who are either part of the opposition or sympathetic to the opposition that's why they kind of they don't like this kind of approach because the crimes of the regime and bad enough without some kind of. using words like you know the syrian observatory their original program for science to me that they're against in the flood zone and that's part of it doesn't seem to be picked up by the media in general that although they quote their figures a lot they don't quote the fact that they said explicitly to me in heaven crapper said to me where we're against a no fly zone we don't want

a war in this country we want we just want democracy. so again the media seems to be quite selective of the parts that they pick. and it does i suppose the reality of. bloodshed on the ground has those planes or it into what's going on in the u.n. to a certain extent but i think there's greater political forces at play here how damaging could a foreign intervention be in syria any military intervention in syria would be. very much for the worse a curt's. regional conflagration. and it could even increase support for the regime and we saw we see what happened in the case of iran's government as well as opposition. from within

the there is rhetoric from the outside of threats of either bombing from israel and . the u.s. well with all this talk and even. threats i loused regimes to then say are look you have to support us because otherwise you're going to go in are going to get bombed and over these opposition people they're not genuine opposition they're just agents and so on and so forth so. i think that outside intervention. in terms of whether it's just the so-called no fly zone or any kind of military intervention would very much make things worse. the arab league solution to the syrian crisis is for the present and sad to see power is declining is that fair i think that's a way of keeping the regime in place and changing the figurehead and that seems to be very much the g.c.c. plan in yemen for example where they wanted. to step down and. essentially to keep everything apart and it would have its vice president was. the

resume regime essentially staying the same visit look what's going on in the region is very much a counter revolution to the wave revolution this wrecks the region the whole are full sense. the tunisian uprising was successful in the closing. of in every there's a very powerful can't a revolution which is led by saudi arabia backed by the americans. and also by a in a more indirect way by israel. the aim of this counter-revolution is by all means to keep regimes in power and if necessary shedding their heads but and so you see that happening in egypt where the military rulers were able to preserve themselves by dispensable and i think these same powers ribs they are open so that happening in syria keeping the same there only care about them up three percent they just want whatever whatever is best for their interests and if if there would

be a more manageable. regime which then had a different figurehead they said we go for that and when stanley thank you thanks. resistance politics club culture. this comes. on its own. cultures of resistance on mars. most of the. sun's technology innovation all the muslim elements from

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the. party's top stories russia says it regrets the arab league winding down its observers work in syria and stresses the proposed peacekeeping mission can be the quote only once the government and opposition forces agree to a cease fire. firing protests in athens followed by chaos including a public outrage escalates after the create parliament passes a new austerity bill secure another you bell out. handling big values undermined this summer's games and london bridge is being marred by a controversial sponsorship deal with a chemical giants linked to one of the world's worst industrial disaster.

the next it's the latest sport with dimitri. follow this course and i'll see thanks for joining us at this hour coming up in the program. changed angie reports claim former aide to the manager fabio capello is on the brink of joining the big spending russia premier league side. trade range with some saliva played seven times it's a champion close apart i think not guilty verdict and then a trend that should be more still. in golf phil mickelson the wings of the full title of his career as he claims that probably national in california. so we start with football according to sources in russia fabio capello could be about to become the next manager of which color and meeting of the club's management and players

he's currently taking place within announcement on the future of europe the sins are expected late on monday capello reported arrived in moscow on saturday and is due to held talks with the darkest article richard but hopeful it has caught up with old school its former coach of countries their neighbors terry gross and the dutchman believes would be joining a league that's going from strength to strength. it was a great experience. to work with world who want to learn yourself about the great experience with only a little luck you can see big muscles it got some. good. news a lot sometimes capello just resigned and someone you would. expect to get. the courage rebuilt with before the world cup for the european cup. it's difficult being we've grown.