tally a thing by firing tear gas into a crowd that was obviously in total and dozens of injuries we also saw dozens of buildings the flame all of 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 socialists because of his they repelled against this latest measure of was there was he 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 three those who are being affected are those who 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 and have austerity measures for a number of years impose them by international bodies and hasn't been that many

positive financial indicators since we see 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 will be expected to pay for all these bailouts germany's finance minister is clear about promises aren't enough anymore saying that greece must now implement reforms of it's to prove it's not a bottomless pit john laughlin from the institute of democracy and cooperation says there are more radical plans currently being brought up by the germans. there is one theory and i then some credence to it that the germans who are calling the shots on this do indeed want to force greece out of the euro there is a lot of bad feeling towards streets by germans by germany and vice versa and there is a theory that certain leading german persian politicians want to lodz the boil and get rid of greece if that is the calculation in other words to force greece to

leave the euro if that is the calculation i fear that it's a mistake because the problem in the euro zone is not a greek problem it is a structural problem in the euro zone these debt problems which various countries are suffering from including of course italy but also portugal spain and these problems are the inevitable consequence of the way the euro is structured they are the inevitable consequence of it and the measures which are being required of these countries to as it were remedy the situation are only making things worse so even if greece were to be forced out of the euro my prediction is that the markets would then realize that the euro zone is not impregnable and would turn their attention to other countries as well whose position is very similar in particular portugal or it is cross stark also focusing on greece's financial predicament coming your way later today the hidden costs of the bailout rescue. these changes clear in germany you give me the cash to survive given my debt problem i'll give you my sorry city

but will the public actually comply will they agreed to accept the pain of this and will they agree it is to remove the most important sovereign aspect which is your risk or your project to try to cross in brussels that are not answerable to your population through a landslide they're not managing the greek economy there's nothing that's right here my it's a might be provocative here but that's all it is the latest if you're dreaming of a monetary fund. population decline is one of the toughest problems facing russia in the long term but the disturbing trend can be reversed according to the country's prime minister the latest campaign article in a bid to return as president vladimir putin has put forward plans for a social reforms he hopes will significantly improve the country's demographic situation. we. propose measures include better welfare for

families with many children and smarter immigration policies including the repatriation of russians abroad the article titled building justice also focuses on salary hikes for teachers and doctors as well as making housing affordable to everyone by twenty thirty putin has ramped up his all action campaign in the light of mass opposition protests as political analyst dimitri babich explains now mainly addresses russia's middle class. my whole point is that we did know in the stands that he's a doctorate right now it's not the reach you know reach c.t. people he's a lead trip these are the real russian middle class you know people who believe in small towns who have a really hard time. with their market economy seats so i hope he's economic policy will move a little more to the net you know we've had former finance minister who did we had that different people to the right know if we believe what we should writes he

wants to get the state support of some more cohesive real electorate which means you know the nossal of the russian people take a look at some other stories making headlines across the globe the islamic militant suspected of developing the bombs used in the two thousand and two bali attack is on trial attackers the top remaining suspect in the bombings which killed more than two hundred people he was arrested last year in pakistan while trying to meet osama bin laden three other suspects had already been tried and executed. the families of the victims of a submerged coaster can courtier cruise liner are marking one month since it is that they're staging a ceremony at a church near the crash site off the western coast of italy meanwhile operations to pump almost two and a half thousand tons of fuel from the stricken vessel have begun seventeen people died fifteen remain missing after the liner ran aground the captain was said to be among the first rule fled the ship and is now under house arrest.

kareen is up next with all the latest business news stay with us. for a welcome to business here in r t thanks for joining me this hour there's been a burst of interest in russian shares since the beginning of the year with earnings growth in the u.s. and progress with europe's debt ceiling appetite for risk this is help reverse the trend in capital for last year more than eight billion dollars led the country so far this year there has been an inflow of one billion dollars and tackle he challenge from the nation's asset managers the perception of russia is changing. there has been a change of rocky two towards the russian equity market since the beginning of the year and. demonstrated by the fund to bed the russian equity market has outperformed other markets in the world so to give you a flavor of russia nearly twenty percent since the beginning of the year whereas

the u.s. market has gone up only by seven percent since the beginning of the certainty over the weeks and seems to have subsided it's very much market expectations now and they're putting what come back is president and the one difference which we have relative to the stime last year is the. expectations for the form one since the break president. let's have a look at the markets knowledge strange rates for us the euro is gaining value on easing fears over the greek debt crisis and strong performance person who will hire against the good pm to seize wall has recovered from a day long concerns growing at a ban on the way of crude make up supplies like fruit is trading currently under one hundred dollars a barrel grant is over one hundred eight. u.s. stocks are higher after greece's parliament approved austerity measures financial stocks are on the rise as of bank of america just nearly three percent at the start

of the trade tech stocks are higher as well which as of apple leading the advance apple rose nine dollars a share clearing the five hundred a share mark for the first time. and here again shares are trading higher as well up to mrs approve those unpopular staring bill banks are among the main gainers across europe miners are also high as the stronger you will help boost the price of copper and other natural. here in moscow markets close in the black with mars it's gaining the most in five weeks and agent majors among the biggest gainers let's check the index movers on the rise it's problem. ended high on the. yes it's your can market share in part four percentage points to twenty seven percent last year nor a squeaker russia's biggest mining company advanced the most in a month and higher prices for nickel and polish gold ended lower on news merger talks between the company and another line of putting metal collapsed. now moving

on to russia's fast growing food retail market which keeps on luring foreign investors seven eleven is one world renowned food chain are thought to be eyeing up the market that's according to media reports the company hasn't officially confirmed the rumors last year the retailer said its priorities were preserved when india analysts say that seven eleven will have a hard time if it does develop a food chain in russia alone they add that the most logical move would be to team up with an existing market player they have houses the former chief of russia's biggest retail group x. five this is now the senior vice president at wal-mart believes there are just a couple of ways to enter the country's market i'm not only the way for and from pressure market for the. but least visible on the market or dragon for leadership position is through vision of some of existing players. and to just e-commerce

solution where you don't need your store special saw i think within the. next year or some other company a small thing for both of us markets around the way to win through the market. well that's all the news for now but remember you can always find one stories on our website r.t. dot com it's past presence that someone. would never.

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eight thirty pm in moscow the zero g. headlines israel accusing iran of being behind plot attacks targeting israeli embassies in georgia and india in which four people are thought to have been injured. leg russia says it regrets the arab league winding down its observers work in syria and stretches a proposed peacekeeping mission can only be deployed once the government and opposition forces agree to a cease fire. the fiery protests in athens followed by chaos and looting as public outrage escalates after the greek parliament passes

a new austerity bill to secure another e.u. bell up. next senator be with investigative journalist a so when stanley focusing on the turbulent situation in and around syria stay with us. today i'm drawn by a so when stanley an investigative journalist rajan on the middle east and his latest piece delves into the discrepancies and asks the casualty figures in the syrian crisis a certain things as being 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 it can't necessarily always be trusted why is that i think first of all we have to establish who really is this the syrian observatory for human rights. in our investigation and we didn't really uncover any particular reason to doubt the genuine observatory's figures. but there is another group led by this.

sort of very as figures a slightly higher than the original interest groups the syrian observatory for human rights led program. makes a point to be they say you know they're independent they're human rights and so they were called all deaths whether they're soldiers syrian soldiers in order to the regime or the defectors or their protesters where as. now as our eads group claims they did as well but their figures for the number of. military day were much much lower. this seems to be you know a certain agenda there and behind it all seems to me basically that 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 problem to people so no fly zone just seems the political pretext to get very to me. and the original syrian observatory for human rights because it is against that there's a risk listen he said we don't support a no fly zone they said that's a million songs of the least these two sorry these two groups they both seemed to. although they deny direct links to different factions of the opposition we're seeing their position seem to line up why hasn't this internal reform within the syrian opposition been more widely reported do you think it's damaging for the potentially damaging for the original syrian observatory for human

rights if they get into a slanging match about well with just two sides fighting each other sort of thing i mean they would they i mean they they didn't want to sneak a very very to mean the original syrian observatory group because of that so that's one factor another factor is just embarrassing for example for the b.b.c. to say rugby and probably check this guy and we've put him on b.b.c. news channel as a spokesperson for the syrian observatory which has become a really highly. sauce in news can we still trust that they think there is a good question and i think i think it still needs to be looked into more i think it's very difficult but this is this is a ration 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 civil war i think what is what is good that it's journalists are open to the views of activists on the ground to riches i mean essentially what was the syrian observatory for human rights that's where they get their information from these activists and i witness is on the ground i think it's good for journalists to be open so that at the same time that 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 iran 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 it's far less regular for them to take the views of activists on the ground how willing has the foreign media would you say been in

its consumption of the figures published by the zawi group a lot of the mainstream news channels of were taken in by his area and he's appeared on the b.b.c. and he's appeared on zero english and c.n.n. and probably others. as a spokesperson for the curia he's very of the reference who says he was never a spokesperson for them his kind of narrative which is becoming increasingly shrill working it plays into the narrative of what we need 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 and it plays into that kind of narrative i mean for example periods last month on. australian t.v. and the news there were genocide which of what's happening now i mean. and that seems to me exaggerated for all the crimes of the bashar assad regime he's 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 jennifer the syrian observatory regional group represents 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 call their figures a lot they don't quote the fact that they said explicitly to me you know i haven't crocker said to me that we were against a no fly zone we don't want to war in this country we want we just want democracy. so again that the media seems to be quite selective of the parts that make it. does i suppose the reality of. bloodshed on the ground does does

play into 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 in syria any military intervention in syria would be. very much for the worse the kurds. the regional confrontation. it could even increase support for the regime of the country we saw we see what happens in the case of iran on the roads opposition to. from within the there is rhetoric from outside of threats of either bombing from israel or the u.s. with all this talk in the media. threats allows the regimes to then say oh well look you have to support us because otherwise you're going you know you're going to

get bombed and oh well these opposition people they're not generally opposition they're just agents and so on and so forth so. i think and i saw intervention. in terms of whether it's just a so-called no fly zone or any kind of military intervention very much to make things worse. the arab league solution to the syrian crisis is for president assad to see power is that putin is that fair i think that's a way of keeping the regime in place and changing the figurehead that seems to be in very much the g.c.c. plan in yemen for example where they wanted. to step down. as a thing to keep everything for and of apparently his vice president was and they resume regime essentially staying the same is it that what's going on in the region is there's very much a cancer revolution to their way of revolution the sweats the region the whole arab

world since. it is in it rose in the successful in the program. in every. there's a very powerful counter revolution which is led by saudi arabia backed by the americans. and also brought. in more in their way by israel. the aim of this cancer revolution is by all means to keep regimes in power and if necessary shedding the head and so you see that happening in egypt where the military rulers were able to preserve themselves spencer and i think these same powers would they are open so that happening in syria can the same there really care about democracy perceiving just want what i was pressed for their interests there and if if there would be a more manageable. regime which then had a different figurehead they certainly go for that and it's winstanley thank you thanks.

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accusing iran of being behind bomb attacks targeting israeli embassies in georgia and india in which four people are thought to have been injured. russia says they were gretz the arab league whiting down its observers work in syria stressing a proposed peacekeeping mission can only be deployed once the government and opposition forces agree on a cease fire. look fiery protests in athens followed by chaos and looting as public outrage escalates the top of the greek parliament passing a new austerity bill to secure another bailout. sports news next with dmitri stay with us here on r.t. .

well they're good company again that's all the latest on the boxing was there an article in the next eleven minutes coming up in the program. called change the reports claimed former england manager fabio capello is on the brink of joining the big spending in russia premier league side. a. big seven trying jujitsu champion call of the start of the inaugural and then a championship in moscow. and in goal phil mickelson wins through title of his career claims that pavel beach national being. so we start with football i called into the sources in russia father capello could be about to become the next manager of the high collar scene of the club's management and took

place with an official announcement on the future of coach would present an expected later it's believed left the club by mutual consent. reportedly arrived in moscow on saturday and it had been claimed they were due to hold talks with the dirtiest on a club sixty five year old there has denied those rumors saying he's in switzerland on politics. in the meantime rubbings europa league match will impact cause and threat due to the freezing conditions in the country the match was not from concern to moscow because of that like of adverse weather but as richard reports now temperatures reaching minus thirty two degrees celsius after the game in doubt. temperature in the russian capital has plummeted of the last week and monday was a coldest day yet of moscow's experienced this when term the close was certainly prepared for whatever the weather could produce been seeming to.