and hysterically protests week across europe as thousands demand alternative to severe cuts in countries from debt ridden greece to belgium where he keys summit is due to take place this thursday. new international envoy to syria kofi annan val's two teams launching dialogue between the syrian government and the opposition meanwhile the army warns it will cleanse a rebel stronghold in the city of homs where the authorities claim armed cherries are operating. also the case of a palestinian did any end hunger strike or draws widespread attention to israel's car version of the kitchen policy for holding palestinians without official charge or trial. and inter-breeding a russian protest with

a presidential election just around the corner given over a year of what exactly is driving people from the streets now. this is r.t. coming to you live from moscow and i am in the russian capital i'm marina joshie greece continues its race for cash as the parliament approves the latest reforms needed to please international creditors a painful bill reduces health care services as well as cutting pharmaceutical spending and as lawmakers rush to fulfill promises made to get the second bailout anger grows among the greeks who call themselves captives of the economic crisis are reports from athens. the greek parliament you can see behind me is no stranger to protests and indeed how been protests throughout the day and throughout greece doctors have stage walkouts as have many public sector workers local councils were

occupied across greece with the message really these cuts in a these cuts in pensions are simply going too far we're talking about a twenty two percent cut in wages across the board in the minimum wage and unions have turned out very very concerned over that protesting outside the parliament and outside the european commission's building here a lot of flak being directed at perceived interference from brussels from other eurozone capitals in what is perceived to be a greek problem that should be sorted out by greeks i was talking to the federation police chief the police protesting here in central athens they're usually on the other side of the barricades and he was telling me that some of his members i face in a terribly bleak future not even able to put their meals on the table and he didn't said the police federation wouldn't rule out even perhaps withdrawing some of its

services essentially a partial strike from the police this is the strength of feeling here and they want to try and send the message that these economic measures must not come without consideration for the human costs here. and how syria and there has been resonating across the e.u. even of last political engine room brussel saw hundreds of union members gathered in the city center in paris thousands took to the streets in support of all europeans affected by the people budget cuts the error message echoed in portugal and spain with thousands of students protesting against reduced education spending more and professor of constitutional law at george says what's happening on the streets of europe shows greece can no longer be singled out. again for the good people of this of. the expansion or for going to is this those of the people shows clearly the goose is not an exception of the

it is not the great basin of europe is in the way of the future or that is the view look the european model has used these experiments over newly built of these results an experiment of the most extreme measures of the pentagon's of the markets the problem is that the reaction of the people because look at closely the value of the political argument the opposition is struggling to. get to minus the two. but i hope for the future because the movement of the people from below i'm sure that we are going to be in. for a brand new political force. now his latest protest to place on the eve of starting later today and ahead of the meeting the e.u. commission president jose manuel barroso admitted sacrifices are being made on an unfair basis as r.t. says are so you know reports from brussels aside from public anger there are also major divisions among the politicians themselves. that's a day's the start of

a two day summit where readers are expected to sign that the school stability pact agreed upon after the summer of nine summits it's an agreement of new budgetary rules are expected to be strictly adhered to now all but two of the e.u. countries the republic of the u.k. are expected to sign on to this agreement the eurozone summit is not going ahead because of the sticking point between germany and the rest there are growing calls for the european stability mechanism this is the permanent bailout fund that would put into place in july fourth to be increased from its cost of the current five hundred billion euros by adding on to what is left of the temporary fund called the . hundred fifty billion euros for the money has been used for bailout for portugal and ireland putting it all together would make seven hundred fifty billion euro the other germany is now willing to agree to this office going saying they have. to do

so and it's also as willing to increase its share its contribution to any of the funds it's also reported that he was a bonus ministers will be meeting ahead of the summit and would discuss to see if it has met with visions for it to get its one hundred thirty billion euros in the bailout the second one of its kind presidential reporting there now want to e.u. nation plans to land a helping hand to struggling economies later this hour here in our report next and stays we discuss what winds behind the seemingly friendly gesture here's a preview. the german government is prepared to send one hundred sixty financial experts to greece to help the country overhaul its tax collection well actually this is the british method of imperialism they would send people to help the poor indians they would send people in to missionize and help the kenyans you know this is the method of colonization it's one method it's you

don't have to sunder the tanks there are no turning because this is a point you know it's a war and the quote of the false work and the derivatives are the blitz they destroyed greece would make it credit default swaps paulson plan of goldman sachs they destroyed another scarfing up and serving it up to the germans who are the local raj we're going to be managing these poor schmucks down there in athens while they get ready to invade spain tenderizing spain they're going to help spain oh excuse me they're getting ready to help spray. syrian troops are advancing on a key rebel held neighborhood in the city of homs as a government official warned the area will soon be clients the city has been the scene of intensive fighting between the regime forces and the opposition for almost a month now activists claim hundreds of people have been killed in the army

shelling while the government says its military action is tackling armed gangs and terrorists meanwhile jointing an arab and when syria kofi annan has vowed to pursue dialogue between the authorities and the opposition during his upcoming visit to the country and says talks between the sides are essential to and the nearly year long crisis are his very important reports from new york. went out kofi annan and the u.n. secretary secretary-general ban ki-moon addressed journalists at united. nations mr anon said that his assignment is a very difficult one and it will be a tough challenge to bring peace to syria but he said the first thing that the international community must do is to help stop the violence and facility a humanitarian process and work in syria a peaceful solutions that mr anon says can only come about by bringing both

sides to the table having the syrian authorities and the syrian opposition finally once and for all engage in dialogue kofi annan also said that if the international community is going to succeed we must accept one process of mediation otherwise the parties can play between mediators in the meantime there have been reports of a new security council resolution being drafted by the u.s. and france of cording to several reports this new draft resolution will reportedly concentrate on supporting the humanitarian access into into cities in syria the draft text also does indicate that the assad government is the cause of the crisis now we do know history has shown that russia and china have not

and will not support any text that puts cooling on one side of the conflict in syria many analysts believe that the aim of this third resolution is to make it hard for russia to another veto to put them in a position where they must support any text that western countries to draft lots of more discussions taking place within the united nations and outside of in it of course it has more. information becomes available we will print or if you are free of the now reporting there and now to discuss developments around syria joining me now is hong kong based political commentator frances we're going to have you with us in the program sir now the u.s. and france are working on a new resolution wish which russia and china could find hard to veto now the question is how likely is regime she can down the syrian regime for violence without putting and blame an armed opposition.

i think what what russia. on the same side is that the. u.s. to impose its will. actually on the world. everybody to follow the u.s.'s leave and of course what they're doing is that they want to put you in this solution. that is neutral in for. china and russia to support. you give. the illusion of a united front by the five permanent members of the u. but but but but the fact is that behind it is really the american will to try to impose a solution on syria the u.s. and its allies keep on saying russia and china are isolating themselves by opposing change in syria what is your opinion on this. well it is

called for. a rush to. solution on syria in. the you as. a public opinion on their side because because it is the syrian government ted king. severely and so so so so is it is difficult for russia to be on the side of the big. question but the fact is china and russia not. changed what happened in libya in libya. the u.s. and nato allies were able to impose a friendly government care without going to war and this is what really

russia and china he said i guess because russia and china do not want nosheen change in syria. to change to one that will be friendly to do you as nato allies are speaking more about this position and you asked in fact has been highly critical of russia and china stand on syria calling as their veto crawled to speak of all so how is this likely to. impact the beijing size with washington and what effect is this likely to have them. well well i don't think it will really impact that much because you really need china's help in bringing north korea to the bargaining table all for north korea's. nuclear program. yesterday the u.s. announced that the north korea's going to have bentleys nuclear program so i think

you as and china are much closer on the call the impression. on the seal in question although china the u.s. . but it is not really as political as the north korean question so i thought we will have a long think you or me to impact. the relationship. right now finest are alone china has endorsed kofi annan as a special envoy to syria so how effective you have been including he in mediating peace in the country. because i know who use any significant grease. really in their past year show himself to be. willing to meet any compromise to meet the opposition all go on several days they're going to. referendum but i will read

them was really just a show without any substance over the. cling to power we tried to cling to power what whatever leads but the syrian opposition we would not accept us for rule and the long term so i think it is a great exercise in diplomacy that will actually pull would not produce a concrete results for instance one hundred congress political commentary thanks very much indeed for sharing your thoughts with us here on archy. israel is under fire from human rights groups for its controversial policy of holding suspected palestinian militants indefinitely without charge the issue drew international attention after a palestinian man was left clinging to life following a sixty six day hunger strike against his car version of imprisonment. takes a closer look at the case. hundred lines wife wishes she could forget the day she

was arrested but it's a memory the just won't feed the baby they are some of the soldiers came to our house around took my husband out of the bathroom and running away there were many of them all of drugs they all acted like animals. israeli authorities have already arrested harder and eight times before believing him to be active within the palestinian islamic jihad a group israel regards as terrorist hundred nine was put under administrative detention meaning no trial and no charges being brought a practice widely used by israel in prisons like this one but hundreds of palestinians are being held suspected of terrorism but accused of not doing their prison can last for years with no formal charges being brought against them the detention can last up to six months but there is no limit on how many times it can be renewed at the moment more than three hundred palestinians are illustrated potentially during the height of the second intifada uprising just over

a decade ago thousands were put in jail without trial many of them youths broke up there as he's who was just sixteen when he was arrested. that used to frighten us terrify a splash creaming is pushing us unfortunately. they keep us in cells for two or three months in order to take information that force we were so frightened. of free young person suddenly finds himself in jail israel insists it's doing nothing wrong and that it's necessary to protect informers identities but human rights groups both here and abroad beg to differ slightly not only is extreme but also because israeli authorities applied all too liberally towards postilions it's one of the basic normal principles that we you know that our society founded on that if you deny a person's right to freedom you have to have a very good case and you have to have a trial and you have to let the find themselves against these accusations. when

palestinians are placed under administrative detention they're not told what they're suspected of personal charge and there's no trial as long as family know awaits his really silly parole. you never know what it's like with hunger strikes it could end well one of the same time you cannot explain to your children whether a father looks so when they see it when they saw him on his hospital the crime. could that have not answered his sixty sixty hunger strike was not in self interest but to draw attention to other close to in similar circumstances is a hospital the moments are legal to walk and is being fed intravenously but there is already talk of moving him back to prison or when he recovers his lawyers say that at least his shackles have been taken off even if only for the time being it is. israel the worst. kind of earth or the tensions could soon be commonplace in the us was the national the fans authority act coming to effect this thursday for

water many fear spells the end of american democracy grants the government and the military unprecedented powers to detain us citizens indefinitely without trial all this is happening against a backdrop of ramped up and iranian rather rick from washington film director sharon stone who recently made headlines for publicly embracing islam has told r.t. the timing is no coincidence. also points to prevent or stop what i think is we are walking into world war three at the moment between syria being destabilized and iran and on this border in threaten israel america to me it's really a very dangerous time and we don't recognize what the causes consequences would be not only not only regionally but in the world what's happening is we are now in a state of martial law of war a global e. and the national defense authorization act that obama has called for and signed stipulates that even american citizens can now be targeted by the military picked up and imprisoned indefinitely without civilian trial thus throwing out our due

process or his corpus clauses so we are now in the state of martial law everything is now it could put in conditions for a total war state i mean mccain called for the whole of america becoming part of the so-called battlefield but america is now a battlefield the whole earth is about to feel so rather than try to what's being done is that rather than trying to address our economic or continued economic depression and the reforms necessary and that's the cli what we're trying to do there is create martial law state using using iran as a terrorist enemy or threat so you see everything is now in skin in motion as a pretext that you can go to martial law here and war abroad and obviously the world broad has tremendous consequences because if you try to iran hezbollah and hamas and israel which then brings in america potentially russia into the equation so this is a horrible situation of people not being educated this was really born. and i mean you can log onto our t. dot com for more news stories and comment any time you want and so online for you right now nasa privacy breach twitter reportedly trading multi-billion tweet are

causing outrage across the globe discover the data on our web site. and there's also in our valuable items up for grabs as auction house out of these prepares to sell ad word monks scream discover the staggering price tag. this year's presidential campaign in russia has already delivered the usual candidate promises in rather a but has also been marred by a growing chorus of public opinion with the election only three days away r.t. jacob graves takes to the streets of moscow setting for some of the biggest protests in the country's recent history to gauge the mood in the capital. once

upon a time there was a notion that russians weren't all that well that about politics but now that seems to have changed this year's race for the presidency has caused intrigue and i ever since found to be uprooted and now has to be running different words to be splashed about characterize the campaign so far and here are some of the most distinctive he is for public we've seen increasing number of people take to the streets both full and against the government at least marking a growing sense of civil activism these rarely these flash mob sounds a powerful signal not only the regular pulled in but all the russian politicians message in a sense that they have understand that the site has a break and that political law is. oh it stands for reform on the back of demonstrations president medvedev has put forward a number of electoral changes stretching as far as how parties are registered and

who could be on the ballots all agog mikhail prokhorov has garnered boss media coverage as the only candidate not backed by a party in the duma his message is business orientated but he's often been hindered by a shady past and has struggled to resonate with the public twitter and other social media have been crucial for all ghanaians in demonstrations it embodies the very public and spontaneous nature of some of the opera felt around russia he stands for election commission the ruling body overseeing voting day its head planning made sure of has been in the spotlight after allegations of electoral fraud were met with an action this is forced the penalty a buzzword for primus the air pollutants campaign so far seen by many who restored economic order of the years of hardship the power of this was resonates just how

popular man still is. testing despite his popularity has been difficult here for bradley hootin a two time president not used to such discontent. moscow and st petersburg and the big cities that really only these are not really us territory anymore i mean maybe he'll get them back but it seems to me that he's sort of thinking that he has to rely on almost the other russia strange phrase for putin the russia of the region right he will probably manage to win with the you know reason with majority at this election is that one of the best slogans from the appropriate camp is if not putin who. three other candidates are seasoned political veterans struggling to convince voters they can deliver change and all those stones that make this the most definitive word so far in the election. marked by mass there astray since protests regardless of the winner of the results on the fourth of march these guys

have had their say and how it impacts on russia's future do you greece moscow. house take a look at some other stories from around the world egypt has set a date for the first presidential race is the country will see since the al sing of mark last year of landmark polls are scheduled to begin a main the twenty third if no one manages to secure the majority of votes there are four we held in june where the final results announced at the end of the month egypt's military took power from the toppled president last february by their popularity has dramatically declined since then. the first one time a high value prisoner with a legit lengths to nine eleven mastermind has pleaded guilty to terrorism charges. was reportedly in exchange for his sentence being reduced to twenty five years the pakistani national is now expected to testify against his fellow prisoners khan has been in u.s. custody since two thousand and three and claims he has been psychologically tortured during his attention. to remain clashes have erupted as thousands

protested against the construction of a new high speed rail road connecting italy and france at least ten policemen and several demonstrators have been injured in the skirmish the rally has been walking the highway linking the two countries or a few days demonstrators say the construction could potentially harm the local environment. now it's time for financial gates where is it we have video calls crusted of this is to invest now so it's really hard to you know are a market still down how are they doing at this moment they are still down there actually when even deeper down we are seeing them i say it's now down one point two percent the r.t.s. around two percent we'll look at that in more detail first global markets in asia it's pretty much in line with the global trend in asia we're seeing the nikkei down point two percent was the only market showing some gains in early trading supported by a weaker yen shanghai also is down as is hong kong or more than one percent after reports from the private sector. were bought by h.s.b.c.

of purchasing managers index showed a decline to forty nine point six and that means manufacturing in china actually contract for yet another month now in the u.s. the markets were also down after the fed chairman ben bernanke the speech indicated that there's a very little chance of a third wave of quantitative easing and therefore a lot of money was transferred into the dollar from assets like gold for example that these commodities gold declined more than eighteen dollars in the previous session now showing some recoveries you can see there two percent when it fell four and a half percent in the previous session while at the moment is not showing that much movement and therefore not providing support to the russian market is actually a decline we're seeing right now light sweet bertie eight cents lower this hour now what's peculiar is that the u.s. exported more gasoline diesel and other fuels than it's important in twenty eleven for the first time in sixty years since one thousand nine hundred forty nine actually sixty three years the country's refiners exported record amounts of

gasoline using oil and diesel to meet high bluebell fuel demand while u.s. fuel consumption consumption sank now what we're seeing in currencies right now is the euro is slightly recovering versus the dollar although we are not seeing the level that we saw yesterday morning for example one thirty four and the russian ruble is weakening versus the greenback following. ben bernanke in speeches into the twenty seven factual one percent now when it comes to the russian markets they are not unexpectedly showing a decline of more than a one half percent of the r.t.s. and one percent for the my sex of the my six is getting some support from the weaker ruble if we look at the main story right now agricultural from what i was going guy is showing again another session of gains more than four percent it's the you pretty much the only stuff is showing gains this after. the state bank intended to buy a part of the company in that announcement was made and was selling homes down point seven percent but better than the market of directors of the company approved

the purchase of cable t.v. broadband provider national telecommunications company around fourteen billion rubles or off the. top view this hour we will be back in fifty five minutes time will not make the headlines on x. i'm not. the only.