and so sara he protested across europe as thousands the man alternative to severe countries from debt ridden greece to belt of work at the e.u. summit is due to take place this thursday. new international envoy to syria kofi annan bastid towns launching dialogue between us here in government and from the opposition meanwhile the army ones it will cleanse or rebel strong in the sea stronghold in the city of homes where the authorities claim armed terrorists are operating. also the case of a palestinian detainee and hunger strike or draws widespread attention to israel's conversely detention policy holding palestinians without official charge or trial.

and inter-breeding the russian protests with the presidential election just around the corner would give an overview of what exactly is driving people to the streets on mass. which you know if you live from moscow the reason joshie greece continues its race for cash is 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 the lawmakers rush to fulfill promises made to get the second bailout anger grows among the greeks who call themselves captives the economic crisis and are just home garden reports their message echoed all across europe. in belgium protests saying austerity cuts have gone too far in cities all across france and especially big demonstration in paris with the same message thousands of

students on the streets in spain wanting to reverse cuts in education spending there and huge demonstrations in portugal spain and portugal people there really feeling the pinch share as their governments try to balance budgets and cut spending but it's left them it really exposed to this debt crisis and no more so than here in greece in the parliament behind me the lawmakers have once again sat late into the night having to really make savage cuts to their spending all across the sectors of the economy a twenty two percent cuts in the minimum wage has been made thirty two percent if you're under twenty five in greece and a half of greeks under twenty five are employed we've seen doctors coming out in a twenty four hour walkout massive cuts made to health care spending and to pharmaceutical spending there's many more examples everywhere you look in the

economy lawmakers having to take very painful steps to try and force greek government spending down all of this linked to the one hundred thirty billion euros second bailout that's being dangled in front of greece's nose here there's a real human impact to all of these economic measures greeks are being forced onto the streets just like people in spain in portugal in italy in france in belgium all with the same message these austerity measures are having a really harsh human cost no market reporting there a lawyer and professor of constitutional law george truong allah says what's happening on the streets of your shows greece can no longer be singled out. again for the good people of the peoples of the south. the expansion of that is the stuff of the people shows clearly that the goose is not an exceptional

county it is not the great basin of europe this is in a way the mirror of the future of the rest of you look. look at is used to this experience of newly but only as an experiment of the most extreme measures of that everyone's of the markets the problem is that the reaction of the people does not get personally to do a viable political argument with the opposition is fragmented have not managed to construct a persuading. but i have hope for the future because this movement of the people from below i'm sure that we are going to pull in to the political foreground new political powers. and his latest protest took place on the eve of the e.u. summit starting with here today and i have a meeting the e.u. commission president says a mile garozzo admitted sacrifices are being made on an unfair basis as artists are stealing our reports from brussels aside from public anger and there are also major

divisions among the politicians themselves. that's days the start of a two day summit leaders are expected to sign a fiscal 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 czech republic of the u.k. are expected to sign on to this agreement the euro zone 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 will be put into place in july for it to be increased profits of the current five hundred billion euros by adding on to what is left of the some. two hundred fifty billion euros for the money has been used for bailout for portugal and ireland so putting it all together would make seven hundred fifty billion euros whatever germany is now willing to agree to this point saying they have. to do so

and it's also as willing to increase its share its contribution to any of the parts that's also been reported that you will finance ministers will be meeting ahead of the summit to have discussed greece to see if it has met with the conditions needed for it to get its one hundred thirty billion euros the second one of its kind. s.r.c. reporting there one nation plans to lend a helping hand to struggling economies later today on the kaiser report maxim stay to discuss what lies behind a 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 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 was the method of colonisation it's one method it's you don't have to

send in the tanks there are no turning because this is a claim it's a war and the credit default swap and the derivatives are the blitz they destroyed greece with naked credit default swaps paulson lloyd blankfein of goldman sachs big they destroyed another scarfing up and serving it up to the germans who were 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 they're getting ready to help spain. syrian troops are advancing on a key rebel held neighborhood in the city of homs and a government official warned the area will soon be claims the city has been the scene of untanned certifying 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 the joint in an air about buoyancy area as valid to pursue dialogue between the authorities and the opposition during years of coming visit to the country and says talks between the sides are central to the nearly year the long crisis. reports from new york. where kofi annan the u.n. secretary secretary general ban ki-moon addressed journalists 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 in a dialogue now 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 according to several reports this new draft resolution will reportedly concentrate on supporting the humana. hereon access into see 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 attacks that puts blame 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 strike another veto to put them in a position where they must support any text that western countries to draft a lots of more discussions taking place within the united nations and outside of and of course it has more information becomes available we will print to our viewers coming attraction here contributing editor with syria comments on line magazines as desire sound foreign states to push for president asif departure they have a coffee and mediating mission to syria place an equal. except it is almost a friend to us i mean because there because she took on many things they are trying

to be a little bit more friendly than they have been until now. we'll see if that opens the door for anything but i think i know the military view you have just stated one thing to arm the opposition rather than talking prison systems at the end of the day syria is too big to fail it's not eleven and they can they can afford to have chaos and they're going to for us to i cannot imagine them being able to leave the stables and studio so they would try to increase the temperature for the regime that was then more arms even if it goes to set off a system is toward a war and i think. later today r t former u.s. attorney general ramsey clark shares what he believes is behind a continued violence in syria watches interview next hour here on r.t. . israel is under fire from human rights groups for its kind of a 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 cover for imprisonment are these are

really goes takes a closer look at the case. hundred lines wife wishes she could forget the day she was arrested but it's a memory that just won't fade but. some of the soldiers came to our house around to my husband out of the bathroom and led him away who were many of them all of dogs they all acted like animals. israeli authorities have already arrested hundred eight times before believing him to be active within the palestinian islamic jihad a group israel regards as terrorist how that none was put under administrative detention meaning no trial and no charges being brought a practice widely used by israel it imprisons like this one but hundreds of palestinians are being held suspected of terrorism by the accused of not doing their prison can last for years with no formal charges being brought against them there's a tension 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 in administrative detention but during the height of the second intifada or uprising just over a decade ago thousands were put in jail without trial many of them youths woke up their eyes he's who was just sixteen when he was arrested. or used to frighten us terrified by screaming. pushing us and forcing us to be. keep us in cells for two or three months in order to take confessions by force we were so frightened imagine a free young person who suddenly finds himself in jail israel insists is 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 palestinians it's one of the basic moral principles that we you know that our society is founded on but if you deny a person's right to freedom you have a very good case and you have to have

a trial and you have to defend themselves against these accusations. when palestinians are placed under administrative detention they're not told what they're suspected of there is no charge sheet and there's no trial as long as family know awaits his really silly. you never know what it's like with hunger strikes it could end well but at the same time you cannot explain to your children why their father looks so we may see them and when they saw him on his hospital bed he cried i couldn't have known said his sixty sixty holger strike was not in self interest but to draw attention to other palestinians in similar circumstances is a hospital of the moment legal to walk and has been fed intravenously but there is already talk of moving him back to prison while he recovers his lawyers say that at least his shackles have been taken off even if only for the time being illegal score a t israel and the west bank. kind of version of the tensions could soon become

a place in the u.s. where the national defense authorization act coming into effect this thursday a lot of 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 having a cancer backdrop of ramped up and there were any rather it from washington from director sharon stone who recently made headlines for publicly embarrassing as are embracing as arm has told r.t. the timing is no coincidence. point is 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 its border and threatened by israel america to me it's very dangerous time and we don't recognize what the causes consequences will be not only not only be generally but to the world what's happening is we are you know enough said martial law and war globally and be a national defense authorization act that obama has called for and signed

stipulates 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 it is corpus process so we are now in the state of martial law everything is now in keeping conditions for a total war state i mean you can call for the whole of america becoming part of the so-called battlefield that america is the battlefield the whole earth is about a field so rather than try i'm worried that what's being done is that rather than trying to address our economic continued economic depression and the reforms necessary to mess that we were trying to do that is create martial law state using using hiran as a terrorist enemy or a threat so you see everything is now in motion as a pretext that you can go in martial law here and war abroad and obviously the world broad has tremendous consequences because if you attack iran hezbollah and hamas and israel which then brings in america potentially russia into the equation so this is a horrible situation people are paying educated as to what's really going on.

remember you can log on to r.t. dot com for more news stories and comment anytime you want online for you right now massive privacy breach asked would reportedly trade is a multi-billion arcot causing outrage across the globe discover who bought the data on our website. and there's also now our valuable item for grabs as auction house sotheby's prepares to sell. the scream for the staggering price tag. how this year's presidential campaign in russia has already delivered the usual cannon promises and rather red but has also been marked by a growing chorus of public opinion with the election only three days away argues jacob reeves takes to the streets of moscow the setting for some of the biggest

protests in the country's recent history to gauge the mood in the capital. was a poll a time there was a notion that russians weren't all that bothered about politics but now that seems to change this year's race for the presidency has caused intrigue and i ever since vladimir putin and now to be running different words have been splashed about characterize the campaign so far and here are some of the most distinctive p. is for public we've seen increasing number of people pay to the streets both full and against the government all this working a growing sense of civil activism these rarely this flesh will sound a powerful signal not only for what you can put in but all the russian politicians message in a sense that they help understand that the site has a vacant political what is. bar 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 can be on the ballots over all a dark mikhail prokhorov has garnered vast media coverage as the only candidate not backed by a party in a duma his message is business orientated but he is often being hindered by a shady past and has struggled to resonate with the public twitter it and other social media have been crucial for all denies in demonstrations and 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 of planning made sure of his pain in the spotlight after allegations of electoral fraud were met with an action this is force the see a buzzword for prime minister vladimir putin's campaign so far deemed by many who

restored order after years of hardship the power of this was. resumes just have to popular man still is. testing the splits his peculiarity it's been a difficult period for bradley in a two term president not used to such discontent moscow and st petersburg in the big cities that really only that these are not really his 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 why he will probably manage to win with the you know somewhat majority at this election is that one of the best slogans from the appropriate camp is if not putin who. three other candidates are also seasoned political veterans struggling to convince voters he can deliver change and all those stones that make this the most offensive words 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 impacts on russia's future do you agree moscow are seeking to get some other stories from around the world peace officers were injured in the stand while a bomb strapped motorcycle exploded in front of turkey's ruling party headquarters it's believed the attackers used a remote controlled detonator to set off explosives as an anti terror police bus drove past the device no one has claimed responsibility for the attack. ensuring clashes have erupted as thousands protested against the construction of a new high speed rail road connecting italy and france at least temple and several demonstrators have been injured in a skirmish there were really has been blocking highway linking the two countries for a few days and straighter say the construction could potentially harm the local environment . egypt has set

a date for the first presidential elections the country will see since the ousting of hosni mubarak last year the landmark polls are scheduled to begin on may the twenty third if no one manages to secure the majority of votes around who will be held in june with the final results announced and the month it gives military to power from the top president last february but we're popularity has dramatically declined. our crossing out of the business ask me to get the latest on what's happening in the world of business so we three european markets have now switched into positive territory and it changes in russia well not years actually it seems a correction was the too long in the making in russia and you know vs need to let this steam out so what we're seeing right now is is still losses this take a look at those figures the odds years is still declining around one percent one point two percent to be exact my six is down point six percent or so sick of what

the main movers are on the my say it's well first of all gazprom it has filed a lawsuit against splitting lithuania's gas company in which the russian firms owns a looking stake is down twenty percent gross telecom is also down half a percent after announcing that its tariffs have increased around six percent and bucking the trend as a group for a second day it's gaining or have to leap of more than four percent to that's after the bank announced it intends to buy a part of the company now in europe as you said fairly the markets have moved into positive territory with the footsie of point two percent is mostly driven by emanates walk shares of cable and wireless worldwide there are eighteen percent on reports that communications may make a bid for the u.k. group now moving over to asia with markets are closed in that still showing a negative picture at the close the nikkei is down point one percent it's a bit better than chinese stocks because we could get. supporting shears and hand

saying down one point three percent we have a report of china's manufacturing purchasing managers index coming out of the jewel report one from the government saying it expanded and one more trusted from h.s.b.c. saying that it's down actually forty nine point six means there's a contraction in manufacturing in the u.s. very important session of course on wednesday and on the line following chairman ben bernanke he's speech where basically he indicated that there's very little chance of a new wave of one for the easing therefore a lot of money was moved from commodities into the dollars take a look at what's happening in the currency the dollar is still strengthening for another session in a row. now actually these are apparently the latest figures showing that the euro is one back a bit of its position you can see that just a notch higher versus the dollar although one choose a close a one point three four still far from that we have before the ruble is weakening versus the dollar by twenty three copecks almost a percent and

a bit stronger versus the euro now in commodities as i mentioned a lot of money was taken out of gold it was down eighty dollars yesterday it's now back up around twenty dollars one half percent after losing four and a half percent the previous session think about silver and oil is not providing much support to the russian markets by just a knowledgeable light sweet sixty eight cents for brant as you remember well of course a crucial sector for the russian economy and once again dependency on natural resources has been named as one of the principal risks for the russian economy by moody's ratings agency it says that this factor will keep the country's growth volatile despite current financial stability now meanwhile the u.s. is becoming less dependent on its imports of oil and gas in fact the country exports it more products that are imported in twenty eleven for the first time since nineteen forty nine that's six decades the country's refiners exported

regular amounts of gasoline heating oil and diesel to meet high global fuel demand while u.s. fuel consumption sank. but on the other hand trade between russia and the u.s. may soon get a boost secretary of state hillary clinton insists congress should lift the jacks and banning commandment in regards to russia as it's joining the world trade organization and this amendment i just remind in visitors certain trade discrimination rules and now may actually disadvantage u.s. companies dealing with russia according to hillary clinton who says the amendment should be lifted as soon as possible. so i've got for you this hour we will be back in around fifty five minutes time join me if you can headlines are next on r.t. .

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