massive protests and rallies spring up all across the european union as incessant cuts hit millions it's a putting a huge question mark over brussels and forceful austerity to mark. french offices are reportedly detained in the heart of the uprising in syria while the u.k. withdraws its embassy staff all that amid a rising international chorus calling for the rebels to be on. israel faces international criticism over its policy of detaining suspected palestinian militants indefinitely and without the chance of a truck. also was russia's presidential vote nears we take to the streets of moscow to gauge the mood of the people in a restless country recently awoken from

a political slump. and it's good to have you with us today this is r.t. i'm a real researcher and live in moscow pensions wages workers' rights and now health care all have been slashed over the past few days by the greek government desperate to appease its international paymasters but the cuts are taking their toll because the economy is in a state of freefall with near daily strikes and protests as artie's top bottom reports and the austerity sentiment is now reverberating all across europe. in belgium protest 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 pain chair as their governments try to balance budgets and cut spending that's left them really exposed to this debt crisis no more so than here in greece in the parliament behind me the lawmakers have once again sat late into the night coming to really make savage cuts to their spending all across the sectors of the economy twenty two percent cuts in the minimum wage has been made thirty percent if you're under twenty five in greece and 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 are coming to take very came full 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. warning right there what i mean time lawyer and professor of constitutional law georgia. says the greek government's response to the crisis is turning the country into a third world nation. unfortunately all the of the good. stuff and in most fifty percent of video goods innovation is unemployed it's just imagine the result of your. actually things much much worse now

a wave is theatre at a public school in their computers that are going in the obviously. cannot feed themselves so that's the motive that we are going to put into we cover images will fit the world the only said thing is that the existing political system cannot anymore express their will of the people i think that this force or. one of these latest protests come as the e.u. prepares for yet another summit that's starting today more on the trials and tribulations still ahead for europe's elite let's now go to our correspondent tess are celia standing by for us live in brussels right. good to see you are some might say that it's already been the perfect storm in the making or what is the political forecast for the next two days. well the next two days today is the start of the summit yet another one african leaders still discussing the same old thing but today the main thing they're going to they're going to do is to the

signing of that fiscal treaty that they've been talking about for months now this essentially means a new budgetary rules that countries are required to strictly adhere to and no excuses this time and if they if they don't follow those rules there will be automatic sanctions are excited about the twenty five or the twenty seven in the nations are going to sign on to this fiscal compact with two countries that are not going to do this or the u.k. and the czech republic if they heard prime minister david cameron said that he's going to be watching very closely to make sure that this does not undermine the single market now ireland is expected to sign on to the agreement however they did announce that they will for the referendum on whether to ratify this treaty in order for it to comments were fact now sherrilyn say no so this treaty it will be outside of the pact however it will also lose that access to any funding should it need a second bailout in the future an hour prior to the start of the summit in the euro zone after i announced ministers of also

a big meeting to discuss greece and they're going to check on whether greece has a member all the requirements that they have put forth in order for the country to get the bailout i would carry this signing of the treaty is what in the e.u. leaders have been talking about for months pushing for however we just signing it is not going to quell the string of questions that still rise eventually do you think this treaty as well as other issues that still need to be dealt with. if previously you some it's already things you go by the bickering among readers is usually long and painful. if you know. we can. be. a little less dramatic. no one if any harm if the main agenda signing the fiscal compact agreed in december last year putting into place tough

new budgetary rules and automatic sanctions to get everyone to clean up their act all the two countries are expected to give it the go ahead event needs to be ratified by at least twelve years old nations before it could come into effect something seen as a done deal but the main question is is it going to work and what we have to see now to which extent member states liable to respect it because it's easy to convene come here and agree on all those principles of the only country that is likely to have a balanced budget through this germany this balancing act will not be easy to pull off reducing deficits to three percent level required by the e.u. means having to squeeze already dry public coffers in several countries. and this is what could keep happening in big and small numbers. even eventually that. it might take time off every piece.

of it while workers demand pro growth policies international observers have another approach to the crisis beefing up of the euro zone's financial farwell's mainly increasing the permanent fund the e.s.m. from a scalp of five hundred billion euros but germany has opposed such a move yet another euro deadlock they don't feel the urge of see anymore and that's because of the success of the for injections of liquidity from the european central bank as economists were really look to see that the e.c.b. central bank operates too much because their own markets. east and there is the politicians both feel the urge to see any more for real before for now the e.u.'s plan is to impose these structural reforms and watch like

a hawk or they may see such fiscal consolidation as a necessity in fixing the root of one problem another one may reroutes head further down the road and these member states will rule sovereignty in the field of budgetary policy i'm not so sure that all the dutch are going to be happy about it or what our french i'm very sure the french are going to be unhappy about this at this point one may be hard pressed to find anyone who isn't. lesser cilia r.t. brussels. from the onset of the euro crisis keeping greece afloat has been trumpeted as a communal effort by the e.u. but in that spirit one hundred and sixty german tax collectors have volunteered to help athens in tax collection of fifteen thirty g.m.t. the kaiser reporter looks into just what that help really entails. 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 math and 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 not that it's you don't have to send in the tanks there are no turning because this is a financial war and a credit default swap in the derivatives are the blitz big destroyed greece with naked credit default swaps bank paulson blankfein of goldman sachs big big destroyed group that 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 spain.

power ten minutes past the hour here in moscow this is r.t. the new u.n. and arab league envoy to syria kofi annan says he will make his first visit to the country quote fairly soon he says he will do everything possible to stop the killing and start a dialogue between damascus and the opposition about the country waits for him to arrive there has been some of the heaviest fighting yet against the backdrop of foreign calls to arm the rebels artie's where if an option of reports from damascus . well the latest we are hearing from holmes is that the army has entered the town in order to regain control over its security forces are now raising the houses as they say in search of militants and weapons we've been receiving information that during this operation in homes the army has detained prange officers on the ground

the local media has been reporting that these people have been circulated and as the themselves have been claiming they've been taken captive by opposition fighters but at the same time they haven't specified their mission and the goal of their mission on the ground the joint u.n. arab to see record. that he'll be heading to syria very soon and the goal of his mission will be to stop the bala's trying to negotiate humanitarian aid axes to the areas he by the clashes and to try to push the two sides position fighters and the authorities to talk to the dialogue meanwhile fears are growing in that this dialogue idea dialogue solution is not aligned with foreign calls to get to the rabble as we've been recently hearing from qatar and saudi arabia and arab league that arm in the opposition fighters here in syria is and that's a lens idea we're hearing from the free syrian army members as well that they

already received backgrounds and aircraft missiles from u.s. and french sources that is worth a national reporting can i ask this well i mean i'm a. contributing editor with online magazine syria come and the desire of some foreign states to push for president assad's departure could ultimately. mediating . by sending coffee and who's accepted by is almost a friend to us already in the past they've negotiated on many things they are trying to be a little bit more friendly than me until now. we'll see if that opens the door for me but i think i know they're not straight yet you have qatar and saudi arabia still wanting to arm the opposition rather than to talk to present us ups at the end of the day syria is too big to fail it's not a lebanon because they cannot afford to have chaos and it went on for years too i cannot imagine them being able to live with scales in syria so they would try to

increase the temperature for the regime that would send more arms even if it goes to said if it's not missed for a while i think it's right that. we discuss the intricacies of america's relations with syria with a former u.s. attorney general that of ramsey clark the interview with him are coming your way in about fifteen minutes time. also are coming up a little bit later in the program here on r.t.e. of the fierce anti iranian rhetoric coming from the israeli government finding a little support from the people i think polls suggest the idea of airstrikes on the islamic republic extremely unpopular president twenty percent of israelis saying yes to the minute. when israel is looking up suspected palestinian militants giving them no idea how long they'll be held or what they're accused of international concern peak twenty one percent recently came close to death following a sixty six day hunger strike off these are really going to school right to meet

his family. hugger loans wife wishes she could forget the day she was arrested but it's a memory the just won't fade with. the soldiers came to our house around to my husband out of the bathroom and let him away there were many of them old guards 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 hundred nine was put under administrative detention meaning no trial and no charges been broad a practice widely used by israel it imprisons like this one but hundreds of palestinians are being held suspected of terrorism but accused of nothing their prison can last for years with no formal charges being brought against them its attention 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 of their aziz who was just sixteen when he was arrested. or used to frighten us terrified by screaming eagles pushing us and forcing us to the ground they 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 suddenly find himself in jail israel and sisters doing nothing wrong and that it's necessary to protect informers identities but human rights groups both here and abroad to differ slightly not only as 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 founded on that if you deny a person's right to freedom you have to have a very good case you have to have a trial and you have to let them defend themselves against these accusations. when

palestinians are placed under administrative detention they're not told what they're suspected of there is little charge and there's no trial as long as family now awaits his really silly parole. officer because 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 whether a father looks so we may see it on the sign on his hospital bed he cried i've covered non-surgical his sixty sixty hunger strike was not in self interest but to draw attention to other palestinians in similar circumstances he's in a hospital at the moment unable to walk and is being fed intravenously but there's already talk of moving him back to prison when he recovers his lawyers say that at least his shackles have been taken off even if only for the time being here goes court t israel. and meantime less than a fifth of israelis support

a unilateral military strike on iran while the vast majority are against an attack and fear of the consequences that is the result of a poll taken ahead of a crucial set of meetings between u.s. and israeli officials about iran's nuclear program a film director sean stone the son of all of us stone and a recent islamic convert shares the concerns of most israelis. point is to prevent or stop but i think it's we are walking into world war three at the moment between syria being destabilized and iran it's on its border being threatened by israel america to me it's a very dangerous time and we don't recognize what the crisis consequences will be not only regionally but to the world what's happening is we are now in a state of martial law and war a global everything is now it could preconditions for a total war state i mean mccain called for the whole of america becoming part of the so-called battlefield that america's our battlefield the whole earth is a battlefield so we're already at war with iraq you can't engage people

diplomatically if you're already trying to isolate them and what do you basically creating is more radicalism on their part because you're trying to push them into a corner a very minor if you've missed any of our stories just log on to our web site and it's you don't come to bring yourself up to date somebody items are waiting for you there right now for example stirring up the past the latvian president sparks outrage saying world war two veterans who fought alongside nazi troops are not criminals i deserve respect more reaction to that on line plus the occupy wall street movement heads out of the police winter months as hundreds take to the streets to stage yet more protests. in a few moments at the world update her and for now russia is gearing up for its big

election day when the people choose their next president but this year's race has already brought huge changes in the political life of the country that have seen some of the biggest demonstrations in its history jacob also took to the streets of moscow to check the predeliction temperaments. once upon a time there was a notion that russians weren't all that bullshit about politics but now that seems to change this year's race for the presidency has caused intrigue and i ever since found of it who did announce to be running different words have been splashed about characterize the campaign so far and here are some of the most distinctive p s four public we've seen increasing number of people take to the streets both for and against the government all this working a growing sense of civil activism these rarely these flesh will sound a powerful signal not only the way they were pulled in but all the russian

politicians message in a sense that they have understand that the fight has ever taken that political law 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 agog mikhail prokhorov has garnered vast media coverage as the only candidate not backed by a party in the duma his message is business llorente to it but he has often been hindered by a shady past and has struggled to resonate with the public twitter it 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 it's head flatten made sure of has been in the spotlight after allegations of electoral fraud

were met with an action this is for stability a buzzword for prime minister vladimir putin's campaign so far. to restore order of the years of hardship the power of this. resonates just how popular man still is. testing his splits his popularity it's been a difficult period for vladimir putin a two time president not used to such discontent moscow and st petersburg and the big cities that really only key but these are not really his territory anymore and he 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 the other russia strange phrase for putin the russia of the region why he would probably manage to win with a you know a recent majority at this election is that one of the best slogans from appropriate at camp is if not putin who. three other candidates are also seasoned political

best friends struggling to convince voters they can deliver change and all of those stands make this the most definitive word so far in the election count marked by mass there astray since protests regardless of the winner and the results on the fourth of march these guys have had their say and how it impacts on russia's future do you agree moscow. and forget the case here with the markets let's do the r.t. was up it for you right now are starting with new delhi where seven exiles are protesting the indian government has to meet with the chinese foreign minister to improve ties the demonstrators say discussions between the two countries shouldn't be held until beijing gives freedom to tibet the ongoing unrest in the region expected to feature amid the talks. to turkey to a remote controlled bomb exploded. wounding fifteen police officers and one

civilian it was mounted on a motorcycle. close to the headquarters of the country's ruling party as a police vehicle passed by the blast comes amid calls from turkish kurds for autonomy and a crackdown on kurdish rebel group the p.k. k. . police or fire tear gas rock throwing protesters in the city or in the north of azerbaijan. demonstrators burned the house of a local golf and occupy the town they're angry at perceived insults from the official police were called in to contain the ten thousand strong protest which led to clashes and ministry right troops are now being deployed to. ok let's go now to. latest on all the markets for us or so after the recent address by three chairman ben bernanke you can see what is the mood on the markets like today yes well i think it's the size of makes me. different reactions will get

started with the russian markets then also you optimistic out slavery they are indeed trading in the red this hour with my six down around. in the red stocks as well as see how they're faring from earnings in the rest of us down after of course in its net income rose fifteen percent to ten billion dollars on the back of high or prices the result came below forecasts go call too far vasculitis the best performer first day and use the. most important part of the company is how it is here to see how. they are up this hour as investors await the u.s. jobs. begin to take on the labor market in the u.s. going to find out how the u.s. is fairing just under two hours time listen how they finished up yesterday. it was a negative close and as you can see by the dow days on the rise that in negative territory you see how the exchange rates are getting all the year is flat against

the dollar on profit taking after a huge cash injection why the european central bank the ruble is gaining value against european currency is retreating against the dollar you can see that it's check out gold but gold still in the black art of pulling back from a fall of five percent in the previous session the problems came after u.s. fed chairman bernanke you failed to signal further flying in hopes of more monetary easing as you can see silver just recently slipped into negative territory that as for oil let's see how about sparing this hour in positive territory saudi arabia support the most oil rigs in four years as it prepares for shortages caused by tensions with iran was in other news sticking with the will the u.s. exported to more gasoline diesel and other fuels on its imported in twenty eleven for the first time in its six decades because refiners exporting records amounts of

gasoline heating all and diesel to meet higher global fuel demands why u.s. fuel consumption sank it was sticking with the u.s. sixty of state hillary clinton is says congress should lift the jaxon van amendment in regards to russia as it's joining the w.t. this amendment visit certain trade discrimination rules and now major suit valon to u.s. companies dealing with russia clinton says it should be done a.s.a.p. all right then so are we back in about fifty five minutes with more market update sound more news from the business.

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