massive protests rallies across the e.u. about the cuts affecting millions is putting a question mark over brussels a forceful demands for austerity. french officers are reportedly detained in the heart of the uprising in syria by the u.k. withdrawal of all of its embassy staff all that amid a rising international course calling for the rebels to beyond. israel faces international criticism over its policy of detaining suspected palestinian militants indefinitely and without the chance of a trial. also i was a russia was a presidential vote nears we take to the streets of moscow here to gauge the mood

of the people in the rest of this country recently awoken from a political slant. from moscow this is r.t. with worldwide news rule recent showing a second day of strikes across europe as a walkouts paralyzed transport from athens to rome there are some of the biggest public demonstrations in recent history protesting against desperate government cuts to budgets designed to appease international paymasters and the measures are taking their toll and saudis time bottom reports the austerity sentiment is reverberating 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 they're really feeling the pinch here as their governments try to balance budgets and cut spending that'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 twenty two percent cuts in the minimum wage has been made thirty two 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 having to take very came full steps to try and force a greek government spending down all of this linked to the one hundred thirty billion euro 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 now. is tom part reporting well i mean time lawyer and professor of constitutional law georgia ca truong guard says that the greek government's response to the crisis is ultimately turning the country into a third world nation. unfortunately. of the greek suffering most fifty percent of the geiger generation is unemployed it's just imagine that these are the official big true things that are much much worse my

wife is theater other public schools. that are going to. obviously hunger. to feed themselves so just imagine that we are a country with. images of the world the only certain thing is that the existing political system cannot anymore express their will of the people i think that this force or. these latest protests congress the e.u. prepares for yet another summit that's starting today correspondent has more on the trials and tribulations still looming ahead for europe's early today is the start of that summit yet another one african leaders still discussing the same old thing today the main thing that go if they're going to do is to be signing of that fiscal treaty that they've been talking about for months and this essentially means a new budgetary rules that countries are required to strictly adhere to no excuses

at this time and if they if they don't follow those rules there will be automatic sanctions how it's expected that about the twenty five and twenty seven 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 until her prime minister david cameron said in the past that he's going to be watching very closely to make sure that this is not undermine the single market however signing this treaty is not going well that string of questions that low rise and still are rising with the introduction of this agreement as well as other issues that still need to be dealt with here is more about. if previous east summits are anything to go by the bickering among readers is usually long and painful so busy being canceled should be. given no. we've less been newsroom. last summits. i'm sure you agree a little worse drama will do no one any harm. and the main agenda

signing the fiscal compact agreed in the summer of last year putting into place tough new budgetary rules and automatic sanctions to get everyone to clean up their act all but two countries are expected to give it the go ahead if then needs to be ratified by at least twelve years old nations before it can 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 members phage 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 a 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 mentioning that. it might take time off every piece. because while workers demand pro growth policies international observers have another approach to the crisis beefing up of the euro zone's financial firewalls mainly increasing the permanent fund the e.s.m. from its copper five hundred billion euros but germany has opposed such a move yet another euro deadlock they don't feel good you see anymore and that's because of the success of the three injections of liquidity from the european central bank as economists were really reluctant that east the e.c.b. several brain operates too much because their own markets

east and the. politicians don't feel the urge to see any more for real reform 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 ducks are going to be happy about it although to 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 just our cilia artsy brussels. well from the onset of the euro crisis keeping greece afloat has been trumpeted as a communal effort by the e.u. but in the spirit one hundred sixty german tax collectors have volunteered to help athens and tax collection of fifteen thirty g.m.t.

the kaiser report looks into just what that help really mean. 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 math that of imperialism they would send people to help the poor indians they would send people in to missionize and help 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 and the derivatives are the blips they destroyed greece would make of credit default swaps hank paulson blankfein of goldman sachs they've 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 your stock tenderizing spain they're going to help spain

oh they're getting ready to help spain. exactly ten minutes past the hour here in moscow this is our to the new u.n. arab league envoy to syria kofi annan says he will make his first visit to the country fairly soon he says he'll do everything possible to stop the killing and start a dialogue between damascus and the opposition of a country where it's for him to arrive has been at some of the heaviest fighting yet against a backdrop of calls to the rebels in damascus as artillery for. the latest we are hearing from holmes is that the army has entered the town in order to regain control of rate security forces now raids in the houses as they say in search of militants and we've been receiving information that during this operation

eight homes the army has detained plain officers on the ground local media has been reporting that these people have been interrogated and as they 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 joins us. to see record. that he'll be heading to syria very soon and the goal of his mission will be to stop the violence try to negotiate a military aide axes to the areas he by the clashes and to try to push the two sides the opposition fighters and the authorities just talk to the dialogue we want fears are growing in that this guy rundle idea dialogue solution is not aligned with foreign calls to give arms to the rebels who'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 learned idea we're hearing from the free syrian army members as well that they've already received a rapper and craftily solace from u.s. and french sources. very financial reporting right there will meantime come ill of tragedy a contributing editor with online magazine syria comment says the desire of some foreign states to push for president assad's departure could ultimately hamper kofi annan is mediating mission by sending kofi annan who. is almost a friend to assert. that on many things they are trying to be a bit more friendly than they've been until now. we'll see if that opens the door for anything but they sing and no they're not ready yet you have qatar and saudi arabia state want you to arm the opposition rather than to talk to present us that's the end of the day syria is too big to fail it's not eleven on because they can now for two have chaos and they're going to for years to write cannot imagine

them being able to live with scales in syria so they will try to increase the temperature for the regime that will send more arms even if it goes to sell if it's not missed for a while i think they will trade. and we discuss the intricacies of america's relations with syria with former u.s. attorney general ramsey clark you can watch the interview with him next hour here on our team also coming up for you shortly in the program here the fierce and the iranian rhetoric coming from the israeli government finding little support from people opinion polls suggest the idea of the airstrikes on the islamic republic extremely unpopular with less than twenty percent of israelis saying yes. that israel is looking up suspected palestinian militants giving them no idea how long they'll be held or even what they're accused of international concern piqued when one person came close to death following sixty six days on

a hunger strike how things are really going to went to meet his family. how there are laws wife wishes she could forget the day she was arrested but it's a memory the just won't fade but. the soldiers came to our house around two am my husband out of the bathroom and let him away there were many of them all of dogs they all acted like animals. really authorities have already arrested hundreds of 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 no trial and no charges been brought to practice widely used by israel it's imprisoned like this one that 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 this is 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 during the height of the second intifada uprising just over a decade ago thousands were put in jail without trial many of them youths woke up their eyes he's was just sixteen when he was arrested. i used to frankness terrifies by screaming. pushing us and forcing us to be big 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 a little snots a sorry 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 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 them 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 now waits his really silly parole a lot of 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 it when they sign on his hospital bed he cried i've heard none said his sixty six day hold a strike was not in self interest but to draw attention to other palestinians in similar circumstances he's at a hospital at the moment unable to walk and is being fed intravenously but there is 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 korea t. israel and the west bank now less than a fifth of israelis support

a unilateral military strike on iran the vast majority are against an attack in fear of the consequences but the result of a poll taken ahead of a crucial sort of meetings between u.s. and israeli officials about iran's nuclear program film director shawn stone the son of all of us stone in a recent is the convert shares the concerns of most israelis. 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 it's on its border being threatened by israel in america to me it's very dangerous time and we don't recognize what the causes 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. america becoming part of the so-called battlefield america's the battlefield the whole earth is about to feel so we're

already at war with iraq you can't engage people diplomatically if you're already trying to isolate them and what are you basically creating is more radicalism on their part because if you try to push them into a corner. and if you can master any of our stories just log on to our website r.t. dot com or you can bring yourself up to date some of the stories waiting for it for you there right now including stirring up the past a latvian president sparks outrage saying world war two veterans sued for alongside nazi troops are not criminals hundreds of respect a more reaction to that for you on the nine but also. the occupy wall street movement heads out of the bleak winter months as the hundreds take to the streets to stage more protests.

or far off from the world update here on r.t. for now though russia is gearing up for a big election day when the people choose their next president but this year's race is a really broad shoes changes in the political life of the country that has seen some of the biggest demonstrations in recent history. jacob greaves also took to the streets of moscow to check out the pre-election temperament. once upon 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 going to be a putin announced he would be running different words have been 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 for and against the government all this marking a growing sense of civil activism these rarely these flash mob sounds

a powerful signal not only providing a bulletin to all the russian politicians but message in a sense that they have understand that the site has a vacant political law is. bar stands for reform on the back of demonstrations present very of has put forward a number of electoral changes stretching as far as how parties are registered and who can be on the ballots all of garc we care proffer of has gone past media coverage as the only candidate not backed by a party in the duma his message is business orientated 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 denies in demonstrations as in bodies the very public and spontaneous nature of some of the uproar felt around russia he stands for election commission the ruling body overseeing voting day its head

planning made sure of his being in the spotlight after allegations of electoral fraud or met with inaction this is course the brevity of the prime minister vladimir putin's campaign so far seen by many a soul who restored economic order nothing years of hardship the power of this word resonates just how popular mobs delays. testing despite his popularity it's been a difficult period for vladimir putin a two time president not used to such discontent. moscow and some petersburg in the big cities that really only that 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 almost the other russia strange phrase for putin did 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 the

procurement camp is if not putin who. three other candidates are also a seasoned political veterans struggling to convince voters they can deliver change and all those stands to make this the most definitive word so far in the election campaign marked by mass there astray since protests regardless of the winner and the result on the fourth of march these guys have had their say and how it impacts on russia's future do you greece r.t. moscow. time before we get to katie and the markets let's do the world update here on our to you some other global headlines for you brief first in new delhi where tibet and exiles are protesting as the indian government prepares to meet with the chinese foreign minister to try and improve ties demonstrations so discussions between the two countries shouldn't be held until beijing gives freedom to divert the ongoing unrest in the region expected to feature. and to turkey now

where a remote controlled bomb exploded in istanbul wounding fifteen police officers and one civilian it was mounted on a motorcycle and went off close to the headquarters of the country's ruling party as a police vehicle passed by at the blast comes amid calls from turkish kurds for autonomy and a crackdown on kurdish rebel group the p.k. k. . two hundred people have reportedly been detained after clashes with police in the city of in northern iraq by john and the violence began after demonstrators in the house of a local governor and occupied the town hall they're angry at perceived insults from the official police then fired tear gas in a raging protesters at the ten thousand strong demonstration interior ministry riot troops have to be called in as reinforcements. right a look at the code you know standing by for us at the business desk hi to you i

know you've got the latest market figures for us but considering after the recent address by fed chairman ben bernanke here tell us what is the mood like on the markets today yeah well it is a mixed you actually today because markets are a little unclear as to whether or not constant easing is going to be in full so let's get started with the russell market is there not soon for us they are indeed in the red as you can see both the answers on the mice is down to see how the stocks and getting on that's the main thing in the red blue color is down after importance not. income rose to do percent to ten billion dollars on the back of high oil prices but the result came. about as why are you seeing a red colleges that agricultural farm rusty lake is the best before much rest second day on news that the bank intends to buy a part of the company see how europe is fairing and at this hour. far more positive on that ben bernanke you can see the first round of that are in

a positive territory though all eyes are we focusing on the u.s. as labor figures are coming out today let's see how the u.s. finished up yesterday as you can see it was a negative close they'll be closing up since day in just about an hour's time for how those figures are for you a strange writes them the plot against the dollar are not for profit taking off a huge cash injection by the european central bank the ruble is gaining value against the european currency but we're treating against the dollar now gold is indeed it's still in the black this after pulling back from a fall of five percent in the previous session because of the us federal reserve chairman ben bernanke is an announcement because he didn't signify whether or not we're going to see more pumping of cash more printing of cash because the silvas go back up it was in the red last hour. how is doing or oil is at this hour a saudi arabia or the most bull race in four years as it was the shortages caused

by tensions with iran i k than in other years with the stick with oil u.s. exposure more gasoline diesel and other few isn't it important points eleven now last the first time in six decades the country's refiners exposure to recalls amounts of gasoline heating all and diesel to retire global food demand u.s. fuel consumption signed interesting enough ok let's stick with u.s. news for now sixty of state hillary clinton says congress should lose. the jackson vanished and then votes in regards to russia as it's joining the w. is a moment in visions is that certain trade discrimination rules and now may disadvantage of u.s. companies dealing with russia clinton says it should be done i ask for a case here and i k. then i was always saying that u.s. is up for a short and they don't have those figures boy in the next hour join in about thirty five minutes time.

as russia votes for president r.t. looks at the five running for the kremlin top job the candidates. suddenly appear to a two time president now during prime minister and face of the united russia party . in the record. and points to stability he secured after the chaos a g.l.c. years praised for overseeing a booming economy the free style machine russia's presence on the world stage play the presidency modernization fighting corruption maximizing russia's impact in international affairs controversy criticized for centralizing power in russia and staying at the helm to long term lobel. for persona following the problems positions and aspirations of modern russia. presidential election two thousand and twelve.

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