welcome to the big. and the nato demonstrators clashed with police close to. go around a dozen injured more than sixty arrested after the city's biggest protest in years . president rafael correa is the latest to appear on julia. program to discuss. the controversy over his rule and just his presidency is not sitting well. spread. deadly street clashes between opponents and supporters of the neighboring syrian regime reach the streets of beirut. made up of

mainly new ministers but some familiar faces make a return as well. it's a pleasure to have you with us here on today. fresh nato marches on the doorstep of the block summit in chicago have descended into the worst clashes with the police in three days of protests activists say dozens have been severely beaten by baton wielding offices and around fifty people arrested. today certainly was unprecedented for a week of action taking place here in chicago along the sidelines of the nato summit what we witnessed was a march that lasted a few hours that was overall peaceful that ended with violent clashes between riot

police and anti-war protesters hundreds of police clashed with hundreds of outraged protesters there were tons being swung by police plastic bottles being thrown by protesters balloons being thrown of violence at least twelve people from what we know have been injured at least sixty people arrested there were several warnings from police coming that they might have to use chemical on the protesters unless they dispersed that had not been the case of violent clashes leading faeces a lot of chaos about one hundred one hundred protesters were really involved in the action whereas many of the majority of the ones marching were able to disperse before violence kick started here on the ground. he's an associate you're going to reporting right time american and he will activist sara flounders says the the u.s. government wants to pin the blame for the violence on protesters because it feels threatened by them movement. the very fact that so many thousands of people came

out from all across the country here's his war machine responsible for violence around the world from drone attacks to. wanting to attack so war in in afghanistan libya syria threats from iran and yet they are calling the demonstrators violent they have spent the weeks and weeks and weeks saturating the media here with wild completely inaccurate fabricated stories about how the demonstrators are violent they actually have charged young people with terrorism charges a million and a half dollar bail they kidnapped people right off the street to the lawyers spent days trying to find they would not have done that if they did not feel enormously threatened that right here in the u.s. there is a denunciation of nato of its moore's. on the final day of the nato summit members

hope to agree on an exit strategy for afghanistan and the lion's share of international troops are preparing to withdraw after two thousand and fourteen and by handing over security to afghan forces the alliance is also on vale the first stage of its ballistic missile defense system in europe with details on that is off he's got a teacher can. this is the first step of base multi-stage missile shield program in europe nato secretary general says for eighteen months they've been working on technical legal issues now they're on track to carry out the program in full the first stage involves mobile interceptors those are the interceptors and radars installed on ships the plan is to have a land based elements of the system deployed by twenty eighteen countries like romania poland the czech republic the netherlands those are going to be systems designed to intercept more and best weapons the missile defense shield that the u.s. is building in its in europe is a very contentious issue it's been

a point of bickering between russia and the us for many years now russia says the shield has the potential to offset the strategic balance that will make russia take steps to restore their balance that is to deploy more weapons something that russia doesn't want to do nato is saying that the system is designed to counter possibly a potential threat from iran but iran doesn't have the kind of weapons that the shoulder is intended for also the us refuses to give legal guarantees that the system will not be aimed at russia at some point so it's a huge issue which is not just about trust it's also about guarantees of galveston is at the forefront of this year's nato summit agenda its member states are going to coordinate this their steps of withdrawal the u.s. is the key member is of course calling the shots american troops are set to leave afghanistan in two thousand and fourteen but under their new agreement with ghana's then they will remain in certain numbers as the u.s. claims in in a supporting role the general perception among experts is that nato as war in

afghanistan has been a failure as much as the u.s. is trying to truly coat it with the eventual killing of osama bin laden still the war ended up in raging the local population fostering a new kind of extremism also drug production became rampant in afghanistan during the years of occupation and it's billions of dollars that go to support terrorists and organized crime networks around the globe that's the kind of against them. nido is leaving behind nato is also facing identity crisis in a way the alliance is supposed to be about defense but it has long taken up the role of an offensive force the bombing of libya had nothing to do with defending europe or north america you saw thousands of people in the streets of chicago protesting against nato because they fear that in order to sustain itself to make it to make itself useful be a lie as it is in the business of making wars rather than stopping them. to counter porting right well i mean time nato members have provided moscow with political

raavan legal guarantees that the system is not aimed at russia asia times roving correspondent pepe escobar says these assurances me nothing. nobody buys it the russians don't buy it the chinese don't buy it the iranians don't buy it and most of the developing world doesn't buy the fact is this is neat to expansion in eastern europe it's always been the case for the best stand fifteen years in fact so russia's going to have a response they're going to deploy russian missiles to kaliningrad near the polish border so we're back to the cold war in fact you can't take the cold war out of nato where you cannot take nato out of the cold war effect nato would like bases in the central asian stance as well this century shows are part of the myriad partnerships that nato has all over the world including all sorts of middle eastern and east asian countries the problem is they don't trust the pentacle just like

they trust hundred percent neither the russians or the chinese they want to do what comes next then says a lot see a factor of diplomacy which is big big powers against each other it is good to have you with us here on r.t. today are still to come for you old challenges for a new leader serbian president elect pledges to keep on course to the e.u. but experts wonder whether he can pull the country from poverty and corruption seen under his predecessor. and how just getting from a to b. in london can be a challenge of her cutely in proportions with fears that the city's transport system may collapse others from the surge of visitors such prepares to host the olympics. he's been called one of the most democratic leaders in latin america's history and is a champion of the poor horse president rafael correa appears on whistleblower julian assange just program on tuesday exclusively here on r t. two those are

trying to oust him strained relations with the u.s. so all sorts of attacks at every challenge let's go to london's london's artes and laura smith echoing on the program good to see you today i do tell us more about that interview what are we what are we going to learn from it. well as you said rory tomorrow is the sixth episode of julian assange his interview show and his guest is rafael carette who's the president of ecuador he is a controversial figure he's a left wing populist and one of latin america's most progressive leaders and he's actually a beneficiary as you might say of wiki leaks in that one of the cables released revealed that the u.s. had been supporting a structured campaign by a powerful businessman to destabilize korea's government back in two thousand and seven the us embassy cables also reveals that korea is the most popular president in ecuadorian democratic history but of course that popularity doesn't sit well

with everybody and in fact there was a police against him back in two thousand and ten accompanied by unconfirmed speculation that the u.s. which of course is never far from politics in latin america was somehow involved let's hear what career had to say about that. is the only country that can be sure never to have a coup is the united states because it doesn't go to u.s. embassy. in any event goes i'd like to say that one of the reasons that led to the police disc in turn was the fact that we can get all the funding for the u.s. embassy provided to the police but hopefully soon it was key units fully funded by the u.s. embassy has offices in command which chosen by the u.s. ambassador and paid by the u.s. if we did away with all that. policy here. after that coup korea kicked out the u.s. ambassador who was there at the time she had accused him of knowingly having

installed a corrupt police chief so that career himself could manipulate him career talks about the arrogance of the ambassador in that time when he when he told her that she was going to be kicked out and of course this is all part of a wider plan for ecuador to pull away from the u.s. to diversify investments and to get funding from countries like china brazil and of course russia. part of that also is a career as refusal to extend the lease on u.s. bases that are currently stationed in ecuador there are many reasons for that let's hear him talking about just one of them. is not a problem to set up a u.s. base and you could do we can give the go zones we were granted permission to sort of talk during military base in miami. unlikely that that's going to happen of course but joking aside this this goes back to korea's socialist roots one of the main uses for the u.s.

air bases in ecuador is to perform strikes on drug smugglers and korea has admitted that his father was in fact a drug smuggler and says that it's far from being a sort of sort of criminal overlords your run of the mill drug smuggler in ecuador is just a man or a woman desperate to feed their families so he wants to help them rather than punish them now that's just a little bit of this program he also talks about the media in ecuador says wants to dispel this image of big government persecuting saying leave journalists and news outlets and saying that actually it's the other way around that the media is often owned by big businesses and rich people who use it specifically to push their own agendas you can't have that now though you're going to have to wait until tomorrow the latest episode of julius on his program is going to be broadcast here on r.t. at eleven thirty g.m.t. .

there hasn't been anything good on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. before source material is what helps keep journalism on us we. we want to present. something of. i. live from moscow this is r t two people have died in fresh over my clashes in the lebanese capital beirut that's between opponents and supporters of the assad regime in neighboring syria the violence was triggered by the killing of an anti assad sunni cleric in the north of the country political analyst roula told yourselves the syrian regime if indeed it falls will send

ripples that will be felt well beyond its borders the violence in syria and the violence in the north was expected and delayed for a while it seems that whoever wanted to create this free zone in turkey and on the borders of turkey and syria or jordan and syria. have failed and is trying to build that free zone in northern lebanon in order to create the bridge between the fighters. related fighters who are coming from all over the world to fight against the syrian regime they want to create this freezone for them in the north and create the bridge between tripoli and. homs if assad is forced down this will not resonate in lebanon only it will resonate in the whole arab world we will have an islamic extremist. on the right islamic rule in the whole arab world

and this might also heard the interest not only of fresh air but the whole issue and we will definitely see later on some severe movements in as well trying to claim the money and this is a very serious time for lebanon syria the arab world but also the entire world this is a new world war. it's a quarter past the hour here in moscow russian president vladimir putin has unveiled a new cabinet while some familiar faces including foreign minister sergei lavrov remain it's all changed for three quarters of the government who are new our correspondent has more on that. out with the old in with the new with these appointments at the government seventy five percent of the knee minutes and many of the people be taking place in government for the very first time so really a significant shakeup in from in large part by the wife go process we've seen in the save in the recent months in the country and you know much more politically

engaged population that have really made their demands very clear and one of those was for a shift amongst the political elite that reflected that simone's well what they were calling for and so a lot of people going to be looking very closely now to see whether this is going to be the government that's going to be ok he's to. to working so well so reforms that they've been so loudly cooling for every sometimes loss of not so many places a place to stay we should expect expect to see some of these young mocha liberals the prime minister of the day this is baby during his term in the kremlin and now as prime minister is expected a lot of people will be taking the post some of the key minutes to have retained that efficient they still don't like a level and the role of this for a minute that bent the finance minister. others in big changes as he said seventy five of them even if they get a g minister has been replaced so these appointments now really going to be the

thing that. the president needs and equipment. for more on the russia's new policy let's talk to political commentators sort of a stroke and thanks for coming on the program today so a new cabinet any surprises as to who made it and who didn't well let me start by saying that from my point of view of this is the moves dramatic cabinet reshuffle the deck eat and what matters is not only the number of the new faces which is really amazing can you imagine three quarter new faces but the qualitative changes to my mind what is important that. we don't see in the cabinet is all powerful the great cardinal of russian politics. in the former cabinet secured the position of why it's previous at the same time we see that former presidential aide out of court which is appointed as the deputy prime minister. has a bit of tradition of that liberally minded economist so i think this is the strong signal both to russian society to the capital of business as well as to the world

that russia will not crack from the reforms what is also striking is that we normally see in the new cabinet deeply. interior minister. health minister so it shows that he's just able to. feel good from the society to take into consideration. all those there's a racial worst piece of that political figure of course because you know as we all know this was this was part of president putin pre-election campaign it was promising to do a big shake up he's followed through with that promise it has been a big shake up of the with his new cabinet though the unveiling of the new cabinet was fairly late wouldn't you say well this is north of the shake up for the sake of shake up and you're absolutely right that there was an enormous outcry of all of the presumed late appointment of the cabinet and added to the confusion of the story that we didn't didn't go to as you know two g.

eight summit in beirut but. we have to understand that this is this is this is where you were very difficult job just you have to think what would you every candidate who has to feed to the position so it requires a lot of negotiation a lot of discussion and believe me this is not the just building up of that notorious check and balance a system which we have seen during yeltsin but this is something more but if i may who is more to credit for the big change in cabinet here is it is it prime minister medvedev or is it president putin who. well if you will never find an answer to this question for a simple reason that condemn is work and condemn is the next thing you see it's like a like arguing which head of the russian legal is more important so what we see today is that really the system often them is these are working it is quite effective it might be criticized it might be ridiculed by someone but still still it is able

just to meet all those threats and challenges which are faced by the russian any ideas what we can expect from the new cabinet as it as it gets down to work while the first of course is that the new cabinet has to show that to russia with north korea for. spoken. drive this is one thing russia has to still be friendly to for in the west as this is the second point probably and third point is that still russia has to work at and to build up as a social of welfare states and meet all those explicate of those people who want good for like you to put it but he showed that he has guts for that political analyst thank you for coming on the program today thanks for having me. watching r.t. live from the heart of the russian capital a nationalist thomas love nichelle literatures defeated the pro e.u. candidates and incumbent boris tadic in serbia's presidential vote voters blame him for the economic downturn job losses and corruption during his two terms his

successor previously known for his anti western stance says however he won't lead the country from its european path political expert marco gas which says that voters had simply run out of patience with boris tadic which i. think the serbs realize that membership is not a panacea not a cure all for all evils in the system and there are many evils in the system i mean ex-president now as presided over eight years of poverty in which he's oligarchy have drawn all the financial benefits and they created a kind of replaced a kind of communism with a kind of corruption ism which has been very good for them and very bad for everybody else in the country and this really has been the problem for the population has been afraid of change but they also have been afraid of further poverty and despite promises of a new rose garden even the e.u. governments are very bare at the moment and target is offering looks even more bare

as a result. but before we get to katie with the business so let's kick off the artsy world update now with yemen a suicide bomber has killed at least sixty three during a military parade reversal in the yemeni capital sanaa the attacker reportedly wearing an army uniform blew himself up in the middle of a group of soldiers standing near the presidential palace it is not clear if the assailant was actually taking part in the drill this is the deadliest attack in the capital since a new president was sworn in this february. a second day of protests in nepal has turned violent after demonstrators clashed with local residents who oppose a general strike a call to demand a new ethnically based constitution the three day shutdown was called by the federation of indigenous nationalities which proposed a new stage to be formed on the basis of ethnic groups cars belonging to people thought to be breaking the strife were attacked and there were several arrests

violence on sunday so vehicles burned and around fifty protesters to take. over security of the r.t. business there's a good to see you today so new faces in the russian cabinet just unveiled in the past couple of hours as we've been hearing and what so what's the effect on the markets absolutely that's what we all want to know so that's what i'm going to be discussing today i want to talk about those people though for i want to talk about who these gentlemen are so let's talk through these new appointments in the russian cabinet now we do have some new faces as warry was saying these do include alexander novak he will become energy minister while will solve he goes to the economic development but the main position of finance minister is still on so we want all of our cow the volkova which is now a deputy prime minister with a wide brief in economic matters formally he was dmitri many medvedev presidential aides and he has a reputation as a reformer ok so just to discuss this in

a much more do you sell i'm now joined by chief economist jacob knell from morgan stanley hello to you now those quite a few new faces of those just talking about is this the capital it's a push through the reforms. i'm sorry i couldn't hear you can you just repeat. i was just. i was just talk about the new faces in the cabinet do you think that this is the cabinet to push through reforms. i think the the jury's still out on that i think it is favor you have a lot of continuity here because you have to follow officer first deputy prime minister to develop the privatized ation program a lot of called each medvedev some economic advisor who is now. in charge of the economic ministries in government and he will also have a bell who saw new laws in the prime minister's office working on financial economic issues and and of course in

a one off to use twenty five year veteran of the ministry of finance so these people have all been involved in developing the reform plans so i think that that element of continuity is positive it means that the chances of implementation are reasonably high and i think the only problem is that they haven't been tested yet in battle and therefore the market i think is probably withholding judgment and the want to assess the reform pretensions of the government on the basis of delivery of the government's ambitious reform programme rather than on the basis of the appointments welcome to cities of the say experienced members of the liberal see. as far as the market reaction to say sol there hasn't been much as you were saying do you think that's a good thing. well i think it's probably to be expected because first of all the vietnam misty front page article this morning was a pretty accurate reflection of the actual appointments that were made so there

wasn't a that short term element of surprise and secondly we've been going through a periods really from all this last year of development or actually before that when medicare first outlined just what my zation program at davos last or just last january two thousand and eleven of development of an ambitious reform program and personal changes in government in total i think is one. a significant and radical change but it's happened by degree and like a frog pulling in warsaw we may not have noticed the scale of the radical most of these changes with the search and trying to force new out of government and sweeping change at the ministerial level if not at the deputy prime minister level so i think that the market reaction is skeptical to date as we've heard a lot about the promises made seamlessly implementation but sir if the implementation follows i think there is scope for significant significant and

positive reaction ok so talking about the implementation then what would you like to see is the first order of business for the new cabinet. are i think. i would pick ale the relaunch of the privatization program the implementation of the ambitions on improving the investment climate joining the doubly cio implementing new fiscal we used to ensure that the balanced budget all right starts to cool and russia's dependency or revenues starts to diminish and there is significant meaning for pension reform i think if those slights things are pushed through in the second half of this year i would then foolishly reforming government like a taking notes chief economist at morgan stanley thank you very much indeed for your time today and all the noise in moscow thank you very much and daily ok that so

we've got time for today over that is kneecapping that those are the new faces and that's how the markets are looking very good at it thanks so much see you next hour . do stay with us here on r.t. if you can that is the headlines in a moment but a former canadian diplomat zero zero in on the current day u.s. foreign policy decisions are today.

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