major. with around a dozen activists injured and many more arrested after clashes with police. to appear on. the program to discuss. the controversy over his rule to his presidency is not. the. deadly street clashes between opponents and supporters of the neighboring syrian regime reach the streets of beirut. made up of mainly new ministers. of return as.

it is a pleasure to have you with us here on the program. live in moscow. nato marchers on the doorstep of the block summit in chicago have descended into the worst clashes with police in three days of protests activists say dozens have been severely beaten by baton wielding officers and around sixty 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 and meantime american activist sara flounders says the u.s. government wants to pin the blame for the violence on the protestors simply because it feels threatened by the movement. very fact that so many thousands of people came out from all across the country here is just war machine responsible for

violence around the world from drone attacks to to bombings to attacks at war in in afghanistan libya syria threats from iran and yet they're calling the demonstrators mylan they have spent 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 the

international troops are preparing to withdraw off the two thousand and fourteen by handing over security to afghan forces the alliance is also one of a lot the first stage of its ballistic missile defense system in europe with details on the guy in a chicken. 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 for the first stage involves mobile interceptors those are the interceptors and radars installed on ships the plan is to have land based elements of the system deployed by twenty eighteen countries like romania poland 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 felons 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 you're right 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 of ghana's then 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 and 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 sugar 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 work against them that nato is leaving behind. and for now in nato as a members have provided moscow with political rather than legal guarantees that the european missile defense system is not aimed at russia asia times a 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 to 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 as the center regions 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 pentagon just like they trust hundred percent neither the russians or the chinese they want to do it because that stern says a lot see factory diplomacy which is a big big powers against each other it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today still to come for you in the program old challenges for a new leader serbia's president elect pledges to keep on course to the e.u. but experts wonder whether he can pull the country from the property and corruption scene under his predecessor. and how just getting from a to b. in london can be a challenge of hope here in proportions with fears that the city's transport system

may collapse from the surge of visitors as opposed to host the olympics. well he's being called one of the most democratic leaders in latin america's history and a champion of the pore acquittals president rafael correa appears on a whistleblower julian assange just program on tuesday exclusively here on r.t. from coups to oust him to strain relations with the u.s. he describes the challenges he faces under attack from the rich and powerful our london correspondent laura smith has more. tomorrow is the sixth episode of julian assange his interview show and his guest is rafael correia 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 i had to say about. the only country that can be sure never to have a coup is the united states because it hasn't got a u.s. embassy. in any event i'd like to say that one of the reasons that led to the police discontent was the fact that we can't get all the funding the us embassy provided to the police there will hopefully soon it's key units fully funded by the u.s. embassy whose office is in command which chosen by the u.s.

ambassador and paid by the u.s. we did away with all that. after that coup career kicked out the u.s. ambassador who was there at the time 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. part of that also is careers 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. but it's not a problem to set up the u.s. you know he said we could do we can give the go zones we were granted permission to sort of talk an ecuadorian 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 has admitted that

his father was in fact a drug smuggler and says that 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 singley 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 at the latest episode of julian assange his program is going to be broadcast here on r.t. at eleven thirty g.m.t. . well. technology innovation all the development around. the future.

there hasn't been anything yet. it is to get the maximum. of. the source material is. journalism. we want to present. something. you watching r.t. i'm researcher welcome to the program two people have died in fresh overnight clashes in the lebanese capital beirut this between opponents and supporters of the assad regime in neighboring syria the violence was triggered by the killing of an assad sunni cleric in the north of the country political analyst our rula tal she says if the syrian regime falls the ripples we felt far beyond its borders the

violence in syria or the violence in the north was expected and delayed for a while it seems that ever wanted to create this freezone in turkey and on the borders of turkey and syria or jordan and syria. have failed and is trying to build a free zone in northern lebanon in order to create the bridge between the fighters they 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

a fresher but the whole issue and we will definitely see later on some severe movements in as well trying to claim that this is a very serious time for lebanon syria the arab world but also the entire world this is a new world war. you're watching r.t. reshuffled at the top russia has a new cabinet some ministers managed to hold on to their jobs but the majority of new kids on the political block our correspondents are furthest more. out with the old and in with the new with the appointments and the new government seventy five percent of the need ministers and many of the people be taking place in government for the very first time so really a significant shake up in from in large part by the wide scale process we see in the save in the recent months in the country and 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 the moment 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 the loss of most of. the place to say we should expect expect to see some of these young mocha liberals the prime minister in the day this is baby during his term in the kremlin now as prime minister is expected a lot of people will be taking the post some of the key minutes they have retained that efficient they still don't like a lever or in the role of the foreign minister the bentsen finance minister saying . this and big changes as we said seventy five and even if this the energy minister has been replaced so these appointments now really going to be the thing that. the president needs and the common. political commentator sort of has struck on

and says that russia's new power team has the potential to address the issues facing the country. from my point to you this is the movie's 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 quarters of a. qualitative changes that there was an enormous outcry or that all of it presumes a later point of the cabinet and added to the confusion of the story that didn't didn't go as you know the g eight summit. so what we see today is that the really system often blame is isn't working it is quite effective it might be criticized it might be ridiculed by someone but still it is able just to meet all those threats and challenges which are face brush. well you can always find the latest on the stories or comments and analysis by going to our web site r.t. dot com has some of the items waiting for you there right now no tweet says in

pakistan the country blocks access to twitter after calling a competition to come up with a caricature is of prophet mohammed the last. class a monster we'd hold california's border patrol finds nearly forty tons of marijuana worth millions of dollars just floating off the coast. nationalist thomas love in the college has defeated the pro e.u. candidate and incumbent boris tadic a presidential vote voters blamed him for the economic downturn job losses on 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 mark says the voters had simply run out of patience with boris tadic which. i. think the serbs have realized 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 presided over eight years of poverty in which he's all. garcon have drawn all the financial benefits and they created a kind of replace 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 tightish the population has been afraid of change but also have been afraid of further poverty and despite tonnages trying this is. a you rose garden even the e.u. governments are very bare at the moment and to this is offering looks even more bare as a result. we'll get to katie in a few minutes with the business update for this hour but for now straight to yemen for the r.t. world opportunity suicide bomber was killed at ninety during a military parade rehearsal in the yemeni capital. reportedly wearing an army uniform blum self up in the middle of a group of soldiers standing near the presidential palace it's 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 and. a second day of protests in nepal has turned violent after clashes over an ethnically divisive general strike a three day shutdown called by the federation of indigenous nationalities once proposed state regions under a new constitution to be based on ethnic grounds strike supporters attacked cars of people thought to be breaking the stoppage there were several arrests violence on sunday saw vehicles burned and around fifty protesters detained. the un's chief nuclear watchdog is in iran for the first time since taking the job the head of the i.a.e.a. wants to persuade tear ran to clear the way for an international investigation into whether iran has conducted secret atomic weapons research iran has always denied the claims while allowing only partial inspections of its facilities. well london

is in the homestretch for the olympics but there could be one insurmountable final hurdle for visitors as it is i've a bennett explains the country's transport system could be under more pressure than even the athletes with fears the strikes and outdated infrastructure may make it mission impossible for the huge crowds hoping to visit the games. welcome to britain where you'll be greeted by queues longer than many flights to get here the maximum wait for passport checks at london's heathrow airport should be forty five minutes but these passengers were stuck for up to two and a half hours last month as britain's busiest airport seized up why because it rained says the government not exactly the sign of a city ready to welcome the world but the imminent olympics four hour delays are predicted and not just at the airports there are huge problems with the transport

infrastructure in london as anybody who has visited the city will realize we are basically running on a kind of nine hundred fifty s. infrastructure in terms of airports railways the metro system and so on it is a very out of choosing with the rest of your three million journeys a day are enough to make even a normal service grind to a halt on london's famous underground never mind the gap in severe delays and impromptu line closures that are notorious here and with a surge of fifteen million journeys on the busiest days of the olympics it's no wonder even transport officials admit you'll be better off on foot this is waterloo station one of london's busiest and a limb pick transport hotspots in fact is expected to be so congested here during the olympics that people are already being handed maps like these telling them how to avoid stations like this one and advising them to walk to work during the

olympics because it'll be quicker than taking the team the advertising may be light hearted but walking to work is no laughing matter for most commuters especially when that's what over six billion pounds of investment get seeing we've got the best transport system in the world without question everybody telling people to walk to work because we're responsible organization we're just giving practical advice and god. so i understand the jury search on the guy yes it's going to be you know we don't we're not hard on the fact that the network is going to be busy and that's why we keep the people were sensible guidance and advice so they can avoid cars. and that i actually perhaps enjoy actually walking rather than going on the trip and the brakes are on the buses to this london icon may not be seen at all this summer drive as a threatening to strike because they're london's only transport workers not in line for a limp dick bonus pay without them it'll leave another six million passengers to squeeze

on to the tube if london's buses do come to a standstill because the strike action our members will be forced into this city will be gridlocked nothing will move people won't get to the cage the athletes the journalists the coaches and the spectators won't even get anywhere near that. with barely two months left much of london twenty twelve is on the home straight but in getting from a to b. there are still plenty of hurdles ahead either bennett. london. let's join katie the r.t. business to see you again so as we all know russia got a brand new cabinet today and any reaction on the markets absolutely right now is a relatively nice and i'm going to talk through those figures in just a moment also right now going to talk about the chaps themselves the new guys in that cabin and see who they really are new recruits we've got side they include

alexander novack now he'll become the energy minister while on the day goes to economic development but the main position of finance minister still songs tell you one of the talk of it is now a deputy prime minister with a wide range on economic matters formulae he was dmitri medvedev presidential aides and he has a reputation as a reform op now chief economist at morgan stanley jacob now i spoke to him earlier and he says the changes are substantial. in total i think it's going to significant a radical change but it's not the only degree and like africa feeling and we have so we may not have noticed the scale or the radical list of these changes with their church in the future and of government and sweeping change at ministerial level if not at the depth you know if you want to get into leverage so i think that really the market reaction is skeptical to date as we've heard

a lot about the promises move seamlessly implementation but if the implementation follows i think there is scope for a significant a significant and positive reaction. ok so let's see the reaction right now rory as promised to see what the figures are looking like on the my side of the l.c.s. is our we do have again it's been a challenging a month but we've got going today that they are just one point three percent are under my sex around that one and a half percent are in positive territory so let's see some of the major blue chips and see how they're reacting to all of the sentiment that got stuck by other be a relief they had a challenging week last week four point just three basis points as well there has been about was they got lucullus well one and a half percent are a ross there's no that bucking the trend they are three point nine percent down in negative territory at this hour so the russian ruble as well that too has been dropping recently even today's trading session it's got a mixed performance is gaining against the us dollar and is lower against the euro

as we look at the euro dollar that was going on as per usual stick with the greeks playing his parts absolutely is going to be the theme of course we've also looking ahead to that we got a meeting on wednesday with the leaders of the euro zone talking about how they're going to implement the new measures that they want to do so if we look at the european figures we'll see how this is the on the dax is reacting as we can see we've got drops of around half observed in the search zone and that south point three point six percent down or should i say that as a. we have the. weekend they said they want to see. those born important. in six months as you can see they already. i'll be watching them. very good because it was a pleasure thanks so much all right in just

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