no. major antiwar march outside the nato summit in chicago turns violent around a dozen activists injured and many more arrested after clashes with police. ecuador's president rafael correa is at the latest to appear on julian assange is in the program to discuss corruption on the controversy over his rule and just to his presidency is not sitting well. the violence contagion spreads further into lebanon deadly street clashes between opponents and supporters of the neighboring syrian regime now we choose the streets of beirut. a lot of may put it on the bales a new cabinet today made up of mainly new ministers but some familiar faces do make

a return as well. and in business the russian markets finished up higher today rebounding from two and a half year lies i mean about twenty minutes time for the bullets and i'll have the official closing. it's a pleasure to have you with us here one hour to today i'm rory suchet live in moscow fresh nato marches 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 offices and around sixty 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 faces 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 meantime american activist

says the u.s. government wants to pin the blame for the violence on the protesters because it feels threatened by the movement. 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

right and that right here in the u.s. there is a denunciation of nato of its wars. meanwhile launched the first phase of its missile shield in europe old despite russia's ongoing concerns at the summit in chicago the alliances chief said it now has the basic capability to shoot down incoming missed all of the catherine enters its final day attention is now on nato's exit strategy from afghanistan sees a gun range to come at the latest on this. well nato members are coordinating their steps as to how to get out of the very much on popular and resource draining war in afghanistan france has announced that it would pull out earlier than expected american troops are said to leave by the end of two thousand and fourteen but under their new agreement with afghanistan they will remain in certain numbers in a supporting role as they say now as far as supply routes are concerned which is vital for nato operations in afghanistan as well as for the upcoming troops

withdrawal through the route through pakistan still remains closed it was shut down around six months ago after a u.s. airstrike killed dozens of pakistani soldiers by mistake now the u.s. and pakistan are reportedly haggling over the price the alliance will pay with pakistan demanding many times more per truck than they were paid a year ago at this summit in chicago the pakistani leader of might have felt somewhat snob by the u.s. not only was he added to the list of some guest last minute but also president obama refused to meet him so after pakistan shut down the route the u.s. had to rely more on the northern groups and that is a key area of cooperation between russia and nato because russia provides its airspace israel roads to supporting international forces in afghanistan and the other issue of the summit is of course missile defense shield in europe nato has announced that they have reached an interim capability which means that they took the first they took the first step in the deployment of this multi-stage missile

shield program the first stage involves mobile interceptors those are the interceptors and radars installed on ships the plan is to have land based elements of a system deployed by twenty eighteen inch countries like romania poland the netherlands those are going to be systems designed to intercept more advanced weapons and by two thousand and twenty they'll be able to intercept intercontinental ballistic missiles the missile defense shield that the u.s. is building in this new europe is a very contentious issue it's been a point of view. frankly when russia and the way for many years now russia says the shale has the potential komal said the strategic balance that will make question take steps to restore that balance that is to deploy more weapons something that question is i want to do now is saying the system is designed to counter at potential threat from iran but when doesn't have the kind of weapons that the shield is intended for so there are lots of questions as with the fish and sea and purpose both of us refuses to give legal guarantees that the system will not be

aimed at russia at some point it seems there needs to be a more consistent basis for cooperation and as a guy in a mistress explaining our nato members have provided moscow with political rather than legal guarantees that the system is not aimed at russia asia times roving correspondent pepe escobar says these assurances mean 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 past 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 pick the cold war out of nato but you cannot take nato out of the cold war effect nato like bases in the central asian stands as well this century jps 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 what comes next and says a little factory diplomacy which is big big powers against each other. you're watching r t live from moscow still to come for you old challenges for a new leader a serbian president pledges to keep on course to the e.u. but experts wonder whether he can pull the country from the poverty and corruption seen under his predecessor. and how just getting from a to b. in london can be a challenge of her proportions with fears that the city's transport system they could collapse from the surge of visitors heading to the olympics. he's been called one of the most democratic leaders in latin america's history and

a champion of the poor ecuador's president rafael correa appears on whistleblower julian assange as program on tuesday exclusively of course here on r.t. from coups to oust him to strained relations with the u.s. he describes the challenges he faces while under attack from the rich and powerful our london correspondent laura smith tells us more. tomorrow's show 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 fred 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 kept all the funding the us embassy provided to the police there were hopeless units key units fully funded by the us embassy has offices in command which chosen by the u.s. ambassador and paid by the u.s. we did away with all that. after that coup correia 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 i was not a problem to set up the u.s. you know he said we could do these 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 korea 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 women 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 julian assange his program is going to be broadcast hair on r.t. at eleven thirty g.m.t. . are you watching r t in about ten minutes time it's katie with the business but for now two people have died in fresh 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 anti assad sunni cleric in the north of the country political analyst

a ruler says that if the syrian regime falls the ripples we felt far beyond its borders the violence in syria advisers 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. has 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 a fresher but the whole. and we will definitely see later on some severe movements and asia 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. of course you can always find the latest stories comment and analysis on our website our teeth or to come let's have a look at some of the items are standing by for you there right now for example no tweets in pakistan the country blocks access to twitter after calling a competition to come up with a caricature is of the prophet mohammed as blasphemous. plus a monster week hole california's border patrol finds nearly four tons of marijuana worth millions just floating off the coast. a reshuffle at the top russia has

a new cabinet ministers managed to hold on to their jobs but the majority are new kids on the political block our correspondent sara firth has the latest. out with the old and in with the new with these appointments and the new government seventy five percent of the new 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 sticks. to working so well so reforms that they've been so loudly cooling for every ten times the loss of most of. the places to eat we should expect expect to see some of those young mocha liberals the

prime minister in the debate has had favored during his term in the kremlin i was prime minister that's expected a lot of people will be taking the post some of the key minutes that have retained that efficient they still don't like a lever old and the oldest foreign minister the defense and finance minister. others and big changes as we said seventy five of them even if this the energy minister has been replaced so these appointments now really going to be the thing that. the president needs him but in the kremlin. meantime political commentator sort of. brushes power to the right people to drive the country forward. from my point to you this is the movie's dramatic cabinet reshuffle in the decade and what matters is not only the number of the new faces which is really amazing can you imagine three quarter of new faces but the qualitative change is that there was an enormous cry all of the all of it presumes

a late appointment of the cabinet and added to the confusion to the story that we didn't didn't go to as you know to the g eight summit in every day so what we see to be is that really a system often them is these are 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 faced by the russian and the markets in russia have been rather flat just by the news of the new cabinet reshuffle more analysis on the way that will be with katie and the business in about five minutes time. nationalist thomas levet nicholas chairs defeated the pro e.u. candidate and incumbent boris tiger gin serbia's presidential vote voters blamed 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 away from its european path political expert marco gas which says that

voters had simply run out of patience with boris tadic i. think the serbs have realized their 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 is presided over eight years of poverty in which he is oligarchy have drawn all the financial benefits and they created a kind of replaced a kind of communism with a kind of corruption is there 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. all right let's go to some other world news in brief for you time for the r.t. world update will start with yemen

a suicide bomber killed at least ninety during a military parade rehearsal in the yemeni capital reportedly wearing an army uniform blew him 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. second day of protests in nepal has turned violent this after clashes over an ethnically divisive general strike a three day shutdown called by the federation of indigenous nationalities wants the 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 and there were several arrests violence on sunday saw vehicles burn 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 tehran to clear the way for an international investigation into whether iran has conducted secret atomic weapons research iran has always denied the claims while only allowing partial inspections of its facilities. now london is in the homestretch for the olympics but there could be one massive hurdle there for visitors as artie's i've a bennett explains the country's transport system could be under more pressure than even the athletes with fears that strike so now dated infrastructure may make it mission impossible for the crowds hoping to see 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 europe 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 it 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 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 a 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 c we've got the best transport system in the world without question everybody telling people to work so work because we're responsible organization we're just giving practical advice and god. so that i understand that your research on the guy actually is 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 it sensible guidance in a voice so that i can avoid. so the annoying people 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 drivers are

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. time for the ali business there's cotto good to see you again at the russian market solo or understand their finishing up a bit higher today yeah they did they manage to rebound from a really terrible weight loss away from two and a half years so it's

a positive day for the russian market and i'm going to talk about the top net because we've got some new faces going on they're going to be have lots of everyman patients to be made and if we look right now we can see we've got alexander not back he'll become the energy minister will go on today bellow all solved he'll go to the economic development but the my business and our finance minister is still out on the telly one of our crowd they'd walk of it is now deputy prime minister he's got a wide brief on economic matters that are certainly coming to hand today and for me he was dmitri medvedev present presidential aides and he has a reputation as a reformer. so that's how it stands at the moment to get more insights into this what chief economist at morgan stanley should know he talks about these changes. i think it's going to significantly radically change but it's not the bali degree and average feeling and we may not have noticed the scale erratic lunacy of these

changes with them to choose a new. government and a sweeping change at the ministerial level if not at the deputy prime minister level and so i think that the market reaction is skeptical to date as we've heard a lot about the promises made to measure the implementation. if the implementation follows i mean we scope for a significant a significant and positive reaction. we've got the closing figures on the screen right now so the russian markets us how they performed in today's session as i say they did manage to bounce back from two and a half year lows if we go to the stocks will be able to see who are the losers and game is we've got russia's top mobile phone operator and yes it reported a first quarter profit up fifty nine percent to five hundred twelve million dollars and that tops expectations they were one of the gain is that as bad almost five percent are after having at nearly ten percent losses in lost weight given to the

us markets are still in the first part of their trading day and they too are rebounding from their worst week in twenty twelve now the main news during on state side is the facebook they are now trading on the nasdaq it's the second day and it's like disappointing though they've lost more than four percent which put six it started out lower and that thirty eight dollars per share the initial public offering price ever goes to the european markets the epicenter of it all right now we have the g eight meeting the we can't on the leaders have said they want greece to stay in the euro zone stars adding a bit of optimism if we look at the current says will be able to see how the euro dollar is performing with all that in mind we also had some pretty positive comments coming from china today. and that they're going to work towards boosting the economy boosting the growth and if you look at how the ruble performed today it's a mixed performance against the bars of current says if we talk about oil it is rising

for the first time in seven days of the us off to the news from china as well that the second biggest consumer of oil also goldman sighs and says that the balance between supply and demand is tightening so lots going on the next hour have the latest figures for you or a. very good indeed we'll see you next hour thanks very much kitty. ok headlines in just a moment then we'll be diving headfirst into cross talk if you can stick around.

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