which brightened if you. come from plans to question its. start on t.v. dot com. a major i do want march outside the nato summit in chicago turns violent with around a dozen activists injured and many more arrested after clashes with police. ecuador's president rafael correa is the latest to appear on julian assange just interviewed program the to discuss coups corruption and the controversy of his rule and just really his presidency isn't sitting well with. violence contagion spreads further into lebanon deadly street clashes between opponents and supporters of the neighboring syrian regime reach the streets of beirut. let me put in unveils a new cabinet made up of mainly new ministers but some familiar faces make a return to.

online on screen this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day live from moscow fresh and the nato marches on the doorstep of the 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 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. american antiwar activists are flounders says the u.s. government wants to pin the blame for the violence on protesters because it feels threatened by the movement. the 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. 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 of 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 a normally threatened that right here in the u.s. there is a denunciation of nato of its wars. well nato has meanwhile mortgage the first phase of its missile shield in europe old response russia's concerns at the summit in chicago the united states chief said it now has the basic capability to shoot down incoming missiles and of the gathering and to its final day attention is

no nato exit strategy from afghanistan how much calm keeps across the vitamins that . 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 to run six months ago after a u.s. airstrike killed a dozen 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 of a snob by the u.s.

not only was he added to the list of somebody 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 in 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 big win. russia and the way for many years now russia says the shield 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 the total threat from iran but when doesn't have the kind of weapons that the shield is intended for so there are a lot of questions as with the fish and sea and purpose both of us were here this 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. with nato given moscow political rather than legal counties that the missile defense system is not aimed against russia and asia times roving correspondent pepe escobar says such assurances are not convincing 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 take the cold war out of nato but you cannot take nato out of the cold war effect nato would like bases in the central asian stance as well the central 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 a 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. party

live here in moscow still to come this old challenges for a new leader as president elect pledges of course to the e.u. and experts wonder whether he can pull the country from the poverty and corruption seen under his predecessor. and how to move from a to b. in london could be a challenge given proportions with fears that the city's transport system may collapse from the surge of visitors as it prepares to host 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. appears on whistleblower julian assange has shown choose day exclusively here on r.t. from alstom to strain relations with the u.s. he describes the challenges he faces under attack from the rich and powerful along the correspondent laura smith tells us more tomorrow is the sixth episode of julian assange his interview show and his guest 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 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 he 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 disc in turn was the fact that we kept all the funding us embassy provided to the police hopefully soon it was key units fully funded by the us embassy whose offices in command would chosen by the u.s. ambassador and paid by the us if we did away with all that. after that coup korea kicked out the us 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 ahead 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 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 are 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 there you're going to have to wait until tomorrow the latest episode. this program is going to be a hair on r.t.

at eleven thirty g.m.t. . by the way you can always find all the latest stories comment and analysis on our website r.t. dot com here's some of what's there for you at the moment no tweets in pakistan the country blogs access to twitter after calling up competition to come up with care of the prophet mohammed blasphemous. plus a monster we call california's border patrol finds nearly four tons of marijuana worth millions of dollars just floating off the coast. germany's relentless push for eurozone wide austerity is driving the global economy towards catastrophe so says the british shadow chancellor or opposition finance spokesman ed balls who argues that someone's got to persuade berlin to change course well that discuss this in more detail i'm joined live now by james we he's a senior economist at the new economics foundation think tank there in london so

why is the british shadow chancellor so sure that germany the country at least affected by troubles is wrong on how to deal with a used debt crisis. well i think in this case ed balls knows his history and he knows his economics that if you drive a weak economy europe is collection of weak economies if you drive a weak economy into greater and greater austerity you don't make the economy stronger you make it weaker still suck demand out of that economy means markets start to collapse it means firms sell less goods and firms sell less goods it means they employ less people they pay people less and you set up a vicious spiral of decline no really this is one of the mechanisms that helped drive the great depression the nine hundred thirty s. for germany to be insisting austerity now is leading only to stagnation inside europe it's making the crisis much worse than it needs to be at the recent g eight summit david cameron said that the greeks should choose the fate themselves which seem to differ somewhat from the opinions of other g eight leaders who urged it to stay on in the eurozone why are we seeing such

a difference there. well i think what's happening is there's a debate breaking out amongst the rest of the europe and particularly europe's rulers about whether greece should stay inside be the euro or not with the costs of it being inside outweighed the benefits of potentially seeing an exit at some point in cameron of course is is something of a reflection of having said that i mean i do think cameron is now joining a chorus of various european leaders who've been very keen to wipe their fingers that greets everybody from england merkel downwards has been doing this for the last few months nearly two years now and really this is a decision for the greek people to take themselves in the upcoming elections what kind of society what kind of economy they want is what they'll be voting on and that's something they need to decide with anybody else sticking their noses in rather well you said last year the second group would end in default do you think it will and if so why didn't the leaders see this coming. it was this two parts of that the first one is that there's been a partial defaults in greece already this is the debt swap deal the arranged earlier this year where some of greece's debt was written off after

a rather tortuous negotiation what you're looking at unfortunately is the deal did not write off nearly enough of greece's debt for it to genuinely be able to recover you're still looking even at the grossly optimistic projections that were offered at the time of the debt swap deal by the e.u. one hundred twenty percent of g.d.p. being taken up with debt by twenty two or twenty twentieth's and it's the end date for it so you're still looking a very very large debts because you haven't written off the debt or enough of the debt greece will still almost certainly have to default at some point in the future and because austerity is damaging this is an economy that's now shrunk by approaching twenty percent by the end of this year over the last four five years because the economy shrinking that debt burden is getting worse and worse so i think we're looking at potentially another greek default or perhaps much more disorderly default in the fairly near future when the storage is that the social unrest of course in greece we just been talking about greece there and in other countries huge demonstrations in spain that's helped topple leaders including

berlusconi and of course sarkozy what james is the long term social and political impact of a policy or this relentless austerity that we're seeing at the moment in europe. we can certainly see the short term impact already i mean if you take the the social impact in greece it's absolute catastrophic greece used to have one of the lowest suicide rates in europe suicide rates there risen by forty percent over the last year you can see the social impact from one end of the continent to the other but it's the long term economic impact that starts here there are no realistic prospects recovery inside europe certainly inside bureaus i was always austerity is in place if there's going to be any chance of your recovery austerity has to examine the reverse of pretty much everything governments are doing now and start to say look we need to increase demand in the economy we should be spending money we should be creating jobs that's the kind of policy that might start siri cover in europe and that of course goes everything against what germany's advocating obviously still pushing ahead the austerity measures and yet we are seeing this call for growth is it

a question now now we're seeing germany although being the strongest economy in europe perhaps being ignored or even isolated over this matter. well that could easily start to happen just over the next few weeks even clearly or london merkel a jew to be meeting up and wednesday this week to discuss you know way forward out of the crisis or at least that's the plan for this thing i suspect what will happen is that you'll start seeing increasing a log or a deadlock at the center of your with no clear agreement to what exactly should be done next and at the same time when you look not just to greece but now it's spain where the banking system is in a very serious state of developing a crisis no political leadership on how to get out of it no political leadership at least from european institutions james great to hear your thoughts on this thank you so much for a time james me when i see an economist at the new economic foundation think tank they're in love them. two people have died in fresh overnight clashes in the liberty's capital beirut between opponents and supporters of the assad regime in

neighboring syria the violence was triggered by the killing of an anti saudi cleric in the north of the country political analyst. says if the syrian regime falls the ripples will be felt 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. 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. reshuffle at the top russia's got a new cabinet some ministers managed to get hold of managed to hold on to their jobs but the majority are new kids on the political block of course once or for has the details. out with the old and in with the new with these appointments and the new government seventy five percent of the needy ministers and many of the people be taking place in government for the very first time so really a significant shake up in front in large part by the wide scale process we see in

the savior 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 what that amounts to 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 still. working towards the reforms that they've been so loudly cooling for every sometimes loss of lots of neat places a place to stay we should expect expect to see some of these young mocha liberals the prime minister in the baby during his term in the kremlin now as prime minister is expected a lot of people will be taking that post some of the key minutes have retained that efficient they still don't like a lever or in the role this for a minute bent the finance minister saying that that is a big change if that's he's that seventy five that even if they get it even if

they've been replaced so these appointments now really going to be the thing that. the president needs and the crime and sort of first reporting that london is in the homestretch for the olympics but that could be one insurmountable final hurdle for visitors as all these other been explains the country's transport system could be on the more pressure than even the athletes with fears that strikes an 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 europe three million journeys a day are enough to make even a normal service growing 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 the olympic 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 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 walk to work because we're responsible organization we're just giving practical advice and god. so that they understand that your research on the guy yes it is going to be good so you know we don't we're not hiding behind the fact that the network is going to be busy and that's why we give people the sensible guidance and advice so they can avoid it so that annoyed can be used and that i actually perhaps might 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 of strike action are members of a being forced into this city will be gridlocked nothing will move people won't get to the games the athletes the journalists the coaches and the spectators won't even get anywhere near that limping with barely two months left much of london twenty twelve is on the home straight but in getting from a to b. there is still plenty of hurdles ahead either bennett r t london. there's no joint committee on the business task the russian markets managed to rebound to the start of a very yeah they did manage to rebound better actually we've had some real turbulence over the last few weeks as an investors have been telling us they've been holding on to their positions in anticipation of the new cabinet formation so

well it's talk about the guys that will be in charge of the russian economy we've got alexander. now he'll become the energy minister while on today i also go to the economic development but the main position of finance minister is still. now arca they'd volkova which is now deputy prime minister with a wide brief on economic matters of our certainly come in handy now formally he was dmitri medvedev presidential aides and he does have a reputation as a reformer now chief economist at morgan stanley jacob now talks about these changes for us. in total i think it's going to significant a radical change but it's not the only degree and like a drug dealing and we've seen we may not have noticed the scale radical list of these changes with true news to truly government and sweeping

change at ministerial level if the deputy you know is going to deliver so i think the leader of the market reaction is skeptical to date as we've heard a lot about the promises made seamlessly implementation but if the implementation follows i think the risk go for a significant a significant and positive reaction. ok if we take out the figures from today's trading session we can see that the r.t.s. on the my side is both managed to gain over two percent and move on to some of the biggest companies here in russia it was a mixed performer as we had stabbed and nearly five percent growth never really two percent down and t. yes this is quite an interesting one they reported a first quarter profit of fifty nine percent that's up to five hundred twelve million dollars i was talking expectations if we get out to the u.s. we'll see how they're performing as they enter the second part of the trading day and they already guided by the dow jones is that just that and then as that that's

where is the place that is now plays they are performing in the second trading day and then they'll lose their nearly four percent of that so they're not managing to achieve the goal so they call it in the world of finance that they wanted having said that mark zuckerberg is still a billionaire and he got married at the rate has it as well as is not all bad news most of the dow stock as well took quite a lot of criticism because there was a technical glitch so there's been lots of complaints but right now the board is indeed gaining for the good of the european markets will see that there's not a glimmer of hope that greece might be able to remain in the euro zone after a whole lot over the weekend so that there's no. charles a pro bowl out government can be formed in just under a month's time is the seventeenth of june respecting other great people to you guys in the polls and vote what they want to stay in or out of the euro that effectively that's what it's being called a referendum about the footsie on the docks and gaining in today's session if we move almost see how the yards all absolve the most traded currency for having

bought it just read a c.v. for such a the moment roubles penetrating for today it was made as it has evolved a car as it gains against the dollar a lost out to the common currency a moving on to those all important oil up horizon as they are i do rising and that is for the first time in seven days earlier on today in a session we had china saying that they're going to see more growth they're really going to intervene to get the economy moving to the house slowdown in recent months and that that's helping crude prices again as our as how the markets are looking i'll be back in about fifteen minutes with an update gregory thinks we'll see them now shortly here in archie we visit one of russia's harshest regions that will be after the headlines with me in a minute the whole of stay with us live here on r.t. .

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