a major antiwar march outside the nato summit in chicago turns violent with a round that doesn't activists injured and many more arrested after clashes with police. acquittals president rafael correa is the latest to appear jr the son just interviewed program exclusively here to discuss clues corruption and the controversy of his rule and just who his presidency isn't sitting well with. that audience contagion spreads further into lebanon deadly street clashes between opponents and supporters of the neighboring syrian regime reach the streets of beirut. let me approach it unveils a new cabinet made up of many new ministers some familiar faces make a return to our top stories this hour.

on screen this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day live from moscow fresh marches on the doorstep of the alliance's summit in chicago have descended into the worst clashes with police in three days of protests and activists say dozens have been severely beaten by that and will be offices and around sixty people arrested forty's and started chatting and i was there. 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 paint 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 this does chicken and that nato has meanwhile launched the first phase of its defense missile shield in europe despite russia's concerns over just you know it's the chief said it now has the basic capability to shoot down incoming missiles going to tell him that she is joining us live as the government comes to close the gun the nato secretary general he said on sunday the european missile defense shield is actually up and running what exactly

does that mean and what else has been said on this issue. well bell exactly as you mentioned nato has announced they have reached an interim capability which means that they took the first step in the deployment of this multi-stage missile shield program this show that the u.s. is building in its the europe is a very contentious issue is being a point of big kraig between russia and the u.s. for many years now russia says the shield has the potential to offset russia's strategic deterrence capabilities that will make russia take steps to restore that balance that is to deploy more weapons something that russia doesn't want to do nato is saying the system is designed to counter a potential threat from iran but iran doesn't have the kind of weapons that the shield is it is intended for so there are lots of questions as to its efficiency and purpose also the u.s. refuses to give legal guarantees that the system will not be aimed at russia at some point instead here is the statement that nato issued in chicago with this regard for you look forward to establishing the proposed joint nato russia missile

data fusion center and the joint planning operations center to cooperate on missile defense we've proposed to develop a transparency regime based upon a regular exchange of transport the information about the current respective missile defense capabilities of nato and russia such concrete missile defense cooperation is the best means to provide russia with the assurances it seeks regarding nato as missile defense plans and capabilities and also the statement says given our shared security interests with russia we remain committed to cooperation on missile defense in the spirit of mutual trust and prosody while russia has heard that many times the argument was always it's not just about trust it's also about guarantees that would make for a more consistent a more solid basis for cooperation. the nato exit strategy from afghanistan that's of course been a major concern as well and the big announcements on that issue gonna. well bill is

fall as far as of ghana's that nato members are coordinating their steps as to how to get out of this very much unpopular and resources draining war in afghanistan france has announced that he 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 ghana's then they will remain in certain numbers in a supporting role in afghanistan is as they put it now as far as supply routes are concerned and they are vital for nato operations in afghanistan as well as with the upcoming troops withdrawal the route through pakistan still remains close it was shut down around six months ago after a u.s. airstrike killed two dozen pakistani soldiers in a style mistake this summer's declaration says they're still working on a deal with pakistan and in the meantime the alliance relies heavily on northern routes that's a key area of cooperation between russia and needled because russia provide its air

space railroads and other routes to support international forces in afghanistan and the importance of that cooperation was also underscored in this joint declaration. going to thanks very much indeed for that live from washington d.c. going to come on let's talk more on this i'm joined live by ron becker he's from the anti war coalition and he's also joining me live from the states probably we were just talking about afghanistan there with gonna nato has confirmed it's going to stop combat operations there by twenty fourteen with forces remaining in training and advisory after that. first when they really step aside by then and secondly how will that actually impact security in the country if they do go by then. well i think the nato forces and principally the united states which is really the anchor of the nato occupation of afghanistan are in the process of rebranding what they anticipate will be

a very long term occupation going way beyond two thousand and fourteen they can call the troops trainers they can call them military bases afghan military bases instead of nato military bases whatever they do however they brand it nonetheless the nato forces and principally the united states intends to stay as we know from the seat of the strategic agreement street strategic partnership agreements signed with president karzai and obama and then with chancellor merkel and karzai us germany nato they intend to be in afghanistan a resource rich part of the world strategic part of the world they intend to be there for a very long time what will that not be and leave bearing in mind the afghan authorities clearly struggling at the moment with keeping stability there in the country do you think they will need that support off the twenty fourteen there is an s.s.t. for that support. well you can make the argument that the karzai government is so fragile is viewed by the afghan people largely as an implant from foreign occupiers

that it lacks credibility and that its own forces are so suspect in terms of their actual loyalty to the regime that it would indeed fall if nato were to leave so the united states is scripted the situation in a particular way they've created what is a proxy government that lacks credibility and lacking credibility it is thus dependent on foreign occupation forces at the same time the u.s. is reaching out to the taliban and other armed insurgent groups to see if they can have a power sharing arrangement if not in the central government in kabul for different parts of the country where the u.s. would effectively seed control over the south and perhaps other parts of afghanistan to tell a ban and other armed insurgent groups the real goal of the united states is to secure military bases in this strategic area the as they have in the former southern asian central asian republics of the former u.s.s.r. i think they're there for the long term because of the energy because of the geographic location and then of course the u.s.

wants military bases in asia where the u.s. is now pivoting in terms of its military orientation and of course it's hard to remember. what about that route we understand there's been a route between the u.s. and pakistan have a supply routes what sort of impact could that have on the afghan campaign. well certainly the united states has depended in a great deal to the pakistan supply route afghanistan's a landlocked country. and the there right now actually is because of a storm of protest within pakistan against the relentless use of drones that are killing pakistanis including large numbers of civilians including large numbers of children such a gross violation of pakistan sovereignty has made the people have rejected the government's alliance with the united states and and that's the united states is searching now for alternative measures but i think the pakistani government will come back and try to mend the relationship with the united states because it too is fragile it too in fact requires outside support in order to maintain its own

existence in pakistan in russia you're in the u.s. one of the main stumbling blocks of course between the two countries is the anti missile defense plans that of course is being discussed that during that summit and it looks like the tensions could increase could it not do you think perhaps because there's going to be no real legal assurance from the u.s. over the a.m.d. system just a political one that that legal one really could that the lack of it could really cause tensions could we perhaps be seeing other all these rights. well indeed we are seeing another arms race and it's kind of in slow motion it's used with with with the last inflated rhetoric the the rhetoric has toned down but i think all the partners all the principals in the conflict understand what's really going on the missile defense shield is not a missile defense shield it's a missile shield the goal of a missile defense shield is not to protect the united states or europe from

so-called iranian missiles that's nonsense what they're really doing is creating the capability for a first strike attack against russia and against china other nuclear powers that's the real purpose as it always has been of what was first called star wars now called the missile defense shield should be called the missile shield it's not necessarily to initiate a nuclear war against russia or against china but it gives the united states strategic leverage or thinks it does over these important countries which while the u.s. has some cooperation with them also views them as strategic competitors because of their size and their capacity to resist u.s. dictates unlike smaller countries brought back from the outside and to walk out of that should live in washington d.c. thank you very much indeed for your thoughts. this is all t. live here in moscow still to come in the program a looming catastrophe more well leaders please to begin its zeal for austerity fearing it will otherwise detonate a catastrophe for the eurozone which could the global economy.

hell just getting from a to b. in london could be a challenge of what can and proportions with fears that the city's transport system a collapse from the surge of this it's as it prepares to host the olympics. he's being called one of the most democratic leaders invest in america's history and a champion of the pull it was president rafael correa appears on whistleblower julian assange has shown choose day exclusively here on r.t. from coups to him to strained relations with the u.s. he describes the challenges he faces under attack from the rich and powerful on the correspondent norah smith tells a small. 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 he had to say about. the only country that can be sure never to have a coup is the united states because it has 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 the us embassy provided to the police will hopefully soon its 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 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 a career's 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 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 family 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. . and you can always find all the latest stories comment and analysis on our website r.t. dot com in addition what do you see here on screen let's have

a look and see what's in store for you then should you log on no tweet sim pakistan the country blocked access to twitter after calling the competition to come up with caricature as a prophet mohammed blasphemous. plus a monster we haul californias border patrol finds nearly four tons of marijuana worth millions of dollars just floating off the coast. two people have died in fresh overnight clashes in the lebanese capital beirut between opponents and supporters of the assad regime in neighboring syria the violence was triggered by the killing of an anti a sad sunny 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 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 and asia 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. germany's relentless push for eurozone wanted to stir it is driving

the global economy towards catastrophe so says the british shadow chancellor opposition finance spokesman at balls who argues that someone's got to persuade but into change course and james senior economist at the economics foundation think tank has told me he can't help but agree. if you drive 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 weak is still you know really this is one of the mechanisms that helped drive the great depression the one 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 because the only see the short term impact already i mean if you take the the social impacts in greece it's absolute catastrophic even 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 the or as i was always austerity is in place i suspect what will happen is that you'll start seeing increasing. or 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 a developing crisis no political leadership on how to get out of it no political leadership at least from european institutions. reshuffle at the top russia's got a new cabinet some ministers managed to hold on to their jobs but the majority a new kids on the political block sort of first has the details filled 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've seen

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 that amount 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 said. to working so well so reforms that they've been so loudly cooling for every sometimes the loss of most of the base is a place to stay we should expect expect to see some of these young mocha liberals the prime minister in the debate is his favorite 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 for taking that position they still don't like a level and the role this for a minute the the defense and finance minister saying to others and big changes at least that seventy five that even if they get it even if it's been replaced so

these appointments now really going to be the thing that. the president needs and that the kremlin. so there now some other news making headlines around the world at exactly twenty one minutes here a suicide bomber kills at least ninety people during a military parade rehearsal 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 the new president was sworn in this february. second there are protests in the pool has turned violent after clashes over an ethnically divisive general strike a three day shutdown called by the federation of indigenous nationalities want to propose state regions under a new constitution to be based on ethnic grounds strike supporters attack cards of people thought to be breaking the stoppage and there were several arrests violence on sunday store vehicles burned around fifty protesters detained. london is in the

homestretch for the olympics but there could be one insurmountable final hurdle for visitors as art is over but it explains a country transport system could be under 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 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 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 there they understand the jewish guy yes it's going to be pitching 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 who are sensible guidance in a voice so they can avoid it so the more you compete you and 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 chub 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 games 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. turned out to join katie she's our eyes and ears of the business world today starting with russia then how did the stock market perform well the most to regain at least some strength today in the session but us following on from two and a half year lies it's been a very turbulent few weeks actually even months here in moscow a lot of investors have taken large losses but we now have a new tablets there's lots of optimism in the so let's see who these gen alexander

novak he'll become the energy minister on today i will go to economic development but the main position of finance minister is so. now. is now a deputy prime minister with a wife brief and economic matters told me he was to meet presidential aide and has a reputation as. before when our chief economist at morgan stanley jacob noll talks about these changes. i think it's going to significantly radically change but it's not been by the degree and like a great feeling and we've seen we may not have no to stay to scale the radical list of these changes with them to achieve new to truly government and sweeping change at the ministry level if she you know is going to minister level and 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 mean we scope for a significant a significant and positive reaction this is the markets were formed a monday in bury my what jacob said to be interesting to see how they feel the weekend is on friday we are indeed looking at some positive gains with that maybe following the story here now let's see some of the big blue chips and see how they reacted to all of the sentiment. really five percent and yes as well they've had a really positive year actually their reporting first with papa up fifty nine percent to five hundred twelve million dollars and the top expectations last night they were nearly two percent down despite all prices are going to the u.s. they are indeed still trading and they're coming off the back of their worst week of the year so they've got some gains today in the session facebook is still is an awful lot of headlines that stock is down below four percent now as you've been with us facebook just that's falling from the thirty eight dollars. price that they

listed on friday as far as i was concerned another technology stock that pays itself on the nasdaq gaining after three weeks. that's good news for that if we move on to the european markets also worth a mention that china they've actually vowed to really improve them right and that's had an effect throughout the markets today in europe they were certainly feeling the positivity come. from asia as well as the oil markets as well remember china is the second biggest economy in the world as far as you are is concerned though greece remains the biggest headline it really is on the top of the agenda for all investors seventy two jane that's when the greats will go to the polls again and decide in the new government we will have the g. eight and we can say that they want to stay in the year is that if we get on. with you have us before me is indeed flat this album got closer because the rouble on the screen just that it had a mixed performance against the current says if you get into it or prices i did mention they are indeed again that's the first time in seven days following on from

those comments made in china today and also goldman sachs as well has said that the balance between supply and demand is tied today is the markets what's going on growth today that's a lot more. shortly here. we'll be talking to a former canadian diplomat actions the u.s. is taking in its foreign policy.