student protests against tuition hikes in canada enter day one hundred is demonstrations in defiance of a new emergency law turned violent leading to dozens of injuries and hundreds of arrests. german enthusiasm for a europe wide austerity under fire from british opposition politicians with mounting fears it could spell disaster for the global economy. as it is the only country you can be sure never to have a key. states because it doesn't go to u.s. embassy. doors president the latest to appear in julian assad his interview program here on our t.v. talking about attempts to oust him from power and his defiance of d.c. .

nine am in moscow i matras a good to have you with us here on r t our top story is the student protest movement in the canadian province of quebec marks its hundredth day rallies against tuition hikes are turning violent more than three hundred people arrested in montreal after the latest wave of clashes with police that erupted when protesters started to hurl as felt at the officers clashes descended into battles lasting several hours with at least ten injured on both sides the government introduced an emergency law aimed at the protest but demonstrators vowed to ignore it nor mass rallies expect tuesday canadian journalist michel boyer says the law will do nothing but inspire more unrest. bill seventy eight which is with that's its salt and its goal is to con everything down it was established by the

provincial government. in canada we have a we have a charter and one of the articles in the charter is the right to protest peacefully and people and protesters now are saying is that certain provisions of this new law are infringing on the freedom to protest peacefully so people are in fact even to retaliate even stronger and one of the most extremist groups has publicly said it is completely going to do shy this new bill and is going to go against it it's going to continue protesting so it's going to be quite an interesting scene of events here we really don't know what's going to happen really until the until the government since down with the student organization since down to talk the timeline of the student protests in canada along with the most dramatic photos from the scene available on our website our team dot com. as they know some

in chicago draws to a close the block's leaders reaffirm their commitment to ending the increasingly unpopular war in afghanistan in two years' time talk of troop withdrawal dominated day two of a gathering that ended with a joint declaration that nato will end its combat mission there but maintain a significant presence in the country past twenty fourteen or he's got a chicky on reports. as far as the war in afghanistan supply routes have been a big concern on the summit there vital for nato operations there as well as for the upcoming troops withdrawal the route through pakistan still remains closed it was shut down around six months ago after a u.s. airstrike killed two dozen pakistani soldiers by mistake this summer's declaration says they're still working on a deal on a new deal with pakistan in the meantime the alliance relies heavily on northern routes that's a key area of cooperation between russia and nato because russia provides its airspace railroads and other routes to supporting our national forces in afghanistan the importance of that cooperation was also underscored in this joint

declaration in their statement nato leaders were focusing on how they are getting out of a van is that because the war has become so unpopular drained so many resources most analysts describe it as a failure but there is a process that many are worried about and that is that nato is taking up a new role which has nothing to do with defending europe but in north america it's becoming an offensive force thousands of people took to the streets of chicago to protest against what they see as an expanding war machine answering a journalist question president obama said he was quite happy with how chicago police handled the protests that raised some eyebrows considering scores of activists were badly injured here's my colleague honest. reporting from the streets of chicago. chicago under siege. the last couple of days have seen oceans of protesters thousands marching

under a blistering sun to vent their anger at the military alliance wants to know if. this rally fronted by iraq and afghan war vets who feeling betrayed by the system through way their medals. after a minute of so. islands for those who perished in the u.s. led wars. all hell breaks loose we're seeing the clashes began as protesters try to get through the barricades that the police have made on their way to the convention center. like chaos but tons of people shoved and dragged police thrown on to their knees bleeding faces. one officer stabbed dozens of protesters arrested. these men may consider this conduct that they engaged in today unbecoming of the dignity that is demanded of them by their station hundreds and

hundreds of police not just in riot gear but military armor with guns and but tons that they willingly deploying on people. a day earlier a smaller but louder march also took to the streets it's an ad capital. i'm sure everyone here hopes to start a revolution they're calling it the chicago spring like the arab spring. signs ripped off crowds clashed with police but times and police bikes used to block off the crowds with more blood in the chaos. with over a million dollars spent on new gear for chicago police a war breaks out with outraged americans fighting for change at home while the u.s. president is busy hosting a summit on the future of warfare abroad and stacey churkin r t chicago illinois the nato summit also focused on an issue that's been a stumbling block in relations with russia for some not some time now european

missile defense the bloc declare that stage one of the european shield is now officially operational but again failed to provide russia with legal guarantees the system is in danger against it international affairs commentator rick rose off tells our team moscow has reason to be a walk. the united states is never tempted seriously to reach a realistic compromise that russia the american ambassador to nato evo dollar last december you may recall so that the u.s. and nato are forging ahead with the interceptor missile system and i quote him whether russia lights it or not but it's really difficult now to talk and what in fact the nato summit as. the middle to the first a job with the military capabilities and the major a factor there are of course was the interceptor missiles as you were driving about and that includes among some of the things something of a centralized command and control center at ramstein where the u.s. as an air force base where nato as they have orders which would coordinate. nato

they are not on the radar interceptor missiles but satellites into a comprehensive layered interceptor missile system throughout the entire european continent. that would have to raise serious concerns in moscow of course. stay with us here on r t still to come up post revolution trauma on the eve of egypt's first presidential vote since last year's uprising we take a look at how concerns over the stuttering economy are dominating voters' minds. and in germany rising petrol prices putting the brakes on the public's economic optimism making motorists for the worst. but first the global economy faces catastrophe a lesson germany eases its relentless push for a euro region nations to cut spending that's according to british shadow chancellor opposition finance spokesman ed balls who says european partners should give more money to stricken countries like greece spain and portugal james mean away from the

new economic foundation think tank agrees that austerity is deepening the crisis if you draw even weak economy and europe is seen as a collection of weak economies if you drive a weak economy into greater and greater austerity don't make the economy. stronger you make it we can 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 impacts already i mean if you take the the social impacts in greece it's catastrophic greece used to have one of the lowest suicide rates in europe suicide rates they have risen by forty percent over the last year and you can see the social impact from one end of the continent to the other but it's the long term economic impact that. there are no realistic prospects for recovery inside you are certainly inside the euro zone there's always austerity is in place i suspect what will happen is that you'll start seeing increasing. more deadlock at the center of

your would no clear agreement of what exactly should be done next as clouds gather close continue to gather over the crisis hit euro zone people in germany also feeling the pinch recent research shows consumers in europe's biggest economy are now less optimistic about the financial situation in their country with high fuel prices further fueling their fears are easier is going off explains. germany the land of fast cars high speed autobahns and rapidly changing few prices . petrol is way too expensive we don't have that much money these days and i think the rich well corporations are reaping a big profit but at these prices i'm making me mad in this day and age when mobility is as important as ever there's no alternative either but one big part of this money flows to the government i think it's a giant ripoff. prices and gas stations can change four or five times per day both jumping and dropping the first four months of two thousand and twelve alone saw

a fifteen to twenty year old cent increase for one liter germany is one of the few places in europe where there are generous people and that's on the rolls if all together so you can drive often pretty much as fast as he lets you but as fuel prices rise being aware worries me german primers are so proud of her do some serious damage to their pockets a full tank of the cheapest petrol can often cost over one hundred euros and when it comes to big trucks filling them up with diesel could cost up to fifteen hundred euros making them easy bait for thieves during pit stops. for two weeks ago on the twenty fourth highway heading to hamburg they drilled a hole in the tank but the driver noticed and confronted them he came out and got beaten up even duct tape his mouth gas prices depend on state taxes in germany there and on the steepest in europe also on the ratio of the euro to the u.s. dollar in which contracts are signed and of course the oil price itself which

hasn't been going through its most stable time what does affect the price is that it's the overall very volatile situation in the middle east and iran in fact we have these aircraft carrier groups you know are sailing towards the persian gulf we have israeli threats of war we have american threats of war so while the middle east uncertainty. prices remain unpredictable many germans. are scheduled. even for a country that worships the wheel it may be high time to rename the book who are you what is going on with germany. political risk consultant john holzman says that the latest turmoil shows the eurozone is valid to fail in its current form he shares his thoughts with r.t. in an interview coming up in the next hour here's a preview. the problem was they set up a currency without having a country and it's like building

a house from the attic down you don't get all the things like federal deposit insurance which means your banks are guaranteed you don't have a common policy where the european central bank can act like the fed and the lender of last resort you don't have all the things that make nations transfer money to weaker areas within countries just as a matter of course instead of germans grumbling about greeks who retire at fifty two and. you have greeks grumbling about germans having dicked it's forced upon them that's because these people are in the same boat rowing in the same direction that's the problem and so they created this weird push me pull you two headed monster. has been described as one of the most democratic leaders in latin america's history and a champion of the poor ecuador's president rafael correa the latest guest a whistleblower julian a sondre news show that you can see exclusively on our t.v. later today from cruz against him to strain relations with the u.s. he describes the challenges he faces under attack from his country's rich and powerful artie's laura smith has more from london. it's the sixth episode of today

and i saw his interview show and his guest is rafael carette who's the president of ecuador he is a controversial figure he's a left wing populist and one of latin america's most progressive leaders and he's actually a beneficiary as you might say of wiki leaks in that one of the cables released revealed that the u.s. had been supporting a structured campaign by a powerful businessman to destabilize korea's government back in two thousand and seven the us embassy cables also reveals that 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.

is the only country that can be sure never to have a coup is the united states because it doesn't go to u.s. embassy. in any event 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 u.s. 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 correia kicked out the u.s. ambassador who was there at the time correct 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 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 senator for us you know he said we could do we can give the go zones we were granted permission to sort of talk during military base in miami. unlikely that that's going to happen of course but joking aside this this goes back to korea's socialist roots one of the main uses for the u.s. air bases in ecuador is to perform strikes on drug smugglers and 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. 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 it 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 though the latest episode of julian assange his program is going to be broadcast hair on r.t. at eleven thirty g.m.t. . is that interview with a person or a career in for later tuesday. there hasn't been anything yet. it is to get the maximum political impact on. the source material is what helps keep journalism. we want to present. something else. on the eve of egypt's first presidential vote since his revolution it's the economy that's shaping the views of many voters who have or when his power will take over a country with desperate financial problems well over

a year on from the popular uprising against authoritarian rule or teaser in english there are reports from cairo mohamed some e.u. has spent most of his life living abroad he returned to egypt just in time to see the rouge unravel in the economy shrivel mommas real estate development business suffered a harsh blow during the egyptian uprising in the year that followed he struggled to keep his company afloat we had a lot of money in the market the people told us a lot of people just fled out of the country they never came back so we had their accounts that we don't know where they are so we come here. and at the same time we have to continue our work so we have to put money from our pockets like many mohamed hopes a new rule would bring in new opportunities for investment but he says the economic policy of the interim government turned out to be almost as bad as that of the previous regime. would like to be treated like

a big scandal to promote we both pay the same taxes we both pay the same duties jews so all the costs of the end of the day would be at least in terms of what we have to pay to cover the reforms conducted by the now ousted president mubarak several years ago did bring a certain stability to the gyptian economy but since their evolution the country's finances are in ruins their currency is in jeopardy people are jobless an angry and the only way out seems to be in boring enormous loans from the likes of the i.m.f. it's just over three billion dollars that the interim government is asking for but critics of the idea say boring from the i.m.f. means being in debt is not just financially but politically as well we do not like the interventions of the i.m.f. and institutions a lot of the have their orders and they have their own agenda that are controlled by. the superpowers we're not a super power we had a very small power but we can act on our own we have money we'll need to know who

the presidential elections just around the corner many of egypt's fifty million voters are being closer attention to the candidates economic programs after all for many of them it's a make or break moment in the country's history and in their lives i believe of the good life for. me and my family with a lot of money and. a lot of other things. looking for i'm looking to do something for my people in cairo even goes. remember there's always more news commentary and analysis on our team dot com here's what's a click away right now day three of public trading for the world's most popular social network's easy thirteen percent percent slump so is facebook a market bubble find out more. and the infamous activist group femen known for their topless protests again in the spotlight find out what they tried to do in the football's european championship trophy one on display in ukraine all that and much

more at our g dot com. secret lumbered tour to you mccurry was able to build a clue it's most sophisticated which on fortunately doesn't give a domain about anything to submission to teach the creation why it should care about humans and we're going this is why you should care only dot com tensions remain high in the capital of lebanon after two were killed there in clashes monday the latest in a series of violent confrontations in the country between opponents and supporters of the assad regime in neighboring syria karl shero a middle east blogger told us earlier that he thinks the future prospects are bleak . primarily the balance of military power in lebanon is nowhere near equal at the moment to what we've been witnessing actually are clashes between members of the sunni community and other we community in the north or in yesterday

what happened last night where clashes between members of the sunni community that are through an openness to the syrian regime in beirut now if you envision a scenario in which his bolo would enter the fray for any reason which i don't think is realistic then the balance of power is so unequal that you are unlikely to see any protracted struggle however what we are likely to see is this sort of similar tension with frequent explosions that would kind of slowly drag the country into a state of chaos and again political leaders than completely helpless about doing anything to stop this dynamic or spiraling towards conflict take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe the u.s. senate has imposed a new set of economic sanctions on iran over its nuclear program is a day before the so-called five plus one meeting on the issue starts in the iraqi capital baghdad after the u.n. nuclear watchdog visited iran monday

a international community suspects iran might be trying to develop a nuclear weapon tehran maintains the program is purely for peaceful energy purposes. authorities have violently dispersed peaceful rallies in azerbaijan detaining at least ten protesters in the capital baku the crackdown happened the day before the city hosts the eurovision song contest with us or by john's leadership facing pressure from across the globe over the arrest of the activists the country's governments lashed out at critics saying human rights campaigners are spreading lies about the country to tarnish its reputation. the california based private space x. company is set to attempt another liftoff of the first ever commercial supply flight to the international space station blast off his plane. and for a couple of hours away at seven forty four am g.m.t. it's after the launch was aborted over the weekend due to technical glitches if left off goes well this time the dragon capsule will spend a week at the station in space before being cut loose and parachuting into the

pacific. joins us now with leaders business do business news so our investors focusing today. well investors are really waiting to see wall will happen during an informal meeting on thursday greece of course is a whole topic so everyone's wait and see what they will say about it and its prospects of abandoning the euro zone but for now let's stick to markets asia is the only one trading at the moment and shares are going to higher as we've seen in the past couple of hours technology and exporting firms are going particularly well also we have another firm resource for i was doing pretty well and that's in the five all i recall for in commodity prices aluminum corp of china is gaining over two percent and in general the growth that we see the nature is mainly driven by an overnight strong overnight performance on wall street let's see what happened there markets are close so we're seeing the closing to make sure on monday the nasdaq had

its best day in five months getting around two and a half percent apple was a highlight getting almost six percent and that's as investors really want to mistake about the company's i phone business but at this appointment there was a facebook which struck eleven percent below its i.p.o. price in just this second day of trading now here in russia it's now in the hour ahead all of the opening bell on monday markets managed to balance back from a losing streak which saw some heavy losses for advice it wasn't turbulent couple of weeks the russian markets suffered one of the most suffering in fact so one of the european emerging economies and that's because over russia's the presidency on the oil and oil prices have dropped so well from said that this month alone but as i said on monday russian markets bounced back and they gave over two percent both the r.t.s. and then why six as you can see there now stay with russia of the countries i mean when that rate has plunged to its lowest level last month since the two thousand

and one i'm sure crisis the jobless rate dropped to five point eight percent from six. point five percent in march companies raise spending to meet the rest of the line. they also russia and scrapping the over acquiring foreign banks to get a permit before opening subsidiaries in the country the central bank is even in its regulations as russia is prepared to answer the world trade organization. and as i said russia is the arsenal call that is the present on the oil so the secular got of crude prices as you can see there we see more of gains there extended from the previous session where the crude prices managed to escape their six day losing streak and that was on the whole. take action. we can see there now hearn sees the euro is still slightly lower against the dollar and when it comes to the ruble this in the picture on a monday there the ruble lost against the dollar against the to the greenback

against the euro should say both have the picture for that when the us markets open which will be. what the figures are. all right thanks very much for that murray and our round up of our top stories in the headlines only three minutes away stay with us.

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