it's a free. world free book yes closing video for your media projects free media. dot com. student protests against jewish and canada entering their hundred days demonstrations in defiance of a new emergency law turned violent leading to dozens of injuries and hundreds of arrests. germany's enthusiasm for a europe wide austerity comes under fire from british opposition politicians with mounting fears it could spell disaster for the global economy. is a moron this is the only country that can be sure never to have a key is the united states of the able because you have to go to u.s. embassy ecuador's president appears on julian assad his interview program exclusively on r t to talk about attempts to oust him from power and his defiance of washington.

good to have you with us here on r t our top story as 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 were arrested in montreal after the latest wave of clashes with police which erupted when protesters started to her as faulted officers clashes descended into battles lasting for several hours with at least ten people from both sides injured the government introduced an emergency law and did well in protests but demonstrators avowed to disorder guarded with more mass rallies expected this tuesday kadian journalist michel boyer says the wall will do nothing but inspire more unrest. seventy eight which is what that's it's felt and its goal is to calm everything down it was established by the provincial government but 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 and cringing on the freedom to protest peacefully so people are in fact even to retaliate even stronger one of the most extremist groups has publicly said that it is completely going to d. five this new bill and it's 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 sits down with the student organization sits down to talk about the timeline of the student protests in canada along with dramatic pictures from the scene available on our website or t. dot com. as the nato summit 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 a troop withdrawal dominated day two of the gathering that ended in a joint declaration that nato will end its combat mission there but maintain a significant presence in the country past twenty fourteen artie's guided chickie on reports. as far as the war in afghanistan supply routes have been of 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 some as 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 and 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 afghanistan 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 and 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 that. this rally fronted by iraq and afghan war vets feeling betrayed by the system rode away their medals. after a minute of silence for those who perished. 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 onto their knees bleeding faces right here one officer stabbed dozens of protesters arrested someday these these men made the siddur 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 deploy on people . a day earlier a smaller but louder march also took to the streets it's an ad capital is large 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. we do for a million dollars spent a new year for chicago police a war breaks out with outraged americans fighting for change at home while the u.s. president is busy hosting the summit and the future of warfare abroad and stacie churkin r.t. chicago there with. the nato summit also focused on the issue that's been a stumbling block in relations with russia for some time now european missile defense the bloc declaring that stage one of the european shield is now operational

but once again failed to provide russia with legal guarantees the system isn't damed against it international affairs commentator rick rose off tells our team moscow has reason to be alarmed. the united states is never tempted seriously to reach a realistic compromise with 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 likes it or not and that's certainly diplomatic talk and what in the nato summit as. limited as to the first a job with the military capabilities and the the major of factor there are of course was the interceptor missiles as you were driving about and that includes among other things something up a centralized command and control center at ramstein where the u.s. says an air force base where nato as they have coordinates which would coordinate i'm quoting nato they are not on the radar interceptor missiles but

satellites into a comprehensible layered interceptor missile system throughout the entire european continent that would have to raise serious concerns in moscow corps. stay with us here on r t still ahead a post revolution trama egypt's first presidential vote since last year's uprising and you look at how concerns over the stuttering economy are dominating the voters' minds plus. in germany rising petrol prices putting the brakes on the public's economic optimism and making motorists gear up for the worst details in a few moments. but first the global economy facing a catastrophe unless germany eases its relentless push for your originations to cut spending as according to the british shadow chancellor an opposition finance spokesman ed balls who says european partners should give more money to stricken countries like greece spain and portugal james mean way from the new economics foundation think tank agrees austerity is deepening the crisis. if you drive

a weak economy europe is a 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 it's 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 only 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 your as i think is always austerity is in place i suspect what will happen is that you'll start seeing increasing a log jam or a deadlock at the center of your with no clear agreement to what exactly should be done next. as clouds continue gathering over the crisis in europe is on people in

germany also feeling the pinch recent research showing consumers in europe's biggest economy now less optimistic about the financial situation in their country with high petrol prices further fueling their fears are going off reports. in germany the land of fast cars high speed autobahns and the 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 margins with at these prices i'm making me mad in this day and age when the ability is as important as ever there's no alternative either when don't buy i think part of this money flows to the government i think it's a giant rip off it was a crisis a gas stations can change four five times per day both jumping and dropping the first four months of two thousand and twelve the only saw a fifteen to twenty year cent increase for one liter germany is one of the few places in europe where there are very generous people and that's on the rolls if

not all together and so you can drive often pretty much as fast as he lets you but as fuel prices rise being a liberty's many german primers are so proud off could 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 they're among the steepest in europe also in the ratio of the euro to the us dollar in which contracts are signed and course the low price itself which hasn't been going through its most stable time but doesn't. price is that it's the overall

variable let's face it in the middle east and iran that fact we have all these. say towards the persian we have the sort of the threats of war we have the benefits of war soon the middle east uncertainty continues prices remain unpredictable german drivers on. their schedule. the daily price of goods even for a country that worships the wheel it may be high time to rein in the poor spent on you what is going to. germany political unrest consultant john holzman says the latest turmoil shows the eurozone is bound to fail in its current form he shares his insights with r.t. an interview coming up later this hour here's a peek. the problem is 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 diktats 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. he's been described as one of the most democratic leaders in latin america and a champion of the poor ecuador's president rafael correia is the group is the latest guest of whistleblower julian assad in a show that you can see exclusively here later today from coups against him to strain relations with the u.s. he describes the challenges he faces under attack from his country's rich and powerful our london correspondent laura smith has more. 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 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 career had to say about. the only country you 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. was the fact that we can get all the funding for u.s. embassy provided to the police but hopefully soon it was key units fully funded by the us embassy whose office is in command with chosen by the u.s. ambassador and paid by the u.s. we did away with all that. policy 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 stationed in ecuador there are many reasons for that let's hear him talking about one of them. but it's not a problem to set up a u.s. air base and it could do we can give the go ahead it was always we were granted

permission to set up 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 woman desperate to feed their families so he wants to help them rather than punish them now that's just a little bit of this program he also talks about the media in ecuador says wants to dispel this image of a big government persecuting saying journalists and news outlets are saying that actually is the other way around that the media is also owned by big businesses and rich people who use it specifically to push their own agendas you can hear that now though the latest episode of julian assange his program is going to be broadcast

here on r.t. at eleven. thirty g.m.t. . that interview airing throughout the day on tuesday and if you still miss it on there you can check it out in a special section of our website at a songe dot r.t.a. dot com. but even egypt's first presidential election since this revolution it's the economy shaping the views of many voters whoever wins power will take over a country with desperate financial problems well over a year on from the popular uprising against authoritarian rule or teaser evolution go has more. mom and 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 have a lot of money in the market the people all of us a lot of people just fled out of the country they never came back so there are

countless 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 mohammad hopes the new rules 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 scare them to pretty much we both pay the same taxes were both paid the same duties jews so our costs of the end of the day would be equal 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 the people are jobless and 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 are like they have their orders and they have their own agenda that are controlled by. 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 being closer attention to the candidates speaking on the programs after all for many of them it's a make or break moment in the country's history and in their lives i mean you have the good life from. me and my family with a lot of money and. a lot of other things and i was somebody i'm looking for i'm looking to do something for my keep. in cairo. or there's always more news stories and comments on our website r.t.

dot com here's what's a click away right now. third day of public trading for the world's most popular social network sees a slump of thirteen per cent so could facebook be a market bubble. infamous an activist group femen known for their topless protests in the spotlight again find out what they try to do when football's european championship trophy went on display in ukraine all that and much more at r.t. dot com. in the secret laboratory to mccurry was able to build the most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn amount anything to submission to teach creation why it should care about humans in. this is why you should care only on the dot com tensions high in the capital of lebanon after two were killed there in clashes monday is the latest in

a series of violent confrontations in the country between opponents and supporters of the assad regime in neighboring syria. middle east blogger tells us earlier that he thinks the future prospects for the region are bleak. primarily the balance of military power in lebanon is nowhere near equal at the moment what we've been witnessing actually are clashes there between members of the sunni community and ilo a community in the north or yesterday what happened last night were clashes between members of the sunni community there are pro and posed to the syrian regime in beirut now if you envision a scenario in which his boiler would enter the fray for any reason which i don't think is realistic then the balance of power is so unequal that you're unlikely to see any protracted struggle however what we're likely to see is this sort of simmering tension and with frequent explosions that would kind of slowly drag the country into a state of chaos as again political leaders stand 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. watchdog visited the visited iran monday international community suspects or on might be trying to develop nuclear weapons well tehran maintains the program is for peaceful purposes. of the already 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 but as are measured leadership facing pressure from around the world over the arrest of the activists the country's government it's a lashed out at critics saying human rights campaigners are spreading lies about the country to tarnish its image. the private california based space x.

four and said to attempt another liftoff for their first commercial supply flight to the international space station last off the planned for in just over an hour's time at seven forty four am g.m.t. this is after the launch was aborted over the weekend due to technical glitches if the lift off goes well this time the dragon capsule will send eight will spend a week of the space station before being cut loose and parachuting into the pacific . marines i know with all the leaders business news in the russian markets open are we seeing gains or losses are really interesting. well the russian markets have had a couple of turbulent weeks of course and in fact most markets were among the worst affected recently and that's because of falling prices they drop twelve percent in may well let's take a look at the figures today on monday of course the russian markets bounce back and today they are extending those gains the r.t.s. is at

a point four percent the my six out of point one percent but it's still early on so we'll need a couple of more hours to see how the day progresses but stay with the countries on the point nobody has launched last month to the lowest level since the two thousand a crisis the jobless rate dropped five point eight percent from six point five percent in march and that's as companies raise spending to meet the less that demand and also rather than the rule requiring foreign banks to get a permit before opening subsidiaries in the country the central bank is even out its regulations and that's as russia is preparing to enter the world trade organization. currencies the euro is still lower against the dollar and we have the updated figures for the ruble every right now it's against both major currencies well asia which is also trading right now their shares are going higher every hour we have technology and exporters there particularly well also we have resource firms and even the gains because of

a recovery in commodity prices we have corp of china which is out in over two percent this hour and mainly the main driver in asia is the strong performance we saw overnight on wall street let's take a look at what happened there basically we had the nasdaq which had its best day in five months a highlight there was apple which gained almost six percent and that's as investors were more comfortable more optimistic with the company's i phone business taking off even more at this. point one though was face eleven percent below its i.p.o. price and that's just in the second day of trading take a look at what's happening with oil prices they are ahead in the higher and that's after as scaping as a six day losing streak in the previous session and that was following the hopes of those saying will take action and the stimulate growth in that sector of all of this is what i have for the sound like some of the european markets will open and we'll see a better picture of the trading session in general for today all right looking

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