student protests against tuition hikes in canada entering day one hundred is demonstrations in defiance of a new emergency law turned violent leading to dozens of injuries and hundreds of arrests. in germany enthusiasm for europe wide austerity under fire from british opposition politicians with mounting fears it could spell disaster for the global economy looks. as if i'm wrong this is the only country that can be sure and if it did how would you know it's a big deal because you have to go to u.s. embassy ecuador's president the latest to appear on julian assange and his interview program exclusively on r t talking about attempts to i was to him and his defiance of washington.

eleven am in moscow i match reza 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 jewish and hikes are turning violent more than three hundred were arrested in montreal after the latest wave of clashes with police that erupted when protesters started to roll as fall to the officers clashes descended into battles lasting several hours with at least ten people from both sides injured the government introduced an emergency law in that well and protest but demonstrators vowed to ignore it with more mass rallies expected tuesday kadian journalist michel boyer says the law will do nothing but inspire more on the rest. bill seventy eight which is with that's its fault and its goal is to con 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 retaliate even stronger one of the most extremist groups has publicly said it is completely going to de fide 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 since down to talk. the timeline of the protests in canada as well as dramatic pictures from the scene available on our web site r t dot com. as the chicago nato summit draws to a close the block's leaders reaffirm their commitment to ending the increasingly unpopular afghanistan war in two years' time talk of troop withdrawal dominated day two of

the gathering that ended with a joint declaration that nato will stop its combat mission there but maintain a significant presence after twenty fourteen or he's got more points. 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 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 our 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. and 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 who are opposed to no

because. this rally fronted by iraq and afghan war vets who are feeling betrayed by the system rolled away their medals. after a minute of silence for those who perished in 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 onto their knees bleeding faces right here one officer stabbed dozens of protesters arrested someday these these men made peace it or 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 tired 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 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 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 a while now european missile defense the block declaring that stage one of the european shield is officially working but once again failed to provide russia with legal guarantees the system is not aimed against it international affairs

commentator from the group stop nato rick rose off tells our team that moscow has reason to be alarmed. the you know your state has never attempted 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 it out with the interceptor missile system and i quote him whether russia likes it or not but that's certainly diplomatic talk and what in fact the nato summit as. limited as to the first a job with the military capabilities and the major of factor there are of course was the interceptor missiles as you were driving about and that includes among other things something of a centralized command and control center at ramstein where the u.s. has an air force base where nato as they have coordinates which would coordinate i'm quoting nato they're 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 on the table i mean even egypt egypt's first presidential poll since last year's uprising we look at how concerns over the stuttering economy are dominating voters' minds. and in germany rising petrol prices put the brakes on public economic optimism making motor racing to europe for the worst details just ahead. but first the global economy facing a catastrophe unless germany eases this relentless push for euro area euro region nations to cut spending that's the view of britain the shadow chancellor and opposition finance spokesman ed balls who says european partners should give more money to stricken countries like greece spain and portugal james mean way of the new economics foundation finke tank agrees austerity is deepening the crisis. 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 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 a crisis much worse than it needs to be because then we 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 they have 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 think is always austerity is in place i suspect what will happen is that you'll start seeing increasing along more deadlock at the center of your with no clear agreement to what exactly should be done next as

clouds continue gathering over the crisis a euro zone germans also feeling the pinch recent research showing consumers in europe's biggest economy now less optimistic about the fiscal situation in their country with high gas prices further fueling their fears are easier piskun of explains. germany the land of fast cars high speed autobahns and rapidly changing fuel prices. petrol is way too expensive we don't have that much money these days and i think the rich will corporations are reaping a big profit margins with at these prices i'm a candy man in this day and age when the ability is as important as ever that there's no alternative either when going on but 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 through five times per day both jumping and dropping the first four months of two thousand dollars for fifteen to twenty years 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 little uneasy many german primers are so proud of could do some serious damage to their pockets a full tank of the cheapest special 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 on the ratio of the euro to the u.s. dollar in which contracts are signed and of course that will price itself which hasn't been going through its most stable time but does affect the price is that

it's the overall variable letters situation in the middle east and iran that fact we have all these rules all say towards the present we have israeli threats of war we have about the threats of war so while the middle east uncertainty. prices remain unpredictable german join. the daily price of goods even for a country that worships the wheel it may be high time to rename the course about you what is going to. germany. political risk consultant john holzman says the latest turmoil shows the euro zone's bound to fail in its current form he shares his thoughts with r.t. and an interview coming your way in the next hour here's a peak. 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 in study of germans grumbling about greeks who retire at fifty two and so 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 called one of the most democratic leaders in latin america's history and a champion of the poor ecuadorian president rafael correia the latest guest a whistleblower in julian a songe in a show you can see later today here on r t 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 parties laura smith has more from one. 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 the 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 career had to say about that. as it is the only country that can be sure never to use the united states because it hasn't got a u.s. embassy. in any of the so you know one of the reasons i love letters lisa.

is the fact that we can get all the funding for the u.s. embassy and the idea to the police and by her home release unit was key units fully funded by the u.s. embassy in these offices in command would chosen by the u.s. ambassador and paid by the u.s. and you know if we did away with 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 careers 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 so you can give the go ahead it was always we were granted permission to sort of talk an ecuadorian military base in miami. unlikely 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 it's 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 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 he wants to dispel this image of big government persecuting saying journalists and news outlets and 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 they're the latest episode of joining us on this program is going to people costs hair on r.t. at eleven thirty g.m.t.

. interview will be airing throughout the day tuesday and if you missed it on the air you can always check it out on our special web site section at our t.v. dot com. there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. the source material is what helps keep journalism on the we. we want to present. something you know.

on the eve of egypt's first presidential election senses revolution it's the economy shaping the views of most 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 to renegotiate 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 and the economy shrivel mommas real estate development business suffered a harsh blow during the egyptian uprising in the year this followed his struggles 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 where their accountants that we don't know where they are so we can pay. and at the same time we have to continue our work so we have to put money from our pockets like many mohamed 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 the big scare into print. we both pay the same taxes will have to pay 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 the code the reforms contacted 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 ruin the currency is in jeopardy the people are jobless and angry and the only way out seems to be in barring enormous loans from the likes of the i.m.f. it's just over three billion dollars the danger in government is asking for the critics of the idea from the i.m.f. means being in debt is not just financially but beautifully as well we do not like the interventions of the i.m.f. and institutions and i do 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 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 mean nothing of the good life from. more than me and my family with a lot of money. a lot of other things. money i'm looking for i'm looking to do something for my people. in cairo. our team. member there's always more news video analysis at r.t. dot com here's what's a click away right now day three of probably training for the world's most popular social network sees a thirteen percent slump so is facebook a market bubble plus. infamous activist group femen known for its topless protests

in the spotlight again by know what they tried to do when football's european championship trophy one hundred split in ukraine all that and more at our team coming. secret laboratory was able to build the most sophisticated. fortunately doesn't sound anything to submission to teach creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. tensions high in the capital of lebanon after two were killed in clashes there monday is the latest in a series of violent confrontations in the country between opponents and supporters of the assad regime in neighboring syria. and middle east blogger told us that he thinks the future prospects for the area 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 there between members of the sunni community and ilo a community in the north or yesterday what happened last night where clashes between members of the sunni community that are posed 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're unlikely to see any protracted struggle however what we're likely to see is this sort of simmering tension with frequent explosions that would kind of slowly drag the country into a state of chaos and again political leaders stand completely helpless about doing anything to stop this dynamic or spiraling towards conflict let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe the u.s. senate's imposed a new set of economic sanctions on iran over its nuclear program this is

a day before the so-called five plus one meeting on the issue starts in the iraqi capital baghdad and after the u.n. nuclear watchdog visited iran monday the international community suspects iran might be trying to develop a nuclear weapon tehran maintains the program is for peaceful energy purposes only . 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 euro vision song contest with azerbaijan leadership facing pressure from around the world over the arrest of the activists the country's governmental lashed out at critics saying the human rights campaigners are spreading lies about the country to tarnish its reputation. the california private space x. company attempting another liftoff for the first commercial supply flight to the international space. station blast off set to take place in about twenty minutes at seven forty four am g.m.t.

after the launch was aborted over the weekend due to technical glitches if this liftoff goes well the dragon capsule will spend a week at the space station before being cut loose and parachuting into the pacific and. a train crash in southern india has killed at least fifteen and injured thirty five this one a passenger train ran into a freight train that had been stationary on the tracks for coaches do you rail one caught fire leaving many trapped in the side accidents are sadly common in india last year sixty nine people were killed during a train derailment. marina joining us now with all the latest business news so europe is open for trading this hour of the investors as optimistic as they were yesterday. well we have seen some heavy losses for the markets in recent weeks but investors do seem to be more optimistic and of course now they are a wait and see what happens during an informal meeting on that wednesday on thursday i should say by european leaders and of course greece is

a whole topic so we'll be waiting to see what will be said about the country and its prospects of abandoning the euro zone whether it will stay so that's what they're focusing on right now let's take a look at the latest figures from europe the markets have been open for a couple of minutes now and as you can see they're tracking always these losses both the forty and the dax are adding over one percent but it's still early to say that of session is going there will still need some more time but we'll have a better picture next hour now moving on to russia the markets here are also there were of course among the worst the fact that recent weeks and i was because of falling prices oil dropped twelve percent in may and that of course always affects social markets but since monday the bounce back and as you can see the r.t.s. has added over a half a percent to solve in staying with the countries on the one the right has now launched this month last month to the lowest level since the two thousand a financial crisis the jobless rate dropped to five point eight percent from six

point five percent in march and that's his company's right spending the mass the demand and also russia is scrapping the rule requiring forty banks to get a permit before opening subsidiaries in the country the central bank is now even in out its regulations as russia's repent to enter the world trade organization. and when it comes to currencies the euro this hour is once against the dollar and when it comes to the ruble it's still gaining against a bold major currency as investors are as i said read into what will happen in the now move. the markets are off as well with technology and exporting firms doing particularly well so we have resource firms among the big winners and last fall in the recovery in the. the commodity price is there and of course tracking the markets there are over snes games on wall street in fact the overseas gains on wall street affect many markets and that's where we see united against their let's take a look at what happened there that the nasdaq had its biggest best day in the last

five months as you can see there it added almost two and a half percent there and also we have a fact in that is apple gained almost six percent and that's us and that's our feeling more optimistic about the companies are i phone business and this appointment was facebook was eleven percent below its i.p.o. price and i was just in the second day of trading when it comes to crude prices and a major factor here for the russian markets and they're on their way optics than in the previous sessions gains and that's after a six there losing streak and while we saw the strong move first was because there were more hopes that beijing would take action and stimulate growth in that sector and basically that's the business something like this hour we'll have more for you next hour matts already great looking forward to that see you in an hour's time we'll delve deeper into the world of finance with max kaiser and stacy herbert coming your way in a few minutes after

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