student protests against jewish and hikes in cata that enter their hundred day with demonstrators in defiance of a new emergency law turning violent leading to dozens of injuries and hundreds of arrests. germany's enthusiasm for europe wide austerity under fire from british opposition politicians with fears it could spell disaster for the global economy plus. is if i'm wrong this is the only country you can be sure never to have a coup is the united states because it hasn't got a us embassy ecuador's president latest to appear and julian assad is an interview program talking exclusively to our team about attempts to oust him and his defiance of washington from.

noon 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 were arrested in montreal after the latest wave of clashes with police that erupted when protesters started to hurl as fault at officers clashes descended into battles lasting for several hours at least ten from both sides were injured the government introduced an emergency law aimed at quelling protests but demonstrators vowed to ignore it with more mass rallies expected tuesday canadian journalist michelle boyer who covered the riots says the law will do nothing to inspire further but inspire further unrest. below seventy eight which is a look that's it's tall and its goal is to calm 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 and fringing on the freedom to protest peacefully so people are in shock even to retaliate even stronger one of the most extremist groups has publicly said it is completely going to do you 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 student protests and khatib as well as the most dramatic pictures from the scene available on our web site r.t. dot com. as chicago's nato summit draws to

a close bloc leaders reaffirm their commitment to ending the increasingly unpopular war in afghanistan in two years time talk of troop withdrawal dominated day two of the 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 artie's guidance chickie 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 international 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 is 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 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 threw away their medals. after a minute of so. islands for those who perished in the u.s. led wars. all hell breaks loose. chaos but tons of people shoved and dragged police thrown on to their knees bleeding faces right. 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

deploy 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 stacy churkin r.t.e. chicago illinois. international affairs commentator from the stop nato organization a wreck rose off tells r t local afghan forces will struggle to maintain security on their own following that late nato's decade long stay in the country. see a couple of months ago actually in april. the assault in the capital city of kabul

which was on president and by insurgents to suggest that the government can even protect its own capital much less the country is overall we also have to realize that the total government revenue with the program which is something in the neighborhood of one point seven billion dollars is less than half the ordered would take to sustain the afghan national army what we're looking at is a different form of the u.s. and nato presence in afghanistan it's clear that nato wants to expand its military presence throughout central asia as well make it as well as maintain some sort of presence in afghanistan and we've heard made major nato commanders talk about entirely new troop contributing countries such as colombians over america some of the dubious of nato stay with us here on r t still ahead this hour a post revolution trouble on even tips for this presidential vote since last year's uprising we look at how concerns over the stuttering economy are dominating voters'

minds. and in germany rising petrol prices putting the brakes on the public and economic optimism and making motorists in europe for the worst details and if you will. but first the global economy facing a catastrophe ls in germany eases its relentless push for euro region nations to cut spending that's the view of british 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 midway from the new economic foundation think 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 we can still really this is one of the mechanisms that helped drive the great depression the nine hundred thirty s. for germany to be insisting austerity now is leading only to stagnation inside

europe it's making a crisis much worse than it needs to be because the only see the short term impact already i mean if you take the social impact in greece it's absolute catastrophic in greece one of the lowest suicide rates in europe suicide rates there 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 starts here there are no realistic prospects to recovery inside europe certainly inside the or as i think there's always austerity is in place i suspect what will happen is that you'll start seeing increasing. deadlock at the center of your with no clear agreement of what exactly should be done next. clouds continue to gather over the crisis here euro zone germans also feeling the pinch recent research shows consumers in europe's biggest economy now less optimistic about the financial situation in their country with high petrol prices further fueling their fears. 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 with these prices are making me mad in this day and age when mobility is important there's no alternative either. a big part of this money flows to the government i think it's a giant. change for for in terms of jumping and dropping the first four months of two thousand and. fifteen to twenty year increase for one germany is one of the few. journalists be women. together so you can drive often pretty much as fast as he lets you but as fuel prices rise being a little uneasy many german drivers are so proud of could do some serious damage to their pockets of food think 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 in the ratio of the euro to the us 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 variable letter situation in the middle east and iran in fact we have all these aircraft carrier groups you know sailing towards the persian gulf we have the threats of war we have american threats of war so while the middle east uncertainty continues prices remain unpredictable many german drivers already rearranging their

schedules to be to the daily price blips even for a country that worships the wheel it may be high time to rein in the course power is going to. germany but it will rest consultant john holzman says the latest turmoil shows the euro zone is bound to fail in its current form he shares insights with r t an interview coming your way in about twenty minutes here's a preview. 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 in last the. 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. 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 i. he's been described as one of the most democratic leaders in law in america's history and a champion of the poor ecuadorian president rafael correia the latest guest of julian assange in a show you can see exclusively on our t.v. later on tuesday 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 london correspondent laura smith as well as the six episode of cheating us on his interview show and his guest rafael carette he's the president of ecuador he is a controversial figure he's a left wing populist and one of latin america's most progressive leads and he's actually a beneficiary as you might say over 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 america how in bold. as it is the only country you 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 discontent was the fact that we cut 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 it's 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 to the 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 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 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 singley 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 the latest episode of joining us on this program is going to be broadcast hair on r.t. at eleven thirty g.m.t. an interview with ecuador is president of euro today tuesday and if you miss it you can always find a special section on our website our song archie 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 we. we wanted to present. something else. on the eve of egypt's first presidential election since as revolution it's the economy shaping the views of many voters whoever takes power in the country will take over a country with desperate financial issues well over a year on from the popular uprising against authoritarian rule or he's a really good reports from cairo. mohamed some e.u. has spent most of his life living abroad he returned to egypt just in time to see their own 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 and never came back so we had their accountants 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 in new rule would bring in new opportunities for investment but he says the comic policy of the interim government turned out to be almost as bad as that of the previous regime. you would like to be treated like the 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 equal at least in terms of what we have to pay to the code 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 barring 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 and i'd be have their orders and they have their own agenda that are controlled by. the superpowers we're not the 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 believe the good life for. me and my family with a lot of money and. a lot of other things. they're looking for i'm looking to do

something for my people. in cairo. there's always more news stories and comments on our website r.t. dot com here's what's in store right now the fury of public trading for the world's most popular social network sees a thirteen percent slump so could facebook be a market bubble plus. an infamous activist group femen known for their topless protests again in the spotlight find out what they tried to do in football's european championship trophy. went on display in the ukraine all that and much more at r.t. dot com the. secret lumbered. was able to build its most sophisticated. fortunately doesn't sound anything tunes mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and. this is why

you should. only calm 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 supporters and opponents of the assad regime in neighboring syria karl shero a middle east blogger tells us earlier that he thinks the future for the area is 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 either between members of the sunni community and either with community in the north or 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're unlikely to

see any protracted struggle however what we're 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 stand completely helpless about doing anything to stop this dynamic or spiraling towards conflict. meanwhile trouble inside syria continues five people killed by a blast at a restaurant in damascus it happened in a neighborhood known for its protests against president bashar al assad state media as blame what it calls terrorists its latest in a series of bomb attacks in the country most recently that last week in the city of daraa year us or. turn just the other stories making headlines iran has agreed to an international probe into its nuclear program according to the u.n. nuclear agency chief this after the u.s. senate imposed a new set of economic sanctions on the country this comes a day before the so-called five plus one meeting in the meeting on the issue starts

in the iraqi capital baghdad the international community suspects iran may be trying to develop a nuclear weapon well terren maintains the program is entirely for peaceful purposes. a train crash in southern india has killed at least fifteen and injured thirty five others it happened when a passenger train a random stationary for a train that had been sitting on the tracks for coaches derailed one caught fire leaving many trapped inside were all accidents sadly common in india last year sixty nine people were killed by a train derailment. a private california based firm space x. has successfully carried out a lift off of its first commercial supply flight to the international space station and earlier planned launch was aborted over the weekend because of technical glitches the dragon capsule is due to rendezvous due to spend a week at the space station after round a viewing there before being cut loose and parachuting into the pacific. or the

drag. ground. g.c. didn't choose. joins us now with all the latest business news summary a russian markets have bounce back from a losing streak and there is some good news for the economy tell us more yes that's right i don't have many of those these days who were excited about that and basically what we have is the russians unemployment rate plunged to its lowest level since the two thousand and eight financial crisis in fact it went from it was five point eight percent last month and now it's from six point five percent in march so that's a significant drop there and this happened as companies raise or spending the countries the mind let's take a look at how the russian markets our performance day there were of course among

the worst affected in recent weeks when we saw drops across the board and since monday the sounds we can see this and the mice that side of point six percent now the reason russia was among the worst performers in recent weeks was because of falling weak weiss's the felt twelve percent in may but as you can see their balance by going to take a look at some individual share moves on the mice financials and energy majors out there well across the board so we can see that with gas romance for a bag and also coal producer machel is among the top main movers this hour added almost three and a half percent in fact now stayner with the country is scrapping the rule now requiring form banks to get up permits before opening subsidiaries in the country the central bank is even out its regulations as russia is preparing to answer the world trade organization. to european markets as i said we've been seeing some heavy losses in recent weeks but now markets are bouncing back and that's mainly

due to gains on wall street overdyes knowledge gets to those in a moment but as you can see there both the footsie and the bags are adding around one percent and basically investors are looking forward to see what happens in an informal european leaders on thursday greece is of course our hot topic right now so they're waiting to see vote. will be said about the country and the prospects of abandoning the euro zone well that's they what will happen if it doesn't so that's what advices will be waiting to see there now with asian markets higher as well we have technology technology in the exporting firms on the rise also resource firms are among the big winners today and that's mainly because of the recall very many commodity prices there are many one corporation of china is gaining over two percent but as i said this is mainly due to what's happening on wall street there so let's take a look at what happened nasdaq had its best day in the five months there was apple would stay in almost six percent and that's as investors are again calling for the

answer no more mistake about the company's i phone business but at this appointment was a facebook has been in the news a lot lately it's a share dropped eleven percent below its i.p.o. price of us just in the second day of trading there moving on to currencies the euro is a low war against the dollar when it comes to the ruble and mixed picture this hour it's great in against the greenback but losing to the euro as it is in europe there are mixed feelings right now confidence as well as what will happen in that meeting when it comes to crude prices they have recovered in the previous session and they're continuing to recover we're seeing some moderate gains there and there are six day losing streak and that happened after beijing there were hopes that it will take action which will boost growth in the sack there and this is how business looks this hour back to you matt thanks very much for that update and we'll be back with a recap of our top stories in a few moments stay with us. the

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