collision course growing student demonstrations in canada descend into street battles with police on the eve of the one hundredth day of protest. the i.m.f. changes this june saying spending not saving is britain's way out of the economic crisis as fresh protests against cuts and further rattle confidence in the politics of austerity. reporting that. the deadly clashes between supporters and opponents of the regime in neighboring syria spread from its northern borders all the way to pay for. online on screen this is r.t.

with the twenty four hours a day live from moscow the student movement in the canadian province of quebec is pledging to bring thousands onto the streets of montreal to mark a one hundredth day of protest that's after their rally against hikes in tuition fees spiraled into violent clashes with police protestors writ large slabs of concrete out of the roadway and held them at officers who responded with caution bombs and pepper spray over three hundred people were arrested and several dozen injured the local government sought to stem the protests by adopting a new emergency law to restrict rallies last week canadian journalist justin ling who covered the riots told me earlier that the law will do nothing but inspire further unrest. yes protesters are supposed to announce their route to police but it's the punishment that comes along that's the problem so it says that it basically they don't notify the police or if the protest of years of course that

student groups can be held responsible furthermore it imposes really punishing findings and possibly registration to student groups basically encourage or tacitly approved certain students either blocking classes or having. registered protests so a lot of constitutional experts of actually said that this probably goes too far. it's time for britain to come up with a plan b. a new i.m.f. report says if the country is to survive the turbulence continuing to rule the eurozone even though it's not a member the annual summary on the state of the u.k.'s finances also warns that unless britain eases off on a sturdy it could make the impact of future shocks even worse meanwhile in spain everything from elementary schools to universities have shut down as teachers and students strike together and protesting against severe cuts they say could deprive thousands of the chance of a higher education and durkee an epic n.e.p. from belgium and a former adviser to the european commission i spoke to him earlier and he said

things may get even worse as greece heads a euro it. nobody knows what's going to happen to agree to i was in athens last week myself and i have the impression and the greek society has no way to go it fell and slipped in a hole and is unable to get out and it will not recover in the eurozone but if greece defaults it's not the end of the problem it's the beginning of another problem because this uncertainty is now basically containing other countries like spain and portugal and so on and turned into one of the biggest crisis i think the european union has ever seen of the euro was regarded as a political currency that would force political unification automatically it didn't happen. effect the contrie happened only produce that verse to see and differences and even quarrels between member states so now we're stuck with a currency that is basically playing european countries apart and there are also conflicts within european countries between government and opposition and so on so

we go from from summer to middling to morrow this will be another summit in brussels i think is about the twenty years summit but the entire process is poorly managed and that is also part of the uncertainty that we are seeing it is getting out of control and actually nobody knows what to do and i think that is the center the core of all the uncertainty that we see now in portugal international debt inspectors will be checking how lisbon is spending its bailout money wracked by unemployment and recession analysts say the country's been brought to the brink by austerity but one of the world's most influential investors says it's best to be wary of whatever the credits a team says. these people are always wrong look at the world bank look at the i.m.f. look at everything they've said in the past fifty years they have never right about anything so it's very likely they would you would have kind of a knock on effect because then some might some politician in some other country is going to say aha i will say i will get us out of the euro i will save all of my

poor struggling citizens then somebody would leave and then another politician would do the same and you would lose four or five countries from the euro which would be a terrible shock lots of loss this would happen in the financial markets but if we survive there the euro be much stronger if you get rid of the people who are trying to spend other people's money in this situation would be stronger we'd all be better off you'd have a currency which could compete with the u.s. dollar. as the eurozone stagnates amid a sterile t.n. debt the strongest e.u. nation is also slowing down literally fuel prices in germany are spiraling and as you go to prison of explains drivers are having to reconsider how often they hit the altar benz. 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 these prices are making me mad in this day and age when mobility

is as important as ever there's no alternative either but a 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 very generous people and that's on the rolls if all together so you can drive often pretty much as fast as here let's you but as fuel prices rise being aware worries me german drivers are so proud of 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 there and on the steepest in europe also on 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 israeli threats of war we have american threats of war so while the middle east uncertainty. remain unpredictable many germans. arranging their schedules to. ships the wheel it may be high time to rename the horsepower. germany.

party live here in moscow with the twenty four hours a day seven minutes past the hour now only a day remains before the presidential election starts in egypt and the country's ruling military council is reportedly planning to issue a so-called interim constitution the document will apparently establish the parliament's right to form a government while setting limits on its influence on the military for more i'm joined by a freelance writer and journalist who she's there in cairo. the people's assembly that the lower house of the egyptian parliament will reportedly be granted the power to change the cabinet a democratic development last. yes i think this would be i mean obviously we don't know what this document is going to say but this would obviously be a development because it would mean that the of the prime minister would be chosen by the people's assembly as opposed to by the president asif elations in that there because they're saying that the defense minister and interior minister would still

be appointed by the president and these are key ministers who have quite a lot of power particularly over state control of its peoples for example and the protests on the streets and things like that so we're unsure some say the interim constitution reported limitations a necessary evil to protect the country from islam domination is that a fair observation a fair point. i think it's very hard to say that because we don't actually know if the president himself will be one of the so-called islamists or what the power what the power will be between the president and the parliament so i think it's difficult to say will be able to curb the power of the islamists without the exact details of exactly how the parliament will be controlled because the parliament itself is what islam is dominated so far and there of course that's causing a lot of consternation and anger in egypt is the military in the document reported provide the military with exclusive rights to govern itself does this mean it

really is aiming to keep power after the election. the military is really protecting his interest and i think this is going to be the biggest problem we face when the constitution is written at the moment they have something called military law which really can can affect people on the streets for example as we're seeing at the moment civilians who are being seen in front of military tribunals so i think this also means that they'll protect their budgets which will be secrets and generally the way they conduct themselves and i was oversee them is the minute you have quite a lot of power this this in itself is quite worrying and this i think will be the biggest biggest debate will in the constitution is being written how much power the military will be able to keep and staying on the military theme the interim constitution will apparently establish the president as commander in chief of all the military and of course some fear that if an islamist candidate wins egypt's military will become a new national islamist militia. this i think is extremely unlikely at the moment the commander in chief of the military is is tonto

a field marshal time power the head of the supreme council the armed forces i really cannot see how he giving power to whoever the civilian president will be in creating an islamist president i think this is one thing that i the military will not allow to happen because that would mean that all the military laws that budget everything would be subject to a civilian president who might well be islamists and this would be a huge coup that was allowed to happen because revolution was initiated by secular civilian forces do they have any say on their country's future no. other member we don't know how the concert constituent assembly which is going to actually draft the constitution which will obviously give the powers to the president and the parliament and to enter the country as a whole we that hasn't been decided yet there's still a lot of pressure coming from the streets and there's quite a few liberal and leftist forces in the in the parliaments even though is dominated by the islamists so there's still a lot of pressure on this particular point and really what we will see is we'll know when the constituent assembly is is built and when this constitution is

written i think the moment these secular forces will continue to put pressure on put pressure on on the decision making just briefly. before the election what's the atmosphere like in the streets we see a peaceful election. i think it will be a peaceful election i mean we're not sure exactly if that will happen or not people people are anxious really what we're feeling at the moment is a reactive politics of the people that strategically voting for someone who is better than the country they don't want because the candidates they didn't have the same sort of following as normal presidential candidates will have so i think people are anxious they really don't know where the country is going we don't have a constitution we don't have a working document really saying what the president is able to do so i think the real feeling at the moment is fear no doubt we'll be talking again very soon bill true thank you very much indeed for that live update in carro. the u.n. secretary general has called on conflicting sides in lebanon to restore order after

two people were killed in clashes on monday r.t. is more of a notion in beirut has been looking at the aftermath of the violence and the reasons behind it. the roster signs of the recent violence here everywhere as you can see scarred buildings behind me by a blackened walls garbage we were told that there's been some burnt cars here but they've been taken away and police and the army have cordoned off the area and on patrol here twenty four hours to prevent further escalation of violence this recent round of the clashes here in lebanon was triggered by the death of a prominent lebanese and ardent opponent of president bashar al assad he and his companion were apparently showed. by army troops at the checkpoint in the northern part of the country feel sorties here in lebanon have been very quick to react and investigation is right now and they go in more than twenty soldiers and officers have been detained for interrogation about sunni politicians happened what he

called for prime minister and on the come on the to resign and they also warned the death penalty for those responsible for what they see as an assignation similar fight interrupted earlier this month in the northern city of tripoli claiming twelve lives and they spin disturbance at the border with syria recently how lies just how divided the lebanese society is while the country is trying to remain neutral some accuse the lebanese army of cooperating with assad regime while all this point fingers at lebanon sunni population saying they are based in the syrian opposition by providing it with all kind of support everything they need including weapons well levanon is actually known as one of if not the most tolerant arab country where different confessions have put this tit for years but this recent incident obviously reveals just how fragile the stability is and fears are growing right now that this situation may boil lebanon's own religious tensions. political

analysts and journalists are among the shabby says western powers may be unwittingly providing direct support to terrorists destabilizing the whole region. the ironic thing is that al qaeda and the western powers are seem to be the same in the same group that is defying the lebanese authorities i mean this is this is a very peculiar situation and i think that many european and american allies are warning that this is a situation that the. western powers cannot sustain because these groups these islamic fundamentalists group some of them are affiliated to the movement or they are supporters of an openly i mean no one can actually be denied that and at the same time the united states and the was impulsive for the fourteenth month coalition which is really very close to be. supporting al qaida that's the situation on the ground in and that's

a very descriptive way of saying it and you can check. any journalist and check for themselves and they can actually see and we have interviewed many of these people and they have openly supported the movement. it's been reported that a dozen lebanese shiite have been kidnapped in syria while traveling through the country on their way back from holy shrines in iraq the news comes less than a day after five people were killed by a bomb in a restaurant in damascus the area in the north of the city where the blast took place is known for its protest against president assad state television blamed the explosion on terrorists of term used by the government to refer to the armed opposition is the latest in a string of attacks across the country with daily reports of violations of the ceasefire which began last month the u.n. puts the death toll from the ongoing violence in the country since last year at ten thousand people. nine people are dead after a gunman opened fire in

a political rally organized by a nationalist party in the pakistani city of karachi at least thirty people were wounded in the violence which part writing with several cars and shops also burned the incident a reminder of the volatility of the city which is home to several political parties with armed factions it's also believed to be a hiding place for taliban and al-qaeda militants smashed a window ruined a lot during a demonstration get ready to pay a massive fine that is the essence of a new law approved by russia's state duma in the first reading sarah firth has the details. well most gay protesters could be set to get hit where it really hurts and not in the wallets now this bill which is just causes first reading in parliament proposes raising the find that could be levied home protestors to hide thirty thousand of the protesters themselves and up to nearly fifty thousand dollars for the protest organizers now that's really a massive hike from the current maximum fine which is around fifteen hundred

dollars so a huge leap and this has been the first meeting the still two more to go through the second meetings where some of the jainism replays possibly lead to see those very high amounts loaded in the third reading it will pass into law if that is going to happen over the next couple of weeks and comes on the back of the continued slowly very persistent protests we've seen taking place around the city now recently those two week long ok by style can't just be pretty park in mosco and that caused a lot of anger amongst some of the local residents that now the government has said that they're aiming to bring. the military to these types of gatherings and now we see an incident in the polls just before the inauguration the protesters took apart one of the stages and was throwing some of the pieces and it's this type of civil disobedience that the government really wants to raided and they say that this is an attempt this low to bring us the ability and security to these types of gatherings and to calm the provocation but of course it may not salute the slums

but the opposition he say that it's another made to intimidate the protesters and that in the feature this could actually increase civil disobedience at these types of gatherings. so further in central moscow iran will allow u.n. inspectors to relaunch investigations into what they see as suspicious military sites where atomic weapons might be developed that's despite washington considering further tightening the screws on the country the senate has approved a new bill which expands sanctions yet again and will close potential loopholes for iran's on exports and also allow the u.s. to slap bans on any state or company that helps iran to develop oil and uranium well for more on this let's cross live to u.s. presidential nominee from the the foreign party gary johnson he's in new mexico iran is currently besieged by international sanctions will this fresh set of measures forced tehran to be more transparent about its nuclear program.

well i hope they are more transparent but i am the only candidate that does not want to bomb iran i think we should be looking at alternative methods of dealing with iran and sanctions clearly have not worked but being at the being at the table from a diplomatic standpoint it's in their best interest to not develop nuclear weapons i would want to be at that table but i do not want to bomb iran in deference to romney and obama i think both of them have their finger on the trigger right now what alternative methods would you suggest. well just the notion that trading partners make make for friends and enemies. the notion that trade is good you know we don't want we want to be friends with with the world elected president united states i want to declare peace and that's

going to start out with iran that's going to be getting out of afghanistan let's bring the troops home now of course the u.s. is in danger of losing more friends over iran saying that office of course it will slap sanctions on those who do import oil from iran the likes of china and india now that big international partners and what could that do to relations between the likes of india china and the u.s. well you hit it on the head we bomb iran we're going to make one hundred million more enemies that we didn't otherwise have and everything that we seem to do when it comes to. when it comes to our military. what we do militarily we end up with the unintended consequences of what happens iran is an unintended consequence of taking out iraq that was their only concern was saddam hussein and iraq and what were they going to do what were they going to going to do to us today we take them out and now we're having to deal with this in

the first place not a military threat but we should be vigilant to what in fact may be a military threat but at current not bad case syria of course the problems that seen with the u.s. foreign policy concerning syria that's a precursor to putting the pressure on everyone what you have america's current policy at the moment in the middle east in general and of course its role in the arab spring what's your foreign policy stance on all of this. well that we should not that we should be noninterventionist that we do not want to involve our military i think one of the primary responsibilities of the president of the united states is did to determine whether or not there is military threat and there is not any military threat let's not bomb iran let's get out of afghanistan now let's let's get ourselves out from under the unintended consequences that seem to

have us making a lot more enemies than we are friends you know we take out mubarak egypt turns out that we're backing the lesser of two evils the this is these are decisions that u.s. policymakers are making. lesser of two evils come on these are these are decisions and actions that lie with the countries involved not with the united states just fine in the sentiments you are expressing seem to be echoed in the in the streets at the moment throughout the u.s. we're seeing a lot of protest on with thousands for example taking to the streets in chicago during the nato summit there your presidential nominee the libertarian party are you appealing to those people are you going to get a lot of votes from then because clearly they need some sort of political backing some sort of support. well i am doing this because there is a voice lacking look let's get out of afghanistan let's back let's balance the

federal budget marriage equality there are a whole bunch of issues. that are not being represented here in america with a broad brush stroke i think most americans are a fiscally responsible and socially tolerant and i would suggest that that is not being represented now with the tools parties libertarian party a clear alternative alternative to voting for the two old parties and as former governor of new mexico with more executive experience than romney and obama combined governmental executive experience i think i've got something to offer and it's different just briefly you've got something to offer is that being reflected in the opinion polls what sort of support are you really feeding it getting at the moment just very very briefly please. eight eight percent in the polls if i'm at fifteen percent i get to be on the national debate stage i think that's possible given that eighty percent of americans right now are saying they would consider voting for a third party candidate there is an alternative us presidential nominee from

america's third largest party the libertarian party gary johnson thank you so much for your time. this is all t. live here in moscow time now for the business news stay with us for that. it's time for a roundup of the world's global markets i'll kick start with the u.s. stocks which are trading right now and they are indeed rise a a muscle the optimism is being fueled by the best estimates of housing data which rose the first time in theory months also as investors are speculating that china europe will stimulate growth you've got the dow does that sort of set up really hope of dissent in positive territory this hour that's what remember it as well that last week we saw the u.s. markets they had their worst week over the years as a charity fortunes also want to quickly mention face but they are you know as well is now trading thirty two dollars. pulling from the thirty eight dollars that it

kicked off on a friday a lot of investors are saying that they were simply too greedy and kicked off too high let's get into the european markets and see how they are used up to the worst some comments coming from the economic cooperation and development they said that the full cost of the growth is actually going to be. as well as that they will also boosting the optimism for the year i've also investors in london and in a posting gains over over one and a half. and if we talk about the common currency we'll see how the euro dollar is trading at slightly below want twenty seven twelve this. level of the day that's how the ruble finished up trading earlier on in the senate gate because the u.s. dollar and the euro and that news is on to the russian markets it was a slight relief we had some tuna off year lows yesterday as we can see the yes on the my side both managing to have a quarter of a percent day trading session this is some of the biggest blue chips and on the my

section see how they before we had gazprom nearly one percent up over a percent. they were up over one and a half percent i've got a new employee at. eagle chip and he is known as the soul of the. energy while his supervisor called his entire energy set the government and is going back to ross nafta as the tail of the board but last year he was forced to step down from the board and that was due to new rules preventing senior officials running state companies but that it was not given a government posed by putin in the recent poll this week so he's now free to resume his leadership role at the country's biggest oil company and staying with russian news a russia's highly anticipated privatization program is staring interest well beyond the country's borders and that is coming from the london stock is days they are eager to get some of the business and we spoke to the head of the bulls at the annual of the to be for him in london he was saying that russian companies are in demand i do expect a number of companies to come here this is

a confirmation of the plans already announced over a year ago this is something that we can see even which will be done in partnership with russian capital markets as well as the russian exchange interest is very high for a very simple reason europe still today has a lot of capital certainly in the private sector three trillion dollars of equity assets managed in london alone but europe doesn't have much growth so russia offers the growth we have the capital the expertise and the ability to make not only these companies richer in terms of capital but to enhance their international brand. for me and the rest of the business they will be back eight o'clock moskos time tomorrow seal latest updates.