stupid. stunts on t.v. don't come. violent clashes shake the spanish capital madrid police crackdown on the. firing rubber bullets and beating protesters with. syria's main opposition leaders refusing to budge top level talks right here at moscow they say they don't want president assad to stay in power and are demanding the u.n. intervene to stop the bloodshed. attacks on immigrants show an alarming increase in greece reflecting a rise of nationalist sentiment both on the streets and in parliament all being linked to the ongoing economic crisis. there are some markets closed up in the red today despite the strong gains made yesterday. as investors respond to the gym

really good. time in the business but. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at moscow. on the streets of madrid as police launch a fierce crackdown against a mass demonstration security forces have been firing rubber bullets using batons against crowds supporting coal miners who have converged on madrid for the protesting industry cuts and workers have been joined by thousands of other demonstrators venting their anger at new government tax hikes how e.u. correspondent now explains what's been the ultimate lead story. here. escalating

violence today it's a continuation of what we've already seen in the past few weeks there already been pockets of protests around spain on reports that the government is planning again to cut even more subsidies to different industries in spain and today we're seeing the miners coming out onto the street tension escalating between them and the police essentially they are very angry at the fact that the subsidies for the coal mining industry is going to be cut by around two hundred million they say that that threatens about thirty thousand jobs according to the government that this is a very high the funded highly subsidized industry but again given the situation that spain has been going through for the past few years now is the crisis started this is just in addition to what these people are already go we through twenty four percent unemployment in spain this is already before seen by a lot of people observing spain as the government continues to ask for a bailout from creditors as it continues to cause subsidies cost benefits for people but social upheaval social unrest is going to continue it's not going to be

surprising that the spaniards would be coming out in solidarity with the miners because everybody is going to be affected by the cuts announced by a spanish prime minister he's blinding about sixty five billion euros in costs now and that's not forget why he's doing business is the fourth tranche of cuts in spain and this is in exchange for the most the more recent one just a couple of days ago thirty billion euros for their bank bailout so this is again the condition set upon spain so in general i'm just going to read to you some of the counties going to do increases first of all in the tax system so that will be cutting in the consumer spending power he will also be cutting the bonuses unemployment benefits for those out of work for six months this is like a laundry list of just continuing cuts of of what is already existing and so we will see more people not she's probably the miners again as i said earlier what's important to see here is the social upheaval in spain it's not unexpected entirely given the circumstances the country is already in. the states rosalee reporting

right that will mean time journalist and writer. the spanish government is blatantly breaking election promises. these measures are taken against what the government had been promised we promise india in the electoral campaign they said they would not raise taxes they would not raise to be eighty that we not touch the holidays and the salaries of public workers well they are doing that now so it's obviously yes we are under the control of brussels there's no doubt we need to save the banks of course we need the banking system but the problem is that if to save the banking system we have to put in danger all of the spanish economy i have to remind you that spain didn't have a huge debt actually it was one of the lowest in europe now if it will go up to ninety percent of its g.d.p. and this is because of the banks so people are angry about that they think they can cope with these protests partly because. mining regions are of course very

localized in certain areas of the country this are a small area of the truth. that miners are getting a lot of solidarity because many people relate to them and sees their problems their own problems so well maybe the government is in for a surprise in that sense. it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today tough negotiations have been taking place right here in moscow where russia's top diplomat has been meeting with the syrian national council of the arab countries main opposition alliance the talks brought no meeting of the minds with the group insisting that president assad's regime must be deposed before they'll be peace with this report artie's lucy caffein of. after the talks we did hear from the syrian national council leaders sort of reinstating of their demand that assad step down in fact they upped that demand saying that everyone associated with the current assad government must step down for talks to be ten yo and why they also

called the head of the delegation have called for you and help from the u.n. security council in the form of military intervention calling again for action to remove assad of blaming the russia for supporting a president assad that wasn't in the words of the opposition groups today russians essentially want to extend the mission for another three months that original mission is supposed to expire in about a few weeks what the russians are pushing for is to switch the mission from observing of a cease fire that clearly to all hasn't really worked folks so far but you're focusing on ways of implementing a political transition in some sort of a dialogue with them syria now it doesn't really look at this point like they're having a lot of support from the western members of the u.n. security council the u.s. and european up powers namely and of course with the syrian national council leader calling for the the u.n. security council to consider a military solution it doesn't really seem like that's going to boost the argument here we were we wound the clock back and had more powers at the table more dialogue

with different factions within syria perhaps things could have turned out differently i mean if we look at the regional players here a saudi arabia namely and iran they have never been brought to the table formally a by the powers in the u.n. that was one of the proposals actually that the russian government had come out what they offered to host the talks right here involving more regional players trying to sort of get all the muscle power possible to try to resolve this conflict peacefully but again it really seems like all the sides of dug in and are really changing from their positions perhaps diplomacy really won't be the answer here but i certainly hope it won't come to that we all know what happened with the example of libya unfortunately. reporting right there well our next hour here on our michel kilo will be speaking to him the leader of another anti assad group in syria he says the syrian national council simply i cannot speak for the entire opposition. group is capable of toppling

a despotic regime such as the syrian government specially if they haven't got the public on their side and then we have some people beast committing cleave to their the opposition and the people stand behind them what it really is is a kind of culture of politics and an insult to the people the syrian national council should realize that they are but one group within the opposition and they are not entitled to speak on behalf of the entire opposition while this destruction goes on and the ruling regime wins it will rule over ruin and suffer a strategic defeat of the opposition wins the country and an unmanageable condition . could have you with us here in r.t. today still to come for you in this program cuba raul castro who is said to be a big fan of the russian winter instead comes to moscow right now after the blazing summer sunshine three days with planned talks with the russian president vladimir putin. hard times increase the meaning difficult ones for immigrants to

the economic crisis being blamed for reports of increased racial intolerance recently human rights group report suggests that police are refusing to give assistance to foreign victims of abuse and are accused of often failing to investigate complaints properly greaves now takes a look at allegations i was in a phobia and austerity refuse to greece. around the country crumbles some parts of greece seeing firm foundations take root. we want a nationalistic state all of them should go back to where they came from. the word of an elected official as unemployment grows hand in hand with extremist sentiment looking for people to blame for their current plight the golden dawn party has proven to be the prime outlet for public anger that if you ask me about violence i would have to say yes we do have violence increase the not the violence you're

suggesting it is the violence that thousands of greeks suffer from but those gangs of foreigners that we have allowed to govern accumulate in our land. despite spouting racism from the podium and scandals including physically assaulting politicians live on air the party still secured around seven percent of the vote in the parliamentary elections campaigning with a promise to throw all sick immigrants out of their hospital beds and then send three pledge as having dark consequences as greece and in particular athens have seen a spike in the number of hate crimes that have seen almost they are that's the part that's by organized groups and by certain savary see me that these attacks are happening at night and they're wherever doesn't integrate by people who are often for debt and armed with clubs. came to greece two years ago fleeing war torn somalia but he's found no peace in athens i want to wish if i'd known what it was

going to be like here i would never have left somalia from what happened to you when you're. there beat me to the ground and ran over my leg with a bike. his case is by no means unique the mother of these children was also assaulted while pregnant the perpetrators remain at large this in neighborhoods like this in central athens where an increasing number of attacks are taking place the so-called vigilante groups in disco targeting ethnic minorities. victims say there's little point turn to the police they're just not interested. greece's immigrant influx is worse than any other e.u. country is poorest border with turkey that's where ninety percent of all those seeking refuge and to europe and in a country that train and nationalist rhetoric is flooding into mainstream politics

i think that the. good here are the groups minute tartus that insists it's an e.u. wide problem which hardpressed greece ends up paying for twice with a dublin two agreement what happens is once one. has been caught in there in another place in europe he's going back to the country that he entered europe with and absent that means they end up in greece while athens pleads for more e.u. support the refugees just keep on coming the danger for them is not the trouble they're fleeing from the fire of extremism they're entering j.q. griese r.t. athens. and a greek economist at yanis varoufakis believes that racial hostility is being spurred on by nationalist rhetoric that is coming from the very top we've seen it in the thirty seventh when there were people lose hope. this begins the

acts and out of it nothing good can it should act as a warning for all of us that whenever that social economy loads as opposed to just going through a recession. scapegoating becomes the order of the problem is that the authorities themselves are being infiltrated by these them in fact that we have folks must be an extremely close it makes a bright neon that's in the police and we have new medicine. and we have the break down effect the consensus seems it's like world war and greets fascism and that says we're simply not all. watching on t.v. still to come your way just a bit later in the program about a america in asia hillary clinton makes an historic visit to laos a country scollard by the name the legacy of the vietnam war which continues to pose a threat to its source. sometimes

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here. you're going global and. take your stuff. to. make your statement to. the world. live from moscow this is just a few minutes on the world update but for now he's a fan of the russian winter but cuban leader raul castro has chosen the blazing

summer sunshine to begin a three day visit right here in moscow it's a major talks with vladimir putin. reports the two nations who have long been friends will be discussing new ways of furthering cooperation. relations between cuba and russia have always been strong and this meeting between the two leaders castro and vladimir putin serves to reaffirm those relations in fact this is the third time that they've met the first time back in two thousand in havana cuba and a second time here in moscow one time three years ago and then this meeting that just took place now in this meeting they discussed trade agreements and the economy how they can help each other's economies grow and also diversify also they talk about mutual ways that they can invest in each other's governments and economy another way is energy transportation and telecommunications industries the ways that both countries can work to shore up those industries now continuing in his

brother's footsteps fidel castro the cuban revolutionary and former leader of cuba raul castro this is his international tour if you will before coming to russia he was in vietnam and in china before that and then also you know he had a meeting with prime minister medvedev and in that meeting just to prove that the good relations mentioned that he really enjoyed russian winters and medvedev took that opportunity to extend an invitation to raul castro to the sochi olympics in two thousand and fourteen so this is not the last that we will see of the cuban leader here in russia. correspondent sean thomas right there with all of our news and much more available for you always online at the top come let's check out some of the stories standing by right now some religious activists according to facebook to be banned in russia over the sites same sex marriage as depicting two brides and two grooms. also learn how

a new american law could give legal immunity to biotech companies involved in planting cultivating genetically modified crops. the rescue operation and russia's southern cross that all reach indirect by massive floods. last friday has come to an end and the exact death toll is still unclear but at least one hundred sixty two people lost their lives in the meantime tens of thousands have been left homeless by the flash floods now the head of the region has ordered the repair of destroyed vital communications and other services in the area within twenty four hours hundreds of tons of humanitarian aide were sent from all across the country to help those affected along with many rescue volunteers as the risk of new floods has passed citizens are now fearing possible dangers from landslides. hillary clinton is on a southeast asian tour this week focusing on economic and military concerns it's the first visit of. any u.s.

secretary of state to laois in more than five decades washington hoping that a country it once showered with bombs will become an ally in the region this report to artie's guy nature can. the u.s. secretary of state is on a busy eight nation tour in asia it's seen as part of the obama administration's asia pacific pivot policy and for the first time since nineteen fifty five a us secretary of state visits laos one of the poorest nations in south asia we still can't get over the dire consequences of the u.s. attacks during the vietnam war even though laos was officially a neutral country at the time between nine hundred sixty seven and nine hundred seventy three the u.s. dropped two hundred sixty eight million cos the bomb submunitions on it more than was dropped on germany and japan combined during world war two the us bombed laos so hard that it became the most bombed nation per capita in history and average of one ton of bombs was dropped for every man woman and child in laos now the grave

part is that it's not over yet a third of the bombs they did not explode and still continue to kill washington is that considering a long term commitment to spend ten million dollars a year to clean up laos from those unexploded american bombs aid was estimated at that rate it will take over a thousand years for laos to be decontaminated about why ten million why not more i spoke with author and activist fred brafman take a listen we are spending one hundred two million dollars on them in the city and only ten million dollars on saving people's lives and this new industry is not needed there is less than ten u.s. embassy officials in walls who are no again the only thing i could so use the jewels here they don't regard lotion people as human beings all they don't hate him they have nothing against them but. just in regard to tell you as an

american i very well from here. hobo orders including secretary clinton talking about personal responsibility take years sponsibility for your actions but that's something that leaders live shoot to their people they themselves take no responsibility will sure through their moods and kill interactions. before we joined the business let's go straight to the yemeni capital sanaa to start off the world update where at least ten people have been killed in a suicide bombing at a police academy reports the bomber blew himself up as cadets were leaving classes al-qaeda is active in the country which has being in a state of political turmoil since last year. thousands have been gathering in cairo's tahrir square to protest against the supreme court unlocking the president's decree to reconvene parliament protesters say the judge's decision is illegitimate and denounce the generals egypt's parliament was dissolved just last

month by the ruling military council after the court ruled the election of a third of m.p. is invalid because of voting irregularities. thousands of people have been protesting on the streets of saudi arabia after an activist was killed during the latest clashes with security forces disturbances have been fueled by the detention of dissidents and growing calls for political freedoms and civil rights political tension in the country is rising for the shiite minority is demanding greater rights from saudis sunni more. heavy rains have struck again in ukraine causing severe floods and damage that's been serious just dropped into local power gas and water supplies as well as roseann traffic emotions you crews are battling to deal with the situation the downpour follows a massive deluge last friday of course in the press in the dog region in which over one hundred sixty people. well do remember you can always check out all of our

stories on our website to r.t. dot com for now though let's go ahead and join kate standing by the business desk good to see you again katie so wall street playing the waiting game ben absolutely investors are all metals at the moment they're awaiting the minutes of last month's federal reserve me saying they want to see signs of further stimulus further cash pumped into the system said there on the tires as i say right now. now let's check out the figures with the abercrombie and fitch is well their shares are up over seven percent a lot of good looking people that work in those stores that's following media reports that the retailer is ready to launch stock buyback programs such you can see the officers on the screen lots of red skull that figure is just same with the u.s. we're going to talk about j.p. morgan and current is going to demand millions of dollars from executives it believes the bank but is that say that by being now in a strategy the under five c.e.o. jamie dimon is calling flawed complex poorly reviewed poorly executed appalling now

the f.b.i. got involved after the banks trade out the run up huge losses several top managers including the chief investment officer even drew have already quit the diamond wants him to return the money as well now the lender is expected to report record losses on friday we're going to attack on that one another bank is having a bad time of it at the moment is hate just b. c. and the financial will acknowledge apologize they say for letting clients launder money through the lead up of the u.s. senate is expected to question executive is as part of its hearing cole's vulnerabilities to money laundering drugs and terrorist financing hey just b.c. case history it comes after the ex bought his boss bob diamond says story for the bank sister they regain interest rates moving almost a year four and a half million more jobs could be lost in the region that's what the international labor organization is saying that if the e.u.

continues to fall all sorry for you now the calling for job creation policies in head the director general says unless talks of measures are taken to increase the real economy investments the economic crisis will depend on the employment covering it will never take all right as good as of european markets got them on the screen just now got a struggling session its results found a retailers that don't really fit in the pressure will move on and. have a look at the common currency if we may be exchange rates also want to mention the above or is well they're suffering it down six percent the soft sells slowed in the first quarter as you can see that's how the group will finish up today on the she gave to get the u.s. on the european currency as the common currency although it's now down is still more showing around those two years now the bo house wrong a ring ding ding in most of the russian markets closed up in the red today that's despite gaping at some. sort of a gloomy fear on the markets just mirroring the us we've also got oil as well

overall as crew production. for the first time in more than two decades and as a wrong lead the decline in opec's output forecast ahead of the european union ban on purchases from the nation maybe i'm going to talk about more oil but this is a russian. tsar brew beijing an e.f. two now is significantly increased its cuban spendings for over a decade the company plans to invest three billion dollars in the island's oil and gas development the company has worked to keep it since two thousand and nine and has already invested around forty million dollars is the public's as you said. growing them that's the business that they saw you up today or thanks so much you're dealing with governor next hour. well now we know how she feels about her now and just about where there are the headlines to come on the question is this is nato poised to be dragged into syria one of the many questions being asked in cross

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