sunday's news on the week's top stories of thousands of greeks approaches the games of fresh multibillion your austerity cuts plan to appease the country's creditors and say kill its place in a single currency block. the e.u. spreading crisis doesn't spare frogs away growing unemployment and poor economic growth see the president's approval rating plummet just months after winning office . as democrats and republicans brace yourselves for the final battle two months ahead of the u.s. presidential election we hear from critics who question whether there's any genuine choice. pivot to the east asian pacific nations look for

ways to energize the konami greek coverage at a major summit in russia as a u.s. and european economies flounder. you're watching our teaser the weekly with me say first a major forum of asia pacific nations are seeking to revitalize global economic growth is currently wrapping up in russia's far east we expect the media conference on the apec summit the hope is of light emitted doujin to start shortly and we'll be bringing it to you live here on our t.v. but now to other stories. by greece has seen its first large scale protests against a new round of wage and pension cuts with thousands marching through the streets of the country's second biggest city of the salami team minus coveralls with riot

police rob said in the end of what was otherwise a peaceful demonstration several young people said rubbish and fire and burned and flag a protest takes place against the backdrop of the e.u. and the i.m.f. inspectors visiting greece assess whether the debt crippled nation qualifies for its next multibillion view of tons of aid to secure that rescue learn and stay in the eurozone athens his plan is planning spending cuts worth almost twelve billion euros artie's peter all of a has no focusing on. the prime minister antonis samaras has said that he will do everything within his power to make sure the greece remains within the euro zone however he did acknowledge that the cuts it is government to are making were both unfair and painful for the greek people but as unfair and painful as they are he says that the necessary as without being in the eurozone greece would die as

a nation also says the important is in terms of the country meant taining any credibility that it has left on the global financial stage and our credibility is said to be tested quite soon is all it is from the so-called troika arrive in greece to see whether they've fulfilled their part of the bargain when it comes to making the cuts that they are asked to do on whether they receive the next round of bailout money a massive thirty one billion euros worth of assistance with those cuts are necessary they're certainly not popular here in thessaloniki we've seen thousands of people out on the streets of greece the second city demonstrating against the way that the current government are handling the financial crisis when anger and the way the government is doing. with the crisis what they're doing is wrong it's not just in terms of protest the greek people are airing their grievances with the current government if you look at the latest political polls we're seeing that

some are ases government lies in second place behind a a opposition party that anti bailout money was perhaps more worrying though is if you see in third place is the ultra rightist party golden dawn party that has a far right agenda some of called neo nazi and they certainly have a seemingly growing popularity here in greece which is concerning many people many people i've seen out in the streets. protesting what they call the fascist organization i have to say though this demonstration thessaloniki far more peaceful than some we've seen in the past in greece that people are upset airing their views but they're certainly not of the violence say that we've seen in in cities like athens as people demonstrate against the handling of the financial crisis. well the financial turmoil has also been the focus off political life in other european countries this week in portugal the main trade union describe the new government's

austerity measures as a declaration of war that's as hundreds protested in spain are going what they called german maddening in their countries or face thing and get america visit two hundred robert oulds of the independent think tank of the brewers a group of believes poor political decision making is to blame for the economic crisis spreading to more countries. the situation is getting increasingly worse the levels many countries in the eurozone is increasing even the personal debt of germans is now up to incredibly high levels these german is in debt for an average of around twenty five thousand euros and that's creating a great deal of strain on german economy as well and people worried there because people are desperately want. it's a league restraint where unemployment is continually rising and becoming quite alarming and there's a number of plans being put forward particularly by the german government at the

moment to have what's known as intergovernmental conference to set up a new treaty for the european union particularly for the eurozone states to have more of a single form of government for the u. which would be quite undemocratic really because it would be a further centralization of power in europe away from ordinary people and away from national parliaments. disillusionment with the government is also spreading in france a slump in economic growth huge job cuts and war a tory regarding syria has led to a record number of french citizen disapproving of their president shortly after he took office parties teso so yeah it's. france may have lost its title as the country with the highest per capita consumption of antidepressants but the french certainly have at last a peasant is that now with more reasons to be unhappy because the new record unemployment levels an economy that's just not growing and we prospects all around and when they look to their new president they don't expect much of a future either so much so that sixty eight percent of french people are fearful

for their future close with a record high of seventy percent in two thousand and five shortly after jacques chirac was reelected for a second term but france did manage to beat all other presidents in unpopularity after just one hundred days on the job sure i can lower ratings came after nine years in government and bad ratings come after only four months. in office so it's catastrophic situation for you when you vote for change and you relate as the president doesn't have even a plan to. deliver. the reforms you vaguely promised i mean of course you are unhappy adding salt. injury the state just threw a life like to a struggling mortgage lender by guaranteeing its debts after a long and explicitly declared the world of finance as his enemy during the

election campaign. this craziness has to stop i think this financial sector is a bill we're spending on the other side billions for things which are not a priority for us. francis began sending direct aid to anti assad regions in syria a former french colony a move that shortly followed a last promise to recognize a provisional government formed by the opposition an all too familiar style and french foreign policy that irks citizens like mathilde despite having voted for a law and what she calls france's intrusive behavior she says is all about securing financial interests. we can change presidents but the foreign policy does not change the main political parties decided to do if we were in my original country to send the french army to go and kill people in ivory coast again today to syrian money abroad is that we trying to get just like what happened with libya the french have a seat here we already complex to

a point where they imagine that they are the ones saving others what they don't know is that lisa even the people for them money is. a teacher at a local school at a mother of three this is what she tells the kids to see the film for me i tell the kid sister the hard improve their language again and that me most think of their future outside of france are your confidence and at this point the french have clearly lost patience does are still here are to paris. later on in the program more analysis on the western plans to recognize the syrian opposition. what you could call the equivalent of fabulous recognition of a government in exile rebuilding a government in exile perhaps if the russian government were to recognize the ku klux. i am as a government in exile in america and provided heavy artillery so that they could go against washington or something like that. barack obama has been rallying

support during the democratic party's national convention this week as he seeks reelection as president he laid out his action plan claiming it would have a profound effect on the lives of americans for decades artie's marina but my own analysis of how different the proposed changes would actually be. in two thousand and eight the rock obama turned us politics into something of a pop culture phenomenon we made at one of those defining moments. a moment when our nation is at war our economy is in turmoil the democratic presidential candidate accepted his party's nomination value to rebuild america's moral standing and break from the policies of his predecessor the failure to respond is a direct result of a broken politics in washington and the failed policies of george w. bush four years after change occupied the white house america is still at war twenty three million citizens are unemployed and most of the national security

policies cemented by george w. bush continue unabated or have been expanding the code of your station of what were illicit abuses under bush imprisonment without trial spying without warrants we've now replaced imprisonment and torture largely with assassination which is actually not a moral improvement under obama's leadership guantanamo bay remains open the patriot act has been renewed warrantless wiretapping extended but cia black sites have closed targeted killings have been justified drone strikes publicly acknowledged military commissions codified however enhanced interrogation like waterboarding has been banned critics say obama has not only double down on bush's policies he's also raise the stakes signing the national defense authorization act made him the first us president to assert the right to assassinate anyone anywhere without any legal

sanction if there is a war cries out there we can the war crimes iraq. tops the list this made many of those who voted for him hoping for change left disillusioned in fact what they appear to have voted for was more of the same obama's ratings are now the lowest of any incumbent per. didn't since the one nine hundred eighty s. the two major parties are very very much the same on all the important issues when it comes to spending more money than we have engaged in in foreign conflicts that we can't afford the cost of america's overseas military campaigns have contributed to a u.s. national debt that topped sixteen trillion dollars this week while obama's america is running on empty critics say wall street continues to play largely by the same rules that led to the global financial crisis there hasn't been regulation of the banks in a sufficient way and that the main crisis affecting the united states which is to say the financial clutch on the global economy and the corporate stranglehold on

the political system hasn't changed at all because president obama comes from a coalition that led to that in the first place since obama has stepped into the white house america has seen an unprecedented rise in grassroots movements like the tea party and occupy wall street they'll both very different one thing uniting them is the claim that the people of america are being ignored by their own government the two major us political parties have historically gone to great lengths and have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to highlight their differences yet following obama's first term in office the biggest change may be that more voters are likely to see a democrat and a republican as two sides of the same court merino court ny r.t. new york. stay with us here on r t a later on in the program got the loiters updates on the protests in bahrain people are going up in the streets to rally on

mars for their political winds. and a deadly shooting after the windows election speech in the canadian province of q bag raises questions of deeply divided electorate. bursting a free trade and nurturing close the lanes that's how easy or pacific nations aim to energize economic growth across the world at the apex the measure that's wrapping up in russia is for used developing nations to underpin a global recovery and outpace expansion in developed countries are now going to go is at the forum in the city of lady foster. as president who had that right now the global economy has reached a critical point and in order to ensure stability and prosperity china is ready to take on that role of the power locomotive to pull the world with their global economy out of this crisis so it's really no surprise that russia is looking

increasingly more and more towards its close neighbor and moscow and beijing seem to agree on a lot of matters and not just in matters concerning the economy but also concerning politics as well and now of course russia has a lot to offer to china and china is ready and willing to receive whatever russia has to offer of course we can expect the united states to be somewhat worried about china which it probably sees as its main rival as some have suggested ahead of the summit our russian president as a person gave an exclusive interview to our in which he underlined the importance of these ties between a russia and china basically expressing the hope and the need for two countries to work together china is indeed becoming a global economic and political hub china has taken up this new leading role you know to me in russia but also in the always of the whole world makes this rather special however is that russia and china are neighbors social relations took

thousands of years to evolve to where they are. over the coming years we are bound to achieve a one hundred million dollar turnover rate it can catch the full version of this interview on our teased you tube channel. political analyst joe's of chang says the deepening ties between moscow and beijing come to balance to the poet and influence of the u.s. . russia and china are both you may say emerging major powers and they have the common objectives of building the multipolar world and containing the influence of the united states as the sole superpower china certainly sees is partnership with russia as well as participation in the prick's rule has a very important in. mechanism as a very important stab to promo is own economic growth through and securing.

role materials and opening up new markets and of course. china and russia believe that these share many common interests concerning many international issues and their full beard joining hands and at camm's to secure food to support from the food will are seen as important and significant to promo bear influence to get in international affairs. and just to remind you we expected president putin to take questions on the results of the apec gathering in russia shortly we'll bring you that live to hear not.

to bahrain now where fresh anti-government demonstrations have ended in six arrests after dozens chipped to the streets in defiance of a ban by the authorities the protesters call for the release of prisoners of conscience that detained allegedly planning to overthrow the government run police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowd of progress on movement a started in february last year with police crackdowns allegedly leaving at least sixty dead and dozens arrested is it times correspondent at best things the protests are not likely to abate anytime soon. the protests in bahrain which are absolutely legitimate it's the case of a shiite majority seventy percent of the country protesting because they are treated as second or third rate citizens in their own country by a sunni dynasty which is very close to the house of saud in saudi arabia and the problem is the house of saud the g.c.c.

countries that is in the persian gulf they managed to convince the us and the west that this is a plot snatched by iran to destabilize the persian gulf which is cool politically absurd there is a tradition of protesting bearing that goes on for decades infected workers protests they are shiite but they are also sunni is involved or ever happens in bahrain is always viewed by the saudis in via washington as a minor disturbance and of course the west does not want to compromise its position as being the aircraft. go argue an angel of the persian gulf. to syria now where the u.s. has reportedly been beefing up its presence along the turkish border american officials though said this week washington is sending teams of advisors to support and fighters commenting on western nations plans to recognize the syrian rebels analysts and writer william and all says that that would be

a mistake given some elements within the opposition ranks their long term agenda is introducing a. taliban like fanatical. islamic sharia law in syria and ending in the tolerance of different religions which has been the trademark of syrian life for decades under under the old assad family. in general and there are reports of from journalists inside syria over the last months of the so-called opposition in many cases there are al qaeda or mujahideen that have been brought in from saudi arabia and elsewhere and provided guns and weapons. that they have beheaded civilians and blame the atrocities on the on the assad government so this is really. i don't know what you could call the equivalent of the obvious recognition of a government in exile really in a government in exile perhaps if the russian government were to recognize the ku

klux klan as a government in exile in america and provided heavy artillery so that they could go to washington or something like that it's just absurd. the british prime minister also regenerates his calls for president assad to step down to make way for a new government formed by the syrian opposition as the u.k. continues to provide indirect help for the rebels but also is ordinary britons i head in for the syrian frontline laura smith has the story. to most britons going about their everyday lives the war in syria seems worlds away but for a few it's a struggle they feel personally involved in as the u.k. government put trey's president assad as an evil dictator there's evidence that britons are going to syria to fight for the opposition bumming him area m.p. khaled mahmoud says some in his community have already gone there is a particular individual who's actually now gone back to baghdad at the moment and

has came back in a few weeks time who's been engaged in fundraising supporting people and putting people together to go back to your people who say that he's going to support the made work and others are blatantly at ryde saying that they're going to support the resistance some says mahmoud of british syrian extraction others a british muslims who feel their faith makes this their struggle but whatever their reasons for going the fear is what they'll be when they return they're trained in the art of warfare but they're all to radicalized as well and then they want to then continues on credit causation they want to bring more people on board and then perhaps their looks to try to. resolve some of the gripes they have here that's blowback the u.k. has already seen from another conflict here in london on the seventh of july two thousand and five the official reports into the seven seventh's bombings revealed

the existence of rumors that two out of the four of us had been to afghanistan for so-called violent jihad back in the u.k. mohammed sidique khan and says that town with together killed fourteen people in combined suicide attacks specific seven bombers were only vaguely known to the authorities and that could be the case for fighters returning from syria too it's all very well to notify the u.k. borders agency but in reality there's very. little they can do people that may leave here to fight in syria will not go directly to syria they may stop in turkey or levon on iraq so the government will not be able to really know the. nation there's no real way of telling whether they're actually going to end up in syria there is no way to know. who when they enter syria who they'll be liaising with. ideologies necessarily how ideologies and viewpoints might change in syria

these are the scenes that could greet them on their return and he islamist organization the english defense league is unlikely to take further radicalization of british muslims lying down creating more bad feeling and deeper fissures in an already divided society pull western whose british freedom party is allied to the e.t.l. says militant groups are preparing for a confrontation we're going to get further and further into this horrible situation of them and us and them unless and then you have small scale violence that starts. the tit for tat and it's like you know i think we literally entering into religious civil war. so far the government's given the syrian opposition eight million dollars for non-lethal equipment including communications but ordinary britons could find themselves paying the far higher price of unrest and insecurity at home

for the support for the syrian opposition laura smith r.t. london. it was the sound of gunfire which or this week rocked canadian politics just as the newly elected premier of kit bag pauline mariah gave the acceptance speech one man was shot dead and another seriously wounded after the shooting suspect has been taken into custody while shouting in french that quote the english are waiting. for the winning party particularly quad could once again raise the question of whether the bag should to gain independence from canada while it's still unclear whether the shooting was politically motivated the action highlighted anglo-french divisions in the province. thank you well most people are condemning this shooting obviously it's not something anybody expected to happen especially on election night the mayor of montreal has come out to express his condolences to the victims he says that he walk safely in montreal without a bodyguard and that no one could see this coming i spoke to some people after the

shooting last night who were at the gathering of the patsy which is our sovereign his party where the leader was giving her victory speech after she won the election and they said what happened was she was whisked away off the stage there was a small boom they didn't think anything of it only later did b. find out that two people had been shot one person was dead behind the nightclub where the speech was being given there was also a fire set police managed to put it out they arrested a sixty two year old man who has been taken into custody and should appear in court very soon but again there's a lot of shock here in montreal across the province of quebec that something like this could happen and until there's a motive known which we still don't know many people are asking a lot of questions there is the path is like as mentioned the sovereigntists party there their mandate is to separate from the rest of canada along they have also

more left leaning social policies as well which appeals to many people in the province of quebec there's also a big push by the party to help encourage the french language here and some people who speak english feel that those policies may be anti english and a little too strong but in general we've been dealing with this in this province for so many years we've seen two referendums to separate or not from canada in the past and those failed so the appetite for sovereignty has been quite minimal but in the lead up to the election we were hearing more and more debates between french speaking people in english speaking people and there was some concern perhaps that since the gunman uttered some words in english that perhaps it could have been politically motivated but as i say it's still too soon to make that connection. right here watching large exclusive the interview with president vladimir putin is coming your way shortly after the headlines stay with.

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