sunday's news and this week the top stories on our team thousands of greece protest against fresh multi-billion you are sturdy cuts of plan to appease the country's creditors and secure its place of the single currency. these spreading price is a dozen space braunstein we're growing unemployment in poor economy growth see the president's approval rating plummet just months after winning office. pivots to the east asia pacific nations look for ways to energize economic recovery that may just summit in russia as the u.s. and european economies flounder. and as the

democrats and republicans of braised themselves called battle ahead of the u.s. presidential election we hear from critics who question whether there's any genuine choice. it's eleven am here in moscow you're watching our teaser the weekly with me good to have you first greece has seen its first large scale protests against a new round of wage and pension cuts thousands marching through the streets of the country's second biggest city of saloniki minus scuffles with ride police erupted in the end of what was otherwise a peaceful demonstration several young people said rubbish on fire and burned a new flag approaches said takes place against the backdrop of the e.u. and the i.m.f. inspectors visiting from. sess whether the debt cripples nation qualifies place

next multi-billion euro tranche. to secure that rescue loan and stay in the euro zone athens is planning spending because what was twelve billion euros or to speak to oliver has more from personal. 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 that is government were 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 they're important is in terms of the country meant taining any credibility that it has left on the global financial stage and not credibility is set to be tested quite soon is all it is from the so-called troika arrives in greece to see whether they've fulfilled their part of the bargain when it comes to

making the cuts that they were asked to do on whether they received the next round of bailout money a massive thirty one billion euros worth of assistance whether those cuts are necessary they're certainly not popular here in thessaloniki we've seen thousands of people out on the streets of greece's second city demonstrating against the way that the current governments are handling the financial crisis anger and the way the government is dealing 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 that in third place is the ultra rightists. the golden dawn party that has

a far right agenda some of called neo nazi and fire they certainly have a seemingly growing popularity here in greece which is concerning many people many people i've seen out in the streets here in thessaloniki protesting what they call the fascist organization i have to say this demonstration thessaloniki far more peaceful than some we've seen in the past in greece could people are upset they're airing their views but they're certainly not of the violence a that we've seen in cities like athens as people demonstrate against the handling of the financial crisis. coverage of the crippling austerity has led among other eurozone countries particle's main trade union and the new government in concert a declaration of war spending on welfare slashed on a spain hundreds walked out against what they called german madlang in their country's economy as the european central bank of finally brought out the big guns and announced it will be buying indebted countries bonds the news has already seen

spain many it is borrowing costs fall a french economist. plan will not help in the long term. the european central bank will buy ten bonds trouble on the three years in the same time we resell private corporate bonds it's called civilization not to increase global liquidity on the market as a result effect of this strategy ought to be short lived i don't expect this kind of anti christ plan to work more than three to four months he didn't address the main crisis of the eurozone crisis is not a crisis of the debt it's a competitive it's a krises and by the way it's as a decrease of growth the collapse of growth we have in a lot of eurozone countries and this fall into the e.c.b.

is not addressing the real crisis and the problem is the fact that the eurozone is in a recession so far and the o.e.c.d. is now stating that the recession cool go on for the next year this is not good news you know and the e.c.b. is not addressing this problem. disillusionment with the government is also spreading in france a slump in economic growth few job cuts and oratory regarding syria has led to a record number of french citizens disapproving of their president shortly after he took office parties teso cilia explains 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 as of 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 to the 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. came after nine years in government and bad ratings come after only four months. 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 to 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 spending on the other side billions for things which are not a priority for us. francis began setting direct aid to anti assad regions in syria a former french colony a move that shortly followed along. promise to recognize a provisional government formed by the opposition an all too familiar style in 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 for national interests. we can change president but the foreign policy doesn't change both main political parties decided to go to war in my native country to send the french army to go and kill people and i rico today it is syrian money abroad they were trying to get just like what happened with libya the french have a superiority complex to

a point where they imagine that they are the one saving others when they don't know is there we see other people for their money. a teacher at a local school and a mother of three this is what she tells the kids they see the film they tell the kids to study hard improve their language skills and they must think of their future outside of france your own force and at this point the french have clearly lost patience does or sylvia r.t. paris. and later on in the program more analysis on western plans to recognize the syrian opposition i don't know what you could call the equivalent of the obvious recognition of a government in exile rebuilding 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 against washington republican like that. by boosting free trade and

nurturing place ling's or that's how easy pacific nations aim to energize economic growth across the world at the apec summit that's wrapping up in russia's five easy developing nations sought to underpin global recovery and outpace expansion in developed countries as well talk to our teaser dimitri medvedev in the city of that the boss dog dmitri all we actually see an economic policy shift more towards the east. well yes indeed that's what that is what's happening with vladimir putin was rounding up the results of the apec two thousand and twelve forum which russia hosted for the first time he basically again praised the fact that apec is extremely important as a region and as an organization it accounts for around fifty percent of the global economic output and global trade and therefore the shift is happening globally towards this region and russia is no exception this shift is happening naturally as trade with the apec over the past decade has grown from fourteen percent to twenty

one percent for russia and vladimir putin as. china plays an extremely important role as a driver of global economic growth actually in an exclusive interview that the president gave r.t. prior to this forum that it was and also stuart stated the importance of russian chinese relations. china is indeed becoming a global economic and political hub china has taken up this new leading role i not only in russia but also in the always of the whole world what makes this rather special however is that russia and china are neighbors and all special 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. well that exclusive interview is of course available on our you tube channel you can catch it there but also what was i think more important was the q. and a session which followed that round up of the four of them and letting

a person had a chance to comment on this state of russian and european relations of course the eurozone is now in a crisis and therefore that in a person was asked as to what is happening between russia and europe is there a trade war he answered the situation is far from a called trade war and the fact that your commission is new right now looking into gas problems a so-called own monopoly position on the eastern european markets is based on the economic problems in the region and that basically europe now wants to transfer some of this economic burden onto russia and also another question which was hot on the lips of pretty much every journalist i've spoken here to was fund the immense amount of money which was spent on organizing this forum that is twenty billion dollars and well you know to say that these expenses are absolutely justified because more than half was invested into the region itself this is long term investment this is infrastructure

a gas pipeline to the primordial region and even the bridge that you're seeing right behind me is also of course a very important long term virgin investment and symbolizes basically russia's transfer a shift towards asia and a rather peculiar and i would say question that let him approach and was asked was about a stop that he made before coming to a package in the future and some of our viewers may know stopped in russia and the region in order to. have a lot of brains to fly south so basically the russian journalist who asked the question asked to comment on the boom of internet jokes and captions related to that event in particular on a recent comparison which was made between that event and russia's. one of russia's opposition members said that not all cranes are of light in the groups and just sixty percent others decided to hold back to look somewhere else

and the present answer was so quick and witty that it caused a round of applause and laughter this is what he had to say. not all the creams follow immediately only the weak ones don't. it was going to i must admit it's also the leaders fault the pilots phoned the not all the koreans follow immediately if i was too fast and too high they can't keep up there are also birds who don't fly in a flock even if they aren't part of the flock they're part of our population i mean should be taken care of as much as possible. and i was listening to that q. and a appears the national press censor here and the answer was followed by a standing ovation well you know dimitri he was so full of positivity as well as a little bit of humor as you said a bit of which he is coming there from his i think something that we never get to

see from the president but it was nice to catch a glimpse of that well thank you to dimitri medvedev in the city of black people stuck for the epic summit right the more details on the speech by a bloody meter to close at the apec summit of plus and alice's of the main are comes of the event on our website dot com. by not all countries and their leaders to the summit in vladivostok with the use elections approaching barack obama after to stay at home to concentrate on the campaign trail he's currently tied in the polls with rival mitt romney and as our does marina but no reports when you look at the two parties platforms and sometimes seems there's little to separate them. in two thousand a proc obama turned us politics into something of a pop culture phenomenon. 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 valen 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 coded fixation 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 raised 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 president since the one nine hundred eighty s. the two major parties are very this are very much the same on all the important issues when it comes to spending more money than we have. engaging 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 has been regulation of banks in a sufficient way and the main crisis affecting the united states which is to say the financial clutch on the global economy and the corporate struggle political system hasn't changed at all because president obama comes from a coalition that but that my first choice 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 though 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. r.t. . stay with us later on in the program we'll take a look at the recent political protests in bahrain with another heavy handed police crackdown on the activists who were packing the streets to rally around last big political winds. and a deadly shooting off of the windows election speech in the canadian province of baghdad raises questions of a deeply divided electorate. to syria now where the u.s. has reportedly been beefing up its presence along the turkish border american officials said this week washington is sending teams of advisors to support and

fighters comment in on no western nations plans to recognize the syrian rebels analysts and writer william and dol 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 these 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 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 and building 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 against washington or something like that it's just absurd. the british prime minister also regenerated 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 helpful the rebels there are now fears ordinary bridges i had in for the syrian frontline. as 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 portrays president assad as an evil dictator there's evidence that britons are going to syria to fight for the opposition birmingham area m.p.

khalid mahmood says some in his community have already gone there is a particular individual who's actually gone back to baghdad at the moment and is going back in a few weeks time who's been engaged in fundraising supporting people and putting people together to go back to their people who signed the support and made work and other. rides saying that they're going to support the resistance some says mahmud of british syrian extraction others of 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 also 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 that 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 bombers 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 attack specific and 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 lebanon or arc 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 the ologies 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 full western who's 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 and us and then you have small scale violence that starts. the tit for tat and it's work. and 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. to bahrain now with french anti-government demonstrations have ended in six or rests after dozens to to the streets in defiance of a ban by the authorities the protesters called for the release of prisoners of conscience detained over allegedly planning to overthrow the government riot police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowds the pro reform movement started in february last year with police crackdowns allegedly leaving at least sixty did and dozens of arrested as a times correspondent there passed by things of the protests are not likely to abate anytime. 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 in fact the workers protests they are shiite but they are also sunni is involved wherever happens in bahrain is always viewed by the saudis and by washington as a minor disturbance and of course the west does not want to compromise its position as being the aircraft. guardian angel of the persian gulf. it was the sound of gunfire which is this week

a rug to canadian politics just as the newly elected premier of kitbag pullin marar gave the acceptance speech one man was shot dead and another seriously wounded after the suspect has been taken into custody you are sounding in french they're quoting the english only to end quote the winning part of the kubrick why could a once again a raise the question of whether q bad should gain independence from canada and it's still not clear whether the suspect shooter had a political motive the action highlighted anglo-french divisions in the province it would be nice to believe that the man is just a lunatic it's pretty clear he may be a lunatic but he is motivated by the divisions in canada one has to remember that divisions go both ways. because the english canadians under the british empire always ruled the roost the french canadians began to become very bitter about this and inevitably over time that's caused many problems and they want autonomy so it

is going to revive a passion in the civil service the right way to put it that's according to the typical bit emotionally but obviously it will and some english canadians feel very strongly about this as of course to some french canadians work to the people who feel passionately remain part of a canadian nation and never going to trust her because she belongs to a party which believes in the maximum amount of autonomy so-called. right there was the main bullets and then you've been watching our t.v. i'll be back with a shelf recap of the headlines stay with us. the .

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