on the news of the week's top stories thousands of protests against fresh multi-billion your austerity plan to abuse the country's creditors and say good place the stable currency bloc. the credit crisis doesn't square francois a growing unemployment important number growth see the president's approval wait a moment just months after we did my. last visit to the east asia pacific nations will always come up with good coverage at a major summit in russia as the u.s. and european economies flounder. and as democrats and republicans brace

themselves for battle like heat of the u.s. presidential election year from projects and whether there's any genuine choice. here watching our good to have you with us this afternoon here in moscow greece has seen its first large scale protest against a new round of wage and pension cuts with thousands marching through the streets of the country's second biggest city that's a long minor scuffles with riot police erupted at the end of what was otherwise a peaceful demonstration several young people said rubbish on fire and burned and you flagged the protest to place against the backdrop of the e.u. and i.m.f. inspectors visiting greece to assess whether the debt crippled nation qualifies for its next multibillion you were trying. to secure that rescue learn and stay in the

euro zone athens is planning spending cuts are worth almost twelve billion euros peter all of a has more. good from a strong tourney's damaris is said that he will do. everything within his power to make sure the grease remains within the eurozone 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 now he also says the important is in terms of the country men taining any credibility that it has left on the global financial stage and not credibility is set to be tested quite soon is all that 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 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 and what they're doing is wrong it's not just in terms of protest the greek people are airing their 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 rightist party 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 that this demonstration thessaloniki far more peaceful and. we've seen in the past in greece that 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. rage at the crippling austerity has fled among other eurozone countries portugal's main trade union the new government cuts as a debt so ration of war with spending on welfare slashed well in spain hundreds walked out against what they called german imagining in their country's economy that as a european central bank finally brought out the big guns and announced it will be buying indebted countries bonds the move has already seen spain added to these that borrowing costs fall the financial advisor the proper legal leaves those at the top

of the e.u. are all talk and no action. they refuse to deal with the issues it's very simple that you want to for fiscal integration which means that the germans design for everybody else's debt and you get your right. shared live for the day and for the fiscal integration where you have a split of the euro there's no she was in the meantime what you can do is keep printing money which is what everybody is hoping for is just a drug to keep printing to actually help the situation until the politics can catch up but the politics has been going. lots and lots of meetings but we're still no closer to. the solution for the eurozone. does illusion mend with the government is also spreading in france

a slump in economic growth huge cuts and war of tory regarding syria have led to a record number of french citizens disapproving of the a president shortly after he took office. explains france may have lost its title as the country with the highest per capita consumption of a. antidepressants but the french certainly haven't lost the peasant as of now with more reasons to be unhappy because the new record unemployment levels of economy that's just not growing and 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. 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. 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 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 interest. we can change president but the foreign post. he 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 but they don't know is there we see other people for their money. a teacher at a local school at a brother of three this is what she tells the kids to see the films of the movie tell the kids to study hard improve their language skills and if you must think of their future outside of france or your confidence that this point the french have

clearly lost patience does or sell your art to paris. and later on in the program more reaction on the western plans to recognize the syrian opposition. either what you could call the equivalent of the obvious recognition of a government in exile or 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. composing free trade and nurturing fossa layings of that's how it is your pacific nations aim to energize economic growth across the world at the apec summit that's wrapped up in russia's fight you said developing nations so to underpin global recovery our pace expansion in developed countries actually is dimitri medvedev go is in the city of light of awestruck. when the other person was rounding up the results of the two thousand and twelve

form which russia posted 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 and that in effect in the. china plays an extremely important role as a driver of global economic growth actually in an exclusive interview that the president gave prior to the forum that it was and also 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 not only in russia's eyes but also in the always of the whole world what makes us rather special however is that russia and china are neighbors and you know 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 for 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 and letting the person had a chance to comment on this state of russian and european relations of course the euro zone is now in a crisis and therefore that in a question 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 now 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 a rather peculiar and one thing i would say question that let. i was asked to comment on his recent stop the he made prior to the apec summit and that was your

ma in russia to teach a flock of cranes to fly south he was using a hang glider and the journalist said that basically it's created a whole wave of internet jokes and a comparison also was made to russia's electoral race that only sixty three percent of the krays the site had to pull the curtain and the others decided to go somewhere else and this is what he had to say not all the creams follow immediately only the weak ones don't. mean. i must admit it's also the leaders fault the pilots fault the not all the koreans follow mediately 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 and the should be taken care of as much as possible. and i was listening to that q. and a appear international press center here and the answer was followed by

a standing ovation. more details on the speech by vladimir putin to close the apec summit plus the analysis of the main outcomes of the event on our website at r.t. . that all countries send their leaders to the summit in blood of all stock with the u.s. elections approaching barack obama opted to stay at home to concentrate on the campaign trail he's currently tied in the polls with rival mitt romney and as our it is more in our blood my reports are when you look at the tea party's platforms it sometimes seems as a little to separate them. in two thousand and eight barack obama turned us politics into something of a pop culture phenomenon we made 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 valiant 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 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 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 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 later on in the program we'll take a look at the recent political protest in bahrain with another heavy handed little crackdown on activists who are back in the streets to rally on mars for their political rights. and a deadly shooting after the winners a lecture speech in the canadian province of quebec 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 are said this week washington is sending teams of advisers to support and fighters commenting on western nations plans to recognize the syrian rebels analysts and writer william angle 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 in the tolerance of different religions which has been the trademark of syrian life for decades under under the al assad family. general and there are reports of from journalists inside syria over the last months of the so-called opposition in many cases they're all qaeda or mujahideen but 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 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 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 help for the rebels are in now for years ordinary britons heading for the syrian frontline artist 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 portrays president assad as an evil dictator there's evidence that britons all going to syria to fight for the opposition birmingham area m.p. khalid mahmood says some in his community have already gone there is 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 get people who say that he's going to support and made work and other. rides 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 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 the u.k. has already seen from another conflict here in london on the seventh of july two thousand and five the official report into the seven seventh's bombings reveals the existence of rivers 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. well 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 won them to be liaising with. ideology is necessarily how the ologies and viewpoints point change in syria these

are the scenes that could greet them on their return and 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 whose british freedom party is allied to the d.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. to i think literally entering into a 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.

. to a now where fresh anti-government demonstrations have ended in six arrests after dozens changed in the streets in defiance of a banned by the authorities the protesters call 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 crowd the pro reform movement started in february last year with police crackdowns allegedly leaving at least sixty days. and dozens of western asia times correspondent bet basketball i.q. says the u.s. and e.u. of a hypocritical attitude towards events in. only washington good european capitals as well and the european union always carping about how preoccupied they were with the human rights all over the war no this is absurd so this they won the game because they managed to convince the americans and europeans that this is

a destabilising plot snatched in tehran which is screwed politically and the bahraini is they were totally sacrificed you don't hear anything in washington in paris in london about it they are talking about regime change in syria they are talking about the bombs that iran does not have from the beginning this this the saudis especially they coridon off the air at the very the very this sold to washington the idea that this was an iranian plot in where ever 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. go r.d. an angel of the persian gulf. it was the sound of gunfire which at this week rocked a canadian politics just as the newly elected premier of kitbag police in a more rock gave her 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 waking up and quote the winning party could be quiet could once again raise the question of where they came back should gain independence from ten of them while it's still not clear whether the suspected shooter had a political moment to the action highlighted angle 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's 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 has caused many problems and they want more tommy lee is going to revive a passion in the way to put it that's putting an emotional obviously it will and

some english canadians feel very strongly about this and of course to some french canadians well clearly the people who feel passionately that quebec should remain part of a canadian nation are never going to trust her because she lost to a party which believes in the maximum amount of autonomy so-called. to some other international news in brief now a wave of blast killed at least four people in iraq according to reports from reuters the most serious was in a city north of baghdad when gunmen and the suicide bomber attacked a military base or giving eleven soldiers meanwhile in the south a car bomb exploded outside a french consulate building wounding two people others were killed in a string of further bloss across the country no one has yet claimed responsibility . egypt's armed forces have killed thirty two militants in an ongoing operation against islamists in sinai according to officials the operation was

carried out with israeli permission due to the two countries peace treaty which bans heavy weapons in the zone along the border islamist militants have gained a foothold in the sinai area since the overthrow last year of president hosni mubarak the government crackdown began after militants killed six in border guards last month. we're also see has been hit by two toll natives in a span of ten minutes with debris hurled in the air and power knocked out video from bystanders showing a funnel cloud sucking up water and sand several houses and trees have been damaged but no injuries have been reported. by dogs exclusive interview with president vladimir putin is coming your way shortly after the headlights.

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