technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. anti cox fury in greece with thousands venting their anger against intensifying cots the country has until next week to slash spending further to ensure its next bailout. rock obama's presidential rival mitt romney calls for arming the syrian rebels as media revelation show important crates of weapons are already in the hands of insurgents. basine says the u.s. is simply afraid to compete on the open market after legations from washington accuse china's top tech companies of spying on america.

it is now i am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie thousands rallied in athens on monday against the country's intensifying spending cuts forcing the police to impose a ban on further protests this as the of sterett e.u. burden the country ass until next week to deliver on its promises to the international monetary fund if it wants to ensure its next bailout seven thousand policemen have now been deployed in the greek capital to ensure calm during a visit by german chancellor angela merkel who's coming for talks the i.m.f. has also released its forecast for next year expressing serious uncertainty for the future of the euro all this as the euro zone's new bailout fund goes life. for the first time something. the government because they say. the first thing. to do.

i think this is true let's go there with the. reserve. and i do this thing more for the for the most because it goes at least but it's too soon. for this to die in the in sousse so so far into government limits assume that the measures. it has anti cuts fewer continues to mount in greece we're also covering the latest protest on our website r.t. dot com the full timeline of the european crisis also waiting for you online plus. dangerous chemistry the tunisian children's magazine publishes a step by step recipe for a moloch of cocktail. and julian a son is set to publish a book on freedom in the internet inspired by his interview with the cypherpunks activist group is explosive shell for find

a full interview on the details on our website. rock obama's rival for the u.s. presidency mitt romney has called for a more aggressive foreign policy in the middle east which would include arming the al-qaeda linked syrian rebels the democrats have hit back saying romney stands lacks vision and consistency are just kind of should count has more. mitt romney accused president obama of quote sitting on the sidelines end of quote and not being aggressive enough on syria mr romney suggested actively arming the rebels with weapons that can bring down their profitable wapping he said quote the greater tragedy of it all is that we're missing a story coppertone a d. to win new friends who share our values in the middle east end of quote i saw this clip the other day and i wonder if this particular syrian rebel shares mitt romney's values but i just want to send a sure message to america and all the infidel countries of the west we started our

jihad. and we won't finish in two on you and started here and in our lives we'll get one free nation to the new land and this trauma and i mean it will be raised on the going towers well that was a jihadi flag there but mitt romney's other remarks suggested that maybe he doesn't really care about whose hands the weapons would end up in because the objective that he stated was to defeat assad seeing it as a stepping stone to him rend iran is sending arms to assad because they know his downfall would be a strategic defeat for them we should be working no less vigorously to our international partners to support the many syrians who would deliver that defeat to iran rather than sitting on the sidelines so basically mitt romney suggested taking advantage of the crisis in syria to fulfill the goal of defeating iran blatant but straightforward remark basically expressing the same opportunistic approach to

foreign policy that the u.s. has had for many years while obama campaign called romney reckless and amateurish when it comes to foreign policy so far the administration has stopped short of directly arming the rebels although washington is coordinating the efforts of their allies in the region that is saudi arabia qatar turkey which are providing weapons to the rebels one way or another but those allies are saying. that they only provide smaller weapons that they would love to send heavy artillery but they don't have the green light from washington for that because reportedly the administration fears that the weapons might end up in the hands of terrorist experts say one of the reasons why the rebels are not settling down for a negotiated solution through dialogue is the signal that they get that says that support is on the way that there will be an intervention and everybody now understands without a negotiated solution bloodshed will continue. meanwhile a b.b.c. film crew in syria has discovered the rebels are in possession of crates of weapons meant for the saudi military insurgence refused to comment on the guards the

shipment and gave no permission to film its contents this comes amid escalating fighting across the country with bomb blasts and firefights in damascus and turkey is stepping up its war rhetoric after six consecutive days of returning fire with syria in response to shelling that some speculate as a provocation by the rebels political analyst dan glazebrook says the insurgents are desperate for foreign intervention but still mistakes a lot on this bid to oust and of course these guys own reasons for doing this on the one hand they're trying to give cover over to the rebels to continue their fight they know that the rebels again defeated on the ground so they're bombarding syria as a way to help the rebels not lose too many of their positions but i think also wants to please is kind of. nato nato masters in its bid to join the e.u. so it's been willing to do the bidding in europe and the u.s.

britain france and the u.s. there may be helping the hoping that they can somehow try and knowledge made into taking action as well and promising a kind of the blitzkrieg is that she's the only thing really that would enable the rebels so we're now at this. fireworks jubilation and a fiesta atmosphere right now in venezuela this only means one thing president hugo chavez is there to stay and so are his plans for how to handle the country's economy including its enormous oil reserves and as our reports it's a strong reason for some painful headaches in the west. that you've got a job that may be a part of racing but the workers this is one party that what we're. doing is. it's a victory that supporters say has implications far beyond this country's borders

carries shadows is the father of south america all the president's real friends among each other in latin america understand the understand the significance of chavis for the world that's rising up from its knees for the world of equality for the world without it in many of the empire without a germany of the u.s. and that's percent eisley what makes many western governments nervous venezuela could be an example for other countries i mean here you have a country that is seeing the polarization of wealth which we see not just in one country not just in two countries but globally is completely toxic it must be addressed and that there must be a redistribution of wealth this is antithetical to what's been known as the washington consensus so in that sense the. president chavez is as a threat as a threat that doesn't just hurt washington's influence but its coffers under chavez venezuela has refused to act as a market for u.s. based private investment and no longer can u.s.

oil firms rely on the country as a stable source of cheap crude venezuela has the world's largest proven oil reserves chavez has promised to ramp up production and slash this country's dependence on u.s. markets by doubling exports to asia according to the president and that is why he represents a threat to the west it's not about the. from the economic point of view we have the largest petroleum reserves in the world when the world runs out of oil only five countries which possess the majority of reserves who are a man and your mother was a russia iran saudi arabia iraq and even as well. its black gold can account for the vilification of charges in the west after all just a year after he took office in one thousand nine hundred nine chavez toured the middle east to lobby key opec members to drive or oil prices higher he also provided subsidized oil to bella bruce nicaragua and syria countries whose relations with the west aren't exactly ideal for critics that is well under chavez

is a terrifying prospect. i think chavez is mostly criticized for his foreign policy first for breaking relations with traditional trade partners of venezuela such as colombia and the us and second for political alliances with countries which are considered as non-democratic and even belligerent in their foreign policy such as cuba and even more so iran. here chavez says his world view is just one that the west is going to have to get used to. when the so that it was said that an american model rules and will rule the world i want to do remember the end of history he says buying american roots a spooky yama where the have given israel is rose against new liberalism twenty years ahead of the european are rising which is happening now and venezuela did not need the i.m.f. we're not a world power yet. part of the power of the next six years play out one thing's for certain for now the charter schools and other new world order it's fair to say is the passing of our two guests still ahead on r t this hour

a sharp about turn it seems like more and more ukrainians are packing their bags to leave you for a better life back home and look out what's driving the move after the short break . invented by the famed soviet orthopedic of really bizarre from the nineteen fifties these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up for their four stimulating tissue regeneration elizabeth was able to reshape arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life about a third of patients admitted to the it was out of center nowadays seeking surgery focused magic reasons most of them a man and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor novick of who operated on many of them it usually comes down to man's pride some of the

first patient to turn to us with a leg like the me and quest to meet his fifteen centimeters to the wall to surgery because it's panos to than him we like to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix their head like lengthening surgeries a band in many countries and even the will out there pretty expensive in russia the entire course costs. eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states financial considerations were one of the reasons that brought this washington state native to western siberia yet his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in the auditors in america advertised as one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight and so one eight centimeters would have brought me right to average for women height isn't so important girl can be short and it's not a big deal i think a guy is like expected to be taller just before the operation most this matter

a russian girl who found he's a regional hype quite endearing yet he still wanted to have had the surgery adding seven more centimeters to he self-confidence she took told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now or should i call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations.

welcome back to joy ass you're watching live from moscow i'm marina joshie the european union has proved to be a real magnet for ukraine's migrant workers was one in ten ukrainians employed in the bloc countries but as some nations to sam further into recession many are

heading back home feeling the time has come to find a better life they're asking investigates the reverse in the trance. and snowier goes to villages with empty houses and few people on the street a common sight for western ukraine and it's not the result of any disaster. almost every family in the west of ukraine has a member working abroad ever since the collapse of the u.s.s.r. ukraine has been one of the main suppliers of cheap labor force into the european union as it stands over four million ukrainians are currently working in europe that's every tenth citizen of the country but this is changing yuri worked in spain for almost a decade before escaping the financial crisis and resettling back home at times he indulges in some gastronomical stand here and make spanish style salami at home but yuri says there is no going back in europe. i made good use of the money i earned

there i bought several stools and currently lease them i also bought a house twenty five kilometers from laval of if i stayed in spain i would have to work like a slave to earn something here i can enjoy life many of my friends who stayed in spain and now out of work and planning to come back to. and he's far from the only one the real estate market in western ukraine is seeing a boom in property sales all thanks to those running away from the collapsing euro zone and i think a lot of people they may have thought of buying houses in the e.u. but you seen how the crisis plagues those countries and a returning home of all real estate properties sold last year almost a quarter of the buys were returned migrants muesli by two to three room apartment with up to one thousand euros in the last two three months alone more than a thousand families will flats here which makes around one hundred million euros worth of investment into property in just one of ukrainian regions the overall

sound of european money ending up in ukrainian spoke its is even more astonishing last year ukraine was able to receive up to seven. years of dollars from the ukrainians currently working abroad and that's coming from the country's worst affected by the financial crisis spain italy and portugal where many businesses have grown realigned on migrant ukrainian workers you might think their return home should benefit both sides but in reality economists believe this may spell trouble for ukraine amount of remittances we usually receive in front of me is going to go down from seven billion i would expect that this year should be on the level of five billion this will supply of labor coming from e.u. countries to ukraine is needed to be supported and it's additional pressure for the

ukrainian by object which is quite difficult to do when you have a limited amount of resources but yuri says even if the labor market goes into meltdown it would not be as bad as it could have been if you stayed in spain the money he brought back has made him completely self-sufficient and immune from being and wanted either at home or abroad. ski r.t. reporting from ukraine. i dispute is brewing between washington and beijing and the u.s. house intelligence committee says two of china's top companies should be barred from doing business in america and you report warns that the equipment made by telecom giant hill away and manufacturers. could be used by beijing to spy on the u.s. and the two firms have struck back saying the document is actually aimed at hampering them competing on the american market tim carr senior director of strategy for free press says the main concern is not security but the growing threat from chinese

businesses. it's interesting to note that most computer equipment most telecommunications equipment is in fact made in china increasingly china is a player in the technology space and their ability to create cheap manufactured products should pose a threat to business interests overseas business threat not so much a national security threat politics definitely comes into play here you see it in both the romney and obama campaign an effort to get tough against china this could very well be of that but also of concern is the idea of the marketplace for cyber security when there are estimates that i've seen it put this in a multibillion dollar business so it's in the interest of lot of these companies that provide cyber security services to inflate the fear that helps businesses that sell cyber security systems that sell systems that will allow us to protect against these alleged attacks that helps them make money so potential for this to have a blowback effect on the united states it will get american companies like cisco

systems which is very invested in in in growing its business in china usually what happens when you have these kind of international controversies if the u.s. acts against a chinese company you could very well see the chinese government act against a u.s. company on its own turf now from around the world north korea says it has been listed missiles capable of hitting u.s. bases not only on the korean peninsula but also in japan and. even on america's territory this statement was made by the country's defense committee in response to the new deal struck between washington and seoul greenock stands the range of south korea's ballistic missiles by more than twice the current limit making it able to strike the north a previous arms pact with washington barred the south from deploying long range rockets leaving many targets in the communist state out of reach. egypt's president morsi has granted pardons to all prisoners charged with supporting the revolution over a thousand people were arrested and put on trial at the beginning of last year's

uprising which resulted in morsi taking up office the summer the decree is expected to cover all cases related to clashes with security forces during last year's violent protests however it's unclear how many people will benefit from it. turkish jabs have struck suspected kurdish rebels into cross border raids in northern iraq the iraqi government responded by saying the airstrikes were a violation of the country's sovereignty kurdish rebels are fighting for autonomy in the south east of turkey and often use iraq as a springboard for attacks but baghdad recently warned terror he against further military operations on its territory. well let's see what's happening in the world of business maureen is there for us. of course was a very busy day with lots of things happening so investors have lots to react to now so you're absolutely right marina there are reports the world bank was issuing

statements so right now though asia is the only one trade and so that's what we're seeing but when it comes to russia investors they will definitely be looking that b.p. which is the russian british oil because it now has a new twist the russian calling there is a are now considering selling their half of the company a strategic investor or through an i.p.o. this would happen of b.p. sells its parts to rolls left something that local shareholders are unhappy about at the same time they are is not giving up plans to. buy a blind shares from the british partners but b.p. says the company would continue the process of selling its stake regardless of the move earlier the british will form in this day to talks to sell its half of russia's third largest oil for due to shareholder the street. it's a mixed picture right now when you have the nikkei because in japan and we know that there was a long holiday weekend so investors are now coming back and they're selling out of commodity related firms who see the numbers and negative territory when it comes to

the hang sang us managements again and that's after the people's bank of china in that liquidity into the banking system look in the r.t.s. in the my sets which is in negative territory it's of the session from monday it's less than thou before the markets open in new york and we're tracking the losses overseas now let's move on and take a look at currencies and see what's happening there when it comes to the euro and still strengthen against the newest dollar the ruble in monday's session lost out to the currencies basket ok now in other news the international monetary fund has now saying that global economic recovery is weakening it downgraded its estimate for global growth in two thousand and thirteen to three point six percent from. three previous two point nine percent now one of the biggest downgrades was to the u.k. economy which the i.m.f. expects to shrink by zero point four percent this year and the vegas for russia didn't change much from their previous forecasts and now signs up three point seven for this year three point eight for two thousand and thirteen the i.m.f.

also said that there were still further deterioration in the economic outlook was considerable and had entrance to well we know as the time of the year in our heating as a vital need and russian side provides europe with two thirds of its natural gas needs now on monday we know that russia launched its second gas pipeline as part of the noise from project the continent and then though this will double the agel capacity the head of gas from export alex on the madrid of says that europe only much more than that and russia is willing to help if europe will preserve more than a month we will be in a position to do it as much. as europe will request so that's why. that's together all existing projects. including one three and four so i was thirty when we were famous not so well and return to those in the scenario where a local production is going to go. gas will be requested when you go to.

give it a situation of there is a proof that it really really there is a truth for you and even mr to get appreciated the your ability. it around two hundred billion of new or new gas will be imported. it's still not enough capacity even with all this because at some place. all right now this is the last hour that asia is the only one trading we have russia opening up then europe so lots more to come arena all right that's how the world around goes around thanks very much marina for this obviate and coming up in just a few moments grills and o. s. c.e. official about double standards in the media. more

news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images cobol has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are all over the day. by horse. by tractor. by car for the road and it's. as a carpenter. as a stove setter. as a farmer. as an assistant. as a friend. as a relative delivering post and delivering goods. the

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how again a welcome through fog lie the show on our two i'm and today my guest on the program is. that. the freedom of media is one of the fundamental rights praised by every country in the world meanwhile the life expectancy of journalists is one of the lowest in the world regardless how much you love freedom of speech and you may get some countries not only praised freedom of speech but also try to help others by forcing them to live up to certain standards of human rights for some reason the recipients of this humanitarian aid usually call it double moral one.