clashes and tear gas in greece as thousands protest the visit of the german chancellor who they see as a harbinger of more financial woes. republican challenger mitt romney calls for the syrian rebels to be turkey deploys forces to its border with the war torn country. and munition blasts rocked the military testing ground in central russia sparking hysteria among the locals.

it's a pleasure to have you with us here on r.t. today i'm rule re sushi i live in moscow clashes have broken out in greece and tear gas fired at protesters angry at the visit of angola merkel and there are also reports of police actually making preventative arrests the german chancellor is seen as the power behind the policy bringing hardship and tough austerity to the greek people more on this now from athens with artie's. fascist breaking out between the riot police and protesters on thin cognise square today this is going on as german chancellor merkel's in the country and she's come here to show solidarity she says but all it's really done is serve to highlight the huge decision to remain within the country itself between the people and the governments the tween the different you're using state there is anger today on the streets of the five on the streets of athens. visiting the country and is

this. of her especially now she has been here since the euro crisis started it's been years in the aghan has been building this entire sum you've got to remember as well that the rhetoric from germany the rhetoric from some of these big of stronger eurozone states way to change dramatically at the beginning of all of this crisis very much put out on his side of the isolated situation where the measures seem to be more of the punishment that help the suffering of those they all starts measures to just to push the country into a desperate spiral of a stereotype that either security operation is good and well the riot police or the lining of course the parliament that's thirty years two but today they've also got snipers on the roof these got the helicopter going a the head i mean the police presence is noticeably more than usual and that's really cause a lot of anger added to that that the protesters were told they weren't allowed to

take to demonstrate peacefully as he said and as you can see they come out anyway at absolute anger as we said before what's been going on at the fact that she's visiting a lot of kids into people asking why now why is this point chancellor merkel saying first chance today the very real effects of those are starting measures that have been a total this country from the phone. call to course want to surf i thought right i want to go. streaming live pictures from the protests in athens you can for follow all the developments online i mean all the deepening crisis and western europe is also sending migrants in the opposite direction later on r.t. we go to ukraine to find out why people are returning home to make a better future for themselves. now reports are saying that turkey is reinforcing its air base close to the border with syria after almost a week of returning fire a turkish news agency says at least twenty five additional fighter jets have been

deployed turkey and egypt are also holding a week long joint navy drills in the mediterranean not far from the shores of syria has warned it will not shy from war if provoked nato which is so far the conflict says it's ready to defend its member nation but some reports suggest shells landing in turkey may be from weapons that ankara itself provided to syrian rebels this as volunteers escalating across the country with bomb blasts and firefights in damascus the un chief ban ki moon has called on the syrian government to you need laterally cease fire but as equate the editor of the pan-african newswire believes that nato is maneuvering to intervene. turkey is a long time member of the north atlantic treaty organization since nine hundred fifty two and they're going to act in conjunction with other nato powers led by the united states their main objective is regime change against the assad government in

syria they're using this border conflict between syria and turkey as a means of intervening more directly from a military standpoint within the un security council the us britain and france have not been able to get their way in regard to authorizing some type of no fly zone unquote would actually means a authorization to carry out massive bombings against syria so they can utilize alleged violations of turkish land mass and an effort to further militarize the border between the two countries so i believe it's a very dangerous situation and that the united nations seems to be almost crippled . to any attempt to resolve this conflict because their efforts are being undermined by nato and the countries that are very much a part of the leadership of that military alliance. and in the meantime here on the

white house republican hopeful that of mitt romney he's called for a more aggressive foreign policy in the middle east which would include the al-qaeda linked syrian rebels and while the democrats are certainly hit back saying that romany's stance lacks vision and consistency he's going a chicken investigates 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 aircraft and blow up banks he said quote the greater tragedy of it all is that we're missing a story copper to unity to win new friends who share our values in the middle east end if. 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 iran and 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 you are in an 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 feel 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 carter 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 have be 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 ways and why the rebels are not settling down for a negotiated solution through dialogue is the signal that they get that sense that support is on the way that there will be an intervention and everybody now understands without a negotiated solution bloodshed will continue. watching all of the under series of blasts have rocked a military facility in central russia where ten tons of munitions were set for disposal exploded by the noise and plumes of smoke spoke to panic among the locals are all of those details. officials in the region have said that there is no danger posed following this explosion took place at the army munitions dump forty kilometers away from the city of of autumn book the statement saying that this explosion was due to conventional weapons exploding that there was no chemical or nuclear weapons involved in the in the blast and that all of the local residents

were at no risk whatsoever the military investigation has been started there's also a tribunal case being opened into potential mishandling of weapons and ace the information coming out of the defense ministry though is telling us that all of their personnel are on engine and all accounted for it does seem though that we are hearing that those no casualties no injuries amongst the civilian population however they have received quite a serious scare which is understandable when you think about the size and scale and sound of this explosion a huge booming blast ringing out a gigantic plume of smoke and of course the shockwave that goes with these type of explosions all coming together to to leave them leave the local people out quite a bit little shaken now in the immediate aftermath of this explosion well we saw pretty much harnick unveiling and for eyes online people posting on twitter and on other online sources that there had been military personnel injured and there are many military personnel remain to unaccounted for the latest from the defense

ministry is just simply not true that was hysteria following what was i mentioned a very loud explosion now when it comes to incidents like this this isn't the first of its kind in russia in fact over the last three years there's been twenty such incidents involving military munitions dumps of this nature and in fact this particular facility saw two incidents a place over the last few months which each resulted in two people being injured as i say there at the moment the news coming from the defense ministry is no. he's been injured and that all military personnel all accounted for. artie course want to put all of our reporting right there while i still have faith in the program a look at the people's choice that certainly given the west a bit of a headache but as well as chavez is reelected for the fourth time as president we'll look at why it's unwelcome some other parts of the world those details and much more after a short break get. invented

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a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations. fortune r.t. life in the heart of moscow with me role research to show he is a hero in his homeland but portrayed as a bogey man by western governments the election triumph chavez in venezuela for a remarkable fourth time means that he'll continue to polarize certain opinions as president that's not his lucy catherine off reports the way he uses the nation's oil wealth will ensure that he'll remain a thorn at the very least and certainly on the side of washington. six years up to the top that may be at odds with the liberation of the workers of this one party that one treats we're. going. to join in on.

it's a victory that supporters say has implications far beyond this country's borders cowries chavez is the father of south america all the presidents who are friends among each other latin america understand the inner stand the significance of chavis for the world that's rising up from its knees for the world of equality for the world without a jimmy of the empire without a gemini if you wish and that's precisely 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 and 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 and is

as a threat 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 all 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 were me and i you and i was a russia iran saudi arabia iraq and it is well. it's black gold could 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 toward the

middle east to lobby key opec members to drive or oil prices higher he also provided subsidized oil to cuba bella bruce nicaragua and syria countries whose relations with the west aren't exactly ideal for critics venezuela 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. chapa says his world view is just one that the west is going to have to get used to. it was said that an american model. to remember the history. of the. new liberalism twenty years ahead of the europe. which is now it is will it didn't know it.

we're not a world power you. regardless of how the next six years play out one thing's for certain that. it's here to stay this is. not over our website. for civil rights finds a new way to figure out if your machine before websites by asking questions on the human rights. that's. why they perhaps course. on our website. now europe used to be a mecca for migrant workers from ukraine with one in ten citizens heading west in search of a better life but as the european economy stumbles from crisis to crisis many

ukrainians are returning home bringing their savings and new skills back with. reports on the turning of the tide. 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 gastronomically last year 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 revolve 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 playings those countries and a returning home of all real estate properties sold last year almost a quarter of the buyers 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 booked flats here which makes around

a hundred million euros worth of investment into property in just one of ukrainian regions the overall sum of european money ending up in ukrainian spoke its is even more astonishing last year ukraine was able to receive up to seven billion u.s. dollars from the ukrainian mean else 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 reliant 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 is going to go down from seven billion i would expect that this year should be on the level of five billion they tional 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 yury 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. skee artsy reporting from ukraine parts of paris we go to start of the artsy world updaters where around a thousand persia workers have scuffle with police during a protest against the company's planned cutbacks and police fired tear gas during the demonstration outside the paris auto sell on the french carmaker is closing a factory outside the capital within two years for the loss of eight thousand jobs it's been severely hit by falling demand across europe. the international criminal court doesn't believe libya has the ability to hold a fair trial of more market daffy sun the hague is currently hosting discussions

over where to try saif gadhafi he's accused of orchestrating a violent crackdown of last year's protests against his father but saif says libyan court would not be neutral and he could face the us. egypt's president mohamed morsi has pardoned all those arrested during the uprising last year that toppled hosni mubarak over a thousand people were prosecuted for supporting the revolution which allowed morsi to take power this summer the amnesty covers all of those convicted and all of those still under investigation or on trial. iraq is set to buy more than four billion dollars worth of weapons from russia moscow says the deals were signed over the last several months it comes as the iraqi prime minister visits moscow for talks with his counterpart dmitri medvedev has been no official statement on what exactly baghdad is buying but it has been reported it wants fighter jets

helicopters and missile defense systems by russia lost a number of lucrative oil contracts in iraq after the u.s. led invasion of the country and some experts now suggest it's making up for it with the sales of arms artie's business person is here now with some other news about russia's for oil contracts and good to see you so what else do you have for us here . while let's keep on talking about the oil. and gals sector and i'll tell you about the ongoing saga between b.p. and its russian partners now the russian co-owners known as a are now considering selling their half of the company either to a strategic investor or on the open market this would happen only if b.p. sells its part to rosneft something that local shareholders will be pretty unhappy about at the same time eight are still willing to buy b. stake in the russian joint venture analysts say most likely. will end up in the

hands of rosneft turning russia's state company into the world's biggest oil firm. is quite likely to change to exchange its share and to. for a share and all snuffed. with some cash. as changing hands in the process as well were as a i will probably sell out of the team completely all of north so i think. we'll just transform itself into a much larger company with with an important international shareholder which has the most advanced technologies and more importantly has the experience of applying some technology within russia the experience of transforming a management team. in to into probably the best management team in the world. and now to the macro picture the international monetary fund is a losing faith in the global economy it lowered its estimate for global growth in

the twenty thirteen to three point six percent from the previous three point nine percent the u.k. economy was downgraded the most the i.m.f. now expects it to shrink by point four percent this year the figure for russia didn't change that much it now stands at three point seven percent for this year and three point eight percent for next and now check out the equity markets and of course equities are sharing the. well you on all these negative news wall street as you can see is down in the early trade in fact the nasdaq is already losing almost one and a half percent european markets are also reacting by selling there was another downgrade on tuesday moody's slashed cyprus by three notches to the negative last month moscow promised to help the island which is now seeking up to twenty billion euro in aid and here in moscow equities close the mixed with the r.t.s. managing to recover some of monday's losses new rules committal moved on the my sex on the news that the court ruled against the company's share buyback and last but

not least the currencies the euro is a losing to the u.s. dollar the russian ruble is trading stronger was trading stronger and closed the day to the currency basket and that's all the latest from the business desk seen back here in the minutes going to sasha thank you will see you later. for a just a moment or two hoping you stay with us as the one and only markets cards are on the cards are reports telling you all the things that really are the biggest banks in the world just a moment here on our city. mission free cretaceous free. for charges free to make humans free. free still free.

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