a fierce reception for chancellor angela merkel during her visit to greece with tens of thousands of protesters pointing to her as the source of the economic misery. israeli prime minister netanyahu appears to go all out for reelection i see dissolved parliament and orders a snob full of the peak of his popularity citing budget bickering. branding and image as a pussy riot appeal the sentence many question whether the punk band wants to be released or if it's just another publicity stunt.

international news and comment live from moscow this is the with me thanks for joining us writers and song from welcome from the greek people for chancellor angela merkel of her visit to athens while the german leader praised the government over its austerity measures and now in the riots police held back turns of thousands of demonstrators just streets away. reports now from athens on one merkel's visit has so riled the people. it was supposed to be a conciliatory gesture but in the end it seemed a need to serve to add fuel to the fire of thirty and. touches a breaking out between the riot police on the protesters on the street that. going on. the thing the country it was supposed to demonstrate solidarity but all it's to do if i like the divisions remain in the country itself and. when the people and

the politicians and between the eurozone countries as well the bad blood between greece in germany runs deep greece largely blames germany for the tough measures they faced this in them cooled and in devastating economic spiral and their journeys rhetoric may suffer in recently weeks of nights and forgiven not forgotten their trail at the start of the year in crisis the bad ones of the bunch. government with the politicians stealing to the people the people are suffering only cards. all the. labor and. for the working people to flourish chung says the greek population looking increasingly isolated from the east political class that's far from alone from greece to spain to italy to stare exist to year isn't economies to their knees and with unemployment particularly amongst year is used now reaching epic heights

people have simply had enough if this looks like a familiar sight because when we think many times before in recent years in cognise standoff between the right place and protesters. along the streets and people standing around this is the result of years of austerity this is one of thirty means every a population that is being pushed to its breaking point you can see all of the side streets of these pants standoff happening perhaps this will be the wake up call to eurozone leaders as the crisis drags on and the protests are growing larger and more frequent where there were one schools to ease the pain of the cuts now many people simply want who together have to leave or you have to have to break. with.

generally we have to break with the system that profit before people have to break with companies to be important changes that so much is useless it's not only the bargain of the people but it's the very systems it has been three years of austerity but three years of general strikes a little patience and that gives hope and we're going to go like that surfer r.t. athens. and. here is a sociology lecturer from the university old adrian says that no even michael support will give a shake agree government or that much stability. we are in the fifth year of recession we're in this third year where we'll stay with the measures they're asking us for even harder austerity measures and this thirteen billion cuts mainly in well concerns wages and so did we were really really angry and i think that there's also a little rangar against mrs merkel who is being seen as our representative all the rest of them some of the cannot make

a gratian against greece or this problem and think no one but ok mrs merkel comes here so things are going to be better and i think that the situation is not very stable despite all this attempt even by mrs merkel to so something that will support to mr prime minister some of us in the reality the greek government is not so stable since it is sitting on top of a huge social crisis a huge social crisis that can easily turn into a political crisis. israelis out to head to the pool some eight months earlier than expected as prime minister binyamin netanyahu does bond as the government announced it's not parliamentary election it said the coalition's failure to nail down the bunch of those behind the

rush but as. of course netanyahu is political swaying may be a ploy to gain more points in the upcoming polls but anything else who has announced that there will be indeed early elections in israel of course that means that they will take place in january or february of next year as opposed to october and that when they were actually slated to happen initially he said that as of right now it is impossible to pass every sponsible budget of course there are many here in israel feel believe this was actually done if not on purpose than any means that you know who was actually. to this type of events unfolding of course the budget talks have everything just recently and the latest party that. was talking to was the ultra orthodox shaws party who are adamantly against the budget cuts to the social economic sphere as particularly those which concern the elderly and those who are less fortunate when it comes to financial situation but. refused to

budge and anything that actually concerned the budget so a lot of people a lot of analysts here actually believe that he may be actually pushing the other parties to make this call to make it look like there was no other way other than to call for early elections at the same time those very people are saying that this is actually the man who is going to benefit the most from the early elections because he is the peak of his popularity right now so there is a very high chance that he will be reelected for his current post again when the growth of the prime minister and that will allow him more time to push forward with his agenda and that doesn't just concern the budget of course in geopolitical sense that also concerns for example war mongering rhetoric when it comes to such countries as iran of course he has been saying that iran is going to develop a nuclear weapon and israel should take precautionary measures to. right up to striking iran is so a lot of people are saying that you can safely say at the moment that the man who is going to benefit the most from the early elections is actually betting that

technology can sell and is a part of the liquid. move come just ahead of the u.s. presidential election they outcome which according to some middle east experts will have a major impact on israel's politics. is taking advantage of situation in the budget is. that to pass a budget is difficult but you could have done it but this is the best time for response to view because the coalition today in israel is in shambles so he catches actually a moment in which from his point of view within three months he will end and he can make a huge victorious i think this year another element the element before bomber. has actually linked himself almost totally to much involvement in the american elections in favor of reform is an old friend of the holding similar conservative positions and all in all his relations with obama are very sour i believe that if

obama would be elected this will become also an issue in the elections and i will not meet a possibility obama in direct way will also try to influence the elections in this world. meanwhile in the u.s. reports uncover more of me troll needs shall business practices the straight edge republican nominee only smoke one cigarette in his life apparently had no problem with pushing millions of them or not as if it meant good business. moscow city quote has started hearing an appeal by the press to write punk band sentenced to two years in jail for performance and the country's main cathedral celebrities and human rights activists worldwide have demanded their release but their lawyers seem in the hurry to get them freed while there's fame and profit to be harmed from bass condiments brand point of view i cannot report. pussy riot feminist punk rock has registered trademark a brand. one major russian concert organizer says they've been flooded with calls

from foreign promoters offering to organize a pussy riot tour that could fetch up to six hundred million euros. over the last there's a red square behind me that post the riot stormed the area and performed an offensive song about. a warm up gig of sorts but that particular stunt didn't bring the punk rock was the big break that they were off the internet so that tension on the internet and more importantly failed to rouse the interest of the thorazine just weeks later kirsty riot took their protest start to. the stunning video went viral pussy riot were arrested their trial a worldwide media circus western and russian celebrities forced the women's release

list international branded them prisoners of conscience and free pussy riot t. shirts sold out the pushing it was quite normal that's the way you attract attention. they always look that famous pop stars around the world look at the way but always dressed look at that look at all the other. well we can do as well as that or we could do something different and they hated the idea of going into the cathedral and singing their blasphemous songs because that. would in fact be something. chairing the trial somewhat struck by the women's defense team's tactics . there is no defense in this case it's simple p.r. . they're working towards the brand in order to capitalize on it in the future and it's worked i think two years in prison for the crime they committed is too harsh. but at the same time i can see that the lawyers did everything in order to get two years in prison again this is the band's appeal against the sentences is perspire

and in a moscow court last week. but she said it unexpectedly announced she now wants different lawyers from her fellow band members to a trial observer believes it signals a rift among the punk rock collective. i think she decided to get some real lawyers that. are she in the face of the worst but to actually. prosecute to say the dissenting band member is merely a ploy to add hype to a story that's not generating the headlines it did with the concept requests pouring in there are those that say that pussy riot. is just like the trial that proceeded it the point here isn't to reduce the women sentences but rather it's about increasing the number of clicks headlines and the saleability of the now protected pussy riot brand. mosque.

the sound of spring rebellions now seem to be a bar firing on some of the most vigorous supporters the united arab emirates slams the muslim brotherhood saying that islam is the group is a true. blessing to bring revolutionary chaos into the gulf states that's right ahead after the break. the mighty volga that runs deep through the russian soul it has provided inspiration for songs and poems and is the country's main north south artery and decades ago schumann ingenuity connected it to the dawn river to the west the vocal dawn canal is an engineering marvel within a day a vessel can pass the canals thirteen blocks ten million tons of shipping does so every year. another concrete giant is this finished fifty years ago it's the

biggest hydroelectric plant in europe it powers the local city of volgograd and sends lots more electricity to moscow hydroelectric plant behind me is a potent example of how much the volga can provide but harnessing the river like this isn't without its cost. fishermen have been watching fish stocks for years they see the slow damage the downing of the river has done especially to russia's prized sturgeon the source of caviar. the hydroelectric plant has done significant damage because it stocked fish swimming up river to the spawning grounds. within a year all these houses would have gone fall into the river depending on how many of the hydroelectric plants turbines are on the water level can change suddenly and dramatically too suddenly for the banks to absorb. control of the river flow by the plant has made building on the shoulders floodplain more attractive serious floods

or less like. but the water that is put into the drains is taken away from the fish that need it now but last the voice of the volga is a college she might stop being good. at all but that's the first time in fifty years the rules will contain a point on maintaining biodiversity in the river we still have a chance to bring the volga back to life. meaning that the mighty volga is treated with the respect it deserves. wealthy british style holds a spot on. the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy cars report on.

the. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. see let's move on now the republican nominee me troll me has taken a slight lead in the polls ahead of the second us presidential debates previously romney stated that he considers russia to be one of them are. his principle rivals

but it seems that his business his trade that force of tobacco addiction that makes trading with the enemy ok has a story. today as mitt romney views russia as america's number one geopolitical foe we don't know what use mr romney had on russia twenty years ago but we do know that back then he did his best to get russia to smoke more so some twenty years ago he's a boston based consulting firm bain capital was helping tobacco titans to move forcefully into the new russian market the soviet union just collapsed while she was up for grabs according to the person who worked for romney in russia at the time someone named. hope i pronounce his name correctly mommy was very excited about the smoking market in russia mr garstang he reported to me directly about his efforts to promote smoking there in the one nine hundred ninety s. tobacco market in russia. which of course led to more smoking related deaths and candidate romney has apparently made his modest very modest contribution to that

but obviously for him it was more about money than anything else just business even if it killed by the way mitt romney himself never smoked except for the one cigarette he said he had when he was very young he explained his attitude to smoking saying it's a religious thing mr romney is a mormon and mormons have a strict health code but apparently his beliefs his faith never stopped him from pushing cigarettes onto the nation he refers to as a folk in washington i'm going to check out. bigger is not always better at least for american police the department of homeland security field tests more about rules of battle grounds for the stretching the legal limits of spying on u.s. citizens. it's later but now the united arab emirates has accused the one of the world's most influential islamist groups the muslim brotherhood of plotting to overthrow regional governments the country has called on gulf arab states to unite to stop its rise and egypt where dominates political life of

a ws of around six to islamists this year alleging they belong to the group and were conspiring to the shaikh but also eric margolis things these concerns show the state's paranoia. the muslim brotherhood's primary goals have been expressed through welfare programs and its reason for its continued popularity it's never been very popular among muslims and mostly under grass that's coming in the gulf now is coming from. because i'm going to very difficult position i want to side of history. improvement in the region but they've been stuck supporting dictators traditionally historically their american government is stumbling forward right now trying to figure out what to do and it's under the new obama under great attack by the republicans who are driving really good political issue of the fact that. it's not clear. iraqi prime

minister nuri al maliki is on a visit to moscow as the country's sales so sales are on the billions of dollars worth of arms deals with russia so there's been no official statement of what exactly but that is buying but the shopping list reportedly includes fighter jets helicopters and missile defense systems iraq says it needs the modern weaponry to combat terrorists in the mountains and deserts and later today on another case expected to discuss the sales with president. u.s. police may soon employ the same drone technology wish the army uses to a tug targets abroad only they downsized the department of homeland security has stressed that small unmanned aircraft to be used for surveillance as part of a public safety program and they may stepanov it from the electronic privacy information center says this may practically lift the legal limits of domestic spying. and there are no laws out there right now that protect privacy from the use of drones and as this technology gets more available the police will be able to do

more and more with the d.h. s. will be able to do more and more with it without needing a warrant so we're entering an age where everything that we do even possibly down the road in our own homes could be subject to unwarranted police surveillance so there are police departments that have expressed interest in having rubber bullets having tear gas possibly having deadly weapons on the drones in the future they are able to target surveillance targets better too so if someone they want to keep an eye on a suspected criminal or maybe even just somebody who may have gone to a protest they're able to do that much more efficiently. and less now from our business desk merino on tuesday you mentioned that russia second biggest mobile phone operator would be holding an initial public offering later this year but not everyone is impressed why is that that's exactly the company that is not a goldman sachs and in fact the lead advisor for megaphones along

the moscow is basically has now quit the investment bank is reportedly concerned that would work on the less than with the firm's key shareholder and that is oligarchy. and he's currently restructuring his business to put all his companies under one umbrella and this is something which warrants goldman sachs and many see the investment bank quitting as a blow to megaphones plan to sell twenty percent before the end of this year that's how that story. all the news will know that novak is currently meeting. in london and that's because he's trying to secure a lot of money for the deposits here in the country to develop them and we know that he's already expressed that the country needs twenty five knots once i should say one. trillion dollars. that's what he's trying to find right now in london and

he said that by twenty twenty that is something that should be invested into the country's energy sector and he explained to us when he spoke exclusively that tax incentives to help boost production. first of all we've created the sort of stimulating measures to boost the development of new and siberia and secondly for the existing because it's profitable under the current tax system but we've got to be able to explain. we will take steps to stimulate drilling of hard to reach reserves on the show. people. our analysts like to look at some international markets in europe kicked off the trading session this hour and the striking losses over see that we've seen on wall street as well its earnings season is coming up so many investors are concerned about the negative figures right now sort of puts the lucent over a third of a percent over that slightly more than that moving on to the russian markets and they haven't either i wish that the r.t.s. or setting. why start helping get

a second now let's move on and see how currencies are performing when it comes to the euro it continues to weaken against the u.s. dollar the ruble remains mixed against the currency now a quick look at asia investors are getting ready to go home and there we saw that japan took a major hit with steel makers and technology firms didn't particularly badly in this trade recession then take a shot in almost two percent and there's the concerns over the global growth that's what investors are focusing on. they're coming down from one week and that's ahead of a report that analysts say will show that there are more stockpiles on the rise in the u.s. which is of course there was a big as a crude nature and now if we go back to europe and. the trip there and will greeks are furious with the latest there it's a measures which of course is a condition for the bailouts while we're speaking to analysts and i say the greeks

must accept the losses and restructure that. what i've proposed is the establishment of a berlin club in the emerging world you have the paris club when an emerging country gets into trouble what happens is the emerging country comes to the paris club with its creditors and they discuss and debate and they restructure the debt they have cut their losses to the creditors i think they should be. should invite all of the developed country finance ministers and politicians to berlin they sit around a table and they start to cut debt and allocate losses around the table and in doing that i think you then start to clean balance sheets because the simple fact is today there is more credit market debt in the world today than there was yesterday than there was last week and then there was the beginning of the crisis so there you have it half way the south thanks very messy in exile and coming up with the latest edition of.

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