clashes erupt in athens as a nationwide strike grips greece triggered by the latest round of spending cuts just ahead now of another crisis summit in brussels these are the latest pictures you're seeing right here from downtown. fresh outbreaks of violence to shake the syrian lebanese border as president assad's troops try to clear out rebels from one of the key spots for smuggling. plus deadly attacks on a stronghold of the former regime in libya amid accusations the country's new rules turned a blind eye to the massacre of gadhafi loyalists one year ago. around

the world around the clock this is r.t. live from moscow with me rory sushi tear gas and petrol bombs back on the streets of athens as police are facing off with protesters who on a nationwide anti or austerity strike we're going to show you right now the latest pictures from the greek capital thousands of people flooding the streets in a reaction to a further ten billion euros and budget cuts protesters say they will not tolerate a third straight year of crippling austerity the government has rolled out the cuts in order to secure the next tranche of financial. well meanwhile in spain thousands of students there are marching in cities all across the country wrapping up three days of industrial action against the slashing of the budget for education that has madrid prepares to watch the e.u. for another aid package to save its economy. expected to come will get further

austerity conditions jerome russo a debt crisis researcher at the european university institute in florence says that no summit will help solve the crisis until it tackles the root of it all there's one thing that we've learned over the past couple of years is that when european leaders say something about this grace is they usually mean the exact opposite. side on this thing the end of the crazy side probably means it's the greeks are slipping into depression led to greece by next to one of the contract to the economy in fact it was twenty percent unemployment things of twenty five percent of the different regions in speed which are demanding secession to have actually new fascist forces on the rise in greece leaving even the move that we haven't seen since the one nine hundred thirty s. so i think really what's happening here is that stress is actually spinning out of control things are getting a lot worse and the summit that we have today in brussels is absolutely some solace . obviously because if you can believe the theory of the stimulus any of the

structural problems which include most importantly the deadly embrace between the financial sector used to be insolvent and a series of states which are completely over the crisis thought of two things i think the most important thing is that on the one hand your need is don't tend to solve anything in these summits but on the other hand they do display a bass and muddle through it is believed by the city to keep on growing despite. this by the odds and to keep the deep together the question is for how long we don't know we don't know the exact amount of time that's left what we do know is that if things continue like this we are staring into the last decade for a generation of europeans it is. now as protests in europe and the american occupy movement is having to evolve in order to stay afloat after police crackdowns forced from city squares activists and are trying to soften the impact of the economic crisis. reports on one group helping citizens keep their homes from. threat of

foreclosure was. really. was. more than a year after it kicked off its movement in los angeles occupy l.a. is alive and well but in much smaller numbers my god the tents which once dominated the landscape of downtown are gone but it popped up in backyards of struggling homeowners i would keep a woman has done for me is kept me in my home for thirty four days he had known this family was swept up in the mortgage crisis and is now facing eviction occupiers have set up barricades around the house now for now and this going to defend the home while the family battles with bank of america the show has a meaning of people power the law enforcement is not on our side as well so if you have if you have people power and you have community support. you should you should reach out to them you should reach out to them and get it together from the lawn in

front of l.a. city hall to this foreclosed home in the san fernando valley the face of occupy and so then california has greatly transformed in the past year but the spirit of resistance remains strong among those who say they're still fighting for the ninety nine percent this is a comic war like that's what drives me to be here is not just about say one house. with. occupy l.a. started in a busted manner and was unique in how protesters had a cozy relationship with police. was i whenever local politicians grew tired of the demonstration and showed they were willing to use a massive police response to shut down the peaceful movement the military style raid on occupy a lazy can drove away protesters but radicalized others who are determined more than ever to fly repressive forces when you have that kind of systematic and so.

people expressing their first amendment rights it doesn't shut it down if you'll say i'm slow because an independent journalist who has been documenting occupy l.a. throughout you observed how the movements inclusiveness allowed elements in which cause conflict while occupy l.a. is broken up into several community entities it's still celebrates small victories this again is the current evolution this is the edge of it this is a foreclosure resistance action and it's supported by occupy l.a. as the movement evolves in this family is determined to keep their american dream no way you shouldn't allow it to happen and you can always show. i mean i'm. in los angeles ramon the lindo r t. defi i has arrested a man who allegedly planned to blow up the federal reserve building in new york the

twenty one year old bangladeshi national was detained as he apparently tried to trick a what he thought were explosives stored inside a car the man who was in the united states on a student visa called the attention of authorities when he was searching for al qaeda contacts they supplied him with a thousand pounds of fake explosives through underground operatives the federal reserve is also next kaiser's crosshairs today he and stacy looking at the circus that is financial policies create all of that the cause report in about twenty three minutes from now. you know that echo bubble is a well known gag with a clown so. these are the schools. that these chairmen attend they go to the brothers and barnum bell in clown school where they learn what run a floppy sheens where funny beards and you know pretend as if they have mastery over policies that they clearly don't and they spent. each other with

a bottle you see that's their monetary policy they sell to bottles and they go i'll here's your quantitative easing. you know and they do this to each other and they say see or all wet and wet means liquidity and the quality is good we're making the market says goldman sachs and we're adding liquidity says j.p. morgan just spurting each other was also bottles and frick and clowns. do if you can stay with us for the cause reporting just a few minutes here on the program the residents on the syrian lebanese border have been forced from their homes by a series of violent clashes that militia in lebanon apparently used machine guns to attack the syrian army of cross the frontier therefore triggering rather a tough response we're going to go to school reports from the preacher. here in the golan heights residents have been reporting fire overnight coming straight from the syria lebanon border you have to understand that this borders really close to this

village right here syria in fact is right behind me if you can see it a group of several identified men have opened fire from lebanese towards syria and the syrian army has responded that fighting is not heard at the moment but of course the situation in syria continues to be highly unstable despite the efforts by the international community to broker some sort of ceasefire between syrian government forces and the opposition groups the situation is being intensified by the fact that the various fighting groups in syria continue to receive financial aid as well as shipments of arms coming in from across the border not with just turkey which was reported earlier but also with lebanon. training for war getting ready for battle and possibly. these young recruits are preparing for what their instructors call a campaign to rid syria of tyranny. some of these student to be fighters haven't even held a gun until now. this is the first time i use weapons there was no need for the

revolution now we carry weapons to get rid of the. weapons have yet to topple the government of president bashar al assad but they're flowing into the country with ease it's a trend that has some officials worried. provide arms to either side. for the majority and the risk of unintended consequences porous borders with its neighbors to make the flow of arms almost impossible to stop and lebanon's town of is one of the main gate. behind me is the way to one of the illegal border crossings between lebanon and syria weapons fighters and supplies go in to syria while refugees fleeing the violence come out but by no means the same. easy journey frequent shelling as well as a large minefield on the syrian side of the border crossings like being a deadly gamble a gamble that lebanese sympathizers of syria's opposition are more than willing to

make. this is five thousand dollars thirteen hundred eighteen hundred and two thousand in tripoli r.t. spoke to this arms dealer whose business was booming. people come or contact me every day we have a revolution next door for sure we are with them. till they do it. the weapons may be easy to come by the harder part is understanding exactly where they go a classified report uncovered in the new york times reveals that many of the arms sent to syrian rebels are ending up in the hands of hardline islamic jihad ists one of the leaders of the f.s.a. said yeah we admit that we. infiltrated jihadi jihad these are coming. from all over the muslim world but we don't know exactly who they are back in syria both in the training camps and in the battlefield rebels talk of high hopes for a bright future. i hope that there will be free elections that the syrian people

will be able to choose the officials they want and that we will win back our rights freedom of expression and political freedom exactly what that freedom looks like may depend on who's getting the guns. you see caffein of our lebanon. we're coming to life in the center of moscow i want to get the russian capital has again warned against the illegal flowing into the hands of syrian rebels saying it may come at a high price. but we should curious you know it's not a good idea to put out fire with fuel we have the example of other countries in north africa and the middle east i will see this again stop supporting the arab spring it will not end well after the arab spring there will be a very hot arab summer and you could win it all but it syria's northern border with turkey has also become a regular scene of deadly crossfire and the latest incident fired back in response to a mortar shell which landed in its high type province kodesh rebels are also causing

a headache for turkey at least three turkish soldiers were killed as the militants attacked military outposts on the country's southeast professor who say in a back from the middle east technical university says turkey is a furthering gauge when the syrian conflict is actually emboldening the kurdish rebels it is related to of course. the kurds have now much more money they control certain parts and. in their history in the last thirty years the kurds have never been strong i mean it has never been the strong. government and turkish army and also get such a large space where they can move together with the other groups to be had in syria or in northern iraq. still to come for you just a bit later this hour here on r t that of freedom of speech got several of the new

meaning in europe iran learns a lesson in censorship from the e.u. a satellite provider has a gaggle most two dozen of its state t.v. and radio stations and much more ahead for you after a short. homeland security now has robot tune as seriously robot fish the drones in the sky spying on you just weren't good enough effect they've revealed that they're going to be using robotic hummingbirds soon who how cute these things can only see you though above the water now during the one percent or less of your life that you spend swimming homeland security will be keeping you safe since nine eleven we've heard ad nauseum that we need to be kept safe so americans have given up their rights but have

things gotten that much safer honestly has any of the stuff ushered in some sort of peaceful utopia no it hasn't the best terrorism prevention would be to not bomb secular regimes in other countries like libya so that some fanatical wackos come to power that would help way more than robotic spy fish i hear a lot of people talk about personal responsibility in a lot of speeches and yes personal responsibility is a key component of the american way slit people provide for their own defense what is going to protect you more a shotgun under the bed or terminator two so homeland security can of tuna right but i just might bring. it was the strangest attempt of a military take on. the u.s. president trying to overthrow a foreign country's government but his strategic game. and america recognized its

defeat. steve cuba managed to cope with its victory. i leave you q where you go back to roger. the cuban missile crisis games and brianna. thanks so much for joining us here on r t today i had moscow at least eleven people have been reported killed as libyan forces shelled the bani walid it's a stronghold of the country's late leader moammar gadhafi reports suggest there were no direct clashes between the two groups but fighters from the besieged city

later responded with mortar rounds the attack on bani walid comes amid a report from human rights watch that dozens of khadafi loyalists were massacred following his capture and killing a year ago mobile phone footage filmed by one of the militants shows a large group of detainees being abused malk photos indicate many of those people right there would later executed. or failed to get their deaths with analysts saying it's hardly surprising. i think churchill said the first victim of four is the truth that if one looks at the world the go. and in libya saying what the rebels have so well. indeed even the major powers that the u.s. and britain there were all telling. the least this is this revelation is not. does not document it but it is not new everybody expected that the number i've attended

a number of hearings in the human rights council whereby people who was june the number of civilians were killed by nato but i value of the day nato and the u.s. and western powers. themselves involved in removing the regime without knowing to who with whom. they have not looked at what is the possibility that after any any attempt to try and save the revolution what she did is lead with some sort of a policy this is just not correct people revolted nato jumped on board and that's the result of it so of course the human rights abuses were done by of the feet by that evolution and by nato. the european commission has denied the order to a ban on iranian state channels saying that two providers acted independently previously tehran slammed the e.u. for completely jamming its nineteen t.v. and radio stations was broadcast across europe coincides with

a further tightening of sanctions against the country mostly targeting its financial and trade sectors independent filmmaker and media analyst danny schechter things the e.u. simply doesn't want to hear a contrary point of view. i find it very troubling that television channels have been removed from the air suppressing the aransas ability to tell its side of the story iran is under attack not only with oil sanctions but financial sanctions there's a whole campaign underway to discredit its proposals and. they're coming up on the nuclear issue even before iran. it's to make those proposals kind of a preemptive strike and now this just a few days after the european union received the nobel peace prize one of its first acts seems to have been to suppress freedom of the press and freedom of speech that is not very encouraging if you silence one side of that debate and don't even allow

its voice to be heard at all clearly it was political you know it taking us one step closer to war and this is what the seems to be about the british did this first through their off common regulator removing press t.v. from the air in england and now the e.u. is followed through with a similar ban. and i hear an aussie we discussed relationship with western nations with academic long as well as whether its nuclear activities are anywhere as dangerous as they're being presented here's a quick preview of what's coming your way in about an hour and ten. there's a pretty good read on what iran's capabilities in terms of uranium enrichment are the big question which i don't think anyone can give a highly confident answer to which is does iran want a what people refer to as a threshold capability of the words its ability to produce a nuclear weapon quickly or do they want an actual deployed weapon according to

u.s. intelligence community and most other observers iran just hasn't made that decision in part because they don't need to they want to get to that threshold capability before they make any decisions about whether to go to go further than that threshold because there's no point making that decision early in fact it might be detected by western intelligence and so you could tip your hand before you get to that threshold so i think that decision has been made i. have a good to see you again let's get some business news from you of course so we're still talking i suppose for the second day now about the whole issue ultimately what i understand now both the british parliament and russian ones are considering selling best stake exactly but it gets even better because a wrong is that if there is now reportedly planning to buy all of their shares in that and become the biggest oil producer in the world well for more on this i'm now joined by oil and gas i'm going to still got

a cent from run this is capital thank you very much for joining us now the first question has to be if this deal doesn't go through what happens in the shares of ten-k. b.p. and the what can shareholders expect in general. so the question on time could be shareholders i think it's the second question the first is obviously a solution to the current. corporate conflict which actually is thought that at the big it from the beginning of the year and could end up in a change in ownership in ten k. b.p. international which is the north shore and so first we have to find out the details on that and then we're going to see you know have a better view on the on the future for at least that entity in russia but my first guess would be that probably they may be bought out the minority but i doubt it will be the same price as it won't match the old four. because legally under russian law the if there is

a change in ownership and the holding level the day's not obliged to come with the same terms pool shareholders see the real level so i think it's the second question it's going to come up maybe in the next six months and it's probably going to be not the same price for the controlling shareholders because see and other conflicts perhaps with the minority shareholders in this case. we could always see a conflict or another conflict with a minority shareholders like we saw a couple of months ago i think well i think the government it's not in the interests of anyone and not in the interest of the government in particular to have this conflict because. part of this transaction of this landmark transaction would be the you know the message of russian government which it will be sending to foreign cities you can best is that you know russia is open for business and it says welcomes more investment into russia so if that deal comes with some conflict

and no lawsuits it's not going to add a lot of value and so the government will probably try to avoid that if minorities are unhappy then they probably raise their voice and the hope for. the other thing is if nothing happens and as i said on the russian law you're not obliged to make. it's all for the minorities then would the dividend be remained the same as it used to be that's a second question again and ideally for minorities the structure remained the same but it's not guaranteed again because the flows. from tend to be beholden from the russian end to can be diverted they're directed to reaping that reaping the interests of the leading partners and giving people now if we can just briefly every often is ross have does go through with this deal how could it potentially affect the company itself we know that it will have to take on quite

a substantial debts in order burra money to pay for this already though that fair trading said it could downgrade both b.p. and also that if this happens i think there are to me a broad issues here one is the financial side and the best structure that would avoid that would have to avoid investment grade rating grade at the same time for the government so that. they looted beyond below fifty percent that is a complicated structure i think that will have. difficult have to use that the food payment structure so one of the partners may not get all that cash immediately probably will be getting in installments otherwise if that will be too high or the government will be diluted below fifty percent so that's financial aspect but the other is a professional side we know you know attempted b.p. is the third largest oil producer in the rush one of the global producers to manage that company and it would need you know a lot of most of the pension and expertise not to say that you know current

management lex expertise but it's more about the time and you know the capacity and i think the ability to bring new managers or to keep existing managers at ten k. b.p. will be crucial for those needs to make sure that b.p. remains a successful enterprise as it historically has been in russia do you foresee a scenario in which the. he retains a nice share in seeing if they are as gone. i think the problem with ten k. b.p. and rosneft in particular is the dual structure like for rosneft it's a very hard to have two board of directors in my view one that rosneft one of ten good b.p. and the issue of corporate governance and tend to be people have to be addressed which basically means that rosneft has to control. is that hundred percent seventy five or fifty to one but the current structure with two partners have parity and

equal rights and then the right independent directors it's probably not going to suit. you and probably b.p. will have to sell down as well even if it leaves but i'm very. skeptical that b.p. will keep full stake in after this deal all right thank you very much for your analysis that was in the senate from run this sense capital or oil and gas analysts there well that's it from the business this import this hour but states and with artsy because coming up shortly our financial guru mike skies are or take a pop song at central bankers and who he thinks are actually doing something you want so brides with the global economy stay tuned for that. what will change when america picks its president amid muslim rage walking the iran tightrope pushing china and russia as occupying under spreads the two parties still

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