and to all study protests in greece turning violent as the country's parliament backs a new round of stinging spending cuts. a once in a decade power transfer kicks off in china as president hu jintao and most of the current leadership prepared to step down to let younger leaders develop the country's powerhouse economy. was bickering over the budget britain's david cameron and chancellor angela merkel fell to agree on e.u. spending plans during talks in london.

live from our studios in the central moscow you're watching archie with me and you so now it's good to have you with us two pm here in the russian capital but anger and violence have spilled over onto the streets of athens with police using tear gas and water cannon against greeks protesting draconian new budget cuts demonstrators hurled petrol bombs with more than one hundred detained as the country's parliament passed an austerity package aimed at securing the latest bailout peter all over reports now from the greek capital. what we have seen though is anger on the streets of athens we saw a crowd of around one hundred thousand people gather in the square just behind me in front of of the parliament building not quite quickly escalated into violent clashes between police and protesters in a matter of seconds downtown athens went into essentially in an urban war zone for a couple of hours we saw most of cocktails thrown flash bang grenades used also

gas used extensively again here in athens as police tried to calm down protesters who are extremely unhappy by what they see as unfair measures being taken by the government now also there was one hundred people detained by police five arrests made and we're also hearing injuries on both sides both the police and demonstrators the greek people undoubtedly very unhappy about what's been signed into law what's essentially happened is that politicians here in greece of voted in order to allow the next round of austerity measures one hundred fifty three m.p.'s voting in favor of these latest austerity measures one hundred twenty eight against and there were eighteen stanchions what the new austerity measures mean though for the greek people is that we're going to see the retirement age rise to sixty seven there's also going to be slashes to pensions and wages and there's also going to be new laws that's going to actually make it easier for employers to fire their stuff

now all of this comes as antonius some are asleep prime minister to make thirteen point five billion worth of say billion euro worth of savings the reason he had to do that was he was it was demanded of him by greece's three main lenders the so-called troika they said that unless these cuts were made that greece wouldn't get its next round of bailout money that's over thirty billion euros and without that money well greece was out of the euro essentially and they would have faced a potentially devastating to the fault so that's what these new austerity measures mean they've been signed into law this is the future for the greek people now. well the new austerity package is said to be the worst so far in three years of the greek debt crisis journalist charlie mcgrath says the cuts will heap further suffering on ordinary people and that the situation won't change for the better

intil greece acknowledges it's bankrupt we already have people killing themselves in front of greece you have people that are losing everything using all the last thing to go i think is going to be you know there since they have anybody representing them with the war whatsoever you have this tyranny of the technocrat majority inside reason hundred fifty three out of three hundred vote more austerity on the people i think it is the continue to lose all hope that they have any control of their own financial destiny whatsoever how can it be anything but you know digress into but potentially civil war the financial health of the country is not going to change for the better until they realise that they are in default there and they tell the banks that are holding their debt and the european union and the e.c.b. and the trail they are going to default this is what happens in the market cap of their their prospects for a return to a healthy economy has to start with they're realising that they are completely and utterly broke and start over from scratch. now as one battle is over with the greek

parliament passing that austerity of well another is only just beginning the german chancellor is visiting london amid hopes her british counterpart will tumble justice mercy and agree not to veto plans for the e.u. budget the details just ahead. china said to us you're in a new group of leaders are made growing economic challenges and calls for a better government a week long party congress that will perform the power transfer is now underway beijing based journalist henry morton says reform has been the key word in the build up to the meeting. yes senior members of china's communist party meeting just behind me here in the great hall of the people on tiananmen square for the opening of the eighteenth party congress a congress which will see the beginnings of a once in a decade leadership transition when president hu jintao begins to hand over the

reins of power to the next generation of chinese leaders president xi jinping widely expected to become the next head of states now president who has just finished giving his last speech as general secretary of the communist party he's going to stand down as general secretary at the end of this week paving the way as i say for she to take over as general secretary and then as head of states in march two thousand and thirteen reform has been a buzzword around this congress has been mentioned a lot in state media in the build up so you this week and experts and analysts and imus say that china if it wants to continue its economic growth its economic engine it really needs to start implementing long stalled reforms you speak to people on the streets they're extremely concerned about the economy as well and people around the world generally will also be watching what the new leadership is doing china of course

a growing economic power is now the second biggest economy in the world and also turning into something more of a world superpower. reports. lighting the flame on the international stage building to new heights on this world. and throwing beyond its limits whether it outer space the arctic outer continental shelf or on your local store shelves china is making its ambitions known. let's see this is made in china . made in china china well cheaper than all the goods have translated into massive profits for china as well as criticism you know this comes amid growing concern that china is using its economic clout for political leverage. different. try not is a very promising country i'm sure you get your property right for twenty try less than five the i.m.f. says china could surpass the us economically in real terms by twenty sixteen it may

not help the countless chinese who live in poverty but it sure makes rivals nervous china's economic clout has grown it is now the second largest economy in the world it's the second largest manufacturing exporter in the rimini the chinese currency is playing an increasingly important role in the world economy so there is a shift in relative economic might in the world that might have been threatened by the slowdown and it will be up to china's new leaders to try to reverse the trend for now they seem to be getting their way china is inching into europe to snap up ailing businesses this french vineyard is just one of the casualties. but that these people they come here earlier i learned just like the buy up a castle in the jewelry on iran u.s. sanctions against oil traded with the islamic republic don't apply when you're america's largest banker. in africa china is using cash to buy clout beating

western rivals in the race to exploit the continent's vast resources in its efforts to buy influence through investments have been met with an intense public backlash and countries like pakistan building infrastructure instead of military bases has made china the preferred superpower among locals. born into fear ok. other countries. how does that make. you know that like america. still it has abandoned its military the country's new leaders are expected to continue to pour billions into its defense budget the second largest in the world this may worry pentagon planners and neighbors but so far china's economic might has proven more powerful than the sort the other two nations which are fighting in the world what is america what is china so america is using which is why our and

there is a lot of losses and china is using up peacefully and civilized it is not a loss and if the strategy is working why change it time you speeders understand the importance of soft power. and yet understand. humans to some extent and me did a certain more door to be studied if not to be followed completely for now a growing red dragon means that china's version of a new world order is here to stay you see captain r r t moscow. but western economies are still facing the dak crisis chinese the chinese models been a huge success to be all and expert based in new zealand says modest military spending compared to the world's biggest economy the us is among its main advantages the challenge is really going to become more daunting when china is

a leader when the leader of the technology and science. and social order and governance and so on so this giant is model has been very successful we don't know yet whether it's going to continue to grow. and what will all the rest of the twenty first century but in the omens at the moment are pretty good for china military expenditure has been going up and it's been going. in sync with the economy so the proportion of g.m.p. that is spent on its military is from maine about two percent something like that and that is half the american they have about forty two percent expenditure as a percentage of their g.d.p. twice that of china their military expenditure is ten times that china so whilst china is necessarily increasing its military power as one might expect it's not

doing it just proportionately. once in a decade the ruling party gathers to select the next generation. on our team i darted dot com. there's their own little celebration and israel of the country's pm sends only a sort message of congratulations to proc obama his reelection to the white house leaves a venue minutes in yahoo where good about his own political future we explain why after this break. recently protests and demonstrations of any kind were banned until further notice and by crane a curfew as in you can't go out of your home when the government doesn't want you

to has already been in effect in the country since two thousand and eleven many of the protests which are now totally forbidden were related to members of the public demanding the release of political prisoners four people were also recently arrested for insulting the king over twitter wow a middle eastern country that has totally shut down any form of protest and hugs you down if you tweet about the leadership so it's pretty undemocratic to me that nato is already fueling up ready to take action bombs and freedom into warmer right well not really if nato really cared about spreading democracy you'd think they'd be more consistent with their targets but that's just my opinion.

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with mike's concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on r g m in sochi but know your city in europe and the hosts of the twenty fourth seed which are the pickers. thank you. so much. thank you all the. way a. dog days are. right days a. week so common. it's so true. you're watching our t.v. at live from moscow the german chancellor has visited london for crucial talks with

britain's prime minister about the e.u. budget angela merkel try to urge david cameron not to veto any increase in spending something the u.k. parliament is insisting on artists are further has the tell of the tux. on the surface of it angela merkel's come here to meet david cameron to discuss over dinner the budget meetings are taking place in just a verb a week's time in brussels but of course what you see not very smooth experience you know the very friendly and shaking hands that hides beneath the surface is very very troubled waters in the discussion you'd expect to run into some more awkward territory mainly being the whole discussion about britain's place within the e.u. itself of course we see a big rise in the and c.e. sentiment recently we've had the british tabloids calling angle of merkel the

merkel later i mean she's certainly got that aura about her hasn't she she's very much been seen as heading the e.u. drive to scary tea to try and get those countries out of the economic crisis imposing these very very harsh measures on countries such as greece and of course for it in house in case that with the eve but it is the e.u. is going to be asking for even more to be contributed to the course it already said about a trillion euros so i mean that's a lot to us from a country that is going through a very tough time and economically she doesn't look like a woman who suffers fools gladly own fortunately david cameron recently hasn't been looking like the strongest of british leaders he had that humiliating defeat in the house of commons when rebel backbenchers purse full day are planned they were calling for real perm cuts in that budget and it raises the wider discussion here

of course as we said about britain's place within the e.u. itself or not is a discussion of britain is going to have to have at some point so it was anger merkel is certainly going to be looking for some form you think if claire. i see a voice in his stance right now unlikely that david cameron is actually going to be able to give her that because of course the talk at the moment is not so much even if britain will have a referendum now but when that will happen until that happens until britain decides of course he can't really give her much more information than the. a spurned lover has gone on a brutal killing spree in the russian capital police say a russian lawyer shot six people dead and wounded two others after a bitter breakup with his girlfriend. also online for you today suspected whistleblower bradley manning is reportedly considering a guilty plea over claims to be diplomatic cables to wiki leaks and

a deal to avoid a potential life sentence. dot com to learn more. well barack obama and his supporters at home and abroad are celebrating his return to the white house the reaction in one middle eastern country is less enthusiastic israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu had openly backed obama's rival mitt romney during the election campaign and only sent the president a short message of congratulations now it seems netanyahu has history of strained relations with obama could now backfire as artie's poll sleepier reports. from the us. to this. it was never a secret movie israeli prime minister wanted in the white house where he often public spats between his government and the obama administration of a palestinian peace talks and iran's nuclear program did nothing to advance american israeli relations and only a mosque the two leaders personal dislike for each other the journey of. both

men want to succeed they need to cooperate you know it will succeed and i think it's not it's nothing new some of the real challenge going to. fix the relationship but he has some fixing to do relations between the two countries are at an all time low and most of his radio americans were also hedging their bets on the republican candidates of the roughly eighty thousand to vote from israel for you find. these few got up to watch the results obama can be. strict with israel because he doesn't have to worry about. reelection anymore and the time we are all has to do with obama's tells the truth in many aspects because israel is dependent on america for allies and for support in the world in the international arena the pressing issue now is what is a bomb is victory mean for israel's foreign policy after all netanyahu saw and

mommy and i someone he agreed with on most issues including what to him is the most urgent stopping iran's nuclear program netanyahu is trying to convince the world to strike iran a position that until now obama has not supported the question is will israel go it alone in order to destroy completely destroy iran's nuclear weapons capability i think you need. many many strikes over an extended period of time only one country in the world that is capable of doing it and i don't think they will do it this is the united states of america and without u.s. backing netanyahu is in a corner with the risk to strike back down from his well mongering mind the position puts him in a good light netanyahu took a gamble by so openly favoring romney welcoming him in israel during the election campaign and appearing in republican campaign ads that one of the dice could now

backfire as these radio addictions quickly approach and that song will be fighting for another term in office. turkey says it has the right to acquire any kind of weapons to meet possible threats from syria this is ankara and its nato allies are reportedly considering stationing patriot missiles along the border with syria to guard against a spillover of violence while the u.n. and arab league envoy for syria has warned that al-qaeda infiltration could turn the country into another somalia if the civil war is not ended soon meanwhile like washington the u.k. says it's set for talks with opposition military commanders as part of a renewed drive to oust president also that britain is also considering arming the syrian rebels though it's found under the e.u. arms embargo u.k. diplomats are said to be considering whether it could be justified under un resolutions now in an exclusive interview with r.t.

the syrian president bashar assad said that if western states decide to intervene the whole world would suffer the consequences i think the price would be from invasion if you just hope and it's going. to be more than the whole world came before because if you have a problem in syria and you got this last stronghold of secularism and stability in the region and coexistence it's it will have a domino effect but if it weren't for the people. the pacific. you know because you know but if one goes. through going. to go but. nobody came through what's next. don't miss the full exclusive interview with the syrian president bashar assad on friday right here on r t let's take a look now at more of the world's news this hour a third bomb attack has hit afghanistan bringing the total number of victims to

eighteen a suicide bomber in the southern city of kandahar killed three policemen and wounded two others while a military convoy struck a landmine in the east of the country killing five local troops and in the latest incident ten civilians including four women and two children have died after a roadside bomb explosion. a leading bahraini human rights activist is back in court today and he hopes to appeal a three year sentence in the bill rajab has been serving time in prison for taking part in demonstrations in the capital managua without permission from the authorities he was previously in trouble after calling for the resignation of top government officials on twitter though he was eventually acquitted the final appeal hearing will take place later this month. and after a short break we examine the u.s. military's heavy recruitment of latinos in american high schools that's next here on archie.

in this remote siberians in which people still sing the sounds which russians sang in the middle ages and they cherish the practice will set up church before the seventeenth century the old believers here is sign the area are conservative community they're known as the simi skeer a word which refers to family. the day believe me there yet again i feel. i know i'm the first ad that. i. people here are happy to show their way of life to tourists and teach them how to dance in the local star. use of prayer and the

girl needs to watch her legs don't go up too much during the dance she must be a modest. seventeen year old nanda is from the same village she now studies in the city and dances at a club. she puts on her costume and the traditional amber necklace only when she comes to visit her grandmother. mentioning that. i didn't ask on time per tacitus because i want to keep up to date with this morning world but still i would like to have camp my very ground haul my sources layered and this is my treasure their attachment to the church brought knowledge is an sistas to this remote glen east deflate by call more than two hundred and fifty years ago they were exiled in persecuted for not. green to the orthodox who forms

introduced in washington the sixteen hundreds they wanted to maintain their time honored rituals the old believe is still baal and cross themselves with two fingers not least three as they do in modern orthodox churches in russia and never knew when praying but this father say he says it's not so much the rituals they cherish as the moral principles he does not approve of what ninety's doing is akin to an old believe a woman must never show her naked legs and this thing started spoiled during the soviet union. was more and more young people leaving for big cities this year is the all believers culture could be imperiled nowadays young people prefer urban life to devoting their lives to agriculture but it's not necessary to leave the inside to remember that and try to think that you know your plans to continue her studies abroad the grandmother says wherever she goes as long as the queues are

fresh in her memory so is the culture. i think now it's very obvious and clear and i have no doubt that donald rumsfeld may god forgive him dick cheney. and george bush and the other people who have been responsible for the deaths of these tens of thousands of people americans iraqis and other nationalities tens of thousands if not over one hundred thousand people they are responsible for that because they lied because they wanted a war for economic reasons for political reasons for popularity reasons and maybe in george bush's case for family reasons. united states right now it's not. beating its recruiting targets. we have walked through some neighborhoods

down here in guatemala tens of thousands of young able capable boys girls men and women. give them the opportunity to come fight for us for five years and here's your green card. and lot of more going to say yes. they think if they go to the united states they're going to find this beautiful lush lovely land no problems no one employment no violence no poverty. and sell that story create that image and you're going to have lines willing to take the risk to get into heaven like that. and as long as people are willing to pay illegally low salaries somebody will go illegally to take that job. or do you think is building the wall between mexico and california. giving stateside contractors at fourteen dollars an hour paying us.