a day of mourning and protests in tunisia the funeral of a slain opposition leader is marred by violence with protesters clashing with the police this comes against a backdrop of a general strike that has paralyzed the country. historic budget agreement for the e.u. which aims to cut brussels red tape may now be undermined by bureaucracy itself as the european parliament presents to block the deal. and president obama's nominee to head the cia faces catcalls from the anti drone protesters but seemingly

gets an easy ride from lawmakers over his targeted assassinations program. world news live from our moscow headquarters you're watching r t with me to see catherine of. well in tunisia clashes between mourners and the police have marred the funeral of a secular opposition leader who's assassination has led to chaos on the streets and in parliament now violence erupted near the cemetery as demonstrators threw stones and set cars of blades while police had responded with tear gas now adding to this turmoil the country has been paralyzed by a general strike party israel for notion is following the developments in tunisia. as you can see many people have gathered here today for the funeral sofa chokri

belaid one of the most prominent opposition leaders who was killed on wednesday and seems standard situation here on the ground remains very tense and very valid tile and that is definitely struck me that the relative stability that we've seen here at all in two thousand and eleven revolution will be the mode of people here it's quite a small square but it's packed with people with flags and all of them actually chanting from time to time and to government slogans many people we have been able to speak to here to come here they say that the leader over not a party in this again no shit is personally responsible for this murder well these are very strong accusations actually but we've been hearing that from too many people says he was a symbol of dignity this is a political assassination and that means that the repression and violence is not over because this is a crisis. this is a crisis people want change again no slogans of revolution of democracy protection

working class and poor people that didn't work we can see and that is very close. to what happened in the summer there is a sign. of what could happen in the county if we don't find very quickly some concrete. solutions what we see here today and will be seen here in the last two days in the country actually it's a deja vu it's a mirror situation we could be seeing here that what we saw here to me years ago in the last two days following the assassination of took privilege there have been many protests not only in the capital tunis been throughout the country and there have been many lashes between police and opposition supporters and we've heard that least one police officer was killed but definitely there have been much more injured. people this is a very bad situation here in the country that there is

a growing that it may turn even more violent and it will go even further if there is no solution immediate solution and this is why people are saying that they're preparing for the worst. earlier spoke to author and activist for rosie manji who explained why the assassination of the opposition leader holds such dire consequences for tunisia team pulls of. shukri blade. cannot be underestimated is assassination as it is a profound. effect on the to listen population he has been an outspoken outstanding spokesperson for justice in tunis here he has been for you minutely critical hold the. party. and in particular he has enormous credibility within the trade union you could as you can see there's

a general strike been called immediately upon his his assassination but i think that we're entering a new phase in the revolution. in tunis here and you know good lucian's we never knew a lot the outcome is is going to be and i think there are. signs that this could easily do. disintegrate into some kind of civil civil war hopefully that won't happen. but it's very often otieno as account of events we heard earlier today is also posting her updates on her twitter feed as you can see right there where one of her latest poll three says the police did their very best not to let the crowds that attracted attended partly the funeral reach the city center.

what's been ale is a historic deal reducing the use spending for the first time ever but what the leaders of struggled to agree upon now can still be undermined by the european parliament leaving factions have already said the budget is simply not acceptable archies tests are still a reports from brussels. there more than twenty four hours of negotiations of bickering. along the corridors what's next more fighting more negotiations and more bickering yes after a deal has been made here at the e.u. summit the next step is the european parliament they will have to approve this and we're already hearing reports that the leaders of the main political groups there don't accept the deal that was reached here and the president of the parliament

martin schulz last night in a statement he had been sounding very angry at the proposed cuts and now we're already seeing the cots that the twenty seven leaders will impose on the budget he said he's not going to put a signature on something he sees as excessive so if we saw countries leaders coming here protective of their national interest we're going to see political parties protective of their own industries or whatever they represent in parliament and that is going to be a long long time of negotiations it could probably take about three months to get any answer out of there and we're seeing it's already negative david cameron came here saying that he wanted to bring down the general amount of the new budget and in fact he did he got the amount he wanted it's about nine hundred eight billion euros however what's interesting here is he's going to go back to the u.k. now just to explain that you case contribution is in fact he was able to protect the rebate of the u.k. but let's not forget that that rebate the money that the u.k.

gets back to be you is hinged on the contribution to agriculture now the agriculture subsidies has been cut down therefore the rebate will also go down and therefore the contribution will in fact go up we're already hearing from the euro skeptics especially coming from his own party saying that role well done you're coming back here saying that it's a victory for the u.k. but in fact we're going to be paying more just at a time when he's going to be posing the question he says of the referendum whether or not they should even be a member of the european union the twenty seven if he's reelected in twenty fifteen so whether or not this is a real victory for david cameron he will have to answer that when he gets back to you kate. the problem is james many ways says that it's going to be a tough time for the budget deal as it goes to the european parliament constitutionally there well within their rights to reject the thing and send it back and have another go at writing this no whether they actually do that will

probably depend on the fine print in the budget or already there's a new parliament to said he would be able to support the steel and the heads of one of the major groups in the parliament the socialist group said that they were likely to support it so it's going to be a rocky ride i think this budget over the next few months cameron's right talk about this being like a reduction in a credit card limits and of course you can have your credit card limit reduced and still spend on spending more money now that's almost certainly what's going to happen to britain over the next few years the amounts that britain is expected to pay into the main e.u. fund will increase as a result of increased payments to a new member countries so he's going to pretend that this will show how britain can still be a force in europe how we can push the rest of europe around discourses over the fact of course that he would have got anywhere in this without the support of the angle of merkel in particular so he can you can try to push that line the you know he knows what he's doing to europe and that we don't need to go so far as to step out of the european union but i wouldn't see the more euro skeptic members of his

own party being particularly impressed by any of this. well the may now be breathing a sigh of relief after reaching an agreement on the union's budgets but. restoration not surprisingly is still high especially in spain where thousands of protest of government cuts and its crisis plagued education center sector pardon me full coverage of that for you on our website r.t.e. dot com. well of course president obama's choice to head the cia has faced a tough confirmation hearing at the u.s. senate but you know it wasn't really the lawmakers who had put john brennan in the spotlight when you look at pardon me over his controversial role in the drone program and now when you look at the situation the section was in fact interrupted

several times by protesters who held up signs like stop the cia murder they are of course referring to the use of drones by the united states for targeted strikes against suspected terrorists john brennan defended the program which he helped develop as quote ethical and just saying that each strike was carefully vetted however human rights groups claim the program has in fact led to a large number of civilian deaths so that u.s. lawmakers hold brennan accountable for his counterterrorism policies or he's going to have the details. what most people expected to hear was how does the u.s. government make decisions as to who should be on their kill list and mr brennan would certainly be the most appropriate person to ask because he is known to have been in charge of the kill list and he's known as the architect of the administration's targeted assassinations program so the question of who the drones are targeting was critical and one of the senators asked john brennan whether there should be at least some judicial oversight over those executions by drones and

here's what he said none of those actions or to determine past guilt for those actions that he took the decisions that are made or to take action so that we prevent future action to protect american lives so the rationale that john brennan gave for not going to court is that the administration is not in the business of punishing individuals but it's in the business of preventing attacks he basically says the u.s. government could execute people for what they haven't done yet you would expect a follow up questions from lawmakers as to how the administration determines the level of threat that these people constitute let's imagine an angry yemeni man who writes in his blog bag he hates america if you can seize wife died in a drone strike and he wants to take revenge is that enough to justify him being killed by a drone there are so many questions about how the administration decides to put someone on their kill list and yet there was not near enough grilling on the part

of the senators to get specific answers prior to the hearing a memo was released which the justice department handed over to congress and according to the memo the government can kill people overseas even without evidence that they are actively plotting against the u.s. the paper states that the u.s. would be able to kill a u.s. citizen or non-citizen overseas when quote unquote an informed high level official of the u.s. government determines the target is an imminent threat to them here for also suggest that such decisions would not be subject to judicial review and outlines a broad definition of what constitutes imminent threat. everybody expected tough questions on drones but that did not happen john brennan got away with very broad answers like the program if saving lives and you should take the administration's word for it. still ahead this hour a job that has sparked a scandal in the united kingdom. you can find out how a barista might be becoming

a public sector job and why the suggested salary has outraged british taxpayers. plus third time lucky for georgia's president mikheil saakashvili as he almost fails to deliver his annual state of the nation's speech after parliament turns its back on him that and more for you after a short break. we'll . technology innovations all the developments from around russia. the future covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charging bloggers a big picture. look.

you. welcome back all u.k. lawmakers seem to be in need of a quick fix and they're looking to use taxpayers' cash to get them get there help them get their caffeine hit well it's not turn to our teens polly boyko in london to find out what this case some are dubbing it a case of cops and robbers what it's all about right polly coffee scandals sounds

a little bit unusual to me break it down for us. coleman is looking for someone to join their team of burma reste is to basically halt fancy beverages to politicians now the job pays over twenty thousand pounds a year which to put into context for our international viewers is over thirty thousand dollars per year but there are other parks you get paid holiday and that lucky new barista will also be able to use the house of commons gym with a discount so it could be robbing some very sweaty shoulders with some heavy weight politicians twenty thousand pounds just to make a few cups of coffee sounds like a pretty good job to me but of course these are tough economic times unemployment is up here's a perfectly good job opportunity but the public isn't really buying that argument as it. well it's a great job lucy. restart in starbucks doing the exact same job but serving coffee

to us mere mortals not to politicians makes less than the whole of that salary so of course people are getting very despondent about that lot of people taking to twitter actually to talk about it because if we compare that job to other public sector jobs we've got policeman who's salaries have recently been cut starting salaries they now start on nineteen thousand pounds a year similarly with soldiers who start on over seventeen just over seventeen thousand pounds per year so you've got frontline jobs that carry risks to your life the people protecting the safety of british citizens that are being paid less than somebody who's serving coffee to politicians doesn't seem very sad to a lot of the british public well certainly doesn't seem fair i mean you have these guys who are against protecting the alertness of the u.k. lawmakers but tell me polly i mean i would be pretty upset if i was risking my life

for the u.k. public and i was making less than essentially a coffee server what has been the reaction from the police for example who who are in fact risking their lives much more than these this new job would be. well the police federation often you know they represent the serving police officers in the u.k. and they often lament the fact that crippling austerity measures are really affecting first of all the way the police has to police the streets and how they work they affect now the safety of britishness is that as they say but also the way that police officers live because they have crippling salary cuts and they have to live or need a wage is a lot of police officers took to twitter today and one of the police federation representatives took to twitter today to ask where they could apply for such a nice job in parliament because it's obviously a lot safer and it's paying more than some of the frontline police offices but i spoke to the former editor of the police tribute to find out what the morale is

like among the police officers amidst these revelations. from amongst police officers don't you because of these talks on their pay and conditions that pensions and then they find out as you say the politicians who could like the rest of us make coffee themselves and let's not let's remember the coffee they have will be heavily subsidized boy the toughest part is we understand more police officers are up in arms about this latest discovery heavily subsidized indeed but ok polly help me understand this i mean we have seen major across the board public sector cuts in the u.k. and then somehow there's enough money to pay for expensive baristas i mean how are lawmakers actually going to justify this to the public. well of course the conservative party has tried very hard in the past to try and shake off this image

of being out of touch with ordinary brits who are undergoing crippling austerity measures a lot of people's wages being either frozen or slashed just like the police officers and this. hiring a barista for over twenty thousand pounds a year to make them fancy coffee isn't going down so well with the ordinary public we hit the streets of london a little bit earlier to find out whether people in london think that someone who serves coffee to politicians should be making more money than a front line police officer let's take a look at my coffee twenty grand rounds of commons where do. you think it's all just get us from washington research coffee give me. your probably no so searching tonight again tonight is basically you can be going because they're just being ridiculous and advertisers should be ashamed of themselves for doing so. so as you can see the british public not very impressed and

a lot of critics say that it's almost the or diversity with which the house of commons advertised this job in the north mary evening paper one that brits perhaps struggling with austerity measures are going to pick up on their way home from a tough day at work that shows just how out of touch the politicians are with the problems of ordinary brits and of course a lot of critics saying that with austerity measures really biting for a lot of people in the u.k. the politicians could have made do with a kettle of boiling water and some instant coffee well meanwhile the rest of us are going to have to having to fix our own coffee thank you so much our t. is probably boy go filling us in on this very bizarre scandal out of the u.k. . all right well the headquarters of an israeli football team known for its hostility to muslim players has been badly damaged in an arson attack the fingers are pointed the science only ranks over who's responsible on our website we've got

the whole story for you as well as further reports on how the beautiful game is becoming wrapped up in israeli arab tension. but also online for you we've got a key document in russia's recent history disappearing the accord declaring the soviet union's breakup vanishes in bella ruse sparking theories about the may stand to make a fortune. scuffles have broken out between former political prisoners and supporters of president saakashvili in the georgian capital of tbilisi the violence erupted asuka's freely was going to deliver his annual state of the nation speech now the president was

forced to change the venue for the address several times at the country's parliament to accuse or provide a platform even listen to him either in a new sign perhaps of his waning power held in the west as an exemplary democratic ruler saakashvili in last popular support as a result of his crackdown on the opposition and claims of human rights abuses are. reports from georgia has performed miracles we moved from being a failed state will be one of the top business nations in the world while. according to the world bank number one fighter with corruption worldwide demand few people started to believe in the stations people started to believe them or pursue because it is giorgio. really a beacon of democracy and freedom not from your gaze viewpoint when he's universities rectory refused to build a prayer room he helped organize a ten thousand strong peaceful student rally but it ended with his arrest and

sentence of four and a half yes behind bars. guards could just walk into our cell and start beating us for no reason the even put twenty year old students in wheelchairs and prison one of the inmates went insane because they showed him footage of how his wife was being raped. your he thought he was spending his time with murderers and drug barons instead he found himself among academics architects and right all jailed for having a different opinion to the country's leadership. works as an advisor to the minister of the penitentiary system and used to be classmates with saakashvili she believes the astonishing number of prisoners in georgia during his reign was to a large extent personally driven. which is what he had often been joked at in school he directed his revenge against his former classmates when he became president most of them were either stripped of their businesses are put to prison in his presidency we've had twenty five thousand people in jail. shocking video of

prisoner abuse in georgia in jails went viral and effectively diminished the president's party support by more than a half inch lost both election and control over the country it's not yet known where the second city will face prosecution of the prison geishas for two hundred political prisoners the change of power meant the charm for wall street because saakashvili will formally remain as georgia's president until october but he's already been transferred to the prime minister has already declared a national wide amnesty of political prisoners but experts say there was socialisation may take several more years. reporting from belief in georgia. some other international news in brief now. a suicide bomber has blown himself up near a security checkpoint in the city of galle in northern mali no casualties have been reported except for the bomber himself it's the first case of such a suicide attack since french troops entered the country the north of which was

taken over by islamist extremists friends now once you and peacekeepers to take over security there as it prepares to end its mission. a series of car bombs in iraq of killed at least thirty six people marketplaces were attacked in the capital baghdad killing at least seventeen meanwhile at least fourteen more had died after cars exploded in the halo province an hour later targeting busy city areas and friday's has become a common terror tactics with the insurgents in iraq. now the clock is counting down one year to the sochi winter olympics have started taking work at the russian resort city is stepping up the pace organizers say that final touches are being made in preparation for one of the world's biggest and most prestigious sporting events r.t.s. andrew former isn't so sure discover what the guests are likely to find there and how the city marked the start of the countdown. six years of relentless construction i think she's entering the final home straight in terms of getting

prepared for these games last night some are. down there was a lavish ceremony here. there were fireworks there's also a spectacular skating show that took place in the bolshoi that was all very impressive. switched on across russia if you're a fan take his have gone on sale now the cheapest one you can pick up is something like fifteen dollars and if you're rich or you fancy a bit of cash you can pick up a ticket to watch the i mean ceremony for something like fifteen hundred dollars i have been here for the last few days and have been very impressed with what i've seen most of the sporting venues are now up and running and that is staggering considering most of them had to be built from scratch there was one area of concern and that was the ski jumping center up in the mountains they are slightly behind and also over budget and that still present. a senior member of the russian olympic committee yesterday but overall the message is very positive this is in the daily and i mean i'm just make from the black sea here people were swimming in there just

minutes ago i was fifteen degrees these will be the first olympics that will be held in the subtropical climate and if you're coming here to watch in sport you will thoroughly enjoy simply because it's so easy to get around the olympic park is extremely compact which means you can walk around all the venues there within about twenty minutes which feasibly means you could watch something not killing all the skating events and then if you want to see on the second day you could get on a train and within thirty minutes you'd be up in the mountains to watch the alpine events. stay with us cross talk with peter lavelle is coming right up.

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