i. was. it's revealed the european commission gave up on legislation which would have protected its citizens from the secret american surveillance program exposed by cia whistleblower washington reportedly lobbied europe hard for access. to the prime minister's deadline for an end to public protests looms in turkey with murder one threatening an even harder response despite accusations that police have already resorted to one precedented brutality. and a mass media strike is underway in greece where unions are protesting the shutdown of the state broadcaster as part of a cost cutting program. there

it's good to have you company you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow our top story the european commission failed to put in place laws which would have protected the data of its citizens from america's spying i think came as a surprise to many in europe that the u.s. secret global surveillance program exposed by cia whistleblower edward snowden was watching them to washington had reportedly lobbied hard for access and they are a spokes person for the european commissioner for justice says not enough protection is in place there are two tracks we're working on to enforce data protection within the european union the one track is our negotiation for an e.u. us data protection agreement which has been working with the americans now for two years and where at this issue of access requests to data of european citizens has been involved constantly for the past two years the second issue. the proposed you

data protection reform that applies to the european union which was give us the right rules for the digital age because today's law dates back to pretty internet times in one thousand five the current law on the table beefs up the protections for citizens and european union because it makes clear for the very first time that also u.s. companies will have to play by the european rules if they want to offer their services to european consumers and the prism scandal shows very well why data protection is not a luxury but it's a necessity and it's high time that we move up a gear that member states move up a gear in order to agree what on what has been on the table now since eighteen months. well following edward snowden's disclosures online users became acutely aware of just exactly how closely they are being watched in that spot to search for ways to get around the system and kate their web surfing private portnoy has this report. america's national security elektra next available programming known as

prism has no doubt ignited global outrage however the pervasive top secret spying system approved and allowed by the obama administration also appears to be motivating journalists and average internet users to immigrate over to the deep web where the national security agency's all mighty virtual reach purports to be powerless whether users can break out of prison by opting out of apple's safari and skype and switching over to alternative proprietary software that's anonymous not indexed and leaves no cyber footprint given president obama's indefinite war on whistleblowers and the justice department's recent a.p. and fox news scandals experts say that now is the time for journalists most importantly to learn how to scramble their phones and dive into the n.s.a. free deep web and then from there to the regular and. where you're coming from.

and everything you are doing or you. think. the road is being encrypted. it really should be thinking this way now if you google. how we can first and foremost. the electronic frontier foundation has published an online guide indicating a significant amount of ways in which people can opt out of prison the fact is also one of eighty six organizations that are demanding for legislators to to move. curtail the n.s.a.'s programs now civil rights advocates are encouraging individuals to join that call by signing up at stop watching dot us as of when state evening that website had garnered sixty four thousand signatures reporting from new york marina port ny and r.t.

. for more on edward snowden's revelations on the consequences we are joined by marjorie cohen a professor of law at the thomas jefferson school of law thank you very much for coming on the save me now that the whole world is discussing the american spying machine but edward snowden is no insights at the moment what you think is next for the whistleblower well why don't you want to three things could happen basically and here you the u.s. authorities could go to hong kong to interrogate him the hong kong authorities could extradite him to the united states in response to a an american request for extradition or the hong kong hong kong would actually give him asylum the other possibility is that he could leave and go somewhere else i think russia has offered him asylum he says according to recent news reports that he's going to stay in hong kong that he's not hiding but he is in evidently

a safe house an undisclosed location so we'll just have to see certainly criminal number one to the american government right now and they are scrambling to try to do damage control based upon his revelations and what could they charge him with . they could charge him under the espionage act which is the crime that they have charged bradley manning with and the obama administration has charged six people under the espionage act more than all prior u.s. presidents combined if he is convicted under the espionage act edward snowden could get the death penalty or certainly life in prison so it could be very very serious for him or snowden has said he he could leave hong kong but he hasn't and he is putting his faith in the local rule of law do you think that's a wise decision it's hard for me to say there are

a lot of politics involved this is not just a legal issue certainly the relationship between china and hong kong the relationship between china and the united states its will play into it edward snowden has recently said i think in the last day or two that he has information showing that the united states is hacking into government communications in hong kong and china so that could also if that's true or if it could be shown to be true that could certainly upset china and hong kong in terms of cooperation with the united states on the other hand there is a question recent to have closer relationships between the united states and china so it's very it's still a very fluid situation we don't know which way it's going to go do you think china more try new snowden is a bit of leverage i mean they've got

a trump card up their sleeve haven't i. they could they could and as i said certainly this is not just a legal issue it's also a very political issue. and one who knows it's china has been can and has been criticized by the u.s. government for interfering with people's ability to communicate freely on the internet freedom of speech freedom of expression so this this puts china in a very very interesting position these have be the u.s. government and why do you think this is provoked such outrage because the majority of u.s. citizens a law abiding citizen so what have i got to be afraid of from a surveillance scheme like this while there are two different programs one of them that was revealed by snowden is that the the a secret fisa court in the united states has ordered arisan to turn over

to the national security agency all telephone calls all records of telephone calls that anyone makes either americans or people in other countries they don't have to be americans this is under the patriot act they say they're not looking at the content of these phone calls and less they get a court order but they're looking at data such as who's calling who's being called what time of day what location how long the call is other individual characteristics to try to detect patterns basically racial. profiling not racial but profiling but no individualized suspicion is necessary to collect all this data but even if you're not involved in any terrorism in the overwhelming majority of people in the world or not i mean tiny tiny little fraction of people are involved in so-called terrorism. this patterning this

profiling could be used to show that you contacted a gay rights hotline an abortion clinic it could be a very big depression hotline that could be edited even without without listening to the content of the communication and then the other program prism which gets data from google facebook yahoo microsoft skype a.o.l. you tube i don't know how journalists are going to protect themselves completely from all of these internet companies that are turning over data to the national security agency but this is supposed to just be aimed at foreigners but americans who make telephone calls e-mail abroad can also be swept up in it so i think that america come out depending on how you ask the questions and majority of americans do not want their own privacy invaded even though they are not involved

in any kind of what is the perception then of president obama at the moment in america given that this is come on the back of bradley manning's trial and also the fact that we've now found that that a.p. journalists were actually bugged by the government was the perception of a bomb in the u.s. well a very recent poll shows that a majority of americans do not think that obama is protecting civil liberties sufficiently and so whereas obama has been very popular for a long time especially among democrats but in general among americans that seems to be eroding a bit with all of this publish that the people are very very upset about interference with privacy and this really is a question of privacy ok thank you very much for your thoughts we do have to leave it there that's marjorie cohn professor of law live from san diego thank you thank you and your. do remember all the latest updates

on the n.s.a. scandal along with international reaction and analysis are available for you on our web site. called. the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are today. as turkish riot police lash to protest as yet again we have live comment and analysis on where the a message is heading next after vial threats from the prime minister right off this bright.

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back a man who had been on life support for days after reportedly being hit in the head by a police gas canister has become the fifth fatality of the crackdown on public protests in turkey on wednesday the country's prime minister says a twenty four hour deadline for an end to demonstrations and he stumbled on the capital that runs i had in the coming hours and he has this report. actually have seen the largest number of crackdowns than any other city in turkey for the past two weeks the wednesday was kind of the repetition of what happened before was the real people have diverged from a group of protesters who were there initially and weird off towards the u.s. embassy where police have used tear gas and rubber bullets against them to it's quash the momentum of the protests that has been happening in ancora obviously this is the capital that's where the seat of the government is though does look like this is the main cause for the police brutality that we're seeing there people from all walks of life having to have been arrested or somehow receive representation for their participation in the protests which everyone said will have to be over

within twenty four hours at this point the protesters have to pack up their tents and abandon gezi park they were offered to carry out a referendum but of course the people out on the street said that is a joke that one kind of a friend could possibly talk about when we have already made it clear that we want the park to stay and they want to go. along said during the meeting with representatives of the protest movement although even within the people out in the park or there is an increasing feeling that the people who are actually meeting with their no one don't really represent them like the people have only been camping out there for weeks there seem to be some sort of dialogue which obviously seems to have led nowhere several lawyers have been arrested for protesting the police crackdown on tuesday which have been in istanbul force they're. also going to the streets protesting those arrests as well saying that this is no kind of democracy where people can be arrested just for supporting a cause and to go even further than that we have to remember that there are several

channels in turkey which have been fined for showing the brutal police crackdown on taksim square on tuesday so this again goes in with one of the major grievances the protesters have with everyone and that is his suppression of free speech and a real crackdown on the on various media outlets in the country by the. doesn't seem like it's going to end anytime soon the protesters that we have spoken to insist that they will stay here until their demands are met and everyone obviously doesn't seem like he is going to budge so we're in for a rather tense situation here in turkey. is one of the protesters and she told r.t. the brutal action of the police and the government's demands leave no room for compromise i don't see it and all of a sudden the twenty four hours just because prime minister willing so he has been actually talking about this for the press to extend one of the protests as one of the original purchase it from gas supplier has left the park i think it's all i

have to do with the police for the past few weeks once the police were to get from jackson square there was no violence it was very peaceful it was very cheerful and in fact the park itself almost like i said feeling to it but as soon as the police was back let's came back to the part came back to the area around the park i don't think the government is taking it seriously and so i don't want is blaming everything that's been happening on the protesters economy is getting affected by the fact that for some sectors getting active and the fact that a truck is getting a bad effect by the protesters and he is just so it's possible figure for all of this and i'm just really afraid not to compromise or any other kind of is going to be on the table any time soon well let's discuss this further with suffolk poverty she is a to diplomat and a member of the republican people's party thank you very much for joining us this evening the deadline set by prime minister is looming what do you expect will

happen if it's not met. this is this is a big concern for us as well i mean just two nights ago there we had been there just do a human shield for the protesters who are peaceful and and have no arms whatsoever but we were exposed to the same violence same terror gas same. very heavy crackdown that went on twenty four hours ago and last night the same thing happened you know. so we are we are waiting with concern and we are trying to protect the peaceful protesters who are being exposed along with along with foreign journalists along with everyone else students lawyers we are all exposed to the same violence so i met i am alive witness to it as well. we are very concerned not only about the heavy crackdown that may follow the prime minister's words today

and the government's signals on it. but also that which. may follow everything else in the long run. we are very concerned for it in an attempt to resolve the situation the government has proposed a referendum on the demolition of a daisy park is that than anything to calm the situation that is that is definitely show power and just like the rallies that are coming up this weekend that a.k.p. is pulling together i think this is just the threat the minority tree mind. can crush them any time with is really just for this it. helps to keep. their votes in his hands and supporters however one thing that he's missing is that democracy is not about the popular vote that he gains or the government gains from religious populism and nationalism it's about participation by everyone

and can you explain exactly what it is that people are upset about because we have heard reports that they're not happy with the prime minister's internal and foreign policies can you tell us a bit more. about general policies you mean is about three what are the main concerns why the people in the streets protesting this evening if you asked them what would they tell you well i am really observing here a cultural clash this is this is at the end of the day this is an echo of insults by the government about like states or people whoever is wasn't in the way and it being in the way that they the government wanted to. they started calling them in morals in. the whole links. and on this. global so people are just very fed up about this in involved foreign policy the address of foreign policy off of the government. into these sectarian

tendencies these are very very very. for for some layer of the society as well i think therefore therefore these areas that varies and overall when you think about it this is at the end of the day for the trees it started and all together with the three trees already cut down there are about forty seven trees in the park and we still haven't heard the magical words to bring down the tension in the country which would be we're not going to cut down your trees and we're not going to do that which. you have mentioned some of the issues and they are pretty broad but don't these people have any political representation calm politics resolve or do they really believe this is their only solution to go out onto the streets and demonstrate this is i would like to draw your attention in my eyes this is actually not a political show now this is a social explosion it's

a cultural clash i believe is faring much related to secularism being on the threats in turkey so this is this is in. the class i mean it is that you was protecting the part but it struck the government's response on them as something in the society that is about secular we mun standing against you know journalists who has been exposed as been shut down there is not freedom of press in turkey about lawyers who have been just arrested hundreds of them guessed that they. which was followed by the push of the society they were released but one final question because we are running out of time a little bit but your party do nothing to help these people or do you feel as voiceless is that you know we are trying you know we are trying while parliament is very much it's exactly how the minorities are feeling in the in that we feel in the parliaments front of

a majority in bloc. we we are completely bypassed in the parliament but we called for the leaders' meeting yesterday for instance which was turned down by the president. we want to find a solution to this but it is the government constantly threatens the society with its hope for their faults and support in the country that has them that has. the magical words of all to bring down the tension which we have which they are not doing instead of that word of compassion comes at the same time with tear gas forms and plastic well it's. thousands of people and we already lost people including a police officer so we are currently what we are trying to do is is to protect these protesters and in the in force whatever we doing is actually to define against this religious populism we're trying to defend the universally

defined life rights and freedoms are worth living and worth protecting ok we do have to leave it there but thank you very much for coming on to r.t. in expressing your feelings us. diplomat a member of the republican people's party thank you you thank. well as we've just heard from our guest police have been raining tear gas down on protesters and they have got a plentiful supply with imports of the chemicals having increased fifty fold over the past decade. the possible long term effects of the so-called normally thaw gases. and all too familiar sight for many europeans and your stereotype protests in greece spain. and germany. gay marriage demonstrations in france and now antigovernment protests in turkey whatever the occasion these european governments tear gas is the answer here gas

was invented in part to shut people up in thinking about you know this is where where communication meets politics we're talking about a technology a weapon that actually inhibits people from being able to speak that enters into the throat that enters into the lungs that forces people to kind of disperse so it is actually a technology that is the complete opposite of what freedom of assembly and freedom of speech look like vision of a convention perhaps it's the use of tear gas in international war and yet it's perfectly legal to use against civilian populations the problem with all of these agents is there talk system in the long term effects are worked out primarily on sort of if you like primary jihad old males and we know very well that the d.c.s. and there's other gases affects differentially people all people who are pregnant people who are sick and children the past eighty years have seen reports of lost

eyes cranial damage and even death as a result of tear gas canisters it's still somehow legal somehow ok for companies manufacturing tear gas to call themselves non-lethal meanwhile the canisters come with labels on them that say this is deadly this could be deadly and how is that even ok you see the tear gas being used increasingly being extensively particularly because of the intense civil unrest which is developing across europe as a result of the economic crises you see if you greece and see it in in spades. it's not just what's been happening in turkey the. weapons which are inevitably the weapons of. a regime which is attempting to suppress the. purchase of people behind these gates is where it all began at the porton down military research base in england's rural will show c.s.

gas was developed and tested is secretly in the one nine hundred fifty s. since then it's become a profitable industry sold to police forces the world over in the form of tear gas and pepper spray in the past four years britain has sold almost as much tear gas to europe as it has to the middle east so it's a weapon system manufactured by number of companies or for those companies it's obviously experience profitable to be to be selling the more civil unrest the more shoes the more the selling of the more money that make america what we would size arms to use that profit must never ever ever come before human rights so what we really need is governments to ensure that when the last thing the stuff by all stopping distances of any two gas supplies are ready to swear there is a clear risk as in the case currently in turkey that goes back to. the suppression of if human rights westminster is currently reviewing the export

licenses to turkey in light of the istanbul disturbances but for those worried about it seen creasing use c.s. gas is merely a symptom of more fundamental issues surrounding democracy in europe why are there so many people dissenting right now why is it that we've had such a breakdown in supposedly democratic countries that we can no longer have any kind of mediation or dialogue with their population what kinds of failures of representative government are we seen that that where we go is should we poison them with tear gas or should we what take out machine guns and tanks against them what happened to all the other range of things that exist between having a conversation and poison in a population party boy kerry. london. meanwhile mass protests are taking place in greece after the government pulled state t.v. and radio off air as part of its cost cutting drive leaving more than two and a half thousand people without jobs labor unions launched

a twenty four hour strike which has been joined by various members of the greek media greek state t.v. went live again though today after broadcasters across europe stepped in to try and keep the r.t. on their geneva based european broadcasting you took the feed from a studio in thessaloniki and retransmitted it back to greek homes over satellite meanwhile mass rallies are taking place in a number of greek cities. of the r.t. triggered a result of the ruling coalition with the prime minister's ally securities they were consulted we are now joined live by all the lynn are the two who used to work at r.t. state t.v. is a chief editor of foreign news desk thank you very much for your time in athens at the moment can you tell us how people are reacting to the axing of the state t.v. broadcast. well they are very they're very confused they're very angry it was an actual that they didn't wait. to how. it was it was you know

very very up in the morning to have a national television and on tuesday at twelve midnight everything went black everything went out when we were all there because we were broadcasting what is happening and they're all of us and then i was sitting down and was a lot of. people out. here in greece but they are very angry also the very disappointed that the greeks that they live abroad because here is a big organizations that's true and if you're going to zation that speaks also to the heads of the greeks that are around the world and we have many many thousands of greeks many millions of greeks that live in germany in australia in the united states of america you know in zambia and. the only voice that they had so good to hear what is happening in greece was the r.t. you say it's a crucial voice but the government has condemned the network hasn't it is being inefficient and far too costly would you argue with that. no no

i wouldn't say that the earth he has has a lot of problems and i would say that many of the problems that he has some point with corruption had to do with the government over the years over thirty years every government of greece head tried to manipulate tried to have a say in the national television of greece and that shouldn't happen so yes he has problems and he should be as big. as this problem can be fixed but i believe that that should happen with a mere all skin team and with any of these things on their own people can you see in every corner of greece where they cannot see any other television any private sphere vision they can see only the national television channels and all the efforts to have better national television in greece as there is therefore

to have a better greece after the financial crisis it should be done with the national television challenge to open but the government does face incredibly difficult decisions doesn't it doesn't it make more sense to cut by slashing media as opposed to more crucial social such as such as health for health care or perhaps education for example. yes. greece is easier in. and the government is under great pressure. to meet its commitments a commitment that this case throughout the troika. so we are finding and saves leaving in a european country by using some. of our rights by the way i understand that that's has to happen at some point to some rights but not their right of free it's a case of the right of public a public television i believe that we should be able to keep those rights in greece

just one last question do you think there's a chance the channel will reopen. i find it very very difficult we try to more of the president and the general secretary of the european broadcasting cuneo is coming to greece and to find a legal way so that he can remain open but i find it very difficult because it was . the government's decision and i find it very difficult that they can take this this isn't back i hope i hope that they take it. with the option that they will reform. i hope that tomorrow they will say ok we are to remain so open minded with real reform with us we are ok all right well thank you very much for coming on to r.t. this evening and explaining your point of view that so the in order to reform the chief editor on the foreign news desk of the next yard to state i tell you thank

you i thank you very much thank you. meanwhile greece has been downgraded from a developed economy to one of the so-called emerging markets by morgan stanley but governments making big mistakes are still managing to profit from it suggests max carr is in his late to show you next hour here's a sneak peek. economic theory of hoops most. creates expensive facts on the ground and normalizes what otherwise would have been willingly accepted by citizens and consumers a complete rubbish many new markets are opened and toll booths erected by those with the connections to get away with. my bad economics is too bad for everyone else let's move on to another giant story many have covered this but it's interesting to compare it to the whole global financial and banking system banker

falls asleep on keyboard at work accidently transfers two hundred ninety three million dollars a german bank employee was supposed to transfer just sixty two point forty euros from a bank account belonging to a retiree but instead fell asleep for an instant while pushing on to the number two on the keyboard making it a huge two two two two two two two two year order. spends more to come here in r.t. including iran is up to elect its new president we examined a race which pays the desire for reform against a strict adherence to traditional values that he's coming up plus plenty more after a quick break. well. technology innovation all the developments from

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orleans there are suggestions up to seven people were killed and dozens more injured the blast led to a mass evacuation and locals have been advised to keep their windows shut this comes if you remember last until months less than two months after a similar incident in texas where an explosion and fire at a fertilizer plant killed fifteen people almost two more hundred more were injured the explosion also left one hundred fifty buildings destroyed or damaged the plant in the city of waco reportedly had not been inspected for almost three decades and had been violating safety regulations authorities have launched a criminal investigation however the course is yet another. and artie dot com is following events in louisiana you can find a complete timeline on our web site and also. don't know what you got till it's gone former u.s. president george bush wins the hearts of americans for years after leaving office.

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presidential elections still here are looking like it usually does busy to be that people have a traffic it's barely noticeable but iran is a special moment it's history you will not see many better as the posters in iran ahead of the country's eleventh presidential vote but that's not because the off the beaten the way people vote in the run is significantly different from what western people used to experience. if people see a campaign poster to start thinking as they spend lots of money on that where does it all come from and they will draw the conclusion that someone a bank or an organization funds to candidates and that means when a candidate takes power feel will have to give back the money because he will hold them and with such strings attached you'll be never free people will never vote for a politician like that one. but the reason we for candidates to run most cost grassroots space going to change with people handing out flyers advertising different political problem sad that some voices to complain the place obstacles in

which in a larger public intellectual peoples who have the right access to internal things more than twelve million people learn no using the internet so. it is much easier to communicate with. but the people in more rural areas we need more more trying to get through them this is the. weak point of. this year for the first time ever iran had live t.v. debates between candidates for months to face something internal and external criticism but big decisions maintained that despite real need for iran you know it's still better to give it a try it's the rather than just the name today we're told is the presidential legs above from thirty years ago three decades so you know we had the monarch in the middle so it's. all new so we are learning and trying to.

make better and better every year iran is one of the people he's learning states of the world follow in a muslim dominated traditional guidelines is also essential to the meaning hearts and minds of the voters to his jaw up a candidate who cannot go against their religious or cultural tradition that they cannot change the way women where he jobs and asked for taboos on foreign policy issues you cannot come out and say your run will become a friend of the us or israel mohamad says these restrictions are aimed at protecting the national character of the elections and have to deal with considerable pressure from outside the country you cannot go against values even democratic countries can do that but perhaps if we weren't under so much pressure from foreign countries that only wanted to change the government of iran our campaign that you had not told me her heart of five of the politicians become more and more distressed people because the gap is wider and wider and whole election is not more and more like

a warning about the new this is why i was in the debate that the protests that followed the two thousand and nine elections to freshen the memory of many iranians during the unrest between thirty and seventy people were killed hundreds others injured thousands arrested after people states trailways calling into question asked me just victory with a majority of sixty percent may think less people will go to the polls this year as the fear of violence but the number of those who is to consider the election a positive development is just as significant as the miniature nino's law makes a note saudi arabia nor could they ever have elections like in those countries it's more like someone has appointed them to account for the outside to the actions in iran may seem unusual but different medically from what's come to be the norm in the west that if you look closely you can see a picture that is familiar in many countries that public divide is in who they want to offend and forced to make the tough decision. they feel should not seem to have

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hello. thanks for watching us this evening and now it's time to take a quick look at some other news happening around the world this hour somewhere around ninety three more than seventeen hundred children among them have been killed since the beginning of the civil war in syria united nations estimate although it's reported mit's the real figure could be an early un study described the level of killing as unbearable and suggested both sides use children as a mainstay of war the conflict began in twenty eleven when president bashar assad

refused demands to step down. in afghanistan six policemen have been shot dead at a checkpoint in the country's southeast suspected that see with their colleagues who are missing may have killed them and fled if proven it would be the latest in a series of so-called insider attacks where taliban insurgents infiltrate the security services. two trains have collided in suburbia in suburban point is aries killing at least three passengers and injuring over two hundred more the accident happened when one train slammed into the back of the other the railing some of the carriages the collision occurred on the same line of which fifty one people died in an accident last year we while the french railway system has been crippled by workers strike up to seventy percent of train services are expected to be cancelled until friday the strike was triggered by plans to reorganize the state owned train operators which protesters fear would lead to job cuts this just

a day after air traffic controllers walked out leaving thousands of flights grounded artie's katie pilbeam now tallies up the financial damage. for the holiday industry these strikes are nothing short of a night smash the europe which is in the middle of a financial crisis right now it is a paper money making season on the chance to billions of euros from terrorism these strikes coincide with the commission of a transportation calling for foster cost cutting plans as inefficient says in europe as space also cost lines and customers five billion euros undulate donal's those of flights have been delayed or cancelled as a result of the backlash to new e.u. traffic control rules and passengers will be expecting their hard earned cash back so i asked an aviation expert who is the most affected is certainly passengers will suffer a lot they will likely receive any of their recompense station from the airlines

because consolations not to do different kinds of fault of airlines the subject of the fault of air traffic controllers and so airlines will not have to compensate. you know amounts which are prescribed by the law at best what they will receive is accommodation on later flights and estimation of the personal cost of the passengers who have to sit for two or three days at the airport some of them bill wait that whole side of them will be booked immediately or some of them go wait for four of equal maybe that is very hard to calculate and another big loser of course is going to be airlines and the airlines are extremely unfair to you about this situation because they are losing directly revenue so during those days the. airlines are not going to be operating guns on rescheduling air passengers a later time so despite the air traffic controllers strike coming to an end the economic impact set to continue so as the peak of the summer begins so does the

chaos. i'm with the e.u.'s financial policy still the target of anger in the country's worst hit by the crisis the president of europe's central bank receives a responsible leadership award artie's peter all of a look at some interesting timing. when it comes to words to describe the state of europe's finances stability and responsibility hardly the first that you would go for however the housing stock the european school of management and technology for awarding the european central bank president mario draghi they're responsible leadership award now all of this comes against the backdrop of the european security mechanism described by some as the only way to keep the eurozone together well that's going to be debated in the highest court in the land here in germany to decide whether it's even legal in the first place and in cyprus well the european central bank could be facing

a lawsuit there m.p.'s want to see them in the dock and perhaps even mario druggy himself over what they see as the it was sponsible handling of the financial crisis in that country which sold billions of euros. given the green light to be given to one of the country's failing banks and which seems in the long run to have made the financial crisis there even worse so the decision has been made mario draghi receives the responsible leadership award to talk a little bit more about this i'm joined by. one of the candidates for the for germany party and coming up in this year's election so what do you make of the decision to give the the gong for responsible leadership mario draghi i don't know what is the reason why he gave this prize to to mario draghi but i think it's something like we've seen before hand these prices given for you. and for the same non-mason it's all of that yes and i think this is the new one step by step markets to prove that they definitely don't know and you don't know what to do

and then they start getting crisis which i don't which is ridiculous stuart for alternative for germany thank you very much for speaking to me so mario draghi picks up the award for responsible leadership in europe despite the current state of the europe's find of europe's finances. coming up to eleven o'clock here in moscow i'm back with more news for you in the company.

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prime minister's deadline for an end to public protests looms in turkey with threatening an even harder response despite accusations that police have already resorted to unprecedented brutality. is repealed the european commission gave up on legislation which would have protected its citizens from the secret american surveillance program exposed by cia whistleblower washington reportedly lobbied europe hard to access. the mass media strike is underway in greece where unions are protesting the shutdown of the state broadcaster as part of a cost cutting program.