riots broke brazil almost a million protesters vent their anger at the government in major cities across the country with a teenager becoming the first fatality of riots that show no sign of abating. the french are getting increasingly frustrated with the european union recent polls with you know over sixty percent believe the clock is going in the wrong direction . president putin announces an unprecedented two hundred seventy billion dollar deal with china russia planning a massive boost to its oil exports to the country.

will cost a lot from moscow this is our cost. the mass unrest in brazil has turned deadly nineteen year old demonstrator has died in a state of power after a car crashed through a barricade what started as a rally over transport snowballed into a million strong protest engulfing more than one hundred cities across the country . thousand police officers have been deployed to read internet at a football match and activists attempted to advance the city hall they were met with tear gas and rubber bullets in dozens injured crowds gathered in the capital brasilia receive the same response from authorities for instance doing cancel the trip to japan in light of the violence. enough no miracles. hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets all over brazil in an unprecedented public protest there are just four. bhalo with tear gas has been fired at protesters who

tried to take over the local government's building in the capital. clashes have erupted when riot police faced off with protesters trying to break through towards the congress in rio de janeiro local police resorted to give gas to disperse crowds marching towards city hall police say some three hundred thousand people have rallied but organizers claim it's twice as many there are reports that around thirty people have been injured earlier around eight thousand security officers have been deployed near the city stadium ahead of time for the ration scottish football match between the spanish and haiti football teams such rallies are believed to be the most violent in a decade the protesters say they're angry at the government's excessive spending for the two thousand and fourteen world cup and another point of discontent is the increase of public transport fees in several brazilian cities the country's health authorities later reversed their decision to increase the first but this doesn't

seem to have a peace demonstrators they say they are also angry over the underfunded health care and education systems the unrest come six months ahead of elections in brasil and as we can see there are plenty of complaints to worst president dilma rousseff government the protesters say they will remain until they see change and promise a fresh wave of rallies to take place for the next days. times correspondent babus the brazilian protests are partly the result of global social inequality it's the same fight in spain in portugal in many countries i guess we'll liberal this spec city you know the kingdom of the one percent the washington consensus that grows in g.d.p. that doesn't take into account what girls own in everyday life in terms of people

try to struggle to in the case of a poor brazilians. like door and ask for. dollar said they. are and if they are less than three hundred dollars a month an absolute disaster for our part to go two hours to come back so i think themselves the political elites. everybody still following the washington consensus and it's still listening and even dare old the way you old bull protesting against economic foundations of our system that's why this is so huge. well russia signed off a massive deal with china to supply of oil worth two hundred seventy billion dollars that's what president putin has announced as he addressed the business at the annual international economic forum in st petersburg nazis' oleksiak cesky is

there and joins us live now alexia give us the details. well it's no secret to anyone that russia and china have been very close together recently and with the trade turnover expanding every year but what we're looking at here and that has been confirmed announced by president putin is a totally unprecedented oil deal in the history of the two countries just listen to the figures here over the next twenty five years the russian oil giant will supply the chinese got oil monopolists c. and b. c. with three hundred sixty million gallons of oil the project which is estimated at roughly two hundred seventy billion dollars of course there are some technicalities left to be resolved and particularly like construction and here is how the russian president explained things to come and technicalities which still need to be resolved. the new pipeline to infrastructure in the forest where the string two

words china to its sea terminals the pursuit for it will allow was to implement large scale projects in the ation pacific this infrastructure was already given the chance to sign today a large scale contract with the chinese national oil and gas corporation. supply for twenty five year to forty six million. and next it is also been some good news for business in russia tell us more about that. while the president also spoke about his views. how the economy washer must be reformed several infrastructural projects worth up to one trillion rubles but clearly the most important news announced by the president was that he asked this stadium of the russian parliament to as quickly as possible before the summer vacation to implementing new law providing amnesty for those who committed acknowledged crimes

for the first time and those who will be willing to make amends for the crimes they committed this means that many of those who were convicted for economic crimes will walk free if the state duma will pass this a law one of the topics of course also discussed at the economic forum here in st petersburg russia can help the eurozone crisis but that we expected to hear during the joint press conference between. the german chancellor angela merkel which is due to start in about two hours from now of course we'll be broadcasting this live on r.t.e. stay tuned for more interesting news coming here from st petersburg economic forum ok thanks very much indeed. now the e.u. is heading in the wrong direction more europeans are feeling according to recent polls and it's fronts the blocs founding member and traditional driving force where disenchantment with the united europe is rising. well let's have

a look at some of the figures nearly two thirds of french people questioned by gallup this month said they were unhappy with where the is taking them. concerned by the rise of germany as a political force and feel that brussels has mishandled europe's financial crisis and also soaring unemployment is fueling french your skepticism it comes as president francois loans approval rating plummeted almost two fold since he took the top job last year fifty eight percent to thirty two percent well french far right political leader marine le pen says france needs an open debate on its relations with the e.u. . but the boat. first of all you need to understand the french do not really talk about this both e.u. and the euro a common currency virtually imposed on us i religiously defended here or in other words there is no diversity of opinion the more anything you say against the euro dollars will be equal to blasphemy what i'm asking for is a referendum paulse are

a good thing but i do remember the polls promised that when asked about the european constitution france would vote for it at the end of the day fifty five percent of french citizens said no to the constitution that's why we need a wide public debate a referendum to ask the people what they think about full border transparency with the shrinking countries and about this currency that killed our economy we need to ask them how come the e.u. guidelines are more important than our own constitution which in shrines the will of a sovereign nation these essential topics are yet to become subject to public debate in france and i'm sure that if they were discussed today the french would opt for freedom. paris and brussels or experience some friction recently the european commission angering the present on its list of reforms proposed for france what is called a political analyst from the french side contrabands says many in his country feel

it's the e.u. itself that needs to change. i think there are so you could list a lot of arguments against the you could say that it's not really did look to because the e.u. divisions under elected by the by the european citizens stupid say that it's too expensive because some member states give a little credit to the e.u. budget that don't receive as much money and whether the euro as given to europe actually is a way for specific member states to postpone structural reforms and so she's clearly a good example of that word a lot of people are concerned always with the thing is they don't agree on the very idea of the you that the three disagree on what form a should. be shifting if you will where were doubts mounting of the

direction the e.u. is taking the elephant in the room is the upcoming european parliamentary election less than a year europeans will have to decide in the future of the blocs policy matters as artie's tests australia has been finding out few are aware even familiar with e.u. politics this is brussels the capital of europe and whole to the european institutions that make the laws of decisions that affect the lives of five hundred million citizens the question is how much to the citizens really know about europe do you know what the european flag stands for. the iron man. who is the president of the european council european council. isn't it the belgian one you know how many countries in the e.u. and the thirty seven point seven and who is a twenty eight country. after that and i. don't know what does the flag of the stars on the flag mean what do they mean.

it's an appalling and there's nothing in the middle of it. but what do the stars on the flag mean on the european union's flag. those are the member states now here and for the european parliament there's this exhibit which showcases some of the key moments in the history of the european union will certainly some of these will be more familiar to citizens of the country where it actually took place when it comes to e.u. institutions how they function how they work survey so show that most europeans know very little about what actually goes on that would want to serve you but you're a barometer it shows that the knowledge of that europeans have with us is just three point four points out of ten this survey also shows that a majority of e.u. citizens think that the e.u. is a good thing however a majority of them also think that their voices do not count fifty four percent in fact now in this report it also says that only twenty five percent of europeans

know that there's even an upcoming election in two thousand and fourteen to elect their members of the european parliament right behind me there is no democracy in the u.k. nor in germany or in brussels we need more. developments for stronger involvement of citizen well there are officials in various e.u. institutions calling for a more democratic europe in order to do so they will need to get people more involved and interested in the first place if we are to achieve this reporting from brussels i'm tests are still yeah. after three weeks of street battles authorities in turkey now say they are prepared to allow one form of peaceful resistance assignment standing man protests that recently started in taksim square where this says police once again reign take down on demonstrators on his town barton was in the thick of it. i've just taken off my gas mask for a minute the air is heavy with the smell of tear gas these two police water cannon

shots into the center of this stranger non-corrupt dispersing chrono remember. miming mean in mind the police response heavy handed police response in the eyes of protesters that protesters have been so i'm going about in the past weeks they're saying the. prime minister otoh wants government to authoritarian and the police that are all supporting that government all is well and they will do nothing to try and ease back concerns while this affects the politics in turkey upcoming local elections is very much yet to be seen though anger on the street is very much continuing on a day to day basis respect to this particular crossroads has become a scene for nightly confrontation between the police and protesters. however

earlier in the week protests went on until a small out of the morning without incident yesterday and today. the police response very different with these vehicles charging in and chasing protesters down side streets liberal use of the water kind of just stripped the bark off trees and left deborah over the streets. really not the kind of response people were hoping to see from a police force that has really come in for a lot of criticism from a lot of corners of turkish society in the last two weeks. or so they had few cash in the trash u.s. army starts destroying a lot stash of costly miniature hardware in afghanistan and billions in taxpayers' money ending up on the scrap heap. and tension in the ranks while more citizens join the series. and rebels and al qaeda in the group fighting against press and us it's always ition point us. off

a break. from. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

as the u.s. army rushes to complete its gonna stone parts of the country already it's turning into huge junkyards the pentagon is now destroying u.s. vehicles and other military equipment despite the already having cost american taxpayers six hundred thirty billion dollars going to church you can investigate. by the end of two thousand and fourteen the u.s. military will have seven billion dollars worth of military equipment in afghanistan u.s. officials say they're getting rid of what they no longer need to or what would be too costly to ship back home the list of items that will be shredded. and crushed

to be sold to scrap includes around two thousand mine resistant ambush protected vehicles or more a.p.c. they were designed to counter this threat of roadside bombs and cost around a million dollars apiece. and are very busy dismantling expensive equipment u.s. officials are not explicit as to why they're not leaving the gear to the afghan military one of the reasons that they gave is that they provided afghan forces with lighter tactical vehicles which are presumably a better fit for the country's roads to quote one u.s. military official he said we don't want to live with a lot of equipment that they can't handle and that could compound their challenges as the u.s. is packing to leave again if that will please the bulk of the forces the obama administration is trying to find a political solution with the taliban there are quite a few roadblocks on the way to that as you can imagine but after years of fierce fighting u.s. policymakers have arrived at the idea that only a political solution can lead to a sustainable peace in afghanistan and in some way the scrapping of military gear

is symbolic to how little all that machinery has achieved there. by the author and activist david swanson the says this massive disposal of bombs in afghanistan were not raised in washington. that's the you know the small coin in terms of the corruption of the u.s. military which is just beyond measure remember while they're destroying seven billion dollars worth of vehicles and so forth the united states congress has just dumped another over eighty billion dollars into the ongoing occupation of afghanistan for the next year virtually the same amount as last year and as we talk about it winding down and ending and rushing to a close we're talking about at least another year and a half which is longer than most wars in world history have taken from beginning to end and this one's been going for over twelve years still terry budget in the bill just passed by congress is increasing from last year and increasing in violation of

the famous sequester limitation that is being used to eliminate money for food and health and housing and all things good and decent in the united states military budgets seems immune it just continues to climb and of course it is easier to buy more equipment when you destroy the old equipment you know the private car dealers would just love it if we all destroyed our cars and when new once. well online team is working twenty four seven to ride you with the best stories and pictures here's a quick a taste of what's lined up for you today on r.t. dot com. when experts with ugly truth of israeli army tactics including using protestant children as human shields online details. another click away singapore is choking in huge amounts of smaug levels of air pollution is said to be in danger the health thousand and twenty dot com. he starts

obscuring the city's tax. rate people suspected of recruiting jihadist fighters to join the ranks of the syrian rebels have been arrested in spain accused of being part of an al qaeda linked network. reports claim terrorists the front fighting against government forces have assassinated a large number of free syrian army officers. u.s. decides on ominous syrian rebels anti aircraft missiles from gulf states set of already made their way to the war zone f.s.a. military command says the rebels have received weapons that can they say change the balance of power on the ground r.t. contributor action a tensely believes this and highlights the dangers of sending more arms to the region. re rebel ranks were in a stanwell recently could make no. type of agreement between themselves and now they're actually killing each other so there is that power struggle it's been going

on for months and months and presumably president obama and major powers are saying yeah we'll give it to the free syrian army well if the front murdering members of the free syrian army resume later takes over those arms and they're destroyed they're probably using. disunity in the rebel ranks it's a fever pitch the danger there are very narrow they're all to be seen in iraq neighboring iraq and beginning to be seen in lebanon as the old. from becomes the key factor a lead faction in the opposition but no amount of the so-called moderate rebels are going to work against the hundreds of thousands billions millions we don't know coming from qatar and saudi arabia the american allies in the persian gulf so the dangers are everywhere to be seen and of course the other dangers of the blowback which may be occurring even now some of these militants returning to their home

countries in europe and perhaps to the united states to fight their jihad on european american soil. that top story today our russian president vladimir putin is hosting german chancellor i'm going to merkel instant petersburg right now an annual gathering of the crime of the world business and to have a range of issues to discuss let's have a listen to them right now it's a very violent reaction it's not markets around the world but particularly in emerging markets what countermeasures are needed by russia but if you search a bank governor. bush growth if there is that much worry about the reserve board policy particularly in a country like this. most of the those. russian congenial street you do in order to.

growth has been discussed in my speech in my remarks and the reaction to the statement of mr bernanke statements of this kind are expected but i just. would need to happen. at some point if you cannot just conflict with it into the market without end up without addressing the fundamental tasks that need to be addressed in order to correct the situation and what president obama has been able to do on the budget. very good and certainly that he was able to avoid the fiscal cliff. one and he can only correct three and that's very much to his credit was that it is not a right to have the world expecting just what is going to happen going from one fiscal cliff to another there needs to be a fundamental decision and that always serve adjustment needs to happen at some

point it was not a surprise for us i think it's a direct it's a decision going in the right direction but need to get out of this situation and show happened over the past years the burden of the federal budget needs to be reduced. other obligations need to be reduced and president obama spoke quite frankly about this during the g eight and i believe it's a healthy decision. and i think that the reaction of the market was also to be expected i think the adjustment of the policy will happen as soon as there's a real awareness. american and international economy is being put on a healthy basis that is only for the good. the president mrs merkel before i go to the floor here you talked in your opening remarks about having to pursue a policy of growth in europe right now it's very important to you also and it needs

to be along with sound fiscal policies as well you know the criticism aimed at germany that the policies that are good for germany are not necessarily good for the southern half of europe youth unemployment of above fifty percent in greece and in spain right now. consolidation would mean greater competitiveness but there is no growth in southern europe is there a willingness behalf of germany now to adjust those policies because of the pain that's been inflicted on those in southern europe in particular and particularly those in the next generation as your change of policy that is necessary. brief comment on just the previous topic did you just get on my do you agree. timeline that had been indicated by the president is right on line if.

we should not get. very high liquidity he really was very close to financial crisis in two thousand and eight in two thousand and nine and we must be in no way a tool. head for another such crisis. and therefore i think the reaction to show that we have not come back to a full global balance because when you're talking about sustainable growth you can call it world regions. also meaning that any announcements are central bankers should not cause was dramatic fluctuations and should not actually you of course those price changes so he actually told you how much that global economy depends on the action of central banks another one who can. sustain it will situation that probably would not happen to that extent so that shouldn't stop was to return back to the normal and sustainable path of development but retreating from what.

you know the big differences have led to situation where in many parts of the world people were hearing into the slogan all parts of the european sovereign bonds are nothing to invest in. what would be the lesson that you learned from the well we have. consulted the only american p.c.b. european commission which developed a number of programs for countries that work in difficult to use. basically everything that the world community have to offer in terms of expertise went into that there wasn't mrs merkel from germany that negotiate. process there was three international situations with a reasonably good reputation together with those countries and questionable. and used in europe and here baltic states countries had similar negotiations although we're not part of the eurozone all they have taken some of the measures following a time of rather difficult development have returned on

a growth path and therefore i'm convinced that if we do fiscal consolidation in structural reform and also in southern europe we will be in a position to return to that part and basically it's not about just us territory but of deficit of fourteen percent and no one was buying any so run on from the so you have to do something in that situation and secondly we're talking about a broad based structural reform system greece would support it's going to develop a taxation system with the european help also a better administration system so that straightforward basic things privatization for and. maybe not only sold in a pharmacy but also in a supermarket or into things that would be self-evident in other posts of the world and i actually practice that so of course it is true especially for the public administrations who for many years have been benefiting from a number of. situations all the status quo it's very difficult.