so involved at all the whole it's just tends to make them more alcoholic going to doesn't affect them and improve their overall condition as greece struggles to cure its ailing economy with cash we try to find out whether the billions of euros have been of any help. around one hundred prisoners who escaped during a prison riot have been recaptured in libya this as the son of alstad leader moammar gadhafi still awaits trial with tripoli refusing to hand him over to the international criminal court. and private companies in the u.k. argues do of hiring rogue detectives to steal their client's private data adding to the blanket surveillance concerns on leash by recent snooping leaks.

to pm in moscow you're watching r.t.l. marina joshie welcome to the program. after having forced through further astaire the measure is greece is set to receive its next bailout installment it took the government a lot of africa to please its creditors greece's parliament approved the cuts after european partners threatened to pull out at the last minute while the bailout comes at the expense of souses of public sector jobs a rescue loan of four billion euros will come from the euro zone and european central banks the i.m.f. is also expected to stump up a further one point eight billion to get the loans athens will have to fire four thousand civil servants by the end of the year while twenty five thousand more must be redeployed greece has been relying on brisk you funds for over three years now

but as financial expert patrick young explains it's done little to cure the country's financial woes. well unfortunately i've always argued that greece was never going to survive as long as it was in bailout mode because the difficulty is that you know through involved at alcoholics just tends to make them more alcoholic and it doesn't affect them and improve their overall condition really what greece has always needed to do was to leave the euro and declare bankruptcy it's the only way that it can feasibly restructure what's going on instead what we have is this absolutely mainly arkell situation where in order to manage to stay in the euro we have a series of political forces in western europe who are desperate not to see their law you see political experiment fail and therefore greece has been left just like cyprus just like other countries that have received bailouts like ireland they've been sacrificed the altar of a ludicrous national political statement or supra national political statement

whether you're looking at germany or whether you're looking at the european union as a whole there are lots of things greece can do but ultimately in terms of dealing with the bayreuth they have a fundamental problem they've gone through seven years of switching recession and effectively all that we're seeing is people starving the poor are getting poorer and ultimately nothing working within the greek economy now with greece in the grip of austerity thousands of homeless and unemployed greeks have sought refuge in drugs see says the so-called cocaine of the poor easy to make and cheap to buy are going off talk to some of those pushed to the brink by the recession. used to be out of work now he's still unemployed but also on heroin is homeless and has aids he's already tiny chances of getting a job have vanished completely. on the show some start using because they are angry at life no work no money for the same reasons many decide to start selling drugs

but end up using the needle themselves. every day drugs rock the lives of new people with just one many thought they'd hit rock bottom it's very cheap he can find them very well. and as far as i'm concerned is the worse thing than. the leaders hit on the greek drug market is making even the most experienced junkies shiver and with a price tag starting from just two year old produce is becoming increasingly widespread in the crisis hit me it's. from or from bacteria for cars. very dangerous because they can sleep she's a can either be smoked inhaled or injected together with heroin they are now on the key engines behind the spread of hiv infections there is a good. percentage.

of their health issues. more suze every day n.g.o.s go into the field to trying to stop the virus spreading so we're at a drug user spots in one of the poorest districts of athens were asked not to film outside in order not to frustrate anyone since it's morning now and apparently many users still haven't taken the first dose of the day but clear the procedure is quite simple the social workers collecting used syringes and distribute these alcohol wipes of fresh water and syringes for their users to inject just. we thought being on the street is as low as a drug addict can get we want to investigate this the greek government's radical approach to tackle what's seen as a scourge on society by forcing addicts off the streets and holding them along with prostitutes and illegal immigrants at special detention centers like this facility

where up to five thousand people are believed to be kept hidden from the eyes of the public or at one of these camps outside of athens to the amount of security here is a really impressive several lines of gates barbed wire and lots of security guards in fact one of them has already asked us to leave so we don't we have that much time to film not much time at all we had to stop filming since our local producer told us we were risking our documents and footage to be taken away i did manage to grab a couple of more shots from my phone looks familiar. disappoint fierce criticism from human rights organizations greek officials say the populations of these guantanamo lookalikes me double and that they should be viewed as a model for the rest of europe you've got this kind of athens weeks. now as in europe struggles to dig itself out of recession britain is now also in danger of losing some of its key assets scotland will decide on this independence from the

u.k. next year and as the country's first minister told r.t. it will be much better off without london or catches full interview at fourteen thirty g.m.t. here's a quick preview. i think independence is about control of your finances control of your resources in the case of oil and soaring nubile resources in scotland but also control of your revenue if you control your revenue and therefore control your spending and how to distribute that revenue over population then you are a genuinely independent country with independence in the european union scotland would control one hundred percent all of its revenue base i would. decided to spend this for months is probably we have a load control of lists of paid. well for revenue base of the scottish parliament there for ten percent as most independents one hundred percent even independence within europe is in the pens. while the rest of libyan city

of benghazi that was earlier rocked by two explosions is now the scene of violent clashes between an armed group and the military at least one soldier has died in the battle but security forces are now said to be in control explosions targeted buildings used by the jewish or injured thirteen people and caused massive damage this as more than a thousand inmates remain on the run after a massive prison break in the same city the prime minister of the transitional government said residents stormed a prison because they did one such a facility in their neighborhood the contrary has struggled to return to stability since two thousand and eleven nato backed intervention which toppled colonel gadhafi. meanwhile the son of the deposed leader saif al islam is yet to stand trial for alleged war crimes committed during the twenty eleven uprising he set for a hearing in libya in august but international criminal court judges fear he won't

receive a fair trial there libya is meanwhile defying an i.c.c. ruling by refusing to hand him over to the hague insisting on trial at home well let's now examine the man and his story saif al islam was educated in london and was seen as a crucial figure in building relations with libya and the west but in early two thousand and eleven revolt protests began against the forty two year rule of weimer khadafi amid allegations that saif al islam and his father committed crimes against humanity the i.c.c. issues arrest warrants and just a few months later the libyan leader moammar gadhafi was killed by the rebels. the chief i.c.c. prosecutor confirmed informal talks about the surrender of the younger khadafi and he was eventually captured by a rebel group and apparently had parts of his fingers amputated well libyan authorities wanted a trial in tripoli by the i.c.c.

to manage he'd be handed over to the hague a request which was rejected for delegates from the court were detained in the bia for a month after attempting to get the documents to him cut off the sun has made two appearances in only be in court and the i.c.c. again rejected libya's efforts to hold a trial by themselves for the latest on the situation here's or at least both clear . although the international criminal court has ruled that libya must extradite safe islam to the hague so that he can face charges of crimes against humanity the libyans won't allow it they want to try him at home nick kaufman who is a former israeli lawyer hired by gadhafi is altec asia says he needs to be handed to the i.c.c. on the basis of the u.n. security council decision the security council gave the international criminal court the mandate to investigate crimes are committed in libya after the revolution the international criminal court scurrying out the will and the wish of the

international community investigated the matter and issued two warrants for arrests one for safely. if the libyans wish to try these two people that is their right but they have to request. permission to do so from the international criminal court the libyan government has challenged the right of the international criminal court to try safe it argues that the hague based court has no jurisdiction because it only intervenes if the local justice system is not functioning and those ruling libya say that they justice system is operating well but professor who did one man who is an expert on libya disagrees she says the country is in a state of collapse. i am not sure that it will be right to assume that there is a government in libya today there is no army no police are nelsons are in control even if they give safe a trial the libyans always surprise us so i can't really see how the trial will go i'm not even sure if it will be good and how just an objective it will be the

question needs to be asked why has safe trial not here begun he's been held captive since november two thousand and eleven and it's not even clear exactly where he's being held when the libyan rebels who are fighting against gadhafi they proclaimed loudly that he and his family should be court marshaled. now they are quiet it does seem as if once they got into power they believe that the only ones they need to listen to are themselves pointlessly r t tel aviv. and if the proceedings do continue in libya saif al islam will likely be executed that's according to his attorney john jones who spoke to my colleague. he's being held in appalling conditions certainly in terms of his mental state because so much confinement thing and you created something for a few weeks has been shown by scientific studies to be extremely damaging and he said in that condition for twenty months impossible for fellows to see him and even

if they do see him on that comes in many circumstances where he can speak freely the last time you visited by night you see delegation mixing this kind of the cool kids and so he knows that he knows it's become a complaint and will be visit soon about its conditions you can say in the in meaningful his defense because it's being used against him it's not being prosecuted in addition to. being prosecuted for basically saying that he wanted to be tried in the hay and exercise his right to trial but if indeed saif al islam is actually tried back at home and not be what exactly what do you think he's facing. what he's facing in a show trial. entirely unfair to all kind of trial in which he's not going to be able to get any defense witnesses to testify on his behalf is going to be too terrified to test on the expandability going to be executed because the penalties carry the death penalty and it's quite clear from pronounced inspired officials in libya that they want to carry out the death penalty if it's imposed.

and still i have here an r.t.s. millions and mile you wait for the results of a presidential poll we look at whether the election will bring stability to the war torn state that's just a few minutes here in our key. is essential. to our children the strips. that women kidnapped and converted to islam. will be another era for the coakley christians of egypt to the cross to its future things. the way of the cross. see. right to see. first street. and i would think the tree.

on our reporters would. be in the. welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow now it's not only government security agencies that have had their

eyes on private data if you're in the u.k. many businesses also have access to your personal info your of relations in the british press suggest that major companies hired private investigators to steal data on the country's organized crime agency apparently knew about it but kept the material secret until now r.t. says are cilia has more. in another instance of unlawful gathering of private information it's been reported by the independent newspaper that banks the pharmaceutical companies the law firms and other private firms are on a secret list of clients and have hired private investigators or p.r. who break the law that these companies have not face any consequences or prosecution now the information of this illicit been passed on to a parliamentary committee by the serious organized crime agency or so so this materials a secret to quote unquote a safeguard individual human rights as well as protect the financial viability of

major organizations as it may have a negative impact on these companies being publicly associated with criminality now so could also said that they refute any allegations that they had sat on this information they said that they submitted their findings to the home office of illegal practices by two thousand and eight and they had called for government regulation of such practices having said that though there are three successive home secretaries with access to this information and it's been reported that they had failed to act on this now this is caused outrage among m.p.'s in particular who question first of all why this list is being kept secret and second of all why nothing has been donna to stop the practice some of the information that the p.r. had managed to get their hands on include mobile phone records bank statements and details of witnesses under police protection let's get more insight on this from professor charlie beckett thank you very much for joining us today so the biggest problem that you see in this issue what would that be i think there are two main

problems around transparency why. these companies have been part of a criminal investigation if the reason is simply because it might impact you know the share price that seems to me rather dangerous precedent and then from the . second concern would be that we've seen in the newspapers in germany. this investigation. so there seems to be an inconsistency i think want to see a shot of my own i thank you very much for that well as this is story unfolds times have reported that the home affairs committee is now considers that considering publishing about lists of more than one hundred clients of these rogue investigators that it was obtained from a so-called reporting from london. meanwhile you can log onto our to dot com to

find out how america's an essay spying scandal is continuing to unravel and the word for it says that even big brother's little brothers now spy on u.s. citizens accessing thousands of e-mails and phone calls. meanwhile on our you tube channel you can see how the rules police drown out presidential corruption charges with tear gas and ride sticks for all that a more dot com. vote counting is underway in mali after its presidential election the first since a cool last year saw separatist and jihad is groups take control of the north if dr winner is picked the election will go to a second round in two weeks' time millions turned out to cast their ballots but manny were unable to find a ride polling stations do organizational problems it's hoped to elections will bring stability and ensure a fragile peace but molly his future still remains in doubt where you finish and

examines the origin of the crisis abroad the nation close to civil war. here and then over the country the walls and billboards tell the story of the conflict when m.l.a. took over they spot of the country on every road sign they wrote welcome to free as i was somewhere you can still read it then the mugello painted their symbols there is no god except in arabic like letters in a white circle the modern flag appeared half to the governmental forces together with french army liberated this area the fragile peace is now being carefully protected checkpoints cover the region's main routes to filter all those passing through. the ways are also patrolled. we have to verify whether there are cheat hardass among them who want to cross the river. how do decide who is who. jihadists don't have papers and we send to police all those with no documents. the

stakes are high memories are still fresh in people's minds from the days when religious radicals took over the country's north spreading the extremist laws if you come to the river like this did this bit you basic at least sixty times if you are married they take you to your husband and make him buy and they thought extremists would impose strict rules of modesty on these women without cross the niger river to go to college or the first to be let in mali is north to openly supports the islamists when they first came and provide them with fighters try to find a family whose children joint there. and then kind of affiliated group of peers in mali's north last year and began coordinating with the rebellion of the indigenous african tribal to our regs who sought independence but they soon began infighting after ready cause started imposing sharia law why did they come here in the first

place people in this area are very poor this is why we bring in some serve for women and some sweets for kids we visited the chief of the village first the one hundred fifteen year old man says one part of the village strongly supported al qaeda and al qaida divisions are very close hold interpret qur'an to reach them we cross a dried river the soil in mali is north is far from fertile the land is not generous to people farming here this part of kaja village is very conservative so for a woman it's better to be a cover to cover myself we get to a female part of the village in the first house we come across what looks like a women's club the ladies here differ from those swimming naked on the other side of the river we cover ourselves because this is our tradition our religious tradition we protect our whole bodies to talk with men we go to a male part of the village we see to the most influential of them to hear their

story. if they brought weapons and we didn't have a choice but to a big one man confesses his teenage son was inspired by outsiders before he was brought to mali in jail longer they behaved in a dignified manner were never involved in looting they showed respect to the koran but also they had money that looks very attractive to poor people like us. if the government provides local people with jobs less vulnerable and more immune to the islamists we'd speeches or here please explain who are these people and from where they come they're not from here but we don't know their nationalities we repeat the question to the mayor of gown one of the biggest cities in mali is north and the percent of deadly clashes during the crisis more who are mugello. they came from afghanistan algeria mauritania but they spent eleven months here and they recruited

a lot of of course. this is the conflict now over. the conflict madame has started. but it's far from over when our way back a sense storm begins clouds of dust cover villages and cities peace in this region seems to be as trendy and as blue skies on a sunny day you may think it will remain the way tease for some time but you can never be sure. from mali. or ukraine is trying to decide whether it wants to align itself with russia's regional trade walk or push for e.u. integration the former soviet state has close ties with moscow but as i greater cooperation with its western partners let's now bring in. for more on the story well it's always hard to make decisions isn't it so now ukraine seems to be torn between the two blocs tell us more exactly you can see that on the map for yourself it really is just stuck in the middle which is that and the fact is joining the

e.u. the biggest trade book in the world is what ukraine wants in order to become more european but the question is can they afford it because the country would expect to spend money in order to meet european standards for infrastructure the environment and the quality of their goods now the cut would not expect such an extensive investment program so a long term positive for the country yes but that's an expensive commitment for now . so obviously there seem to be some pitfalls for the country can you tell us more about what are the actually oil and gas discounts really the may we know right now the ukraine enjoys oil and gas discounts as i say because of their close relationship with russia if the country and is the e.u. then they would be expected to pay the same price as the rest of the e.u. countries so a blow for the economy but

a move away from russian dependency and an opportunity to potentially become an energy hub of eastern europe surprising. well absolutely so let's now talk about the benefits that the country will be sort of losing if it gets out of the customs union with us exactly according to economists and away trade with russia would decrease by up to two paid in dollars but if you crane were to join the customs union instead exports to russia would be expected to increase by as much as ten billion dollars and you may so while ukraine's want their relationship with the for the future of the country the question remains can they afford it right now. all right so with this we leave you there i thank you so much for exploring this for us katie pilgrim there and it's time now to take a look at some other stories from around the world to islamize leaders from the muslim brotherhood party have been arrested and this comes as the country's prime

minister has been allowed to grant soldiers the right to arrest of billions after more than seventy people were killed in cairo clashes it's feared it may lead to authorities declaring a state of emergency as ousted president hosni mubarak did back in two thousand and eleven gaining almost absolute power while in the northern province of sinai the military is conducting a sweeping counter strike against suspected militants. a series of car bombs across iraq have claimed at least forty eight lives baghdad took the brunt of the attack with twenty two people killed the more than one hundred injured in the mainly shia areas blast near a bus station in the eastern city of code killed ten more while for others died in the town thirty kilometers south of the capital. well europe today here in r t and we'll be back in half an hour stay with us.

i got a big question for you how stupid can stupid terrorist paranoia get according to four progressives dot com the texas department of public safety demanded that any women entering the state senate hand over any tampons or pads before entering wow so why would they do this are they really that scared that some terrorists are playing to sneak a bomb into the place at any cost according to news at yahoo dot com the official reason is that they're afraid of people using projectiles as a form of protest against a law that would really restrict abortions oh well no i kind of see where you abortion is an issue that people really get furious over now it kind of all makes sense but what weight what's that they're afraid of projectiles but people with guns were allowed to take them into the senate are you kidding me i think the second amendment does a lot more good than harm by i think it goes without saying that for women to concealed carry their hygiene items they should need a permit or permission from anyone but that's just my opinion.

in the pool kairos. ten year old mina likes to escape from his tiny apartment on the rooftops you can see the crosses on top of the local church with policemen enjoy the intensity heat next to the entrance it's unlikely that mina realizes his father knows like a tia humble government employee.