through involved at all the whole it's just tends to make them more alcoholic and it 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 any how. deadly clashes between an armed group and the military come just hours after a bomb attacks in the libyan city of benghazi this is the son of ousted leader muammar gadhafi awaits trial with tripoli refusing to hand him over to the international criminal court. and private companies in the u.k. are accused of hiring rogue detectives to steal their clients' private data adding to the blanket surveillance concerns unleashed by recent snooping leaks.

through the am in the russian capital. and welcome to the program. now after having forced through furtherest area measures greece is set to receive its next bailout installment it took the government a lot of effort to please its creditors greece's parliament approved the cuts after european partners threatened to pull out at the last minute the bailout comes add the expense of thousands of public sector jobs a rescue loan of four billion euros will come from the eurozone and the 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 civilians by the end of the year while twenty five thousand more must be

redeployed greece has been relying on rescue 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 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 bail right 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 and the grip of austerity thousands of homeless and unemployed greeks have sought refuge in drugs as 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. alone that 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 true 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 it's becoming increasingly widespread in the crisis hit me it's. from or from a battery of cars chemicals very dangerous because they can sleep these are 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 here the procedure is quite simple the social workers collect 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 soon double and that they should be viewed as a model for the rest of europe you go to school of athens greece as europe struggles to dig itself out of recession britain is now also in danger of losing

some of its key assets scotland will decide its 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 catch his four interview at fourteen thirty g.m.t. but here's a quick preview. i think independence is about control of your finances control few resources in the case of oil and sort of nubile resources in scotland but also control of your revenue if you control your revenue and therefore control your spending imho to distribute that revenue moma population then you are a genuinely independent country with independence within the european union scotland would control one hundred percent all of its revenue base would decide how to spend its finances currently we have allowed control of less than ten percent of our revenue base in the scottish parliament therefore ten percent is notan dependence one hundred percent even independence within europe is independence.

the rest of libyan city of benghazi that was earlier wrong 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 curie forces are now said to be in control explosions targeted buildings used by the judiciary 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 the prison because they didn't want such a facility in their neighborhood the country 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 is safe on this law has 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's meanwhile defiant i.c.c. ruling but 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 between libya and the west but in early twenty seven revolt protests began against the forty two year old rule of warmer khadafi i made allegations that saif al islam and his father committed crimes against humanity the i.c.c. issues arrest warrants just a few months later the libyan leader moammar gadhafi was killed by the rebels and the chief i.c.c. prosecutor confirmed formal talks about the surrender of the younger khadafy or he was eventually captured by a rebel group and apparently have parts of his fingers amputated libyan authorities one of the trial in tripoli but the i.c.c. had managed he be handed over to the hague

a request which was rejected for delegates from the courts were detained in libya for a month after attempting to get documents to him get out his son has made it to appearances in libyan court and the i.c.c. again rejected levy's efforts to hold a trial by themselves for the latest on the situation here is our policy here. 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 because men who is a form is where the lawyer. a set says he needs to be handed to the i.c.c. on the basis of a real security council decision and security council gave the international criminal court the mandate to investigate crimes are committed in libya after the revolution international criminal court currying out the will and the reach of the

international community investigated the matter and issued two warrants for arrest 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 white 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 warn and who is an expert on the disagreements he 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 aren't militants 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 me 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 ever see things do continue in libya will likely be executed 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 any period of time in for a few weeks has been shown by scientific studies to be extremely damaging and he's been in that condition for twenty months impossible for you to see him and even if they do see him. dame in any circumstances where you can speak freely the last time

you visited by night you see delegation meeting this kind of the cool kids and so he knows that he knows that he come a complaint anyone can visit about these conditions you can say in the main floor but his defense because it's being used against him and not being prosecuted in addition to the war crimes trials has been 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 may not be what exactly what do you think he's facing. what he's facing in a show trial. entirely on the federal trial in which he's not going to be able to get any defense witnesses to testify on his behalf because of me too terrified to testify and then we expanded on he's going to be executed because the penalties carry the death penalty and it's quite clear from pronounced inspired officials and if you know that they want to carry out the death penalty if it's imposed. still

ahead as millions in mali wait for the results of a presidential poll we look out whether the election will bring stability to the war torn state that's in just a few minutes here in our team. broken dreams in sobering reality says the u.s. gone from a country with a belief of ever greater prosperity and upward mobility to one where more and more get by on low wages and in jobs that will always be temporary so differently can employment now in the future be defined as mckown was a should the u.s. economy. choose your language. calling for week over the influential they feel some of. the fumes could consume instead. choose the opinions that degrade to. choose the stories that impact the money. choose me access to often.

the media leave us so we leave the media by the sea motions to truly play your part of the musical. for shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politics only on our t.v. . welcome back this is our athena it's not only government security agencies and that have had their eyes on private data if you are in the u.k. many businesses also have access to your personal info new revelations in the british press suggest a major companies hired private investigators to steal data the country's organized crime agency apparently knew about it but kept the material secret until now are just as our cilia has more. in another instance of unlawful gathering of private

information it's been reported by the independent newspaper that banks of 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 a list had been passed on to a parliamentary committee by the serious organized crime agency or so so this materials find 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 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 these illegal practices by two thousand and eight and they have 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 done at 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 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. seems to me rather dangerous precedent and then from the. the second raised concern would

be that we've seen in the newspapers in germany. this investigation has been and so there seems to be an inconsistency i think m.p.'s want to see it. right thank you very much for that well as this is story unfold say the times have reported that the home affairs committee is now considers that considering publishing that list of more than one hundred clients of these rogue investigators that it has obtained from a so-called reporting from london i'm tests are still. meanwhile log on to our data com to find out how america's n.s.a. spying scandal is continuing to unravel a new report says that even big brother is a little brothers can now spy on u.s. citizens accessing thousands of e-mails and phone calls. we want on our you tube channel to see how her rules police drown out presidential corruption charges with tear gas and ride sticks for all that a more go to r.t.

dot com. right to see. her street. were being featured. on our reporters. and. the. vote counting is underway in mali after its presidential election the first since a cool last year or saw separatist and jihad as groups take control of the north if no outright winner is picked the election will go to a second round in two weeks time millions turned out to cast their ballots but many were unable to find the right polling stations due to organizational problems it's hoped the elections will bring stability and ensure

a fragile peace but malise future is still remains in doubt art is more of an option examines the origin of the crisis the broad the nation close to civil war. here in the north of the country the walls and billboards tell the story of the conflict when i am in no way too cold with a spot of the country on every road sign there wrote welcome to free azawad somewhere you can still read it then the new job painted their symbols there is no god except in arabic like letters in a wide circle the modern flag appeared after 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 waterways are also patrolled. we have to verify whether there are jihadists among them who want to cross the river. how 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 their extremist laws so new market if you come to the river like this jihadists bit your basic at least sixty times if you are married they take you to your husband and make him buy and they throw you 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 provided them with fighters tried to find a family whose children joint there. and al qaeda affiliated group appeared 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 rediculus 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's 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 covered to a covered 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 women make it on the other side of the river from what 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 be 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 but 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 will be less vulnerable and more immune to the islamists we'd speeches or would you 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 who are mugello. as they came from afghanistan algeria mauritania but they spent eleven months here and they recruited

a lot 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 reef notion r.t. from mali. well ukraine is trying to decide whether it wants to align itself with russia's original trade or push for e.u. integration the former soviet state has close ties with moscow but as i in greater cooperation with its western partners well let's now bring in our to use katie pilgrim for more on the story i don't hear you so there's now torn between the two blogs there is no absolutely well as you can see just here it really is stuck

in the middle ukraine faces a choice either go for the option of a customs union with russia or go for the european free trade zone now if you crane chooses to go west woods it will become part of the world's biggest trading block but the question is whether it will be one that the country would be expected to spend money in order to meet european standards for infrastructure the environment the quality of that gets passed ukraine enjoys oil and gas discounts due to 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 trade with russia is expected to decrease by up to two billion dollars annually as a result on the other hand is the option of joining the customs union now this will leave trade with the e.u. at the same level that it is now at the same time boosting exports to russia up to

an estimated ten billion dollars annually so economically the situation seems pretty clear however on the political side of things if ukraine is ready to pay the price they get the e.u. stamp of approval for better or for worse. very katy thanks very much indeed for clearing the situation for us there and next on our team would take a look at some other stories from around the world to islam as leaders from a muslim brotherhood party have been arrested this comes as the country's prime minister has been allowed to grant soldiers the right to arrest civilians after more than seventy people were killed in cairo clashes it's fear of a view to authorities declaring a state of emergency as ousted president hosni mubarak did back in two thousand and eleven gaining almost absolute power wow in the northern province of sinai the military is conducting

a sweeping counter strike against suspected militants. a series of car bombs across iraq of claimed up to sixty lives baghdad took the brunt of the attack with twenty two people killed and more than one hundred injured in mainly shia areas a blast near a bus station in the eastern city of could killed more while for others died in a town thirty kilometers south of the capital. pope francis has arrived back at the vatican after completing his first official visit abroad the newly elected pontiff span a week in brazil for any old world youth day and he also met president dilma rousseff before visiting one of the capitals shanty towns finally the pope led prayers on copacabana beach in front of three million of worshipers before flying bad to rome. thirty eight people are now reported to have been killed in a road accident in southern italy

a coach carrying pilgrims and their children plunged thirty meters off a motorway fly over into it's not yet know what caused the accident in which several other vehicles may have been involved. rioting has had bahrain's capital over the weekend after the country's monarch monarch demanded a law that would see protesters prosecuted as terrorists hundreds have been arrested and jailed since the beginning of the uprising authorities are still struggling to keep control in the face of more anti-government protests planned for next month. well you have today here in our next cross stock on the state of the american dream and it enormously wide income gap.

i've got a big question for you how stupid could stupid terrorist paranoia get according to four progressive stuck on 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 to 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 to all make sense but what 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 but 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.