live from moscow at ten with greece about to get its next bailout tranche of the cost of thousands more jobs we report on the deadly addictive nemesis that's thriving on those who suffered years of raging unemployment. low shouldn't jailbreak selling transit in so for just this post gadhafi libya and she was more deadly chaos while tripoli refuses to hand over the dead leaders to the hague to try. and britain considers revealing over one hundred companies suspected of paying private investigators and then illegally obtained clients personal data as pressure from furious m.p.'s mounds.

have just joined us live from the arctic new center is kevin i with you this hour as i say just after ten pm now first greece has got its next desperately needed bailout installment approved by the skin of its teeth the money comes at the expense though of thousands of public sector jobs even as prime minister says his top objective june the country's upcoming the presidency is an economy free from the scourge of unemployment the rescue loan of four billion euros will come from the eurozone and the european central bank the meth is also expected to hand out a further one point eight billion to well to get the money athens has to fire four thousand civil servants by the end of the year while twenty five thousand more must be redeployed rescue funds have been crucial to keeping greece afloat for over three years now as financial expert patrick young points to it's not curing the country's flawed economy though. 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 throwing vodka 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 sustain 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 are being sacrificed at the altar of a ludicrous national political statement or supra national political statement. patric young woman coming the government's way is cold comfort though for the many thousands of greeks left sleeping rough having lost their jobs homes their families in the past few years increasing numbers of sort solace in what's called the

cocaine of the poll on the case of this story r.t. zico piskun off in athens now. used to be out of work now he's still unemployed were 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're angry at life no work no money for the same reasons many decide to start selling drugs and 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 chilly here confined to their room. and 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. former from bacteria for

cars. very dangerous. they can sleep she said can either be smoked inhaled or injected together with heroin they are now on the key engines behind the spread of ha been factions there is a great. 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

some fresh water and syringes for the users to inject but just as we thought being on the street is as low as a drug addict can get we want to investigate this the greed 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 and special detention centers like this facility where up to five thousand people are believed to be kept hidden from the eyes of the public we're at one of these camps outside of athens to the amount of security here is a really impressive several lines of gates wired to 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. despite

a few screws and from human rights organizations greek officials see the populations of these guantanamo lookalikes me double and that they should be viewed as a model for the rest of europe you go to school of athens weeks. when as europe struggles to dig itself out of recession britain is now also in danger of losing some of its key assets scotland soon to decide on its independence from the u.k. next year and in just about twenty five minutes time tonight the country's first minister talks to us tells us why he thinks scott will be much better off without london. i think independence is about control of your finances control of your resources in the case of oil and 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 among the population then you are a genuinely independent country with independence or in the european union scotland would control one hundred percent all of its revenue base would decide how to spend

its finances currently we have a load control of less than ten percent of our revenue base in the scottish parliament there for ten percent is not independence one hundred percent even independence within europe is independence. let's take some minutes now to focus in on libya more particular the city of bankers here which was earlier rocked by two explosions it's also been the grip of violent clashes between armed rebels and the military at least one soldiers died in the fighting but security forces are now said to being controlled insulators we hear the explosions targeted judiciary buildings injuring thirteen people and causing massive damage this is more than a thousand prisoners remain on the run after a massive jailbreak in the same city the prime minister of the transitional government said people living in the area stormed the prison because they didn't want the city in their neighborhood the country struggled to return to stability since the twenty eleven nato backed. intervention which toppled colonel gadhafi. well meanwhile hay son of the deposed leader saif al islam is set to stand trial

for war crimes allegedly committed during the twenty eleven uprising he set free hearing in libya in august despite the international criminal court's demand that he be handed over to the hague let's take a closer look shall we at the man and his story educated in london saif al islam was seen as a crucial figure in building relations between libya and the west but all changed in early twenty one when protests broke out against the forty two year rule of moammar gadhafi saif al islam and his father were accused of crimes against humanity and in the ensuing crackdown the i.c.c. issued arrest warrants just a few months later than the libyan leader moammar gadhafi we all recall those pictures was brutally killed by the rebels the chief i.c.c. prosecutor confirmed informal talks about the surrender of the younger gadhafi was eventually captured by a rebel group and apparently had parts of his fingers amputated libyan authorities wanted a trial in tripoli but the i.c.c. nonetheless demanded he be handed over to the hague a request which was rejected for delegates from the court were detained indeed in

libya for a month after trying to attempt to get documents to him khadafi son has made two appearances in the libyan court of the i.c.c. is again ruled against libya's efforts to hold the trial by themselves as get more on this is artie's paula. 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 make kaufman who is a former israeli lawyer hired by gadhafi is with altec a set 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 international criminal court carrying out the will and the wish of the international community investigated the matter and issued two warrants for arrest one for safely to the suzi if the libyans wish to try these two people that is

their right but they have to request if they permission to do so from the international criminal court the libyan government has challenged the weight 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 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 loudly that he and his family should be court marshaled. now they are quiet it does seem as if one thought got into power they believe that the only one thing to listen to them selves. tel aviv judge jones is the lawyer appointed to saif al islam by the i.c.c. he described to us the conditions his clients being held and he spoke to my colleague a bit earlier. he's being held in appalling conditions certainly in terms of his mental state because so much confinement thing any period of time and 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 foremost to see him and even if they do see him comes in many circumstances where he can speak freely the last time you visited by night you see delegation meeting this covertly recorded

and say he knows he knows that he come complains and would visit about these conditions you can see in the beginning for his defense because it's being used against him is now being prosecuted in addition to possible war crimes trials 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 may not be what exactly what do you think is 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 and they were expendable is 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. or when asked about their next step in getting their hands on gadhafi son the i.c.c. spoke to worse they said they could inform the un security council as to possible

further actions it's could possibly on the cards but despite constant demands from the war crimes tribunal saif al islam as have been mentioning is unlikely to ever leave his native country we've been hearing from a former british ambassador to libya who had more to say about that as well. the fact is that the libyans are trying to move a lot of good reasons for that. safe. could face two different sorts of he could face charges relating to what happened in the revolution in two thousand and eleven and that's what he would face if he would extradited and handed over to the international criminal court but in addition to that he may well be charged with for example stealing vast amounts of money very large assets have been frozen by by the security council and by the libyan authorities i think it's quite possible that will be some some arrangements but he should be tried in libya and those charges which are of interest to the international criminal court the

international criminal court would have some kind of role they would play some polish in the proceedings in libya oh what i think is politically most unlikely in fact i would say impossible is that he would actually be handed over to be tried in the hague. the dangers of the morning rush hour in iraq dozens of commuters never reach the final destinations after a spate of. across the country we look at why the nation just can't escape the violence so. police in full scope becoming independent schools a nation a nation should be self-governing to govern the feels better than someone else the beautiful. story. you think you understand it and then you. realize.

this is the media leave us so we leave that maybe. by the same. to secure. your party physical. issues that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politic. britain is considering exposing a list of

a hundred two major companies need to vidual suspected of paying private investigators who then illegally obtained clients personal data u.k. serious crime agency gave the list a palm and put told employees to keep it confidential and they're furious about it test for a set of reports. 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 i's 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 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 done to stop the practice some of the information that the p.r.i. is had managed to get their hands on including 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 well i think there are two main problems one is around transparency why. these companies have been part of a criminal investigation if the reason is simply because it might impact on you know their share price that seems to me to set a rather dangerous precedent and then from the second concern would be that we've seen in the newspapers in germany. this investigation have been so there seems to be an inconsistency so some stories online we've got more indications of how good

old fashioned to privacy is becoming a figure to prosecute. the journalist who broke the story about america's prism surveillance system once again sounds the alarm about how easily washington can snoop on its citizen. also the bahrain's ban on campaigning in the capital online that we got more about it was point yes they've got more we investigate whether that will be enough in fact to stop the angry and dissatisfied making a stand r.t. dot com. relentless terrorist violence continues to plague towns and cities across iraq a wave of over a dozen bombings has left at least sixty people dead and scores more injured baghdad took the brunt of the violence with over twenty people killed in mainly shia areas most of the assaults involve car bombs has been a recent spike in activity from terrorist groups including al qaeda and the ongoing insurgency against iraq shia led government july it's become the deadliest month so

far this year with over eight hundred ten fatalities let's get some reaction to this is a grim figure mike reading is an activist from the london based antiwar group democracy village mike high there i just read those grim statistics there is the current government capable of getting to grips with this any time soon do you think . but they certainly say they are but they're obviously not getting to grips with anything any security within the borders of iraq at the moment. actually i think you had the highest figure this year is nine hundred eighty deaths and two thousand injured in mary. so the casualty figures are getting worse and worse and this is one of the probably one of the worst years since the u.s. combat troops actually left. we've also had the the double jailbreak that happened a few a few days ago. that to me seems like a professional spring job to get these people out of there. and it's really just

exposed the whole war on terror for the cruel hoax that it is because as these al qaeda militants and jihad is. a state from prison in iraq we can in the west we can declare them publicly as our enemies but then make they cross the border into syria and we're arming them and funding them and and hoping that they'll bring down the government of assad so it's. it's this war on terror is just really so what terror and when we do nothing to stop it in the west the u.k. and the us are actually feeding into this and they have been since that initial invasion in two thousand and three and of course the awful are only here in iraq it's the insurgents who say they're fighting against the government but it's the civilians the dying day in day out isn't it exactly and the same in syria as well the civilians are being caught in the crossfire and if you remember a few months ago that we had syrian refugee refugees actually going to refugee camps in iraq we had two million iraqi refugees have already fled into syria in the

last ten years so they're getting caught in the crossfire even as they try and get out of the country and get out of the the invasions and the civil wars and the terrorist activities that are going on locally so it seems like they've got nowhere else to go if they go to jordan the still caught up in it if they go to turkey they're still in a way caught up in caught up in the in the violence might you mentioned just now the prison break here on this week five hundred on that on the run there was an abu ghraib prison we're hearing a senior iraqi security official today saying that the bombings we saw today he thought were linked with that prison break you touched on it just now do you think there's a connection. absolutely i mean their actual the prison break themselves had a series of coordinated bombings plus mortar attacks. there were obviously a core group of al qaeda people the al qaeda militants that were the target for that prison break everyone else their escape has been kind of left to their own

devices but they're obviously. they mean they may be militants in themselves or they may just now be. wondering around without a cause just just knowing all the skills that they have developed the bomb making skills and the terrorist activities that they've been held for so this is a real danger for iraq and it's also a real danger for syria mike obviously wants these escapees so i filed a final twenty seconds we're running out of time what can foreign powers what can outside influence do can it do any good here any time soon well we can stop arming the syrian invasion that would be a big stars that would. basically the war in syria the invasion of syria is almost come to an end now if it wasn't for the west still arming the onus for a group this would have all been over weeks ago but the syrian army has done sterling work in protecting their civilians walking and i don't know when he's actually fled well that well that's the problem isn't as weak as we are on the

militants in syria this the iraqi militants that are coming across the border suddenly they're becoming our allies and then they can go back to iraq fully refresh fully funded and fully armed this is the problem see the connection thanks ever so much for your time much appreciated thanks for joining us on our to international. is twenty two twenty three now the vote counts under way in mali after its presidential election at the weekend the first since a coup last year source separatism jihadist groups take control of the north millions turned out to cast their ballots with the election deemed a promise of stability and assurance of peace let's not talk to rough customers or for research of the belgian gris see a think tank sir thanks so much being with us there's a lot lying on the selection isn't there. depends on which styles that you are you talking about the western stance all on the one of them of the modern people well take it both ways for me what's it going to bring to

the martin people will it bring them this stability and what about the external powers what about france for about everyone looking on what's going to bring them. but i don't i think. the major. accent of these elections lie in the west because they organized in fact the selections they put enormous pressure on the mahdi and people government institutions to have elections which is often here you must remember that in early january france organized an intervention military intervention and. in this year's spring they convened a conference to organize or to draw up a calendar an agenda institutionalization not to have elections as early as possible so i don't why it's a question of my whole of you is what the what the reason is you think behind pushing it so quickly getting involved as they are. last year

march two thousand and twelve there was a coup d'etat in maadi. my my my view that the west needed a sort of a legitimation of. elected president elected institutions because from the western point of view you can do business with someone who. a few months ago and this this election said my view is sort of village at the mission do you have a formally elected president formally elected politicians leading that don't cheat but is it if at all it did not resign or is it about brazil said. it's. about what the west calls governance they have an image of how a country should be conducted and that's what they imposed on marty

and what's behind this is in my opinion control over a very important don't cheat in a very. crucial parts of northern africa you should only look at as you said resources in mali itself but also in the neighboring countries and allies the second interest the first interest of course is political control. of course thousands of french troops less so now but france needed an excuse if you like to get out these elections had to be seen as been successful didn't they it all broke down there again i want to do you think france will be back in so quickly or of any lessons been learned. have they left the country they are still there with more than two thousand troops. it's they who decided how d.c. elections were to be run its day who. assaulted

elections guards biometric election guards to. vote. i think they never left mali are still their companies they are still there with their political influence and not only france of course but. the e.u. has been very influential in organizing in approving this whole process and your very first question was is this bringing more democracy for the madeon people i really doubt it because those who what we heard of those who are taking part as we go we get a half hour program that's we got an hour break to get some afraid to touch it again saying thanks for being on the program is there author and research at the grass a think tank in belgium thanks for your time well talking about it some people's views coming up shortly as promised scotland's first minister tells r.t. by the prospects for independence from the u.k. right after this break.

i've got a big question for you how stupid can 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 planning 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 it kind of all makes 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. i don't welcome one says a shevardnadze and today we're away from our usual moscow studio where in a very special setting astonishingly beautiful shuttle and isles often northeast coast of scotland for the north sea. you will find the shetland isles and there is a way harris a top to the first scottish mr alexander salmond about the defining point of every land it's seventeen it's mr salmond flagship policy to see scotland become independent from the united kingdom one of the better.