thessalonica greece and a couple of minutes r.t. looks back at the life itself exiled russian oligarch and kremlin critic but is better selves his recent death got the rumor mill running wild. he became a symbol of. the russian mafia in the kremlin. he was a twentieth century. in just a few years he rose from junior. and senior politician. and. they called him the face of business and government. it was enough. to make. russian politics he was. the embodiment of evil and presidential caught. people.

thessaloniki greece. some other world news a sour poland months three years a since the air crash that killed the country's president senior figures gathered for a memorial at warsaw's province the cemetery on wednesday morning the plane was carrying a delegation of the country's military and political elite to the russian city of smolensk when it went down killing all on board an official report blamed bad weather and pilot arrah poland is still conducting its own probe. in syria intense clashes have broken out on the outskirts of damascus as government troops launch a powerful count of pensive to prevent rebel forces from seizing. capitol this comes amid reports that president bashar assad's the troops have intercepted some of the opposition fighters may not supply routes the rebels are said to currently control some parts of northern syria as well as several districts of the country's largest city aleppo. and another new south korea says of the north could test launch a missile at any moment as part of

aline makes us look like greece. >> that putsing us on a path to becoming greece. the country is going to burn! >> what do you think of that? >> the republicans made the u.s. look more like greece. the conservatives made the mess in greece. we're mopping up the mess. we have to deal with the crisis. it's not the welfare that was the problem, the more crony capitalism where business and government were colluding to spend money in ways which help ed obviously the richer not necessarily the poor. i'm not saying we didn't have to revamp our pension system. we didn't have to be careful. i'll give you an example. we had collusion of big pharmaceutical companies, with doctors. there was corruption. they were giving extravagant medical treatments, prescriptions. we put everything online despite the resistance of the doctors. they didn't want to use computers. we forced them and cut by 30% the medical bills. that means, that's good governance. that was the problem in greece. not the welfare system. brookings institute came out and said if we were transparent and able to hit

for twelve psyops this is from hugo salinas price our friend we flew to greece with them in greece isn't the headline later but the definition of psyops psychological operations applies to the events of friday april twelfth and monday april fifteenth two thousand and thirteen when the price of gold was taken down to thirteen eighty and to get it down to thirteen eighty max it took one thousand one hundred tons of paper gold according to commerce bank which is forty five percent of annual production of gold well it stands to herbert on this on many occasions i have told you the audience out there around the world about my concept of price propaganda we live in an age of price propaganda in the old days back in the last century propaganda to the form of media propaganda image propaganda news propaganda at the age of manufacturing consent as noam chomsky would talk about this is price propaganda if you can move the price to a certain level then people's perception will change based on price i invented this idea because i invented a technology to change prices to create a difference in perce

thinking of leaving greece so that i can and my features. good luck with that cause to think very bright. very goes leaving us here in the interview back to his studies but cost us could end up like many more greeks like him leaving greece altogether tom watson r.t. thessalonica greece and another euro zone bailout could be on the cards in slovenia it's been strongly urge and so what are his banking crisis to avoid being the next cyprus by europe's interstate economic one it is the only thing day by slovenia insists it can cope without foreign help willie and not say discuss the issue with r.t. business presenter katie cobain and yes editor i've across. they've been told to come up with one point three billion dollars in order to sort out their banking crisis that i did with my man that actually creates a three percent of their g.d.p. their economy already are contracted by two percent last year so it just gives you an idea of what the economy the situation is at the moment is the banking sector and the problem is that being told you need to

is a good example greece starting from the year two thousand until now they had wages reason. fifty sixty percent i mean this was not sustainable the productivity was a factor or stigma and germany for instance had a very long increase of wages ours too as well the productivity was very cold so i mean those countries in some countries did not do you the common currency of the benefits of a common currency low interest rates in a reasonable way in now if they have to pay the price they should have used this a benefit with with edition and structural reforms look to deed to the labor market still need to lee and working hard together with mario monti during the last two years. or france the same the labor market this extrusion leave regulated it is really tough and not easy to have a flexible labor market hire and fire especially hire young people to do the old people jobs. secured in the young people who have no problem no changes at all to get the job so i think the benefit was there the benefit of the euro small balls become a currency means. interest rates for those who are

greece's chief paymasters it's a fact that for one filmmaker shows how far greece has fought. we have a soaring unemployment that in a few months we reach thirty bursts and we have people committing suicide it in the streets we have homeless all around campus so we're living in a humanitarian crisis that we haven't seen since the second world war the economic elites that actually control the greek government at least some point to what i imagine the c b troika wanted to do now that the real now is that there is a problem that we cannot continue with this just there in the policy unfortunately to sci fi doesn't happen for the greek government that the us will be on there is coming from brussels or are or believe. the cedar revolution that you don't accept these are staring people you see. everything we collapse in a few days or a few hours the country should default and probably even exit the euro zone drawing doesn't understand that his biggest struggle and especially math and europeans are not about the just here to save big financial institutions and be banks don't pay atten

thessaloniki greece. you're under some world news in brief for you first off poland's mark three years now since the crash that killed the country's president senior figures gathered for memorial service at warsaw's cemetery on wednesday morning the plane was carrying a delegation of the country's military and political elite to the russian city a small incident it went down killing all on board an official report blamed bad weather and pilot error hola distil conducting its probe. in syria intense clashes have broken out on the outskirts of damascus as government troops launch a powerful counter offensive to prevent rebel forces from seizing the capital it covers amid reports that president bashar al assad's troops have intercepted some of the opposition fighters main arms supply routes the rebels have said currently control some parts of northern syria as well as several districts of the country's largest city aleppo. thousands of private investigators are now operating in britain and their ranks contin

thessalonica greece. and another euro zone bailout could be on the cards in slovenia it's being strongly urged to sort out its banking crisis to avoid being the next cyprus by europe's organization for economic cooperation and development but slovenia insists it can cope without foreign help early for bang nazi discuss the issue with r.t. business presenter katie pilbeam and news editor i've across. they've been told to come up with one point three billion dollars in order to sort out their banking crisis that i did in with my man that actually creates a three percent of their g.d.p. their economy already contracted by two percent last year so it just gives you an idea of what the economy the situation is at the moment is the banking sector and the problem is that being told you need to recapitalize your banks that's exactly what cyprus was told the thing is they don't have the money to do that they can't afford to do that let me just jump on what yes it is science here is what do you make of this woman s

thessaloniki greece. in a couple of minutes our daily looks back at the life of self the exiled russian oligarch and kremlin critic bar is a bear scheme was a recent death of the rebel running wild. more news today. again flared up. these are the images. from the streets of canada. they called him the face of business and government. he was a gambler the money came second heading the russian method inside the kremlin it was enough for boris just raises eyebrows to make gangsters appear. he was a great cardinal of russian politics he was a big time political adventurer some even called him out today rest putin the embodiment of evil in boris yeltsin's presidential court am i supposed to put on a grieving face and talk about people across the country mourning his demise on the contrary the moderates that his death has attracted so much attention. i learned figure in russian business exemplified nine hundred ninety s. russia he made millions while his country. he was the subject of several books and the basi

thessaloniki greece. well let's take a look at some other world news of this hour poland marks three years this is the a crash that killed the country's president senior figures gathered for a memorial at warsaw's province symmetry on wednesday morning the plane was carrying a delegation of the country's military and political elite to the russian city of smolensk when it went down killing all on board an official reported blame to bad weather imply lead era poland is still conducting its own probe. human rights group is claiming that police in bahrain have arrested twenty opposition activists in the run up to next week's of form you know one grand prix authorities deny the allegations but the organization says other people were detained without a warrant after their homes were raided at night by a mosque police of the arrest reportedly occurred in towns near the country's f one mortar circuit as authorities try to come tensions i head of the international motor racing event of the gulf war like he's been

for twelve psyops this is from hugo salinas price our friend we flew to greece with him in greece is in the headlines later but the definition of psyops psychological operations applies to the events of friday april twelfth and monday april fifteenth two thousand and thirteen when the price of gold was taken down to thirteen eighty and to get it down to thirteen eighty max it took one thousand one hundred tons of paper gold according to commerce bank which was forty five percent of annual production of gold well stacy herbert on this on many occasions i have told you the audience out there around the world about my concept of price propaganda we live in an age of price propaganda in the old days back in the last century propaganda to the form of media propaganda image propaganda news propaganda at the age of manufacturing consent as noam chomsky would talk about this is price propaganda if you can move the price to a certain level then people's perception will change based on price i invented this idea because i invented the technology to change prices. to create a difference in perc

and the state for so seize greece put some of its most tragic properties under the hammer tearing the cuts but in nation between necessity and pride our poor home and more still ahead. for me one has wrapped up in bahrain with anti-government protests clashing with police in a bid to disrupt the controversial event security offices stone there is where prior form activists gathered suppressing most opposition marches the protesters had been using the formula one race to draw attention to human rights abuses in the country demanding more international pressure on the ruling family so each abhi from bahrain freedom the movement says the monarchy is trying to distract attention from the level of unrest in the country. if you were. hundred. round the country schools. around two hundred. the process. if you want to call. if you were crying but. not. quite at all. and people are really angry about all the. behind. not much. really. the u.s. military has acknowledged that over a half of guantanamo bay prisoners are now on hunger strike there among the eighty four protesters five have been pu

i believe the youth from the cities have no future so the only solution is to leave greece. maybe the president of the european parliament was right to say that an entire generation may have been lost to crisis minister to reach this situation is certainly more bleak than most but the only retirement or working your first shifts the says here in greece sometimes they don't even get paid then to bed for the c.s.l. we are working every scene of results with some estimates of greek youth unemployment as high as sixty percent desperate times are giving rise to desperate suggestions it's not just the young in greece using that word slavery we don't control fate we are slaves it is a political problem and we must become again pretty but far from rhetoric about taking to the streets and throwing off shackles many greeks i speak to are thinking just like costas struggling through his last two years of medical school so costas after these two years what do you think the future's going to hold for him. thinking of leaving greece so that if i don't make it yourself ok good luck with th

that stricken greece is struggling to satisfy its international lenders while hoping to get a delayed two point eight billion euro bailout installment this month the painful talks come as e.u. and i.m.f. inspectors review athens progress in meeting the terms of the hundred thirty billion euro rescue after the drama of cyprus the lending troika is skeptical about the merger between greece's two biggest banks the country insists it can handle recapitalization and the finance minister has assured greeks their deposits are safe he also promised they'll be no tougher stereotypic but lenders are pressing for severe job cuts in the bloated public sector they want a massive twenty five thousand workers laid off this year and a total of one hundred fifty thousand by twenty sixteen soaring unemployment has already been driving young greeks away from their country as tom barton now reports . we refuse to work for free we demand our right to education messages of protest by seeing opportunities to better themselves snatched away these students are protesting against plans to close university depa

thessaloniki greece. next as promised cross talk with people about. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it.

and the state for sale seize greece put some of its most treasured properties under the hammer tearing the cuts but his nation between necessity and pride i'll report on that plus a plenty more just ahead. well with. science technology innovation all the list of melamine from around russia we've got the future covered. about international and in the very heart of moscow. welcome back the u.s. military has acknowledged that over half of my bay prisoners on hunger strike among the eighty four protests is five have been put in hospital work life threatening conditions and sixteen are being force fed. and explains why the inmates have resorted to such desperate measures. here's a breakdown of who's currently held captive at the u.s. prison in guantanamo fifty four percent are yemeni nationals that is ninety five captives out of one hundred sixty six just a few more figures a total of eighty six prisoners there have been cleared for release fifty six of them yemeni nationals three years ago the u.s. suspended all transfers of detainees to yemen what seems to aggravate the psychological tort

and ireland headline reads disposable income in greece felt eight point three percent in q four of two thousand and twelve consumption down eleven point two percent so max total income is now down disposable income is down thirty percent since the crisis began savings fell by five point nine percent in the fourth quarter and now thirty percent of the population of greece say they they it was better for them and they would prefer then the their i'm ocracy no they said that they prefer the one to over the troika. the junta over the troika the hood didn't try to shuffle them up on railroad cars to concentration camps did they they just were a military occupation the troika is like oh let's all incinerate everybody because we can't afford to keep them fed after we stole all their money and then similarly over in ireland not only do you have horrible wave of suicides but in terms of the psychological war what they want is the capitulation and obedience and you see that in this next story irish debtors face ban on vacations caps on food spending irish bar was struggling to meet their loan re

greece actually being the worst affected in greece now the number is now watering twenty seven percent as you can see there spain is not far behind though both have more than one in four unemployed right now and for young people is much worse as well the jobless rate for them is more than double the national figure is artie's tests are still reporting on why it takes more than just numbers to see the true extent of the damage. the unemployment rate in the years old has recently shocker twelve percent of for those aged twenty five and below in countries like spain and greece that number is as high as more than fifty percent with very little signs of any economic improvement now for those who are looking for a job that search is no longer just about trying to find work many are now trying to leave their home countries. like niccolo wriggles e a biology graduate from italy now working initial in brussels and the situation in italy was actually awful because the only thing i was able to get is a really short contract for like free mouth for six months with absolutely no possibility of grow

very unequal across industrial northern greece the story is repeated this fertilizer factory used to be a center of northern greek industry nowadays though by economics fair or foul it's a ghost factory and the only fertilizer coming in here is imported from elsewhere in europe it produced specialised fertilizers until one day the workers were called together and told by the owners that the know how for their products had been sold off and that operations would be stopped. it's criminal that a profitable industry will shut down an industry that produced high quality material and the. workers now see the cruel irony that since the factories closing fertilizer prices have tripled but it's a wider fear that one skilled workforce is a laid off it's all too hard to bring them back. but the unemployment rate here is thirty percent or by the years and it could be over thirty eight would know the fission policy the situation is out of control the. workers across northern greece are desperate desperate to keep their jobs to get back into jobs and to be paid for their work it doesn't help ease

and such discussions would help greece and they would help the germans as well but we've certainly been seeing a lot of a growing discontent over the trio of international lenders and even in the european parliament as well do you think the days of the troika could be numbered. well as i mentioned before the troika was very much efficient in. handling the crisis you know we tried to convince the southern europe even the states. to. take all assistance and to manage their problems the way the troika said how it should be done i think that these countries are more or less on their own they have to manage their problems first in their own country and the troika has the tools especially not internationally the tools to help countries like portugal spain or greece. from the alternative for germany party are joining us live here an artsy a great pleasure to see you today thank you thank you. well the trio of international lenders of the i.m.f. european central bank and european commission have been staring criticism in brussels as well as some of the european parliament believe it's time to f

for twelve psyops this is from hugo salinas price our friend we flew to greece with him in greece is in the headline later but the definition of psyops psychological operations applies to the events of friday april twelfth and monday april fifteenth two thousand and thirteen when the price of gold was taken down to thirteen eighty and to get it down to thirteen eighty max it took one thousand one hundred tons of paper gold according to commerce bank which is forty five percent of annual production of gold well it stands to herbert on this on many occasions i have told you the audience there around the world about my concept of price propaganda we live in an age of price propaganda in the old days back in the last century propaganda to form of media propaganda image propaganda news propaganda at the age of manufacturing consent as noam chomsky would talk about this is price propaganda if you can move the price to a certain level then people's perception will change based on price i invented this idea because i invented a technology to change prices to create a difference in perception

very unequal across the industrial northern greece the story is repeated this fertilizer factory used to be a center of northern greek industry nowadays though by economics fair all file it's a ghost factory and the only fertilizer coming in here is imported from elsewhere in europe it produced specialist fertilizers until one day the workers were called together and told by the owners that the know how for their products had been sold off and that operations would be stopped they are all. it's criminal that are profitable industry was shut down an industry that produced high quality material and. workers now see the cruel irony that since the factories closing fertilizer prices have tripled but it's a wider fear that one skilled workforce is a laid off it's all too hard to bring them back. in the path of those who have this the unemployment rate here is thirty percent by the years and it's over at thirty eight with no fish and policy the situation is out of control as the. workers across northern greece are desperate desperate to keep their jobs to get back into jobs and to be paid f

who is greece kidding? go sit under an this is over. for people that don't know what happened in world war ii the third reich invaded the balkans. now the greek government wanting money, the only nation in europe that has any money is germany so they say you have got to give me money because of what you did in world war ii. >> billy, trust me the people are going to go off against sometime in history. this is greece's best defense making themselves so screwed up that even somebody as crazy as a deranged despot is going to get up to the border and go no, they are in too bad of fiscal shape. we can't take that over. >> bill: i wouldn't be counting on that. here is the story of the day, miller. clarence, new york, outside of buffalo. 65-year-old tom marchino has been awarded $1.6 million by the new york state court of appeals because he is afraid of frogs, miller. frogs. it seems that a developer flooded his land and frogs invaded causing him much pain because as a child in italy, he was chased by a bullfrog. so the state of new york is aw

fall asleep ahead greece could get a quick shot of the arm for its trickled economy than full but as we report later the prospect of an early arrival of billions of little effects on surging unemployment is warm enough for loads more just a couple of minutes. i reckon cardiologist dr omar our claims that the war in iraq destroyed iraq's environment even worse than dropping the bomb on hiroshima did dr e.c. puts the data that the number of pressed cancer cases has grown in the country from fifteen to thirty times cases of congenital heart disease have become fifteen times more frequent case of leukaemia have increased thirty fold the doctor puts the blame on the weapons used in the one thousand nine hundred one and two thousand and three invasions of iraq it which nato forces used white phosphorus depleted uranium rounds and other toxic gases and poison of substances human rights watch and the world health organization have measured radiation levels in iraq and consider many places in iraq even some very far from the fighting to be contaminated naturally radiation is not racist and fo

and greece has unlocked or delayed rescue alone by reaching a deal with its international lenders the only went through after inspectors from the e.u. and i.m.f. completed their check on how athens is meeting the targets of the bailout by the way to the next tranche of financial aid worth eight point eight billion euros it's clear that the government will have to slash four thousand public sector jobs by the end of this year to get it unemployment has spiraled to around twenty seven percent in greece which is struggling to get out of a deep recession for its sixth year now artie's tom barton met workers from the country's crippled industrial sector. cobwebs outside rainfalls on the still and silent it's attackers plastic piping from tree infested lawn mickey northern greece inside the machines have been unused since banks stopped investing and the owner of the organ spits attack has fled in two thousand and ten one of his workers also be old course did meet the i'm just one softer that he and ninety five of the staff seven million euros in wages at the aftershock talk i had to force m

others are finding their memberships rules are driving them into desperate measures greece is up for grabs for the largest fire sale in history from pristine coastlines to ancient palaces just to keep its economy afloat and those details just ahead for you. or the star to live from moscow from h. and palaces to entire islands greece is selling off seventy thousand lots of state assets to desperately raise whatever cash it can be described as the largest fire sale in history but it's vital to getting the next financial injection from the country's creditors and there are no limits on the paymaster's appetite as one greek filmmaker told us here about say we have a soaring unemployment that in a few months we reach thirty. people in committing suicide in the streets we have homeless all around here so we're living in a humanitarian crisis that we haven't seen since. world war the economic elites that actually control the greek government at least some point to what i imagine the c b really wanted to do now that the real now is that there is a problem that we cannot continue with this ju

greece could receive a transfer of three point two billion euros. so much rescue aid package earlier than expected the money's part of a near nine billion euro bailout deal which athens agreed to this international lenders this week the cost to greece is that it has to slash over four thousand public sector jobs before the year ends even as lending troika pumps more money into athens the country's industrial backbone though is on the slide as top barton's been finding out. cobwebs outside rain falls on the still and silent pits attackers plastic piping factory confess lawmaking northern greece inside the machines have been unused since banks stopped investing and the owner the oldest puts attackers fled in two thousand and ten one of his workers also b. or course did meet the i'm just one softer that he and ninety five other staff are owed seven million euro in wages got after a short talk i had to force myself to leave so i wouldn't hurt him workers see that they are being made to bear the cost of greece's economic woes this is that the story. and

nearly fifty percent of young people are employed in greece and spain where these countries in europe heading well it's clear that programs for for for these countries are not exactly accessible unemployment is always increasing specially if you look at youth and employment we can see. that one to two entry for unemployed so i think it's very very concerning. and there's a human cost to this austerity isn't there as i mean households are really struggling with their income what do you think e.u. leaders should actually do to address this to fix it. well one of the interesting figures is that german unemployment is also going up so whereas the current plan is germany has to bail out the rest of the eurozone and the germans or selfish that's sort of the hidden message that you hear they're not willing to build them out although they are able that's what some people claim well this message is being debunked by the figures we see that germany. is suffering as well its economy is not doing great it's not good to have growth but unemployment this is this is slowly going up and this should b

hello again from ancient palaces to entire islands greece is selling off seventy thousand lots of state assets to desperately try to raise cash wherever it can it's been described as the largest fire sale in history but it's vital of course to getting the next financial injection from the country's credit is there are no limits in the paymaster's appetite either as one greek filmmaker told. we have a soaring unemployment that in a few months we reach thirty percent and we have people committing suicide in the streets we have homeless all around campus so we're living in a humanitarian crisis that we haven't seen since i haven't seen the second world war the economic elites that actually control the greek government at least some point to what i imagine the c b droid wanted to do now that the real now is that there is a problem that we cannot continue with this just there in the policy unfortunately the same feed doesn't happen for the greek government that will be on there it's coming from brussels or are or barely. the deceit of the relation that if you don't accept this or spirit or y