the. world leaders joined for the g. twenty summit group of themselves with the referendum. to do fuel the flames of global financial may have brought out the words of the moment. wiki leaks do you know songs kids that his appeal against extradition has been rejected so he comes out on the steps of the high court to criticise figure appeared arrest warrant. and also results of the investigation into september's plane crash that killed a russian hockey team named pilot error as the calls and speak of traces of a strong sedative in the co-pilot's plot the top stories this hour.

international news and comment live from moscow we're with you twenty four hours a day the upcoming g. twenty summit in the front city of can is set for its traditional beginning and massive protests suppressed by police the rage one hundred battles remains the same this year economic hardship and seemingly disconnected leaders and this is the protest may be the least of the g twenty has problems let's get the latest now from our correspondent daniel bushell he's in nearby nice well daniel how is the greek prime minister surprise call for a referendum going to affect the mood over the next few days there. priss referendum decision has really overtaken everything here at the summit it's really forced the hand of those who thought the e.u. e.u. project and the euro project would continue smoothly really is the strongest indication get the greece could potentially quit the euro upsetting the whole

eurozone project and nicolas sarkozy have summoned george papandreou the prime minister of greece for emergency talks on the situation they want to find out why mr pope and drove to consult with them before making this decision the promise to france for feels that it was a concern to him and to regretful that this. had been made he added that the greeks must be quickly and without ambiguity if they want to keep their place in the eurozone or not so strong words there on the side lines of the summit the officials here of the of that from the e.u. are trying to persuade greece not to go ahead with this with this referendum they're really concerned of the effect that it could have on both confidence of investors in the eurozone project and also more specifically what it will do if there is the no votes and the greeks decide to sort of split and not go ahead with

this whole bailout deal leaders had promised here at the cannes summit to resolve their differences and really come up with a solution to the e.u. crisis but he seem increasingly likely that they won't do that with the greek spanner in the works mr pop interest position with the greek is greece is weak he's a majority his party's majority in the parliament there has been cut so wafer thin two seats and also the ever growing roy is that we're seeing on the streets of athens seems to have had an effect on this decision it seems the sun the politicians all being swayed by people power more on that now in this report. when she was wrong says it was the summit picturesque mediterranean coast to reflect the heat and stephen merging nations in the world but this financial crisis deepens in both the u.s. and european union economists sports interests behind that noble claim to involve

more right he called a mission is really to try to convince those rising economies to put money on the table. and stable currency union of europe in the first place developing countries which are quick to back civil obrist among their population they no see those same western countries coming bill hold on public movements in the room backyard and she was like to describe double standards the primary powers within the g twenty the united states germany britain france the real dominant economic and military powers they want to show a world order a system of states that still has the ability when in fact there is instability this summit is an attempt to put out i shine a face on what is really a failed system there's a scene of chaos not just from the side of protesters but also from the police because there's a helicopters overhead at the moment you can hear police sirens so there's police really amounts of this military style operation to shut down and stop any of the

protesters going where they don't want them to go one former diplomat says western leaders called continue to just block criticism this whole idea that they can simply ignore popular protests against what's happening come back to bite the leaders of the g seven energy twenty summit this protest different from summits of the post was billed jim's pixy of the latest western banks to get bail built with public money growing numbers here worried there's something fundamentally wrong with the current setup we have basically a financial system where corporations and financial institutions are able to write themselves favorable law. pro quo be a corporate lobbyist police roadblocks to the streets is getting through to the town of with the g. twenty takes place but it's becoming it will hold its hearing the voices of protests. in the spring. so greece's plan is likely

to dominate the g twenty summit and it may be the country's last chance to retain its sovereignty that's according to anthony weiner founder and editor in chief of the daily bell dot com i'm not sure what the actual personal motivation was that georgia had to make that move but i for one indorse the move i believe that the people of greece should be the ones who determine their future and not the euro kratz who who are trying to regain to gain even more control and centralized power over the various nation states within the and the fact is you cannot take these various nation states with various cultural backgrounds and needs and desires on an individual level forget about a national level and expect we'll put them all into a basket and to accept federalized control the aggressive walls that is in the interest of the people want to localize level i don't see how anybody can brand the e.u. is a success when you have a bankrupt conglomerate of nations and you're asking the those better off to bail

out with even more debt more central banking assistance that is more money power standing behind the bailouts in order to create more centralized government government governance i don't see how that's a success at all i think it's a total failure. and with greece up to its neck in economic and political strife another crisis could be just around the corner. existing mood of desperation caused by austerity cuts pushes some greeks to make immigrants scapegoats. still to come but first we can expand it may find himself in swedish soil very soon after losing his battle against extradition from britain there he'll have to answer sexual misconduct allegations which he denies and describes as politically motivated parties laura smith was at london's high court. well he's certainly one step closer to the plane following today's proceedings this rejection of his appeal against the extradition it's not certain that he will. he has said that he will

appeal he's got fourteen days to do that but an appeal is no longer all so much that he has to be granted permission by the high court to appeal to supremes cools the highest court in the land and that will only be granted if it's deemed by the high court that this case represents a quite a precedent that it up but applies to the wider public image results now that he is our sons did come out on the steps of old the high cool make a short statement following the announcement he said that he and his team would be considering what that next steps would be in the days ahead and people's new ones people and that which he intends to spin that what happens at the cool heads today and directed them to his website just on services we can hear it from the horse's mouth what has happened what has happened and he also criticised the european arrest warrant that's what he had to say about that i have not been charged with any crime in any country. the spar with the european arrest warrant

is so restrictive that the program you pay for from considering the power over paid has got to have made we are here today. to ask those in his team considering that next steps in full on really on the european arrest warrant time joined by jim carr and he's the chair of an organization called civil rights international. jim if this case does go to the secret in court it looks like that the european arrest warrant itself could come under scrutiny is that something that you would welcome yes i would welcome dr you know i do think the european arrest warrant should come under scrutiny because it is being abused for political purposes. because when. i was in sweden he did go before the court should not have. to leave sweden once he was there he should have been tried if he told there was

a case against him and then he was allowed to come here to england. and i believe that there was pressure a part. government perhaps by the american government or by other governments who were embarrassed as a result of the revelations that we could be exposed to the international community and i believe that that is why you try to get to make sure there is very great concern here in the united kingdom. should you should studio and i should states because money people believe that they would not get to fear here in india and i should states in part thank you very much jim curran that talking to us outside the high court where julian assange has now left he's gone back presumably to the house all day in norfolk outside london where he has been held under strict bail conditions for the last eleven months he's considering his next step this case

is not safe but it certainly does look less likely that he will go free at the end of a civil. war smith reporting that from london now the court's decision to extradite cuban astonished to sweden comes just over a week after week and weeks announced it was suspending activities due to a financial blockade journalist in russia afshin rattansi told me earlier that the mainstream media is adding to the persecution of assad and his organization. it is astonishing here in britain to see the way the case is being covered through organizations i used to work at the really see the guardian newspaper the guardian of course had a deal with wiki leaks the kinds of character assassination around the world by mainstream media trying to attack this summer and it just goes to show what a state journalism is in. the london stock exchange protesters recently i don't suppose many of those mainstream journalists really understand what's going on over there i think one argument here is the craft of journalism is in crisis

julius should become some sort of overall professor of journalism and close all the university's courses in journalism down because he really did teach a lot of people that it's about speaking truth to power and speaking for the power less and the idea of him being in court and now the idea of him being rendered for torture in a state that as we know is we carrying out rogue assassinations of its own citizens is is just breathtaking. ross interest in what you think about the u.k. calls for it in r t dot com let's have a look at the results so far on the screen well the majority of those who responded think that the u.s. is using the u.k. as a puppet again almost the same amount of people believe the verdict is the result of a conspiracy to gag internet freedom eight percent say it was a legitimate step towards a fair trial rest think the supreme court made overall the decision anyway let's hear what you have to say to me voted r.t. dot com. international atomic energy agency claims to have discovered

a secret nuclear complex in northwestern syria and says the design it's likely you rein him in richmond facility although it's being used as a club and spinning plant patrick a news reporter who's been closely following the story says the only purpose of these allegations is to make syria the new global. yes this is a way of heaping more pressure on syria during a time when the uprising to take in place i think it really brings about the worst of both worlds in many way it brings about kind of western intervention but in a very insidious kind of i would say dishonest fashion so basically doing what they did in iraq which is to use the guise of weapons inspections to basically poke their nose into all areas of countries or to seem to be a bit suspicious a bit naughty they're poking their noses in for what i would say political really appear to be political really rather than for any reasons of security concerns at its current time and i think it's very telling that they're choosing to do this at

a time when the uprising for taking place what they're trying to do is to kind of effectively use other things as kind of modes of fro of the situation to try and abet effectively build up a narrative which they can use should they necessarily want to intervene in the future i mean certainly syria is being recast in this situation as one of the one of the countries that needs to watch you know what one of the countries in the former for example a new axis of evil or something along those lines so i think it is being used for strategic reasons the only thing that will really work is if al assad actually is if the syrian people are left alone without any western intervention without any of their you know kind of their lackeys or kind of bodies like the international atomic energy agency poking their noses in and it's left to the syrian people to basically decide what they want to do and determine their own future. to live in the new prime minister says making sure human rights are respected is a top priority comes after a string of war crime medications training and t.c.

fighters of people who wants fought on the side of gadhafi but i'm sure a former cia intelligence officer says it's an inevitable consequence of the west interfering in other peoples of france. the europeans and the americans wanted assured access to european oil and on top of that american leaders are not unlike the leaders that were in moscow during soviet times they believe in the inevitability of democracy everywhere just is as marxism was it once believed to be inevitable and as a result they're upset in power structures centuries old and they're going to pay for it by an increased power among islam a standby civil war in those countries we have just created an enormous reinforcement in terms of the people who are released from libyan prisons and in terms of supplies of weapons for the islamists across north africa with the arab world still dealing with the ongoing political turmoil if he continues to delve

deeper into how foreign intervention affected the outcome of the arab spring and you can follow the latest updates and videos on our facebook page you can also have your say you can join the intense discussion in the comments all that just a click of a mouse away at facebook dot com slash. the . investigators have concluded the crew applied the brakes during takeoff causing a plane crash in the russian city of you at a slow level that killed forty four in september in the telling of a this is what the investigation committee had to say. they investigated has shown

that those pilots were trained how to operate yet forty planes for a very long time and then they had to switch to forty twos and according to the committee those two planes have a very different brake pads all systems which share the pilots didn't have enough time to get used to it and so that could have been done by mistake another reason there's a jesse is one of the pilots was suffering from a strong neurological condition which shows strongly in fact someone's reflexes and was also under the effect of strong medication perhaps he was using that medication to treat that condition that he was successfully hiding from the aviation medical for all this time a lot of the documents a world full spied apparently and from the conversations records from the black box during the press conference that we were listening to it was pretty clear that. they sounded very negligent there was a lot of swearing and the interstate. aviation committee i was actually saying

that it sounds like the pilots did not calculate all the parameters for the takeoff before hand so they were not prepared for flights. breaking news this. very nearly nineteen minutes past the in the russian capital russian business one victim has been found guilty of legally selling weapons to colombian terrorists a new york jury apprehended in thailand in two thousand and eight he was extradited to the u.s. in two thousand and ten to be tried for allegedly selling weapons to fall rebels fighting american soldiers well jeez i'm stuck in new york and she has the details search us more about this trial an astrologer. just minutes ago we found out from inside the courtroom that the twelve jurors in the victor good case after what seems like quite a bit of deliberation have found him guilty on all four charges against him are

those charges include conspiring to kill american citizens and conspiring to smuggle arms internationally including to start. group team terrorists in the united states it's not seen as a group by the united nations russia or thailand where it was arrested in two thousand and eight now of this verdict comes out in just minutes ago we are waiting to hear from our boots lawyers from his defense team to make statements the next stages of this trial would really be the decision of the judge we knew we do know that good faeces as much as twenty five years to a lifetime behind bars here in the united states it's important that throughout this trial that lasted three weeks victor boot the russian businessman forty four year old man who was snatched up and brought onto u.s. soil in two thousand and ten has consistently remained and pled not guilty in this case and the stars of thanks very much indeed for that update from new york and we'll have more details more reaction on the story as it happens in the meantime thanks very much indeed and start your thinking. the leaders of turkey and germany

met on wednesday as the nation celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the historic guest worker deal brought hundreds of thousands of turns to then west germany to fill jobs as industry boomed the anniversary comes during heavy debate over the concept of multiculturalism in europe which when he sees failing exemplifying this the office of a satirical french newspaper was full of them to profit from it it's editor in chief for the week so an esper some m.p.u. from the danish people's party says that happened because extremists simply don't understand free speach. it's quite obvious that it is jodi who has been targeted by by fanatics who do not accept any critique separate of their religion and want us to let their to do their ways thereby destroying the freedom of speech in europe and that's really what such therapy is about it is a question of defensiveness an islamist wanting to decide what can be serious what

can be and what can be can be drawn in their way challenging our freedom of speech and i think that's one of the most cherished freedoms that we have us all so we should not accept this by any chance and i think that all right that might be provocative also what us mostly be and also what shali to do in what in order to say you know we have a stand here we would say will be light we will laugh at what we like i think it's also very humid there's a bunch of humor and one usually good deeds and it's a shame that these muslims cannot not just think about all the lashes christianity has received throughout centuries my goodness in my country i mean there have been marked and lesh by all sorts of persons during the last two three hundred years we've been laughing at those christians who was fanatics who wanted to keep quiet who do not want us to have my critics the religion that is part of our our system i

mean we need to say to these people you know you are not that want to decide we decide how about free speech we all say we like. our t. sarah furth reports from greece where anti immigration sentiment is reaching boiling point fueled by the country's economic ways. on the streets of greece protests have become a common occurrence this gatherings not one of the usual demonstrations and say emigration fright that the ethnic tensions here in the city evidence of becoming more and more of a concern in the last few years illegal immigration into europe increased in particular has skyrocketed as the greek economy has plummeted the crisis led to unemployment poverty seeing a lot of people not being able to make ends meet face to these tough economic conditions it's not just extreme factions a society that has seen

a rise in and he in the current sentiment but every day greeks he faced with exceptionally tough station circumstances as becomes a point the finger of blame. on. the streets of athens has now become a kind of limbo for illegal immigrants who are struggling to make money and to survive even second generation immigrants who've lived in the country many years feeling the tension we've come to one of greece's neighborhoods that the danger is a pretty high immigrant population the local park here has become it's a mine a battleground. we have closed the poor because it was overrun with immigrants and no one could cross the border everybody was and no group of people could come here it was not a playground. the children are now forced the play they gain said outside the closed gates of the park after this area was named jane to say whether or not the

threat is real the fairness neighborhood. is technique which version issues in this . year's thing is an issue because it's a symbol of the baby leave taking the place to look good because in many areas of the world the clues these things after midnight i think might not. those who don't want to go would be open to it it being the right to blow the night but it looks like that when they are to bring it on to the easier it is the yuri crisis continues ethnic tensions have been growing into an extremely volatile and sometimes dangerous situation greece is a country now in the midst of not just a financial and economic crisis but it immigration crisis to trying to find a way to rebuild say showcase he zhen here is not going to easy. r.t. athens time now to cross over to the business desk where creative joins us live with us here in moscow.

her welcome toplessness it's a volatile day for russian stocks but fear over the debt situation in europe dominating sentiment global equities are still reeling somewhat from the decision to hold a referendum on the e.u. bailout from the whole plan into doubt artie's has not. it's been a turbulent day on international markets the russian r.t.s. and my sex have been up and down to finally finish tends to flee in the black the reason for all the turmoil the continuing uncertainty over the drama unfolding in greece the government's decision to have a referendum there on the euro bailout plan is they say to try and get a clear mandate from the greek people but it has sent shock waves through international markets the fear is that the greek people will say no and that would make this already very dangerous crisis a lot worse it could cause greece to d.

faults on its debts it could go further i mean greece leaves the eurozone altogether or it could mean that another larger bailout has to be organized all three of these alternatives to greece simply following the austerity measures that are being demanded will be very economically painful and will shake confidence in the markets they will also terrifying nearby it's early and spain both of whom as economies are staring down the barrel of an economic catastrophe e.u. ministers for their part of trying to stress to greece but there is no alternative to the severe austerity measures they have demanded but they too are facing the possibility that the plan that they've worked so hard to try and put together may fail before it even of the ground. take a look at the numbers. as main bourses ended in the black the r.t.s. close up over two and a half percent m i six finished two and a quarter of

a percent higher and have a look at some individual share moves and most energy majors were up with gas from getting three and a half percent companies or subsidiary gazprom here has resumed operations in libya had a three point eight percent rising for the first pain. and russia's biggest lenders their banks and an almost two percent and a black. man in europe stock markets again. wednesday after a steep sell off investors fear that greece's referendum on its bailout could push the country into default nine is where the top gainers of a foot see president randgold resources gain over seven percent the last company reported a rise in profit. and u.s. stocks rebound from a two day slump investors are awaiting the results of a meeting of federal reserve policy makers keeping a close eye on developments at least ranking shares hit hard on tuesday are higher with bank of america gaining under four percent and citigroup having to help. and

finally oil is high on speculation e.u. leaders could push greece to accept their plan like sweet is trading at around ninety three dollars per barrel while brant is at one hundred and eleven dollars per barrel. russia will accept ukraine's offer to pay for imported natural gas in rubles think energy company enough to gas space between five hundred one billion dollars a month for the imports the potential move would help ease depreciation pressure on the ukrainian who we were our head of the russian gas association believes all energy should be sold in rubles. this is the trade of russian energy resources whether it is all or gas or the enrichment of uranium should be done in rubles it's in line with the president's decree that in moscow into an international financial center and this is one of the steps so i welcome the decisions can be simply called into rules but on the whole russia should be treating all its energy one hundred percent in rubles. so we have for you this hour

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