and the banners remains the same this year economic hardship and seemingly disconnected leaders but this year the protests 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 a surprise call for a referendum going to affect the mood over the next few days there. well greece's referendum decision has really overtaken everything here at the summit it's really forced the hand of those who thought that the e.u. e.u. project and the euro project would continue smoothly really is the strongest indication yet the greece could potentially quit the euro upsetting the whole eurozone project. nicolas sarkozy have summoned george papandreou the prime minister of greece for emergency talks all the situation they want to find out why mr pope and to consult with them before making this decision the prime minister of france france we feel said that it was a concern to him and to regretful that this unilateral announcement had been made

he added that the greeks must say quickly and without ambiguity if they want to keep their place in the eurozone or not so strong words that almost soiled 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 confidence of investors in the euro zone project and also more specifically what it will do if there is a no votes in the greeks decide to sort of split and not go ahead with this whole bailout deal e.u. leaders had promised here at the cannes summit to resolve their differences and really come up with a solution to the e.u. debt crisis but it seem increasingly likely that they won't do that with the greek spanner in the works mr pop and just position within greek is it within 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 son the politicians all being swayed by people power more on that now in this report. to into his role. says it wants this summit on its picturesque mediterranean coast to reflect the steve emerging nations in the world but this financial crisis deepens in both the u.s. and european union economists self interest behind that noble claim to involve more russian economy is really to try to convince those rising economies to put money on the table to. unsustainable currency union of europe in the first place developing countries which still the west quick to back civil unrest among their population they know see those same western countries coming down hard on public movements in the room. 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 and a system of states that still has stability when in fact there is instability this summit is an attempt to put a shining 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 have mounted 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 can't continue to just block criticism this whole idea that. they can simply ignore popular protests against what's happening could come back to bite the leaders of the g seven energy twenty summit this protest different from summits of the post was billed jims dicksee of the latest western bank to get bail dealt with

public money growing numbers here worry 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 legislation quid pro quo be a corporate lobbyist police roadblocks ball demonstrate just getting from east to the nearby town of can with the g. twenty takes place but it's becoming ever harder to stop world leaders hearing the voices of protest. in nice france. so greece's plan to play not 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 wild founder and editor in chief of the daily bel dot com i'm not sure what the actual personal motivation was that george papandreou had to make that move but i for one indorsed 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 the on an individual level forget about a national level and expect to we'll put them all into a basket and to accept a federalized control via brussels that is in the interest of the people on a localized 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. the existing mood of desperation caused by austerity cuts pushes some greeks to make immigrants scapegoats.

that's still to come but first we can leaks founder julian assange may find himself on 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 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 known go automatically has to be granted permission by the high court to appeal to see priem 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 and its results now he

did come out on the steps of 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 he pulls new ones people in that which means having just been that what has happened at the cool head today and directed them to the face website sounds versus we to hear it from the horse's mouth what has happened what has happened and he also criticized the european arrest warrant let's hear what he had to say about that i have not been charged with any crime in any country. the sport with the european arrest warrant is so restrictive that it prevents u.k. court from considering the overcoat has to have made clear here today. to his team considering that next steps in from all 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 unlikely that figure pain arrest warrant itself could come under scrutiny is that something the e.u. would welcome you know so i would welcome dr i do think the european arrest warrant should come under scrutiny because it is being abused for political purposes. because when you know song was in sweden he did go before a court there should not allowed him to leave sweden once he was there he should have being tried if the told there was a case against him and then he was allowed to come here to england. and i believe that there was pressure put on the swedish government perhaps by the american government or by other governments who were a barrister as a result of the revelations that we can be exposed to the international community and i believe the duct is. tried to get to make sure there is very great concern

here in the united kingdom about extradition is to the united states because many people believe that they would not get to fear here in india nightsticks in current thank you very much as jim curran that talking to us outside the high courts where julian assange has now left he's gone back presumably to the house all full and smith in norfolk outside london where he has been held under strict bail conditions for the last eleven months he's considering his next steps this case is not safe but it certainly does look less likely that he will walk free at the end of a civil. nor smith reporting there from london now the court's decision to extradite tuna sandwich to sweden comes just over a week after week and leaks 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 two organizations i used to work at the b.b.c. 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 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 that the craft of journalism is in crisis julian has become some sort of overall professor of journalism when they should close all the universities courses in journalism down because he really did teach a lot of people that it's about speaking truth to power and speaking of 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. just in what you think about the u.k. court's verdict in our dot com let's have a look at the results so far on the screen while the majority of those who responded think that the u.s. is using the u.k. as a property 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 over all the decision anyway let's hear what you have to say so that you voted r.t. dot com. international atomic energy agency claims to have discovered a secret nuclear complex in northwestern syria it says the design it's like you rein him in richmond facility although it's being used as a cotton spinning plant patrick kane is a 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 uprisings are taken 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 they're 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 suspicious a bit dodgy they're poking their nose in what i would say political appear to be political reasons rather than for any reasons of security concerns at this current time and i think it's very telling that they're choosing to do this at a time when the uprising for taken place what they're trying to do if they kind of effectively use other things as kind of mobs of fro at the situation to try and affectively 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 that

performance for example a new act 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 actually if if 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 nose in and it's left to the syrian people to basically decide what they want to do and determine their own future. to look at the new prime minister says making sure human rights are respected is a top priority comes after a string of war crimes and a geisha is claiming and t.c. fighters are torturing people who wants fought on the side of gadhafi was sure a former cia intelligence officer says it's an inevitable consequence of the west interfering in other people's affairs. 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 at 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 islamists and by civil war in those countries we have just created 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 it continues to delve deeper into hell 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 news. 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 and overcome this into what the investigation committee had to say. has shown that those pilots were trained how to operate forty planes for a very long time and then they had to switch to forty and according to the committee those planes have a very different brake pads all systems which share the pilots didn't have enough time to get used to and so that could have been done by mistake another reason

they're suggesting is one of the pilots was suffering from a strong neurological condition which shows strongly that 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 community for all this time a lot of the documents toward full thought 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 culture weights all the parameters for the sake of before hand so they were not prepared for the flight. breaking news this. very nearly nineteen minutes past the in the russian capital russian business one victim has been found guilty of

a legally selling weapons to colombian terrorist by 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 are tell us more about this trial. bill just minutes ago we found out from inside the courtroom that the twelve jurors in the victor good case after what seemed like quite a bit of deliberation have found him guilty on all four charges against him those charges include conspiring to kill american citizens and conspiring to smuggle arms internationally including too far. group deemed terrorist in the united states it's not seen as terrorists group by the united nations russia or thailand where it was arrested in two thousand and eight now this verdict comes out in just minutes ago we are waiting to hear from 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 would face 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 this story as it happens in the meantime thanks very much indeed and study you thank you. the leaders of turkey and germany met on wednesday as the nation celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of a historic guest worker package deal brought hundreds of thousands of turns to the west germany to fill jobs as in the industry boomed the anniversary comes during heavy debate over the concept of multiculturalism in europe which many say is failing exemplifying this the office of

a satirical french newspaper was fun and named prophet muhammad that it's editor in chief for the week soren as you from the danish people's party says the happen because extremists simply don't understand free speach. it's quite obvious that jody it too has been targeted by by fanatics who do not accept any critique separate of their religion and want us to lead them to to their ways thereby destroying the freedom of speech in europe and that's really what the search for a bill is about it is a question of which i guess it is least i miss one thing to decide what can be said one can be written and what came to be drawn and in their way their challenging how sweet they were speech and i think that's one of the most cherished freedoms that we have it's all so we should not accept this by any chance and i think that all right that might be provocative also what us posting but also what shirley don't do

in what you know what is to say no we have a stand here we would say will be light we will laugh at what we like i think this also very humid here is about so humor in what is surely a good deed and it's a shame that these muslims cannot love us just think about all the lectures that christianity has received throughout the centuries my goodness in my country i mean they have been mocked and they have been left by all sorts of persons during the last two three hundred years we've been laughing at those christians who has been as he's been wanted to keep quiet they do not want us to have like critics and religion that is part of our our system i mean we need to say to these people you know you are not the one to decide we decide about free speech we all say what we like. now r.t. sarah furth reports from greece where anti immigration sentiment is reaching boiling point fueled by the country's economic malaise. on the streets of greece protests have become

a common occurrence this gatherings not one of the usual demonstrations. ever gratian protests the ethnic tensions here in the city evident and becoming more and more of a concern in the last few years illegal immigration into europe increased in particular has skyrocketed with the greek economy has plummeted the crisis has led to unemployment poverty creasing to 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 anti immigrant sentiment but every day greeks who faced with exceptionally tough social circumstances have begun to point the finger of blame. for their problems the streets of athens have 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 of the dangers a first high immigrant population the local park here has become isn't mine a battleground. among the we have to close the current because it was overrun with immigrants no one could cross the corridor everybody was scared and no group of people could come here it was not a playground anymore. that children are now forced to play very gainsaid outside the closed gates of part of the best area with native dangers say whether or not the threat israel the fair in this neighborhood certainly is it's definitely controversial issues and it's getting yesterdays initially because it's a symbol of fear yeah baby leave me thinking that the place is not good because of the immigrants in many areas of the world big lose these things after midnight after night night. if you don't want to go they'd be opening them up in the daylight to blow through the night but close like that whether to bring it down to

the reason that is the yearly crisis continues ethnic tensions have been growing it 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 immigration crisis to trying to find a way to rebuild say showcase he zhen here is not going to be easy surf r.t. athens. time now to cross over to the business desk where corrina joins us stay with us here in moscow. her welcome top business update this hour it's a volatile day for russian stocks with fear over the debt situation in europe dominating sentiment global equities are still reeling somewhat probably quick decision to hold a referendum on the e.u. bailout throwing the whole plan into doubt artie's tom barton has more. it's been

a turbulent day on international markets the russian r.t.s. m i six has been up and down but a finally finished tentatively 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 or not would make this already very dangerous crisis a lot worse it could cause greece to d. falls on its debts it could go further and 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 have been demanded it will be very economically painful and will shake confidence

in the markets they will also terrified nearby italy and spain both of whom is a common these 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 that they too are facing the possibility that the plan that they've worked so hard to try and put together may fail before it's even off the ground. of the number of russia's main bourses ended in the black the r.t. has closed up over two and a half percent and my six finished two and a quarter of a percent higher let's have a look at some individual shareholders and most energy majors who are up with gas from getting three and a half percent companies oil subsidiary gas from europe has resumed operations in libya they have added three point eight percent rising for the first day in three after crude rallied and russia's biggest lead has burbank and it almost two percent in the black. and in europe stock markets again on. wednesday after

a steep sell off investors fear that greece's referendum on its bailout could push the country into default miners were the top gainers of a foot sea fresno and red gold resources gained over seven percent the last company reported a rise in third quarter 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 in greece banking shares hit hard on tuesday are higher with bank of america gaining on the four percent citi group to help percent and finally oil is high on speculation e.u. leaders could push greece to accept their plan like suede 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 say the energy company enough to gas pays between five hundred and one billion dollars

a month for the imports the potential move would help ease depreciation pressure on the ukrainian meanwhile ahead of the russian gas association believes all energy should be sold and locals. the trade of russian energy resources whether it is oral or gas or the enrichment of uranium should be done in rubles it's in line with the president's decree to turn moscow into an international financial center and this is one of the steps so i welcome the decision to convert specific contracts into rules but on the whole russia should be treating all its energy one hundred percent and. that's all we have for you this hour by don't forget you can always just log on to our website r.t. dot com.

this is from the russian capital time to update you on our main news stories including breaking news this hour a jury in new york convicts russian businessman vic to boot trying to sell weapons to colombian terrorists the sentence will be announced later and he faces anything from twenty five years to life in jail. results of the investigation into september's plane crash that killed a russian. name pilot error as the cause and speak of traces of a strong sedative in the co-pilot's been a. whistleblower wounded by verdict the high court in london rules the wiki leaks founder julian assange should be tried in sweden over controversial sex crime allegations. and a sense of disillusionment dominates the protests ahead of the g. twenty summit in cannes as world leaders gather to contain the global financial mayhem and the greek announcement of a referendum on the euro zone's rescue deal has only fueled the flames. well i'll be back with another.