leaders of the world's biggest economies meet for a g. twenty summit where center stage is taken by the euro crisis and now intensified rather greek decision to hold of bailout referendum. russian businessmen victor blood found guilty of arms trafficking by u.s. security facing life in jail but he keeps claiming he's innocent. and a rally of thousands in oakland causes a major port shutdown as public discontent with economic inequality again spilled on to the streets artie's correspondent on the scene caught in the middle of events reporting how they unfold.

ten am in moscow i matras are good to have you with us here on r t our top story it's a shaky time for leaders of the world's twenty biggest economies are about to meet in france the eurozone trembling after greece's shocking announcement that little hold a referendum on euro bailout plans as he's an isa now i reports from cannes the summit could become the scene of a major standoff. it's europe france versus euro skeptics at this year's g. twenty basically they can summit has been hijacked like this euro crisis out of the greek prime minister dropped a bombshell saying that his country would hold a referendum on whether or not to make cuts and accept this latest batch of valois it's being pushed by germany and france well but reply minister was some mention told by angela merkel nicolas sarkozy the host of this year's summit of the i.m.f. and the european central bank that basically the country needs to play by their rules or get out of the euro zone saying that his decision to hold this transfer

engine was unilateral other to change the psychological situation of the euro crisis but some of the analysts we've been speaking to say in a very sarcastic way well god forbid the greek people should be the ones to just find the fate of their country perish the thought of the people who are the victims of the various so-called rescue packages that the e.u. and the i.m.f. and the e.c.b. of cooked up for the last eighteen months or so perish the thought that they should be allowed to decide whether they want these things while some still think no matter what the outcome here in camp for greece the outcome in the end will be the same i believe that the greeks will be forced into accepting whatever stereo measures or whatever bailout packages are are dropped in their laps brussels and the g twenty the emerging economies were meeting of course in this year's g. twenty including russia have been saying for years that the financial system has to

be completely remodelled of course in a global sense now we have people in america in europe across the world coming out and trying to their leaders that something needs to be changed so certainly today we will be hearing some criticism perhaps of these emerging economies were of course are a big part of the g. twenty i will perhaps not hearing their voices not as much as the g. seven the g. twenty of course created at the height of the. two thousand and eight financial crisis has solved those global economic problems but the questions being asked what has changed the world the voices of these emerging economies this time around was reporting from cannes nice in our hearts. hopes are on high among eurozone leaders that emerging economies including china will be able to help the struggling block beijing based correspondent shannon fan sand says if china agrees to come to the rescue it'll come at a price for europe. listen china will likely be asking for some major concessions

one route for china's funding of the bailout fund would go through the i am after an i.m.f. finds now that i am not historically has been dominated by the united states and european powers and developing countries have long argued for greater voting power and more of a voice and i am so it's possible that china would demand greater voting powers within the i.m.f. for having its money go through them after the euro zone so that's one thing and that of course would diminish speed the influence of western powers in that and not find another thing that china may ask for is greater opportunities for foreign direct investment and to europe and i that means sensually buying companies technology companies and so on and you're at the end of last so if china decides to help out the euro zone in a crisis china will use every bit of its leverage that it can right now china has all the money and as one analyst put it china is right now the banker to the world china's influence is only such a grow and i think what we're seeing right now that you're seeing europe and in the united states and

a state of crisis because of the forces of globalization and proud on the and a larger scale you're seeing a shift of power and a shift and influence but if i can all my car and political influence to the east and to china. in the next are much closer in specie herber discuss whether someone dreams of have made a better job of fixing the financial turmoil than bankers and politicians. and yoko ono were actually watching the kaiser report during their famous bed in in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine and you see you know this is a unique perspective not very many people look at that shot from that time but as you can see they were also saying all we are saying is let the banks fail and prize their karma at the time nobody thought to look at the full thirty sixty of that stuff exactly to look at some of the posters on the wall like make love not. now suddenly in the air twenty eleven john and yoko were clever boy and they

saw john was a visionary he saw the future he knew it was coming. russian businessman victor boot been found guilty of trafficking arms to terrorists by a new york jury who was arrested in thailand three years ago and later after several attempts by the us extradited in two thousand and ten or he's married important i has the latest from new york. just one day after deliberations began a jury of twelve handed down that verdict and the verdict is that they found the russian businessman businessman victor boot guilty on all the charges that were leveraged against him by the united states those charges include conspiring to kill americans and inspiring to kill u.s. officials trafficking rockets and also he was charged with supplying arms to the revolutionary armed forces of colombia an organization the united states deems as

terrorists now this this trial of victor boot went on for about three weeks but his presence here in the united states has garnered a lot of attention as we've been reporting the u.s. fought very hard to get victor victor boot extradited from thailand to the u.s. over a year ago but that fight was was taking place since mr coote was arrested during a sting operation in thailand in march two thousand and eight. has pled not guilty on all the charges and he still maintains his innocence his attorney albert diane did speak to the press following today's events that took place in court so this is not the end but he still has a chance that we have a chance to will again we can appeal to this judge. that the verdict was rendered against we do the evidence that we can also proceed to the united states court of appeals but we are disappointed that it was ordered now that he's been found guilty

on these charges he faces a sentence of anywhere between twenty five years and life in prison george now an investigative journalist who attended the hearings as who was too shocked to react to the news. the case against the boot for all practical purposes is case closed. albert diane after the jury was dismissed and victor boot just stood there basically seen as it is as if he was in shock he didn't we act whatsoever in any way as if as if he was lifeless da operation relentless was you know targets of subic to boot by any means necessary and it was it was done on several different continents and they had da informant highly paid da informants dea agents and pro conspirators so once they have him here now it is almost impossible that i think you know he'll ever leave the united states. russia has repeatedly criticized woods

extradition from thailand shouldn't us as quote extreme injustice but under u.s. law it's possible to have ducked anyone who is deemed to be a threat according to international extradition lawyer douglas mcnabb. there is u.s. supreme court authority that it is ok for a federal agent to go into a foreign country in contravention of the foreign country's law kidnap an individual and bringing to the u.s. to stay and probably us have a package that individual was kidnapped in contravention of local wealth does it is not the places that have the indictment the smell test which i see. that potentially issues could be raised with regard to the appeal i'm not hopeful that those two are going to be successful issues given the state of the u.s. supreme court's authority with regard to extradition i think we're beyond bison. stay with us here on r.t. still ahead plans to target gang violence get a mixed response in the u.k.

. but it's not looking at the riots. that's the really good why many are critical of the proposals from a youth club leaders spy on members and monitor their messages as a way to prevent street riots. and international criminal court at the hague nato bombings in libya over allegations of war crimes. but first in the u.s. all eyes were on oakland where a rally of thousands of anti-corporate protesters paralyze one of the country's major ports that follows last week's violent dispersal of the demonstrators camp by police that saw a former u.s. marine severely injured our correspondent losing calif and i was at the center of it all in the protest lockport she filed this report from oakland. we're here at the port of oakland where the occupy wall street protesters have successfully shut down the porch the crowd you see behind me is gathered here because one of the workers trying to speak through the crowd almost running over several protesters trying to get through the human mind the human barricade the protesters surrounded

the car going to him from going he's now backing out a lot of folks here furious because again this was a predominantly peaceful march up hundreds of people started thousands of people had gathered here almost no police presence and so these kinds of tactics these kind of aggressive attacks driving through the crowd plowing through the crowd i really uncalled for and very very surprising erin might have how quiet it has been and again the port of oakland has effectively been shut down several thousand people marched from downtown oakland onto this area they shut down all of the gates effectively sending a warning shot they say to the so-called one percent of the corporate owners of the ports trying to hurt the the top of the to where it hurts the most in the pocket in the economic sense whether or not this these kind of tactics are going to be repeated at other occupy wall street movements remains to be seen but it is quite interesting to sort of note the contrast between the having handed tactics employed by the oakland police department just about

a week ago when we saw the very serious crackdown that are resulted in several hundred arrests and an injury to one iraq war veteran as well as other protesters took a very very peaceful and got massive demonstration here that almost no police presence that successfully and effectively shut down the sport i think that the very least it's going to be a new tool in the arsenal of the occupy wall street movement will see sort of the power that folks have to organize on short notice and to take out these kinds of actions that you know can't really be ignored regardless of whether you stand for or against this issue itzhak that's like me is that affect the pocketbooks of a large corporations that do get noticed i think that protesters will sort of learn a lesson from that or perhaps more that in other. i reporting from downtown oakland haven't heard about plans for art t.v. . and lucy is keeping us updated on the latest developments with her twitter feed you can check out the news from the heart of unfolding events in california is now taking a look at the streets hit by the protest also posting pictures of

a shattered window covered with boards follow the events in oakland on her twitter feed and already tweets out r.t. underscore. the influence of social networks a growing especially at times of onerous to britain plans to use it against protesters following the summer's massive riots making youth club workers spy on their members is among the controversial proposals in cuba including monitoring messages as artie's laura smith reports from london the plan could cause total isolation for potential troublemakers. the reality of life in east london young teens take part in a workshop on gun violence with the government laid the blame for all guests riots firmly at the tour of gangs one london council is talking about making youth workers spy on their members and monitor their social network activities and i think suspicious would be passed to a special anti gang unit but the m.p.

for hackney where some of that was placed says it's not the technology to play when you had rights in this country in the twelfth century when there was no sign that there was no. text message so it is not you know time of the real causes of riots. and that's the real possibility it will be back by the some young people begins a safe haven in the middle east. and misfits monitoring could undermine the impeachment relationship between. multiple teen making them less likely to turn to them in a crisis and more susceptible to a guy. outside with me crying and violence during the riots. social networks like twitter and blackberry messenger were used by rioters to pinpoint the next location in march for destruction the government went as far as proposing shutting down the services while two men were jailed for four years each inciting writing on facebook

but teens say spying risks isolating the very people they're trying to help. people like you send these type of things that are undoubtedly social issues and solving that requires walking a fine line between coming down hard on troublemakers and preserving civil liberties for everyone but it's clear that this measure which would cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to enforce could also cost the trust and goodwill of a thing at risk youth the old thirty's are so concerned about euro smith r.t. london. so forget our website where there's plenty more on our top stories online here is what's a click away right now israel's military test fires a missile reportedly capable of delivering a warhead to any part of the middle east as far and as far as europe plus. taking bears a family of animals in russia's far east takes to the highways asking locals for

food check out the footage in full on our website or to. nato's actions in libya will be investigated for alleged war crimes by the international criminal court at the hague according to the libyan health department nato says air strikes killed more than a thousand civilians the international court will assess the actions of all sides during the conflict the while as the new leaders appear to tend more control real law than the see the west could be disappointed with the results of its intervention michael scheuer a former cia intelligence officer says it's and inevitable consequence. the media is very childish in many ways believing you can build a democracy in six months or six years the americans and the british and been at it

for eight hundred years and so now that it's turning out to be a mistake to police lamas certain power in tunisia they're going to come to power in libya the media is running away from the story 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 offsetting 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. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe the arab league says syrian authorities have agreed to ease the seven month political crisis in the country the proposal urges the government to remove tags from the streets and turn to negotiation with the opposition within a fortnight it's the latest in a string of international efforts to halt turmoil that's claimed more than three thousand lives since march. in argentina a freight train slammed into

a school bus killing seven children at an assistant director dozens more were injured when the bus with more than forty people aboard tried to cross the tracks the train dragged a vehicle for hundreds of metres before it finally came to a halt and investigation into the cause of the accident is under way. and are one step closer to establishing its own space station for the first time a nation successfully docked two orbiting spacecraft and unmanned vehicle launched earlier this week hooked up with a space lab already circling the planet china has launched its own program after a pita requests to join the sixteen nations international space station were denied . and speaking with skyward affairs eighteen months on the red planet exiting one of the most exciting space experiments in recent history drawing to a close on friday the mars five hundred crew makes a symbolic landing on earth after a simulated mission to mars in the moscow region r.t. so the shevardnadze asked the head of the project why only men were taken aboard

the full interview coming up in about ten minutes here's a peek. we did let me conclude that the candidate six will make distinctions between men and women it was when we looked at the level of proficiency character traits he did as he took on a team and many of the coolant sees. a. minute they were different women but personally i would be serious but a woman in such conditions because a man can break his daily routine much more easily than a woman and the police in his private life family and even a professional career and a woman cannot afford to lose too much time she should never stop collecting coins for. five hundred days on a voyage to the on. a breakthrough in space travel. the return from the red planet. mars five hundred touched down on r.t.

finally in a snooze block twenty five years on the victims of india's worst ever industrial disaster are still coping with its aftermath thousands of people were poisoned when noxious gas leak for a plant owned by a us company union carbide now they claim to have suffered even more as pharmaceutical corporations use the opportunity to test dangerous experimental drugs on that artie's pretreated takes a look. one thousand nine hundred eighty four bhopal india thirty tons of toxic gas leaks from the union carbide corporation puss decide plant killing around twenty thousand people many instantly even after twenty five years residents say it was a day they can never forget it eclipsed when children drug one wife and mother to mention everyone was screaming room room experts say union carbide had faulty equipment surely trained employees and in adequate evacuation plans in the aftermath despite being charged with manslaughter managers were bailed out and

flown back to the united states never to account for their part in the disaster union carbide eventually reached a four hundred seventy million dollars settlement with india's government but left without even cleaning up the mess many believe that caused thousands more to suffer and they're angry. ok today thousands. still suffer. very healthy before the gas leaks to the place where after this incident we became very sick never improved after the leak many indians were wary of foreign companies but it turned them into prime candidates for clinical trials faith taught they were getting treatment but doctors often used experimental drugs without them knowing the patients apparently consented by signing papers in english they didn't understand and many say they never signed anything at all for each

participant in a clinical trial the doctor received around two thousand dollars this is bhopal memorial hospital the place where the victims from the gas leak of nineteen eighty-four were treated it's also good place where clinical trials of medications took place about eighty percent of those are believed to have been done on gas victims r t obtained documents that show at least six. trial programs that took place in bhopal between shoot thousand and four and two thousand and eight it is profoundly ironic that after that the victims of the worst there mikkel disaster in what some of the largest promised group largest multinational corporations were in war and get the victimized by another set of multinational corporations pharmaceutical corporations and documents show that at least eleven people who are knowingly took part in the bhopal trials died after taking the drugs today srivastav still waits for justice. it was because of the moods and i'm slowly

losing last night i've lost my appetite we cannot work from home either and i suffered from breathlessness. left to suffer a double tragedy preassure either r t bhopal india. business up next we will stay with us here at r.t. . hello and a very warm welcome to your business update russia's leading banks and russian agricultural buying increasing rates which oppose this in order to encourage consumers to bring more cash to lenders the maximum rate is because now it's wrong seven percent but that's still lower than smaller banks which started raising rates in september some analysts say the banks are preparing for a new wave of financial crisis and liquid squeeze which attains worth from loose trading says the banks have a lot of assets on their balance sheets but cannot sell them in the current

environment. it's cheaper to take the money by increasing deposits or increasing the. funding from the central part it's cheaper to do that it's to sell off the securities in a person market i don't think there's a problem in asserting the brakes themselves i mean they're lending portfolio i think the problem is in the securities portfolio. meanwhile the country's central bank has become providing unsecured loans to lenders to say they've got them against a possible lack of liquidity it's also trying to reduce banks' dependence on overseas borings analysts say global economic uncertainty makes it harder for local lenders to raise cash aboard. let's have a look at the markets oil is lower as the u.s. but ended it today resume with no new policy announcements lights which is trading

at over ninety one dollars per barrel while branches hovering at one hundred eight dollars a barrel. in asia the market so also in the red with investors in wait for the museum of the group of twenty the parties will try to work together in order to help your continued its debt crisis financials are among the hardest hit in cold cold but the stick to see them as one of most closely linked to europe's troubles industrial and commercial bank of china is done within half a cent just south. of here in most of the markets so saw this first day's trading session in the negative territory the r.t.s. is down around two percent while the my sense is losing more than one and a healthy sense roland that from their own capital previews that's a straight. following on from the decision last night i think all eyes will now turn to the e.c.b. this is the the first guy who first time the new head of m c b will be communicating with the would be more. there is hope. he will

cuts right signal good he will be different from his from his predecessor and look quite so much of what inflation i think if that comes true is going to be good for risk assets everywhere and in particular russia. russian companies are among those most likely to fail bribes while doing business abroad that's according to the latest survey released by the end to corruption got stock transparency international and current house evaluated bribery activity in twenty eight countries that questioned more than three thousand holding companies russia showed the worst results with the number of people offered by having it raised over the last three years the writing is led by dutch else whose fathers the head of transparency international in russia says corruption is very much a two way street business but it's not a happy export business does not work in isolation it works with suppliers buyers mediators office rent and involves infrastructure companies and here we are talking

about business to business corruption foreign businesses never come directly to the authorities they work with local middle companies for example consulting companies logistics etc these local companies give advice is to investors and orders how to behave in the country but if you have been and that's it for now europe today it will bring you a full update in less than one's time. if. you .

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