video. feed. you're watching r t a line from france reports coming in that the greek prime minister is about to hand in his resignation as the g twenty meeting to discuss the fate of the euro and the greeks that price of something. oakland's streets littered with tear gas canisters and spent rubber bullets riot police crackdown on a massive occupy protest that left america's largest port paralyzed. also russia questions the french businessman victor boot trial and wants to bring him home for new york jury finds him guilty. and business after almost two decades of negotiations in russia now getting closer to

setting its course and the world trade organization will have more on what benefits it will bring to russia and how to support its. just passing a five pm now here in moscow this is artsy with me rory stewart welcome to the program let's get straight to our top story here there are reports the greek prime minister could be about to offer his resignation it's just days after you plunged the markets into chaos with his announcement of a referendum to ask whether the greek people wanted the e.u. to bail them out of their debt comes during the g twenty summit in france where the world's political heavyweights discussing how to stop the eurozone from collapsing he said i was. in cannes for us and he said good to see you this is a it just has all the makings over of scandals here in conspiracies here the reports are. going to possibly offering his resignation any news on where you are

at the summit. or hearing that he is likely to offer his resignation within the hour of course not hasn't been confirmed he is here in cannes was summoned on the eve of the summit by angela merkel and closely polish sarkozy to sit down with them along with the i.m.f. and the european central bank after his bombshell that the country would hold a referendum on whether or not to make cuts that would be needed in order to secure the latest batch of ballots which are how do we being pushed by france and germany basically he was told that his decision was unilateral a lot of pressure from the e.u. that no money would be handed out unless that referendum basically the way they wanted it too soon to be frank really the signal was either you play by our rules or you get out a lot of people discussing what does that mean for the fate of the euro and this week you mentioned that it's been a mess in greece a lot of conflicting reports a lot of rumors the greek prime minister sacked most of his high ranking military

staff a lot of rumors about some kind of who of course none of that has been confirmed and then just those morning we had very conflicting ideas from the prime minister and the finance minister within his own government last night the greek pm defending his right for his country to decide their fate in terms of the euro currency and then the finance minister saying he doesn't think the referendum should even affect the decision on the euro so it's very interesting developments here of course everyone's waiting to see whether or not within the hour the greek prime minister doesn't attack resign here at the g. twenty encounter but there are already some going to say but it seems like the greek prime minister was all very pitched this whole referendum that he was summoned to the g. twenty where you are and also mentally possibly just pushed around by the e.u. heavyweights perhaps calling for his resignation i can only imagine what's going on behind closed doors here what it what it comes to the expert. patients are nice the

g. twenty the other really high hopes that any positive solutions can come out of it. but that's the thing there's a lot of criticism that nothing has really changed in terms of terms of the g twenty in the last couple of years or so it was created in the at the height of the two thousand and eight financial crisis which it's well known was created in the sensually is to be blamed on the world's seven most riches richest economies the g seven we have the g. eight that was meant to be expanded into the g. twenty so you have a global movement to kind of result of these economic situations a lot of critics say that that isn't the case that the deal breakers are really the richest countries and that needs to change with that said president needs to do speaking about the euro crisis and meeting with brics with the emerging economies that have been pushing for years to have more of a say and really be able to push their weight on the g seven saying that russia would support any kind of measures if it is through the i.m.f.

force going along with the financial institution but let's not forget russia all the time saying that these institutions need to be completely remodel that other countries have to be able to have a say and that very much goes along with what we're hearing from protesters from ground the world that the system needs to change whether or not it will happen at this g. twenty a lot of critics don't think it will be that time but analysts saying it won't be able to continue that way for much longer. than even i would live for the g. twenty and thank you. for euro zone leaders have their eyes on the cost fortunes of foster but looking at comedies like china wondering if they could offer a financial crunch so follow beijing is refusing to invest in the european financial stability fund until uncertainty surrounding greece is removed and there are some who are concerned that chinese help could come at a high price for europe. it looks like china will likely be asking for some major concessions one route for china's funding of the bailout fund would go to the i am

not turn i am i find that i am at 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 am asked for having its money go through that i'm after the euro zone so that's one thing and that of course would diminish the the influence of western powers and i am not find another thing that china may ask for is greater opportunities for foreign direct investment into europe and i that means sensually lying eyes companies technology companies and so on and europe and the us so china will i think you see if china decides to help out the euro zone in a crisis china will use every bit of its leverage that it can. and i don't it's a little bit later on i would say financial group cars are an co-host you hope but take a look at the current financial problems through the prism of the past as a preview of what's to come three thirty pm g.m.t.

. john lennon 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 this shot from that time but as you can see they were also saying all we are saying is let the banks fail and kaiser karma at the time nobody thought to look at the full three sixty of that stuff exactly to look at some of the posters on the wall like make love not that now suddenly in the year twenty eleven john and yoko were close they saw john was a visionary he saw the future he knew it was coming. without the law from moscow now a new report coming out of oakland said the police back during ofter

a series of running battles with occupy movement are just as riot gear clad cops once again deployed spines and rubber i mean action and to move and trench demonstrations but the city's poor the fifth largest in america does remain shut down correspondent lucy. seeing. as you can hear behind me about about. three hundred police officers full riot gear for me about ten feet away from me a rather intimidating sight there is a police lineup shoulder to shoulder or road just moments ago they should order for all of. that anyone to remain in the area regardless of their business here. and they said that they do have permission to use.

agents meaning possibly. the earlier we saw basically what happened about three minutes ago the police. were about. territory literally at. the office of. police officers that remain. precinct. behind me here in camp. so i think that's. going to be marching. standing to reclaim the face of such about. up to ten thousand demonstrators turned up for oakland's general strike voice their displeasure at what they see as unjust

practices in the u.s. economy lucy was also there is the events unfolded she sent us this report. 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 tried to speed through the crowd almost running over several protesters trying to get through the human mind the human barricade the presence or surrounded the car the momentum from going he's now backing out a lot of folks here furious thousands of people have gathered here now again the port of oakland has effectively been shut down and several thousand people have marched from downtown oakland on to 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 porch 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 kinds of tactics are going to be repeated at other occupy wall street movements remains to be seen i think that at the very least it's going to be

a new tool in the arsenal of the occupy wall street movement they'll see sort of the power that the 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 it is sadness like these that affect the pocketbooks the large corporations that do get noticed i think that protesters will sort of learn a lesson from that or perhaps that employ that in other areas reporting from downtown oakland to the port of oakland for our t.v. i'm to speak out. because i was trying to figure out the latest updates from so you can read her description of some of the most traumatic that struck. me all through was from leaving the fourth film in the car following the protesters a whole ending with the public vote on whether or not to let them pass much much more to speak with which we will also be tweeting it.

sometime. in just a few minutes here on our t.v. find out why social networking sites like twitter and facebook are in danger of becoming a surveillance of the british government is coming your way shortly. twelve minutes past the hour here russian businessman victor boot faces a life sentence after a new york jury found him guilty of agreeing to sell arms to terrorists and conspiring to kill americans he was arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight after a sting operation and was eventually extradited to the u.s. now despite strong opposition from moscow our correspondent marina porter has been following the story. just one day after deliberations began a jury of twelve handed down that verdict and the verdict is that they found russian business businessman victor boot guilty on all the charges that were leveraged against him by the united states those charges include conspiring to kill

americans are conspiring to kill u.s. officials trafficking rockets and also he was charged to supplying arms to the revolutionary armed forces of colombia an organization the united states genes 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. and he still maintains his innocence his attorney albert diane did speak to that for us following today's events that took place in court so this is not the end

that he still has a chance that we have a chance to will again we can appeal to the judge. that the verdict was rendered against we do the evidence and then we can also proceed to the united states court of appeals but we are disappointed at this word now that he's been found guilty on these charges he faces a sentence of anywhere between twenty five years and life in person. but russia says they want to bring back to back home and insists that his extradition to the u.s. was illegal it was flown out of thailand in a military style operation that moscow believes was outside the jurisdiction of u.s. authorities correspondent you're going to go. russia strongly criticizes the u.s. court decision saying that it's a big question into how lawful was it that the us managed to get all is to in the first place since it was twice that a thai court could not find enough evidence to r.c. write him down all of a sudden it changed its mind in just a few hours after that it was on

a plane headed to the us back in two thousand and ten and the foreign ministry here in moscow says that this was a result of political pressure applied on thailand by washington it also claims that the negative image has been created around the clear blue today in this case on purpose by u.s. media and all this makes russia question the u.s. course objectivity at the moment the foreign ministry says that its main goal is to get to the to the boot back to russia. right time investigative journalist and author daniel estulin i think it was used as a political tug of war between washington and moscow. it actually is a part of the international global game where russia basically is the n.b.a. game russia is the only nation in the world that actually stand up to enable the united states aggression go to the plans of the poor who need to actually harbor we have one world government or new world order one of our company will call it

whatever you want and we will as just an example would be has actually been done against russia's interests across the world leaders of the actual abuse of a smear will actually get access to weapons being under cover of the rebellion the american government has called our mutual those k.g.b. officer of course he was never really opposite but the early years of that hugely arcs are going to get us going any words unless a powerful nation has case obviously the insinuation of russia would actually help and start flying with weapons we basically puts russia in the same camp or the iran north korea are we were is oil etc so you're neutral i'm for sure who's up for his international game for sure of this game in his case has come to an end. we've more on another celebrated international legal radical that of course that of wiki leaks founder julian assange it's all over on our website i look at r.t. top top the find the fake. account of his mother for spare this by the latest news from the u.k. that he's to be extradited to sweden she says unless his homeland of australia

steps in extradition to the us instead. and how in surprise protesters in ukraine supporting convicted ex prime minister yulia tymoshenko take a long pumpkins as they try to storm the country's top. plus be aware of the bad some particularly hundred thalers here they've found themselves and finding a roach in russia to the so they can forage for food with commuters there are some pretty startling footage from the full story artsy toff. i think stay with us for the business here on our team rush the few minutes away from the arab league has announced it's reached

a deal with syria easing the country's long running political crisis the agreement i just ask is to immediately withdraw security forces from the streets release from jail demonstrators and start dialogue with the opposition and syria also agreed to allow the rights groups and arab league watchdogs into the country where the u.s. still says it wants to see president assad resign independent journalist james corbett sells the west and focus on syria as part of a much bigger. you know the fact that assad. at any rate seems to have signed on to be a good deal quite quickly to fact that it's already been really done by the western powers seems to indicate that the empty promises are all in the side of the the needle forces again it would be very easy forces that were interested in getting into libya so it would have to assume that if there are any empty promises here it's coming from the western side and it seems to be just an attempt to really beat this side into something worse we'll have to see in which case the obvious answer

for me i knew we intervention aside would be to you to proceed with the u.n. security council resolution route which we've been justified for the if you're interested probably have a military sort of with syria what we're looking at is a strategic or a strategic area which is a perfect place for launching any further assault into iran and i think if the endgame of this is a random seriously stepping stone towards that. twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital the british government has blamed social networking sites for supporting unrest during the august riots across england in an attempt to prevent similar trouble in the future one part of london is now proposing to monitor online activity at you. center's result is that laura smith reports it's a risky game from a bridge the vital bond of trust between young people and social workers. the reality of life in east london young teens take part in a workshop on gang violence with the government laying the blame for all ghosts

riots firmly at the door of gangs one london council is talking about making youth workers spy on their members and monitor their social network activities anything suspicious would be passed to a special anti gang unit but the m.p. perhaps me where some of the worst on rest took place says it's not the technology to play in. this country there was no internet. text message so it is not so you know congress not looking at the real causes of riots rather than blaming us and that's the real possibility it will backfire for some young people being used as a safe haven in and around the world and message monitoring could undermine the impatient relationship between you and vulnerable teen making them less likely to turn to them in a crisis and more susceptible to getting. out slightly crying and violence during

the riots social networks like twitter and blackberry messenger were used by rioters to pinpoint the next location in march the destruction the government went in store is proposing shutting down the services while two men were jailed for four years each for inciting writing on facebook but teens say spying risks isolating the very people they're trying to help if that happens don people like you sometimes establish things that are undoubtedly social issues and solving them requires walking a fine line between coming down hard on troublemakers and preserving civil liberties for everyone put it. it's clear that this measure which would cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to enforce could also cost the trust and goodwill of the same risk you the author a teaser so concerned about laura smith. and it's good have you with us here on

r.t. of the world updates and other international news headlines for you over twelve hundred passengers of a ferry that caught fire in the red sea wall now being rescued however one person has been confirmed dead twelve others severely injured the play started shortly after the ship left the jordanian port of aqaba on its way to egypt passengers were evacuated on life or are and other ships that went to the disaster site after the first or so west was sent most of those on board were said to be egyptian workers returning home for the muslim holiday over starting on sunday. to un mandate chinese spacecraft are successfully docked in orbit or it brings the country one step closer to launching its own space station planned for twenty twenty. eight was launched on. orbit right on schedule china started its own program for a space hub after it was rejected in its attempts to join the international space station. or shortly here on our to we turn our attention to libya and talk to the

president of nato as a parliamentary assembly about what you are particularly pertinent timing is the hague now is poised to investigate the killing of a thousand civilians by nato bombings there that's in the spotlight but first a business career. a rock into a prisoner's at this hour thanks for joining me president dmitry medvedev says russia's accession to the world trade organization will help liberalize trade and investments globally the president made a statement at the g. twenty meeting in cannes just hours after russia's finally cleared the way to joining the trade club by setting all remaining issues with georgia now let's cross life to the good of god you know for a for the latest hello to you good to after eighteen years of trying to join the euro is this really it's. this looks like it finally is over the last eighteen years and particularly over the last decade it has looked on several occasions

a person has been very close to joining w t o but every single time something new would pop up which are prevented from doing so even a new member would join with him with difficult negotiations have to take place all russia would itself be are willing to compromise on certain protectionist policies over the last two years of course the big issue which is looming has been georgia and it's as much a political issue has been an economic issue as the status of georgia's two breakaway de facto independent republics south of here. georgia has insisted on has to have control over the border of these republics and russia because they consider them as a part of its own border russia was saying this is not possible these republicans saying that this is not possible in the end a compromise has been reached over the past few months with the swiss agreeing to mediate those borders on with both sides with georgia with these republics with russia all prepared to give their trade information in independence and so these borders should become transparent and thus georgia and russia have compromised on.

you know we've heard over the last few weeks some predictions as to what it will promise to russia the joining of this organization and indeed the world bank has said that in the long term of the medium term it's russia is expected to grow its economy by an extra ten percent some people have been more afraid to put a figure on it and talking about the medium term they simply said that just because russia is a part of this organization it will have more of an incentive to modernize its industries and that made them more competitive of course rather bus fares for example russia's automotive industry has told me he will no longer be able to keep up which really talking about any specific results you'll have to pull the terms of this organization taken and you have to monitor them over perhaps the next two years either way russia's attractive joined organization within the next few weeks and if it does so it will definitely be considered a major stepping stone in the presidency of meeting the better of. ok thank you grow a garden for reporting on russia's accession session to w chair thanks for that now

let's have a look at the markets or was this for a second day reversing early losses that says you had good leaders pressure greece and superseding with a rescue package like sweet is trading over ninety four dollars a barrel this hour brant is a one hundred dollars a barrel and stocks in europe so i guess i knew about gaining raising only losses the european central bank has on its rightly called the benchmark interest rate to one and a quarter percent i'm going with oh good grief we're exit cable and wireless communications the top gainer with shares of eleven percent in london after its results were well received. and here with the market the high end even trading the last day of the week on friday the russian boosters will be closed for public holidays the r.t.s. is points nearly point eight percent in the black and the wise it's over one percent higher let's have a look at some of the individual channels on the rise it's a solid gas problems bounce back from early losses the company has resumed operations and leaders together with a tie in any nickel is also gaining it has managed to acquire around one hundred

twenty million shares from the market and it's why back and is about sixty three percent of its charter county sheriff lot of losing over two percent to have percent those are actually up to the company has reported an eleven percent decline in net profit but a third quarter here on according to russian accounting scott that's. fine already shareholders and thank you b.p. have filed a lawsuit against the company for failing to support their earliest suit against the british part of the venture a minority shareholders say the board's decision was affected by b.p.'s representatives who should have been banned from voting on the issue two point eight billion dollars compensation from b.p. for its failed attempt to form an arctic exploration deal and share swap with russia's rosneft he was blocked by the russian side of tank it was against the french and shareholders. that's a business up the south thanks for joining me but on the back and up forty five

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