mind. of you want. to look. at this holiday that's a style that's just that it's not many words or a driving force behind it gets cold like deflation. europe's financial chaos hijacked the g twenty meeting in france and the leaders of the world's richest nations discussed what to do about the greek debt and the teetering eurozone. and down the road from canada t g twenty march is an alternative gatherings of being held surrounded by a massive police operation. who can streets are littered with gas canisters and spent rubber bullets after a riot police crackdown on a massive occupy protest that left america's fifth largest port.

and also it is now russia questions of fairness a businessman who wants to bring him home after a new york jury finds him guilty of trafficking our top stories this hour. international news you coming live from moscow with twenty four hours a day the greek prime minister has backtracked and scrapped plans for a national referendum on whether to accept another a you hand out to save the country from drowning in debt george papandreou his decision to hold a public vote over the criticism from abroad and from the opposition putting his government on the verge of collapse when i see sarah firth joins us now from athens with more on this so heated debate on the greek parliament getting very confusing

to say the least so what has now been decided. well it was very difficult to make out from the words of the greek prime minister if he addressed his parliament just what the actual decision was we heard him speak just under forty minutes and it's still ok i don't think it's the oldest exactly what the final decision is that we still don't really know whether or not there is going to be a referendum whether or not the early elections of course we've got the confidence coming tomorrow that's going to certainly be one that everyone's looking at now because that's going to be a more clear signal of the way forward and we had some strong words from the prime minister he was talking about unity about the country needing through this crisis together but of course the actual situation here in the country has been far from unified in fact it's be. as wide a gap as you can get between the government's decisions for the past couple of months and in the couple of years and what the government continued to do it was

unmistakable that in his words he did seem to be moving away from the idea of holding a referendum he didn't actually say from what we've been listening to the words that there wouldn't be a referendum but it's looking more and more like he's caving in a little bit that pressure that we saw coming from berlin coming from paris coming from within his own party as we saw the concern that was triggered when he announced about holding a referendum because it's been a really big problem since the very beginning here this is a much confusion around these decisions that are made people simply don't know what's going on they've lost all credibility with the population here and so we hear just happened today saying these are strong messages about the country moving through this together but of course this is really not how the people feel and again we've heard once again during the eternal his words he talks about democracy he talks about unity you know credibility here in the country let's talk more about the feelings of the people there in greece now you've been covering the greek

crisis from the very beginning what will the people be thinking now about these latest developments will be happy or even more angry because we've seen a lot about anger in the past there and nothing's. absolutely we heard the prime minister talking about decisions he made reference to a number of times that the decisions reached on the twenty sixth and twenty seventh of october is saying this with the new horizons because this is the first in the way for they want to keep this on the table that any sort of early election would be disastrous for the country i could leave the country being bankrupt but the people here simply don't see this is a new horizon they see is a vicious circle these decisions going ahead they've lost faith and their voices being heard when the prime minister announced that there would be a referendum that was actually from the people with a lot of cynicism they didn't expect they'd have any say in this and not really what they are hearing now with the continuing these messages coming from the prime minister everyone here is questioning just he's actually behind this that's just

the prime minister says one thing and this precious terrorist from brussels all the focus comes once again security and suddenly the story once again changes and it really seems like a lot of people here with. the parliament here they. think the eurozone leaders gene really does have a bit of a. leading leading decision it wasn't necessarily in the hands upon it and certainly not hands of the people and obviously tomorrow it's going to be a big one when they have to stay late it's more see where we need the fourth member what actually will happen when the prime minister's got confidence within its own government so thanks very much indeed for that update from i feel sorry for a farewell political uncertainty in crisis which greece is dominating the g twenty meeting in cannes the world's leaders discussing how to stop europe's economy being dragged down by greek debt and off season he says now is that forrest. the main

session i's just going to hear from nicolas sarkozy and engler merkel and all the leaders will be giving a press conference and we'll be hearing more details about any perhaps concrete clown's on how to save the euro it is expected that nicolas sarkozy will be praising the greek prime minister's decision to scrap that referendum obviously there was a lot of pressure put on him on the eve of this summit critics saying they don't think any concrete results will actually come out of this day and a half or so this summit on the euro specifically one of the questions that still is very i believe to bated here and it was brought up in a meeting of the brics the emerging economies the reason the g twenty was created to kind of spread out the balance have more countries involved that in fact that economies are perhaps not as affected by the euro but still very important in terms of the global economy and its stability there are voices being heard we heard from president medvedev he said that on the bailout russia does support any kind of

money coming from the i.m.f. but that also what needs to be taken into consideration is how to remodel to reconstruct the financial system which was supposed to be done years ago. and he said and away from the actual summit and he g twenty motions have been held across the french riviera bushell was male. just as most here it's monaco really just down the coast from the g. twenty summit in cannes because monaco is a tax free haven and protesters here are saying that a banker for example who got a million euro. public bailout can move here i'm not even pay a single cent in tax on that bonus leaders that previous g twenty summit promise to shut down tax havens or tax paradises as they're known and the demonstrators are angry at the fact that no action is still being taken on that demonstrators in nicolas sarkozy. and barack obama most so given an alternative summit press

conference we've spoken to the fake nicolas sarkozy who says yes we confirm we're a rich organization the g. twenty is a rich organization for the rich and we don't see anything wrong with the world economy at the moment the fake angular merkel says we're quite happy for greece to have a referendum on whether it should have the euro bailout as long as they vote yes considering the fairly vague officials they were coming down to just down the road in cannes some here have said that this is perhaps the more informative of the two summits if you like the fullest protesters in nicolas sarkozy most certainly rainy and sea coast holding up signs saying the g. twenty is chile and we don't want to take any risks those are just really have a new strategy but it's avoiding the boilers that we've seen during previous summits really marking world leaders showing up the fact that they seem so out of touch with ordinary people's problems at the moment. later on r.t.

financial guru max kaiser stacy have a look at the current financial problems through the prism of the past is a preview of what's to come after seven thirty pm g.m.t. . and yoko ono were actually were hearting the kaiser report during their famous bet in one thousand. 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 you have that shot exactly to look at some of the posters on the wall make love not dead now suddenly in the year twenty eleven john and yoko were clever boy and they saw john was a visionary he saw the future he knew it was coming. right

clear right to get close to police officers have withdrawn from the streets of oakland after a series of running battles with occupy movement protests according to witnesses police ring to various protests to strongholds throughout the city including a number of abandoned buildings it's actually time to smoke them out using flash bangs into a cast on the demonstrations much more serious were allegations of police with the point probably of force but at least one possible thing sure of course when you see company has more from the city. again we're still reporting from the it's about the interest as you can hear behind me loud explosions possibly tear gas from the police officers there are at least a hundred two hundred three hundred police officers in full riot gear several i'm as you can see advancing behind us right now on the occupy oakland movement now we don't know how many officers are back there we saw a massive group of them sort of a walk down that street before that was the street of the stand up for several

protesters had barricaded the street from the police several several pieces of furniture and whatnot were lit on fire but again not enough of an action to provoke this kind of a militant response by the police force here we have to remember that earlier today thousands marched peacefully on the port of oakland show. down no arrests reported whatsoever in fact we didn't even see any of the police officers out there and yet this evening and the early in the early hours of the morning on wednesday after the peaceful march again this scene unfolding behind me on the streets of oakland no other media outlets no other television outlets here on the frontlines we have been standing here we have seen tear gas fired several protesters injured from the tear gas in fact you can smell it in the air right now i wish i could describe it better but a very intimidating show of force when you have this line of police slowly marching forward with protesters in front of them the mood is an extremely tense we don't know how this will develop but people are sort of running out from the side streets

that perhaps there's more confrontations down that way whether or not they're going to clear the camp remains to be seen but as you can see these as theirs are marching behind this sixteen hands baton thing and i don't know if you can get any closer on that shot but they're certainly coming here the crowd as you can hear is chanting oakland perhaps you can see over there several police officers with their weapons out shooting here gas for these loud sort of underneath the gun actually for anyone but definitely here scared that the protesters and journalists on site. you can also check news use twitter feed for the latest updates from the season you can read her description of some of the most dramatic events during protests. she tells us how a t.v. crew was blocked from leaving the phone call to filming a call plowing into protesters all ending with a public vote on whether to. pass about

a much much more. twitter feed which we will be tweeting. and coming up a few minutes from now here now to find out why social networking sites like twitter and facebook are in danger of becoming a surveillance tool for the british government that's tonight. rich officials are reportedly working on a plan to assist u.s. forces in a preemptive attack on it raining military facilities from his claims washington is moving towards a policy of intervention out of fear that tehran is developing a nuclear weapons program something iran has always denied and political analyst chris bambery told me earlier that he believes it's the prospect of economic ruin that's motivating the older lete into action. anyone reading the press reports on these contingency plans been joined by the ministry of defense here in london for an attack on iran must be worrying that if iran is not developing a nuclear missile it will know you did ok and you could be so faced with the idea

that the americans the british and he's really he's are looking towards an unprovoked attack on iran and the world a much more dangerous place i cannot imagine a worse alliance and these three powers people in the west seem to underestimate the strength of a reunion nationalism if there is a strong national sense of. what happened under foreign intervention into the country and how the shah was with that installed and maintained by britain and for america's long memories of the shah and the way it's presented you know in the west of the shah's with the regime there will be a bloody war if there is an attack on iran and iran is not iraq as of two thousand and one there will be retaliation for his will and from our mass and the world is that the more dangerous place because of these reports it seems bizarre that you would have thought anyone even thinking about contingency plans around would look at that and your position in this country britain for instance to the war in libya it was a majority get against of course we're talking about economically declining post in

america and britain and their military assets remain there i mean the one thing they can do for you and we know that britain and america would pull in america are prepared to use their economic and military power to try to restore economic position in the world in relation to china generations call me so i think what we're seeing here we know this from history economic instability often leads to military adventures often leads to wars and i think we must be worried at the moment the one thing i would say is if i was an american president i'd be worried about thinking about any attack on iran given the level of opposition to the economic policies we're seeing on the streets of oakland the streets of washington in new york and elsewhere with this of occupy movements. defense preparing to appeal after he was felt guilty in new york of agreeing to sell arms to terrorists and conspiring to kill americans the russian businessman could face life in jail he was arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight after a sting operation involving agents posing as members of colombia's group which the

u.s. considers a terrorist group was eventually extradited to the u.s. despite strong opposition from moscow his brother says that the us media launched a campaign which ruined his reputation before the trial even began. even before the court hearing started all the news channels and websites practically all the mass media talked of nothing else but of it to boot his name was on the screen around the clock but apart from talking there is absolutely no evidence this is what surprised that lawyer who offered proof that the prosecution could not give only they kept calling victor norm's baron wanted all over the world of what they said everyone was after him and tried to intimidate the jurors calling him a monster. he was flown out of thailand in a military style operation that moscow believes was outside the jurisdiction of us thought it. could not find enough evidence to try booting gave into the us political pressure russia insists that his extradition to the us was illegal and says it wants to bring victim back home. more insight into the case

let's talk to an author who's written or in the published a number of books on good men he joins us from oregon in the usa can't thanks very much indeed for being with us so it's sort of come as any surprise to you. well no not really it was sort of a foregone conclusion i think like you said it was all the president of the media all there was was negative information about their there wasn't any of conflicting opinions on his innocence so if you really think that media pressure did swing the trial and make it totally unfair offer really was this the merchant of death. well that's right b. but now that he's been found guilty of this one quarter you notice that the movie lord of war has been on t.v. quite a bit lately to supposedly based on his life. you can look everywhere on the internet anywhere else there is of any kind of a prisoner any kind of information about his possible innocence anywhere so there's

only one a one sided view. fortunately does he have any chance and there is talk over an appeal possibly in february the defense says that they will of course pursue this happen you haven't told so was the evidence against him just two companions so i don't think the evidence was too compelling at all that's the problem is that too many americans have heard so many bad things about him but the evidence against him obviously was to sold supposedly selling these arms to start wars. fargas only. consider a terrorist organization an american and many other countries around the world is considered a valid political party. but they don't take that to account you know what they're thinking about the trial but nevertheless within the legal framework yes ne we're talking to a lawyer saying he was found guilty on all counts he was a comprehensive verdict so when you question the evidence itself partly

intercepted e-mails lots of tangible evidence text messages into it being as well and shown to the court are you really saying that the legal framework would have been swayed politically those charges not just by the media but also by some sort of political agenda and i think the whole case is a mess smacks of a political agenda when he was taken from thailand especially since the thai authorities could find out that the charge with the we americans came in and grabbed him anyways so what is going to try to explain why then why would there be this real pressure to see this man behind bars not from a legal point of view but for political reasons. well i think he's taken over a lot of the business of the cia and other shadow organizations were working for themselves and africa was. big business supplying arms to africa and once things start to go downhill there american businessmen that were supplying arms got out of

the country and boot was one of the only people brave enough to you know be in there and i think we're trying to punish him for that sort of thing. here in russia you all day in the us apparently relations between the two countries are meant to be improving but is this is the tip of the relations if as you say this really is all about political motives. and i think just the way things are going now in america anyway as you can see we you know travel around the world and kill leaders we don't feel that we don't like. it's got to make things a little bit worse so i would think and i know the russian president was not too happy about. this he was out there with food and probably a lot of the other things that are going on right now just don't seem to have the you know war life mentality of right now for some reason ok just briefly you published books on boot does the publishing end here then do you think this man will end up behind bars for life or do you think perhaps he may indeed return to russia the russian authorities want what do you think we should hold well i think

if the euro should grow since been exerted of political pressure then maybe something will happen at least with the american courts there is a many chances for appeal but that's very expensive to do obviously the government is on the opposing side only limited expenses so they can you know keep pressure on maybe some to have at least a reduced sentence that really gets told you thanks so much for your time joining us live there in oregon in the u.s. i can't couldn't. more on another celebrated international legal wrangle that of wiki leaks founder julian assange enjoyable on our web site log on to dot com to find the latest details. to find out how his mother is being driven to despair by the latest news from the u.k. courts that he's to be extradited to sweden she says unless his homeland of australia steps in extradition to the u.s. is inevitable. plus a belated halloween surprise protesters in ukraine supporting convicted prime

minister yulia timoshenko take along one kid as they try to storm the country's parliament. the british government has blamed social networking sites for spreading on restaurant august riots across england in an attempt to prevent similar trouble in future one part of london is now proposing to online activity at youth centers but as artie's laura smith reports it's a risky game that may preach 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 spied on their members and monitor their social network activities and anything suspicious would be passed through a special anti gang unit but the m.p. for hackney west some of the worst on rest place says it's not the technology to

blame the new high crossness come from the club there was no internet knows about text messages so it is not some time when the real causes of riots. and there's a real possibility it will backfire for some young people being used to love is a safe haven in an uncertain world and message monitoring could undermine the impeachment relationship between you and vulnerable teen making it less likely to turn to them in a crisis and more susceptible to getting overtures and also whitney 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 to star 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. think there are undoubtedly social issues and solving the 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 the same risk youths they all thirty's are so concerned about laura smith r.t. london. probably but with a recap of our top stories in just a few minutes from now in the meantime business is next with korea. hello and welcome to business this hour 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 summit in cannes just hours after russia finally cleared the way to joining the trade club by settling all remaining issues with georgia outies eager of the world now has the latest. it looks like this is thawing the edge for russia for many years that russia has been the biggest economy that's outside of the w t o and so eighteen years of these negotiations publications russia has been close occasionally and has struggled with certain big partners such as the usa on other occasions the new members with humans had troubles for any seeding detail and also when you have questioned over these eighteen years russia's own desire to always join the w t o l occasions that russia has wanted to protect its own industries and has been dubious about all the benefits of course over the last few years georgia has been the biggest obstacle and the obstacle is of course not just economic but political as well in nature and the focus is on the two the fact the independent breakaway republics it's up to thirty i know because georgia

refuses to recognize these places as independent and sort of that wanted to supervise the border between these countries and russia it's not at all the access to this border and this is something that needed russian all these countries are prepared to give the deal was negotiated by swiss we date is over the past few months and it's a good way georgia and russia have accepted so this is really the key step to letting this happen under the practicalities there's going to be another round of negotiations in about ten days and then if everything is ok by mid december russia will be a w t o member of this does happen this will be perhaps considered one of the greatest achievements of president reagan's presidency. turning to markets now you don't thursday after the european central bank lowered its benchmark interest rates to one and a quarter of a percent from one and a half percent also affecting the markets was greek prime minister's decision to back away from plans to hold a referendum on the bailout package the forty finished over

a percent higher while the dax ended up two point eight percent. here in moscow the markets climbed on the last day of the trading week as well against the test and it over the center of the black and white six finish point eight. said hi i'm on friday the russian forces will be closed for public holiday let's have a look at some of the individual channels on my six gasp wrong as problems patrimony losses the company has resumed operations and leader together with italian any noise can make you also gainst the company has managed to acquire around a hundred and twenty million shares from the market and inspired by it is about sixty three percent of its charter capital and air for the last one i have a sense the company has reported an eleven percent decline in net profit for the third quarter according to russian accounting standards. that's all we have for you but don't forget to log on to our website r t dot com slash business for more.

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