on fri volunteers quality video for your media projects a free video john darche talked on. the greek prime minister moves away from plans to hold a referendum on whether to accept an e.u. bailout after coming under pressure at home and abroad. europe's financial chaos hijacks the g twenty meeting in france is the leaders of the world's richest nations discussing what to do about the greek debt and the teetering euro zone. and down the road from can pretty much is that alternative gatherings are being held surrounded by a massive police operation. and can streets and littered with tear gas canisters and spent rubber bullets after a rock police crackdown on a massive occupy protest that america's fifth largest port paralyzed.

putting at risk the last remnants of stability in the war torn middle east britain puts the final touches on a plan to assist the u.s. in a preemptive strike against iran's alleged nuclear facilities our top stories this hour. international news in comment live from moscow we're with you twenty four hours a day good to have you with us this hour political uncertainty in crisis hit greece is dominating the g twenty meeting in cannes the world's leaders are discussing how to stop europe's economy being dragged down by greek debt and he said now he has more. the main session a is just about to wrap up i'm going to hear from nicolas sarkozy and merkel and all of the leaders will be giving a press conference and we'll be hearing more details about any perhaps concrete

plans 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 believe debated 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 and bet 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 ballot 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. the greek

prime minister has backtracked on plans for a national referendum on whether to accept another e.u. handout to save the country from drowning in debt george papandreou his decision to hold the public vote over the true criticism from abroad and put his government on the verge of collapse but the opposition says it'll nelse support the idea of help from the e.u. what he sort of first joins us now from athens with more. believe that we can go live to sara in athens. or maybe we can't i'm sorry with a bit of luck a little later we will be able to join our reporter there in athens but in the meantime let's move away from that actual summit in cannes at g. twenty summit and talk about those and the g. twenty marches that have been held across the french riviera and still continue to be held there artie's daniel bushell has more. just as most here at 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 softer a public bailout can move here and not even pay a single cent in tax on that. world leaders at previous g. twenty summit promise to shut down tax havens or tax paradises as they're known and demonstrators are angry at the fact that no action is still being taken on that demonstrators in nicolas sarkozy dressed in local and barack obama must have 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 fate angela 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 official statements that are coming down just down the road in cannes some here have said that this is perhaps the more informative of the two summits if you like it follows protesters in nicolas sarkozy mosts on the mediterranean 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 boiler's 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. can you push all reporting their. police officers have withdrawn from the streets of oakland after a series of running battles with occupy movement protest as according to witnesses police ring to various protests to strongholds from the city including a number of abandoned buildings once a position attempted to smuggle using flash bangs and to get us to on the demonstrations of more serious were allegations of police were deploying rubber

bullets reports of at least one person was taken to hospital after being shot or respond correspondent that the couple has more from the scene. again we're still reporting from the it's about one press as you can hear behind me loud explosions possibly tear gas from the police officers there are at least hundreds if not two hundred three hundred police officers in full riot gear several him 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 that several several pieces of furniture and whatnot were lit on fire but again not enough of an action to provoke this kind of a millets interest launched by the police force here we have to remember that earlier today thousands marched peacefully on the port of oakland shutting it down no arrests reported whatsoever in fact we didn't even see any of the police

officers out there and yet this evening in the early and 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 were. whether or not they're going to clear the camp remains to be seen but as you can see these are marching behind us sixteen hands baton and 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

yesterday as loud sort of underneath the gun actually heard and you hear scared that the protestors and journalists on site. and you can check lucy's twitter feed for the latest updates from the city there and you can read her description of some the most dramatic events during the protest. she tells us how the r.t. crew was blocked from leaving the port arthur filming a car plowing into protesters all ending with a public vote on whether to allow them to pass that and much much more on lucy coming off twitter feed which we will also be tweeting at r.t. on the school com. party live here in moscow still to come also this hour find out why social networking sites like twitter and facebook are in danger of becoming a surveillance tool for the british government that's in the head. and also russia

questions the fairness of business when the victim trial of wants to bring him home after a new york jury finds him guilty of arms trafficking. british officials are reportedly working on a plan to assist u.s. forces in a preemptive attack on iranian military facilities it follows claims washington is moving towards a policy of intervention out of fear that iran is developing a nuclear weapons program something iran has always denied and political analyst chris bambery has told me earlier that he believes it's the prospect of economic ruin that's motivating the old elite into action. anyone reading the press reports on these contingency plans being shot by the ministry of defense here in london for an attack on iran was we worrying that if iran is not developing a nuclear missile. you could be so faced with the idea that the americans the british and he's really he's a walking towards on unprovoked attack on iran and the world

a much more dangerous place i cannot imagine a worse alliance with these three people in the west seems to underestimate the strength of a reunion nationalism that is a strong national sense of. what happened under foreign intervention into the country and how the shah was installed and maintained by britain and america. memories of the shah the way it's presented you know the west if the shah was with the regime there will be a bloody war if there is an attack iran and iran is not iraq as of two thousand and one there will be retaliation of his ball and from hamas and the world is a dangerous place because of these reports it seems bizarre that you would have thought that anyone even thinking about contingency plans around would look at that and your position in this country britain for instance the war in libya oh there was a majority get against it but of course we're talking about economically declining pose in america and britain and the military assets remain they remain the one thing they can deploy and we know that britain and america. are prepared to use

their economic military power to try to restore economic position in the world in relation to china in relation to 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 but one thing i would say is if i was an american president i would be worried about thinking about any attack on iran given a level of opposition to economic policies are seeing on the streets of oakland the streets of washington in new york and elsewhere with this occupy movement. r.t. comes you live from the russian capital coming up to very nearly twelve minutes past the hour here now in moscow just to return to our top story this hour the greek prime minister has backtracked on plans for a referendum on whether to accept another e.u. bailout plan to save his country from drowning in debt well for more on the greek crisis i can talk to thomas titus and he's the chief strategist at s. e. b. merchant banking joining us live in copenhagen thanks very much indeed for being

with us well greece looks like now very confusing but no it looks as if it's not going to hold a referendum so the e.u. can bail it out again cause it is the euro saved. where you can say that maybe the euro is unsaved but it will live to see another day and i actually think that in spite of the cares we've seen in markets over the past couple of days this. seems to have yielded a positive result i think the important thing here is that it looks like they're going to get both sides of the political speak from on board for the for the agreement with the you there what was what was needed for credibility that was what you could have achieved with a referendum if it ends up with a political deal dealing the same result then clearly this is short term positive well european leaders are very adamant they want to keep greece in the euro zone lots of support from them but is it really a good idea i mean wouldn't it be better off if greece did actually head for the exit door after all greece has been the main problem in this whole euro zone

project and some people say shouldn't even join in the first place. maybe you could agree that they shouldn't have joined in the first place but for their true reasons why i think it's really important that you don't kick them out once they're the ones they've got an inside well the first one is said this is obviously some kind of nation building project and say you wouldn't take new york and says out of the united states just some kind of financial misbehavior i think if you want to keep this thing together for the long you've got to show some kind of solidarity here as well keeping the sort of interest just to keep it for the long term but we keep getting these play loud packages and it seems that still it's not solving the problem you'll say well here we go greece could survive another day euro could survive another day we keep hearing that but is that really realistic just how long can this carry on where's the money coming from. their money hasn't really been they have lent money to greece but nobody has actually had to take a lot of money out of their pocket and handed out as i came through anything now

what i think you could achieve if there is some kind of a real credibility or commitment behind the part of this deal is that you might find other countries in the world that already have lots of currency and they don't want to see that you're a pro down in any event they might feel that they could chip in here but i agree in mind this is not a long term solution the long term solution is to buy enough time to create a true political union but i just don't think that kicking out members that have a rough start here is going to help you in that project and i think it would be extremely dangerous from a financial perspective opening that pandora's box it's going to be very hard to regain investor confidence that they will understand what the euro is about and who will be part of it in the future so i don't think that would be a smart way to go of course it seems to be a very long healing process to you to repair the wounds that the eurozone is going through and of course there is a lot of fear that this greek debt could actually contaminate its eurozone neighbors we're seeing look france italy spain all looking at

a fairly bleak picture at the moment. per that's exactly the point i mean this is a pretty risky situation the italian bond yields are at levels where they're teetering on the brink of course the same judas priest ireland portugal countries and iceland have gone through and i think there is that's exactly the reason why buying time might make sense in a situation like this the last thing you want to do is prove that it's really over the years then you're going to look at some truly decide first economic scenarios but over the longer term just keeping things together for the sake of keeping that together that's not going to work right now however the you've got to keep make sure that the other part markets in europe don't draw the same conclusions as the they did in greece portugal and ireland and that's right on the brink so we're it would be a bad time to open that box and this how you kick out members right now or even through this say as they did increase how you could delay the process where you are

you will be very optimistic here but as we've been speaking been showing violence in the streets many protesters many people unhappy in athens and of course in other european cities this not only is putting pressure on the social unrest aspect but also on governments we see nearly the greek government toppling could we not see other political pressures and other governments suffering and becoming victims of this and we see political collapses elsewhere. yeah i agree completely i mean this is the real story it hasn't got anything for with. global story here and there's a political backlash building against the road to the. very painful crisis that western economies like article. where you can delay their process by a few quarters. and things right now but i still think in that event when the economy starts slowing when the recession hits europe next year then you're going to have to go back to the drawing board at some point there are some more difficult decisions that have to be made about whether you want to keep this nation building

project together but i think if you're going to say at least have i things are right in your face right now in such a risky situation thomas really good to hear from you we really appreciate your time thomas titus and chief strategist of s.t.b. merchant banking live there in copenhagen thank you very much indeed thank you. defense preparing to appeal after was found 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 fork group which and u.s. considers a terrorist group was eventually action i came to us despite strong opposition from moscow rather so he says the us media launched a campaign which ruin his reputation before the trial even began. even before the court hearing still wanted the news channels and websites practically all the mass media talked of nothing else but to boot his name was on

the screen around the clock for the person talking there is absolutely no evidence this is what surprised a lawyer who offered proof the prosecution could not give any they kept calling her and wanted all over the world they said everyone was off to him and tried to intimidate us calling him a monster. he was flown out of thailand in a minute ration that moscow believes was outside the jurisdiction of u.s. authorities time court could not find enough evidence to try to cave in to u.s. political pressure russia insists that these extradition was illegal and wants to bring him home can't goodmans publish books on victim who has told me that the case against him was politicized from the start. the problem is that too many americans have heard so many bad things about him but the evidence against him obviously was just supposed to be so in his arms to the stark. stark is only. considered a terrorist organization and american in many other countries around the world is

considered a valid or a political party i think the whole case is a smacks of a political agenda when he was taken from thailand specially since the tile authorities could find out that the charges. we americans came in and grabbed him anyways and i think he's taken over a lot of the business of the cia and other show organisations were working for themselves and africa was a very 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 dude 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. and with the occupy movement demonstrating resilience to police crackdowns and cynicism in the mainstream media that's not talked to out in return he's coeditor of centered politics home what lies ahead thanks very much indeed for being with us both just

looking at the pictures we've been getting from the protests all day many of the protests to seem very very young possibly they just for the thrill do you think these protests really about equality still or they now a chance that people just see a rebel. oh no i think the occupied people that i've met are very serious and very committed and they're certainly for much more than that. but isn't there a danger that the message could be jeopardized when we see violent images now people throwing rocks at shop windows and setting fires in the streets this is not your movement is all about is it. first of all it's not my movement it's a movement that i have spent some time observing and writing about but i think. what i have seen has been very peaceful young people getting together to discuss politics i've seen some of the pictures you've seen on the news and of course the news well i always find. the most agitation and that's what people see

does not capture what i've observed myself whatever can be said about your movement is popularity is certainly undeniable and. why do you think this is why are people only now demanding a change to rules that have actually been in effect for decades. i think it's interesting that it comes together as these things do and suddenly there is a tipping point and people find themselves together somebody goes and does something and a whole lot of people agree and come and join them i think the success of the movement is the simplicity of the message they've got it down to four words we are the ninety nine percent and that message is simple as it is it really cuts to the heart of what a lot of people are experiencing which is a tremendous inequality that's been growing for years people are now only economists are looking at this and saying this is thirty years in the making there

celso seeing a system that is out of balance with respect to too much corporate influence over politicians and over congress as we wrote this is a democratic capitalism and right now the occupy people are saying there's too much capitalism and not enough democracy so they have come together to say. this is what democracy looks like you talk about the simplicity of the message and in fact what you've done is it's given us a good umbrella. overview i suppose of what it's all about but actually within that message there are a lot of mixed messages on and many people have been campaigning about various aspects we see them in the streets with the different messages on their banners so they're all charges that this movement is actually lacking focus and cohesion and if that is the case isn't that where there will be a lack of influence on the politicians of politicians and all to show really what a message is is a charge on alt. i think it's certainly fair to say that this movement doesn't have a leader the liberally they've chosen consensus they've chosen

a stance where nobody speaks for this organization anybody can get up in their general assembly meetings and talk about politics in any way they want and what you hear than and what you see on banners are very mixed messages there's what we observe walking around occupy london and occupy washington is a diversity of opinions and so yes it means that there's not a single this is our manifesto this is our bill of demands coming out of this movement but that may be both strength and weakness for this movement we are seeing the politicians try to figure out how they can get a part of this so the occupy people are sitting right where they are with a very simple message and we are the ninety nine percent and letting others try to capture what that message means for that interesting point seen politicians trying to get a part of this does this mean actually this could signal the birth of a new political movement to get where politicians will try and listen to what these

demands are whereas at the moment none of the politicians seem to represent any of that do they whichever party that from. i think that's right now i come at it from the democratic side and we see both democrats and republicans talking about inequality in a way that they have not for the thirty years that it's been growing so they already have the occupy movement is having a real influence on the conversation that's going on the democrats i think would be would make a mistake to try to embrace this movement because the movement's not going to embrace them back the people in this movement are very anti political but i do think the democrats can benefit indirectly from a discussion about inequality in america and thanks so much and apologies for association with the movement but you certainly explain what it's all about and we've very much appreciate that out of richmond from the center of politics dot com in washington d.c. we appreciate your time thank you. the british government has blamed social

networking sites for spreading on restaurant all its rights across england in an attempt to prevent similar trouble in future one part of london is now proposing to monitor online activity at youth centers but as artes nor smith reports as a risky game that may breach 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 laid the blame for all ghosts riots firmly at the door of gangs one london police took in about making youth workers by on their members and monitor their social network activities anything suspicious would be passed to a special anti gang unit but the m.p. for hackney where some of the worst on record took place says it's not the technology to play in when you had trust in this country when there was no internet knows no. text message so it is not so you know time to looking at the real causes

of rights rather than blaming the messenger and there's the real possibility it will backfire for some young people being used as a safe haven in an uncertain world and next six monitoring could undermine the impatient relationship between youth and vulnerable teen making it less likely to turn to them in a crisis and more susceptible to get. out of it crime 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 rioting on facebook but teens say spying risks isolating the very people they're trying to help if that happens people. use these type of things

that are. tiddly social issues and solving them 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 at risk youth the old thirty's is so concerned about the rest may fall to london bridge upstate for the moment all to live here in moscow be back in the summer of on a new stories in just over two minutes from the start of his life here in the.

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