missions for. opening up a can of worms g. twenty leaders are gathered in france of right now we're hoping to solve the world's problems but tensions running high from protesters in the greek debt crisis come leaders of really solve the global economic drama. and from bad to worse the spirit gas is settling after a night of chaos in oakland but eighty arrests and four injuries couldn't stop this movement from spreading so is oakland becoming a symbol of what of occupy wall street we'll have a report from california. plus are the drums of war beating some say western

allies are gearing up for a military action against iran so just how likely is that. and this mood was not made for walking as u.s. courts find russian businessman victor boot guilty of arms dealing was this case decided in the court of public opinion before the verdict was ever read. it's thursday november third eight pm in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our t.v. starting off this hour protests rage on in france as the world and those powerful leaders gather for the g. twenty summit the focus now on the us the latest drama in greece european leaders talking about getting greece off the euro as an attempt to rescue the currency the possibility of a looming greek greek default now hanging over the g twenty summit world leaders worry that such a default will send shock waves throughout the euro zone and the world sparking

a global recession are the correspondent a nice and now we joined me earlier from the g. twenty with the latest on the unfolding greek drama in france. well things have been developing very quickly here in france and in europe and especially all life in greece prime minister going back and forth he was summoned on the eve of the summit here by merkel and nicolas sarkozy after he announced that they would have a referendum and let the people actually decide on whether or not they would make comments in order to receive the next batch of bal out from the i.m.f. and then it seems that behind closed doors there was very serious reprimands coming from the backbone so to say of the eurozone of course germany and france is what sarkozy calls themselves but also saying that it's greece this choice that they can go ahead and have this referendum and then the prime minister went back to the country today and all of a sudden we heard rumors about him perhaps having going to announce his resignation

and then it came out there for one happen that if they could come up with an agreement on sunday a coalition that they would back up on the referendum and then all of a sudden word coming that they're not going to hold the referendum and they have been able to agree on coming up with some kind of coalition in short it's a mess it's a big mess it has completely hijacked this summit emerging companies emerging economies not blatant about it but certainly i have to be a little disappointed that this euro crisis is taking over of course it affects them but not as much as the richest seven countries and especially those european leaders so all other issues pushed off the table everyone's talking about this euro crisis and then there's a confidence vote on the greek pm on friday and no one really knows where it's going to go it depends of course who you ask that they think it's just moving the problem down the road that eventually greece will have to default euro crap as they call them who very much think the euro has to be saved nicolas sarkozy calling it

the beating heart of europe he is certainly a great defender of the currency saying that something has to be done we have to keep it alive and that's what they're trying to do but no concrete plan has so far been provided at least at this summit and as you mentioned before there seems to be a lot of flip flopping milling around it's a mask over there any idea what's going on behind closed doors that's causing this change of heart. well that's the thing i mean if you look at it blatantly merkel and sarkozy very clearly on the eve of this summit said it's up to you you make your decision but really is that what they said i mean if you look at it a little more deeper in their words between the lines really what they said was i do you play by our rules or you don't get the money and this morning there is a little bit of it seems conflict within the greek government because the greek prime minister basically defended his country's right to have their say in the future of their currency and certainly a lot of people feel that it's that referendum going to head it would have been

a no vote that greece would have defaulted and would have left the euro zone so this kind of hope talk receipt saying that greece is an independent country that it can do what it wants but at the same time pushing very toughly on them in order to have them sway in the way that europe wants to have wants to have this go to save of course the euro and not have it like you said this contagion throughout the zone already and unease and we've also been covering the protests that have been going on outside of the g. twenty summit what is the latest on that front are those present protests that's leading or are they remaining stable i think it's fair to say that each day they're becoming quieter and quieter the first day just before this summit they were tremendous. pictures look like ten tens of thousands of people gathered they were dispersed very light violence but still reminiscent of what's happening in the u.s.

and that was r t correspondent and these are now we are the ground and cannes and in the midst of it all the g. twenty now finds itself scrambling to fix the euro crisis well to talk more about this i spoke to gerald celente a publisher of the trends journal and director of the trends research institute to start things off i asked him a simple question and how much danger is the euro in right now here is he. it's a great thing the whole european union is in great danger listen to the words of silvio berlusconi that he said on saturday that were hardly repeated he said it was a strange currency that has not convinced anyone that's what he said and then of course he backtracked right away and all you have to do is look what's going on over there and in fronts as the g. twenty made if you want to see the levels of this connect all you have to do is look at the gala that they had their owing it looks like an academy award ceremony

with the red carpets rolled out and the paparazzi shooting off their flesh there's a total disconnect what's going on between the world leaders and what's going on out in the streets the systems are collapsing and you know right now they're talking about booting agreeing it's an awesome thing euro i mean do you think that this is then the best interest of the euro zone's had to take race out of their. it's in the best interest of everyone the what we wrote when the euro came online back in nineteen ninety nine that this was done being gone with the euphoria of globalization remember before that you know in the late eighty's there was no china in the markets you know east of berlin was behind the iron curtain so there was this whole you oria about a european union and it was also something that looked upon by the older

generations as a way to stop future wars but in reality all it was was a scheme for the bankers to be able to do big deals easier and again that's all these austerity measures are about it's paying off the banks of the belgium the doj the right edge and the germans that have made bad bets but let's talk about the consequences of the left that greece does default there is this fear that it's going to. set off this global recession and. what would be the consequences if greece does this deep it's bigger than greece and that's what you see they're using greece as the excuse for the whole failure it's one of the smallest countries in the end you do it's peanuts compared to italy which is in much greater danger with the watch worse g.d.p.

to debt ratio and then you have ireland and you have spain it says it is what are they going to do give greece another couple of billion dollars when they're half a trillion in debt so no it's much worse than that look at the problems in the united states it's a way to focus the problem on greece when in fact the whole economic system is collapsing from printing all of this digital money that's not worth the paper it's not printed on so we're. the greek greece will call mr not a crisis is not going to be solved. well i mean the focus now epigenetic money is to resolve this conflict i mean how important is it for them to come up with a solution or i mean seems like and you think it's not even going to make much of a difference it's not going to come up with another condé and come up with look let's go back or you know just

a week ago last thursday remember all the euphoria that they came up with a plan to solve this merkel and stop cozy congratulating each other the markets boomed up six percent on average by monday the game was all it is a con they come up with a new line of bull loney on how they're going to save the day and the great minds are being brought together to solve these problems that they clause so you know they're not going to solve the problem by printing more money that's the only solution they have look at why the u.s. markets went up today because the news came out the federal reserve was highly disappointed that the economy's not turning around as quickly as they had hoped so now there's hope well more q e three so no they're not going to solve it ok. a new development here and the prime minister of greece he dropped this referendum

and it seems that there is one democracy telling another not to listen so their own people this obviously won't go well with the people of greece what are your thoughts on on that go how ironic that the cradle of democracy has been wronged by the bankers and the politicians and the bureaucrats there we these are not democracies i've said this over and over again for all those little children out there that think. living in democracies the merger of state and corporate powers by definition is called fascism and that's all this is it's bashes pure and simple let's stop this because sot of the block receiving ok jerald well the g twenty it seems like you don't think that they're going to come up with solution they don't have the answers what is the solution now oh the solution is to build domestic markets this whole big lot about globalization and

unions has been nothing but a failure and there's no such thing as you know sustainable perpetual growth it's an inorganic process but these guys don't want to lose money look when you want to make a big bet we have to eat our losses when the bankers make a bad bet they come out with this white boy language they don't want to take a haircut they have to take their losses the big wide was is that we have to save the banks they don't have to be saved the banks could fail we need a contraction and growth has to become more moderated than the expected could change you will growth that they keep wanting to promise and terribly been covering the protests that are going on over there in france it is that this anti-globalization protests and there we've been drawing a lot of comparisons between the prototype that are going on in france and the

walls the occupy wall street protests that are happening here in the u.s. do you think that people are now finally realizing that you know the system is corrupt or are well what's your response to the protests that we're seeing kind of in solidarity with the occupy wall street protests that are now arising in france it's a trend that began a while ago and we have been writing about it it's whether it was tunisia egypt. and whether it's syria iran and greece the protests in it holy the ones that happen in the u.k. over and over again it's the same story liz. far too few have much too much and way too many have much to it all these are this is clear swarth there it's as old as history and it's happening again so that's what we're really looking at over here so it's all connected this is it off with their heads moments particularly

when you look at what's going on in the g. twenty with this grandiose yallow as they're telling everybody else pay more taxes you're going to lose your pensions and benefits we're going to raise your retirement age to lift the guy and we're going to cut your services so it's all connected it's it's class warfare it's the beginning of a ditch really we're looking at the first great war of the twenty first century carol thank you so much for your thoughts on that i was publisher of the transit journal and director of the transit research institute gerald ford today and while leaders are discussing the fate of the euro zone occupy wall street protesters are worried about the future of the u.s. tensions heated up in oakland last night the demonstrations there turning chaotic during a general strike. police

clad in riot gear used tear gas and fire pallets at the crowd that arresting demonstrate demonstrators by the dozens alleys for protesters reportedly injured and hospitalized among those injured a man and woman hit by a murderous a.d.'s take a look at the scene last night angry protesters swarmed the car conflicting accounts as to what exactly happened some say the driver plowed the cards of the protesters others say the driver was provoked by the activists pouncing on the car while i'm at the the strikes. for chaos oakland is shaping up to be a major hub for the occupy wall street movement with outsiders flocking to the california city are to producer lucy calf and i was right there in the middle of the action and she took us through the events as they transpired. we're sitting across from oscar grant plaza which is the site of the occupy oakland movements work protesters up in the country now for weeks in order to raise their voices against all of them a quality social injustice the same issues that are motivating thousands of occupy

wall street movement all across the country but of course images of the things that we remember the images are what tell a story and this morning in downtown oakland these are the images we're going to be seeing across all of the screens on the mainstream media the destruction the isolated acts of vandalism and violence that took place yesterday evening we were on the ground and opened we're going to take you through some of the moments as they unfolded. in the daylight of this a gathering of thousands regardless of how the day november second goes down in history it was on oakland where the world's eyes had focused where the occupy wall street movement had congregated to mark the first strike the first general strike seen in the united states in the past sixty five years by nightfall occupy oakland had declared victory. at the port of oakland and the fact that we've been shut down a couple thousand people out marched from downtown oakland onto this area they shut down all of the gates they sort of posted if you can see it started to to the side

if we can pan over there they posted different protesters at all of the gates so that different workers might get in or out effectively sending out warning shot they say to the so-called one percent. but this symbolic warning was greeted with a real shots again we're still reporting from the oakland as you can hear behind me loud explosions possibly tear gas from the police officers there are at least a hundred not two hundred three hundred. these officers in full riot gear 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 walk down that street before that was the street of the standoff were several protesters had barricaded the street from the police several several pieces of furniture and whatnot were lit on fire but again not enough. action to provoke this kind of a militant response by the police force here within sixty protesters were arrested

in the clashes that continued for several hours dozens reported injuries from tear gas rubber bullets and other so-called non lethal weapons that they were shooting. on. her face to be seen how november second in downtown oakland will be remembered will it be the charred remains of a few isolated instances of violence but the successful shutdown of the nation's ports reporting from downtown oakland fartsy a loose about. and from the occupy wall street protests of the occupy oakland police crackdown lucy has been traveling around the country tracking this growing movement for the very latest on what's going on you can follow her footsteps on twitter lucy catherine up well the drums of war against iran are beating loud as the country becomes comes under suspicion of growing their nuclear enrichment program this after a report released by the un's nuclear watchdog which supposedly shows evidence of iran iranian nuclear activity is now the u.k.

is prepping for military action and it's believed the u.s. is gearing up for the possibility of war against iran as well this as the world prepares for a new report coming out of the ensor national atomic energy agency a report that allegedly has evidence that iran is expanding its nuclear weapons program so what kind of what can we expect out of this is it an attack against is an attack on iran on the horizon earlier i pose those questions to former reagan administration official and columnist paul. all crag roberts here's what he had to say i believe the new head of the international atomic energy agency is more compliant with american interests and just predecessor who. was very rigorous about his ring only financial reports and it may well be this this new report will. give washington enough to stand the situation in a way to generate more hysteria. and paula.

president obama had initially promised that he would in terms of foreign policy he would take a different direction from president bush how would you compare president obama's policy to president bush believes actually started more wars. and seems to be he seems to be even more dangerous warmonger than bush cheney which i think is a surprise to everyone and if this does transpire we're seeing signs of the u.s. . the u.k. gehring up our ticket to go to war bullock i will of the will it send off will other countries back each other at will this turn out to be a you know ally a coming together and solidarity and war against iran. well the british clearly are gearing up and the israeli prime minister is trying to convince his cabinet

to support an israeli attack on iran and we know that it is a principle objective of the american neoconservatives they've been arguing this for years and years and they're influential in the government and so i think there is. certainly a high probability that some sort of attack will be made on iran i don't know if it's all of the rest of the nato puppet states will go along with it or not i don't really know what the position of russia and china will be one would think that it's not in their interest and that they should find some way to effectively oppose it but it remains to be seen what will happen and all with the new developments that we're theming now at this point given that war with iran i'm not about. i think that is a definite goal of washington and of the israelis. i

did and so i had whether or not it's inevitable depends on. its truth and its reception by the rest of the world and if there's enough to said forcibly expressed then i think it could be blocked by the people fall in line is they did with libya and then the war is it's most likely going to happen and what about what's your prediction in terms of a timeline president obama's kind of under pressure not launching into the other wars you know we're at the one year now and still has election i mean if if military action was to be taken against iran when do you think that would happen i don't i don't know. you know a president war is a history of chances of being reelected. normally americans don't like to.

defeat a president when the country has it war so it may serve his purpose his electoral purposes as well but i really think the outcome will depend on the world's reception to what's clearly looks like a move to attack iran militarily actually we have the sanctions that the house foreign affairs committee just pass and clearly the purpose of the sanctions is to stop any diplomatic contact between the united states and iran that's what the sanctions do and so that would prevent. any sort of all misty and mitigating a war in fact a sort of stampedes the government toward war because if you don't prevent any diplomatic contact with a country that's in the crosshairs there's no way of resolving and the difference

so it looks like the entire. effort is to push toward war with iran. thank you paul for your thoughts on that i was former reagan administration official i'm calling after paul krugman robert. and we will continue to follow this story as the drama begins to be a router of our question of we would like to ask why the united states involved and so many interventionist qualifier. war propaganda coming out of our ears in this town and it's those institutions like the heritage foundation that are that are the force behind it and it's those institutions pushing for war abroad so why are political leaders fighting for the agendas of these pro-war lobbying groups will have in-depth coverage of these neo con powerhouses so stay tuned as we continue to report on this story well the man dubbed the merchant of death now faces a sentence of life or behind bars after

a jury found him guilty of dealing weapons to terrorist organizations but there is a lot of controversy surrounding the trial questions about whether or not the russian businessman had a fair trial and whether or not it was legal for him to be extradited from thailand to the u.s. are the correspondent. said the greater implications of the verdict in this case. years hence by the u.s. to hunt down one russian man tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer cash wouldn't you risk being operation snatched from a third country for a month of solitary confinement for a three week trial in the u.s. allegedly arms dealer viktor boot was found guilty on all four charges one conspiring to kill united states nationals two conspiring to kill united states officers and employees three conspiring to use an acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for conspiring to provide material support to the floor the forty four year old

russian air cargo business and fascinated hollywood one of our. records. and we were on the other eleven booed lost his case in the court of u.s. public opinion long before his trial kicked off raising concerns of the fairness of his trial this is the lord of war. the merchant of death right and you've got him in your hands right he's in custody it's a great deal and u.s. officials were relentless in their efforts to get due to haim bars so-called merchant of death is now a federal inmate american agents posing as four members a colombian group team terrorists in the u.s. but not by many other countries and the u. when met with and then arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight after twice being found not guilty by thai courts and u.s. reportedly dirty by arm twisting thailand into extraditing him to america they're

willing to flaunt every international law to get what they want and that means doing all these illegal things in the case of the to move to extradite him or her so kidnapping good family also calls us action entrapment and kidnapping does the post-crisis i can accept the possibility that they might have some information that might aid of interest to someone or why did that other countries don't just think for themselves that there is someone who has some interesting information and why don't those governments to strike those people are to their territory moscow's request to send him to russia or brushed aside there was no social decision of an extradition russia called boots extradition illegal and question the validity of his conviction one of the main arguments of the defense that the u.s. lacked jurisdiction was ignored by the court woods defense says the russian was aware that he was not in touch with real park members and also was trying to do was sell to old cargo planes we can appeal to this judge. that the verdict was rendered

against the weight of the evidence and then we could also proceed to the united states court of appeal but with the vigor with which food was brought to the u.s. experts like george matter who has attended every hearing say a successful appeal is unlikely it is imaginary crimes manufactured jurisdiction and manufactured evidence the operation relentless was no reason i think that's pretty good bring it on america had any by. means necessary the journalist says boot is one of many victims of u.s. judicial power play a field is victor and is and it's because charges that were brought against him that he's innocent so you know i don't i don't want any innocent man whether it be a russian citizen with a glue or troy davis to be you know sent his life or or convicted of a crime to if they didn't commit the troops why is it all of us what it is a criminal in this case. the actions currently carried out by the u.s. special services or an organized probation organized crime towards a russian citizen or any other citizens of the world when they should have deemed

them allegedly dangerous it doesn't even have to be specific action most who vowed to continue to push for boots return to russia mr bruce has always maintained his innocence and will keep fighting for justice but with u.s. muscle flex tight to keep him in an american prison it's freezing from twenty five years to life behind bars the sentencing will come in february and so he sure cannot r.t. new york all that does it for now for more of the stories we covered go to our t.v. dot com slash usa there you can find my interview with policy director for the national iranian american council germar jamal obviously about the a possibility of war with iran and why the u.s. congress of tying president obama's diplomatic hands and you can also check out our youth who page is youtube dot com slash art see america you can also follow me on twitter at live the wall the big picture with thom hartmann that's coming up in a half hour but for now i'm liz well have a great.