the. latest news on the week's top stories on r.t. the greek debt drama leaves its prime minister quiting for his job while even leaders pledged to save the euro with the pull without greece also. american protesters vow to keep gunning for the greedy as anti corporate protests strengthen despite scores of arrests and being strong armed by the police. russian businessmen the victims' groups faces not behind bars in the u.s. after being convicted of selling weapons to terrorist groups which he denies. the

night here closer to the moscow bunker opens after five hundred twenty days mankind can enjoy the isolation of a long flight to the red planet. broadcasting live from moscow this is our team's weekly news review work. greece has enjoyed another roller coaster week with the prime minister having to pledge a new unity government to tackle that almost insurmountable debt crisis george papandreou narrowly survived a confidence vote on. political opponents for talks but the opposition leader is refusing to get involved in the coalition once a snap election surfer reports from athens. greece has found itself back in the spotlight this week and once again for all the wrong reasons now we began the week with prime minister q is part enjoy calling for

a referendum only. plans we saw in two to mark the eternal nose referendum plans of it was met with this resistance both internationally and from within members of his government social functions like go ahead on friday in parliament. and his government managing to narrowly by one hundred fifty three m.p. one hundred forty five and the future still looks extremely clear to the prime minister and the government his talks now turn to the formation of a national unity government but there's a lot of confusion over this coalition plan not least because the head of the main opposition party here in the country has rejected calls for a coalition and once again the days early elections they're playing more. and trying to see who's going to blink so just to see whether a government of national unity will be created we saw the prime minister meeting

with the president of the republic to discuss the formation of that national unity government whether that will be able to go ahead without the support of the main opposition parties and. possibly talk telling to someone else the thing and the prime minister's role moving forward as he said still a lot of uncertainty there's a sense of disappointment among this instability coming at the point of the truth. for the future of years and the last thing anyone wanted right now with even more instability and it seems that's exactly what they thought it felt like change was in the air at the end of the week it seems that much actually still remains but how long and what format government will survive remains. well keeping greece afloat was at the forefront of the minds of the leaders of the world's twenty biggest economies as they met in france and you leaders dug in to defend

a single currency and agreed to shore up international monetary fund parties and it's an early part of the summit. the ever changing greek drama took center stage in cannes for the g twenty week hero host nicolas sarkozy protecting what he calls the beating heart of europe till the end of predictions a resolution which is very strong angela merkel and i agree on this and we will fight to defend europe and the euro. france and germany took action with this message to greece play by the rules or get out the greek prime minister made a cameo appearance in cam returned to athens and cancelled an improv referendum that would have more of last i want the public to decide if they stay or if they go when it comes to the euro or perish the thought that they should actually be allowed to decide whether they want these things leaders say it is up to greet today should look like this if the greece is an independent country and i just want

to say they are perfectly free and i don't want to give any idea that we are trying to get in the greek domestic politics we can accomplish france has given some exactly that idea but it is no longer an independent country and has been for a while and the conversation is always on what we need to do to satisfy our creditors demands and our creditors are the people who are going to determine whether we survive or don't survive and the so-called backbone of the eurozone could be trying to save its backside with a statement from sarkozy that those who break deficit rules should be punished some with sanctions even if he is breaking the same rules back home in france they are running a budget deficit and beyond. what the rules of mass rich provide for the real irony with that is that the the french banks are are so desperate for some sort of a bailout and if they didn't get one for greece for example they could potentially go under they could be playing a major role in the fight to save the euro some hope for the single currency lines

with the emerging economies or the brics were already pledged to try to help the euro stay afloat but with the condition president medvedev says they want to play a bigger role in financial institutions like the i am math and the group of twenty four back already it seems some headway there as for the first time ever the g twenty summit will be held in a brics country and it takes place in moscow russia in two thousand and thirteen reporting from. anything now. that we saw the california city of oakland witnessing one of the biggest protests of occupy wall street movement came up against a tough police response to tear gas and rubber bullets fired at demonstrators in the east one hundred people were arrested and several injured including a war veteran the second such incident in less than two weeks. of the north was among the protests. and we're still reporting from the folks as you can hear behind me loud explosions possibly tear gas from the police officers there are police

hundred the fact two hundred three hundred police officers in full riot gear several 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 at the standoff where several protesters had barricaded the 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 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 after the peaceful march again this was a scene unfolding 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 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 officers are marching behind us fix their hands baton hand i don't know if you can get any closer on that shots but they're certainly coming here to the crowd as you can hear is chanting oakland perhaps you can see over there several police officers in with their weapons out shooting tear gas for these loud sort of unrelated the gun actually for anything but air scare that the protesters and journalists on site. societies use those. which was the epicenter of the occupy protests this week but other u.s. cities saw some as well new york's bloomberg said the city will tolerate its

protests to suspicious that means the repair shop comes about twenty people were detained. several arrests were sent to washington. for tests of. artemis claim undercover police to gates and. we know for a fact there was a cop watch a video done an exposé showing police working as undercover agents into the occupy oakland movement so who are the provocateurs if there was provocation in that group is it undercover police we don't know all we know is that we mass master the overwhelming majority of us who are peaceful urging people remain peaceful and you have two people throwing things and lighting a dumpster on fire so where the cops we don't know a lot of people try to paint this movement as you know we're not unified we don't have a cohesive message but as far as i can see we have one message and it's corporate

greed and we're not standing for it anymore and a matter what your signs say or what you're saying it all stems from the same source which is corporate greed running amuck so i'd say that we could have a unified message there were i mean i heard some estimates up to twenty thousand people peacefully marching and successfully shutting down the port of oakland which was huge. and still ahead this hour the whistleblower winded by a verdict. i have not been charged with any crime in any country london's high court rules that the wiki leaks founder julian assange should be sent to sweeten the controversial sex crime allegations. and palestinians get a step nearer u.n. membership of the heritage organization. but the price is too high for some explain why. in syria a peace deal to end months of bloodshed made little difference to security forces

continued their attacks on activists in the city of homs where than twenty people died as the tanks rolled in the arab league which broke with the agreement claims its failure would be disastrous but some political analysts in the region echoed president assad's belief that serious on rest is rooted in a foreign plot i think it's a conspiracy by regional power they wanted to change the regime of bashar assad they wanted a different regime different government with different had and that's why you can see the regional power hasn't been friendly to the situation. in the place in syria actually some of the country has been funneling weapons and money and start an ideology to topple the regime of president assad the president of syria acknowledges there is opposition in that country and he extended his hand to

reconciliation with his country for those people who were asking for change and that's why they have constitutional reform but there is an external power. position and exile those are by the western powers some version of country. well also in syria the united nations nuclear watchdog claims it's discovered a secret facility in the north west that matches the design of a uranium enrichment plant but others insist it's nothing more than textile factory situation is leading analysts to draw comparisons with the allegations and led to the occupation of iraq here we go again the lame pretext being bombarded iraq worth its weapons of mass destruction as i was dressed before start i would rather worry about living in strict saying because the inspectors went into iraq for years and still i'm truly one of the tasks was president was

lying. since installations in iraq had and may control of. my second thought is this is a labor of syria still holds on this lands the golan has both hands a large nuclear armory. and the weapons to deliver those over some thousands of miles it is ironic we should be george syria when the israeli nuclear armory has never been inspected by new york a jury court this week convicted a russian businessman the dirt on four counts of selling arms to terrorists and conspiring to kill americans. could result in life behind bars with his defense preparing to appeal bhutto was arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight in a sting operation the request of the american officials extradited to new york is

quite strong opposition. for him to american officials one of the world's biggest market arms traders and responsible for escalating several regional conflicts. student is being used as a puppet it's a cool game between washington and moscow. it was a rule of the parliamentary national glory more russia basically was the n.b.a. russia was the only nation in the world to actually last stand up to new york who knows russian now who plans a really powerful lead to actually have there been one world government or new world order or a company would call it whatever you want them to rule as an example would be has actually been done against russia's interests across the world the idea of the brutal rule of business mere naturally access to weapons being and of course the rebellion in the american government is called the a brutal execution be our it was never really opposite of what the early years of there appeared to be are going to get us going to any words unless

a powerful regime whose case obviously the insinuation of russia would actually help and stock lie with weapons we basically put russia same cowperwood iran north korea our cuba is where the observer of the story and i'm for sure who's upon his international game. who has. just come to an end. what's ahead for you this hour great to get away from muslims marking eat. it's time to rejoice just badly to celebrate what is known to be threats tools i'll tell you what that means to russia's muslim population just a few moments. on wednesday wiki leaks founder julian assange arms and lost his court appeal battle to stay in the u.k. he's been under house arrest for nearly a year waiting for the verdict and sounds will now be extradited to sweden to answer a sex crime allegations which he's never been charged with deciding they thought the sun think an appeal of science denies the claims of this noise suggesting that

sweetens movement to hand him over to the u.s. is due to secret pentagon files which we can fix tanishq the site itself is in limbo suspended because it struck him to raise funding or not enough to financial blockade international journalists afshin rattansi says that means media is only adding to the persecution. it is astonishing here in britain just see the way the case is being covered to organizations i used to work at the b.b.c. the guardian newspaper the guardian of course i deal with wiki leaks the kind of character assassination around the world by mainstream media trying to attack this man and it just goes to show what a state journalism is in. the occupy and the london stock exchange protesters recently i don't suppose many of those mainstream journalists really understand what's going on over there i think one argument here is that the craft of journalism is in crisis julian assange should become some sort of overall professor

of journalism and they should close all the universities courses in journalism down because he really did teach a lot of people that it's about speaking truth to power and speaking for the power less and the idea of him being in court and now the idea of him being rendered for torture in a state that as we know it's been carrying out rogue assassinations of its own citizens is just breathtaking. extensive coverage of what's behind pursuing that we can expound is a party dot com and more online view there today as well vying for votes the heat is on for a seat in russia's parliament we'll tell you how candid it so willingly or get tricked into that their toilet. and the latest attempt to break the blockade of gaza as israeli security forces border to canadian boats details on this and other stories around r.t. dot com. two russian tycoons have been battling it out for a record sum of some six and a half billion dollars in london's high court exiled leader reese resorts ski

claims that chelsea football club. remove it has rubbed it in spite of me dating into selling his oil shares on the cheap or over it in isolation is and has shied away from any public comment on the case but there is also has been much more candid and some loud rational grandstanding in the witness box a lawsuit promises to become the most expensive in history tycoons already having spent millions of dollars in legal bills. now then a manned mission to mars came a step closer this week a major experiment in moscow has shown scientists that the human body can at least ensure their isolation of such a long distance race like tom barton reports now the successful conclusion of the mars five hundred project. back on earth i well actually they never left but pale faced bleary eyed these six men are

returning from a five hundred twenty day epic mockup of a mission to mars and back they're thankful to be back on earth fellow earth close . and really really great to see you all again rather a whole or a warming it's been an honor to have even been part of this remarkable achievement five of them are stuck professional fraley our assyrian individuals however what with it's clear that crew cohesion was key to sticking it out this door stayed sealed shut all throughout the seventeen months of the experiment of course it was only a simulation of a trip to mars any of these six men could have left at any time but none of them did the scientists behind it wanted to see the six men who would be able to go all the time without severe psychological effects from the busy control room i was able to ask them how they got on the board. how are your relationships with the other

crew members changed. for something. like. that for such a look. at the world. from. the experiment was kept as real as possible with a twenty minute time delay and communications ship was on its way and the team was alone they could talk freely with local ones who has decided to move home from the outside world but that was tricky and we had to keep in mind that some information could come in with private correspondence and some relatives could break the news in this case any prolonged silence on our part could lead to tensions and misunderstanding they could think that we withheld the information deliberately.

the highlight of the cruise trip was a simulated landing on mars with a long isolation and boredom before it scientists observed with a maze just how real it became for them when they made landfall. the national. rate was a hundred sixty beats per minute compare with a pulse of the first year and a current orbit it was one hundred fifty two beats per minute the outside world has been intrigued five hundred most people betting on how the experiment will fail. make a point eight zero olds and one of the crew members going insane because of it. no. doubt. so even though it's

only a dry run it's still a significant achievement earth's first martian pioneers. ten votes and. the results really. this week to unmount the chinese spacecraft successfully got in orbit for the first time it brings china closer to building its own space station after it was refused participation i assess many of us well defense experts thinks that despite beijing's achievements there's still room for improvement the ultimate goal for the chinese human spaceflight program is the publisher long time human space presence in space by the chinese or progressively improving. gradually moving up to american russians basically abilities is pretty much open to technology cooperation and operational street was really their third however it also challenged us particularly as carries its program has

a. military so you remember in two thousand and seven china conducted its reverse and the satellite weapons which are basically a lorry but a lot of different policy makers in the west so they're brought up achilles and challengers going down to zero eight is an important step but it's not a major milestone as the depending on how successful the mission will be not there has a long way to go palestine the other place at the u.n. heritage group this week but the move will cost in escrow a fifth of its funding with the u.s. cutting off its cash israel also strongly opposed to the palestinians claim this well has suspended handing over tax payments in retaliation but there's still a long way to go for palestine to gain full u.n. membership washington has about to veto the bill at the security council saying a peace deal with israel is a first personal affairs writer says u.s. efforts to pressure their school and the palestinians to fail. it's an active could

get fifty one ish and that's what's exactly what it is and the sad thing is that you have many members and the congress is starting with laws and other conservative republican and democratic members who have been pushing for the u.s. to use its iron fist as far as for them to punish me to any organization that either a group of moses palestine as a state or giving it membership in that international body the deal is really a membership it seems to me good organisation anywhere it's extremely bad and who is going to suffer not just the palestinians alone but in you know there is countries who believe that it's from their mazing programs that you decide not to do how they use this look this is not important jim i'm going to out of here and this is president reagan at one point cut funding to this one pulled out and you know what you this will survive and it will survive this time as well. the food

they eat a religious festival is under way with millions of muslims traveling around the world to visit his and loved ones let's see how russia's muslims are marking their second most important festival of the year and join our tease jake agrees who's outside moscow's main mosque to take over to you. get bush bring you up to speed here as you said this is god is the second biggest day in holy day on the islamic calendar tell for the sheer amount of people we've seen out here today lining the streets just behind me and has just concluded the night is just concluded now they're taking off by still taking place in the backdrop of the grand central mosque which is just been told down for rejuvenation now. this is this is based on the great sacrifices also known a lot of richest teachings the chronon there says that they have offered dishonest sacrifice to god and god seeing this all right she pardoned is sort of stayed up

with around three factors sacrifice and that's why this ritual originates also it comes on the back of the polish to the great pilgrimage to mecca so seen as a day for peace thing as well ritual animal sacrifice actually cause a bit of a third largest year of moscow that's because some of it actually spilled on to the streets such as the number of the revelers a worshippers of the day and some not liking the size they saw of the animal sacrifice on the left there have been sold this year that must take place in certified areas we are facing a mass turnout for the course of the day in moscow and rushers well the sold out last year about one hundred thousand around moscow's most. ok take agrees the light from moscow thank you. that made headlines will be up next here in r.t. stay with us.

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