pro-car singh live from moscow this is artie's weekly news review welcome. greece has enjoyed another roller coaster week with the prime minister having to pledge a new unity government to tackle the almost insurmountable debt crisis george papandreou narrowly survived a confidence vote under now meet his main political opponent for talks but the opposition leader is refusing to get involved in the coalition and once a snap election surfer three ports from athens. grace is found itself back in the spotlight this week and once again for all the wrong reasons now we began the week with prime minister george pop and joy calling for a referendum only he plans to soar into dramatic eternal nose referendum plans of it was met with this resistance both internationally and from within members of his a government social confidence vote go ahead on friday in parliament. and his government managing to narrowly survived one hundred fifty three m.p.'s voting yes

one hundred forty five and the future still looks extremely clear that date 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 this coalition plans not least because the head of the main opposition party here in the country has rejected schools for a coalition and once again code for the early elections they're playing more of. each other with trying to see who's going to blink to just to see whether or not much 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 on thursday and possibly talk turning to someone else stepping in to 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 a point this pivotal. for the future of the 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 at the end of the week it seems that much actually still remains to say but for how long and what format government will survive remains on. well keeping greece afloat was at the forefront of the minds of leaders of the world's twenty biggest economies as they met in france leaders dug in to defend the single currency and agreed to shore up international monetary fund parties and it's another way for the summit the ever changing greek drama took center stage in cannes for the g twenty meeting hero host nicolas sarkozy protecting what he calls the beating heart of europe till the end of the 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 can return to athens and canceled an improv referendum that would have more last a while the public to decide if they stay or if they go when it comes to the euro perish the thought that they should be allowed to decide whether they want these things leaders say it is to agree to. be greece is an independent country and i just want to say they are perfectly free i don't want to give any idea that we are trying to get in the greek domestic politics. but france has given some exactly that idea 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're running a budget deficit of beyond what 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 and could be playing a major role in the fight to save the euro which some hope for the single currency aligns with the emerging economies or the brics who have already pledged to try and help the euro stay afloat but with a condition president medvedev says they want to play a bigger role in financial institutions like the i am math and the group of twenty format 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 the occupy wall street movement came up against a tough police response with tear gas and rubber bullets fired at demonstrators at least one hundred people were arrested in several injured including a war veteran the second such incident in less than two weeks marty's lucy catherine off was among the protests. and we're still reporting from the top oakland as you can hear behind me loud explosions possibly tear gas from the police officers there are at least a hundred of the not 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 standoff where 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 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 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 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 officers are marching behind this sticks that hands baton hand 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 tear gas for these loud sort of done in a the gun actually for anything but definitely a fair scare that the protesters and journalists on site. you know clinton which was the epicenter of the occupy protests this week but other u.s. cities saw some as well new york's bloomberg said this city won't tolerate oakland that's even protests of suspicious that means police are preparing to shop there cams about twenty people were detained there on saturday several arrests were also made in washington that's a social protest has to ground zero for one tough thing that activists claim on the

cover of police to gates and violence. 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 that mass mass is 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 were 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 no 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 did 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 for you this hour the whistleblower when did 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 sweden to answer controversial sex crime allegations. and palestinians got a step nearer un winning membership of the heritage organization unesco 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 who knew their attacks on activists in the city of homs more than twenty people died as the tanks rolled in the arab league which brokered the agreement claims its failure would be disastrous but some political analysts in the region echo president assad's belief serious unrest is rooted in a foreign plot i think it's

a conspiracy by a 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 taking place in syria actually some of these country has been funneling weapons and money and start an ideology to topple the regime of president assad the president of syria acknowledged there is opposition in that country and he extended his hand to let it come fully ation away then the his country for those people who are asking for change and that's why today they have a constitutional reform but there is an external power or what they say up position and exult those are backed by the western powers some persian gulf countries.

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 a textile factory the situation is leading analysts to draw comparisons with the allegations that led to the occupation of iraq here we go again the lame pretext for the aiding and bombarding iraq worth weapons of mass destruction if i was president assad i would rather worry about letting any inspectors in because the inspectors went into iraq three years of i'm told one of the tasks was that identifying defense installations in iraq added and making sure lives issues would learn my second thought is this is a labor of syria still holds on this lands the golan has by all accounts a large nuclear armory. and the weapons to deliver those

over some thousands of miles it is ironic we should be talking about syria when the israeli nuclear armory has never been suspected the new york jury court this week convicted russian businessman the victim but on four counts of selling arms to terrorists and conspiring to kill americans the conviction 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 at the request of the american officials and extradited to new york despite strong opposition from moscow or into american officials who was one of the world's most active market arms traders and responsible for escalating several regional conflicts. studen thinks it is being used as a puppet political game between washington and moscow. the ritual of the oil

international global game where russia basically is the n.b.a. game russia is the only nation in the world to actually stand up to immediately united states aggression and to the plans of the powerful we need to actually have there be a one world government or new world order one or a company limited call it whatever you want them as an example would be has actually been done against russia's interests across the world the idea is a good rule of business mir would actually get access to weapons being and of course there would be an american government to call the root of all those caribbean after of course it was never really good if you officer but the early years of that appear to be are going to get us going any words unless a bar or regime has case obviously the insinuation of russia would actually help them and start climbing the weapons we basically puts russia in the same camp with iran north korea our cuba is where the. i'm for sure who's up for his international game or true this game has come to an end. what's ahead for you this hour great to

get away from muslims marking eat. it's time to rejoice this badly to celebrate what is known to be the best tools i'll tell you what that means to russia's muslim population just a few moments. on wednesday wiki leaks founder julian assange has lost his court appeal battle to stay in the u.k. he's been under house arrest for nearly a year while waiting for the verdict and sounds will now be extradited to sweden to answer a sex crime allegations which he's never been charged it will be decided later this month if he can appeal the science denies the claims of his noise suggesting that sweden's maneuvering to hand him over to the u.s. is due to secret pentagon files which we should explain next the site itself is in them but suspended because it struck him to raise funding on an after financial blockade international journalist afshin rattansi says the mainstream media is only adding to the persecution. it is astonishing here in britain to see the way the

case is being covered two organizations i used to work at the b.b.c. the guardian newspaper the guardian of course had to 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 doing a size was speaking to occupy 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 julius should become some sort of overall professor of journalism and they should close all the university's 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 is we carrying out rogue assassinations of its own citizens

is is just breathtaking. extensive coverage of what's behind pursuing that we can expound is that r.t. dot com and more online view there today as well vying for votes heat is on for a seat in russia's parliament we'll tell you how candidates so willingly electorate to back their ballot. in on the latest attempt to break the blockade of gaza as israeli security forces border to irish canadian boats details on this and other stories or at 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 aris result ski claims chelsea football club. remove it has robbed him billions by imitating him into selling his oil shares on the cheap about which denies the allegations and has shied away from any public comment on the case but there is also he has been much

more candid with some loud grandstanding in the witness box the lawsuit promises to become the most expensive in history the tycoons already having spent millions of dollars in legal bills. now than 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 in your the isolation of such a long distance space flight tom barton reports now on a 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 the mission to mars and back they're thankful to be back home on their fellow earth to others it is really really great to see you all again rob their whole they're all going it's been an honor to have been been part of this remarkable achievement we have five of them are professional

fraley area syrian individuals i have ever worked 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 and crew 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 this for the left how of your relationships with the other crew members changed. at the beginning i was hoping not hoping i was maybe waiting for something like that to happen you know like fight or something close cracker for such a long time it works you know it must not most thing in the world. but. we have

been a very. effective from the beginning. of the experiment was kept as real as possible with a twenty minute time delay in communications will miss the ship was on its way that meant the team was alone they could talk freely with loved ones who researches decided to move home news from the outside world but that was tricky going on with those we had to keep in mind that some information could come in many 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 that's one thing but much the highlight of the cruise trip was a simulated landing on mars with a long isolation and boredom before it scientists observed with amazement just how little it became for them when they made martian landfall. with nationalists but

that's in both their pulse rate was one hundred sixty beats per minute now compared with the pulse of the first concert or not yuri gagarin orbit it was a hundred and fifty two beats per minute the outside world to has been in tree from us five hundred mostly through betting on how and when an experiment would fail. making put eight to one on one of the crew members going insane because if it was. aware that somebody. want to cry we had a lot of money to fix that nobody went crazy and nobody went out. so even though it's only a dry run it's still a significant achievement for earth's first martian pioneers. ten bottom. early. this week two unmanned chinese spacecraft successfully docked in orbit for the

first time it brings china closer to building its own space station after it was refused participation i assess many by the u.s. defense experts microscope thinks that despite beijing's achievements there's still room for improvement the ultimate goal for the chinese human spaceflight program is to establish a long time human space presence in space by twenty twenty the chinese are progressively improving and gradually moving up to the american russians peacekeeper abilities pretty much open to technology called cooperation in the cooperation of space but clearly that third however there are also challengers particularly as the chinese space program has a dual civil and military so you remember in two thousand and seven china conducted its first empty satellite weapon which basically a worry a lot of defense analysts and policymakers in the west so they're brought up with kidneys and challengers going down the road it is important but it's not

a major my us those that depending on how successful the mission will be china still has a long way to go palestine while a place at the u.n. heritage group this week but the move will cost in esco a fifth of its funding with the u.s. cutting off its cash israel also strongly opposed to the palestinians now claim israel has suspended handing over tax payments in the telling nation and there's still a long way to go for palestine to gain full u.n. membership washington has about to veto that bid at the security council saying a peace deal with israel is needed first palestinian affairs ramsey says u.s. efforts to pressure their school and the palestinians to fail. it's an act of quick to punish and that's what exactly what it is and the sad thing is that you have many members and the congress is starting with any outlaws and other conservative republican and democratic members who have been pushing for the u.s.

to use its iron fist as far as willing to punish them into any organization that either a group of nuns is palestine as a state or giving it membership and that international body will be doing all this really any membership it seeks of any given organization anywhere it's extremely bad and who is going to suffer not just the palestinians alone but in you know various countries that have been there just from the amazing programs that you just go have fun to play with how they hears this but there's one important do you mind 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 underway with millions of muslims traveling around the well to visit his and loved ones where to see how russia's muslims are marking their second most important festival of the year and joining parties jacob greaves who's outside moscow's main mosque jacob over to you. yet watch 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 it's just concluded the guys just concluded now they're taking off by still taking place in the backdrop of the grand central mosque which has just been told down for rejuvenation now. this is this is based on the great sacrifice is also known that the richest teams about teachings of the qur'an and there says that they have all of his son as a sacrifice to god and god seeing this all right she pardoned his son estate up with around three fact of sacrifice and that's where this ritual originates also it comes on the back of the charge that the great pilgrimage to mecca is so seen as a day for feasting as well ritual of animal sacrifice actually cause if it was third last year in moscow that's because some of it actually spilled on to the

street such as the number of the revelers the worshipers on the day and some not liking the size they saw of the animal sacrifice on less there have been sold this year that must take place in only certified areas we are facing a mass turnout for the course of the day in moscow and the rushers world was turned out last year but numbering about one hundred thousand around moscow's most. ok jake agrees that life from moscow thank you for that update. well are the main headlines will be up next here on r.t. stay with us.

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