the. latest news in the week's top stories knotty the greek debt drama leaves its prime minister fighting for his job even leaders pledged to save the euro with or without greece also. american protesters vowed to keep gunning for the greedy as anti corporate process strengthened despite the arrests being strong armed by the police. russian businessmen picked to boot faces life behind bars in the u.s. after being convicted of selling weapons to terrorist groups which he denies. and

closer to mars moscow opens up to five hundred twenty days that mankind can enjoy the isolation of a long flight to the red planet. and online this is our weekly news review a very warm 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. survived a confidence vote down meet his main political opponents for talks with the opposition leader is refusing to get involved in the coalition and wants a snap election sarah ferguson from athens. 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 papandreou calling for a referendum only he. was so into dramatic eternal noise referendum plans it was met with resistance internationally and from within members of his government social. heads on friday in harlem and. his government money things and narrowly by one hundred fifty three m. p. one hundred forty five and still looks extremely clear the prime minister and the government his talks now turned to the formation of a national unity government but there's a lot of confusion these coalition plans take a big head at the main opposition party here in the country has rejected schools for a coalition and once again include the very early elections they're playing or. trying to see who is. to just to see whether

a national unity will be we still 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 . possibly top telling someone else that 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 is a tool we have for the future of years and the last thing anyone wanted right now with even more instability piece that's exactly what they thought it felt like change was in the at the end of the week it's been months actually still remains but for how long and what government will survive remains. supporting the president admitted it's possible greece could eventually quit. doing

so. because it. in my view the best the best option for the greeks is to default of course there is much bigger financial consequences for for the rest of europe and for the rest of the world if that happens but if we're talking about what is in the best interest of the greek people then there now is probably the best outcome and many would say that the greek default has been delayed until the that the germans the french banks can can actually deal with it can can the leaders do something more what yes what needs to happen is a restructuring of the eurozone either those countries which are not truly aligned which is the peripheral countries leave the euro or there is further. political and fiscal integration in europe those are the those are the possible solutions there

is a third possible solution which is a lot more printing of money that. europeans could print money and monetize the debt but that would then send inflation spiraling that there is no there there is no easy solution to that but you have to come to terms with the fact that there is too much debt too much sovereign debt and it will not all be repaid some of it is going to have to be written off and there is going to be pain and suffering to actually go through that process keeping greece afloat was at the forefront of the minds of leaders of the world's a twenty biggest economies as they met in france e.u. leaders to defend the single currency but agreed to shore up the international monetary fund parties and it's an odd way followed the summit. the ever changing greek drama took center stage in cannes for the g twenty meet here on host nicolas sarkozy protecting what he calls the beating heart of europe till the end of

predictions a resolution which is very strong. 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 impromptu referendum that would have more last allowed the public to decide if they stay or if they go when it comes to the euro or perish the thought that they should be allowed to decide whether they want things leaders say it is to agree to or of a should. be greece is an independent country and i just want to say they are perfectly free to give any idea that we truly think getting the full inclusion mystique politically like you found has given some exactly that idea there 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 circles see 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 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 and could be playing a major role in the fight to save the euro which some hope for the single currency lies with the emerging economies or the brics who have already pledged to try and help the euro stay afloat but with a condition president says they want to play a bigger world in financial institutions like the i.m.f. and a 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 r.t. . this week saw a california city of oakland witnessing one of the biggest protest of the occupy wall street movement it came up against a tough police response tear gas and rubber bullets fired at demonstrators at least one hundred people were arrested and several injured including a war veteran of the second such incident in less than two weeks marty's was among the protests. and we're still reporting from the so hopeless as you can hear behind me loud explosions possibly tear gas from the police officers there are a 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 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 or 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 wholly 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 he was there are marching behind as sticks and hands but talking hand i don't know if you can get any closer on that shots but there 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 fergie's loud sort of a ton of rage the gun actually for anything but deafening air scare that the protesters and journalists on site. it's he's careful. ok there which was epicenter of the occupy protests this week a u.s. city saw some as well new york's mayor michael bloomberg said his city tolerate oakland style ballance protests a suspicious study the supper to shut. about twenty people were detained there on saturday several arrests were also made washington says shuffle tested the ground for one tough and that's

a disclaimer on the cover police instigates in the audience. we know for a fact there was a cop watch a video done an exposé showing at least working as an 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 master the overwhelming majority of us were peaceful urging people to remain peaceful and you have cute 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 it 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. but they're still ahead for you this hour the whistleblower when did the buy a verdict. i have not been charged with any crime in any country done so high court rules that the wiki leaks founder julian assange should be sent to sweden to answer controversial sex crime allegations. there the u.n. winning a membership of the heritage organization. the price is too high for some explain why. in syria a peace deal to end the months of bloodshed made little difference to security forces in a new terror attacks on the regime activists in the city of homs activists claim more than twenty people died as the tanks rolled in and some experts fear in the think of a taken for granted in this conflict he's a human rights groups are being used as a way of funneling stories in the media that there is no way to attribute them

there is no way to verify i don't know what we don't know whether or not these events are really happening at all and i believe is the example in fact it's just breaking now is that apparently they're trying to. leave the cease fire has already been broken by by syria syrian troops firing on citizens and we see probably a similar thing playing out here as weak as we did in libya which was to really take over the resources of the country but more than that i think with syria what we're looking at is a strategic or a strategic area which is a perfect place for launching a further result into iran i think if if game of this is a really seriously stepping stone towards that which is what i think we have to keep our eye on in all of this. also in syria the united nations nuclear watchdog claims it's discovered a secret facility in the north west that matches the design of the new rainin richmond plant but this insists it's nothing more than a textile factory online reporter patrick hayes who's closely following the story

says allegations to demonize syria yes this is a way of keeping more pressure on syria during a time when the uprising the taken place i think it really brings about the worst of both worlds in many way it brings about kind of western intervention but in a very insidious kind of i would say dishonest fashion they're basically doing what they did in iraq which is to use the guise of weapons inspections to basically poke their nose into areas of countries to seem to be a bit suspicious a bit naughty they're poking their noses in a lot i would say political appear to be political really rather than for any reasons of security concerns at its current time and i think it's very telling that they're choosing to do this after a time when the uprising for taking place what they're trying to do if they kind of effectively use other things as kind of mud to fro at the situation to try and affectively build up a narrative which they can use should they necessarily want to intervene in the

future oh it certainly syria is being recast in this situation as one of the one of the countries that needs to what's you know what one of the countries in the former for example a new piece of people or something along those lines so i think it is being used to teach it reasons the only thing that will really where is if it actually is if the syrian people are left alone without any western intervention without their you know kind of their lackeys all kind of bodies like the international atomic energy agency poking their noses in and it's left to the syrian people to basically decide what they want to do and determine their own future. a new york jury this week convicted a russian businessman to boot four counts of selling arms to terrorists and conspiring to kill americans. sentence. he was arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight sting operation that request to u.s.

officials next. despite strong opposition. and she'll say one of the world's most. straight is responsible for escalating several. published several books about case believes the trial is purely political the problem is that too many americans have heard so many bad things about him but the evidence against him obviously was just so supposedly so in these arms to start wars the start is only. considered a terrorist organization in america and in many other countries around the world is considered a valid political party and i think the whole case is a this smacks of a political agenda when he was taken from thailand expose the sense that thai authorities were thought not to charge him with and the america 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 shadow organizations were working for themselves and africa was very big business supplying arms to africa and once

things start to go downhill there american businessmen are supplying arms got out of the country and 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. that's ahead for you this hour great to get away from muslims marking eat. joy stone we celebrate this key is lovely first to tell you what this means to russia's muslims in just a few moments. on wednesday wiki leaks founder julian assange lost his court appeal about the strain the u.k. he's been under house arrest for nearly a year while waiting for the verdict and sons' will now be extradited to sweden to answer sex crime allegations which he's never been charged decided later this month because he'll denies the claims with his voice suggesting that sweetens movement and the u.s. is due to secret pentagon files which probably just site itself is in limbo

suspended because it's struggling to raise funding online for financial aid for some rather in the case and motives are clear. this is just the latest in a saga isn't it a kind of scandinavian viking saga of the barbarity of which it is being treated is appalling it's been eighteen months disruption campaign now against what is actually one of the most important websites in the world what what wiki leaks does is it was among the most powerful tools to address corruption corruption at the highest levels and what we've seen over the last few years with these expeditions in other parts of the world afghanistan iraq a later one libya is the importance of whistleblowers being able to actually expose criminal behavior as a psychologist being the most powerful person in a way in the world exposing some of these crimes what is certainly very similar isn't it to the common express can sexting it seems to me that there isn't any real

basis for this as we heard that there's not even been charges over in sweden yet it's attempt to shut down what is one of the most important media outlets in the world right now. human error was ruled on wednesday as the cause of september's fatal plane crash in a slum in russia which killed one on board was to go to serve one of the pilots when you have a break something got into jets june because both to reach and heighten struck a mast until the end of the runway among the forty four killed was the. ice hockey team on their way to the first match of the season probles so found traces of a strong sedative in the co-pilot's blood but it's unclear as to who was behind the think there that's the tragic investigation is continuing. extensive coverage of wiki leaks founder of r.t. dot com that case more online for you to buy for votes is on for

a seat in russia's parliament and tell you how time itself will give that trip to baghdad ballots. latest attempt to break the blockade of gaza israeli security forces border i was told in boats the tales of that and other stories of r.t. dot com. a manned mission to mars came a step closer this week experiment in moscow has sent scientists tackle human body can enjoy isolation of such long distance spaceflight tom barton reports that the successful conclusion of the laws five hundred project back on earth i thought 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 thankful to

be back among fellow earth drivers. really really great to see you all again rather overwhelming it's been an honor to have been been part of this remarkable achievement five of them are professional fraley individuals i have ever worked with it's clear that group keep just 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 member crew 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 before the power of your relationships with the other crew members changed. i was

waiting for something like that could happen. right or something close for such a look. at the world. from. the experiment was kept as real as possible with a twenty minute time delay in communications. its way that meant the t.v. . they could talk freely with. from the outside world but that was tricky. we had to keep in mind that some information could come in private correspondence and some relatives could break the news in this case any prolonged silence on our part could lead to tension and misunderstanding they could think that we withheld the information deliberately. the highlight of the trip was a simulated landing on mars with long isolation and boredom before it scientists

observed with a nascent just how real it became for them when they made landfall. their pulse rate was one hundred sixty beats per minute and parent with a pulse of the first. current on orbit it was a hundred and fifty two beats per minute the outside world has been in treat five hundred mostly betting on how. fail. make eight one of the crew members going insane because of it. when he went out. so even though it's a dry run it's still a significant. achievement. tribbles

i'm not too. good for that. how many is now a palestine or one a place at the un heritage group this week or the move or question askew a fifth of its funding has us saying it's cutting off its cash israel also strongly opposed the palestinians now israel's suspended handing over tax payments interrogation there's still a long way to go for palestine to gain full u.n. membership washington has to be to the security council saying a peace deal with israel first voice of russia radio host common russell sometimes the sense of history and so on right track to solvency. this is the first step i think in a series of steps towards u.n. membership you know the next is going to be more education and cultural organizations and and pretty soon you know we could see membership in the world health organization which they will decide they can decide to palestine as

a member just by a simple majority vote as you know still so you know but however as far as getting statehood you know you want obviously you want us obviously has a veto and they're just there's no way that they're not going to be using the veto in terms of stopping statehood itself it's one of the arguments that you hear a lot of the u.s. wants. to go you know to negotiate with israel in terms of the training it's a hood but you know there's there's such large factions at such vocal factions in israel which is against any sort of palestinian statehood that has not worked in decades they have not been able to achieve that through negotiations and one of the reasons i think is because they just don't have you know they don't have the same kind of u.s. support that israel has so i mean they they really are doing what they what they can in terms of statehood and i just think it's because the u.s. is just too close to israel you know that if israel doesn't like and they don't obviously then the u.s.

is going to be what they can to aquash if they can't go through the channels that the us want them to go through in order to achieve it the fourth a religious festival is underway but instead muslims traveling around the world to visit families and loved ones counties greaves joined muslims in australia as they began their most important first of all so. you see from the sheer amounts of he fool it turned out that they just what this means for moscow's muslim population they lined the streets behind me listening to the local him and taking part in worship is just included also spilling on to the chase at road just over here now there has been a junta from out thousands in fact turning us they all on the back of the grand central mosque which has just been torn down to be rejuvenated and given a new lease of life for two thousand and fifty how the great sacrifices no sustained in this ritual of sacrifice an animal sacrifice that all goes back to

teaching of the qur'an and there abraham said to his son a sacrifice to god and god bestowed upon him a ram really is appreciation for that sacrifice and a heart and his son in the process and ever since then and all such proserpina parts of these celebrations and space duties also comes just on the back of harsh grapes and pilgrimage to mecca is also a time for feasting for families friends and giving to the poor as well going to cause the annual cycles that actually cost a bit of controversy just last year in moscow that's because it numbered such a melson actually stilled of the streets and some disco disgruntled local races at the site they source this time city hall said it must take place in only certified areas we all are expecting a mass turnouts they go through moscow and in russia last year last year seeing about hundred thousand people turn out around moscow's mosque for the celebration.

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