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hello and welcome to r.t. if you are carried off. greece has enjoyed another relative the week with the prime minister having to pledge a new unity government to tackle the almost insurmountable debt crisis george patton dreher narrowly survived a confidence vote on 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. great to find 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 calling for a referendum on the. plans we saw in two dramatic eternal nose referendum plans it was met with resistance internationally and from within members of his government that we saw a confidence vote go ahead on friday in parliament. and his government managing to
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narrowly survived one hundred fifty three m.p.'s one hundred forty five and the bill looks extremely clear 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 these coalition plans because the head of the main opposition party here in the country has rejected schools for a coalition and once again called for the early elections they're playing more of. each other trying to see who's going to blink just to see whether a 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
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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 form that government will survive remains. bookkeeping greece afloat was at the forefront of the minds of leaders of the world's twenty biggest economies as they met in france you leaders dug in to defend the single currency and agreed to shore up the international monetary fund. 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 this petition
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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 can return to athens and cancelled 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 or perish the thought that they should be allowed to decide whether they want these things euro leaders say it is up to greece to should look like 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 involved in greek domestic politics. but 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
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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 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 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 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
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summit will be held in a brics country and it takes place in moscow russia in two thousand and thirteen reporting from. can anything now r.t. . this week saw the california and city of oakland witnessing one of the biggest protests of the occupy wall street movement it 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 in a second such incident in less than two weeks artie's was among the protest. 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 for several
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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 was a scene unfolding on the streets of oakland no other media outlets no other television outlets here on the front lines 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
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to clear the camera remains to be seen but as you can see these officers are marching behind as sticks in hand 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 internet tear gas for these loud sort of done in aid that don't actually hurt anything but definitely an air scare that the protesters and journalists on site. in oakland which was the epicenter of the occupy protests this week but other u.s. cities saw some as well york's mayor michael bloomberg said his city won't tolerate open style points even protest to suspicious that it means police are preparing to shut their camps about twenty people were detained at a demo there on saturday several arrests were also made in washington where officers were transferred to the ground handcuffing that. under still ahead for you
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this hour the whistleblower winded by a verdict. of not being with any crime in any country london's high court rules that wiki leaks founder julian assange should be sent to sweden to answer controversial sex crime allegations. and palestinians get a step nearer the un when membership of the heritage organization you know the price is too high for some explain why. in syria now a peace deal to end the months of bloodshed made little difference to security forces who knew their attacks on the regime activists in the city of homes more than twenty people died as the tanks rolled in the arab league which brokered the agreement claims its fate it would be disastrous but some political analysts in the region echo president assad's belief that syria's on rest is rooted in a foreign plot. i think it's a conspiracy by
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a regional power that they wanted to change the regime of bashar al 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 inside syria actually some of this country has been funneling weapons and money uncertain i jealous g. to topple the regime of president assad the president of syria acknowledged there is opposition in that country and he extended his hand to what it consolidation away then 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 opposition and exile those are backed by the western powers some persian gulf country. russian businessmen vick to boot was convicted in new york this week on all charges
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against him including selling arms to terrorists and conspiring to kill americans he was arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight in a sting organized by the u.s. could face a life sentence but said he'd appeal and it's a situation reports now on what could be behind the case. years spent by the us to hunt down one russian man tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer cash poor it into a sting operation snatched up from a third country for months of solitary confinement before 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 for the forty four year old
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russian air cargo business men fascinated hollywood one of every twelve people on. your record. and only on the other eleven. bood 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 feeling u.s. officials were relentless in their efforts to get behind bars the so-called merchant of death is now a federal inmate american agents posing as far camembert as a colombian group to terrorist in the u.s. but not by many other countries and the u.n. met with and then arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight after twice being found not guilty by thai courts the u.s. reportedly play dirty by arm twisting thailand into extraditing him to america
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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 extradite him or i should say kidnapping boots family also called u.s. actions entrapment and kidnapping the full sky so i can accept the possibility that they might have some information that might be of interest the sad one. why is it that other countries don't just think to themselves that there is someone who has some interesting information and why don't those government just dragged those people onto their territory moscow's request to send him to russia were brushed aside there was no official 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 boots defense says the russian was aware that he was not in touch with real fork members and all he was trying to do was sell to old cargo planes we can appeal to this judge. that the verdict was
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rendered against the weight of the evidence that we could also proceed to the united states court of appeals but with the vigor with which boot was brought to the u.s. experts like george map who has attended every hearing say a successful appeal is unlikely to magically crimes manufactured jurisdiction and manufactured evidence relentless was you know basically catford to bring to america . by any means necessary the journalist says boot is one of many victims of u.s. judicial power play that i feel the victor in this particular 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 russian citizen for it to boot or troy davis to be you know sentenced to life or convicted of a crime that they didn't commit victor boots wife says the u.s. is the criminal in this case that the actions currently carried out by the u.s. special services are an organized provocation organized crime towards a russian citizen or any other citizens of the world when they just have deemed
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them allegedly dangerous he doesn't even have to be specific action moscow has vowed to continue to push for boots return to russia has always maintained his innocence and will keep fighting for justice but with us muscles flexed tight to keep him in an american prison who is facing from twenty five years to life behind . the sentencing will come in february and. new york. still ahead few days are the great getaway for 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 that wednesday wiki leaks founder julian assange lost his court appeal battle to stay in the u.k. he's been under house arrest and in the year while waiting for the verdict will now be extradited to sweden to answer sex crime allegations for which he's never been charged and decided later this month because he'll denies the claims with his
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lawyer suggesting that sweden's been moving to the u.s. is due to secret pentagon files which published itself it's suspended because it's struggling to raise funding after a financial blockade liberty campaign says it's a blow to britain's justice system. this is a fabricated case to get him out of the u.k. where in the past you know with mckinnon we've shown that we are not just prepared to deliver someone to the american authorities so we think that the european arrest warrants being used by the swedish authorities who are more friendly towards the american way of doing things just to get in there we're worried that as soon as he puts sets foot on swedish soil this whole case will disappear and he will be arrested. an american extradition no formal charges have been laid
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the investigators say they're still investigating there's a lot of worry about the quality of the evidence and they don't actually seem to be doing anything like charging him this european way of doing things of ship the person off buying them up in prison and then start trying to put the case together is just an anathema to the british justice system. but on wednesday turkey and germany marked fifty years of their historic pact which saw hundreds of thousands of turkish workers migrating to what was then west germany it was a boom time its only desperate and also once was supposed to be a flagship european council project which has now been deemed by some failure one example seen in neighboring france one newspaper had its offices firebombed this week after naming the prophet mohammed as its guest enter it in a prophet is forbidden is now a reaction denmark knows all too well one m.p. there says the attack is because extremists simply don't understand free speech. it
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is a question of. just wanting to decide what can be serious what can be written and what came to be drawn in their way they're challenging how sweet they were speech and i think that's one of the most cherished freedoms that we have us all so we should not accept this by any chance and i think that all right that might be provocative also what you listen closely but also what shirley to do in what in order to say you know we have a stand here we would say what we like we would laugh at what we like i think that's also very humid there's a lot so humor in what surely did and it's a shame that these muslims cannot love us just think about all the lectures that christianity has received throughout the centuries my goodness in my country i mean the market lesh by all sorts of persons during the last two three hundred years we've been laughing at those christians who are financing they want to keep quiet
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they do not want us to have quite critical religion that is part of our our system i mean we need to say to these people you know you are not the one to decide we decide about free speech we all say what we like. and of course extensive coverage of that and more at r.t. dot com and more on line few that to you today. we have the vying for votes the heat is on for a seat in russia's parliament and tell you how to handle your lecture it bad their ballot. and the latest attempt to break the blockade of gaza as israeli security forces border to irish canadian boats details on this and other stores present r.t. dot com. two russian tycoons have been battling it out for a record sum of some six billion dollars in london's high court next out on the dog race results he claims. at
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a move which has robbed him of billions by intimidating having to sell its oil shares on the cheap very rich denies the allegation has shied away from any public comment on the case but there is also he has been much more candid with some violent oppression grandstanding witness box lawsuit promises to become the most expensive in history both tycoons already having spent millions of dollars in legal bills. palestinians won a place at the u.n. heritage group this week but the move will cost you less give a fifth of its funding to the u.s. cutting off its cash israel also strongly opposed the move students now claim israel has suspended transparent tax payments to police to turn a ship. going way to go to palestine to gain un membership washington is vowing to veto the greater security council saying a peace deal with israel is needed first analysts say that the international
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support for the us scale and its well the future palestinian sovereignty. this symbolic idea that all these nations wanted to let palestine in over the objections of the us in israel is very significant i think and it. tells to me and said ben stein meet in their efforts to have a state and of course they're trying a new route they're trying. the spall protest and they're trying this method of trying to get into more and more international organizations to build their legitimacy and i think that's a better way to go than violence the difference between this vote in the one. or statehood bid is that of course the u.s. can be in the security council that the latter one where is this vote there's no veto and it was voted overwhelmingly that people went against what the u.s. and israel wanted and voted in the palestine as
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a member. of manned mission to buzz came a step closer this week major experiment in moscow has shown scientists that the human body can enjoy the isolation of such a long distance space flight to boston reports on the successful conclusion of the most five hundred project. back on earth. 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 him been part of this remarkable achievement there are five of them are professional fraley our resilience individuals i have ever worn with it's clear that crew cohesion was key to sticking it out this door stayed sealed shut all
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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 if the six man crew would be able to go all that time without severe psychological effects from the busy control room i was able to ask them how they got on before they left how of your relationships with the other crew members changed at the beginning i was. not hoping i was maybe waiting for something like that to happen you know like right or something close quarter for such a long time it works you know we can just not nothing in the world. but. we have been a very. quiet sixty from the beginning of. the experiment was kept as real as possible with a twenty minute time delay in communications the ship was on its way that meant the
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team was alone they could talk freely with loved ones but researchers decided to withhold news from the outside world but that was tricky. 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 that's what must 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 landfall. all nationalists but that in both their pulse rate was one hundred sixty beats per minute now compared with the pulse of the first cause not yuri gagarin orbit it was one hundred fifty two beats per minute the outside world to has been intrigued by five hundred mostly through
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betting on how and when makes time and would fail one bookmaker put eight to warm all day on one of the crew members going insane because of it. well. yeah. that you know. went crazy everybody went out. so even though it's only a dry run it's still a significant achievement earth's first martian pioneers. to martin marty. the four day bestival is underway with millions of muslims traveling around the well to visit planets and loved ones. greens joined muslims in moscow say began marking one of that most important festivals of the year. we see from the sheer amounts of people it turned out that
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they just what this means for moscow's muslim population maybe lining the streets behind me listening to the local women taking part in worship is just concluded also spilling on to chase it road just over here now there has been a hint of from out thousands of 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 eight are how the great sacrifice is noted sustained in this ritual of sacrifice an animal sacrifice that all goes back to teaching of the qur'an and there abraham is said to offer his son a sacrifice to god and god bestowed upon him a ram really is appreciation for that sacrifice and pardoned his son in the process and ever since then and all sacrifice being a part of these celebrations as festivities also comes just on the back of harsh grace pilgrimage to mecca is also
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a time for feasting with families friends and giving to the poor as well known because the analysts across actually cause a bit of controversy just last year in moscow that's because it numbered such amounts are actually spilled of the streets and there are some disclosures discount on local residents of the site they source this time city hall said it must take place in only certified areas we all though especially a mass turnout stay both in moscow and in russia moscow last year saying about one hundred thousand people turn out around moscow's most for the celebration. they can present reporting that will shortly be asked whether the world's most powerful leaders really have what it takes to save us from political abyss a softer mind on the weeks make things. the a. commitment to.
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latest news and the week's top stories now in r.t. greece's debt drama leaves its prime minister fighting for his job and struggling to form a new unity government appears there in leaders are together on one thing saving the euro with or without greece. american protesters vowed to keep gunning for the greedy as anti-corporate across the country to spite schools arrests and seen as only time for policing. russian businessmen rick to boot faces life behind bars in the u.s. often convicted of selling weapons to terrorist groups conspiring to kill americans . in the charge against him and says he'll. and a manned mission to mars comes close to reality moscow bunkers open after five hundred twenty days and that mankind.
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