and there you go watching artie's weekly news review welcome to the program well 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 patton jaylen early survived a confidence vote down meet his main political opponent for talks but the opposition leader is refusing to get involved in the coalition and wants a snap election center for reporters now 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 papa enjoy calling for a referendum on these. plans we saw in two dramatic eternal nose referendum plans of it was met with this resistance both internationally and from within members of his government so confident 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 bill looks extremely clear if 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 these coalition plans not least because the head of the main opposition party here in the country has rejected calls for a coalition and once again called for the early elections they're playing more. each other and trying to see who's going to blink to just to see whether or not 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 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 that the tool. for the future of the year isn't the last thing anyone's wanted right now with even more instability and experience 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 the same but for how long and what format government will survive remains on. keeping greece afloat forefront of the minds of leaders of the world's twenty biggest economies as they met in france. dug in to defend the single currency and agreed to shore up the international monetary fund and he's on the way for the summit. the ever changing greek drama took center stage in cannes for the g twenty leaders hero host nicolas sarkozy protecting what he calls the beating heart of europe till the end there's

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 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 or perish the thought that they should be allowed to decide whether they want these things leaders say it is up to greece to will surely be 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

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 some hope for the single currency lines 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. and he said now. that week sort of californian city of oakland we're seeing one of the biggest protests of the occupy wall street movement came up against a tough police response to tear gas and rubber bullets fired at demonstrators at least one hundred people were arrested and several injured including a war veteran the second such incident in less than two weeks. you see tough enough was among the protesters. 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 walk down that street before that was the street of

the standoff for 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 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 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 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 a i don't actually heard anything but deafening air scare that the protesters and journalists on site. you know which was the epicenter of the occupy protests this week but other u.s. cities saw some as well new york's mayor michael bloomberg said his city won't tolerate open style ballance even protests a suspicious that it means police are preparing to shop there about twenty people were detained at a demo there on saturday several arrests also wrote washington. social for testing

the ground for hackers. well still ahead for you this hour the whistleblower winded by a verdict. of not being charged with any crime in any country on the 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 u.n. winning membership of the heritage organization the price is too high for some explain why. well to syria now where a peace deal to end the months of bloodshed made little difference to security forces who knew their attacks on anti regime activists in the city of homs activists claim more than twenty people died as the tanks rolled in but some experts fear nothing can be taken for granted in this conflict. these human rights groups are being used as a way of funneling stories to the media that there's no way to attribute them

there's no way to verify them there's no way to know whether or not these events are really happening at all and the latest example in fact it's just breaking now is that apparently they're trying to say that they're the ceasefire has already been broken by by syria the syrian troops firing on citizens in homes we see probably a similar thing playing out here as we 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 the strategic a strategic area which is a perfect place for launching a further result into iran and i think if if if this is the rand and seriously stepping stone towards that which is what i think we have to keep our eye on in all of this the war crimes court in the hague says they'll be an investigation into nato violence and libya that's thought to have killed all the thousand civilians alliance members will be probed alongside former rebels and gadhafi loyalists the

former cia officer told r.t. that libya's current flux is a direct result of western interference the europeans and the americans wanted assured access to european oil and on top of that american leaders are not unlike the leaders that were in moscow during soviet times they believe in the inevitability of democracy everywhere just is as marxism was at once believed to be inevitable and as a result they're upset in power structures centuries old and they're going to pay for it by an increased power among islamists and by civil war in those countries we have just created enormous reinforcement in terms of the people who are released from libyan prisons and in terms of supplies of weapons for the islamists across north africa. russian businessman the victim was convicted in new york this week with all charges against him including selling arms to terrorists conspiring to kill americans he was arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight in

a sting organized by the u.s. but could face a life sentence but said appeal and associates are kind of reports now of what could be behind the case. here is spent by the u.s. 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 victor 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 and acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for conspiring to provide material support to the fark the forty four year old russian air cargo business men fascinated hollywood want a firearm for every twelve people on. the 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 farka members a colombian group terrorist in the u.s. but not by many other countries and the un 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 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 boot family also called us actions entrapment and kidnapping the full

sky i can accept the possibility that they might have some information that might be of interest to someone but 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 those people on to 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 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 you know basically catford to bring into america right. means necessary the journalist says boot is one of many victims of u.s. judicial power play but i feel that 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. russian citizen victor boot or troy davis to be you know sentenced to life or convicted of a crime and it didn't commit victor boots wife says the u.s. is the criminal in this case. the actions currently carried out by the u.s. special services are an organized provocation organized crime towards a russian said ascent or any other citizens of the world when they just have deemed them allegedly dangerous it 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 bars the sentencing will come in february and r.t. new york. was ahead for you this hour great to get away from muslims marking eight . soldiers joyce's family celebrate this key islamic first tell you what this means for russia's muslims in just a few moments. on wednesday wiki leaks founder julian assange 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 will now be extradited to sweden to answer sex crime allegations which he's never been charged with a side of right to the small heal. denies the claims of his lawyers suggesting that sweetens moving to hand him over to the u.s. is due to secret pentagon files which you can express the site itself is in member

suspended because it's going to raise funding on the financial located. next to the mainstream media isn't 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 a 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 london stock exchange protest just 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 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 as we know is we carrying out rogue assassinations of its own citizens is is just breathtaking palestine one of place at the u.n. heritage group this week the move will cost you know fifth of its funding as the u.s. said it's cutting off its cash israel so strongly oppose the move palestinians now claim israel has suspended handing over tax havens and nation less than a long way to go out of style on the ship washington is about to be through the bit at the security council turn a peace deal with israel is needed first palestinian presidential advisor says praising the arab spring and blocking palestinian sovereignty saying time is hypocritical. you kind of get the united states of america celebrating the arab spring going into the square in egypt and shaking the hands of demonstrators

seeking democracy while banning palestinians from having their own democracy and their own independence. act and that's totally unacceptable what's also to this is the fact that the united states of america has in the past rather thought in the palestinian authority that it would cut the aid now we hear that foreign secretary secretary clinton is calling upon congress to reconsider this position i certainly hope that the american administration would reconsider this and that the issue of financial for that would not be off and the palestinian and the international intervention to consolidate palestinian independence would not be subjected in order. to hold a bias or to share thoughts if anything that has to be total indorsement now lives and international voice added to the palestinian voice and i think this voice ought to be addressed and addressed carefully. extensive coverage of the ongoing conflict between israel and the palestinians r.t.

dot com and there you'll find also the latest attempt to break the blockade of gaza as israeli security forces or maybe. vying for votes there it is on for a seat in russia's parliament tell you how candidates are bringing the electorate back get ballot tells on this and other stories with r.t. dot com. threats of an attack against iran grew this week israel tested its defenses while the president said a strike is more likely and has gotten a lot of support from britain and america u.n. is due to report on iran's titties next week. claims iran is building nuclear weapons something tehran strongly denies there are increasing warnings are attacking iran could spark new conflict. this has been going on for almost for more than four years now we see permanent threats against iran on the

part of israel who are calling for a preemptive strike. who said and it all coincides with the battle is really on southern lebanon in two thousand and six so i think we have to be very cautious and basically understand that what iran is is the cornerstone of probably what is an ongoing very tough negotiation to move forward towards a world government where russia and china are not going to bow in very easily to the western powers and iran is the cornerstone so i think the world we are seeing is we are probably edging closer to what might become a full fledged war in the region even a world war with iran is the cornerstone if it is attacked by israeli. more of today's world news for you now in brief a suicide bomb attack a mosque in northern afghanistan has killed at least six people and wounded more

than a dozen others it happened in the province of worshippers were leaving after morning prayers among those killed were two local police commanders. mudslides have swept through towns in western colombia killing at least fourteen people in one incident people were buried alive as they slept many buildings have been destroyed or severely damaged during times when one of the numbers rainy seasons. a series of is the most attacks have killed at least sixty seven people in northeastern nigeria and more balance is threatened the bomb and gun attack structure choose mosques and police stations in a single town friday the same group also attacked a military headquarters in neighboring province with a triple suicide bombing. now a manned mission to mars came a step closer this week a major experiment in moscow has shown scientists that the human body can endure

the isolation of such a long distance space flight or time bottom reports on the successful conclusion of the mars 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 a mission to mars and back they're thankful to be back among their fellow earth to others it is really really great to see you all again rather whole they're all going it's been an honor to having been part of this remarkable achievement with our five of them are professional fraley our assyrian 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 if 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 their 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 a fight or something being close quarter for such a long time it would be you know it must not most thing in the world. but it never happened we have been a very. very cohesive team from the beginning. of the experiment was kept as real as possible with a twenty minute time delay in communications almost the ship was on its way meant the team was alone they could talk freely with loved ones that researches decided

to withhold news from the outside world but that was tricky when with we had to keep in mind that some information could come in with private correspondence 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 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 land fall. nationals but that in both their pulse rate was one hundred sixty beats per minute now compared with the pulse of the first constant not hearing a garant orbit it was one hundred fifty two beats per minute the outside world to has been intrigued by most five hundred mostly through betting on how and when makes time and would fail one bookmaker put eight to one all day on one of the crew

members going insane because of it we're having a lot. where we're happy that somebody. want to try we have a lot of money to fix a bad thing that nobody went crazy and nobody went out. so even though it's only a dry run it's still a significant. to achieve that first motion pioneers. great stuff now then the four day religious festival is underway with millions of muslims traveling around the world to visit families and loved ones. grieves joined muslims in moscow as they began marking one of their most important festivals of the year. we see from the sheer amount of people turned out today just what this means for moscow's muslim population they'll be lining the streets behind me listening to their local imitating parts and worship is just concluded also

spilling on to jason road just over here now there has been a hint of from out thousands in fact turning us they all out of the back shop 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 fifteen how the great sacrifice is known as sustained in this ritual of sacrifice or animal sacrifice that all goes back to teaching of the qur'an and their abraham is said to offer his son a sacrifice to god and god bestowed upon him a ram really is appreciation for that sacrifice in a part and his son in the process and ever since then and are sacrifices being a part of these celebrations as festivities also comes just on the back of harsh great pilgrimage to mecca is also 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 although it's facing a certain hours they both in moscow and in russia last year last year saying about a hundred thousand people turn out around moscow's mosque for the celebration. so i can be reporting that while some fresh air and free thinking on the way as we mix with the spirits in the russia zero mountains that soft mind of the week's top stories just ahead. little.

below there the latest news on the week's top stories on r.t. greece's debt drama these its prime minister fighting for his job and struggling to form a new unity government the eurozone leaders are together on one thing saving the euro with or without boots. american protesters vow to keep gunning for the greedy as anti corporate demo sprang from. across the country have to spite school for the rest of what seen as only tough policing. russian businessmen to boot faces life behind bars in the u.s. of being convicted of selling weapons to terrorist groups and conspiring to kill americans denies all the charges against him and says he'll appeal. and the mission to mars comes closer to reality moscow bunker is open for five hundred twenty detainees.