just after two pm here in the russian capital this is r t a greece has endured another roller coaster week with the prime minister having to pledge a new unity government to tackle the almost insurmountable debt crisis george narrowly survived a confidence vote and will now meet his main political opponent for talks but the opposition leader is refusing to get involved in a coalition and wants a snap election r.t. surfer as reports now from athens. greece 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 enjoy calling for a referendum only. we saw him do dramatic eternal nose referendum it was met with this resistance both internationally and from within members of his government social confidence go ahead on friday in parliament. and his government managing to narrowly by one hundred fifty three m.p.

one hundred forty five and the 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 not least because the head of the main opposition party here in the country has rejected calls for a coalition and votes again called for the early elections they're playing more of . each other trying to see who's going to blink to 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 the thing and all 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. to. the future 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 released the remains to say but for how long and what form that government will survive remains. well keeping greece afloat was at the forefront of the minds of leaders from the world's twenty biggest economies as they met in france e.u. leaders dug into the from the single currency and agreed to shore up the international monetary fund artes and he said now we follow 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 suppositions a resolution which is very strong angela merkel and i agree on this and we will

fight to defend europe and the euro. france and germany took action with this message to greece play by the rules or get out the greek prime minister made a cameo appearance in cam returned to athens and cancelled an improv referendum that would have more last allowed 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 euro leaders say it is to agree to will surely 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 increase domestic politics. but france has given some exactly that idea there is no longer an independent country and has been for a while 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. and even though it. the week saw the california 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 and at least one hundred people were arrested and several injured including a war veteran the second such incident in less than two weeks. and of those 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 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 this sticks that hands baton one 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 or any of the gun actually or anything but definitely an air scare that the protesters and journalists on site. artes and lucy catherine ave no plan to 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 oakland style violence leaving protestors suspicious that it means police are preparing to shut down their camps well twenty people were detained at a demo there on saturday several arrests were also made if washington knows where it's claimed officers protesters to the ground before handcuffing them despite the pressure of the occupy movement appears to be achieving. i think the success of the

movement is the simplicity of the message they've got to down to four words we are the ninety nine percent. and that message is simple as it is it really cuts to the heart of what a lot of people are experiencing which is a tremendous inequality that's been growing for years people are now all the economists are looking at this and saying this is thirty years in the making there shall so seeing a system that is out of balance with respect to too much corporate influence over politicians and over congress as we wrote this is a democratic capitalism and right now the occupy people are saying there's too much capitalism and not enough democracy so they've come together to say. this is what democracy looks like. and we see both democrats and republicans talking about inequality in a way that they have not for the thirty years that it's been growing so that

already the occupy movement is having a real influence on the conversation that's going on. and still ahead for you this hour the whistleblower when the divine for. i have not been charged with any crime in any country london's high court rules of the wiki leaks founder julian assange should be some to sweden and to answer controversial sex crimes allegations. and palestinians get a step nearer the u.f.o. membership of the heritage organization unesco but the price is too high for some he explained why. in syria a peace deal to end months of bloodshed made little difference to security forces who knew their attacks on the regime activists and the city of homs more than twenty people died as the tanks rolled in and 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 that syria's unrest is rooted in

a foreign. conspiracy by a regional power they wanted to change the regime of bashar assad they want a different regime different government was different and that's why you can see that regional power hasn't been friendly to the situation taking the place in syria actually some of the country has been funneling weapons and money and started an ideology to topple the regime of president assad the president of syria acknowledged there was opposition in the country and he extended his hand to let it come within the his country for those people who were asking for jane and that's why today they have a constitutional reform but there is certain external. opposition and exult those are by the western powers some of. now a russian businessman

a victor boot was convicted in new york this week on all charges against him including as 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 us well but could face a life sentence but said he'd appeal and it's a see if you're going to reports now on what could be behind the case. years 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. alleged 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 russian

air cargo business men fascinated hollywood want to borrow for every twelve people . are required. and only on the other eleven. bood lost his case in the court of u.s. public opinion 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 spread 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 park 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 plea dirty arm twisting in 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 trouble to extradite him or i should say kidnapping boots family also called u.s. 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 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 drag those people out of their territory what 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 fark members and all he was trying to do was to old cargo planes we can appeal to this judge. that the verdict was rendered

against the weight of the evidence and that we could also proceed to the united states court of appeals but with the vigor with which it was brought to the u.s. experts like george map who has attended every hearing say a successful appeal is unlikely leaders of magic crimes manufactured jurisdiction and manufactured evidence ration relentless you know baseless catford to boot bringing to america that any by any. means necessary the journalist says boot is one of many victims of u.s. judicial power play that 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 whether it be russian citizens or to boot or troy davis to be you know sentence to life or come because of a crime that they didn't commit victor boots why should the u.s. is a 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

them allegedly dangerous it doesn't even have to be specific action moscow has vowed to continue to push for votes 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 marty new york. and still ahead for you this hour the great a get away for muslims marking eat. sparingly celebrate this key islamic first to tell you what this means for russia's muslims in just a few moments. on a wednesday weaken leaks founder julian assange losses 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. allegations over which he's never been charged it will be decided later this month if he can

appeal massage denies the claims with his lawyers adjusting the sleeve as maneuvering to have him over to the u.s. is due to secret pentagon files which publish the site itself is in limbo suspended because it's struggling to raise funding online after if the national blockade or first some of those fall would be case the motives are clear. this is just the latest in a song isn't it a con of scam. maybe in viking saga of the barbarity of which is being treated appallingly has been an eighteen month 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 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 dominic stress can sexting it seems to me that there isn't any real basis for this there's not even been charges over in sweden and so yes it's a spear yes attempt to shut down what is one of the most important media outlets in the world right now. the palestine i want to place at the un heritage group this week about the move will cost you now school a fifth of its funding for the u.s. cutting off its cash israel also strongly oppose the move and palestinians now claim israel has suspended having overtops payments in retaliation and there's still a long way to go for palestine to gain full u.n. membership but washington has vowed to veto the bid at the security council saying a peace deal with israel is no good first palestinian affairs writer ramzy borrowed says u.s. efforts to pressuring vasco and the palestinians will fail. it's an act of courage

to punish and that's what exactly what you and the sad thing is that you have many members and the congress is charging if i was an altar conservative republican and to project then there's really no shame for the u.s. to use its iron fist as far as we're going to want to do any organization that either a group of nuns is palestine as a state or giving membership and that international body will be do not really any membership at six in any given organization anyway it's extremely bad and what is going to suffer not just in this ng is they don't but you know there is going to use this to begin to do it from the beijing programs that you just go have fun to do and how they use this but there's one ford and jim i'm going to out of here and this is president reagan at one point cut funding to this one pulled out and you know what you this will survive and it will survive this time as well. well extensive coverage of the ongoing conflict between israel and the palestinians at

r.t. dot com and there you'll also find the latest attempt to break the blockade of gaza and israeli security forces border to irish canadian votes. and a body for votes the heat is on for a seat of russia's parliament and we tell you how candidates are ruling the electorate bag their ballots all the details of this and other stories that are to be done. let's look at some of today's world news now a suicide bomb attack near a mosque in northern afghanistan has killed at least six people and wounded more than a dozen others it happened in the province of bug while worshippers were leaving after celebrating the festival among those killed were two local police commanders . mudslides have swept three towns in western colombia killing at least fourteen people in one incident four people were burned alive as they slept many buildings have been destroyed or severely damaged during what has been one of

colombia's worst rainy seasons in years. a series of as long as attacks have killed at least sixty seven people in northeast nigeria and more violence is threatened the bomb been got attack structure police stations in a single town on friday the same group also attacked a military headquarters in a neighboring province with a triple suicide bombing now imagine mission to mars came a step closer this week a major experiment in moscow a show on scientists that's a human body can endure the isolation of such a long distance space flight are reports on the successful conclusion of the mars five hundred project. back on earth i. well actually they never left but pale faced bleary eyed these six men are returning from a five hundred twenty day epic mockup of a mission to mars and back they're thankful to be back among their fellow earth to

others it is really really great to see you all again rob their whole they're all going to be an honor to having been part of this remarkable achievement we have 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 the six men and 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 hoping not hoping i was

maybe waiting for something like that to happen you know like a fight or something close quarter for such a long time you know it must not most thing in the world. but never happen we have been a very. 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 meant the team was alone they could talk freely with loved ones who researches decided to head home news from the outside world but that was tricky mainly with those 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 within four months 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 or course we'll hash this but i think both their pulse rate was one hundred sixty beats per minute now compared with the pulse of the first constant or not yuri gagarin orbit it was one hundred fifty two beats per minute the outside world two has been intrigued by movies five hundred most people betting on how and when an experiment would fail. may can put eight to one all day on one of the crew members going insane because if it was. that somebody. we want to cry we had a lot of money to fix the betting that nobody went crazy and nobody went out. so even though it's only a dry run it's still a significant achievement the earth's first martian pioneers.

ten bottom. was very. now the four day religious festival is under way with millions of muslims traveling around the world to visit families and loved ones artie's jacob grieves joy muslims in moscow as they began marking one of their most important festivals of the year we see from the sheer amount of people that turned out today just what this means for moscow's muslim population will be lining the streets behind me listening to the local him and taking part in worship that is just concluded also spilling on to jason road just over here now there has been the hands of from out thousands of fact turning out stay all over the backdrop 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 their abraham a sense of what 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 an animal sacrifice being a part some of these celebrations festivities also comes just a look back on march and the great pilgrimage to mecca it's also a time for feasting with families friends and giving to the poor as well don't cause the annual cycles that actually cause a bit of controversy just last year in moscow as because in numbers such amounts are actually still does 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 now as they are both in moscow and in russia last year last year seeing about two hundred thousand people turn out around moscow's most for the celebration. and shortly we ask whether the world's

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all combat cues a recap of the latest news and the week's top stories here on our team greek's death drama leaves its prime minister fighting for his job and struggling to form a new unity government for years own leaders are together on one thing save a new row with or without fleets. american protesters vowed to keep gunning for the greedy as anti-corporate strengthen across the country that's despite scores of arrests and what's seen as overly tough policing. businessmen the victor boot of faces life behind bars in the u.s. after being convicted of selling weapons to terrorist groups and conspiring to kill americans who denies all the charges against him and says you're looking real. mission to mars comes closer to reality a moscow bankers.