just after three pm here in the russian capital this is r.t. no greece has adored another roller coaster week with the prime minister having to pledge a new unity government to tackle the almost insurmountable debt crisis george papandreou had 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 furthur 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 to mask the eternal nose referendum plans of 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 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 over 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 trying to see who's going to blink to just to see whether a national unity will be reached we saw the prime minister meeting with the president of the republic to discuss the formation of that national unity government whether that will be able to go ahead without the support of the main opposition parties on thursday and possibly talk turning to someone else stepping in to the prime minister's role moving forward as he said still a lot of uncertainty there's a sense of disappointment among this instability coming at a point this is

a tool. for the future of 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 the same but for how long and what form that government will survive remains on. greece's president has called the political parties to work together to resolve the country's financial troubles but require george got to the gallows believes forming a coalition is a ploy to deceive voters. myself as a good person feel a little deceived by this movement of our brain minister and that's why even if we manage to form a new coalition government i don't think that they are going to do that only the the basic problem but now our political system goes into these that there is a dinner at this last for people who want to see the whole of the political system

not just the thoughts on the hill or the world it's a special court she's on by the police and very broadly in the near future that other guy this will be you are likely to lose spain have a limited traveling to i think a prime minister knows that that is not up with the ability to govern going is taking into account of this lack of legitimacy of its own government of his own government so it though they're not going to have a way to make a kind of extortion to the people who took the place in a way to make them accept. his government when there was of course of movement of. all keeping greece afloat was at the forefront of the minds of leaders of the world's twenty biggest economies as they met in france e.u. leaders dug into the found at the single currency and agreed to shore up the international monetary fund ortiz and he said ali followed the summit the everchanging greek drama took center stage in cannes for the g twenty meet here

zero 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 can return 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 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 in the greek domestic politics. but france has given some exactly that idea it is no longer an

independent country and has been for a while and the conversation is always on what we need to do to satisfy our creditors demands and our creditors are the people who are going to determine whether we survive or don't survive and the so-called backbone of the eurozone could be trying to save its backside with a statement from sarkozy that those who break deficit rules should be punished some with sanctions even if he is breaking the same rules back home in france they're running a budget deficit of beyond what what the rules of mass rich provide for the real irony with that is that the the french banks are are so desperate for some sort of a bailout and if they didn't get one for greece for example they could potentially go under and could be playing a major role in the fight to save the euro which some hope for the single currency 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 summit will be held in a brics country and it takes place in moscow russia in twenty thirteen reporting from. and he said no. 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 at least one hundred people were arrested and several injured including a war veteran the second such incident in less than two weeks. was among the protests. and we're still reporting from the top oakland as you can hear behind me loud explosions possibly tear gas from the police officers there are at least one 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 where several protesters had barricaded the street from the police several several pieces of furniture and whatnot were lit on fire but again not enough of an action to provoke this kind of a militant response by the police force here we have to remember that earlier thousands marched peacefully on the port of oakland shutting it down no arrests reported whatsoever in fact we didn't even see any of the police officers out there and yet after the peaceful march again this 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 to clear the camp remains to be seen but as you can see these officers are marching behind this sticks and hands baton hand i don't know if you can get any closer on that shot but they're certainly coming here the crowd as you can hear is chanting oakland perhaps you can see over there several police officers with their weapons out shooting tear gas for these loud sort of done in a the gun actually for anything but definitely an air scare that the protesters and journalists on site. those artes that we see capital behind. which was the epicenter of the occupy protests this week but other u.s. cities saw some as well in atlanta police arrested twenty demonstrators and barricaded a park or tents have been set up eyewitnesses say police officers acted violently

towards protesters several arrests were also made in washington where it's claimed that of us to the ground before handcuffing them about twenty people were also detained at a demo in new york but despite the pressure 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 celso 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 quote them 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 they already have the occupy movement is having a real influence on the conversation that's going on. as i had for you this hour the whistleblower will have verdict. i have not been charged with any crime in any country london's high court rules at the wiki leaks founder julian assange could be sent to sweden to answer a controversial allegations. and palestine has got a step nearer the year when the winning membership of the heritage organization in the us go at a price is too high for some explain why. the first in syria a peace deal to end months of bloodshed made little difference to security forces to renew their attacks and the regime activists in the city of homs activists claim

more than twenty people died as the tanks rolled in but some experts fear nothing could 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 we don't 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. the cease fire has already been broken by syria syrian troops firing on citizens 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 this strategic strategic area which is a perfect place for launching a further result into iran and i think if the end game of this is a random seriously stepping stone towards that which is what i think we have to

keep our eye on in all of this also in a syria the united nations nuclear watchdog claims it's discovered a secret facility in the north west that matches the design of a u. ring and richmond but others insist it's nothing more than a textile factory on the reporter patrick hayes is closely following the story says the allegations only serve to demonize syria. yes this is a way of heaping more pressure on syria during a time when the uprising has 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 there basically doing what they did in iraq which is to use the guise of weapons inspections to basically poke their nose into all areas of countries or to seem to be suspicious to be guilty they're poking their noses into what i would say political appear to be political risks rather than for any reasons of security concerns at this current time and i

think it's very telling that they're choosing to do this at a time when the uprising to taken place what they're trying to do is to kind of effectively use other things as kind of mobs of 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 i mean certainly syria is being recast in this situation as one of the one of the countries that needs to watch you know one of the countries that can form for example a new sort of people something along those lines so i think it is being used for strategic 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 or kind of bodies like the international atomic energy agency poking their nose 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 russian businessman of victor boot on four counts of selling arms to

terrorists and conspiring to kill americans the conviction could result in a life sentence with this defense preparing to appeal well who was arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight in a sting operation that the request of u.s. officials and then extradited to the new york and that's the spy the strong opposition from moscow american officials say he was one of the world's most active black market arms traders responsible for escalating several regional conflicts kept goodman who's published several books about the boot 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 to sell the supposedly selling these arms to the fart can lowers the charge is only. considered a terrorist organization in america and in many other countries around the world is considered a valid to a political party i think the whole case is a this smacks of a political agenda when he was taken from thailand specially since the

a thai authorities could find nothing 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 that the cia and other showed of organizations were working for themselves and africa was very big business supplying arms to africa and once things start to go downhill there the american businessmen that were supplying arms got out of the country and boot 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. and still ahead for you this hour the great getaway for muslims marking aid. we celebrate this key islamic first to tell you what this means for russia's muslims in just a few moments. i want to wednesday we can expand our 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 a sign she will now be extradited to sweden to answer sex crimes allegations over

which she's never been charged it will be decided later this month if he can appeal and sondra denies the claims with his lawyer suggesting that sweden's maneuvering to hand him over to the u.s. is due to secret pentagon files which really weeks publish the site itself is in limbo suspended because it's struggling to raise funding online after a financial blockade liberty campaigner paul with 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 put on swedish soil this whole case will disappear and he will be arrested. an

american extradition no formal charges have been low eat 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 a 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 in the last the mo to the british justice system. palestine want to place at the u.n. heritage group this week but the move will cost you no school a fifth of its funding as the u.s. saying it's cutting off its cash israel also strongly opposed to move and palestinians now claim israel suspended having over tax payments in retaliation there's still a long way to go for palestine today and for un under schip washington vows to veto the bit at the security council saying a peace deal with these route is needed first but voice of russia radio host carmen russell's a chance he says palestinians are on the right track to sovereignty 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 we could see membership in the world health organization which they will decide they can decide to accept palestine as a member just by a simple majority vote as you know but however as far as getting statehood you know you want obviously you want the u.s. 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 palestine to go you know to negotiate with israel in terms of statehood 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 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. if israel doesn't like it and they don't obviously then the u.s. is going to do what they can to quassia if they can't go through the channels that you watch want them to go through in order to achieve an. extensive coverage of the ongoing conflict between israel and the palestinians that are. dot com and there you'll find the latest attempt to break the blockade of gaza as israeli security forces boarded two irish canadian. and vying for votes the heat is on for a seat in russia's parliament we tell you how candidates are willing be electric to bag their ballots the details on this and other stories are. a human error was ruled on wednesday as a cause of september's fatal plane crash in the us level in russia which killed all

but one on board investigators said one of the pilots wrongly applied the brakes on the forty two jeff during takeoff it failed to reach enough height and struck a mast before plunging off the end of the runway among the forty four killed was the entire yes level ice hockey team who were all their way to their first match of the season the probe also found traces of a strong sedative in the co-pilot's blood but it's unclear as to who was behind the fatal error that led to the tragedy a criminal investigation is continuing. and here is 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 worshippers were leaving after celebrating the festival eat among those killed were two local police commanders. mudslides have swept through towers in western columbia killing at least fourteen people in one incident four people were buried alive as they slept and many

buildings have been destroyed or severely damaged during what has been one of colombia's worst rainy seasons in years. a series of islam as attacks have killed at least sixty seven people in northeast nigeria and more violence is threatened the bomb and gun attack structure close mosques and police stations in a single town and on friday the same group also attacked a military headquarters in that neighboring province with a triple suicide bombing. now are mad at mission to mars came a step closer this week a major experiment in moscow has shown scientists that the human body can and during the isolation of such a long distance spaceflight artie's tom barton reports on the successful conclusion of the mars five hundred project back on the. 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 this thankful to be back home on this earth two hours. really really great to see you all again rather. it's been an honor to have been been part of this remarkable achievement five of the most professional friendly 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 member 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 have 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 cracker for such a long time it works you know it must not most thing in the world. but it never happened we have been a very. cohesive team from the beginning. 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 who researches decided to move home news from the outside world but that was tricky going on with those we had to keep in mind that some information could come in 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 martian landfall. will have this but that's 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 minus five hundred mostly through betting on how and when the experiment would fail. make a put eight to one all day on one of the crew members going insane because of it we're having to. wear out we're happy that somebody. want to try we have a lot of money to fix the betting that nobody had went crazy and nobody went out. so even though it's only a dry run it's still a significant. right

. now the four day religious festival is underway with millions of muslims traveling around the world to visit families and loved ones jake agrees joined muslims in moscow as they began marking one of their most important festivals of the year. we see from the sheer amounts of people if turned out that they just what this means for moscow's muslim population they'd be lining the streets behind me listening to the local women taking part in worship is just concluded also spilling on to jason road just over here now the has been the hands 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 a how the great sacrifice is

known as sustained in this ritual of sacrifice an animal sacrifice that goes back to teaching of the koran and then abraham said to off his son a sacrifice the gold price of gold bestowed upon him a ram really is appreciation for the sacrifice and a part and his son in the process and ever since then and being a part of these celebrations i was festivities also comes just on the back of harsh grapes pilgrimage to mecca it's also a time for feasting the families friends and giving to the poor as well no because there are no such laws actually cause a bit of controversy just last year in moscow that's because it numbered shows such amounts actually spilled of the streets and their song just a good description of local verses of the song which they source this time city hall said it must take place in only certified areas we although especially a mattress turn outs they both in moscow and in russia moscow last year saying about two hundred thousand people turned out around moscow's most for the

celebration. and next we travel to russia's remote far east and islands which may be isolated but are teeming with life and that's after an update of the week's news coming up in a few moments. the for.

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welcome back here's a recap of the latest news and the week's top stories on our take greece's debt drama leaves its prime minister fighting for his job and struggling to form a new unity government. together on one thing saving the euro with the greeks. american protesters vow to keep gunning for the greedy as a corporate demo strengthen across the country well that's inspired scores of arrests and what's seen as over the top releasing. russian businessmen the victor boot 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 european. mission to mars comes closer to reality moscow by.