lieut. need the snooze and the week's top stories on our t.v. the greek prime minister is expected to resign to allow a new coalition unity government to be formed in line with demands from the country's opposition. battle for america police crackdown on the peaceful anti-corporate all the five movement is spreading fast across the country for nearly two months now. russia questions the legality of viktor booths trial after a new york jury found the businessman a guilty of international arms trafficking. and a bad mission to mars came one step closer to reality this week as russia's

ambitious experiment a mock round trip to the red planet successfully ended in moscow after five hundred twenty days. just after six pm here in the russian capital this is r t now the greek prime minister must resign that's a demand of the country's opposition if the political deadlock is to end the head of greece's main opposition party said that george papandreou was quote dangerous and this call for early elections according to senior government officials up and they could announce his resignation later on sunday hoping it will pave the way for a coalition government athens is fast running out of time to implement a crucial e.u. bailout plan designed to save the country from bankruptcy let's talk more with the audio plumber chair of the economics at erasmus in the first city in the. mr

o'clock if a new coalition is finally for you think that you bailout will be likely to go ahead as planned. i don't see what difference that will make. the greek government has to get its population behind its plan and it doesn't seem to have people in we are all the willing. we got was all the measures that are taken and are dressed eat and will cause a great deal of suffering among many of them ok well not right now the. announcement they work sort of waiting for is whether or not a drop of a does step out if he does resign of the next three hours what will that mean exactly for the country and the e.u. do you think there is on can survive this scenery i'm ending a greek crisis. i'm afraid it is whatever you want to call it a political solution or not will not do much control of the situation. it's march again greek people are rather disturbed even though they say that they've

all got hold on to the euro and they don't want to have a lot got with all the measures that are being forced on them so a new government for a few more months. solution to give some space for new measures but the resistance is building up and then i see that the same thing is happening in italy where they also have to take measures italians are not willing to live with. and so we don't see we're going to really have measures before judges have no zhorzh and instruments and control this crisis all right there let's talk about how greece can proceed do you think greece can afford not to get the e.u. bailout money. well you know with. a lot of money they have to. these measures which are addressed and it is what the economists call it cold

turkey approach it means cutting down cutting off reducing salaries reducing government spending causing a lot for hardship among the brics that's what they have to put up with just a price they going to pay for the euro and whether the greeks are willing to go along. it can be dealt seriously so if it doesn't work and that's hold politicians understand only then there will be serious consequences not just for the greeks but especially for. a lot of the greed. or throw you. they might go bankrupt if degree several years bankrupt yes certainly we have seen a lot of our protests are with regard to the austerity measures being passed by the government however and we saw that also published some who are saying hoping to get popular support but he did shock the e.u. leaders by announcing that referendum and of course the result was they were threatened by france and germany to be kicked out of the e.u.

why are those two countries france and germany in particular so keen on on saving saving greece or keeping them in the euro zone despite saying that greece is free to leave if they want. let's me be clear do not show interest in saving greece and saving their own banks and saving projects greece is to. care about we're going to find out. really is a script or your projects but also it's rest for the economy because. german and. french are things i haven't even paul. so they're really concerns and so in this case they were strict about it because they saw that the referendum. the whole thing for us was a serious serious chance to say no and. the whole rescue operation ok earlier you were you brought up italy and again let's bring up that

word contagion that has been mentioned since the start of this crisis what is your . opinion of what is going to happen next italy you mentioned what about portugal what about spain what are your predictions on those. well you know what part you even talk about friends. even mentions it is risky countries because. that's. the question is whether it serves the problem. is interest rates creeping up and us read a problem or it's a right now but also explain the process as threshold as most experts say that makes it on the affordable or are you telling us and they should make why if you were short of time spent. the bills will be too high and needs to be rescued and that's what you're really very poor i'm also afraid this week here in

the media i don't hear everything that's going on and if politicians get so nervous energy twenty did we reach any definition lucian if they're so nervous that it needs must mean that they know how much more is going on and it means that this is the new syrian complex and if they don't quite know how to handle it that's what i'm afraid or sort of yardley experience should have been also international you know sort of your. dealings with the crisis all right well thank you very much for your thoughts there are you a kilometer chair of economics at erasmus university. hall at the greek crisis also dominated discussions as this week's a g twenty meeting in cannes it descended into turmoil radically prime minister made his botched announcement of a referendum on the bailout plan only to drop it shortly afterwards parties and he said our follow. the ever changing greek drama took center stage in cannes for the g twenty meeting here oh host nicolas sarkozy protecting what he calls the

beating heart of europe till the end they suffocations a resolution which is very strong. agree on this and we will fight to defend europe and the euro. france and germany took action with this message to greece played by the rules were get out the greek prime minister made a cameo appearance in cam returned to athens and cancelled an impromptu referendum that would have more last allowed the public to decide if they stay or if they go when it comes to the euro or perish the thought that they should actually be allowed to decide whether they want these things leaders say it is to greet. should look like a success for greece it is an independent country and they just want to say they are perfectly free they don't want to get any idea that we're trying to get in the domestic politics legally 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 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 lies with the emerging economies or the brics who have already pledged to try and help the euro stay afloat but with a condition president says they want to play a bigger 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 thirty reporting from cannes and he's in our in our city. and coming up in the program of the web is closing it embattled wiki leaks founder julian assange promises to fight on after a london court projects his appeal against extradition plus. back from the red just six men complete a grueling simulated mission to mars minus the space flight and our team is on the scene to witness their virtual return. but first u.s. police are turning up the heat on the corporate occupy movement which has spread across the country since it began nearly two months ago the worst flare up of violence happened this week in california officers tear gas the crowd of peaceful protesters in the city of oakland several people who would join the demonstration

were seriously injured including a u.s. army veteran and over one hundred arrests were made it's a second time the forces cracked down on a rally in the city in the past two weeks catherine of was there in the midst of it all porting for our team. there are at least hundreds in the back two hundred three hundred police officers in full riot gear 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 it was the street of the standoff were several protesters had barricaded the street from the police 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 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 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. course 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 cars there's are marching behind us take some hands baton hands i don't know if you can get any closer on that shots 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 kind of raids that don't actually hurt anything but that air scare that the protesters and turn list on

sites. called police are moving in to break up occupy demonstrations across america several arrests were made with force in atlanta and washington where people have been where police have had this was caught on camera by our team in new york where the movement began in the september protesters camping out as a colony park are determined to stand their ground where they say authorities are preparing to attempt it is the action activists helping the occupy movement along say it's already run by raising awareness across america. for the first time. people are thinking about the degree to which corporations have power in this country and their greed which that is the way in which the regimes that have power have been taking power away from regular american citizens it's been a phenomenal success because over the last few weeks we've been talking about the degree to which income inequality is a problem in this country rather than absurd talk about how we're going to be cutting social security and how do you make your benefits in order to fix the

deficit problem we've changed it this movement has been successful because it's changed the conversation and today it's successful because people are going to sites like things that it's not or moving their money. to keep your finger on the pulse of the occupy movement as it continue. that's rapid spread across america just had to archy's twitter stream for the latest off days from lucy cavanagh and the rest of our u.s. bureau including photos and videos from the protests. in .

the arab league is demanding an immediate end to bloodshed in syria as a peace deal brokered by the organization seems to have failed dozens more anti-government activists are reported killed in the country as the army continues to suppress the protests and that's despite damascus agreeing earlier this week to stop violence against demonstrators more than a five hundred political detainees were released by the regime on saturday but bloodshed continues if you were an estimate so over three thousand people have been killed in syria since march however president assad claims his forces are fighting off insurgency from abroad political analysts come along was that things that country's been set up for regime change. i think it's a conspiracy by the regional power 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 and certain ideology to topple the regime of president assad the president of syria acknowledges there is opposition in that country and he extended his hand to the conciliation away then his country for those people who were asking for change and that's why today they have a constitutional reform but there is an external power what they say in our position and exile those are backed by the western powers and some persian gulf country. a russian businessman of a good face is a life sentence out for a new york jury found him guilty of agreeing to sell offs of terrorists and conspiring to kill americans it was arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight after a sting operation and was eventually extradited to the u.s. despite strong opposition from moscow our correspondents to see it has more.

years spent by the u.s. to hunt down one russian man tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer cash hoard into a sting operation snatched from a third country for months of solitary confinement for 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 fork the forty four year old russian air cargo business and fascinated hollywood one of our own for. the record. i don't want any other over. who 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. and you've got him in your hands or 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 part members of colombian group to 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 give what they want and that means doing all these illegal things in the case of the extradite him or should say kidnap and boot family it also calls u.s. actions entrapment and kidnapping. i can accept the possibility that they might have some information that might be of interest to someone or why is it that other

countries don't just think that it's out that there is someone who has some interesting information and why don't those governments just try those people out of 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 would stiffen says the russian was aware that he was not in touch with real fark members and all he was trying to do was to all cargo planes we could 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 it was brought to the u.s. experts like george map who has attended every hearing say a successful appeal is unlikely we use a magic crimes manufactured jurisdiction and manufactured evidence and relentless

was you know if the cats were to bring into america at any. necessary the journalist says boot is one of many victims of u.s. judicial power play a field of victor and it's going to take the charges that were born against him that he's innocent so you know i don't i don't want any innocent man. or. you know sentence right for. richard roots while you were there 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 and 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 to boot has always maintained his innocence and will keep fighting for justice but with us muscles flex tight to keep him in an american prison is facing from twenty five years to life behind bars the

sentencing will come in february and r.t. new york. and earlier this week rick leaks founder julian assange lost his appeal battle against extradition from the u.k. to sweden he will now have to answer allegations. i have not been charged with any crime in any country. is in a sense and is planning to appeal again says that his case is politically motivated and it was the website was forced to suspend its operations to raise funds out there a financial aide many analysts say there is a lot of interest in discrediting a son after his website's particles of secret files. this is just the latest in a saga isn't it a kind of scandinavian viking saga of the barbarity of which it is being treated is slightly appalling it's been eighteen months disruption campaign now against what is actually one of the most important web sites 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 or iraq the latest on libya is the importance of whistleblowers being able to actually expose criminal behavior as being really 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 dominique strauss kahn sexting it seems to me than any real basis for this to be heard it is not even being 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. well let's take a look at some of the world news we're covering for you today and we start with iraq where a triple explosion has rocked a local market in baghdad early reports suggest eight people have been killed and over twenty injured but police and medics say the number of casualties will grow

top follows a statement made by iraq's prime minister urging the security forces to clamp down on any threats of violence the last thirty three thousand u.s. troops in the country are expected to leave iraq by the end of the hero. suicide bomb blast near a mosque in afghanistan's northern of babylon provinces left at least six people dead and injured more than a dozen others the attacker detonated his vest as worshippers were leaving after celebrating the start of the muslim festival of eat among those killed were two local police commanders and no one has yet claimed responsibility but officials are pointing the finger at taliban militants. in the columbia at least fourteen people have been killed by mudslides when number of towns in the west of the country in one incident four were buried alive as they slept the rescue workers are continuing to search for survivors with thirty five people still unaccounted for many buildings have been destroyed or badly damaged during what's been one of colombia's

worst rainy seasons you. know it was a journey across the galaxy and back all without ever leaving planet earth a simulated round trip to mars has been completed after a seventeen month long test to see how crude might cope with the grueling effects of long distance space travel on board was there to see the crew return to normality in moscow after over five hundred days in isolation. 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 and on a fellow earth to others it is really really great to see you all again right there whole they're all going it's been an honor to have been been part of this remarkable achievement five of them are professional really our resilient 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 and scientists behind it wanted to see the six member 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 the board. how of your relationships with the other crew members changed. i was. waiting for something like that to happen you know like. close crocker for such a look. in the world. from. the experiment was kept as real as possible with

a twenty minute time delay in communications. its way. and the t.v. . they could talk freely with. decided to withhold from the outside world but that was tricky. we had to keep in mind that some information could come in private correspondence and some relatives could break the news in this case any prolonged silence could lead to tensions and misunderstanding they could think that we withheld information deliberately. the highlight of the cruise trip was a simulated landing on mars with long isolation and boredom before it scientists observed with a maze just how real it became for the. full course. it was a hundred and sixty beats per minute compared with the pulse of the first. one orbit it was

a hundred and fifty two beats per minute the outside world treat five hundred most people on how and when the experiment would fail one bookmaker put eight warm olds on one of the crew members going insane because of it. when he went out. so even though it's a dry run it's still a significant. it's fixed. financing . i'll bring a recap of this week's headlines in today's main stories so after a short break. if

you. feel. the looming.