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 it george peppard rail was quote dangerous and his call for early elections according to senior government officials could announce his resignation later on sunday hoping it will pave the way for a coalition government meanwhile 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 economics at a rasmussen adversity and. mr o'clock if a new coalition is finally formed the you say the e.u. bailout would be likely to go ahead as planned. but i don't see what difference that will make the big problem that the greek government has to get its or palatial behind it and it doesn't seem the people in greece are all the willing.

as all the measures that are taken and are addressed. it will cause a great deal of suffering among many of them ok well not right now the the announcement their work sort of waiting for is whether or not george papandreou does step down if he does resign in the next few hours what will that mean exactly for the country and the e.u. do you think the euro zone can survive this seemingly on the ending a greek crisis. i mean trying to this whatever you want to call it a political solution or not will not do much good sure the situation in europe it's march again greek people are rather disturbed even though they say that they want to hold on to the euro they don't want to hold on to who dealt with all the measures that are being imposed on them so a new government for a few moments. solution to or. gives some space for

new measures but the resistance is building on and then i see that the same thing is happening in italy where they also have to take measures on the italians are not willing to live with. and so we don't see that they really have good measures for the fall dishes have the measures and the instruments to control this crisis all right there let's talk about how greece can proceed do you think greece can afford not to get to the e.u. bailout money well in order to get the. beloved money they have to. john with these measures which are addressed it is what the economists call it cold turkey approach it means cutting down cutting off reducing salaries reducing government spending causing a lot of hardship among the breech that's what they have to put up with that's the price they going to need for the euro and whether the greeks are willing to go

along. can be dealt seriously so if it doesn't work and that's what all of this is on the stand and then there will be serious consequences not just for the greeks but especially for the banks. a lot of the greed that in their portfolio and they might go bankrupt if the greeks are going bankrupt yes certainly we have seen a lot of protests are with regard to the austerity measures being passed by the government however and we saw that also happened some were 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 they're 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 i did not show interest in saving greece as saving their own banks and saving their home projects greece is due to

really care about going to find out that greece really is a service for the new you are being projects but also it's right for the economy because. german and. french banks i have any involved in so there are really concerns and so in this case they were sure strict about of b. because they saw that the referendum. the whole thing forward this is a serious serious chance that the greeks would say no and who really the end of the whole rescue operation ok earlier you were you brought up italy and again let's bring up the board contagion that has been mentioned since the start of this crisis what is your. opinion on what is going to happen next italy you mentioned what about portugal what about spain what are your predictions on those. well views in store for joy even talk about friends. even mentions as risky countries because

large public that's. the question is whether they were able to serve those. whose interest rates creeping up and us read a problem for its own right now but also explain it might be the process is fresh as most experts say that makes it on affordable for pretty telling ins and they can make. in a few or short of time spent within the bills will be too high and it really needs to be rescued and that's what we're really be preparing for it i'm also afraid this week here in the media i don't hear everything that's going on that if politicians get so nervous energy twenty did reach any definite solution is there soon or is that it needs must mean that they know how much more is going on and it means that this thing is very complex and if they don't quite know how to handle it that's

what i'm afraid of so that the art experience should have been in the nation into sort of your new political dealings with the crisis all right well thank you very much for your thoughts there are yokohama chair of economics at erasmus university . well at the greek debt crisis also dominated discussions asked at this week's a g. twenty meeting in cad at the set it into turmoil when the greek prime minister made has botched announcement of a referendum on the e.u. bailout plan only to drop it shortly afterwards and he said follow the summit. the ever changing greek drama took center stage in camp 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 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 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.m.f. 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 when it takes place in moscow russia in two thousand and thirteen reporting from cannes and he's in our city. and coming up in the program of the web

it's closing in and battled we can leaks founder julian assange promises to fight on the opera london court projects his appeal against extradition plus. back from the red six men complete a grueling simulated mission to mars minus the space flight and r.t. is on the scene to witness their virtual return. but first u.s. police are turning up the heat on the corporate 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 had joined 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 reporting for r.t. . 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 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 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 very intimidating show of. 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 was there are marching behind as sticks and hands baton hand 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 their tear gas for these loud sort of down when they had the gun actually for anyone but definitely an air scare that the protesters and journalists on site . well 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 the police have had this was caught on camera by our team in new york where the movement began of september protesters camping out as

a colony park are determined to stand their ground while they say authorities are preparing to attempt an eviction activist helping the occupy movement along saying it's already won by raising awareness across america. for the first time in decades people are thinking about the degree to which corporations have power in this country and agreed with the way in which corporations 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 you know income inequality is a problem in this country rather than absurd talk about how we're going to be cutting social security and cutting medicare benefits in order to to fix the deficit problem we've did this movement has been successful because it's changed the conversation and today it's successful because people are going to sites like banks that is start 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 head to our

twitter stream for the latest updates from. the rest of our u.s. bureau including photos and videos from the protests. to. 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 the spy 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 the u.n. estimates over three thousand people have been killed in syria since march however president assad claims his forces are fighting off the insurgency funded from abroad political analysts coming on was and i thinks the country's been set up for regime change. i think it's a conspiracy by a regional power they wanted to change the regime of bashar assad they want a different regime different government with different and that's why you can see the regional power has been friendly to the situation taking place inside syria actually some of the country has been funneling weapons and money in the ideology to topple the regime of president assad the president of syria acknowledged there is opposition in that country. and he would extend his hand to let it come fully

ation away then the his country for those people who were asking for jane and that's why today they have a constitutional reform but there is an external power or what they say in opposition and exult those are backed by the western powers. of. the russian businessmen victor boot faces a life sentence out or a new york jury found him guilty of agreeing to sell arms to terrorists and conspiring to kill americans he was arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight after a sting operation and was eventually extradited to the us despite strong opposition from moscow our correspondent and associates has more. years spent by the u.s. to hunt down one russian man tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer cash poor didn't to a sting operation snatched up from a third country for months of solitary confinement before a three week trial in the u.s. allegedly arms dealer viktor boot was found guilty on all four charges one

conspiring to kill united states nationals two conspiring to kill united states officers and employees three conspiring to use an acquire anti-aircraft missiles and for conspiring to provide material support to the far forty four year old russian air cargo business men fascinated hollywood want a firearm for every twelve people. in 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 spread he's in custody it's a great feeling u.s. officials were relentless in their efforts to get behind bars a so-called merchant of death is now a federal inmate american agents posing

a spark 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 west reportedly play 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 mood to extradite him or i should say kidnapping boot 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 onto their territory moscow's request to send him to russia were brushed aside there was no official decision of an extradition russia called boots extradition illegal and question the validity of his conviction one of the main arguments of

the defense that the u.s. lacked jurisdiction was ignored by the court boots defense says the russian was aware that he was not in touch with real fork members and all he was trying to do was sell two 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 relentless you know baseless catford to boot bringing to america at any. by any means necessary the journalist says boot is one of many victims of u.s. judicial power play if you will 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 citizens to boot or troy davis to be you know sentence to

life or convicted of a crime and if they didn't commit. the us with that is a criminal in this case. 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 is facing from twenty five years to life behind bars the sentencing will come in february and. new york. and earlier this week we can weeks 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 maintains his innocence and is planning to appeal again he

says that his case is politically motivated and the whistle blowing web site was forced to suspend its operations to raise funds after a financial blockade many analysts say there is a lot of interest in discrediting a song after his website's publication of secret u.s. files. this is just the latest in a saga isn't it a kind of scandinavian viking tsonga of the barbarity of which it is being treated appallingly has been an eighteen month disruption campaign now against what is actually one of the most important web sites in the world what what wiki leaks dogs is it one the most powerful tools to address. eruption 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 or 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. 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 the a 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 year. a suicide bomb blast near a mosque in afghanistan's northern

a bad lot of 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 colombia at least fourteen people have been killed by mudslides in number of towns in the west of the country in one incident four were buried alive as they slept and 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 the crew my cope with the grueling effects of long distance space travel. 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 thankful to be back home on their fellow earth to others it is really really great to see you all again there are whole they're all going it's been an honor to have been been part of this remarkable achievement we have five of them are professional fraley area syrian 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 the time without severe psychological effects from the busy control room i was able to ask them how they got on before the first 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 fight or something close quarter for such a long time it would be you know the must not most thing in the world. but never happened we have been a very. very crazy team from the beginning. the experiment was kept as real as possible with a twenty minute time delay in communications once the not shit 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 many 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 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. well nationalise but that's in both their pulse rate was one hundred sixty beats per minute now compared with the pulse of the first concert or not you're going to go right on orbit it was a hundred and fifty two beats per minute the outside world two has been intrigued by movies five hundred mostly through betting on how and when the experiment would fail one bookmaker 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 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 it's fixed mission pioneers. finding some. i'll bring your recap of this week's headlines on today's main stories softer a short break. we'll

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welcome back here's here's a recap of all the latest news and the week's top stories the greek prime minister is expected to resign to allow a new coalition unity government to be formed after demands from the country's opposition but this statement follows criticism of the prime minister is handling of the country's debt crisis as often space is growing pressure from the e.u. to negotiate a new bailout package. police crackdown on the on the occupy movement spreading fast across the country for nearly two months now but activists pledge to stand their ground and nonviolent protest against corporate greed and social inequality. russia questions the legality of viktor boots trial out for a new york jury found the businessman a guilty of international arms trafficking he faces between twenty five years to a life sentence in jail but his defense say they plan an appeal.