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what should the weekly from surrounded by the top stories of. first the greek prime minister must resign that's the demand of the country's opposition if the political deadlock is to end the head of greece's main opposition party said george was dangerous and has called for early elections according to senior government officials announced 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 on this with journalist zack could do a relief on the line from athens a very good to see it's not on the program thanks to be with us precious be mounting on the greek to resign and what happens there if he does in the coming hours take us through it as you say. the ministerial meeting has just finished and mr has just asked to go with mr some are asked to the president of greek
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republic and discuss about what is going on at first if mr samaras accepted to go with mr they're going to discuss the program and then they're going to discuss of the people of the new coalition government but until now we have no answer from mr summarize the leader of the new democracy of the conservative party but mr sommer us earlier in the day had met mr papo yes the president of republic and say that he is willing to help but that first the prime minister has resigned. from his side from his party having said that i will resign but first i am in favor of formation of this coalition government but the amount we have no news only that. their meeting is over and everybody is waiting for the developments president is waiting for them. but still we have no one from mr summarize. what what's really
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happening here all this bickering is going on over for the coalition to save the nation but at the end of their own play doing the exact opposite they're just playing political games political brinkmanship at this very crucial time that clock ticks towards a possible default. one of the comments that they are trying to beat it's out there they're trying to force it's out there to go back but andro is trying to make some are asked last sept first the collison government and some are asked to move first up until to resign and then create a coalition government that as you've sat at the time is limited to morrow is a euro group and somebody has to reassure to give me a super insistent euro group that greece will and will be focused on not the decision of. october twenty sixth of october because otherwise all the
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governments are they get greek government will not be able to get the six fronts that means that means that no wages that can be paid no pensions can be paid and now we see a game that it's not over yet it will be a difficult night and everybody here is expecting to developments really have more for you so i just realized i've been calling here by your absurd i wrote in your christian name sorry about that but continually back to the story here according to greece's finance minister of a country needs this next eight billion euros in aid or is going to run out of cash by mid december i mean surely if i can't afford to lose that money now or is bankruptcy a real viable option at this stage to face. some analysts say is it say that even their fifty percent haircut means bankruptcy because.
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agrees to face more difficulties and so they have to follow to follow the means there are rules that i.m.f. and the troika cause. greece to do so. and now that the time is limited as we've mentioned before because the money are enough until a fifteenth of december couple of couple of weeks ago we knew that's money where enough till november now we know we know something different and everybody everybody here expects a solution because if pensions are not given if wages are not given the greek citizens are ready to react. paint a picture for me here on the growth you're talking to your friends your family i mean your country is on complete turn to tonight the parliamentary battles playing out just played out tell us what are the people on the streets of greece think
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about this tonight how worried are. people who could say that in a way they're desperate because when you see your wage to be cast off and to your pension and you don't have money there are families that they don't have money even to buy food for their kids now and they just want to from the government from both parties to find a solution because it's not only now it's not only problem of the socialist party but it's a problem of the two main parties because they cannot we cannot agree. to scream on civil unrest on the streets of greece what's going to change for the greek people with the formation of any new government through this new government still going to go ahead with implementing austerity measures anyway is live. of course their grades to follow the. but people need maybe something new
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something because up until now they are very disappointing to the government so maybe they think that something can change but of course nobody can reassure that because even that new democracy or a mother comes into power this does not mean that the problems are so we have to follow the miseries of the troika that glides asked to do so but until we know we do care greek citizens do care for the receipt of the receiver of the next the transfer of the loan in north korea to get the deceived money in their box not to see their on their own bank accounts to be empty thanks ever so much for bringing us the picture live from greece journalist the rain is. talking to us from athens thanks ever so much. while the greek debt crisis also
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dominated discussions at this week's g. twenty meeting in qana descended into turmoil indeed when the greek prime minister made his botched announcement of a referendum on the bailout plan or then to drop it shortly afterwards. followed the summit for 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 of this operation 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 play by the rules or get out the greek prime minister made a cameo appearance in can return to athens and canceled an improv referendum that would have more last a while the public to decide if they stay or if they go when it comes to the euro perish the thought that they should be allowed to decide whether they want these
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things euro leaders say it is up to greece to or should look like greece is an independent country and i just want to say they are perfectly free and i don't want to give any idea that we are trying to get involved in greek domestic politics q 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 french banks are are so desperate for some sort of
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a bailout and if they didn't get one for greece for example they could potentially go under and could be playing a major role in the fight to save the euro some hope for the single currency lines with the emerging economies or the brics who have already pledged to try and help the euro stay afloat but with a condition president medvedev says they want to play a bigger role in financial institutions like the i am math and the group of twenty format already it seems some headway there as for the first time ever the g twenty summit will be held in a brics country and it takes place in moscow russia in two thousand and thirteen reporting from. and he's in our our city. coming up in a program the web is closing in a battle wiki leaks founder julian assange promises to fight song off from the cold rejects his appeal against extradition plus. back from the red six men conclude a grueling simulated mission to. the space flight and all teams on the scene to
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witness the. u.s. police are turning up the he told me on to corporate occupy movement which has spread across the country since it began to be two months ago now the worst flare up of violence this week in california officers teargassed a crowd of peaceful protesters in the city of oakland several people who joined the demonstration were seriously injured there including a u.s. army veteran and over one hundred arrests were made it's the second time the forces cracked down on a rally in the city in the past two weeks lucy cuff an office there in the midst of the reporting for our team. there are at least a hundred the not two hundred three hundred police officers and all right garrick 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
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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 of force when you have this line. 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 from these was there are marching behind as sticks in hand baton hand i don't know if you can get any closer
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on that shots but there certainly coming here in the crowd as you can hear is chanting oakland perhaps you can see over there several police officers with their weapons out shooting here gas for these loud sort of downgrade that don't actually hurt anyone but definitely here scared that the protesters and journalists on site . well police moving to break up occupy demonstrations across america several arrests were made with force in atlanta or washington with heavy handed police action was caught on camera by. the movement began back in september the protesters come together as a culture determined they say to stand their ground and they told us authorities preparing to attend an eviction public opinion research alan rivlin says the occupy protest movement deep impact on society. 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
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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 in 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 to mockery. see so they have 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 they already have the occupy movement is having a real influence on the conversation that's going on. to keep your finger on the
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pulse of the occupy movement as it continues its rapid spread across america just head to our twitter stream the latest updates lucy catherine off from the rest of our u.s. bureau including photos videos from the protests. the arab league's demanding that immediate end to bloodshed in syria after a peace deal it put in place with damascus dozens more anti-government activists are reportedly killed in the country as the army continues to suppress the protests despite agreement earlier this week to stop violence against demonstrators more than five hundred political detainees were released on saturday but the oppression
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continues the u.n. estimates over three thousand people being killed in syria since march however president assad cleanses forces are fighting armed insurgency funding from a broad political analyst kamel was lee thinks the country is being set up for regime change. i think it's a conspiracy by a regional power that they wanted to change the regime of bashar al assad they wanted different regime different government with different had and that's why there you can see the regional power hasn't been friendly to the situation. it's taking place inside syria actually some of this country has been funneling weapons and money uncertain i just to topple the regime of president assad the president of syria acknowledges there is opposition in the country and he extend his hand to what it conciliation within the his country for those people who are asking for
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change and that's why today they have a constitutional reform but there is an external power or what they say in opposition and exile those are backed by the western powers and some persian gulf country. russian business week to boot faces a life sentence after 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 u.s. despite strong opposition from moscow a correspondent is to see a choke you know reports. years spent by the u.s. to hunt down one russian man tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer cash poor into a sting operation snatched up from a third country for months of solitary confinement before a three week trial in the u.s. allegedly arms dealer viktor boot was found guilty on all four charges one conspiring to kill united states nationals two conspiring to kill united states
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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 one firearm for every twelve people are. now required. and only on the other eleven. booed 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 got him in your hands right he's in custody it's a great feeling u.s. officials were relentless in their efforts to get behind bars the so-called merchant of death is now a federal inmate american agents posing as forked members a colombian group terrorist in the u.s. but not by many other countries and the u.n.
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met with and then arrested in thailand in two thousand and eight after twice being found not guilty by thai courts the u.s. reportedly play dirty by arm twisting thailand into extraditing him to america they're willing to flaunt every international law to get what they want and that means doing all these illegal things in the case of the mood 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 but why is it that other countries don't just think to themselves that there is someone who has some interesting information and why don't those government just those people on to their territory moscow's request to send him to russia were brushed aside there was no official decision of an extradition russia called boots extradition illegal and question the validity of his conviction one of the main arguments of the defense that the u.s. lacked jurisdiction was ignored by the court boots defense says the russian was
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aware that he was not in touch with real fork members and all he was trying to do was sell to old cargo planes we can appeal to this judge. that the verdict was rendered against the weight of the evidence 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 basically 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 or to boot or troy davis to be you know sentence of life or convicted of a crime and it didn't commit victor boots why should the us is the criminal in this
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case that the actions currently carried out by the u.s. special services are an organized provocation organized crime towards a russian said assent or any other citizens of the world when they just have deemed them allegedly dangerous it doesn't even have to be specific action moscow has vowed to continue to push for boots return to russia your blood has always maintained his innocence and will keep fighting for justice but with us muscles flexed tight to keep him in an american prison who is facing from twenty five years to life behind bars the sentencing will come in february and r.t. new york. earlier this week wiki leaks founder julian assange has lost his appeal battle against extradition from the u.k. to sweden he will now after once a sex crime allegations have not been charged with any crime in any country. asunder maintains his innocence and he's planning to appeal again he insists that his case is politically motivated the whistleblower website was forced to suspend
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its operation to raise funds for financial what. many believe there's a lot of interest in discrediting themselves after the website publication the secret us files. 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 . sets foot on swedish soil this whole case will disappear and he will be arrested . and american extradition no formal charges have been laid 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 this european way of doing things of ship the
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person off buying them up in prison and then start trying to put the case together it is just an anathema to the british justice system we bring up to date on some of the top world news stories happening right now a star in iraq there a triple explosions rocked a local market in baghdad before just eight people killed and over twenty injured but police medics say the number of casualties could grow the attack follows a statement made by iraq's prime minister urging 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 baghlan province has left at least seven people dead and injured more than a dozen others the attacker detonated his vest as worshippers left prayers marking the muslim festival of the among those killed two local police commanders know and yet claim sponsibility officials are pointing the finger at taliban militants in colombia at least fourteen people have been killed by mudslides which swept through
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a number of times in the west of the country in one incident four were buried alive as they slept 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. it was a journey across the galaxy and all without ever leaving planet earth a simulated round trip to mars has been completed after a seventeen month long test to see how a crew might cope with the grueling affects of long distance space travel a lot is tom was there that to see the crew return to normality here in moscow after over five hundred days in isolation. back on earth. well actually they never left but pale faced bleary eyed these six men are returning from a five hundred twenty day epic mockup of the mission to mars and back there thankful to be back among their fellow earth to others it is really really great to
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see you all again rather whole they're all going it's been an honor to having been part of this remarkable achievement five of them are professional fraley ara sealion individuals i have ever worked with it's clear that crew cohesion was key to sticking it out this door stayed sealed shut all throughout the seventeen months of the experiment of course it was only a simulation of a trip to mars any of these six men could have left at any time but none of them did the scientists behind it wanted to see if the six men and crew would be able to go all the time without severe psychological effects from the busy control room i was able to ask them how they got on before they left however 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
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close quarter for such a long time it works you know they must know most things in the world. but never happen we have been a very. very quiet sixty from the beginning of. the experiment was kept as real as possible with a twenty minute time delay in communications once the ship was on its way that meant the team was alone they could talk freely with loved ones the researchers decided to withhold news from the outside world but that was tricky when with we had to keep in mind that some information could come in with private correspondence some relatives could break the news in this case any prolonged silence on our part could lead to tensions and misunderstanding they could think that we withheld the information deliberately that's from us 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
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real it became for them when they made martian land fall. nationals but that in both their pulse rate was one hundred sixty beats per minute now compared with the pulse of the first constant not yuri gagarin on orbit it was one hundred fifty two beats per minute the outside world to has been intrigued by most five hundred mostly through betting on how and when makes time and would fail one bookmaker put eight to one all day and one of the crew members going insane because of it were having a. way out were happy that somebody. wanted probably had a lot of money to fix the betting that nobody had when gratiano body went out. so even though it's only a dry run it's still a significant. to achieve that first motion pioneers.
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good to see the old maid did back safe and now coming up shortly we'll take a trip to central russia tonight to visit prehistoric caves and see graffiti from fifteen thousand years ago find out to make a drink and why wild honey is good for your health it's all ahead for a month of the week's top stories here at all from moscow.
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top stories tonight expected to resign. from the country's opposition to same follows criticism of the p.m.'s handling of the country's debt crisis as athens faces growing pressure from the e.u. to negotiate a new. movement spreading fast across the country. to stand the ground the norm violent protest against corporate greed social inequality. and russian press and. the prisoners were guilty of international arms trafficking faces between twenty five years to a life sentence in jail. without an appeal. step closer to reality this week is russia's. trip to the.
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