people greenies have the polls for the second time in two months to decide the country's future with their choice impacting the entire euro zone. the united nations' peace plan for syria is near collapse as observers say it's getting too risky for them to continue their mission and escalating violence. in egypt activists say the revolutions in jeopardy and are boycotting the ongoing presidential poll after the military claimed all branches of power for itself. in the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina josh welcome to the program how greeks are facing a tough choice the sunday which could ultimately spell out their future in the euro

zone a parties are running for seats in parliament but in reality people are left with a simple choice whether to stick with suffocating a stereo or ditch the euro zone's bailout deal and go it alone jacob greaves has the latest from athens. we're talking about two potential leaders here on the right we have that of new democracy these represent the status quo they have run and been in power before alongside the coalition with pasok party now they represent austerity something they have implemented as backed by the e.u. i.m.f. and euro zone troika their popularity is really waned recently there has been a public backlash because of course it's a stereo he's got hand in hand with the sheer rise in unemployment it's also seen since two thousand and eight a stalling a retraction of the contrary by about twenty percent new democracy their main stay argument at the moment is that they need to stay within the euro zone that

swallowing austerity is a necessary poison that has been another option presented ever since but just before they really showed just how popular it was back in the may elections that is the reason they have what's considered to be on the far left now they're taking much more of the middle ground folks and they're offering the get out of jail free card for the greek voters they say not only will we cancel austerity but will guarantee you get stay within the euro zone how they say they'll do this is simply too costly for the euro zone to get rid of greece that's their trump card here people we've spoken to in series the stress will be about three trillion euros that's their estimate to exit greece from the euro zone they also stress this simply isn't the paperwork the legal framework in place in order to kick greece out this election is also being characterized by other groups no no simply golden door for far right extremist group which is weak or seen a lot of controversy some of their outlandish statements and actions in the media

has come to represent a growth in a concert resentment from illegal immigrants increase am particularly in athens that has coincided with a rise in the number of attacks on illegal immigrants living in athens golden dawn have. mannish imatest gets a large portion of a small but descriptive part not a minority of the nation about five percent in this thing to have held on to that support base ever since some even saying it might grow with these results taking today when it comes to this election even though there are other candidates other parties involved it really is a two horse race and with all the hope and all the fear involved many people's tension will be fixed on whether you democracy for some reason succeed whichever one does though if it is to be one of those two though surely change the future of greece for some time to come. now financial journalist peter bell says affluenza is

in for massive economic turbulence from large loss of the outcome. it's never happened like this before but a very very tightly knit union currency union which has never actually broken up the real fear is that there could be. going on for years and years and years between banks between. simply because nobody knows exactly what currency your debts that have been run out would have to be repaid any of those in greece would be repaid with devalued new drama but that of course could possibly put the banks in germany in france. trouble and so the real consequences are so enormous potentially enormous but nobody really wants to contemplate. coming up russia's football team is packing its bags from the euro two thousand and twelve football championships after failing to score but

a few russian fans look set to be staying in poland behind bars find out why in just a few minutes plus. my whole life for the boss. lost my career it was because literally. i started to get to be street synonymous with r t reports on a new bill in the u.k. that silence whistleblowers across the nation forever forcing them to pay the consequences for speaking out. now the u.n. suspending its observer patrols in syria due to an escalation of violence in the country yeah the contingent will stay in syria to continue with their mission when the situation is more stable violence has sharply increased this month rebels have abandoned any commitment to the ceasefire plan that the government is using helicopters and artillery to pound opposition strongholds also this week the u.s. claims its tracking a russian military cargo ship carrying weapons and troops heading for syria moscow

denies the claims but says several ships are ready if needed to protect it syrian big. i didn't worry if an hour some reports from damascus on how ordinary people are dealing with a growing bloodshed. this is how human skin looks after it's been burnt by an electric cable mostafa shows us the fresh signs of torture an ardent supporter of syrian president assad he was kidnapped in his native city of lip. hopeful and that they held me for three days being all the tired they told me is because they don't support our revolution rubbish they didn't care about the revolution either all they wanted was money that they contacted my family asked two million syrian pounds for me is this what they're fighting for. most of us wife sold the house and scraped up a half of the ransom and the father of four mystifies now looking for money again to hide his family model motive this revolution if you want to call it that

encouraged criminals of all current and these people they listen to what world leaders and me repeat that assad is evil and start thinking that they have the right to do bad things to all those who sit with the president. syria once one of the safest places in the middle east is now one of the most dangerous even for those away from politics for twenty years this elderly lady has been selling vine leaves while showing us how to cook here broke syrian dolma should be most of the syria she once loved we. know that most syrians don't support anybody there in the middle but all suffer anyway they learn how to be afraid how to be careful and how to be angry we were happy before. she says is even harder now to get some meat for your blog ha ha made a butcher from damascus says it could soon be even impossible allowed. or used to

bring animals from all around the country but roads are now too dangerous to travel . the result my business is declining prices are a lose lose situation. while the manager keeps his boutique hotel in downtown damascus running even though he's seldom any guests to look after the conflict torn country is now a long way from people's idea of a top holiday destination is here with all my people are afraid even if they want to come they can't make a reservation at the world sites like oking dot com or hotels dot com they block syria. surprisingly though we meet a guest here even more surprising he says his business is growing these days dafydd is the chief executive of a media broadcasting company. big cheers big for themselves but each certainly wants pictures that speak for them and the more convincing the message the higher the chances of victory and they're ready to be for it even though the

prose for air time has almost doubled you see. the picture is rather far transmits no matter from which side of the conflict they come send a clear message violent reality is all too familiar here in syria even to kids. i know what's going on they kill and should people people die. who knows what kind of syria this six year old girl will face when she grows up in fifteen months of crisis syria has suffered deeply violence has raged sanctions have shaken economy and crime has flourished but has called for military foreign intervention getting louder syrians say they still hold out hope for peace even if they're prepared for more sufferings before they get there. or if not seen syria and professor of international relations mark almond says that the u.s. and its allies could provoke an explosion in the entire region if they continue to

push for regime change in syria. united states and britain france have made a strategic decision by a long haul off there as a way of putting pressure on iran changing the whole. of the middle east and therefore if they can achieve that through syrian domestic horses from deniable support or other arab special forces and. supplies weapons all over that ultimately i think they will not wish to accept a defeat in assad's regime survived it would be a huge geopolitical setback for most of all of our relations between our states and its allies in syria and iran are overwhelmingly ultimately in favor of the western states but of course to go in on the ground i could. also go in one thousand nine again sort of there is a big risk for them to know that the could be casualties on our side it's not clear that western public opinion is also committed to regime change other crisis of their own soldiers and so what have you know now iraq is still

a very one sided international calls. but of course would want to become a multi-site a conflict that would explain a dangerous and that is the risk of course of an explosion in this region. well remember we cover a news online as well as on t.v. so we can log onto our to dot com and time you'd like for more analysis and videos so let's take a look at what's there right now well china stands a woman in space for the first time accompanied by two male colleagues she said to participate in a space docking mission to watch the story launch on our website. also mindful gann the russian made up of the tory is financial fraudster robbed millions by the jain pyramid scheme says he'll do it again. as egyptians vote in a two day runoff presidential election the first since the fall of mubarak the historic events being overshadowed by a new political round the supreme court dissolved islam has dominated parliament

this week and the military is now assumed total control program volution activists are boycotting the poll and saying neither candidate is worth voting for as artie's falsely or now reports from cairo. whoever wins will take office in a climate of chaos confusion and a great deal of political isolation t. there is no constitution there is no condiments and the ruling supreme council of armed forces holds the legislative and executive power now what makes this particularly alarming is that these elections were supposed to be the next step in egypt's transition to a real democracy it is still unclear what the goal was the new president will have and indeed what his mandate will be now the one is between two candidates the man put forward by the muslim brotherhood as dr mohamed morsi and he has been campaigning as a voice of the revolution on the other hand there's enough mature feek who's been supported by the army he's campaigning for the one or did he was the last prime

minister in the era of the for me gyptian president hosni mubarak at this late stage it is still unclear who will win both have said but at the same time there is a lot of anger and apathy on the streets of cairo some of this is in light of recent developments this week when the constitutional court ruled that it was dissolving the parliament and the announcement was also made that the military police would be able to waste and detain people this might have the effect of causing some egyptians to come out and cast that ballot and if indeed they do they might be voting for more seat but again it is still too difficult to predict who will be the winner i've been speaking to people here at this polling station one woman told me that she was corrected that mubarak was not standing that she would vote for him another person telling me that they believe the muslim brotherhood is the only political party that can be trusted to move egypt forward policy altie cairo. a cairo based your rights activists who are normally used to where square

will once again be filled with angry crowds chanting for change. there's a very very big chance that mass protests arise in the case that either pasha order morsi win because many people see that both of them do not represent the revolution . which he is a worse candidate simply because you are presents the mubarak regime that the destroyed egypt for decades with the muslim brotherhood are also losing huge amounts of popularity with every the because of their political decisions what is next yes many people will return to the streets votes of alternatives will be formed especially in this upcoming period in response to the horrible situation that we are in which is to choose between a member of the mubarak regime and a member of the muslim brotherhood. thousands of opposition supporters fly out of moscow's boulevards on tuesday in the first massive demonstration since president

putin's took power last month the march of millions gather people on the streets of the russian capital to voice their disagreement with the current state of politics in russia which recently signed into law a new legislation increasing fines and slapping community service on participants of protests who violate public order to tap their previous violent clashes between police and protesters during nizer say more than one hundred thousand people attended the tuesday protest although police puts the number at around twenty thousand. now take a look at some other stories from around the world french president francois hollande is failing to win a socialist bloc majority in the second round of parliamentary elections which could give him enough muscle to push through his proposed policies a lot already controls the senate and has stated his intention to move from a sturdy towards growth reports a france once the e.u. to agree before the end of the year on growth boosting measures worth one hundred

twenty billion euros. leaving government has deployed troops to the city of zintan calling for an answer to days of violent clashes between rival militias at least sixteen people have died since monday fighting between the city's revolutionary fighters and former gadhafi loyalists in town rebels accuse the rival tribe of maintaining loyalty to the country's previous leader the violence comes just weeks before a levy is due to hold elections for a national assembly its first free poll in decades. one person has died and three others were injured after a stage collapsed during preparations for radio had concert in canada the incident took place one hour before gates were due to open at the toronto value forty thousand people were expected to attend the sold out gig which was canceled after the accident happened. britain scored so britain's supreme court this week unanimously dismissed what was believed to be julian assange his last attempt to

appeal his extradition to sweden that we leaders want to buy swiss authorities for questioning over sex crime allegations a move which songe claims is politically motivated if years the court's decision brings in one step closer to being handed over to washington where he could face espionage charges expected to be extradited within weeks meanwhile a songe is just one of those who could face a possible clampdown on whistleblowers server reports on a bill being debated in the british parliament which if adopted could discourage people from exposing the truth. the war on whistle blowing it's a war of attrition a good one to some who has nothing against people that have a lot of wells a lot of power behind them the battle against corruption. this video named collateral murder is just one of many wiki leaks revelations

exposing war crimes revolutionizing whistleblowing and tearing down the divides between governments and ordinary people and the governments furious exposing wrongdoing can preview risky business as wendy addison found out back in two thousand whilst working as a treasurer of the south african company leisure net she discovered the c.e.o.'s was stealing money from shareholders and sending it to offshore accounts and she blew the whistle it was a decade point that my whole life fell apart. lost my career it was because literally when i started getting the streets anonymously there were occasions where i was almost inclined to consider accepting society completely. and this is a very common thing for. talking about suicide despite risking everything wendy was in poor old in a lengthy legal wrangling and it would be more than a decade before those who committed the crime went to jail modern whistleblowing

techniques have been giving people more power to take on big corporations and even governments now the proposed changes to the law potentially threatening the protections also at a time when the culture surrounding whistleblowing be making big leaps forward the law could be set to take a big step back the problems being caused by this the enterprise and regulatory reform bill which is currently making its way through parliament and one small discrete line buried away in the text referring to a public interest test we were were really. that putting in a public interest test into the legislation will have a chilling effect on the ability of workers to speak up a member of the international whistleblowing research network and an employment lawyer david lewis tells us the proposed test has dropped a bomb on whistleblowing provisions the great virtue of the existing provisions is there's no public interest it was a very simple test as long as you had enormous motu if you could be sure in advance

that you would be protected now individuals of those claiming to use the provisions will have to satisfy the public interest to us and make it very difficult for people to advise them the government archy's that the changes are aimed at closing a loophole this meant that employees with personal grievances a for employment contract have been able to use the whistleblowing provisions but the some this will be seen as just the latest measure making it harder out the truth. of course is this trend. this is blowing the whistle have to differing degrees have their lives changed their reputations threatened or ruined their freedoms removed but in the process they reveal secrets that the rich and the powerful never wanted us to know that i was being told i was doing the wrong thing. and yet it felt so right for me and i knew that i was doing the right thing their battle highlights the importance of protecting whistleblowers

and the public's right to know something they all say was well worth fighting for. r.t. london london based arthur an award winning journalist afshin rattansi believes it's abundantly clear that the u.s. is behind a sanctions extradition to sweden. i think this is your action is very dangerous indeed i mean it's a bit of a shame the british highest court in the land the supreme court they couldn't even get it right as to whether julian been charged at least. council one on that point because paragraph three of the documents that he had been charged you think they get that right basically you know the united states could be a little bit more could be a little bit more less obvious about it clinton was in sweden over the weekend with call built a good friend of call rove the bush white house it couldn't be obvious the

connection between the united states and sweden not one nation in the world has been affected by wiki leaks and julian. personified because that's the way the media likes to take on stories the corporate media and he was doing the best for his sources. iran and six world powers are gearing up for a fresh round of talks into iran's nuclear ambitions to more in moscow their previous negotiations in may fail to bring any agreement the world nations wants to iran to stop enriching uranium to twenty percent and they say such production represents a major technological advance on the way to make weapons grade materials in return they are offering to supply fuel for medical research reactor in tehran and the easing of sanctions against the state of commercial aircraft parts iran insists its nuclear program is only a producing electricity and resume. research director at the national iranian

american council believes diplomacy is the only way i had. more diplomacy is almost always a good thing and when the permanent members of the security council the united nations security council plus germany sit down at the negotiating table with iran if there's no prep work that's done in advance of those negotiations then it essentially becomes a process that's tantamount to having a kitchen full of cooks and nobody has a spoon so laying the groundwork and taking care of some of the technical political aspects in advance increases the likelihood for already difficult diplomatic process to be more successful than it would be otherwise while the united states is spearheading a western effort to embargo if not outright reduce iranian oil exports and imports there are a host of other conflicts going on in the region there is economic instability in europe but there is also to ensure that countries like saudi arabia who have swing capacity when it comes to producing energy increase their output and maximizing the

output that's been increasing in libya places like iraq and things like that getting countries offer iranian oil oftentimes requires them to have a different refining process for different oil than iran's oil so it's a longer term process that they've been working on for a while now and we really are in a. charted waters so it certainly is the role of the dice that could come back to backfire particularly in an election year if the obama administration doesn't play its cards carefully. now on thursday u.s. drone strike killed three suspected militants in pakistan american team is to use such attacks to spy brought us from islamabad that they're against international law and granted she can explains it's not just terrorists who are dying more than eighty one hundred more and more than eight hundred civilians have lost their lives to drone strikes since president obama took office. reports about u.s. drone strikes in pakistan coming more and more often we're getting used to hearing in the media such and such number of terrorists was killed with no way to verify

really there are no names attached to those numbers usually but earlier this month american officials proudly announced that a drone strike in pakistan killed one of his top commanders almost two weeks later a video with the same men. it was posted online with titles which are generally reserved for the living other al qaeda leaders have not confirmed or denied levy's death the video could have been taped before he's dead that's true so he might as well be dead but the confusion has once again raised the question of who's really dying in those bombings and how much do we actually know because it's all very murky what we do know is that the obama administration has dramatically ramped up drone strikes in pakistan around story hundred strikes since he took office it's this area bordering afghanistan which is on the fire but judging by the intensity of the u.s. strikes there one thing that only terrorists leave there that's not the case of course the long and investigative journalism says more than eight hundred civilians

died in those bombings among them almost two hundred children what's interesting for a year u.s. officials are all together denied civilian deaths in drone strikes but reports on the ground told the opposite and thousands of people protesting furiously in pakistan told the opposite then that was the last straw the aerial strike which killed two dozen pakistani soldiers last year by mistake diplomatic have a call up between the u.s. and pakistan pakistan blocked supply routes to afghanistan and they still remain closed by the way a new wave of extremism has been steered by those strikes but it's also interesting u.s. officials have rightly accused this bureau of investigative journalism which works to shed light on civilian deaths in those drone strikes of helping terrorists why. might argue that this label terrorist helper is becoming an all too convenient tool for the government to brush off investigative journalism then there was this yemeni

journalist who reported about the drone strike in yemen in two thousand and nine twenty one woman and fourteen children died there the journalist is now when j. reportedly at the personal request of president obama himself. there's this line of thought in washington. it's all perfectly fine as long as we're fighting the bad guys the president approves the list of those bad guys by the way the kill list on secret evidence with no review but does the argument we're fighting the bad guys mean the world should keep quiet about the execution of innocent people in washington i'm going to check on. russian football fans are in mourning where the national side knocked out of euro two thousand and twelve after going down to greece on saturday a disappointing end to campaign that began with a four a one thrashing of the czech republic the championship was marred by

violence this week when russian fans marching peacefully through warsaw were ambushed by polish radicals police weighed in with water cannon and tear gas to break up the grog detaining nearly two hundred people to russians were jailed in poland over the violence moscow is now seeking their release a while warsi says it's tamed the supposed organizers of the attack. well russia may be out of you are twenty twelve but the game still very much on for the surviving pack well we'll have the latest from poland and ukraine and now with sports bulletin and less than twenty minutes from now and to recap our top stories coming your way shortly.

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