people of greece had the polls for the second time in two months to decide the country's future with their choice impacting the entire eurozone. 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 there are boycotting the ongoing presidential poll after the military claims all branches of power for itself. what you are do live from moscow now many am in the russian capital greeks are facing a tough choice this 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 argues jacob greaves has the latest from athens. we're talking about two potential leaders here all the rights we have that's 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 stairs 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 conwy 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 and 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 votes 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 to 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 it will be about three trillion euros that's their estimate to exit greece from the euro zone they also stress there simply isn't the paperwork for the legal framework in place in order to kick greece out this election is also being characterized by other groups so notably golden dawn a far right extremist group which has been courting a lot of controversy with some of their outlandish statements and actions in the media has come to represent a growth in

a concert resentment from the illegal immigrants increase and particularly in athens that has coincided with the rise in the number of attacks on the legal immigrants living in athens golden dawn have. mannish imatest gets a large portion of the small but descriptive part not a minority of the nation about five percent or less 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 fee 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. jacob race reporting there a financial journalist peterbilt says athens is in for a massive economic turbulence regardless 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 they could be. going on for years and years and years between between. those. simply because nobody knows exactly what the currency. would have to be repaid you those in greece would be repaid with a devalued new drama but that of course could possibly put the banks in germany and from. trouble and so the real consequences are so enormous potentially enormous but nobody really wants to contemplate. what you are going to live from moscow and coming up in just a few minutes nuclear negotiations moscow prepares to host the talks between iran and the west over its atomic ambitions as to iran tries to shake off possible

sanctions. my whole life for the price. lost my career it was because literally. i started to get to give streets anonymously. r.t. reports on a new bill in the u.k. that could silence was the lowers across the nation forever forcing them to pay the consequences for speaking out. the un suspending its observer patrols and syria do an escalation of violence in the country yet the contingent will stay in syria to continue their mission when the situation is more stable violence has sharply increased the rebels have abandoned and a commitment to the ceasefire plan and the government is using helicopters and artillery to pound opposition strongholds also this week the u.s. claimed 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 its. ideas

were even our story ports from damascus on how ordinary people are dealing with the growing bloodshed. this is how humans can look soft it's been burnt by an electric cable mostafa shows us the fresh signs of torture an ardent supporter of syrian president assad who was kidnapped in his native seat of lip. hopeful are not being 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 a half of the ransom and the father for mystifies now looking for money again to hide his family. 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. feel 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 there she says is even harder now to get meat for your blog made a butcher from damascus says it could soon be even impossible a lot. more 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 of keeps his boutique hotel in downtown damascus running even though he is seldom any guests to look after the conflict torn country he 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 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 there are fart is the chief executive of a media brooch. just in company. for them a big cheers for themselves but the new ones pictures that speak for them and the more convincing the message the higher the chances of victory and they're ready to pay for it even though the pros for air time has almost doubled you see.

the pictures raff are transmitted no matter from which side of the conflicts they come send a clear message violent reality is all too familiar here in syria even to kids and me that. i know what's going on they kill and should be pull 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 calls 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 notion artsy syria. and david gibbs is history professor at the university of arizona says western media spin has left its mark on the syrian conflict. well as

a general point in these types of you know conflicts the propaganda aspect is critically important and there's an effort in the west portray the rebels in a kind of almost purely positive light to the syrian regime in a purely negative light and you know you know the facts on the ground are very hard to ascertain who massacre did for a long time for want to look like it was clearly done by the government but there was a report in the german press for exactly the front for all good money. and the case that there is some indications it might have been some element of the rebels that might have committed at least part of the massacre the german report with the group the cool underscores the fact that it's very difficult to get at the truth in these types of conflicts where you know both sides are trying to use propaganda and spin to advance their positions and so this is being presented as is typically the case in these types of conflicts the good versus evil conflict with all the blame on one side even if the reality is more complicated. and remember we cover news online as

well as on t.v. so i'm going to r.t. dot com for more analysis and videos here is what's there right now. china sends a woman in space for the first on accompanied by male colleagues she said to participate in a space docking mission so watch the historic launch on our website. also on line so let me again the russian made off and its worries financial fraud certain millions for the giant parent scheme says he'll do it once more. as a vote in a two day runoff presidential election the first since the fall of mubarak the historic events being overshadowed by a new political rally the supreme court dissolved these lamas dominated parliament this week and the military is now assumed told control pro-revolutionary activists are boycotting the poll and say neither candidate is worth voting for as our policy or 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 condiment and the ruling supreme council of armed forces holds legislative and executive power now what makes this particular be 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 who 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 is dr mohamed morsi and he has been campaigning as a voice of the revolution on the other hand there is a mature fake who is being supported by the army he's campaigning for the one order and 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 support 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 seen 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 auti cairo. cairo based journalist so well ask and there are other runoff couldn't have been worse for those fighting against the legacy of a bark era. there are people that are polarized by the debate who are who fear the muslim brotherhood and are very mistrusting of them and there are people who are supporting shippey because of the fear and there are people who are just

afraid of their press of in-work regime coming back again but there is also the great majority of the population that does not want any of the two extremes both extremes represent a fight in the former regime and this is what people have revolted against and this is what exactly what they do not want again so this is a very difficult runoff is the worst possible situation for egyptians who do not want any of any of the extremes. now thousands of opposition supporters flood 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 putting recently signed into law a new legislation increasing fines and slapping community service on participants of progress who violate public order but after previous violent clashes between police and protesters the organizers say more than one hundred thousand people attended the tuesday protests although police puts the number at around twenty

thousand. and time now take a look at some other stories from around the world french president francois hollande is aiming 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 has stated his intention to move from a stary towards growth reports a france wants the e.u. to agree before the end of the year on the growth boosting measures worth one hundred twenty billion euros. believing government has deployed troops to the city of in time calling for an answer to days of violent clashes between rival militias at least sixteen people have died since monday in 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 violence comes just weeks before 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 radiohead concert in canada the incident took place one hour before gates were open at a toronto venue forty thousand people were expected to attend the gig which was canceled after the accident happened. so i have for you this hour here in our team the link between recession and rehab our team investigates why ireland's financial crisis has left many of the country's drug addicts with no word to turn. i mean time britain's superior court this week unanimously dismissed what was believed to be joining us sandra's last attempt to appeal his extradition to sweden that we got leader is wanted by swedish authorities for questioning over sex crime allegations a move which astonished claims is politically motivated he fears the court's decision brings him one step closer to being handed over to washington where he

could face charges he's expected to be extradited within weeks having spent six months under house arrest in the u.k. meanwhile assad is just one of those who could face a possible clampdown on whistleblowers their first 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 good one to some and has nothing against people that have been a lot of wells and a lot of behind them is a battle against corruption. lies sequence this video named collateral murder is just one of many wiki leaks revelations exposing real crimes revolutionizing whistleblowing and tearing down the divides between governments and ordinary people and the government urias exposing wrongdoing can

praise 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 were stealing money from shareholders and sending it to offshore accounts and she blew the whistle it was adept at point at my whole loss of the course. lost my. career it was it was literally me i started getting the streets anonymously there were occasions where i was almost inclined to consider exiting society completely. and this is a very common thing for. talking about suicide despite risking everything when he was in poor old in a lengthy legal wrangling and it would be more than a decade before days 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 with the proposed changes to the law the tension is 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 really worried 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 whistle blowing 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 motive if you could be sure and it found that you would be protected now individuals will those claiming to use the provisions will have to satisfy public interest to 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 son this will be seen as just the latest measure making it harder out the truth. of course is this trend. you mentioned which is one crackdown in whistle blowing blowing the whistle have to differing degrees how the lies changed their reputations threatened or ruined their freedoms removed but in the process they've revealed 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 what i was doing there watching their battle highlights the importance of protecting whistle blows and the public's right to know something they all say was well worth fighting for so.

iran and six world powers are gearing up for a fresh round of talks on tehran's nuclear ambitions to more in moscow their previous negotiations in may fail to bring any agreement the world nations want iran to stop enriching uranium at twenty percent they say such production represents a major technological advance on the way to making weapons grade materials in return they are offering to supply a fuel for a medical research reactor in tehran and the easing of sanctions against the sale of commercial aircraft parts iran insists its nuclear program is only aimed at producing a tricity and madson middle east expert on the risks says ties between israel and the us want a while for any breakthrough to come out of the talks i don't think you can expect quite a lot from the talks i think that israel will continue to force the habits. and to force washington and not to make any kind of headway with. his road.

and that there might be some prospects of a solution between the obama administration and so it's doing all it can and so i think because of this as i said we cannot expect much and obama. from now at least from what we've seen until now has given the reputation of giving in not being very strong. when it comes to confronting confronting these really pressures now in election year and especially when obama is trying to get the support of the conservative jewish votes we know obama met with the old to orthodox jewish representatives in washington for example and said that washington has him has been more attentive to israelis than it has been to policy and so if you take all of this into one package and i don't expect anything significant will happen from now at least until the elections take place all the irish government is struggling to overcome a recession but that's not the only problem dublin's currently facing as

a country struggles to keep the economy afloat it's also battling to deal with the growing drug abuse problem public spending for rehab clinics has been slashed as laura smith reports the results could prove disastrous. it's a tale of two cities a happy go lucky dublin where locals and tourists shop drink and make mary rubbing shoulders with the seedy underbelly tenement blocks where the poor struggle to make ends meet and drug workers estimate one person in sixty takes heroin tony gagan runs a needle exchange and rehab program where he sees marginalized people who take a cocktail of drugs leading often to crime and recessions making it worst he's seeing eleven new people a week happens when people have less disposable income on account find work or can't find no. more recourse. you know turned. on people. between drugs and

crime and knoll not his real name is recovering from years of drug addiction he says a story of economic privation and boredom leading to drugs and the breakdown of relationships with family friends and community when i was single more. we lived on social welfare and my father would have been around. to. know did everything except heroin finding his brother dead from an overdose as a teenager saw to that he's in a four month rehab program partly funded at least for now by the state work isn't getting any easier for the people who run vital drug programs in ireland drop incenses needle exchanges seventeen week residential course it's none of that is cheap to run and despite increasing numbers of addicts desperate to get

a drug and rehab center to seeing their government funding for like every year state drug program contributions are being slashed by ten percent a year and for them. varies drop in center for the homeless waiting lists a growing from a few days to weeks or months he says addicts need immediate attention something they're less than less likely to get the become the marlise the say no point in even trying i'm never going to do it. having access to treatment programs to my mind is vitally in this fight against drugs. programs in our land are hopelessly inadequate and as the recession bites even harder they won't get any better with disastrous consequences for addicts for communities and for society laura smith r.t. dublin. i don't have our top stories coming your way very shortly.

if you're following up on my debt snowball than the. runners are sort of a throwback and archaic part of our long. and it goes back to a time when people would write out of their forces in the wild west and pick up

these huge and it's important to mention the sheriff from prosecution don't think much company may almost feel guilty. when they go out there he's got weapons. and you have to hope that nothing bad. would. but we're chasing killers and you got to keep that in mind others that to me a dollar bill for his arrest. we're not superheroes we can be killed too you know they should be in the head i'm going to die. and. once you've hunted man you don't never go back to hunt anything else. mission free accreditation free zones for charges free arrangement free risk free. to tide free. dumb old free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free media dog r.t.

dot com in. the. comfort is the least you have. your money is the last you need to if you travel this way. the language is common. you. the. emotions are intense circuit. and experience priceless. today children play war in the old case me. but in june nine hundred forty one these walls were the first barrier for the nazi

troops on their way to moscow and. the funders of breast cancers were dying one by one under seize the salt. water. in the last shelter an unnamed soldier left a few simple words farewell motherland i'm dying but i'm not surrendering. download the official placation to you on the phone or my pod touch from the i choose our story. one jaunty life on the go. video on demand on teens mind broadcasts and says feed now in the palm of your.