just how popular it was back in the day elections on the result of their 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 the trump card here people we've spoken to in sarees distress will be about three trillion euros that's their estimate to exit greece from the euro zone this election is also being characterized by other groups though notably golden dawn of far right extremists every which is pretty cool seen a lot of controversy with some of the outlandish statements and actions in what the media has come to represent a growth but a concert resentment from illegal immigrants in greece and particularly in africa has coincided with the rise in the number of attacks on illegal immigrants living in tents golden dawn have managed to made to get a large portion of the small but descriptive part not

a minority of the nation about five percent or less themes are held on to that support base ever since 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 volved many people's tension will be fixed whether you democracy or sarees or succeed whichever one does though if it is to be one of those two surely change a feature of greece for some time to come. to any one near the sea of country or risk solutions believes europe must move away from a staring in order to another not to bury itself in debt. i understand why there was an orientation toward austerity to begin with tighten the belt a little bit and change your ways but there's no way that europe's going to be able to dig itself out of its hole if it doesn't grow so the focus now has to be on pro growth growth policies and the question becomes are there sufficient resources to

enable europe to grow sufficiently so that it can literally pull itself out of its hole that's a that's the question that i don't really think anybody has the answer to my best guess is that with enough fiscal incentive if you will enough printing of the money and enough throwing it down into the hole there will be limited benefit i am doubtful however if that this stage of the game four years down the road after all that money has been shoveled down into what seems like a black hole there there's now going to be enough resources available to to get the job done. they want to ninety nine from moscow coming up in just a few minutes nuclear negotiations moscow prepares to host a new talks between iran and the west over its atomic ambitions as iran tries to shake off possible sanctions plus. a whole lost in the process. lost my career it was because. i started getting d.

street synonymous. r.t. reports on a new bill in the cave that could silence whistle blowers across the nation forever forcing them to pay the consequences for speaking out. the u. i'm suspending its observer patrols in syria didn't ask away ssion of violence in the country yet 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 commitments to the ceasefire plan and the government is using helicopters and artillery to pound opposition strongholds also this week the u.s. . claimed it's 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 syrian base artist maria financial reports from damascus on how ordinary people are dealing with a 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 city of lip. hopeful or not being held me for three days being all the time they told me is because you don't support our revolution rubbish they didn't care about the rebel national 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 scream 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 kind of 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 broke syrian donmar should be moments this syria she once loved we. know that most iranians don't support anybody there in the middle but all suffer anyway when 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. ahmed a butcher from damascus says it could soon be even impossible allow diamond were 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 his 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 more people are afraid even if they want to come we can't make a reservation the world sites like looking 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 baffert is the chief executive of a media broadcasting company. for the mcclellan near big cheers big for themselves but each said only once 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 prize for air time has almost doubled you see. the pictures rafaat transmits no matter from which side of the conflict they come send

a clear message violent reality is all too familiar to him syria even to kids and we hear that in the last hour 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 calls for military foreign intervention getting louder syrians say they still hold out hope for peace even if they're prepared for war sufferings before they get there. or if notion out seem syria. and ali mohammed editor in chief of the syria tribunals website says it's not the u.n. that can force its peace plan but rather the sponsors of this year rebels. some sort of a little green and look. political agreement is the enhanced now and then why not.

the opposition and its fighters have done nothing to support the enhanced and the promises of plum trees that supported no good they would pressure then king just for the unfortunately there has been a lot of pressure some. governments allies on syria and the syrian government. and the syrian government did a lot of points in the land but on the other hand the. opposition fighters were getting more vicious and receiving more weapons and more viciously and this happened despite the promises made since around and that the government supporting those fighters. and man's land per se has a has a chance to just fix the only innocently government supporting these fighters and if there were friends and among. afghans instead of who should be supported. over

an hour we cover news online as well as on t.v. so log on to r.t. dot com for more analysis and videos here's what's there right now china stands a woman in space for the first time accompanied by two male colleagues she set to participate in a space docking mission watched a story launch on our website. also online foamy am the russian made often a tourist financial fraudster who robbed millions with a chinese parents came says he'll do it once more. as egyptians vote in a two day rock presidential election the first since the fall of mubarak at the historic events being overshadowed by new political route the supreme court dissolved the islam is dominated parliament this week and the military is now assumed tell all control pro-rata lish an activist are boycotting the poll and saying neither candidate is worth voting for as artist policy or now reports from cairo. whoever wins will take office in a climate of chaos confusion and

a great deal of political uncertainty there is no constitution there is no condiment and the ruling supreme council of armed forces holds legislative and executive tala 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 was the new president will have and indeed what his mandate will be no one else 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 days after much a freak who's been 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 line 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 arrest 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 most 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 altie cairo. cairo based journalist while eskandar says iran off couldn't have been a worse for those fighting against the legacy of the mubarak 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 the oppressive 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 any of the extremes. so i am for you this hour here in our political p.r. stunts. same stereotypes again and again and again regardless of what kind of regime is being attacked. by now why many accuse world leaders of going to any extreme necessary in order to sell to their people. thousands of opposition supporters flooded 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 that russian capital to voice their disagreement with the current state of politics in russia pushing recently signed into law new legislation increasing fines and slapping me to service on the bridges offense of protests who violate public order that's after previous violent clashes between police and protesters here in eyes or say more than one hundred thousand people at ten of the tuesday protest although police puts the number at around twenty thousand. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world french president francois hollande is aiming to win a socialist bloc majority in a second round of parliamentary elections which could give him enough muscle to push through his proposed policies a lot already controls the senate and have. stated his intention to move from a steered towards growth reports say 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 santana 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 rebels accuse the rival tribe of maintaining loyalty to the country's for use leader the 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 a radio have concert in canada the incident to place one hour before gates were due to open at the toronto venue forty thousand people were expected to attend the sold out gig which was cancelled after the accident happened. britain's supreme court has this week unanimously dismissed what was believed to be julian

a songes last attempt to appeal his extradition to sweden that we could leaker is wanted by swedish authorities for questioning over sex crime allegations a move which son claims is politically motivated he fears the court's decision bring seemed one step closer to being handed over to washington where he could face espionage charges he's expected to be extradited within weeks having spent six months under house arrest in the u.k. meanwhile a son is just one of those who could face a possible climb down on whistleblowers sara first reports on a bill being debated in the british parliament which if adopted could discourage people from exposing the truth. the rule on whistleblowing 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 real crimes revolutionizing whistleblowing and tearing down the divides between governments and ordinary people in the government who furious exposing wrongdoing can previously 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 data point that my whole life fell apart. lost my career it was because literally . i started getting desperate synonymously there were occasions where i was almost inclined to consider exciting society completely. and this is a very common thing for. talking about suicide despite risking everything when he

was in poor as in a lengthy legal wrangling and it would be more than a decade before those who committed the crime went to jail model we're still playing techniques have been giving people more power to take on big corporations and even governments now with 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 really worried that putting 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. research network and an employment lawyer david lewis tells us the proposed test has dropped a bomb on with blame provisions the great virtue of the existing provisions is this

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 to know individuals who those claiming to use the provisions will have to satisfy public interest to us a little make it very difficult for people to advise them the government 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 whistle blowing provisions but the some this will be seen as just the latest measure making it harder to out the truth. of course is this trend. of 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 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 the 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 surf city london iran and six world powers are gearing up for a fresh round of talks on tehran's nuclear ambitions tomorrow in a moscow their previous negotiations in may fail to bring any agreement on 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 material in return they are offering to supply a fuel for 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 electricity and medicine reza marashi who's a research director at the national raney american council believes diplomacy is

the only way that. i don't think you can expect quite a lot from from the moscow talks i think that israel will continue to force its say the habits have its say and to force washington not to make any kind of headway with iran what. israel does theer that there might be some prospects of a solution between the obama administration and to her own so it's doing all it's 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 and not being very strong when it comes to confronting confronting these really pressures so 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 ultra orthodox jewish representatives in washington for example and said that washington has him has been more attentive to israelis than it has been to palestinians 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 when it comes to syria many western leaders have largely ignored reports of rebel atrocities while urging assad to bag down but some experts say blaming a one man for all the violence is nothing more than a p.r. campaign against the regime and as a test are sillier explains it's not the first time similar tactics have been they used to justify military intervention in sovereign countries. images like these. and words like these innocent civilians were beaten imprisoned and the violence protect civilians are often would have preceded military operations in the name of stopping brutal killings by hardened dictators and while authoritarian regimes are not devoid of responsibility for atrocities the story often ends there especially when leaders of intervening countries have to justify their wars to their people

peace depressingly easy. it's almost becoming a habit sanctioning even in spite of. told over iraq the same stereotypes again and again and again regardless of who or what kind of regime is being attacked whether it's a secular regime or a religious one to the viewer it's about the good guy bad guy it's about saturating us over and over and over again with the same images now here's what they're good at satisfied the viewing audience without exposing your true agenda in one thousand nine hundred ninety agr. told the story of what iraqi soldiers did to babies in a kuwaiti hospital to think it is and let the children to die of a clue. her testimony was widely publicized and cited by politicians in justifying their support for kuwait in the first gulf war turned out she was the daughter of the kuwaiti ambassador to the us and her testimony was part of

a public relations campaign run by an american p.r. agency for the kuwaiti government sparking controversy and public anger. p.r. firms or individuals spin doctors consulting for governments and politicians is certainly not new or uncommon but while there may be a need for effective communication there is also a very thin line between that and saddam hussein to build and keep weapons of mass destruction out right manipulation as many would point to the nonexistent weapons of mass destruction he used as a pretext for western powers to attack iraq in two thousand and three. communication is a weapon each slogan is a dumb dumb advertising terms have become war terms we talk about target we talk about strikes again we talk about its impact if this is terrible it is also a weapon in the war because all wars not are broadcast live and these images content for this world opinion with the book has already been done several times in

the past change the face of war to bring the bodies the make up you can always simulate a massacre that is not the current misinformation it is easy to use the folder you don't hear it or or. even when history is full of examples to learn from some say people's collective memories are simply too short to reality is hardly ever block and wide as many sides to it but when the wheels of the p.r. war machine start serving serving up polished and happy truth the facts take a back seat the first a lot of statements are often what sticks and even if corrections apologies come later the damage has already been talk to the questions are often the reversible tests or so you are to me carol. all brings us up to date here on. r t and i'll be back with a minor of our top stories very shortly stay with us.

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talk about your with our team here is a look at the top stories of the week people of greece had to the polls for the second time in two months to decide the country's future with their choice impacting the entire eurozone they're left with two options to side with the stereo or to revolt against the move which could ultimately spell greece's exit from the euro. 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 misquoting violence this as moscow denies u.s. claims that a russian military cargo ship is on its way to syria with weapons and troops. and in egypt activists say the revolutions in jeopardy and are boycotting their own going presidential poll after the military claimed all branches of power for itself

and as long as it's facing off against mubarak's last prime minister with critics saying neither man's a champion of change. up next the second part of our special report on the old american tradition of bounty hunting stay with us. communicate with their families.