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people in greece head to the polls for the second time in two months to decide the country's future was 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 that escalating violence. in egypt activists say there are revolutions in jeopardy and are boycotting the ongoing presidential poll after the military claimed all branches of power for itself. he watching i think i'm going to live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program that greeks are facing
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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 grieves has the latest from athens. we're talking about two potential leaders here all the rights we have that of new democracy these represent the status quo they have run and been in power before long saw the coalition with pasok party now they represent austerity their popularity is really waned recently there has been a public backlash because of course the stairs has gone hand in hand with the sheer rise in unemployment has also seen since two thousand and eight a stalling a retraction of the conwy by about twenty percent our new democracy their main stay argument at the moment is that they need to stay within the euro zone that swallowing austerity is
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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 result 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 this election is also being characterized by other groups so noticeably golden dawn a far right extremist group which has been courting a lot of controversy for some of their out largest statements and actions in the media has come to represent a growth but a concert resentment from illegal immigrants think greece and particularly in africa that has coincided with the rise in the number of attacks on their legal immigrants living in athens golden dawn have managed in major school to get
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a large portion of small but descriptive part not a minority of the nation about five percent or less thing to 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 involved if he was tension will be fixed whether you democracy was the 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. financial journalist peterbilt athens is in for massive economic turbulence regardless of the outcome. it's never happened like this before that a very very tightly knit union currency union has ever actually broken up is the real fear is that there could be immensely going on for years and years and years
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between banks between debtors and. simply because nobody knows exactly in what currency the debts that have been run up would have to be repaid if any of those in greece perhaps would be repaid with a far devalued new drama but that of course could possibly put the banks in germany in france in terrific trouble and so the real consequences are so enormous potentially enormous that nobody really wants to contemplate. coming up russia's football team is packing his bags from the euro two thousand and twelve football championships after failing to score but the russian fans said to be staying in poland behind bars for a fight they didn't even start all the details in just a few minutes here on our team plus. my home loss of the parson. lost my career it was because literally. i started to get to the streets anonymously party reports
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on a new bill in the u.k. that could silence whistleblowers across the nation forever forcing them to face the consequences for speaking out. the un suspending its observer patrols in syria due to an escalation 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 commitment to the ceasefire plan and the government is using helicopters and artillery to pound opposition strongholds also this week the u.s. claim 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 artie's marie ivanovna 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 and
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support of syrian president assad he was kidnapped in his native. they hold me for three days being all that they told me is because you 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 father for 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
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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 dolma should be made the syria she once loved. and 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 meat for your blog ahmed a butcher from damascus says it could soon be even impossible allowed they 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 he's seldom any guests to look after the conflict torn
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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 we can't make a reservation the world sites like booking 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 they are fired is the chief executive of a media broadcasting company. big cheers big 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 be for it even though the prose for air time has almost doubled you see. the pictures are 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 and
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we hear that. 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 seem syria and professor of international relations mark almond says the u.s. and its allies could provoke an explosion in the entire region if they continue to push for a regime change in syria. blew my states and britain france of major strategic position by long haul all right as a way of putting pressure on iran changing the whole. of the middle east for if
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they can achieve that through their interest of horses and deniable or for the arab special courses i. suppose welcomes all who do that but ultimately i think they would not wish to accept a defeat in assad's regime survived it would be a huge geopolitical so for most of all the power 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 some of it is a big risk for them could be casualties on our side it's not clear of opinions also committed to regime change other chrysler and sold us from seoul would have still a very one sided international call. but of course would want to become a multi sided culture trying to explain the dangerous of both the risk of course of an explosion. while while conflict in syria rages on some other countries are stocking up on weapons for safety concerns or theory for it's on line saudi arabia
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reportedly wants to buy ten billion euros worth of tanks in germany reluctant to disclose where the are going to be deployed. also online fully uganda russian made off and tore us financial fraud sturgill robbed millions for a giant pyramid scheme set to do it once more. as egyptians vote in a two day runoff presidential election the first since the fall of mubarak the historic advance being overshadowed by a new political route the supreme court dissolved the islamist dominated parliament this week and the military is now assumed total control program aleutian activists are boycotting the poll and say neither candidate is worth voting for as are his policy 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 parliament and the ruling supreme council of
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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 plan 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 a from which a fake who's 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 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
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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 or t.v. cairo. based human rights activists know or know or believe as to who you're 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 sadly many people see that both of them do not represent the revolution obviously he is a worse candidate simply because he represents the mubarak regime that the
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destroyed egypt for decades but the muslim brotherhood are also losing huge amounts of popularity with every day because of their political decisions what is next yes many people will return to the streets and lots of alternatives will be formed especially in this upcoming period in response to the horrible situation we are in which is to choose between a member of the mubarak regime and a member of the muslim brotherhood. well so i have for this hour here in our team the link between recession and rehab thank you mr gates why arlen's financial crisis has left many of the country's drug addicts with no work to return. sauza of opposition supporters flocked to moscow's boulevards on tuesday in the first massive demonstration to president putin's to power last month the march of millions gather people on the streets of the russian capital to voice their
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disagreements with the current state of politics in russia put it recently signed into law mulishly find in slapping community service on participants of protests who violate public order now that's 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. some world news in brief for you the cell work french president francois lawn he's aiming to win a socialist block 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 the sterett towards growth reports say france wants the e.u. to agree before the end of the year on growth boosting measures worth one hundred twenty billion euros. believe in government has deployed troops to the city as in
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time calling for an end 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 loyalist rebels accuse a 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 nationalist sample of 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 took 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 this week now mostly dismissed what was believed to be joyous sound as a last attempt to appeal his extradition to sweden where your leader is wanted by swedish authorities for questioning over sex crime allegations a move which
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a sanch claims is politically motivated he fears a 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. there while the seller 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 whistleblowing it's a war of attrition a good one to some who has nothing against people that have a lot of wells and a lot of power behind them the battle against corruption. lies sequence this video named collateral murder is just one of many we keep leaks revelations exposing war crimes revolutionizing whistleblowing and tearing down the
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divides between governments and ordinary people and the governments urias 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 were stealing money from shareholders and sending it to offshore accounts and she blew the whistle it was adept at point at my whole life for the parts are lost my career it was because literally. 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. suicide despite risking everything when he was in poor as 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
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governments now 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 that the problems are 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 have 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 motor if you could be sure and it found that you would be protected now individuals of those claiming to use the
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provisions have to satisfy public interest to us 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 had their lives changed their reputations threatened or ruined their freedoms removed but in the process they reveal secrets that the rich and the power. i never wanted us to know i was being told i was doing the wrong thing. and yet it felt a lot for me and i knew that i was doing the watching highlights the importance of protecting whistle blows and the public's right to know something they will say was
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well worth fighting for so. iran and six world powers are gearing out for a fresh round of talks and iran's nuclear ambitions tomorrow in moscow their previous negotiations in may fail to bring any agreement the world nations want to iran to stop enriching uranium at twenty percent well they say such production represents a major technological advance on the way to making weapons grade materials in return they are offering to supply 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 electricity and medicine reza marashi who's a research director at the national iranian american council believes the pharmacy is the only way. more diplomacy is almost always a good thing and when the permanent members of the security council the united
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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. 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 off aronian oil oftentimes requires them to have
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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 uncharted waters so it certainly is a roll of the dice that could come back to backfire particularly in an election year if the obama administration doesn't play its cards carefully. the irish government is struggling to overcome a recession but that's not the only problem dublin is currently facing as a country struggles to keep the economy afloat it's also battling to deal with a growing drug abuse problem public spending for rehab clinics has been slashed and is 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 a seedy underbelly telamon blocks where the poor struggle to make ends meet and drug workers estimate one person in sixty takes heroin twenty gagan runs
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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 and find you know. more recourse. turned. on people. between drugs and crime and know not his real name is recovering from years of drug addiction he's 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.
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know did everything except taro in 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 adding death threats against a drug and rehab center to seeing their government funding for every year state drug program contributions are being slashed by ten percent a year and for the. 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 and less likely to get to become tomorrow that is to say yeah sure is no point in even trying i'm never going to do that so having access to treatment programs to my mind is vitally in this fight against drugs both treatment programs
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in our. 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 . where russian vocal fans are in mourning and with the national side knocked out of you were twenty twelve after going down to greece on saturday and disappointing and to a campaign that began with a four one threshing of the czech republic the championship was marred by violence this week when russian fans were marching peacefully through warsaw were ambushed by polish radicals police weighed in there was water cannon and tear gas to break up a brawl detaining nearly two hundred people while two russians were jailed in poland over the violence in moscow is now seeking there were leaks meanwhile more says it's detained the supposed organizers of the attack. well russia
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may be out of euro two thousand and twelve bytes of the game still very much on for the surviving padding we'll have the latest from poland and ukraine and i was bored bored in twenty minutes time. and a recap of our top stories coming your way very shortly.
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