hero's survival is all online as greeks choose between more cots and breaking free from brussels is controlled by. the u.n. sponsored peace plan for syria shaken to the core observer suspend their mission due to growing violence as both the regime and the rebels fighting all. bandaged up chose a counsellor final balance for their post revolution future but many are disenchanted with the choice between an islamist and a former mubarak official. thank

you for joining me karen tara this sunday for the weekly. the future of the whole euro zone could rest on the shoulders of greece with polls underway this sunday after last month's election failed to bring about a coalition government it's a vote that could result in the rejection of the country's current a bailout and even see up and say that the single currency argues jacob graves is in the greek capital. we're talking about two potential leaders here for the rights 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 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 conwy by about twenty percent the new democracy their main stay argument of the moment is that they need to stay within the euro zone with swallowing austerity is a necessary poison but there 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're offering the get out of jail free card for the greek voters they say not only will we counsel 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 the euros that's their estimates to exit greece from the euro zone this election is also being characterized by other groups though notably golden dawn a far right extremist group which has been causing a lot of controversy for some of their outlandish statements and actions in the media 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 on whether new democracy or sarees or succeed whichever one does though if it is to be one of those two surely change the future of greece for some time to come. most of the great political parties are hoping to retain the euro planning to cancel or renegotiate cuts political writer peter abolfathi believes leaving the currency union would not go smoothly for our fans. it's never happened like this before that a very very tightly knit union currency union has ever actually broken out of the real fear is that there could be immensely battles going on for years and years and years between banks between debtors and lenders simply because nobody knows exactly in what currency the debts that have been run out would have to be repay it

if those in greece perhaps would be repaid with a far devalued new drama but that of course could possibly put the banks in germany and france in terrific trouble if they are allowed or if you like demand of the european central bank that it prints new money then there is an endless amount of money available there is potentially enough money to bail out everybody and his mother but the will at the moment is not there to do that simply because it delays the problem of the lack of competitiveness of some of the eurozone countries. economic turmoil is of the problem haunting most leaders at the moment but now there's another major issue ready to explode. coming up on our we were born on how immigrants many of them muslim face daily discrimination in europe with a nationalist parties increasingly gaining more followers.

and while julian assange loses his latest bid to fight extradition to sweden we investigate whether there is now a witch hunt for whistleblowers. on saturday the un backed peace plan and syria took another blow with the observer mission there suspending its activities due to an escalation of violence the syrian opposition has urged the wanted to send the peacekeeping force into the country while the rebels and the government have abandoned any commitment to the ceasefire is more if national reports on how the syrians are dealing with the growing bloodshed how humans can look soft it's been burned by electric cable most of our shows us the fresh signs of torture of an ardent supporter of syrian president assad he was kidnapped in his native city of lip. 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 revolution either all they wanted was money but the contact in 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 know looking for money again to hide his family model motive in 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 broke syrian dolma should be most of the syria she once

loved. the world 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. a butcher from damascus says it could soon be even impossible. are 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 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 him are people who are afraid even if they want to come they 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 there are fired is the chief executive of a media broadcasting company you call them a 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 pay 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 we 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 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 not seen syria. this week after the u.s. backed away from hillary clinton's remarks that moscow is supplying assad with attack helicopters pentagon officials said it's tracking a russian ship with weapons and troops heading for syria moscow denies the claims but says several ships are ready if needed to protect its syrian base professor mark almond says the u.s. push for regime change in syria could provoke an explosion in the entire region brunei states and britain france of major to position the long haul are there as a way of putting pressure on iran changing the whole. order of the middle east and

therefore if they can achieve that through syrian domestic horses deniable or for other arab special courses and. supplies weapons or who do that ultimately i think they would not wish to accept a defeat in regime survived huge geopolitical so for the whole 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 why can we rule in kosovo in one hundred nine against serbia is a big risk for the movement could be casualties on our side it's not clear western public opinion is also committed to regime change other crossover and saw that we saw how rock still a very one sided international call. but of course i would want to become a multi-sided cultured stream the dangerous and lower the risk of course of an explosion. egyptians have reached the final day out the presidential run off our

will decide the country's future after eighteen months of political chaos and instability the choice is between a u.s. educated islamised mohamed morsi and a former mubarak official document shafique policy or as following the voting and carro. whoever wins will take office in a climate of chaos confusion and a great deal of political and security there is a new constitution there is no condiment and the ruling supreme council says holds 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 who is 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's a from

a chafee 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 support but at the same time there is a lot of anger and pithy 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 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 gratitude 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.

both kind of that's promised to bring order and stability back to egypt but an expert on middle eastern islamic studies dr ashore believes as long as the military is on the political cena the nation faces a crisis. don't have a parliament the state of branch you don't have a date even the constitutional assembly that was formed by the parliament nobody knows its status right now whether it's going to continue as it is and why dejection constitution and the olds of distributing power among the various institutions or not now you have an elected president that probably will have no clear mandate in terms of his powers and the supreme council that is very interested in him in taining. domains of power whether the military economic complex that. they own the armed forces own vetoing anything that has to do in high

politics or national security issues and they also want immunity from any kind of prosecution for the military generals so they have a very specific demand for from any president i think those demands will be will be subject of negotiations with or with whoever president with us if you hold morsi but still the situation here is very vague. we are probably looking at a multiple crises one with the parliament and one with the constitution and one for for the for the upcoming president. a fresh attempt to find a solution to iran's nuclear issue will be made in moscow on monday as we reported a little later. with a group of six world powers and teheran preparing to sit at the negotiating table but there's a third party that's trying to stall the process find out who that is and a few minutes here on our team. on thursday the u.k.

supreme court dismissed julian assange latest appeal to reopen the case against his extradition to sweden the judges voted unanimously dismissing the bit as being without merit the wiki leaks faces deportation to sweden where he is wanted on sexual assault charges a son who has been under house arrest in britain for some five hundred days says the carious is politically motivated and that his final destination will be washington however and now seems that he won't be the only wessel blower to face a crackdown archies sarah firth reports on a bill being debated in the british parliament which are adopted could discourage people from exposing the truth of. the law 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 is

a battle against corruption. 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's view. exposing wrongdoing can present ski business as wendy addison found out back in two thousand wells working as the treasurer of the south african company. 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 a decade point of my whole life fell apart. 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 accepting 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 days who committed the crime went to jail more than 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 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 motu if you could be sure and it found that you would be protected now individuals of those claiming to use the provisions will have to satisfy public interest first 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 whistle blowing provisions but the some this will be seen as just the latest measure making it harder out. the truth. of course was this trend. was warm. and it was 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 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 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 all the details about the case are available on our website as well as of the entire series on his talk show in a special section of our website r.t. down dot com there's much more on line. the sporting officials are under investigation for allegedly trying to cash in on the twenty twelve london olympics by selling tickets on the black market and. also sales of u.s. weapons of broad shot up to seventy percent this year with the pentagon of ready to give military hardware to some countries in russia's backyard or worry.

iran's top nuclear negotiator is in moscow for a fresh round of talks of her attack iran's nuclear program the two day meeting between six world powers and starts on monday the previous negotiations in april and may brought little result apart from iran tentatively greening to let you and inspectors into a military site suspected of carrying out weapons related talents the world powers also want iran to stop enriching uranium which they believe paves the way for acquiring weapons grade materials and. sorry they're offering to help with medical research and aircraft parts or some critics say the close relationship between the u.s. and israel won't allow any breakthrough to come out of the talks. i don't think you can expect quite a lot from world from the moscow talks i think that is where all will continue to force washington not to make any kind of headway with iran what. israel does

fear that there might be some prospects of a solution between the obama administration and to her and so it's doing all it can and obama from now at least from up with seen until now has gained the reputation of giving in and not being very strong when it comes to confronting leaves really pressures so now in election year and especially where obama is trying to get the support of the conservative jewish votes i don't expect anything significant will happen from now at least until the elections take place the sanctions which the american administration has imposed to some extent that has been a factor in preventing the israelis from actually going ahead and launching a strike it's always possible that israel especially this current government might go ahead and launch a strike and this is something related to netanyahu and his own personal mission of the u.s. and that the obama administration keeps on reassuring for example that it is

tackling this situation it has made the statement time and again and that actually reveals genuine fears on the part of the obama administration that israel might actually go ahead and attack iran you have actually. thousands of opposition protesters spilled out onto the streets on tuesday in the first major rally since president putin's return to the top job last month the demonstration that was attended by groups from across russia's political spectrum from the far left to a right wing nationalists the rally was peaceful and went without incident unlike the previous major rally on may sixth hijacked by radical groups it's all clashes and injuries among both police and protesters that's resulted in a new law bringing fines for those breaking rally regulations in line with european standards violators will now have to pay up to seven thousand euros or do two hundred hours of community service. let's take

a look at some world news in brief for you this hour several worship birds are feared dead and injured after churches in north nigeria were targeted in a series of explosions the violence prompted protests in the state of ca doona an area known for its religious tensions this was the latest in a string of attacks against christians in the region they were radical sacked boko haram has previously targeted church services across the country killing hundreds of. thirteen and mates have died in a blaze that broke out in a trailer in south east turkey prisoners set their bedding on might during a mutiny triggered by accusations of poor conditions police fire tear gas and water cannon the relatives of inmates who had rushed to the scene on hearing of news of the fire security forces say they were responding to stones being thrown. libyan troops have been sent to the country's west where days of clashes between

rival militias have sparked renewed violence at least sixteen people were killed. in fighting between the rich. and former gadhafi loyalists the violence comes just weeks before libya is due to hold elections for a national assembly its first free poll in decades. french voters are choosing a new parliament and a second round of elections crucial for president francois alarm's economic policies is aiming to win a socialist bloc majority that would allow him to focus on growth instead of belt tightening already controls the senate and is seeking support in the lower house reports a france wants the e.u. to agree before the end of the year on growth boosting measures worth one hundred twenty billion euros. activists are demanding european governments treat

immigrants fairly after amnesty international said they seems to care more about securing their borders than people's lives but human rights group claims countries have been endangering asylum seekers by turning away african boats but the troubles aren't over for those who do reach europe's shores as artists are sillier reports. it may be called the european the union but discord is rife and the swing to the extreme is becoming a little more mainstream especially when it comes to discourse on immigration and in some cases leads to outright violence from norway. to greece. to hungary. in our streets. molested and insulted by gangs of. recent elections in france and greece showed a big gains for the far right and immigrants say they've increasingly been on the receiving end of prejudice in many forms. in all of europe a woman with

a bill can go into any shop and buy anything she wants but who build woman cannot work in the shop but what is in the report is the discrimination and the reason in the everyday life to people are facing because they don't report because they don't trust the police so every time you get into that on the street or issue in this time women that you have to go off and stick it out of you have whatever you don't report simply a two thousand and ten report by the european network against racism or discrimination found that racially discriminatory practices are widespread institutional in nature and practiced at all levels of society across europe in two thousand and eight the european commission proposed a directive that would ban discrimination on the grounds of age disability religion or belief and sexual orientation in all areas including social protection and advantages as well us access to goods and services not the current law only applies to the workplace but it's written for you. years and the directive is stuck largely because some member states are blocking it arguing that implementation would be too

costly this activists say is one of the many failures of policy makers and while immigrants are blamed by politicians on the right for failure to integrate others say it's the authorities which have not done enough people say it was a freudian policy in the policy and it's due to the migrant i never knew that if there is a fruit and you get it from policy it's not the follow through that's far as i know it's of those who make the policy over the europe's economic troubles which are preoccupying leaders show no sign of ending soon but the race and immigration issues they've left are solved could prove just as big a political time bomb tests are silly r.t. brussels. and a few minutes we'll talk to a man who predicted the current economic turmoil that's after a recap of our top stories right here on our team.

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