the euro survival is on the line as greeks choose between more cuts and breaking free from brussels is controlled. by u.n. sponsored peace plan for syria shaken to the core observer suspend their mission due to growing violence as both the regime and number of balls find all. an egyptian scouse their final balance for their post revolution future but many are disenchanted with the choice between an islamicist and a former mubarak the fish. hello

and thank you for joining of the weekly this sunday with our team with me karen tara while 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 to bailout and even see athens exit the single currency greaves is in the greek capital. we're talking about two potential leaders here on the right we have that of new democracy these represent the status quo they have run and been in power before alongside the coalition with pasok party now they represent austerity 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 the 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 euros that's their estimate to exit greece from the euro zone 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 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 though surely change the future of greece for some time to come. most of the greek political parties are hoping to retain the euro planning to cancel or renegotiate cuts political writer peter build believes that leaving the currency union a would not go smoothly for our phones. 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 up would have to be repay 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 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 a problem haunting most leaders at the moment. the crisis has forced many to seek out a deadly form of the scale. coming up later in the program we look at how slashed public spending for rehab clinics is leaving thousands of drug addicts without help

and without hope. 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 in syria took another blow with the observer mission there suspending its activities due to the escalation of violence they syrian opposition has urged the u.n. to send the peacekeeping force into the country while the rebels and the government have abandoned any commitment to the cease fire are just more if a national reports on how the syrians are dealing with the growing bloodshed. this is how human skin looks after it's been burnt 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. behold 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 big contacted my family asked two million syrian pounds for me is this what they're fighting for. most of us wife sold the house and scraped up a half of the ransom and the father 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 are 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 moans 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 happier before. she says is even harder now to get to meet for your blog comment 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. here with all my people 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 brooch. just in company few of them are 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 picture is rather far transmits no matter from which side of the conflict they come send a clear message violent reality is all too familiar here in syria even to kids and me that. i know what's going on the queue and should be pull people die. who knows what kind of syria this six year old girl will cease 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 their. grief notion out seem 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 as the u.s. a boy says it's ready to act as are times correspondent pepe escobar says illegal foreign intervention may only be a matter of time. this is part of the qatari foreign policy they are financing in weaponized do really hard core aren't of the syrian opposition turkey the same

scene thirty eight they have been playing a double game for months if anybody know what's dead to me to be have a command and control center no problems and sudden turkey a d.s.p. bar also a weapon izing the incursions of the syrian the defectors and militants across that darkest syrian border to says been going on for eight least eight or nine months now then now it's much more now i would say no we're reaching the point of a total concentration civil war into a few months ago would be theoretically restricted to nourse in syria now it's threading all the people nowadays talking about grouping of people from the syrian opposition or council talking about an internet forum if they're ventured outside of the e.u. when so this means what this means another nato war all obviously we're going to

have sooner or later believe illegal foreign intervention from some g.c.c. countries catarrh doohickey all of course the u.s. leading from behind and probably france and britain as well. as eleven minutes past the hour and a chance have reached the final day of the presidential runoff well to sign the country's future after eighteen months of political chaos and instability the choice is between a u.s. educated as law messed mohamed morsi and a former monarch official are a shuffle make policy or as following the voting in cairo. whoever wins will take office in a climate of chaos confusion and a great deal of political isolation t. there is a new constitution there is no parliament and the ruling supreme council says holds you may just say to the end 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 was the new president will have and indeed what his mandate will be now the one hundred 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 it is a from which a freak 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 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 waste and detain people this might have the effect of causing some egyptians to come out and cast their ballot and if indeed they do they might be voting for morsi 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 a lot she cairo. both candidates promised to bring order and stability to inch up to an expert on middle east and islamic studies dr all more shore believes as long as the military is on the political scene 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 i did all dissolve 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 a supreme council that is very interested in him in taining its 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 whoever president whether morsy 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. if russia turned 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 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 in a few minutes right here on our team. on thursday the u.k. supreme court dismissed julian a soldier's latest appeal to reopen the case against his extradition to sweden the judges voted unanimously dismissing the bit as being without merit they work a week or faces to sweden where he is wanted on sexual assault charges who has been under house arrest for some five hundred days says the case is politically motivated and that his final destination will be washington however and now seems that he won't be the only whistleblower to face a crackdown archies sara firth reports on a bill being debated in the british parliament which if 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 been a lot of wells and a lot of power behind the battle against corruption. sequence in this video named collateral murder was just one of many we have relations exposing crimes revolutionizing whistleblowing and tearing down the divides between governments and ordinary people and the government's view. exposing wrongdoing can prove risky business as wendy addison found out back in two thousand was working as a treasurer of the south african company that she discovered the c.e.o.'s with stealing money from shareholders and sending it to offshore accounts and. she blew the whistle it was

a decade point that my whole life fell apart. lost my career it was it was literally when i started getting desperate synonymously 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 old in a lengthy legal wrangling and it would be more than a decade before those who committed the crime went to jail modern whistleblowing techniques have been giving people more power to take on big corporations and even governments now the proposed changes to the law 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 motu if you could be sure and it found that you would be protected no individuals were 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 sun this will be seen as just the latest measure making it. out the truth. of course is this

trend. which is where it 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 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 so if. london all the details about the us are available on our website as well as the entire series of this talk show in a special section of our website r.t.e. dot com there's also much more aligned for you. in 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 abroad a shot up seventy percent this year with the pentagon ready to give no terry hardware to some countries in russia's backyard for free. iran's top nuclear negotiator is in moscow for a fresh round of talks over to 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 tehran tentatively agreeing to let us inspectors in to a military site suspected of carrying out by this related tests the world powers also want iran to stop enriching uranium which they believe paves the way for acquiring weapons grade materials in return they're offering to help with medical research and aircraft parts however 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 world will continue to force washington not to make any kind of headway with iran well of course 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 the israeli oppression is so now an 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 unilaterally. thousands of opposition protesters spelled out on to milestone streets on tuesday in the first major rally since president putin's return to the top job last month the demonstration it was attended by groups from across russia's political spectrum from the far left to right wing nationalists the rally was peaceful and went without incident unlike the previous major rally on may sixth acts by radical groups it's all clashes and injuries among both police and the protesters this 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. time now for some world news in brief for you this hour several worshippers 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 do not an area known for its religious tensions this was the latest in a string of attacks against christians in the region the radical sect boko haram has previously targeted church services across the country killing hundreds. thirteen inmates have died in a blaze that broke out in a jail in southeast turkey prisoners set their betting on light during the new nie triggered by accusations of poor conditions police fire tear gas and water cannon

at relatives in mates who had rushed to the scene on hearing the news of the fire security forces say they were responding to stones that were being thrown at them. 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 and over eighty. fighting between the revolutionaries and former khadafi loyalists via. it's comes just two weeks before libya is due to hold elections for a national assembly. french voters are choosing a new parliament and a second round of elections crucial for president francois hollande economic policies he's aiming to win a socialist bloc a majority that would allow him to focus on growth instead of belt tightening. he controls the senate and is seeking support in the lower house reports say france wants the e.u. to agree before the end of the year on growth boosting measures worth one hundred

and twenty billion euros. as ireland struggles to break free from the economic crisis reductions in public spending are leaving many vulnerable citizens without help rehab clinics are left struggling as the number of drug abusers grows rapidly laura smith has the story. 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 telamon 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 is when people have less disposable income and can't find work or

can't find you know. more recourse. you know turned. people off you know it's a two way street 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 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 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 addict desperate to get a drug and rehab center to seeing their government funding for late 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 and less likely to get the become the marlise the say no point in even trying i'm never going to do it so having access to treatment programs to my mind is vital if 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. and i'll be back with a recap of today's highlights and this week's top stories shortly stay with r.t. . if you're followed up on my do. gooder than good. times are sort of

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