euro zone 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 though notably golden dawn a far right extremist group which has been causing a lot of controversy for some of the 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 involved 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. the greek political parties are helping 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 immense legal fattal's 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 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 low 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 while in ireland 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 ceasefire archies 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 so popular not being held me for three days being a retired they told me is because you don't support a revolution rubbish they didn't care about the revolution reuther all the wanted was money that we can take that much as 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 father for mystifies now looking for money again to hide his family model motive in this revolution if you want to call it that encourage criminals of all current 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 was one of the safest places in the middle east is now one of the most dangerous even for those away from politics for twenty years this elderly lady has been selling vine leaves while showing us how to cook here broke syrian donmar 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 any way they learn how to be afraid how to be careful and how to be angry we were happy before there she says is even harder now to get some meat for your blog ahamed from damascus says it could soon be even impossible a lot. more used to bring animals from all around the country but roads are now too dangerous to travel the result my business is declining prices are a lose lose situation. while the manager keeps his boutique hotel in downtown damascus running even though his 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 far too is the chief executive of a media brooch. just in company. for them a big cheers for themselves but each one's pictures that's big 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 to. the picture is rather far transmits no matter from which side of the conflict they come send a clear message violence reality is all too familiar here in syria even to kids and me that. i know what's going on the q. and should people 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 war sufferings before they get there. or if notion artsy 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. voices its readiness 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 weaponize they do really hardcore arm of the syrian opposition turkey the same sink there again they have been playing a double game for months if anybody know what's debts and meet to be have

a command and control center and how to a province in southern turkey a d.s.p. bar also a weapon izing the incursions of the syrian that defectors and militants across that dirty syrian border to says been going on for eight least eight or nine months now then now it's much more how i would say no we're reaching the point of a total concentration civil war until 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 orders that we're going to have sooner or later they need legal foreign intervention from us some g.c.c. countries catarrh durkee all of course the u.s.

leading from behind and probably france and britain as well. as have reached the final day out the presidential run off that well to sign the country's future after eighteen months of political casts and instability the choice is between a u.s. educated as law must mohamed morsi and a former monarch official are shafiq all a slayer as following the voting in cairo. 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 condiments and the ruling supreme council says 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 law was the new president will have and indeed what his mandate will be now the one off 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 form of shafiq who's been supported by the army he's campaigning for law and 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 cage but at the same time there is a lot of anger and apathy on the streets of cairo some of this is in line to 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 in 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 ready to go 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 otty cairo. both candidates promise to bring order and stability in egypt to an expert on middle east and islamic studies dr all marsh or believes as long as the military is on the political scene the nation faces a crisis. don't have a parliament the legislative branch you don't have a day or 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 terms of his powers and a supreme council that is very interested in him in taining. domains of power

whether the military economic complex that. they owned it 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 demands for from any president i think those demands will be will be subject of negotiations 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 year for the upcoming president. and pressure 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. of the state of 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 the weaker faces deport 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 a lot of power behind them is a battle against corruption. sequence in this video named collateral murder was just one of many weekend takes revelations exposing real crimes revolutionizing whistleblowing and tearing down the divides between governments and ordinary people and the government's view. exposing wrongdoing can preview risky business as wendy addison found out back in two thousand wells working as a treasurer of the south african company that she discovered the c.e.o.'s were stealing money from shareholders and sending it to offshore accounts and. he blew the whistle it was a data point that my whole life fell apart. lost my career it was it was literally when 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 old in a lengthy legal wrangling and it would be more than a decade before days who committed the crime went to jail model wessell playing techniques have been giving people more power to take on big corporations and even governance 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 both 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 whistle blowing provisions but the some this will be seen as just the latest measure making it ha. out the truth. of course is this trend. which is where it was warm. and it was blowing he's 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 that 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 us are available on our website as well as the entire series of us talk show in a special section of our website r.t.e. dot com there's also much more alive 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 military

hardware to some countries in russia's backyard for free. iran's top nuclear negotiator is in a 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 on tentatively agreeing to let us inspectors into a military site suspected of carrying out weapons related tests but world powers also want iran to stop enriching uranium which they believe paves the way for acquiring weapons grade materials and 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 from the moscow talks i think that is world will continue to force washington not to make any kind of headway with iran while. israel does fear that there might be some prospects of a solution between the obama administration and to her own so it's doing all it can and obama from now at least from what we've seen until now has gained the reputation of giving in and not being very strong when it comes to confronting the israeli pressures so now in election year and especially when 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

the u.s. and 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 builds 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 projects 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 mutiny triggered by accusations of work conditions police fire tear gas and water cannon and 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. already 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 twenty billion euros as ireland struggles to break free from the economic crisis

reductions and 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 a 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. come on can't find work or can't find no. more reports.

of people. between drugs and crime and no 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. we live on social world for. no did everything except heroin finding his brother dead from an overdose as a teenager saw to that he's in a four month rehab program partly funded at least for now by the state isn't getting any easier for the people who run vital drug programs in our lands 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 like every year state drug program contributions are being slashed by ten percent a year and for them. varies drop in center for the homeless waiting lists a growing from a few days to weeks or months he says addicts need immediate attention something they're less than less likely to get the become tomorrow. no point in even trying i'm never going to do it so having access to treatment programs to my mind is vitally in this fight against drugs and programs and. 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. . and i'll be back with a recap of today's highlights of this week's top stories shortly stay with r.t. .

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here with r t this is the weekly and i'm karen tara the euro survival is all mine as greeks choose between more cots and leaving the currency union polls are underway this sunday after last month's election failed to bring about a coalition government. you want observers suspend their of syrian mission due to growing violence as both the regime and the rebels fight on the opposition has urged the u.n. to send a peacekeeping force into the country while the rebels and the government have abandoned any commitment to the cease fire. an egyptian scans their final balance for their post revolution future but many are disenchanted with the choice between a u.s. educated islamised and

a former mubarak official. coming up next we focus on the old american tradition of bounty hunting. but.