among the electorate to see why they should be punished just that much and as such there has been a rise when it comes to what's been dubbed the rather coolish but increasingly they're cool seeing the middle ground this is being a piece of pie series or a series of stands against the austerity plan they say they're counseling but also very importantly here they said they could do that and remain within the eurozone because they believe we too costly for the euro zone to kick them out as president under their trump card he runs the risk of contagion the news of the pasta function alongside the pasok so short of socialist policy now i'm joined now by one possible m.p. eva kali now new democracy pass a policy they have defended austerity while you still defend austerity in the in the face of such opposition but never defended this territory well said that we defended the memorandum because you had to in some time so that we could apply all the forms needed to that we could to make it in that region growth was made. that

we had to take just so this step to measure was just something we had to do never defended that inside greece but even with those changes perhaps to the austerity plan you still supporting their team as something that has proven very unpopular i mean do you think that your own defense now has a policy as a long side as well with when it comes new democracy is the fear of an exit from the euro zone i think that's the problem now because a huge you east to renegotiate the whole new round to say that there are parts of it that we have to take and it's like the reform center change the whole track to play the economy but this is a different thing than two dozen i'm around and that will be geishas to you still the east to that series that wants to take it's too big for us will be our parties and that's the main problem here although i do believe that the next day you can find us so all together facing these problems here thank you very much and no more when it comes to who. leaving from roaming when those caves close about seven pm

local time. they use economic turmoil is the problem haunting most leaders at the moment but now there's another major issue ready to explode. coming up on our t.v. we report on how immigrants many of them muslim face daily discrimination in europe with nationalist parties increasingly gaining more votes. 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 at the un backed peace plan in syria took another blow with the observer mission they are suspending its activities to turn escalation of violence the syrian opposition has urged the u. want to send in the peacekeeping force into the country while the rebels and the government have abandoned any commitment to the ceasefire parties 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 an electric cable mostafa shows us the fresh signs of torture an ardent supporter of syrian president assad he was kidnapped in his native city of lip. awful and that they held me for three days being all the target they told me is because they 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 up a half of the ransom father for mystifies now looking for money again to hide his family model narrative of this revolution if you want to call it that encourage criminals of all current and these people they listen to what world leaders a new year repeat that assad is evil and start thinking that they have the right to

do bad things to all those who serve with the president of. 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 here broke searing dolma should be made this syria she once loved we. feel 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 that we were happy before that she says is even harder now to get some meat for your blog ahamed a butcher 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 men. keeps his boutique hotel in downtown damascus running even though he's 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 more people are afraid even if they want to come they can't make a reservation of the world so it's like looking dot com or hotels dot com they block syria. surprisingly though we need to guess here even more surprising he says his business is growing these days dafydd is the chief executive of a media growth custom company. big cheers big for themselves with each new ones 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 rafaat

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 it will last longer 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 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 national our team 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 that syrian base of the violence and syria's growing political analyst amara shabby believes coffee announce peace plan still remains syria's only hope. i think the situation has reached very dangerous proportions and there are civilians that are being killed i think however it's not too late to i mean i am afraid that perhaps the statement given by the united nations may may be. desperate. yes but it's not the end of the road there is still a chance to actually have a cease fire to have the plan that has been laid out in the past by kofi annan implemented to have a ceasefire and go for the political dialogue there is no military solution they cannot be a military solution and in fact what the western powers are calling for. military interference is is in insane this would take syria nowhere but to go to destruction

and misery for everybody no one would come out as the winner in this if this continues the way it does gyptian savva it's the final day of the presidential runoff 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 ahmed shafik policy or is following the voting in cairo. whoever wins will take office in a climate of chaos confusion and a great deal of political uncertainty there is a new constitution there is no condiments and the ruling supreme council of armed forces 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 final was the new president will have and indeed what his mandate will be now the one who 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 enough 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 arrest him and to tape the 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 great to hear 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 candidates promise to bring order and stability back to egypt an expert on middle east and islamic studies dr omar sure believes as long as the military is all the political saying the nation faces a crisis. you don't have a parliament the legislative branch you don't have a date even the constitutional assembly that was formed by the parliament nobody knows its status right now but 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. of his powers and they supreme council that is very interested in

taking. still means of power whether the military economic complex that. they owned it the armed forces own vetoing anything it 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 bush 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. on thursday the u.k. supreme court dismissed the latest appeal to reopen the case against his extradition to sweden the judges voted unanimously dismissing the bit as being

without merit they wiki leak or faces deputation to sweden where he is wanted on sexual assault charges who has been under house arrest and for some five hundred days so as the case is politically motivated and that his final destination will be washington however it 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. google 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 them the battle against corruption. secrets this video named collateral murder is just one of many wiki leaks revelations exposing the real crimes revolutionizing whistleblowing and tearing down the

divides between governments and ordinary people in the government who furious exposing wrongdoing can previously business as wendy addison found out back in two thousand whilst working as a treasurer of the south african companies 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 adept at point at my whole loss of the parcel. lost my career it was because literally. i started getting death threats and honestly 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 will. he was in poor as in a lengthy legal wrangling and it will be more than a decade before days who committed the crime went to jail model where still playing techniques have been giving people more power to take on big corporations and even

governance now the proposed changes to the law of 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 was that you would be protected no individuals were those claiming to use the

provisions will have to satisfy public interest or soon will make it very difficult for people to advise them the government argues 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 son this will be seen as just the latest measure making it harder it out the truth. of course is this trend. which is a very serious one. 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've revealed secrets that the rich and the powerful never wanted us to know who has been to. told i was doing the wrong thing. and 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 so if. london all the details about the case are available on our website as well as the entire series of his talk show in a special section called a solid dot r.t. dot com there's also much more online for you sporting officials are under investigation for allegedly trying to cash in on the twenty twelve london olympics by selling tickets on the black market. also sales of u.s. weapons abroad a shot seventy percent this year but the pentagon of ready to give military hardware to some country is in russia's backyard for free. france is choosing a new parliament and a second round of elections motors will determine if president francois hollande can fulfill his policy promise of economic growth instead of belt tightening all

and already controls the senate and is now seeking support in the lower house let's discuss this with loads of international consultant and former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament in brussels thank you for being with us now granted the euro zone's second biggest economy has gone socialist and anti austerity how big of a blow does this deal to the currency union. let me begin by stating that people oriented to college show she was there you will. see exactly what you have been unique. to this country. and i don't know if it's true teaches any lesson the socialist you're from overseas the election of president. has gone up neoliberal policies. and let's not forget that francois hollande and his former wife single and well before it's of president mitterrand and if you look at their careers over the last twenty years i have no doubt that this one is not the case in

france for different reasons that we have been saying all are pushing for a growth pact which would include measures such as creating jobs now that of course doesn't mean spending how realistic are these plans. well in excel in that so to like i said that for your first question does an excellent idea i think if he really means it that would be very positive for the people of france and richard a good example of the rest of the european union but again and i doubt it i think in the first months maybe the first year he will take some steps in that direction but slowly he will start using you've been union as an excuse for just keeping the austerity plan going and for the growth plan being some minor think i don't really i don't really trust the man on this issue no not at all now we've been saying anti assertive protests across debt struck an e.u. countries over the weekend with protesters in portugal for example accusing the

i.m.f. european central bank and european commission of plundering the country do you think that their choice of words is justified absolutely i think it's absolutely this is what happened in the european central bank the i.m.f. are nearly brought institutions and basically what they are now doing is doing exactly what happened in the seventy's and not in america and that is the deconstruction or if you want a total destruction of the social welfare state as it was established after the second world war for the benefit of banks for financial financial the elites etc it's not it's not a secret what we call the so-called regrettable consequence of these policy or actually what i think it very much object is that the game out now we've been following elections that are happening currently. in greece with a possible outcome being the rejection of the bailout policy do you think we're seeing a europe wide and charity push gaining momentum and if so where do you think it

could lead well it does certainly have to. lift. greece which ruling to be seen and then also in what way because you know they may be the biggest and they may get to fifty and the extra seats in parliament but that still doesn't give them into the majority that will have to look through a coalition to form a government and it all depends on how do we keep their promises do as they said before and they're considered a good example for movements abroad in the european union yes all right i'm afraid that's all the time we have loads international consultant and former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament in brussels thank you elizabeth. thousands of opposition protesters spilled out on to moscow streets on tuesday in the first major rally since president putin's return to the top job last month the demonstration 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 the sixth hijacked by radical groups itzhak clashes and injuries among both police and protesters that's resulted in a new law bringing fines for those breaking regulations in line with european standards violators for 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 at least twelve people have been killed and dozens injured after churches in northern nigeria were targeted in a series of explosions the violence prompted protests in the state of 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 that they were betting a light during a new mini triggered by accusations of poor conditions police fired tear gas and water cannon at relatives of inmates who had rushed to the scene on hearing the 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 and over eighty did in fighting between the revolutionaries and former gadhafi loyalists the violence comes just two weeks before libya is due to hold elections for a national assembly. activists are demanding a european governments treat immigrants fairly after i missed the international

said the e.u. seems to care more about securing their borders than people's lives but human rights groups claims countries how been in danger in asylum seekers by turning away african boats but the troubles aren't over for those who do reach europe's shores as artie's test our affiliate reports. it may be called the european human but despoiled is right to 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 street is a rate doesn't unless the. recent elections in france and greece showed 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 veil can go into any shop and buy anything she wants but it cannot work in this shop but what is in the report is the discrimination and racism in the everyday life that people are facing because they don't report because they don't trust the police so every time you get on the street or issue that you had. simply a two thousand and ten report by the european network against racism on 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 been four 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 wall immigrants are blamed by politicians on the right for failure to integrate others say it's the authorities which have not done enough. it was afraid of. the migrants. i never knew that if there is a fairly new policy it's not the follow the two that's far as i know it's all of those who make the policy over the europe's economic troubles which are preoccupied 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 tester cilia r.t. brussels alright i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments.

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of thanks for joining our team at half past the hour i'm karen tara these are your headlines the euro survival is on the line. between more cots and leaving the currency union polls are underway this sunday after last month's election and failed to bring about a coalition government. u.n. observers suspend their syrian mission due to growing violence as both the regime and the rebels fight on the opposition has urged the u.n. to send the peacekeeping force into the country while the rebels and the government have abandoned any of it meant to the ceasefire. rather gyptian is cast their final balance for their post revolution future but many are disenchanted with the choice

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