polls closing in greece as people choose between more cuts and breaking free from brussels control putting the euro's survival on the line. the u.n. sponsored peace plan for syria shaken to the core observers suspend their mission due to growing violence as both the regime and the rebels fight on. and did gyptian their final ballots for their post revolution future many of disenchanted with the choice between them is the best and the former mubarak official our top stories this hour.

back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly t.v. polls closing in greece where the future of the whole eurozone now possibly resting in the ballot boxes it's a vote that could result in the rejection of the country's current bailout deal and even see athens exit the single currency graves's in the greek capital right now jake about things shaping up. well it looks like according to the exit polls at the moment we're just receiving mixed reviews now the polling stations officially close there showing it turned out around sixty five percent of the nine point nine million voters officially reached it now when it comes to how things are looking at the moment a new democracy standing in the lead next polls put there between twenty seven point five and thirty point five percent of the vote so reserve though just behind them at the moment they have a tween twenty seven and thirty percent of the vote now is crucial here as to

whether or not either of them could form an overall majority it doesn't look like they'll be able to according to these latest so that's thirty six percent of the votes that would need to form an overall majority if not they may have to go elsewhere looking for allies in a coalition. to be formed now eight so as we're looking about eight million people who have voted in this coalition to be formed could involve the new democracy the pasok party now they're looking at the moment have between twelve and ten and twelve percent of the vote there both those who are. full and backing the us there to pass being their main motto leading into this election they say it's the only option for greece at the moment turn order for them to stay within the euro of course the reason well they have stood against that austerity but they maintain they could keep greece within the euro because the cost for the euro zone in general with greece exit would just be too severe they will have to look most likely to other partners other allies within the also be running on the ballot

paper state to form a coalition if these figures are getting in the moment to continue projects over here getting some sort of indication from those exit polls but these elections are being monitored very closely at the moment across the whole of the eurozone not like that could explain just how much rides on the outcome now. but for greece they could really be more important to its very existence when the euro that many are saying depends on this election at the moment now we have new democracy or defended yes there are even though they say they want to tweak some of the plans agreed between their government along with past and the e.u. i.m.f. and euro zone troika but series it all they've stood out and said they want to exit from the years owning this is what new democracy say could be catastrophic if you had the former prime minister day coming out george packer and there are now he has stressed that it will be a catastrophic situation if syria were to exit the euro zone looking at g.d.p. attracting by about twenty percent in the adventure necessary to maintain they

could stay they say the costs are simply too high they estimate called to some people we spoke to within that party for greece to be kicked out of the euro zone in general about three trillion euros and of course the key word here for some reason at the moment is the possible. of contagion that's what they're threatening when it comes to changing these of bailout plans you can see austerity they think by greece could result in contagion of problems to spain law of the euro zone countries all right jake a very interesting developments there now and of course you'll keep us updated live there from athens jacob graves reporting for us there here on our team. as i say we'll be following those developments there in greece throughout the day now still ahead for you this hour failed appeal well you know this is his latest bid to fight extradition to sweden we investigate whether there is now a witch hunt for whistleblowers. that's still to come but first on saturday the un backed peace plan in syria took another blow with the observer mission there

suspending its activities due to an escalation of violence the syrian opposition has urged the u.n. to send the peacekeeping force into the country while the rebels and the government of abandoned any commitment to the cease fire are the very financial 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. 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 the wanted was money that they contacted my family asked two million syrian pounds for me is this what they're fighting for. most of us wife sold the house and scraped a half of the ransom on our father for mystifies now looking for money again to

hide his family model narrative of this revolution if you want to call it that encouraged criminals of all kind of 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 here broke syrian dolma should be mowed is the syria she once loved. 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 allowed. or used to

bring animals from all around the country but roads are now too dangerous to travel the result my business is declining prices are a lose lose situation. while the manager keeps his boutique hotel in downtown damascus running even though he's seldom any guests to look after the conflict torn country is now a long way from people's idea of a top holiday destination is here with all my people are afraid even if they want to come we can't make a reservation the world sites like oking 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 dafydd is the chief executive of a media broadcasting company. 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're the last i know what's going on they kill and should people people die. who knows what kind of syria this six year old girl will face when she grows up in fifteen months of crisis syria has suffered deeply violence has raged sanctions have shaken economy and crime has flourished but has called for military foreign intervention getting louder syrians say they still hold out hope for peace even if they're prepared for more sufferings before they get there. or if national our team syria. this week after the u.s.

backed away from hillary clinton's remarks that moscow is supplying a said with attack helicopters pentagon officials said it's tracking a russian ship with weapons and troops heading for syria moscow denies it claims but says several ships are ready if needed to protect. it's syrian base professor mark almond he says the u.s. push for regime change in syria could provoke an explosion in the entire region blue high states and britain and france have made a pretty decision by a 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 other arab special courses and. supplies weapons or who do that but ultimately i think they will not wish to accept a defeat in regime survived it would be a huge geopolitical so for the whole of our relations between our states and its allies in syria and iran are overwhelmingly ultimately in favor of the western

states but of course to go in on the ground i could be written in kosovo in one hundred nine against serbia is a big risk for them you know the could be casualties on our side it's not clear western public opinion is also committed to regime change of a crisis of their own soldiers and so what have you know now iraq is still a very one sided international call. but of course one wanted to become a multi sided conflict that were extremely dangerous and lower the risk of course of an explosion. egyptians have reached the final day of the presidential runoff that will decide the country's future after eighteen months of political chaos and instability the choice is between a u.s. educated islamist mohamed morsi and a former mubarak official a mature feek pull a slip is following the voting in car and then we'll get life expert opinion from car a sure thing. whoever wins will take office in a climate of chaos confusion and a great deal of political uncertainty there is no 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 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 there is a mature freak who is being supported by the army he is campaigning for the one order and he was the last prime minister in the era of the for me gyptian president hosni mubarak at this late stage it is still unclear who will win both have said but at the same time there is a lot of anger and apathy on the streets of cairo some of this is in light of recent developments this week when the constitutional court ruled that it was dissolving the parliament and the announcement was also made that the military

police would be able to waste and dictate the 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 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 auti cairo. well for more on egypt's elections let's talk to carnaby's journalists. who do you fear that is more likely to appease the public mostly who calls themselves part of the uprising and promises reform or says he learned the lessons of the revolution and promises to bring law and order to the streets. well first of all egypt actually was the nie its passage into democracy because now we've got

a great divide between the supporters of the muslim brotherhood of course dr morsi supporters in both case there will be protests but if we're going to talk about like a lot of fraudulent behavior in terms of the polling stations the majority of people have assessed and have felt a mood in the city that morsi is most likely to win but in the weird scenario or likelihood that morsi is not the winning candidate and it is actually fifty people will then raise cain saying that no the polls were not actually tabulated correctly and maybe there has been some fraudulent behavior and there has been numerous reports of actually campaign violations as well so this is actually an interesting question that i think no one is going to be pleased with the results because the divide is extreme nobody pleased with the process of voting on many a stunning away from those but it is boycotting the vote but even i think because surely one of the candidates going to be elected anyway. yes there has been an

auction be an interesting movement called the white vote movement and i have actually spoken to one of the media managers who is actually a coordinator of this movement and he spoke to me telling me that invalidates saying the vote is actually democratic tool because for the first time the egyptian people have the right to say or to negate that we do not like the two runner ups because they feel that there is an extreme divide between actually voting for a remanent of the x. regime such as mubarak's ex prime minister ahmed shifty and you have the muslim about a candidate dr morsi as well so they feel as the egyptians that it is their joy this is the result and product from the revolution to actually invalidate their votes but from a legislative point of view this is not actually in the country's best interest to invalidate your votes because that will only formulate levels of taxation in terms

of time in trying to tabulate the correct figures and numbers the census will take longer to actually understand the difference between actually egyptians boycotting the vote which doesn't meet which is completely different than invalidating to give a simpler synopsis to boycott the vote is not to show up you know at the polling station but to invalidate your vote is actually to go and cancel your right to vote because out of fear that someone might actually take your national id number and use it to vote for the other candidate clearly still a great deal of unhappiness plenty supporting are those candidates and as you say that movement. to vote in this second room but. who ever wins we still get to see many happy people in the streets all we're going to see in effect the revolution continuing. because clearly people are extremely angry still . in my opinion i feel because this is the first time egypt has ever embarked on

any form of transition in terms of you being free to actually negate or to are sure to q.h. your needs and your demands but i do in my opinion and this is strictly my own views and i feel that if mr shifty wins the elections there will be massive protests and demonstrations and i think a lot of the people whether or not you are muslim brotherhood supporters or revolutionaries or reformers will actually retreat to the streets of the here and actually shout weyerhaeuser revolution gone because you cannot have a remnant of the x. regime lead us into this new wave of transition and they will actually blame the judges at the polling stations saying that we would like to understand how this has happened and maybe actually assigning blame in terms of fraudulent behavior in terms of mis coding or mis actually tabulating the vote i do believe the

scenario is most likely to happen if he wins but in the case that the muslim brotherhood's candidate dr morsi wins there will be a sense of doom and maybe a lot of depressed revolutionaries and i will some rather just supporters will feel that egypt now is now in the you know embarking on and on a different level of geology which will actually take place if dr morsi wins well we thank you very much indeed for your thoughts on this freelance journalist ceremony but all the thanks for joining us live that you karl. fresh attempt to find a solution to iran's nuclear issue will be made in moscow on monday as we report a little later in the weekly that would be for the six world powers and around preparing to sit at the negotiating table but there's a third party that's trying to stall the process find out that even in a few minutes here on r.t. . on thursday the u.k.

supremes court dismissed as late as appeal to reopen the case against his extradition to sweden the judges voted unanimously dismissing the bid as being without merit that we can make a faces deportation to sweden where he's wanted on sexual assault charges have been under house arrest in britain for some five hundred days says the case is politically motivated and his final destination will be washington however it now seems that he won't be the only whistleblower to face a crackdown party surfer parts of the bill being debated in the british parliament which if adopted could discourage people from exposing the truth. the war on whistle blowing it's a war of attrition a good one to some who has nothing against people that have a lot of wells and a lot of power behind them the battle against corruption. 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 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 company leisure net she discovered the c.e.o.'s was 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 just 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 wendy 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 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 happy. 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 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 blame provisions but the some this will be seen as just the latest measure making it harder out the truth. of course is this trend. this is blowing the whistle have to differing degrees how their lives 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 now is being told i was doing the wrong thing. and yet it felt so right for me and i knew that i was doing

the right thing their battle highlights the importance of protecting whistleblowers and the public's right to know something they all say was well worth fighting for sarah r.t. . all the details about the essential case are available on our website which is one of the entire series of his talk show in a special section on our website it's essential dot com much more online as well at the moment for 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 shot up by seventy. this year with the pentagon reportedly ready to give military hardware to some countries in russia's backyard for free. more of those stories that are dot com online all the time france is choosing a new parliament in the second round of elections voters will determine if president for all of the can fulfill his policy promise of economic growth instead of belt tightening and already controls

a senate that is now seeking support in the lower house and load for news the international consultant and former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament says he doubts our land will deliver on his promises a people oriented to call it socialist if you will get austerity policies exactly what european union needs but will this country in france i doubt it if it's true teaches any lesson the socialist party of france ever since the election of president. has gone it's taken up a neoliberal policies privatizing i think in the first two months maybe the first year he will take some steps in that direction but slowly he will start using your opinion as an excuse for just keeping the austerity plan going and for the growth plan being some minor i think 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 elites etc it's an edge of the secret what we call the so-called regrettable consequence of these policies are actually what i think it very much object is. iran's top nuclear negotiator is in moscow for a fresh round of talks over to iran's nuclear program the two day meeting between six world powers and terror on starts on monday the previous negotiations in april and may brought little result according to ron tentatively agreeing to let u.n. inspectors into a military site suspected of carrying out weapons 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 of a 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 where all will continue to fall so 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 local scene 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 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 at

the u.s. and that the obama administration keeps on reassuring for example that it is tackling this situation it has made this 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 spilled out onto moscow's 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 it's all clashes and injuries among both police and protesters this resulted in the 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 talk to us from world news in brief for you this hour in our

world update 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 could do in a an area known for its religious tensions this was the latest in a string of attacks against christians in the region the radical sect has previously targeted church services across the country killing hundreds. thirty an inmate some died in the blaze that broke out in the german southeast turkey prison set there bedding a light during a mutiny 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 news of the fire security forces say they were responding to stones being thrown. at. 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 killed and over eighty wounded in fighting between the revolution reason for me get this the violence comes just weeks before libya is due to hold elections for

a national assembly. he'll be watching a weekly hearing auti in a few minutes we'll be talking to a man who predicted the current economic turmoil but will be able to recap our top stories right here on altie stay with us.

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