you know turned out to be about eight million people voted today in the polls for some reason or they being on the radical left and courting controversy with their supposed dropping of austerity all together even though they want to remain with the euro or they'd have to turn to other similar minded left leaning partners if they wanted to form a coalition that may be quite tough because their results are slightly lower than that of some new democracy defended yes there are even though they say they would want to tweak some of the plans agreed between their government along with pasok and the e.u. i.m.f. and euro zone troika who had the former prime minister day coming out now he has stressed that it will be a catastrophic situation to exit the euro zone looking at g.d.p. retracting by about twenty percent in the eventuality necessary to maintain they could stay they say the costs are simply too high they estimate a call to some people we spoke to within that party for greece to be kicked out because the euro zone in general about three trillion euros and of course the key

word here for some reason at the moment is the possibility of contagion that's what they're threatening when it comes to changing these bailout plans and counts the austerity they think why greece could result in contagion of problems to spain and of the euro zone countries j.q. greece reporting there and most of the greek political parties are hoping to retain the euro planning to cancel or renegotiate cuts a little writer peter bell believes leaving the currency union would not go smoothly for athens. it's never happened like this before that a very very tightly knit union currency union has ever actually broken up is the real fear is that there could be immense legal 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 repaid

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 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 euro zone countries. the economic turmoil the problem haunting most leaders of the moment but now there's another major issue ready to explode coming up at r.t. were appalled at how immigrants many of the muslim face daily discrimination in europe with nationalist parties increasingly gaining more votes. loses his latest bid to fight extradition to sweden we investigate whether there's

now a witch hunt for whistleblowers. at all still to come in the weekly this hour in the meantime 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 rebels and the government have abandoned any commitment to the ceasefire this is the syrian opposition leader has repeated calls for military intervention in the country. reports on how syrians are dealing with the ongoing 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. 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 rebel national 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 oz wife sold the house and scraped up a half of the ransom and the father of four 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 kind and these people will 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 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 moments for syria she once loved we. feel that most syrians don't support anybody there in the middle

but all suffer anyway when they learn how to be afraid how to be careful and how to be angry we were happy before that she says is even harder now to get meat for your blog ahmed 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 manager of 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 is here with more people are afraid even if they want to come they 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 that our father is the chief executive of a media brooch. and company. big cheers big for themselves but each certainly wants pictures that speak for them and the more convincing the message the higher their chances of victory and they're ready to pay for it even though the pros 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 it will last longer i know what's going on in the queue 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 are 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 its syrian base professor david gibbs says western media spin has left its mark on the conflict. well as a general point in these types of you know conflicts the propaganda aspect is critically important and there's an effort in the west portray the rebels in a kind of purely positive light and syrian regime in a purely negative light and you know again the facts on the ground are very hard to ascertain who massacre did for a long time for

a while look like it was clearly done by the government but there was a report in the german across from typically the frankfurter allgemeine zeitung indicate that there is some indications that might have been some element of the rebels that might have committed at least part of the massacre the german report with regard to full underscores the fact that it's very difficult to get at the truth in these types of conflicts where you know both sides are trying to use propaganda and spin to advance their positions and so this is being presented as is typically the case in these types of conflicts the good versus evil conflict with all the blame on one side even if the reality is more complicated 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 mohamad bazzi and a former mubarak official comment shafiq polis lare is following the voting in. 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 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 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's enough mature feek 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 to take the people this might have the effect of causing some egypt to come out and cast their ballot and if indeed they do they might be voting for more seat but again it is still too difficult to predict who will be the winner i've been speaking to people here at this polling station one woman told me that she was 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 policia r.t. cairo. the voting in egypt has been extended by two hours because of the low turnout karo based journalist sara mahmoud on the i spoke to a little earlier naughty she believes people will take to the streets no matter who wins. now we've got a great divide between the ship feet supporters of the muslim brotherhood of course dr morsi supporters in both cases in our use there will be protests no one is going

to be pleased with the results because the divide is extreme in my opinion 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 expert. into this new wave of transition but in the case that the muslim brotherhood candidate dr morsi wins there will be a lot of depressed revolutionaries and anti muslim brotherhood supporters will feel that egypt now is now in you know embarking on and on a different level of geology which will actually take place if dr morsi wins. the first attempt to find

a solution to iran's nuclear issue will be made in moscow on monday as we report a little later of six was prepared to sit at the negotiating table but there's a third party that trying to stall the process find out who that is going to be meant for nothing. but first thursday the u.k. supreme court dismissed. his appeal to reopen the case against his extradition to sweden the judges voted unanimously dismissing the bit as being without merit but wiki leaks faces deportation to sweden where he's wanted on sexual assault charges . under house arrest in britain for some five hundred days says the case is politically motivated and that his final destination will be washington now seems that he will be the only was a blood face a crackdown of the sort of first reports on a bill being debated in the british parliament which if adopted could discourage people from exposing the truth. the law on whistle blowing it's

a war of attrition one to some who has nothing against people that have a lot of wealth and lot of power behind them as a battle against corruption. sequence this video named collateral murder is just one of many wiki leaks revelations exposing real crimes revolutionizing whistleblowing and tearing down the divides between governments and ordinary people and the governments who fear is exposing wrongdoing complete risky business as wendy addison found out back in two thousand whilst working as a treasure at the south african company leisure net she discovered the c.e.o.'s were stealing money from shareholders and sending it to offshore accounts and she blew the whistle it was a data point that my whole life fell apart. lost my career it was because literally . 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 as in a lengthy legal wrangling and it would be more than a decade before days who committed the crime went to jail model we're still playing 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 motive you could be sure in environments that you would be protected now individuals 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 whistle blowing provisions but the sun this will be seen as just the latest measure making it harder out the truth. of course is this trend. is one. 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 that 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 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 surf city 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 on our website it is sanjay dot com and there's much more online for the moment including 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 shot up seventy percent this year with the pentagon reportedly ready to give military hardware to some countries in russia's back yard for free. this is the weekly here on our team exit polls suggest president and socialists have won an absolute majority in the french parliament if the results of the second round of the voting are confirmed it would mean orlando's got enough support to fulfill his pledge of economic growth instead of belt tightening but lvalues to international consultant and former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament says he doubts on and will deliver on his promises. people oriented to call it socialist if you will and 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 putin. has gone it's taken up a neoliberal policies privatizing i think in the first months maybe the first year

he will take some tepid steps in that direction but slowly he will start using european union 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 near liberal 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 funding so that each etc it's not it's not a secret what we call the so-called regrettable consequence of these dollars are actually what i think it is very much object to aim at. 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 iran starts on monday the previous negotiations in april and

may brought little result apart from tehran tentatively agreeing to let you inspectors in to a military site suspected of carrying out weapons related tests the war powers also want to iran to stop enriching uranium which they believe paves the way for acquiring weapons grade materials in return or offering to help with medical research on 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 war from the talks i think that israel will continue to forestall washington and not the magnetic. on the 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 what we've seen until now has gained the reputation of giving in and not being very strong when it comes to confronting lives really 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 losing a strike it's always possible that israel especially this current government might go ahead and launch a strike and this is something we're related to netanyahu and his own personal mission of the u.s. and the obama administration keeps on reassuring for example that it is tackling the situation it was made the statement time and again and that actually builds genuine fears on the part of the obama astray should that israel might actually go ahead and that's like 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 rally was peaceful and went without incident on 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 a new law bringing fines for those breaking rally regulations in line with european standards it is when i have to pay up to seven thousand euros or do two hundred hours of community service. so world news in brief you know this hour in our world update at least twenty one people have been killed one hundred injured after churches in northern nigeria were targeted in a series of explosions the violence prompted protests in the state of could do in an area known for its religious tensions this was the latest in a string of attacks against christians in the region the radical sector has previously targeted church services across the country killing hundreds. of thirteen inmates have died in a blaze that broke out in a jail in southeast turkey prisoners at the bedding and nigerian recently treated

by accusations of poor conditions police fired tear gas and water cannon that relatives of inmates who had rushed to the scene on hearing news of the far security forces say they were responding to stones being thrown. libyan troops would be sent to the country's west where days of clashes between rival militias spot renewed violence at least sixteen people were killed and over eighty wounded in fighting between the revolutionaries and former gadhafi loyalists devices comes weeks before libya is due to hold elections for a national assembly. activists of the moment european governments treat immigrants first after international said the e.u. seems to care more about securing the borders than people's lives the rights group claims countries have been endangered by turning away african boats but the troubles for those who do reach europe shores as. reports. it may be called the european humor. 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 streets. and the. recent elections in france agree 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 can go into any shop and buy anything she wants but have build women cannot work in this shop. is the discrimination and racism in the everyday life that people are facing. because they don't trust the police so every time on the street or. simply a two thousand and ten report by the european network against racism or

discrimination found that racially discriminatory practices are widespread institutional in nature and practiced at all levels of society across europe in two thousand and eight the european commission proposed a directive that would ban discrimination on the grounds of age disability religion or belief and sexual orientation in all areas including social protection and advantages as well us access to goods and services the current law only applies to the workplace but it's been four years and the directive is stuck because some member states are blocking it. arguing that implementation would be too costly this activists say is one of the many failures of policy makers and while immigrants are blamed by politicians on the right for failure to integrate others say it's the authorities which have not done enough. it was afraid. to. i never knew that if if there is a fairly new policy it's not the follow the tool that's far as i know it's all of

those who make the policy over the europe's economic troubles which are preoccupied leader show no sign of ending soon but the race and immigration issues they've left are solved could prove just as big a political time bomb tests are cilia are to brussels. in a few minutes we'll be talking to a man who predicted the current economic turmoil but softer a recap of our top stories here on r.t. this is the weekend.

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a man who says he saw the global economic crisis coming and the consequences of which are still being felt across the world that's. next on the. thank you very much for your time in two thousand and six you predicted that there would be a deep economic crisis and six years later we're still in it now did you expect it to last so long that it would be so deep and where are we in the middle in the beginning or maybe there's light at the end of the tunnel and the krises more of in two thousand and six was a problem of that kind of leverage of the private sector households bangs financial institutions corporates now as a result of the response of their krises discards theme of those bailing out banks and there is of a massive surge in public that and that sits and now there is a risk of contraries as opposed to individual.