greek conservatives propose a. government as they claim a narrow victory with almost thirty percent of the vote leaving the main left wing rivals. polls are closed the final day of voting for egypt post revolution future but many were disenchanted with the choice between islamists and a former foreign minister. the u.n. sponsored peace plan for syria shaken to the core observer. the regime and the rebels our top stories.

with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly. greece is conservative new democracy party proposes pro government early results suggest almost thirty percent of the vote the main rival came a close second with just over twenty seven percent. places official results showing new democracy out in the lead hovering around thirty percent of the vote now they are still ahead of some reason but only just this they'll present a new democracy though with a problem because even though it looks like they'll win this election they won't do so with an overall majority so they will need to seek the help and coalition partner of another party the only real option for new democracy in a moment seems to be perhaps of the socialist party who they have governed with

before that's because they both share the message of austerity even though pasok party would like to see some major changes to the bailout deal struck with the i.m.f. the e.u. and eurozone troika now pasok are also presenting their own problems because we're seeing reports at the moment they may not be willing to function with the new democracy without the inputs are so reserve because they have had such a significant sway when it comes to these elections indeed even if they're not part of a future government sarees are still largely to have a major showing when it comes to a future parliament greece their opinions will count and that will be quite crucial to lollies trying to stop any future austerity deals being made and the reworkings of that bailout plan they stand for a cancellation of austerity full stop saying it's been far too costly for the greek nation already they want to remain within the year over this is been where much talk has centered in the build up to this campaign but those stressing that their

conditions for a cancellation to austerity would lead to an exit from the euro zone they've always stressed that this week far too costly for of the eurozone members which was their car their trump card here is of risk contagion to other countries including the likes of the more vulnerable ones at the moment spain and portugal. well most of the greek political parties are hoping to retain the euro and planning to cancel all renegotiate cuts political writer peter build he believes leaving the currency union would not go smoothly for. it's never happened like this before a very very tightly knit union currency union has ever actually broken up so the real fear is that there could be immensely going on for years and years and years between banks between debtors and loaned. simply because nobody knows exactly in what currency the debts that have been run out 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. egypt's military council has issued an interim constitutional declaration which effectively grants the ruling generals legislative powers the move comes as the polls closed in the final day of egypt's historic presidential runoff that will decide the country's future after eighteen months of political chaos and instability paula slit was following the voting in cairo. at this stage we have no

indication of who has won indeed we have no indication of what the voter turnout has been like on thursday they will be an official announcement of who egypt's next president will be although we anticipate that is early as monday morning we could have some indication now the voter turnout does seem to be low with observers reporting that there were no significant long queues in front of voting stations and at the end of saturday which is half way through the ceiling and the voter turnout hovered at around the fifteen percent mark if indeed it is a lot lower than the voter turnout of forty six percent during last month's first presidential runoff this will be an indication of widespread discontent and indeed that egyptians are questioning the legitimacy of the selection there were the usual reports of voter irregularity we heard some reports of into superior and of pre-marked ballots but on the whole the election commission has said that these

elections went smoothly this certainly is a sense of gloom when you visit these voting stations there's none of the celebration none of the joy none of the energy that we witnessed in previous post mubarak elections and there are a number of reasons for this the first is that egyptians are anxious over their future there's also a lot of bitterness over the stalled revolution or what some egyptians have been telling me the fact that they feel the revolution has been going backwards and then many people here feel that this really has not been a choice they are choosing between after which a freak who represents the mubarak era and dr mohamed morsi who represents the muslim brotherhood and the idea of turning egypt into an islamic state i've been talking to a number of voters and just about everyone tells me that it doesn't really matter at the end of the day who wins they do believe that they will be street protests you really do have a sense of voter fatigue here in egypt now come the first of july the army has promised that it will hand over control to

a civilian government but most egyptians. even if the army does do this it will continue to pull the strings of power some of. the voting in egypt has been extended because of the low turnout but journalists are mohammed ali believes people will take to the streets no matter who wins now we've got a great divide between the supporters and the muslim brotherhood of course dr morsi supporters in both cases are yes there will be protests but 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 who actually retreat to the streets of the here and actually shout out weyerhaeuser revolution gone because you cannot have a remnant of the extra lead us 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 knowledge which will actually take place if dr morsi wins. the u.n. backed peace plan in syria took another blow with the observer mission this is spending its activities due to an escalation of violence the head of the ministers team has demanded the rebel and government forces allowed the evacuation of civilians from combat zones national 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 who was kidnapped in his native city of lip. they 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 they wanted was money big contacted my family asked two million syrian pounds for me is this what they're fighting for most of us wife sold the house and scraped up the half of the ransom father for mystifies not looking for money again to hide his family. 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 is with the president. syria once one of the safest places in the middle east is now one of the most dangerous even for those away from politics for twenty years this

elderly lady has been selling vine leaves while showing us how to cook broke syrian dolma she bemoans the syria she once loved. and that most syrians don't support anybody there in the middle but all suffer anyway they learn how to be afraid how to be careful and how to be angry we were happier before. she says is even harder now to get some meat for your blog. 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 he has 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 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 they are fired is the chief executive of a media broadcasting company. with. big cheers for themselves but the new ones pictures that speak for them and the more convincing the message the higher the chances of victory and they're ready to be for it even though the prose for air time has almost doubled. 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 . i know what's going on they should be 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 team syria. this week after the u.s. backed away from hillary clinton's remarks that moscow is supplying assad with attack helicopters pentagon official said it's tracking a russian ship with weapons and troops heading for syria denies the claims but says several ships are ready if needed to protect its syrian base the violence in syria is growing political analyst believes 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 destruction and misery for everybody no one will come out as the winner in this if this continues the way it does. the first attempt to find a solution to iran's nuclear issue is about to get underway here in moscow as we report a little later with six world powers and to run prepared to sit at the negotiating

table there's a party that's trying to stall the process find out who in a few minutes here on r.t. . but first exit polls suggest president francois hollande 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 the land has got enough support to fulfill his pledge of economic growth instead of belt tightening but live a noose international consultant and former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament says he doubts our land 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 discount from 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 two 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 to be something 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 this policy or actually but i think it is very much object to aim at. on thursday the u.k. supremes court dismissed june in the songes latest appeal to reopen the case against his extradition to sweden the judges voted unanimously dismissing the beard as being without merit of faces deportation to sweden where he's wanted on sexual

assault charges. being under house arrest in britain for some five hundred days says the case is politically motivated and that his final destination will be washington however in el seems that he won't be the only whistleblower to face a crackdown but is there a first for ports and a 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. this video named collateral murder is just one of many wiki leaks revelations exposing war crimes revolutionizing whistleblowing and tearing down the divides between governments and ordinary people and the government furious exposing

wrongdoing can prevail risky 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. putting in a public interest test into 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 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 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. which is a very serious one crackdown in whistle blowing 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 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 surf r.t. london. and all the details about this case are available on our website as well as

the entire series of his talk show in a special section on our website www dot www dot com there's much more online of the man with the body dot com sporting officials are under investigation for allegedly trying to cash in on the twenty twelve london olympics by selling tickets on the black market. of u.s. weapons of broad shot up seventy percent this year at the pentagon reportedly ready to give military hardware to countries in russia's back yard for free. it's r.t. dot com online all the time iran top nuclear negotiator is here in moscow for a fresh round of talks over terrans nuclear program the two day meeting between six world powers and turan starts on monday the previous negotiations in april i'm a little result apartment around ten to truly agreeing to let un inspectors into a military site suspected of carrying out weapons related test 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 in aircraft parts 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 israel will continue to force 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 up with seen until now has gained the reputation of giving in and not being very strong when it comes to confronting the israeli oppression is so now an election year and especially where obama is trying to get the support of the conservative jewish votes i don't expect anything significant will happen from now at least until the elections take place the sanctions which

the american administration has imposed to some extent that has been a factor in preventing the israelis from actually going ahead and launching a strike it's always possible that israel especially this current government might go ahead and launch a strike and this is something related to netanyahu and his own personal mission of the u.s. and that the obama administration keeps on reassuring for example that it is tackling this situation it has made 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 streets on choose day 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 they 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 a new law bringing fines for those breaking really regulations in line with european standards is when i have to pay up to seven thousand euros or do two hundred hours of community service. more news now from around the world in our world update this hour and first to nigeria at least twenty one people have been killed and about one hundred injured after churches in the north of the country 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 booker has previously targeted church services across the country killing hundreds. several hundred activists of build up walls of sandbags outside the frankfurt stock exchange europe's second largest trading hub testing against market speculation

they demanded the introduction of a financial tax on every transaction in the money markets the e.u. is set to decide on the much discussed tax while many disagree on how effective it's likely to be. israel launches its campaign to reduce the number of illegal immigrants by four hundred thousand me creation flight carrying south sudanese as left the country cash incentives are being offered to those willing to leave voluntarily but reportedly others who disagree or threaten with the rest of the sixty thousand poverty stricken africans mostly from eritrea and sudan fled to israel since two thousand and five. the u.s. ramps up strikes against suspected militants in pakistan with seven killed in two recent incidents america's campaign of drone attacks continues disputes despite islamabad's claims that it violates international law and kills innocent civilians . reports about u.s. drone strikes in pakistan come in more and more often we're getting used to hearing

in the media such and such number of terrorists was killed with no way to verify really there are no names attached to those numbers usually but earlier this month american officials proudly announced that a drone strike in pakistan killed one of those top commanders almost two weeks later a video with the same men. it was posted online with titles which are generally reserved for the living other al qaeda leaders have not confirmed or denied levy's death the video could have been taped before his death that's true so he might as well be dead but the confusion has once again raised the question of who's really dying in those bombings and how much do we actually know because it's all very murky what we do know is that the obama administration has dramatically ramped up drone strikes in pakistan around story hundred strikes since he took office it's this area bordering afghanistan which is on the fire but judging by the intensity of the u.s. strikes there one thing that only terrorists leave there that's not the case of

course the long investigative journalism says more than eight hundred civilians died in those bombings among them almost two hundred children what's interesting for a year u.s. officials are altogether denied civilian deaths in drone strikes but reports on the ground told the opposite and thousands of people protesting furiously in pakistan told the opposite then that was the last straw of the aerial strike which killed two dozen pakistani soldiers last year by mistake diplomatic haven't followed between the u.s. and pakistan pakistan blocked supply routes to afghanistan and they still remain closed by the way a new wave of extremism has been steered by those strikes but it's also interesting u.s. officials have in direct lead accused this bureau of investigative journalism which works to shed light on civilian deaths in those drone strikes of helping terrorists why. might argue that this label terrorist helper is becoming an all too convenient

tool for the government to brush off investigative journalism then there was this yemeni journalist who reported about the drone strike in yemen in two thousand and nine twenty one woman and fourteen children died there the journalist is now in jail were portably at the personal request of president obama himself. there's this line of thought in washington it's all perfectly fine as long as we're fighting the bad guys the president approves the list of those bad guys by the way the kill list on secret evidence with no review but does the argument we're fighting the bad guys mean that the world should keep quiet about the execution of innocent people in washington i'm going to check on. you've been watching the weekly you're not seeing coming up united by one passion artie's special report meet some of the dedicated few who travel the world unconventionally first on our team i'll be bringing you

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