polls have closed on the final day of voting for egypt's post the revolution future with the islamist candidate declaring himself in the lead. greek conservatives propose a probate allowed government as they claim a narrow victory with almost thirty percent of the vote leaving the main left wing rivals behind. and the u.n. sponsored peace plan for syria shaken to the core observers are suspended their mission is due to increase in violence as both of the regime and the rebels.

and broadcasting live direct from our studios in central moscow this is articulate to have you with us and let's get right to our top stories greece's conservative new democracy party proposes pro austerity government after early results suggested they've won with almost a thirty percent of the vote their main rival left wing syriza came a close second with just over twenty seven percent artie's jacob greaves is in athens. places official results showing new democracy in the lead hovering around thirty percent of the vote now they are still ahead of stories about only just this 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 part of another party the only real option for new democracy at the moment seems to be house of the socialist party who they have governed with before that's because they both share the message of hope. even though pasok party would like to see. the

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 also 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 series are still largely to have a major showing when it comes to a future parliament they respect their opinions will count and that will be quite crucial piece 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 ready they want to remain within the year over this is being 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 always

stress that this week far too costly of the eurozone members which was their card their trump card here is it risk contagion to other countries including the likes of the more vulnerable ones at the moment spain and portugal. jacob riggs reporting for us there now most of the greek political parties are hoping to retain the euro and planning to cancel or to go renegotiate cards political writer peter build believes that 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 powerful was 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 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 in france in terrific trouble if they are 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 after preliminary results in egypt the muslim brotherhood candidate claims an early lead in the historic presidential runoff there are also numerous accusations of ballot rigging from rival are made at sheffield headquarters and the let's now cross live to policy is in the following developments for us so paula thanks for being with us what are the key issues coming out of this election. while talking to demonstrators as well as talking to those who actually turned out to cast their

ballot the general mood is that most people feel that this is really a choice that is not a choice you have michel frigged who represents the mubarak era and you have dr mohamed morsi who represents the muslim brotherhood and the idea of turning egypt into an islamist state and this is the polling stations throughout the course of the day i did get a sense that people there were very tired of this whole election process at the same time those that i've been talking to say that they are not that enthusiastic that everything will go ahead without any kind of mishaps now we do expect the official results to be announced on thursday although we anticipate that we'll get some kind of preliminary indication as early as monday morning the verdict turn out half way through this weekend election stood at the fifteen percent mark if indeed it does not reach the forty six percent voter turnout that there was for the first round of presidential elections last month it will be an indication of widespread

discontent and of the growing illegitimacy with which people view these elections there were the usual complaints of election fraud we heard some reports of disappearing and of ballot cards having been pre-marked but the election committee on the whole did say that there was no wide scale forward in of was confident that these elections had been free and fair well with the courts getting involved in the dissolution of parliament where is the real power in egypt at the moment is it with the military or with in civilian hands. it's really very difficult to say but certainly more and more interruptions feel that the military is retaining its hold on power the army has promised to come in the first of july it will hand over the reins of power to a civilian government but indeed whether it does this or not talking to gyptian is they feel that the army will continue to pull the strings from the far now on

sunday was the announcement that the ruling military council had issued an interim constitutional declaration that formally gave the generals in legislative power now of course this has been criticized particularly by the muslim brotherhood which saw the parliament that it held just under half the number of seats dissolved by the constitutional court just a few days ago we understand that this declaration gives an understanding in terms of what powers the new president will have and it would also give the generals the final say on the process of drafting a new constitution but the army saying that it will give further details come monday the muslim brotherhood heavily critical of this they say that the military has no right to draft any kind of interim constitutional declaration and so he does not have the right to form an assembly to write a new constitution. is going to be interesting from here on out policy or keeping

track of things there from cairo thanks for being with us. the voting in egypt has been extended by two hours because of the low voter turnout but cairo based a journalist muhammad 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 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 tahir and actually shout weyerhaeuser revolution gone because you cannot have a remnant of the extra seem either 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 who 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. back to peace plan in syria took another blow with the observer mission there suspending its activities due to an escalation of violence the head of the monitors team has demanded the rebel and government forces allow the evacuation of civilians from combat zones or to use more of the notion of reports on how syrians are dealing with the ongoing blotter. 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 seat of lip.

they held me for three days being all the tired 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 but they contacted my family as 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 and 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 current and 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 should be most of 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 ahmed a butcher from damascus says it could soon be even impossible allow. were 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 he is now a long way from people's idea of a top holiday destination. here with more people who 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've blocked syria. surprisingly though we need to gas here even more surprising he says his business is growing these days there are fired is the chief executive of a media broadcasting company. big cheers big for themselves but the new ones pictures that speak for them and the more convincing the message the higher the chances of victory and there is a plea 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. 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 nationality 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 syrian banks although the violence in syria is growing political analyst or mara nationally believes coffee and 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 i mean i am afraid that perhaps the statement given by the united nations may may be a. desperate call 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 and 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 insane this would take syria nowhere but the destruction and misery for everybody no one would come out as the winner in this if this continues the way it does a fresh attempt to find a solution to iran's nuclear issue is about to get underway in moscow as we report a little bit later. with a group of six world powers and tehran prepared to sit at the negotiating table

there's a third party it's trying to stop the process by don't you just a few minutes here on our. exit polls that suggest president francois 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 a whole lot to has got enough support to fill fill is pledge of economic growth instead of belt tightening but. international consultant and former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament says he doubts alond 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 come 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 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 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 fine and so that each etc it's not it's not a secret what we call the so-called regrettable consequence of these policy or actually but i think it is very much object and it is a match. on thursday in the u.k. supreme court dismissed join us algis latest appeal to reopen the case against his extradition to sweden the judges voted unanimously dismissing the bit as being

without merit the wiki leak faces a deportation to sweden where he's wanted on sexual assault charges who has been under house arrest in britain for some five hundred days he says 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 the face of crackdown r.t. therof earth report on a bill being debated in the british parliament which if adopted could discourage people from exposing. the law on whistleblowing it's a war the tradition because one person who has against nothing. people that have a lot of wells a lot of power behind them the battle against. this video named collateral murder was 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's furious exposing wrongdoing

can prove risky business as wendy addison found out back in two thousand was working as a treasurer of the south african company leisure net 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 life fell apart. lost my career it was literally when i started getting the streets 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 when he 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 modern whistleblowing techniques have been giving people more power to take on big corporations and even governments now with the proposed changes to the law potentially threatening the

protections also at a time when the culture surrounding whistleblowing be making big leaps forward the law could be set to take a big step back the problems being caused by this the enterprise and regulatory reform bill which is currently making its way through parliament and one small discrete line buried away in the text referring to a public interest test we were really worried that putting in a public interest test into the legislation will have a chilling effect on the ability of workers to speak up a member of the international whistleblowing reese. search 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 this no public interest it was a very simple test as long as you had enormous moat if you could be sure and it sounds that you would be protected now individuals of those claiming to use the provisions have to satisfy public interest make it very difficult for people to

advise them the government archy's that the changes are aimed at closing a loophole this meant that employees with personal grievances a for employment contract have been able to use the whistle blowing provisions but the some this will be seen as just the latest measure making it harder out the truth. of course is this trend. 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 reveal 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 what i was doing the watching their battle highlights the importance of protecting whistleblowers and the public's right to know something they all say was well worth fighting for

sara for r.t. london. all the details about your son's case are available on our website as well as the entire series of his talk show in a special section of our website at www dot org team dot com and there's much more online for you as well. sporting officials are under investigation for allegedly trying to cash in on the two thousand and twelve london olympics by selling tickets on the black market. 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 backyard for free. iran's top nuclear negotiator is in moscow for a fresh round of talks over tehran's nuclear program but today a meeting we six world powers and tehran starts on monday the previous negotiations in april and may brought little results apart from tehran tentatively agreeing to let us inspectors in to 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 or grade materials in return they are offering it to help with medical research and aircraft parts however some critics say the close relationship between the u.s. and israel won't allow any breakthrough to come out of the talks. i don't think you can expect quite a lot from the moscow talks i think that israel will continue to for so washington not to make any kind of headway with her on what. israel does fear that there might be some prospects of a solution between the obama administration 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 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 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 straight should that israel might actually go ahead and attack iran unilaterally and more news from around the world are making headlines this hour. at least thirty six people have been killed and more than one hundred injured after five churches were attacked in northern nigeria the violence prompted protests in the state of the doona an area known for its religious tension 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. several hundred activists have built walls of sandbags outside the frankfurt stock exchange europe's second largest trading hub protesting against market speculation they demanded the introduction of a financial tax on every transaction carried out 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 and a half thousand a repatriation flight carrying south sudanese has left the country already cash incentives are being offered to those willing to leave voluntarily but reportedly others who disagree are threatened with arrest nearly sixty. thousand poverty

stricken africans mostly from every trade and sudan have fled 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 and to news despite islam claims that it would violate international law and kills innocent civilians are. reports about u.s. drone strikes in pakistan coming 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 his 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 this the video could have been taped before he's 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 four year u.s. officials are all together 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 the aerial strike which killed two dozen pakistani soldiers last year by mistake diplomatic have

a follow up 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 accused this bureau of investigative journalism which works to shed light on civilian deaths in those drone strikes of helping terrorists why. you might argue that this label terrorist helper is becoming an all too convenient tool for the government to brush off investigative journalism and 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 reportedly 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. them next chats with someone who predicted the global economic crisis the consequences of which are still being felt across the world but first here on our day i'll bring you this hour's headlines again after this short break.

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