well like this before that very very tightly knit union currency union has ever actually broken up the real fear is that there could be immense legal fattal's 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 in euros in greece perhaps would be repaid with a 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 the moment of the european central bank that it prints new money then there is endless amounts 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 and

while european leaders come to terms with a debt crises throughout those struggling euro zone our website r t dot com reveals an alarming the warning by the world bank chief he talks of a lehman style global crisis and dire consequences for developing economies if the e.u. fails to deal with the existing issues. plus the revolution in a post gadhafi in libya isn't over divisions continue to rock the country and new authorities deployed troops to quell violence among former allies those details ahead more on our website r.t. dot com. 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 head of the monitors team has demanded the rebel and government forces allow the evacuation of civilians from combat zones artie's more of an ocean of 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. popular not being held me for three days being all the tired 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 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 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 serve 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 donmar she bemoans 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 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. why. 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 all my people are afraid even if they want to come we 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 there are fired is the chief executive of a media broadcasting company. big cheers big for themselves but the only 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 pros 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 only one 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 official said it is tracking a russian ship with weapons and troops heading for syria moscow denies of the questions but says several ships are ready if needed to protect its syrian base although the violence in syria is growing political analyst on our national

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 i mean i am afraid that perhaps the statement given by the united nations may may be. 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 implemented to have the 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 coming up failed appeal. while we figure julian assange loses his latest bid in to fight extradition to sweden investigate whether there's now a witch hunt or other whistleblowers and. iran and six world powers are very critical third round of negotiations with the west pessimistic about the results and find out why in just a few minutes right here on our three. 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 a whole lot has gotten enough support to fulfill his pledge of economic growth instead of belt tightening but the new international consultant and a former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament says he doubts a lot 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 never says the election of the president who truly. has gone has taken up the 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 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 its nature of the 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. on thursday the u.k. supreme court dismissed a joy in a sanctions latest appeal to reopen the case against his extradition to sweden the judges have voted unanimously dismissing the bed as being a without merit the wiki leak or faces deportation to sweden where he is wanted on sexual assault charges a sergeant who has been under house arrest in britain for some five hundred day says the case is politically motivated and that his final destination will eventually be washington however it now seems that he won't be the only with a boy to face a crackdown at his chair furthur force on a bill being debated in the british parliament which if adopted could discourage people from exposing the truth. the war on whistleblowing it's a war of attrition could one person who has nothing against. 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 governments furious exposing wrongdoing can preview 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 were stealing money from shareholders and sending it to offshore accounts and she blew the whistle it was a decade point of my whole life fell apart. lost my career it was it was literally if i started getting the streets of 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 model where so playing 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 the legislation will have a chilling effect on the ability of workers to speak up a member of the international whistleblowing research and. an employment lawyer david lewis tells us the proposed test has dropped a bomb only so blame provisions the great virtue of the existing provisions is

there's no public interest it was a very simple test as long as you. if you could be sure in fact 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 that the changes are aimed at closing a loophole this man that employees with personal grievances a for employment contract have been able to use the whistle blame provisions but for some this will be seen as just the latest measure making it harder out the truth. of course is this trend. blowing the whistle have to differing degrees had their lives changed their reputations threatened or ruined their freedoms. 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. r.t. . iran's top nuclear negotiator is. being very strong what i promise to confronting the pressures now an election year and especially. his trying to get the. 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 . to some extent that has been a factor in preventing the actually going ahead and. it's always possible that is. especially this current government mark go ahead and launch a strike and this is something related to not turn yahoo 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 action reveals genuine fears on the part of the obama administration that israel might actually go ahead and attack iran unilaterally and taking a look at more news from around the world at 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 known for it was not. over israeli strike in a factory in the south of the strip of gaza second tack was carried out in the city of gaza targeting a hamas military training center the border between israeli soldiers but there 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 despite islamabad's claims that it violates international law and kills innocent civilians here's artie's going to church camp. 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 his top commanders almost two weeks later a video with the same men. was posted online with titles which are generally reserved for the living leaders have not confirmed or denied levy's death 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 three 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 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 at the aerial strike which killed two dozen pakistani soldiers last year by mistake diplomatic have a 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 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 where 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 kind of second. chance with someone who predicted the global economic crisis the consequences of which are still being felt across the world but first here are to bring you the hour's headlines again after

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today children play war in the old keys me. but in june nine hundred forty one these walls will a first barrier from another troops on their way to moscow. sunders umbrellas were done one by one under siege the sun cold food water. cooler. in the last shelter and on main soldier left a few simple words very well mother lum i'm dying but i'm not surrendering.

to be soon which brightened. all about sun from finest impressions. from stunts on t.v. dot com. and live from our studios in central moscow this is our team these are top headlines with nearly all of the votes counted conservatives oppose a bailout of government to come out on top of the parliament like i'm sleeping but a lot of behind this could mean a coalition between the new democracy and its allies of the socialist. party. polls have closed on the final day of egypt's presidential election runoff with these women candidates playing in self in the lead meanwhile the two generals effective

forgive themselves and lawmaking powers raising fears that the old establishment is still in charge. and the syrian turmoil takes another turn if you want observers suspending their mission through an escalation of violence such as the head of the monitors the treatment demands that both sides of the conflict allow the evacuation of civilians from combat zones. but next the effects of the global economic crisis are still being felt right across the world and meet the person who predicted it all. 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 crisis morphed

into thousand and six was a problem of too much that the leverage of the private sector households bangs financial institutions on corporate now as a result of the response of their cries is this god's theme of those bailing out banks and others over their massive surge in public that and that the seeds and now there is a risk of contraries as opposed to in the be the world's or bangs going belly up qantas having solvent risk and the faltering as already happened in greece and unfortunately when you have to watch private in public that he takes a long time up to a decade or two to be leveraging good means to supplant elias to save more to reduce that over time and that implies a more economic growth high unemployment rate and some degree of social and political instability and so we are able to i would say. you know these these slowly konami growth if not outright the recession the eurozone that is

cause of a default by governments is going to stay with us for a number of years if you gave a percentage of the chance of greece exiting the euro zone how much would that be and would it be good for greece to come out of the years and i would say that you know by next year and i would say there is at least a probability did they greece exit the euro zone thinking about actually even if they like not in june a new government there's going to try to reform a very comic situations are coming so sustainable that they will exit and i would say. that it could be good good for them as long as the exit is all the only. means of then there were massive ratio shown that actually called local believe that are still a good or historic set of violence of course they'll be damaged the banks damaged their savings of people in their banks and that's why they need more funding to make sure that it's not these old billy melt down and the contagion of the rest of the eurozone is more there so it is than they could see it that way and it's

finance and these are all of the really probably it's a manageable look at the bags do you think in the worst case scenario when greece for example exits the years and we see defaulting on the other countries in peripheral europe also doing the same following its example do you think we might be going back to the so-called economic dark ages that we've seen for more than a decade in europe in the thirty's well there is certainly a risk that the situation could become this or that in the eurozone like at these orderly.