r.t. this thursday night fears of autocracy in the cradle of democracy greek police arrest of a journalist before it can reveal claims of fraud surrounding the country's bailout live coverage all that coming up this hour also e.u. cash demands but fire on the british prime minister rebels from david cameron's own party deal him his worst blow since he took power by voting for cuts to the country's payments to brussels. and washington calls for a total revamp of the syrian opposition from a body is their main western backers appear to have lost faith.

live from moscow at eight pm here this is r.t. thank you for being with us the greek authorities looked to be tightening their hold on the media tonight as another journalist is taken into custody and the alleged attempt to silence him spiro scouts of ferrous promise to reveal potentially damaging information on the greek bailout on t.v. but he was arrested before he could do so that's a fair his claims that he has proof that facts about the greek deficit that forced athens to seek aid in the first place were fraudulent he says he received the dative from hackers group anonymous who broke into government computers now at the same time another greek journalist costas vaxevanis is on trial for breach of privacy for publishing the names of two thousand greeks with swiss bank accounts let's get some comment on this fast moving story we'll talk to georgia a couple of scenes from greece's pair of political newspaper so thanks for being with this spirit of fairness was taken into custody wasn't it just says the reserve promising to unveil proof for those allegations or just said do you think the

government has got some interfere here is trying to hide something. a fast moving story whether they can hear me sir can you hear me i can i can i'll give you that question again spirits spirits carets unserious was taken into custody just as he promised to unveil proof of his allegations do you think the government has got something to hide whether it is a very complex issue a case of fierce courage or fair it and that of course the vaxevanis prove that the great government has already not a clear strategy today in the dark evasion program and nevertheless i would sat there. and we need to be patient because the main the main problem right now is not only to talk about media freedom but our show about the quality of information which is provided by journalists and asfar as i know i cannot guarantee that today

from asia which provided by them will lead greece out of the crisis or at least provide the data which we were we were lacking in the previous months if so where all this information we're talking about that is true i mean those ballot conditions have been criticized as having a disastrous effect on people why would the government falsified deficit if it were the case well that would say that the main problem for greece is that he didn't apply the memorandum macit was and what he did was to apply additional upstair the measures and higher taxes instead of simply meant the necessary reforms was also one of them the memorandum is a problem with which a program which cannot be just completely we've got we haven't applied it. or i will the cheerless causes facts around issues on trial for publishing the so-called look godless to greeks just last week the swiss bank account says he was simply doing his job what do you think about that. well obviously it was quite clear that the greek politicians in that preview is months was were not very very keen on nine

investigating what kind of people had been involved in do this with gore action scandals and well you may not get these why do you think that's the case why was a case. where there are two main wars which explain the greek crimes and these are gore action and duck evasion and at the same time the capacity of great phony features was not proper it enough in order to deal with issues so i believe that's the case with it i'm gonna say issue completely gone fairness why we are at this point right now the powers not appropriate or turning a blind eye to something that shouldn't be happening what's the real picture do you think whether they it was difficult for the politicians to do to bring people in possibly involved in corruption and actually based on scandals in to justice and they were not there the programs on for degree country can save save the country right now things are and their main me the main message for the society right now

is very negative because the greek citizens have a feeling that they want to i really respond to boarding practice i must be brought to justice and obviously a public administration and politicians are responsible for that about the greek public suffering from all these cuts feel pretty strongly about that is something we'll be following up george with us from greece is part of political newspaper thanks ever so much. funding for the european union spoke to rebellion in the british parliament prime minister david cameron's own conservative backbenchers dealt him the worst defeat since he took twenty turned bureau script to tories joined forces then with the opposition and voted for cutting the cash flow to brussels surface road to. move them a significant defeat for the government since they came to power we saw two m.p.'s standing alongside labor calling for real time cuts to the budget now those

negotiations all that budget against take place in brussels later on this month the prime minister david cameron has been calling on his party to stand with him in his approach to these negotiations that he being talking about a rise in line with inflation which would have been at about eighty percent the government today very much trying to downplay that defeat they're saying of kools they're going to be fighting this person's best interest clearly many members of their own party feeling that the best wasn't good enough it was a significant that the fifty three tory m.p. that has left the government looking increasingly disconnected not just from their own policy from the british public as well certainly when it comes to this question of the e.u. now we heard the prime minister nick clegg speaking today in a keynote speech trooping in defense of britain's role within the e.u. now he spoke about the arguments and we patched powis from the e.u.

as a false promise wrapped in a union jack one m.p. describing it last like a not very passionate debate that we saw taking place in the house of commons and alice in wonderland economics and not very much the sense that you get from a lot of people that is disconnected from reality twelve people who are tightening their belts to be contributing even more money to the decision by. last night isn't going to be binding on the government but it's certainly going to prime minister david cameron under a fair amount of pressure when he joins that negotiating table we don't know of course what the outcome of these negotiations will be but one thing is absolutely certain that that this very heated debate and argument about britain's role within the is the things that run and run well r.t. spoke to one of those conservative m.p.'s who oppose the prime minister voted for cutting the u.k.'s contribution to brussels my prichard believes the e.u.'s inefficient and that britain should get the chance to vote on whether to stay part

of it but inflation increase on the budget would equate to an extra three hundred million pounds a year and that would increase over the multi annual budget up to two thousand and twenty and at a time when the u.k. families are having to make very difficult often painful decisions with their household budgets local councils doing the same and even our own national government here in the u.k. i think it is absolutely right to expect the european union to try and trim some of its very large budget a budget that will increase to around one trillion euros up to two thousand and twenty so there is certainly room for efficiency savings this is a an entity which has failed to have its own account signed off for the last seventeen years it's i think a wasteful inefficient entity might think it's politically smart for the government and i'm a member of the governing party to actually be in touch with public opinion majority people in the united kingdom have never had

a say on our relationship with europe we need a referendum this side of the general election in this parliament and let democracy reign and let the british people have their voice heard. just days before the u.s. presidential election green party candidate still stands been arrested for second time in two weeks she was trying to bring food and supplies to activists protesting against an extension to an open plan in texas was timed was later released after being charged with trespassing i spoke to green party spokesman scott mcclellan he told me the incident shows alternatives to a bomb and romney being sidelined dr stein was assisting the activists in order to make a statement she was delivering supplies to the protestors i understand that they were camping out in trees they were in the they were in the way of the construction of the pipeline we do know that the last time doctors don was arrested about two weeks ago when she attempted to answer the obama romney debate that was taking

place at hofstra university on long island. and running mate cheri hochul were detained and handcuffed to to a chair for four eight hours before being released the obama romney debates are sponsored by the commission on presidential debates which is itself owned by the democratic and republican parties for the express purpose of privileging their own candidates and excluding other candidates and we we call that an outrage. so. gary johnson will again try to break the mainstream media blockade right on the eve of the vote we're set to broadcast the final round of those debates as well live on monday. we should not. troops we should end the war in afghanistan.

there are fears america's close presidential race could be plagued by electoral fraud too at least that's what the critics say as they claim the voting system isn't transparent enough and could be rigged to talk about that a bit later in the program tonight and washington turns its back on the leadership of the syrian opposition we look at why the u.s. has ditched the foreign based group and call for a major opposition over with plans to bring rebel fighters on board just a couple of very many stories we've got lined up for you just ahead. tucked in between the russian mainland japan and the sun coming island is the island of minute on named after french seafarer who discovered it it is described

as the pride of the sakhalin region we'll take a look at what's in store for us here. until two thousand and four the island was part of the borders own and was completely restricted to visit is now the spectroscope place is open to tourists unique plants and animals are its top attraction. really has been exploring the deaths on the world seas for several decades but it's here at more your own island where he is finally found what he'd been looking for. me the most the water here is very clear the visibility is very good and the underwater world here is extremely rich i've been to many diving locations across the planet including the island of bali but mine are on top of my list while some go to the sakhalin region to enjoy the sights others convert the island's nature's

riches into a healthy dollar it is home to the biggest seafood processing factory in russia the tonight show hundreds of thousands of tons of fish get caught in the nets too late to produce delicious salamon caviar almost unnecessary attribute of anything east. in russia the owner of the enterprise says a good fishing season can bring in more than a hundred million dollars net profit. and to a large extent this is old to do what succulent offers environmentally live tonight shar operates in only and natural habitat and mild climate unique natural sights and delicious seafood succulent can offer a diverse holiday for those who are not afraid to travel ten thousand kilometers from europe the question is whether this distant land would ever be able to become a major tourist destination.

are you watching r t from scone activists say rebel attacks in syria's north are killed at least twenty eight soldiers while a series of explosions rocked the capital damascus this is one of the rebels' main western backers washington's now call for a complete shake up of the syrian opposition revealing plans to and greater influence to militants on the front line syria's various militias fighting assad many of which have been infiltrated by radical islamists linked to al qaeda but secular state hillary clinton said the u.s. no longer sees syria's national council as a leading opposition force because of its lack of support on the ground the exile group now says it's playing to base itself inside syria in an attempt to prove its relevance however the u.s. administration's already suggesting names to represent a new leadership taking over a major role than from the s.n.c. middle east expert professor jeremy salt says western efforts will not help rescue the credibility of the syrian opposition. the syrian national council was

dysfunctional virtue from the beginning it's never taken off its there's never been any evidence this this group had any support on the ground in syria the armed groups disparate response and so there's no coordinating body there's no central command we now know that they're fighting is being led in many areas by the. and they have their own agenda which is not in syria it's a set of islamic states and what is really quite striking is it took the american such a long time to wake up to the fact. that we had hillary clinton her last visit to istanbul which is a few weeks ago she didn't even meet members of that council and i think that was a very clear sign this alternative which is a new council dyson this seems to me. the united states to take control of the situation situation which at the moment is out of the control by setting up this council without dropping the mind i aim which is to bring down the syrian government no i think any kind of reasonable person look at the situation would say

that the first priority should be to actually bring about to be to cease fire stop the fighting and they're not willing to do that they're kind of still looking for alternatives without dropping a project of bringing down the government and and still holding back from throwing their weight behind. the attempts to a cease fire without any preconditions. with a barn romney still has running neck and neck critics say the close race will make it easier to rig the election somebody claim the core of america's voting system is flawed as it still relies on equipment which can easily be tampered with is in the reports. the us a beacon of democracy and an example to be followed by the rest of the world one big source of pride is its fundamental concept of free and fair elections american elections are a disgrace it's like walking into the kitchen of a first class restaurant and losing or appetite at what you see because we have an

election system a voting system that is completely nontransparent an opinion shared by many political experts and educators if you were here. in a magician suit who then went behind the curtain came out having first shredded the ballots to tell you why would you trust that process and that process largely to blame is the outdated l.-a trying to voting system in the states where all they have this electronic voting it could be a real problem. if you don't have some other type of backup source to verify the vote count. it could be a problem read friedman as an independent award winning blogger who has covered the us election system for years he calls the problem a pandemic and says change is long overdue every single state in the union uses electronic voting a third of the voters this year will vote on one hundred percent on verifiable touch screen voting systems electronic voting systems. the rest of the country by

a large will vote on paper ballots but those paper ballots are also counted by electronic systems unless you can see inside a computer there is no way to know if those computers tally those ballots correctly several experiments conducted on i would trying to voting machines have proven that simple keystrokes and some knowledge of science and computers. could flip results the circuitry inside the machine would clear the increase in numbers insert the correct pin numbers experts see the accuracy of the vote count even with people trail is a myth in the ninety nine percent plus percent of the cases those ballots never see the light of day or never examined it never recounted basically american elections at this point have virtually zero claim on public confidence and legitimacy the rules and specific ations of how lections are held very locally and state by state four thousand different counties each of them use a different type of system a different type of voting system each of them have different flaws different

vulnerabilities one particular company that makes electronic voting machines in the us has earned a dubious reputation for unverifiable results as records vanish into thin air i go to an a.t.m. and it's a debug machine i get a confirmation slip and i go around the corner to vote and i you know make my vote and there's no record other voter machine production companies are also known to have strong partisan affiliations they are not accountable to any voters. they are not just private but private and extreme in their political sympathies democrats don't actually win that many elections to be precise democrats almost never win close elections and the trick therefore is to see to it that a race is or looks close improving the election process in this digital age doesn't appear to be on anyone's agenda and putting barack obama our president won't talk ever about election fraud and denies that it has ever happened in one you know

members of his own party have been the victims of it and while the number of reported flaws grows with each passing election over the past decade since two thousand when i think congress was pretending to want to make things better what has happened is things have gotten much much worse it appears stealing an election in the us maybe a candidate certainly. to secure a win it's easy as one two three in this digital age of smartphones tablets and satellite navigation systems american voters will head to the polls this november to cast their ballots using antiquated and unreliable voting machines machines that will ultimately determine who will lead this nation in much need of its own repairs and they say churkin are pretty new york. we're reporting to tonight about the scandal over tsunami relief funds siphoned off elsewhere the shock in japan after revelations that billions spent to help victims reconstructions instead of

everything from helping hunt whales to business is nowhere near the disaster zone full details from us on the line now to go home. on earth because it is face the curiosity rover has detected the dust on mars contains mineral simple to dirt found in hawaii fun and more on our web site. russian business from platon lebedev who was jailed for his involvement in russia's infamous you cause scandal he said his prison term for corruption reduced by three years he's now set to walk free next july thomas has the story. his sentence was reduced from thirteen years to ten years by a local court and let me take you a little bit back through it to get to where we were today in two thousand and five both men were convicted of tax evasion and then they were retried in two thousand and ten and then convicted of stealing oil from their company now last year dimitri medvedev who was then president introduced legislation to soften white collar crimes specifically favoring financial penalties as opposed to criminal sentences

that therefore decriminalizing the more white collar crimes basically saying that these were not violent offenders and they shouldn't be treated as such so they would be financially punished instead now this set the course if you will for the decision of this lessening of this sentence the lawyers have said that this is the closest thing that they can get to a humane sentence and they do not plan to appeal this decision and just putting it into perspective has actually been in custody for ten years now he's serving his time here which means that he will be eligible for release in july two thousand and thirteen so this coming summer it's possible there. will be free. sean thomas a new internet laws come into effect here in russia and the government to shut down and web sites potentially harmful to children early this year a number of the country's most popular websites spoke out against the plan that

could pave the way for online censorship going off scott the details well an online registry which is going to contain the list of banned websites is already operating in the purpose of the law is to protect children from potentially harmful information on the internet and the way it works is monitor the web and if you find things like instructions how to. make weapons or propaganda or force. this website is recommended to take this information down if it doesn't then its host is recommended to do the same and if it be enforced. online then the website is put on this list in this registry is blocked and remains blocked until the information is taken down the reaction on the floor has been mixed while there are those who believe that it could actually help protect children role but also those who believe that it will be used to censor the internet but needless to see similar child protection laws are not something which was created here in russia it's a widespread practice over the wall that will look at europe then there is some

very tough legislation especially in some scandinavian countries will punish me it's going all the way up to jail sentences if we look at the united states then there is a controversial law which prohibits children under thirteen from using search engines like google in g. mail but this has been causing quite a lot of criticism as well while here in russia we're talking about temporary measures because like i said these blocked websites could be unblocked if the information is taken down there's also always the possibility of taking these cases to court which could also worth the balance set by the authorities. in briefs not a fuel tanker explosion of the saudi capital riyadh killed at least twenty two and injured more than thirty your local village tree buildings the lorry blew up after crashing into the concrete i weigh fly over engulfing cars and houses in the flames of multi-story building at a nearby industrial estate was it was destroyed entirely by the massive blast that came with it. great storage he's avoided harsh measures in the crackdown on

demonstrators who are defying a ban on public gatherings it follows a night of severe clashes between police and protesters who marched in support of a jailed opposition activist the violence initially erupted over changes to kuwait's electoral more opposition groups say the legislation favors pro-grade candidates in next month's parliamentary poll. heavy tropical storm slammed into southern india killing at least eight people and forcing thousands to flee their homes the cycler brought heavy rain prompting massive landfall and flooding in low lying areas. has also run aground it's six crew members and are missing after the life boat capsized. a business to across all the days financial events and headlines this is what they've got in store for you. lined up for you tonight in business we've got an exclusive interview with so richard branson way talks about his company's success and failure when doing business in russia then we examine the

most expensive deal in russia's energy sector and we take a look at europe's new tallest building which is located in moscow's financial district all that and more at six thirty at eight thirty pm g.m.t. . thanks to me triple business a couple of minutes to as much as stacy expose the dark secrets of the global financial industry because report late edition friend up next after the break i'm kevin thank you for watching. what will change when america picks its president amid muslim rage. pushing china russia. spreads to parties still dictate. the selection of close. to the fifth. government no longer

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