ok. in israel. of the stories that this week egyptian president hosni mubarak's resignation preceded by weeks of mass protests is hailed as a triumph for democracy around the world but some point at the hypocrisy of the west that is backed finance a dictator of decades. russia's most wanted terrorist model of claims responsibility for january's bombing at moscow's domodedovo airport the attack killed thirty six and led to intensified checks into security lapses at major transport hubs plus. influence on three didn't seem to be growing. to terrorist acts to nato support when america wants something they get it but why and what's in it for this so-called neutral nation.

in moscow this is our teeth thanks for joining us now this week has finally seen an end to more than a fortnight of unrest in egypt as the country's president finally decided to step down having power so the military for a period of transition well saturday night people in cairo continue to celebrate the rest of the nation for a second day a last name mubarak's location is still unclear with contradicting reports suggesting his either in his residence in farm or fled to the united arab emirates of his resignation on friday was hailed by the u.s. president as a victory for democracy whoever is going to have reports washington's thirty year support for the dictator took the sincerity from obama's sentiment. hosni mubarak

ousted from power is eventually parcher not without the help of washington he had a phone call from the white house that persuaded him to leave the four egyptian president left cairo just hours after he addressed the nation saying he was not going anywhere the screws have been put upon him by the army no doubt by the u.s. state department but it was a very serious risk for washington and in the end they decided it would be safe to dump mobarak in the west mubarak's departure was hailed as a triumph of democracy with the cheerleader in chief buraq obama gyptian have made it clear that nothing less than genuine democracy will carry the day but it's egypt's military largely financed by the united states which will now control the country until egyptians choose their next president they have a very cool relationship with the pentagon don't always very very close to robert

gates they talked on the phone at least. this past week or so all because the washington will be supervising any sing that happens that's unlikely to satisfy the overwhelming desire of many egyptians for change which drove the revolutionary events of the past few weeks if you heard the slogans that were being chanted it was egypt egypt egypt meaning we are fed up of being bullied by foreign powers and forced into peace treaties which don't do us any good and our generals bowl to directly with billions of dollars by the pentagon mubarak is yesterday's man for the us now after thirty years being their top panch men in the arab world when a blind eye was turned in the west to appalling human rights abuses under his rule bigger problem with the us policy and that is cozying up to. dictators in the first place that we really don't need to cozy up to and then when they get into trouble.

we get into this hypocritical position of supporting an autocratic regime when we're spouting democratic rhetoric here in the united states mubarak was kept in power by american support and huge payments to making him one of the richest men in the world some estimates put his while that as much as seventy billion dollars in a country with widespread poverty we had a lot to do with mubarak being in power and staying in power like we subsidize and we own him he's our puppet dictator he does what we tell him because he has so much money he's gotten probably sixty to seventy billion dollars and i understand his family probably has sixty or seventy billion dollars stashed away in swiss accounts in other places around the world as europe is the second largest recipient of american aid in the world after its neighbor israel the u.s. is pumping billions of dollars into the egyptian military which gives washington huge control over the running of the country and its future now celebrates the end

of rule by an autocratic leader who restricted political freedoms and economic progress so too did people rejoice for a time on the streets of carriages then and ukraine in recent years after so-called democratic revolutions with western approval but the leaders who came to power were later rejected by their own people even though there's a lot of celebration and jubilation going on in cairo we don't know really whether the military is going to give up its power and authority and if they do to whom how far will they share or what's going to happen some say the lesson that the west could learn from recent revolutions is to abstain from supporting the leader just based on how convenient they are for the west rather than how much they can do for their people get a check on our t. washington d.c. well in spring of christians against nato aggression says the fact that swiss bankers decide it's a freeze mubarak's accounts just a day before his resignation shows a massive amount of hypocrisy. so obviously the european union wakes up after

thirty years to the fact that there has been major violations of human rights and the swiss government suddenly decides to sequester it somebody is. this is quite an acceptable what have they been doing for the previous thirty years while mubarak was actually torturing people. putting down you know opposition by force we turn it in the last week or so we've seen the degree of the bulb our tree of the mubarak regime and suddenly the swiss bankers wake up to the fact that they should see question. what about the assets of other dictators who are still in power no i think it's appalling. political unrest is sweeping further through the region as thousands of algerians took to the streets of their capital to demand the resignation of president abilities bouteflika police detained more than four hundred demonstrators in clashes across the city

a large algeria has officially been in a state of emergency for nineteen years allowing authorities to bad public demonstrations protestors ignored the ruling following uprisings in tunisia and egypt forcing algerian authorities to reconsider the declaration. and coming up in about twenty minutes time r.t. spoke to the voice of the us streets and activist and a political rapper am one who says everything is in place for a revolt to happen in america. the same sort of conditions that existed in cairo exist in new york city exists in miami florida they exist in los angeles you have a ruling class with abuse of power i was recently in cairo. and i was there on a humanitarian aid mission to help the people in gaza in order for us to get to gaza we had to jump through so much bureaucracy and we began to understand that not

only did the government what was it controlled by bureaucratic politicians. but israel had a huge stake in making sure that. the state of egypt was the way that it was and that is definitely the situation in the streets look at what we have inside the united states. now russia's most wanted terrorist model claimed he orchestrated the deadly suicide attack on moscow's damage yet of an airport last month well the incident attention to serious lapses in security at transport hubs which as the country's president himself discovered haven't all been addressed artie's you've got to looks at this week's developments. russia's most wanted terrorist claims thirty six more innocent lives have been taken by his deadly complain chechen born said this week he was the mastermind behind january's bombing at the idea of the airport when one of made the

claims in a video message posted on an extremist website he described the suicide bombing as his special oh poor a sion and promised more terrorist attacks security experts say the massachusetts enforces why he's no longer described as just a chechen warlord but as an international terrorist group. asli round the world you know there are undoubtedly operate in parts of afghanistan but some have been skeptical whether mark was indeed behind the bombing the terrorist is talking himself out they say as a self-styled bin ladin to make sure foreign investments. he's a man who wants to put all the trappings of bin laden is and if you will listen. to his actions therefore it's not always clear how much authority he really has in fact from within his own group and there was a rebellion i think last year when he resigned his resignation and the younger

members apparently wanted him out so it's not quite clear whether he is in charge of a barge number of these groups or where they can simply putting himself in a position of their own near in order to gain more authority him self meanwhile this week security forces arrested three suspected accomplices of the airport bomber all three are from the north caucuses republic of english it here and are believed to have known about the attack planned by a twenty year old evil with a manhunt is on for seven other suspects wanted in connection with the bombing at the security operation gathered pace the president shifted the focus from what has been down to sort out be on. so much of the tried to do what is being done to prevent similar tragedies from happening again and the best thing to do he decided is to go on inspection personally. he checks security at one of most schools busiest railway stations and was left unimpressed to say the least. as i

see private security agency here but where is the police and where any metal detectors i don't see them we don't have metal detectors that's true these baksh and didn't reveal any c.c.t.v. either and just to compound concerns no police in sight. through the whole station and i haven't seen a single policeman no police there's a church well at least you have some place to pray. but the time when people relied soley on god not police may finally be over russia's anti terror law is likely to be seriously amended just as the country's police force is now undergoing a major overhaul it's hoped the changes to the police will put an end to corruption and security lapses. r t. a coming up for you later in the program a timeline of decline find out how cities across the u.s.

are suffering as a government strapped for cash faced with record debt slashes wages and cuts vital services. germany's chancellor is quizzed over the deaths of dozens of afghanistan civilians and to tell about it airstrike two years ago. well this week wiki leaks founder julian assange face extradition hearings in london the verdict on whether he will be handed over to sweden for questioning over sex assault allegations is expected later this month and with the u.s. reportedly preparing its old case against us many are seeing a fair conspiracy between the two countries and he said he has more on the law lasting us swedish cooperation. so we didn't a quiet little neutral scandinavian nation the current foreign policy establishment in sweden has a remarkably close relationship with the united states the country that gave us our

flat pack furniture for dollar meatballs top models and lawn bombshells may not be so neutral after all politics through the back door like swedens times with nato you have the military and some politicians cross-breeding intensively with united states the nato and the large mass of the population being totally unaware of all the stuff going on but it's not just what swedes are taking in it's also what their leaders are ready to give from julian assigns to terrorist suspects to nato support when america wants something they get it but why and what's in it for this so-called neutral nation they get. all the benefits of being an intelligence partner of the united states without the baggage of being in nato it's a partnership decades in the making there is been a willingness to. do the arrogance of the united states over many years

from. questions. making asylum seekers in sweden. both to the cia freddy's is particularly strong now with a raid leaning government in sweden and with the us wanting him for spying and sweden wanting him for sex crimes julian assange is wanted by quite a team and the songe wiki leaks case seems to be just the next continuation of this very old intelligence relationship here's some other relationships we dug up julian assange ticks off the us with fierce reaction from one of the country's most notorious neo cons is not a particularly credible source and he said. you know two million homeowners agree it is a criminal only ought to be grabbed and put on trial for war used earlier these words from karl rove who claims he's part swedish and just happens to be advising

the country's pm while the former swedish minister of justice is a partner in the firm who filed charges against a songe for sex crimes with another link to the us thomas von stroheim is claimed to have handed the cia asylum seekers from sweden who were then tortured a question about neutrality became even even clearer thanks to some of the documents from exactly with. the big question now is there enough room in the british justice system to protect julian assange from the united states of sweden america and let him keep blowing his whistle and he's now i r t stockholm sweden all the head of the pirate party the last case there's overwhelming support for julian assange among the public but that there's a risk you could even end up in guantanamo bay. the extradition case is going to be used as an as a pretext by the united states to get hold of julian sound which. we think there is

a very real danger julian assange could be actually taken to the united states even possibly detained in guantanamo bay and actually basically pursuit of some car. or knowledge charges it's going to be impossible to see any kind of fair trial or just happen if if june in the sand is going to be diverted to sweden and i was what i'm seeing in terms of how people responding to the wiki leaks is that actually people overwhelmingly support the freedom of information we can see how the free flow of information has been absolutely crucial to democracy and next hour we've got more another legal fight assad could have on his hands this time as one of the publishing partners of the guardian the british newspaper has recently been accused of redacted will be in line with it but it will.

allow u.s. cities have long been a symbol of prosperity and success with local governments commanding the budgets of small nations but with the advent of the two thousand and eight financial collapse that's quickly becoming ancient history now faced with astronomical debt and rampant unemployment authorities are being forced to make desperate cuts lauren listserv reports. it's the reality america cannot escape with the city's roughly two hundred eighty million dollars debt more and more people are talking about bankruptcy news of debt like that hitting cash strapped cities and states all over the country all together it could amount to two trillion dollars and a bill many may not be able to pay the problem of the state and local debt is more serious than the real estate bubble. serious because with millions of americans still unemployed and losing their homes there isn't enough taxpayer money to pay

creditors local governments which aren't allowed to operate in the red must come up with the cash this means some may be choosing between default or devastation in many cases it will be fairly simple for cities to cut services before they actually default on their cities and states coast to coast seem to be trying this route and the toll it's taking on the streets of america is undeniable camden new jersey is the second most dangerous city in the country you didn't see many cops on the streets to begin with and now you may rarely see any the city's had to lay off nearly half of their police force in detroit a city where people have been too broke to bury their dead the city's too broke to repair dying infrastructure to fix roads or lights in the desert state of arizona cuts have been a matter of life and death. governor jan brewer taking a lot of heat over the death of another transplant patient after the state cut

funding for the operations here in new york city huge piles of garbage like this one are all over city streets this city's behind on picking up trash after getting behind clearing up after our snowstorm public officials blame this on any number of reasons but one accusation that keeps coming up is this is the result of budget cuts cuts have consequences you can't just sort of cut and there isn't enough wasteful spending so to speak to cut you actually do have to cut services that people depend on analysts say the slashing will amount to an increase in unemployment and a lowering of wages dragging more americans down and the economy with it well the prospect of bankruptcy is threaten the pensions of public workers and may cause a run on municipal bonds so that will push the city counties over the over the cliff it's not a solution either scenario seems to be causing a widespread decline in the american city once relegated to ancient history it's a feed back towards economic shrinking downsizing and the urban ization exactly the

same thing happened in the roman empire when in the end broom was left almost a deserted city and all of the production shifted back onto the land that's what you're faced here although the land in this case looks like it'll be a broad rather than in the united states as investment flees to other countries threatening to take with it the american dream lauren lyster r.t. new york. german chancellor angela merkel face questioning over a military airstrike which killed scores of civilians in afghanistan almost two years ago well the strike ordered by a german officer after two fuel tankers were hijacked by taliban militants left up to one hundred forty two people dead and the majority of the civilians the massacre left the country in shock at allegations of a cover up because the resignation of. dozens of officials including the defense minister but the chancellor denied that she had held back the true number of

civilian casualties a loss of votes at a previous election the questioning came just days after germany voted to extend its presence in afghanistan and that's despite tremendous public opposition but we spoke to a business and government consultant who says that voters have little say any more . we are there because of nato to put it straight because washington ordered to be there and that is going to continue no matter that seventy to eighty percent of the german people are opposed to this military a good engagement still the politicians are not listening and that means they must be more afraid of washington than the of the old people and of course this is a very severe. decision to go against your own people is to be elected politician and that means that our democratic structures are no longer well functioning. constantly about the afghan war our politicians

and the whole selection process even of members of parliament to be candidates for to stand for election is not democratic anymore we are killing mostly civilians it's no sign of any better future through nato in afghanistan in fact we are losing this war we are losing the good will of the population former us secretary of defense donald rumsfeld has lifted the lid on life at the helm of the war on terror by publishing his memoirs and titled no and on their own it charts how he served under two american presidents george for gerald ford and george w. bush the eight hundred page work defends the iraq invasion and says we're taught will be. provided the only effective way of obtaining intelligence right back or from the anti war answer coalition says it's because of rumsfeld that the world now sees america as complicit in the business of torture. he set up an interrogation regime that allowed

a starting of course anchoring with grave that allowed the american government to be understood by the entire world is nothing but torture inc torture incorporated that he helped set up along with the cia not only not only the guantanamo bay which is the un described as a torture center but all sorts of black hole prisons and secret detention centers where people were horribly tortured and murdered in fact and now he has to describe this is something that was good so of course from the point of view of rumsfeld and bush and cheney they want to rescue their image they want the american corporate media to treat them kindly they want of course as they do constantly to make mega millions of dollars from this kind of promotion but i think the record is so clear the world recognizes the bush administration as nothing but torture and get at the center of that at the center at the top of the command was donald rumsfeld secretary of defense and in a special report later today the find out about

a casualty of war the environment scarred last that wooded lives is coming up next hour. well when one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that are done not just human damage but damage to the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage done by earl bombs by napalm boy chemicals that whether it's a sonic boom say tractor marine mammals or it's the burning oil field syria or iraq or it's destroyed coral reefs in the pacific for women purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that are shall be taken in the war to protect the involved against widespread long term and severe damage to the united states although it is accepted almost

all of the provisions of protocol one has taken exception to that. now russia has slammed japan over its radical stance of the correll islands which tokyo claims as its own it was a japanese foreign minister visited moscow earlier this week. the peace treaty with russia which happens regularly you should know your country's going. to go. i said to mr minor. can be a peace treaty with no preconditions the russian proposal to involve leading historians from both sides to help calm dialogue over the territory was rejected well nevertheless the two sides decided to work together on nuclear programs and develop business ties the islands in the pacific ocean were handed to russia as part of

a handover agreement at the end of the second world war however no formal peace deal has ever been signed between the two countries and now to some other headlines from around the world italy has declared a military an emergency following the recent influx of over three thousand tunisian immigrants most of the asylum seekers who sailed across the mediterranean in small boats were intercepted by the coast guard and taken to a sicilian island the government has increased sea patrols and requested additional aid from the european union youth already sphere that further arrivals in the coming days from north africa including algeria and egypt. eleven people have been killed and twenty nine injured in a stampede at a campaign rally for nigerian president goodluck jonathan in the southern city of port harcourt the may have occurred at the city stadium as the president was addressing the crowd or the paddock was reportedly caused by gunshots fired by a police officer into the air that control of the crowd nigeria has been hit by

a surge of violence in recent weeks in the wake of presidential elections scheduled for april. to war cuban dissidents have been released by the country's communist government as it continues to free opposition activists arrested in two thousand and three a construction worker and a journalist had been promised freedom last year. but were kept in prison as they refused to exile in spring it follows the release of four other political prisoners earlier this month the two men are mall fifty two dissidents that president raul castro agreed to free last year with seven more still behind bars. well this is r.t. i'll be back with a recap of this week's top stories in just a few moments. wealthy

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