i am. proud of the stories that shaped this week egyptian president hosni mubarak's resignation preceded by weeks of mass protest israel does a triumph for democracy around the world at some point a prosy of the west that has backed and financed the dictator for decades. russia's most wanted terrorist claims responsibility for january's bombing at moscow's domodedovo airport the attack killed at thirty six and led to intensify checks into security lapses at major transport hubs plus. u.s. influence on sweden seems to be growing from. terrorist acts to nato support when america wants something they get it why and what's in it for this so-called neutral

nation. eleven am here in moscow this is r t thanks for joining us now this week has finally seen an end to more than a fortnight of on rests in egypt as the country's president finally decided to step down powers to the military for a period of transition well on saturday night people in cairo continue to celebrate the rest of nation for a second day hosni mubarak's location is still unclear with contradicting reports suggesting he's either in his residence in sharm el sheikh or fled to the united arab emirates well his resignation on friday was hailed by the u.s. president as a victory for democracy however. reports washington's thirty year support for the dictator took the sincerity from obama. 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 former egyptian president left cairo just hours after he addressed the nation saying he was not going anywhere the screws have been put upon him a by the on a no doubt by the u.s. state department 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 projections 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 a pencil don't always very very close to robert gates they talked on the phone at

least tries by this past week so all because the washington will be supervising him missing 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 owe him these our puppet dictator he does what we tell him because he gives so much money he's gotten probably sixty to seventy billion dollars in understand his family probably has sixty or seventy billion dollars stashed away in swiss accounts and other places around the world is the second largest recipient of american aid in the world after its neighbor israel the us 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 ruled 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 a leader just based on how convenient they are for the west rather than how much they can do for their people got a check on our t. washington d.c. well r.t. also spoke with author william and all who says that mubarak's demise has become a u.s. priority after the longtime washington ally dropped his support for america's middle

east policy. mubarak's government realized that the u.s. was preparing a regime change that along the lines of the so-called color revolutions in georgia ukraine and so forth. to the united states sometimes received in the state department sometimes at the national endowment for democracy or freedom house these are all quote unquote private n.g.o.s that specialize in trying for washington. and. what's going on is really a major not enough destabilization of the u.s. ally mobarak has been opposed to most of us policy views of iran we should be pushing gulf nations and these are the level. over the last several years so he's become in effect a thorn in the side of washington's greater agenda since two thousand and one. political unrest is sweeping further through the region as thousands of algerians

to through the streets of their capital to demand the resignation of president. police detained more than four hundred demonstrators in clashes across the city algeria has officially been in a state of emergency for my t.v. viewers allowing authorities to battle public demonstrations protestors ignored the ruling following uprisings in tunisia and egypt forcing algerian authorities to reconsider the declaration. and coming up next hour r.t. spoke to the voice of the us streets an activist and a political rapper eminem one who says everything is in place for a revolt to happen in america. the same set 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 have to jump through so much. and we understand that not only did the government with the controlled by bureaucratic politicians in. israel a huge stake in making sure that. this was the way that it was and that is definitely the situation in the street look at what we have inside the united states. russia's most wanted terrorist model of claimed he orchestrated the deadly suicide attack on moscow's damage out of the airport last month well the incident drew attention to serious lapses in security at transport hubs which as the country's president himself has discovered haven't all been addressed. looks at this week's developments. russia's most wanted terrorist claims thirty six more innocent lives

have been taken by his deadly complain j h in-born said this week he was the mastermind behind january's bombing at the my deah the airport where 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 in forces why he's no longer described as just a chechen warlord but as an international terrorist groups. around 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 stalking himself 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 is sort of ground. to his actions and 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 of last year when he resigned. and the younger members apparently wanted him out so it's not quite clear where they who 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 and meanwhile this week security forces arrested three suspected accomplices of the airport bomber all three are from the north caucasus republic of english and i 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 the. 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. security at one of most schools busiest railway stations and was left unimpressed to say the least. as i see private security agents here but where is the police and where are any metal detectors i don't see them we don't have metal detectors that's true these factions 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 so 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 cop

corruption and security lapses. over r t. l you're with r.t.l. coming your way in a matter of minutes all of that out of love as you saw is for parents to sue one of wiki leaks publishing the guardian for libel there are claims that these paper redacted the cables in iraq with its editorial agenda. and a look at the plight of the iraqi christians were forced to flee their homes to escape sectarian violence. now this week we thought leaks founder julian assange faced extradition hearings in london well 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 own case against assad many are seeing a fair conspiracy between the two cars. trees artes and the somali has more of 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 but flat pack furniture for dollar meatballs top models and lawn bombshells may not be so neutral after all politics through the back door like sweden's times with nato you have the military and some politicians cross-breeding intensively with the united states the nato and the large mass of the population being totally unaware of all this 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 assange 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. a willingness to. do the arrogance of the united states over many years from. questions of. 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 u.s. with fierce react. and from one of the country's most notorious neo cons is not

a particularly credible source and love and he is a you know tamil and love my music is a criminal only ought to be hunted down and grabbed and put on trial for what he has done hear 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 exacting 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 in no way are to stockholm sweden. journalists ron written or told r t earlier that sweden and the u.k.

will face heavy pressure to comply with washington's interests on the case the world should know that the united states is the world's greatest terrorist in the wars that they conduct the torture they conduct so many horrible crimes have been revealed already in the united states continues with the same policies they make some excuses here or there and their former president. in his own autobiography that he gave orders for torture so i'm skeptical that just because one knows how bad the the devil is that that will curtail them from from prosecuting. on the other hand sweden of course or great britain if they if they delivered him that would be bad propaganda for them the people would be very upset most people i think would be very upset but again that's not the only determining factor for

a government to make a decision as to whether or not they cooperate with the united states i mean the united states has so powerful they can they can harm economically and politically both the swedish government in the british government a little east founder julian assange threatening to sue the guardian paper over its tell all book about the online whistleblower well the newspaper is also being accused of redacted of the diplomatic cables it received from the website in order to fit its oil policy. reports on what's behind the bitter dispute. they were bedfellows in exposing u.s. embassy secrets to the world but now wiki leaks and the guardian have rapidly fallen out of love and it's turning nasty in the original agreement between wiki leaks and its partner publications the partners were to help publish cables on the whistle blowing web site blocking out names to protect the innocent was allowed but sources close to wiki leaks maintain the guardian went one step further accusing

the newspaper of redacting the cables to suit its own political and editorial agenda something the guardian denies one of the alleged missions focuses on iranian dissident politicians in the garden deal we each. have. they don't want such things than the norm of their ordeals they will be. the world . and saw the they cut out everything that was negative a ball of the opposition. insert your way through that of the guards very truly only that of the killings would never know how those people themselves view their only those the guardian reports early have been a is just another political liar an intriguer. but what it leaves out is his why did description of the opposition as lacking organization and preaching problems of

ultimate direction and leadership specific opposition figures are. very stubborn but not charismatic karoubi courageous who would if you institutional allies tommy cautious and weak in cables about the activities of western companies in kazakstan the guardian fail to publish details of alleged bribery the actual cable talk of an internal investigation in a western company over five years during which former employees caused the company to pay five point two million to agents with in town the disappearance would influence because our professionals to allow the company to obtain business in other words bribing officials for contracts two of the companies allegedly involved british gas and any italy's gas giant that this isn't necessarily the story that the guardian wants to tell that the that there are editorial pressures on them but it also could be simply the lawyers at the guardian are getting

a bit jumpy and saying well look we can't accuse people of bribes because they're incredibly powerful and they're rich and this is one of the problems with a lot of libel and the lawyers at newspapers is that they're actually only afraid of the rich and powerful ordinary people they will say almost anything about them because these people don't have the means to sue the guardian prince andrew was cocky verging on rude in kyrgyzstan. although britain's prince andrew may have wished the guardian had edited information about his behavior in kyrgyzstan more thoroughly elsewhere some media commentators say the reason for the guardian's alterations was to help simplify the information it's still the way it should be done there's so much material and it is so a lot of the form that you see in these is difficult to inaccessible it has to be translated into journalism the people who understand the guardian declined to give us an interview but did send a statement saying they redacted cables for two reasons to protect sources who

might be placed at risk or to protect the guardian from legal action under u.k. libel law but being sued is something the guardian might have to get used to wiki leaks founder julian assange is threatening legal action over the newspapers book which i thought was a ledges contains malicious libel wiki leaks made a political choice when it decided to publish through the guardian a left leaning newspaper that takes a liberal line but certainly in this case it has to be the wrong one and with the guardian's recent publication of the book portraying the newspaper its dealings with wiki leaks in a deeply and a favorable light it's a relationship that's gone truly sour your party loved it well you can always question more and have your say on the stories we're covering on our website r.t.e. dot com here's what's on life for you right now advising other countries seems to be a must for any politician but that doesn't necessarily mean they're qualified to do

so well find out what dominates the corridors of capitol hill bloopers directs. and there are some saying it's among us who stumbled across more than a hundred thousand dollars in cash in northern russia decided to take on a stop and return to the police on the simple question is why all the details that are to dot com. former us secretary of the. felt has lifted the lid on life at the helm of the war on terror by publishing his memoirs and titled known and unknown it charts how he served under two american presidents gerald ford and george w. bush the eight hundred page work defends the iraq invasion and says guantanamo base detention center provided the only effective way of obtaining intelligence well brian becker from the antiwar 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 c.i. a not only not only the guantanamo bay which is the un described as a torture center but all sorts of black cold 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 is nothing but torture in going at the center of that at the top of the command was donald rumsfeld secretary of defense.

and while the u.s. officials work to clear their names and justify the human rights loophole of guantanamo hundreds of thousands of iraqis continue to suffer from the u.s. led invasion all faced with growing sectarian violence and religious persecution iraq's christian minority has little choice but to flee. in my reports those it shows are putting their lives in danger. every night miriam gets ready for bed with her family but it's not her bed it's not even her house miriam and her family are christian iraqis who have been forced to flee from baghdad to the semi autonomous kurdish region because they become targets of extremist groups in the country in two thousand and seven miriam was hit by a bomb that was planted outside her house the lack i went out with my arm just to buy some chocolate and come back i went out and didn't see anything i just had the bomb and i fell to the ground miriam was lying in the street with her foot dangling from her leg her father i had rushed outside. i saw my

daughter lying on the ground it was a live in my my daughter was lying in the growing and people were running shouting everything was covered in dust and shards of glass so i picked up my daughter with her legs dangling i almost lost it i was shouting my daughter's she's been hit by a bomb. luckily i had was able to get her to a doctor who could repair her leg but others have not been so lucky in october last year fifty six people were killed by militants when they attacked the our lady of salvation church in baghdad in the following weeks dozens more were killed in attacks across the country many fear that eventually christians will be driven out of iraq completely of the eight hundred thousand christians in the country before two thousand and three almost half of fled in the past month alone four thousand have moved to the comparative safety of the northern kurdish region here they can

worship and live in peace but in living their homes they've lost absolutely everything many like miriam's father and are forced to make a living cleaning toilets in bars and restaurants these women said i served first seven years in the military under saddam hussein i'm an iraqi christian and i don't have a square foot of land to my name why what's my crime many in the church feel that countries in the west are responsible. americans are liars we don't trust them their reputation is terrible because everywhere they've been they have light the us train the sunni and shia and they just watch while they kill us it is impossible not to see all these murders but they don't get involved. it's the end of a long day and time for the family to go to bed. everyone gets ready and eventually the lights are switched off in the darkness and uncertainty miriam and the rest of her family are left to dream about and hope for

a better tomorrow sebastian meyer r t so i'm in the iraq. and coming up for you next hour teenage kicks. the legal drinking age in russia is eighteen years old so how easy is it for a teenager to get his or her hands on some hard liquor we sent our hidden cameras to find out what fuels under age boys addiction and who is to blame. for all this is r t i'll be back with a recap of this week's top stories in just a few moments.

well when one deals with water it has 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 amount of damage done by aerial bombs by napalm boy chemicals that whether it's sonic booms or factory uring mammals or it's the burning oil fields here in iraq or it's destroyed reefs in the pacific for women purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states the. shall be. in a war protest. against widespread long term and severe

damage the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions one has taken exception to that. be easy to. achieve.