the story this week egyptian president hosni mubarak's resignation preceded by weeks of protests. around the. point. that. the. most wanted terrorist. responsibility for january. killed thirty six and led to intensify checks into security lapses at major transport hubs. influence. to be growing. to nato support when america wants something they get it why and what's in it for this so-called neutral

nation. with our. top stories of today this week welcome to the program this week has finally seen an end to more than a fortnight of rest in egypt as the country's president finally decided to step down. the military for a period of transition the army has begun dismantling the makeshift. tahrir square to restore the traffic flow but some reports say that soldiers have encountered resistance from protesters hosni mubarak's location is still unclear with contradicting reports suggesting he's either in his residence. or is fled to the united arab emirates his resignation on friday was hailed by the u.s. president as

a victory for democracy however. reports washington's thirty years worth of support for the dictator took the sincerity of 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 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 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 said 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 five 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 pants man 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 them we own him he's our puppet dictator he does what we tell him because he gets 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 in other places around the world as you say is the second largest recipient of

american aid in the world after its neighbor it's well 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 in 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 got a check on our t. washington d.c.

meantime william a spring of christians against the nato aggression says the swiss bank has decided to freeze mubarak's accounts just a day before his resignation shows a massive amount of hypocrisy. suddenly the european union wakes up after thirty years to the fact that there had been major violations of human rights and the swiss government suddenly decides to sequester at somebody assets this is quite unacceptable what have they been doing for the previous thirty years longer barack was actually torturing people. putting down you know opposition by force we turn it in the last week or so we've seen the greedy of the barbarity of the mubarak regime and suddenly the swiss bankers wake up to the fact that they should seaquest rate the assets what about the assets of other dictators who are still in power now i think it's appalling. well political unrest sweeping further

through the region thousands of algerians took to the streets of their capital to demand the resignation of president abdullah disease a beautifully police detained more than four hundred demonstrators in clashes across the city algeria has officially been in a state of emergency for nineteen years allowing authorities to ban public demonstrations protesters though ignore the ruling following uprisings in tunisia and egypt forcing algerian authorities to reconsider that declaration. well coming your way in about twenty minutes time here on our t.v. we spoke to the voices on american streets activist political rapper and one who says everything's in place for a revolt to happen in america. the same set of conditions that existed in cairo exist in new york city exist 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 wrong with it and we began to understand that not only did the government what was the controlled by bureaucratic politicians in . 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. you are with are to live from moscow now russia's most wanted terrorist model off he's claimed that he orchestrated the deadly suicide attack on moscow's airport just last month and the incident drew attention to serious lapses in security at transport hubs which the country's president himself has discovered haven't all been addressed. but in a culture of

a looks at this week's developments. russia's most wanted terrorist claims thirty six more innocent lives have been taken by his deadly complain g.h. in-born said this week he was the mastermind behind january's bombing at the my deah 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 operate 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 these groups. asli round the world you know their own downfall. in parts of afghanistan but some have been skeptical whether morrow 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. his and if you will a 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 then he is 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 caucasus republic of english 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 as the security operation gathered pace the president shifted the focus from what has

been down to sort out the aftermath of the tragedy 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 checked security at one of moscow's busiest railway stations and was left unimpressed to say the least. 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 specs and didn't reveal any says the t.v. either and just to compound concerns no police in sight. we've walked through the whole station and i haven't seen a single policeman no police but there's a church shop 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 he democrat children r t. you are with r.t. coming our way in just a matter of minutes here a look at the plight iraqi christians who are forced to flee their homes to escape sectarian violence. with germany's chancellor is quiz over the deaths of dozens of afghan civilians in an anti taliban airstrike that took place about two years ago. this week wiki leaks founder julian assange has faced extradition hearings in london the verdict on whether he will be handed over to sweden for questioning over sexual assault allegations is expected later this month and with the u.s. reportedly preparing its own case against a songe many are seeing a shared conspiracy between the two countries artie's and he said now it has more

on the long lasting u.s. 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 american influence is everywhere from food to feature films but in sweden it seems to be supersized just the other day the deerhunter film was shown again on swedish t.v. for simply sixtieth time it's an awful film it's the worst propaganda in politics through the back door like sweden's times with nato you have the military and some politicians cross pretty intensively with the united states and with 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 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 ariens of the united states over many years from. questions have. 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 assad. the 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 mobile and he is a hero to million homeowners it 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 the question about neutrality became even even clearer thanks to some of the documents

from exactly. 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. the head of the u.k.'s pirate party in law's case says there's overwhelming support for julian assigns among the public but there's a risk he could even end up though in the guantanamo bay cuba. the extradition case is going to be used as an as a pretext by the united states to get hold of junior sars which. we think there is a very real danger julian assange could be actually taken to the united states even possibly detained in quantity. and actually basically pursuit of some kind of espionage 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 extradited to sweden and what i'm seeing in terms of how people are 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. you're with the live from moscow our next hour we've got more on another big fight song could have on its hands this time with one of the wiki leaks publishing partners that of the guardian the british newspaper has recently been accused of rejecting the leaks in line with this editorial agenda. former u.s. secretary of defense donald rumsfeld has lifted the lid on life at the helm of the war on terror by publishing his memoirs entitled known and unknown charts how he served under two american presidents gerald ford and george w.

bush eight hundred page work defends the iraq invasion and says guantanamo bay detention center provided the only effective way of obtaining intelligence well brian becker from the antiwar 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 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 worked to clear their names and. defy the human rights loophole of guantanamo hundreds of thousands of iraqis continue to suffer from the u.s. led invasion now faced with a growing of sectarian violence and a religious persecution iraq's christian minority has little choice but to flee so fast in my reports those who chose to remain 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 grown it was eleven my my daughter was lying in the growing and people were running show tng everything was covered in dust and shards of glass so i picked up my daughter with her leg dangling i almost lost it i was shouting my daughter's date 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 so i served for 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 meier r t superman the iraq. german chancellor angela merkel face questioning over a military airstrike which killed scores of civilians in afghanistan almost two years ago 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 the majority of them being civilians the massacre left the country in shock and allegations of a cover up calls the resignation of dozens of officials including the defense minister but the chancellor deny that she had held back the true number of civilian

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

are lying 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 there is 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 just not turning out twenty five minutes past the hour here in moscow you would see now bear in mind you can always question more and have your say on the stories we're covering here on our website that's r.t. dot com and here are a few of the items waiting for you on line up right now now advising other countries it seems to be a must for any u.s. politician but that doesn't necessarily mean they're qualified to do so find out what dominates the corridors of capitol hill luke was or ignorance. there are some saints among us a man who stumbled across more than one hundred thousand dollars of cash in northern russia decided to take the honest route and return it to police the simple

question is why those details at r.t. dot com. a cargo ship has broken into two pieces and sunken off the coast of sochi in southern russia the storm caused the nose of the ship to break off and sink the vessel arrived from turkey on sunday morning with a crew of. ten sailors have been saved two are still missing washers emergency ministry says there's no danger of any fuel leaking from the ship. well let's get some other headlines now from around the world and two people have been injured in clashes between anti and pro-government demonstrators in yemen a crowd of two thousand protesters collided with a counter-rally of supporters of president ali abdullah saleh. with clubs and knives pro-government activists broke through the police barrier and chased the protesters demonstrations to oust the president began on saturday when thousands of

protesters flooded the country's capital the yemeni leader has been in power for three decades and has attempted to silence on arrest by promising not to run again his term ends in two thousand and thirteen. italy has declared a humanitarian emergency following the recent influx of over three thousand two new zealand 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 government has increased to see patrols and requested additional aid from the european union their forty's fear of further wife calls in the coming days from north africa including algeria and egypt. switzerland is holding a referendum on a long standing tradition of owning guns following military service opinion polls suggest the country is evenly divided over the issue with proponents of foreign restrictions pointing to the highest rate of gun suicide in europe opponents fear

storing firearms in public arsenals would cripple the national militia forces switzerland has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world with the estimated number of farms in the country at over two million. and i'll be back with the headlines in just a few moments to stay with us. comes

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