recount the story this week president hosni mubarak's resignation by weeks of massive protests. for democracy around the world at some point in. the west that is. the most wanted terrorist. claimed responsibility. or. killed thirty six. percent in security lapses at major transport hubs. u.s. influence. to be growing from. terrorist attacks to nato support when america wants something they get it but why and what's in it for this so-called

neutral nation. a very warm welcome. as we are running down the week's top stories well this week has finally seen and more than a fortnight of unrest in egypt as the country's president finally decided to step down. to the military for a period of transition the army has begun dismantling makeshift tents in cairo's tahrir square in an attempt to restore traffic flow but some reports say soldiers have encountered resistance from some protestors hosni mubarak's location though is still unclear with contradicting reports suggesting he's either in his residence. or he's 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 year support for the

dictator to person sarah t. out of 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 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 close relationship with the pensacola don't always very very close to robert gates they talked on the fold at least five die 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 u.s. 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 u.s. 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 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 carious 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. when i also spoke with author william and who says that mubarak's demise has become

a u.s. priority after the longtime washington ally dropped its 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 bringing young egyptian activists to the united states sometimes receiving them at the state department sometimes at the national endowment for democracy or freedom house and these are all the quote unquote private and she also specialized in routine training 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 policies of iraq we should be personally gulf nations and these are many levanon 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 now

political unrest is sweeping further through the region thousands of algerians took to the streets of their capital to demand the resignation of president abdelaziz bouteflika police detained more than four hundred demonstrators in clashes across the city area has officially been in a state of emergency for nineteen years allowing north already east of banned public demonstrations protestors ignore the ruling following uprisings in tunisia and egypt forcing algerian authorities to reconsider the declaration. and coming up next hour here on r.t. we spoke to the voice on the u.s. streets an activist on a political 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 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 humanitary. in a mission to help the people in gaza in order for us to get to gaza we had to jump through so much. 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. with r.t. live from moscow now russia's most wanted terrorist model has claimed that he orchestrated the deadly suicide attack on moscow's dome idea out of an airport last month 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

katrina going to open 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. chin 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 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. 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 ladin is 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 his resignation and the younger members apparently wanted him out so it's not quite clear where they who is in charge of a barge a number of these militant 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 it here and are believed to have known about the attack planned by a twenty year old at the level of 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 mark of the tragedy what is being done to prevent similar tragedies from happening again the best thing to do he decided is to go on inspection personally. he check security at one of moscow's 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 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. 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. r t. you are with r t live from the russian capital and coming your way in just a matter of minutes out of love you get a song has to assume one of wiki leaks publishing partners the guardian for libel there are claims that the newspaper redacted the cables in line with this editorial agenda plus. 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 camera to find out what feels underage booze addiction and who's to blame. this week wiki leaks founder julian assange faced extradition hearings in london the verdict on whether he will be handed over to sweden for questioning over sexual

assault allegations. expected later this month and with the u.s. reportedly preparing its own case against a song many are seeing a show conspiracy between the two countries and he said no it has more on the long 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 american influence is everywhere from food to feature films but in sweden it seems to be supersized just the other day the deer hunter film was shown again on swedish t.v. for the. sixtieth time it's an awful film it's the worst propaganda

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 and with nato and large mass of the population being totally unaware of all the stuff going on but it's not just once 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. question seven. making asylum seekers in sweden available to the cia buddies.

it 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 a son 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 love and he is a you know two million homeowners it is a criminal only ought to be hunted down and 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 u.s.

thomas bostrom 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 are not 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 r.t. stockholm sweden. meantime journalist iran right now we're told us here at odds here earlier that sweden and the u.k. will face heavy pressure to comply with washington's interests on this ongoing case . the world should know that the united states is the world's greatest terrorist and all 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

a admits it in his own autobiography that he gave orders for torture so i'm skeptical that just because one knows how badly the devil is that that will curtail them from from prosecuting. on the 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 and the british government. and then wiki leaks founder julian assange is threatening to sue the u.k. as a god in newspaper over its tell all book about the online whistleblower the newspaper is also a big hughes of redacting

a good diplomatic cables that received from the web site in order to fill its own editorial 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 and the guardian we each. have. they don't want such things to be known for their own deals they will basically

want to cover the world and so view they cut out everything that was negative a boy or girl position. in such a way the reader of the guardian. only that of the killer would never know how those people who will view. the guardian reports early have been a is just another political liar an intriguer but what it leaves out is his wider description of the opposition as lacking organization and preaching problems of ultimate direction leadership specific opposition figures are. mousavi stubborn but not charismatic. courageous but with a few institutional allies tommy cautious and weak in cables about the activities of western companies in kazakstan the guardian failed 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 would turn the disappearance would influence because artificial to allow the company to obtain business in other words bribing officials to contracts to 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 charles who

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 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 a book portraying the newspaper its dealings with wiki leaks in it deeply unfavorable lights it's a relationship that's gone truly sour you're a bit artsy young to. question more stories we're covering you can do that. advising other countries seems to be a must for any politician but it doesn't necessarily mean they're qualified to do so find out what the capitol hill. or if. there are some saints among us a man who stumbled across a hundred dollars of cash and russia decided to take. and return it to the police a simple question is why all the details. bells

are ringing here in russia alcohol use becomes more widespread than ever before gangsters find it easy to buy booze without being asked for id with store owners or scraping punishment for selling alcohol to minors. the stores of moscow to find out how accessible alcohol is to teenagers. these teenagers just may be russia's future and it's looking rather bleak. the problem is that kids start drinking around fourteen fifteen years of age regularly dependence it takes a few years to form so when they are brought to us the process has already been forged and not always we can pull them out of this tough situation according to n.g.o.s there are anywhere from twenty to sixty thousand in the country and many blame the fact that it's far too easy for a teenager to buy alcohol 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're going to follow a couple of enthusiasm a russian youth organization into that liquor store right across the street which is one of the largest supermarkets selling hard alcohol to find out whether or not they will be successful in getting their hands on a couple of bottles of whiskey we've been in with a hidden camera but the experiment didn't work the first time around so no go hear the teenage girls were not sold any alcohol they were else for identification when they didn't provide it they were refused service but we're going to go to another place just down the street and see what they will be able to get some vodka or beer there follow us. sure enough each of them had no trouble getting a beer from this. when confronted this series woman got defensive but didn't seem too fazed with breaking the law that way though you know how many times did we tell you not to sell alcohol to the under-aged and you still continue to do that.

unfortunately practically. every second kiosks or supermarkets sell cigarettes are now called to adolescence where we have to mark positive tendencies to russian parliamentarians have been trying to implement stringent punishments for those who sell alcohol and cigarettes to minors but so far there has been very little progress parents are responsible for the children until they turn eighteen and i think if we make parents pay a fine when the kids smoke or drink we will raise the level of responsibility because presently teenagers do all these things practically with a parent's permission. several routes of this problem alcohol became an intrinsic part of the russian culture after world war two we have a tradition to drink for any reason and that's a huge problem we need to tackle fortunately many youngsters themselves realize the scope of the problem part of it as life they want to relax to feel grown up but i don't think if you drink two three bottles of beer you automatically become an

adult as things stand there is little consequence or punishment for kiosk or store owners willing to cash in on minors health but it could be the country's future at stake it even goes corti moscow. when it's on half past the hour here in the russian capital you with r.t. now time for some other headlines from around the world this hour two people have been violent clashes between pro-government demonstrators in yemen a crowd of two thousand protesters collided with a counter-rally of supporters of president ali abdullah saleh armed 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 yemeni leader has been in power for three decades and has attempted to silence the unrest 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 new scene 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 house increased sea patrols and requested additional aid from the european union the authorities fear that further arrivals will come in the next few days from north africa including algeria and egypt. and switzerland is holding a referendum on a long standing tradition of owning guns following military service opinion poll suggests the country is evenly divided over the issue with proponents so far on restrictions pointing to the highest rate of gun suicide in europe opponents fear storing firearms in public arsenals would cripple the national militia forces so it's a and has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world with the estimated number of firearms in the country at over two million. while a cargo ship is

a broken into and sunken off the coast of sochi that's in southern russia the storm caused the nose of the ship to break off and sinker. the vessel arrived from turkey on sunday morning with a crew of about twelve ten sailors have been saved to australia missing crushers emergency ministry says there's no danger danger from any fuel from leaking from the ship. and i'll be back with headlines shortly do stay with us.

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