the week's top stories here on our egypt's military dissolves the previous parliament suspends the constitution after president mubarak steps down. to the western powers as a triumph of democracy analysts to wonder if an external agenda could actually be behind the events. of most wanted terrorists. lost in january. and the country's security major transport hubs. in legal limbo waiting to see if he'll be extradited from london to face questions over. his supporters claim it's washington's attempt to ensnare.

you with r.t. as a recovery in the weeks stories that made headlines the military supreme council in egypt has dissolved the parliament suspended the constitution after president mubarak stepped down and had to power to the army following eighteen days of unrest across egypt the military authorities have now begun clearing the makeshift. square it had been the epicenter of the protests for hundreds of thousands of people the president's resignation on friday was hailed by the u.s. president as a victory for democracy however. reports washington's support for the ousted president has many questioning the sincerity of obama sent. hosley

mubarak from power is eventually departure 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 is 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. this past week 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 imp. our buy american support and huge payments to making him one of the richest men in the world 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 them because he has so much money he's gotten probably sixty seventy billion dollars and i understand his family probably has sixty or seventy billion dollars stashed away in swiss accounts and other places around the world as you say 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 rule 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. well the mood of discontent in the region has also been spreading to algeria where thousands gathered to demand the resignation of president to flicker more than thirty thousand policemen have been deployed to prevent an uprising symbols of that of what happened in egypt hundreds of demonstrators have been detained in clashes

across the capital algeria's the country has been under a state of emergency for nineteen years allowing both already used to public demonstrations in the wake of the. the egypt government said it would lift emergency rule. while you're watching r t it's good to have you with us today and we have plenty more ahead for you this hour including you can find out why the. wiki leaks and. libel charges following whistle blowing web site. look at the iraqi christians. being continuously targeted by extremist groups. well this week one of the world's most wanted terrorists claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on moscow's busiest airport last month the deadly bombing drew attention serious security lapses at transport hub

switch as president of discovered himself haven't all been addressed. reports. 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 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 operate 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 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 and then he read 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 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 it here 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 as

the security operation gathers pace the president shifted the focus from what has been down to sort out the on. so much 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 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 baksh 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 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. are teeth. and is now at ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital the extradition hearing of wiki leaks founder julian assange has been adjourned until the end of february he appeared in court in london on friday as he continues his fight against extradition to sweden where he faces questioning over sex crime allegations he claims the case has been fabricated so the u.s. can use sweden to get its hands on him and he said now explores the cozy relationship between washington and stockholm. sweden 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 long 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. the deer hunter film was shown again on swedish t.v. for simply sixtieth time it's an awful film it's the worst propaganda politics through the back door like swedens times with nato you have the military and some politicians cooperate intensively with the united states to 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 a son 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 of. making asylum seekers in sweden. both to the cia buddies 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 mobile. he is a you know tamil in my mind he's a crook and he's a criminal and he 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 bostrom 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 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 now i r t stockholm sweden. meantime journalists are wrong or right now i believe that both sweden and the u.k. will face heavy pressure to comply with washington's interests in the case the world should know that the united states is the world's greatest terrorist in 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 it makes it 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

and 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 can. the united states i mean united states has so powerful they can they can harm economically and politically both the swedish government in the british government. and we can be found there is also set for another high court battle he's accused the guardian newspaper of quote malicious libel over its tell all account of the online whistleblower the british daily is also being blamed for adjusting wiki leaks diplomatic cables to fit its own editorial policy artes nor emirate has more on the rift between the fall of bedfellows and exposing u.s. embassy secrets to the world. 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. live in. they don't want such things to be known for their own deals they will basically want the world. of the view because everything that was negative. in search of the guards. would never know how those people who view. 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. courageous who would if you were institutional allies hatami cautious and weak in cables about the activities of western companies in kazakhstan 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 fines. going to million to agents would do in town the disappearance would influence because our officials to allow the company to obtain business in other words bribing officials for contracts two of the companies allegedly involved are british gas and any italy's gas giant but 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 it 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. 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 the only way it could be done this so much material and it is so a lot of the form it easy to use is difficult to inaccessible it has to be

translated to 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 that being sued is something the guardian might have to get used to wiki leaks founder julian assange is threatening legal action over the newspaper's book which i saw as alleges 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 lie but certainly in this case it has to be the wrong one and with the guardian's recent publication. never heard portraying the newspaper its dealings with wiki leaks it deeply under favorable lights it's a relationship that's gone truly sour you were at it. well the moscow correspondent for the guardian newspaper is now back in the russian capital after being denied

entry to the country last week luke harding had been stopped at passport control upon arrival and sent back to london russia's foreign ministry said the journalist hadn't followed the rules for accreditation to work in the country and had visited border zones and classified areas without permission the reporter was told he was free to return and work in russia as soon as he read these breaches. well you can always find more and have your say on the stories we're covering you can do so on our website at r.t. dot com and check out some of the items waiting for you on line of right now at the euro two thousand and twelve championship promises a new wave of excitement and a brand new soundtrack find out about the traditional instrument which hopes to strike a chord with found. months of space travel are finally about to pay off with a landing on the red planet and find out how cruel simulated mission is preparing to go where no man has gone before.

he with r.t. live from moscow is now about twenty minutes past the hour and former u.s. secretary of defense donald rumsfeld has lifted the lid on life helm of the war on terror by publishing his memoirs in titled known and unknown charts how he served under two american presidents gerald ford and george w. bush in an interview with the fox news channel he not only defended the iraq invasion but also called the kuantan a mowbray's detention center as one of the finest prison systems in the world investigative journalist. says washington's former knew much less than he is trying to pretend he did. while the quote is known knowns and they're known and it's one

of those famous mysterious quotes that he was he often made that seemed. mysterious but in fact i think merely just slip of the tongue was rather than you know sort of some sort of poetic imagination and i actually think that there were many known knowns including the idea that if you do an invasion an invasion. it was and even if the invasion was not justified you have to do it with what you know which is you cannot actually. control a country with one hundred fifty thousand troops and you find out whether or not they're actually weapons of mass destruction as opposed to proceeding on an unprovable which is what he did. so by him calling it known. think may be a clever use the phrase would actually proves how little he knew and how little he would he acknowledges you know his crimes ongoing sectarian violence is forcing

iraq's religious minority to safe haven in a relatively calm northern region of kurdistan hundreds of thousands of christians have fled there in the years following the two thousand and three us led invasion sebastian my reports from iraq those who are putting their lives every night danger on a daily basis. gets ready for 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 groans it was a live in my my daughter was lying in the growing and people were running. everything was covered in dust and shards of glass i picked up my daughter with her legs dangling i almost lost it i was shouting my daughter is damn good 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. 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 meyer r t so i'm in the iraq. german chancellor angela merkel has faced questioning over a military strike which killed dozens of civilians in afghanistan almost two years ago up to one hundred forty two people were killed the majority of them being civilians as a result of the strike on two fuel tankers hijacked by taliban militants the incident sparked a political storm in germany claiming the job is of several top military officials merkel reject the claim the parties and coalition government covered up the incident so it wouldn't affect results at a key election time the chancellor's testimony came a couple of weeks after germany's parliament voted to extend the military mission in afghanistan by one year racking up an antiwar activist and analyst says it's the u.s. who determines when nato forces should withdraw from the region. and germany mission in afghanistan basically will end when the united states foreign policy wants it to

and that's the basic line to what it boils down to the overall gain in these party store in afghanistan and iraq wars is totally different from any kind of humanitarian mission or. democracy or mission for democracy or anything like that in the long run everything will be done to maintain a strategic dominance of this region by united states and nato countries germany only benefits in the context of thinking. of the. resource wars of us dominated foreign policy the europeans and the nato countries our allies in this system and as i said they try to benefit from resource influence and of nato domination for the middle east and for the

energy rich countries and for the support of the dollar system as a world currency. now you all with r.t. we have a plenty more stories coming your way next hour in the clue big american dream or american nightmare cities across the u.s. are hard hit as the government faced with record debt slashes wages and cuts vital services. and with more guns per person than in any other european country any swiss so wondering if it's time to finally say farewell to arms. plus the problem of all underage drinking russian youngsters are finding it easy to buy spirits without being asked for id as a lack of law enforcement is leaving the country with thousands of teenage alcoholics. all of those our stories are still to come here at r.t. but do stay with us in a moment we'll do a recap of our top stories. to

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