the solti are new a cold chill would result in a cold that really pulls a toe in the current riviera to tone with interest to tell me. this week's top stories egypt's military dissolved the previous parliament and suspended the constitution of the president mubarak steps down power to the army while the west hailed it as a triumph of democracy and this one day it external and gender could be behind the back of. russia's most wanted terrorist don't mark claims responsibility for most deadly addled lost in january that's exposed lapses in the country's security at major transport hubs. on whistleblower juliana's songes in legal limbo waiting to see if he'll be extradited from london to stockholm to face questions of the sex crime migrations his supporters claim it's washington's attempts to ensnare.

hello welcome to the program this is also a weekly review of our timeline story now taking power from deposed president hosni mubarak egypt's supreme council has dissolved parliament and suspended the constitution under which the country was ruled by martial law three decades the military has begun clearing eighteen days was of debris including makeshift shelters and burned out cars from square in cairo it's been the epicenter of the nationwide uprising that brought hundreds of thousands of egyptians on to the streets demanding change after nearly three weeks of protests and battles president hosni mubarak resigned and want to ask president barack obama called a great victory for democracy but it's also his damage as you can now report says he has a. crucial financial and political support for the mubarak regime has raised questions

about washington's sudden change of spirit. 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 by the on the 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 the pentagon don't always very very close to robert gates they talked on the phone at least five times this past week or so all because washington will be supervising any sing that happens that's unlikely to satisfy the overwhelming desire of many egyptians for a 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 have fed up of being bullied by foreign powers and forced into peace treaties which don't do wassa 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. 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 and we own him these are puppet dictator he does what we tell him because he gives 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 if that 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 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 a leader just based on how convenient they are for the west rather than how much they can do for their people gonna check on our t. washington d.c. . and all things journalist afshin rattansi told us that while mubarak may be gone the political climate in egypt and the region will remain tense. well i think the

people in tahrir square certainly don't want to see field-marshal turn and. vice president that they don't want these people in power people like mama del baradar you do have close ties with international institutions such as the international monetary fund and those kinds of globalized institutions how far these people can really play a part egypt's economy is in the doldrums it's in chaos a lot of those companies that are stationed there have been stealing the money so a lot of the egyptian people might see the companies can be named b.p. shell trans ocean the masses of companies there that are enjoying huge privileges tony blair is really a reverse barometers if he says that they could be a breakthrough of democracy in the maghreb would probably have to be a bit pessimistic for the peoples of north africa i think algeria is the one to watch the french are certainly watching it with is because there are oil interests there the people have suffered have not benefited from masses of money masses of

exports we'll have to see what happens in algeria and i think that's the country to watch at the moment. and as political discontent spreads throughout the region thousands of all derrius have been gathering in by capitol to demand that presidents resignation ten thousand generous turned out hope for a reform rally banned by the government on saturday the state deployed more than twenty five thousand police to prevent an uprising similar to recenter evolves into an easy and egypt has been under a state of emergency for nineteen days allowing us overseas to our can or public demonstrations human rights campaign it said police detained about four hundred people but there were no injuries reported. ahead for you this hour find out what u.k. is going to newspaper is going through a bitter break out with its former collaborator wiki leaks and has even been threatened with libel charges by the whistle blowing web site. and that time will

be plied with brockie christians forced to flee their homes after being continuously targeted by extremist groups. this week russia's most wanted terrorist dr claimed responsibility for last month's moscow airport suicide bombing which killed thirty six while some observers question marks claim the outrages forcing their sources to rest think security in the country and as president medvedev discovered himself the situation leaves much to be desired. russia's most wanted terrorist claims thirty six more innocent lives have been taken by his deadly complain gittin born. this week he was the mastermind behind january's bombing at the my idea of the airport more of made the claims in a video message posted on an extremist website he described the suicide bombing as his special open ration and promised more terrorist attacks security experts say

the masseur to reinforce is why he's no longer described as just a chechen warlord but as an international terrorist. around the world you know their own down to the germans operating in parts of afghanistan but some have been skeptical whether mark was indeed behind the bombing the terrorist is stalking him they see 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 grandeur to his actions and therefore it's not always clear how much authority he really has in fact from within his own group there was a rebellion i think august of last year when he resigned and then he would make 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 militant groups or where they can simply putting himself in

a position of their own near in order to gain more authority in itself meanwhile this week security forces arrested three suspected accomplices of the former all three are from the north caucasus republic of english and are believed to have known about the attack planned by twenty year old daniel 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 be off some of the tragedy to 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. 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 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 no there's a church well at least you have someplace 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. they started hearing in london the wiki leaks founder julian assange has been adjourned until the twenty fourth of february a sonnet appeared in court on friday as he continues his fight against being sense to sweden where he faces questioning of a sex crime allegations which were previously dropped it claims the case is

politically motivated and has been fabricated the u.s. can see his extradition from sweden autism is now explores the 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 flat pack furniture store dollar meatballs top model and long bombshells may not be so neutral after all american influence is everywhere 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 the same sixtieth time it's an awful film it's the worst propaganda in politics through the back door like sweden's ties with nato you have the military

and some politicians cooperate intensively with the united states and with nato and the large mass of the populace. totally unaware of all the stuff going on but it's not just what swedes are taking in but also what their leaders like 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 the so called neutral nation they get. all the benefits of being an intelligence partner of the united states without the baggage of being in nato it's a partnership decades in the making there is been a willingness to. do the errands of the united states over many years from. questions have. making asylum seekers in sweden they are both to the cia buddies is particularly strong now with

a raid leaning government in sweden and with the u.s. 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 you see there's a you know tamil in my mind as 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 us thomas von stroheim is claimed to have handed the cia asylum seekers from sweden who were then tortured the

questions about neutrality became even even clearer thanks to see. all of the documents from me to you to leave the big question now is there enough time in the british justice is to protect julian assange from the united states and sweet america might keep blowing his whistle and he said now we are too fucking stupid. we can leaks founder julian assange has also said for another high court battle he's accused the guardian newspaper of militias libel over its tell all account of the online whistleblower the british daily is also being blamed for adjusting wiki leaks diplomatic cables to think it's efficient at atauro rather policy lore and it has more on the rift between the x. friends. they were bedfellows in exposing us 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 did not used one of the alleged missions focuses on iranian dissident politicians and the guardian we as well so. when they don't want such things to be known to their ideals they will really want the world else all the view they've got the old everything that was good to a ball girl position. in such a way that either of the guards. any that are of the killer would never know how those people themselves 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 freezing problems of ultimate direction and leadership specific opposition figures are. 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 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 the intended disappearance would influence because our professionals to allow the company to obtain business in other words bribing officials for 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 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 morse. 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 editors so a lot of the form that you see in these is difficult to inaccessible it has to be translated into journalism to be able to 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 newspaper's book which i saw 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 of a book portraying the newspaper's dealings with wiki leaks in a deeply under favorable light it's a relationship that's gone truly sour your average r.t. london. and you can always find more and have your sound the stories we're covering

than our website dot com and here's what's in line for you right now. the euro twenty twelve championship promises a new wave of excitement and a brand new sound track to find out about the traditional instrument which host is trying to accord with. in atlanta months of space travel and finally about to pale with a landing on the red planet find out how the crew of the simulator mission is preparing to go where no man has gone before. former u.s. defense second. donald rumsfeld is speaking out about his time at the at the head of america's so-called war on terror a new man on entitled and runs its chart he said it's the u.s.

president gerald ford and george w. bush who told the fox news channel the detention center at guantanamo bay is one of the world's finest prison systems and brian becker from the antiwar answer coalition says if franks to rumsfeld that they won't see the us as a heavy business of torture it's 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 to not only the guantanamo bay which was 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 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 center at the top of the command was donald rumsfeld secretary of defense. a lack of stability in iraq i don't go in sectarian violence having died consequences for religious minorities that hundreds of thousands of christians have been forced to move to more secure areas like northern kurdish regions and sebastien my reports those who refused to leave 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 black 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 but. i saw my daughter lying like a groan it was eleven my my daughter was lying the growing and people were running shouting 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 gate 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 in 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 in the military ask try which killed dozens of civilians in afghanistan almost two years ago up to one hundred and forty two people were killed the majority of them civilians as a result of a german ordered strike on two fuel tankers hijacked by a ton of militants thanks to the start of political storm in germany claiming the jobs of several top military officials merkel described as baseless claims that her government covered up information about it and so it wouldn't affect the election campaign at the time the chance of a testimony parliamentary inquiry came

a couple of weeks after german lawmakers voted to extend the military mission in afghanistan by one year but jones wagner an antiwar activist says the us is dictating a german presence in the country. 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 game in these pakistan afghanistan and iraq wars is totally different from any kind of humanitarian mission or. democracy 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 and of u.s.

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 world currency. got plenty more stories coming your way next hour including the problem under-aged russian gangsters are finding it easy to buy spirits without being asked for id as a lot of law enforcement is leaving the country with thousands of teenage alcoholics. and with more guns per person than any other european country many so why some wondering if it's time to finally say after how well tom and. plus american dream or american not smack cities across the u.s. the hard way to ask the government faced with

a record debt slashes wages and council vital saps is. that of a week's top stories i'll be back with the headlines in just a human.