margaret. you know. what you know what's really happening to the global economy is really large on march. fifth for example stories egypt's military dissolved parliament and suspend the constitution after president obama steps down and power to the army while the west hailed it as a triumph of democracy and wonder if an external adjourns it could be behind the bad. russia's most wanted terrorist group more of claims responsibility for january's small scale at full blast which killed thirty six that time has prompted a huge security review at major transport cards revealing this ystem spoke up from perfect. whistle kludging that sounds must wait until later this month to see if he'll be extradited from london to stop all over sexual assault charges his supporters claim that locations which were previously dropped out politically

motivated tests to be glad to see this trial. hello and welcome to the program this is a weekly review of our top story now taking power from deposed president hosni mubarak egypt's own forces supreme council has dissolved parliament and suspended the constitution under which the country was ruled by mulching rule for nearly three decades the military has begun clearing a thousand days worth of debris including makeshift shelters and burned out cars that they have spray in cairo it has been the epicenter of the nationwide uprising that hundreds of some lessons of egyptians on to the streets demanding change after nearly three weeks of protests and battled president hosni mubarak resigned in what u.s. president barack obama called a great victory for democracy. but there's also he's going to turn

a report was thirty years of crucial financial and political support for the mubarak regime has raised questions about what a sudden change of spirit. hosni mubarak out step from power is eventual 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 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 mubarak 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 and the egyptian troops there next president they have a very close 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 or because washington will be supervising any sing that happens that's unlikely to satisfy the overwhelming desire as many egyptians for change which drove the revolutionary events of the past week 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 of being their top henchmen in the arab world when a blind eye was turning 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 imp. hour by american support and huge payments to making him one of the richest men in the world that 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 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 yet there's the second largest recipient of american aid in the world after its neighbor israel the u.s. is pumping billions of dollars into the egyptian military which gives washington

huge control over the running of the country and its future egypt now celebrates the end of rule by an autocratic leader restricted political freedoms and economic congress so too did people rejoice for a time on the streets of charity a stand ukrainian recent years after so-called democratic revolutions with western approval that 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 gonna check on our t. washington d.c. . and author and journalist afshin rattansi told us that while mubarak may be gone

the political climate in egypt and the region will remain tense for some time well i think the people in tahrir square certainly don't want to see field marshal tantawi and. vice president 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 be 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 hawkeye's because their 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. political discontent spreads through the region thousands of all dreariness have been gathering in that capital to demand that president's resignation ten thousand people turned out for a reform rally banned by the government on saturday the state's deployed more than twenty five thousand police to prevent an uprising similar to recent revolt in tunisia and egypt algeria has been under a state of emergency for nineteen allowing authorities to outlaw public demonstrations human rights campaign and said police detained about four hundred people but there were no injuries reported. and we've got more ahead for you this sound. about why the u.k. is gardena newspaper is going through a big break out with its former collaborator we could be released and then threaten little charges by the whistleblower web site. and on tax time we'll look at the

plight of the wrongly christians forced to flee their homes after the interests of targeting by extremist groups. this week russia's most wanted terrorist doku umarov claimed responsibility for last among small for suicide bombing which killed thirty six and some observers question omar claim the outrage is forcing the authorities to risk 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 chechen born said this week he was the mastermind behind january's bombing at the my idea of the airport more of meet 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 massachusetts enforces why he's no longer described as just a chechen warlord but as an international terrorist these groups move around the world you know their own down to operate in parts of afghanistan but some have been skeptical whether mark was indeed behind the bombing the terrorist is stalking himself they say as a self-styled been largely 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 of last year where 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 can directly 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 him self meanwhile this week security forces arrested three suspected accomplices of the former all three are from the north caucuses republic of english and are believed to have known about the attack planned by twenty year old evil with a manhunt is on for seven other suspects wanted in connection with the bombing at the security operation gathered pace the president shifted the focus from what has been down to sort out the aftermath 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. that's what 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 faction 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 no 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 it didn't occur children are teeth months too. big for additional hearing in london wiki leaks founder julian assange has been adjourned until the twenty fourth of february a songe appeared in court on friday i think continues his fight against being sent

to sweden where he faces questioning of a sex choir in the negations which were previously dropped as the case is politically motivated and has been fabricated so the u.s. can seek his extradition from sweden all season 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 store dollar meatballs top model and long bombshells may not be so neutral after all american influence is everywhere from food to feature films but in sweat. it seems to be supersized just the other day the deerhunter 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 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. making asylum seekers in sweden. both to the cia buddies

is particularly strong now with a right 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 just 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 milk my mind as it is a criminal only ought to be grabbed and put on trial for war used earlier these words from karl rove who claims he's. 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 song 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 some of the documents from exactly with the leaks 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. what makes sound a journalist songes also said for another high court battle has accused the guardian newspaper of malicious libel of its tell all account of the online whistleblower the british daily is also being blamed for just adjusting wiki leaks diplomatic cables to fit its editorial policy oh she's a lot of it has worn the rift between the x. friends. they wouldn't have been 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 website 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. have. they don't want such things to be known to their own deals they will basically want the world. they cut out everything that was negative a bold girl position. in says you were a reader of the guards and the virtually anybody there of the killings would never

know how those people themselves view their only those the guardian reports ali has 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 featuring problems of ultimate direction and leadership specific opposition figures are. stubborn but not charismatic karoubi courageous who would if you institutional allies hatami 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 would then turn the 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 the laws 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 the only way it could 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 to be able to understand the guardian declined to give us an interview but did send a statement saying they redacted cables to two reasons to protect sources who might be placed at risk or to protect the guardian from legal action on the 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 as alleges contains malicious labels 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's dealings with wiki leaks in a deeply under favorable light it's

a relationship that's gone truly sour your and it's artsy. and you can always find more and have you will sound as stories we're covering on our website com and he's also on line for you right now. into the euro two thousand and twelve championship problems that promises a new wave of excitement and a brand new soundtrack find out about the traditional instrument which hopes to strike a chord with. months of space travel and find they're about to pay off with a landing on the rock planet find out how the crew of the simulated mission is preparing to go to when earth that has gone. former u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld is speaking out about his time at the head of

america's so-called war on terror in a new memoir entitled known and unknown rumsfeld's memo was charred he said it's on the u.s. president's gerald ford and george bush he told the fox news agency the detention center at guantanamo bay is one of the walls find a prison sentence. from the aunt who was a coalition as if thanks to iran's feel that they won't see the u.s. as a heavy into the 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 c.i. a not only not only the guantanamo bay which is the un described as a torture center but all sorts of black cold prisons and secret detention centers where people were horribly tortured and murdered in fact and now he has to describe this is something that was good so of course from the point of view of rumsfeld and

bush and cheney they want to rescue their image they want the american corporate media to treat them kindly they want of course as they do constantly to make mega millions of dollars from this kind of promotion but i think the record is so clear the world recognizes the bush administration as nothing but torture it can 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 and terror and violence are having die consequences for religious minorities that hundreds of thousands of christian iraqis have been forced to move to more secure areas like north and kurdish regions 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 for lack any i'm going on just to buy some chocolate and come back and went out and didn't think anything i just had the bomb and i fell to the ground. miriam was lying in the street with her foot banging from her leg her father i had rushed out to save her. i saw my daughter lying like it was a living my wife was wearing the growing and people didn't want to show you maybe the thing was covered in darkness you would get larger so my kids and my daughter with her leg. i almost lost it i was so you know my daughter. has been hit by a but. rockley 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 searched for seven years in the military under saddam hussein i'm an iraqi christiane and i don't have a square as you would have not seen my name why the. it looks my crime many in the church feel that countries in the west are responsible. some opinions. are liars we don't trust. this terrible because everywhere that they have like us trained.

and they just watch while they kill it is impossible you want to see all these murders they don't. market we who should. 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 mire r t so i'm in the iraq. german chancellor angela merkel has praised questioning in berlin military ass truck which killed dozens of civilians in afghanistan almost two years ago after one hundred forty two people were killed in the majority of them civilians as a result of a german ordered strike on to fuel tankers hijacked by taliban militants the incident sparked a political storm and claiming the jobs of several top military officials described as baseless claims that her government covered up information about being

threatened so it wouldn't be election campaign at the time it amounts to is testimony to parliamentary inquiry came a couple of weeks after german lawmakers voted to extend the military mission in afghanistan by one yet aren't. and aren't evil acts of is that dictating that german presence in the country. 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 the party store in afghanistan and iraq wars is totally different from any kind of humanitarian mission all. democracy and 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 all 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 in nato domination for the middle east and for the energy rich countries and for the support of the dollar system as world currency. i've got plenty more stories coming your way next hour including the problem of under-age drinking russian youngsters are finding it easy to buy spirits but are being asked for id as a lot of law enforcement is leaving the country with problems of teenage alcoholics . and with more guns public person but than any other european country many sway so wondering if it's time to finally say f.l.l. top. gun american dream or martin is mad fit because the

odds are hot heads high for the government faced with a wreck or debt slashes wages and cuts vital satsang. those are the week's top stories for you i'll be back with the headlines in just a few moments to stay where you are.

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