entirely true winsor totally told you it's a good goal i would. ever dream little children into. this week's top stories here would also be chips military dissolves bolland and suspend the constitution of the president mubarak steps down and hands power to the all mean while the west hailed it as a triumph of democracy and that so one day when external agenda could be behind the bad. russia's most wanted terrorist doku umarov claims responsibility for january's moscow full blast which killed service takes time has prompted a huge security serve you had major transport hubs providing the system is far from perfect. and whistled bloodroot and songs must wait until later this month to see it will be extradited from london to stockholm over sexual assault charges his supporters claim down to gauge those which were previously

trumped up and it's common motivated to save to go out and fix it transfer the trial. welcome to the program this is also the weekly review on. main story now taking power out from deposed president hosni mubarak of egypt for the supreme council has dissolved parliament and suspended the constitution under which the country was ruled by martial law for nearly three decades the military has begun clearing eighteen days worth of debris including makeshift shelters and burnt out cars from tahrir square in cairo has 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 protest embattled president hosni mubarak resigned and egyptian paper is now reporting that. he has slipped into

a coma and his results at his results home in charlotte shake u.s. president barack obama called the trust postpone a great victory for democracy but is also he's going to trick or confess years of 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 part not without the help of washington he had a phone call from the white house the 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 on 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 it gets as true as their next president they have a very close relationship with a pencil 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 the washington will be supervising him missing that happens that's unlikely to satisfy the overwhelming desire of many egyptians for change which has drawn 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 us any good and our generals bolt to directly with billions of dollars by the pentagon mubarak is yesterday's man for the us now after thirty

years being their top pants man in the arab world when a blind eye was turning 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 the 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. 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 gets so much money he's gotten probably sixty to seventy billion dollars and i understand his family has sixty or seventy billion dollars stashed away in swiss accounts and other places around the world is the second largest recipient of american aid in the

world after its neighbor it's well the us is pumping billions of dollars into the egyptian military which gives washington huge control over the running of the country and its future now celebrates the end of ruled by an autocratic leader restricted political freedoms and economic progress so too did people rejoice for a time on the streets of carriages then and ukraine in recent years after so called democratic revolutions with western approval but the leaders who came to power were later rejected by their own people even though there's a lot of celebration 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.

and also in john turned say told us that while the barak 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 feel we and. vice president that they don't want these people in power people like what i'm going to el baradei you do have close ties with international institutions such as the international monetary fund and those kinds of globalized institution. how far these people can really play a part egypt's economy is in the doldrums it's in chaos a lot of the 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. companies there that are enjoying huge privileges tony blair is really a reverse barometer 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 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. and as political discontent spreads through the region clausen's of algeria's have been gathering in the capital to demand their president's resignation ten thousand people turned out hope for a reform rally by the government are saturday the state's deployed more than twenty five thousand police to prevent an uprising similar to recenter goals in tunisia and egypt algeria have been under a state of emergency for a long time here is allowing authorities to outlaw public demonstrations human rights campaigners that police detained about four hundred people but there were no injuries but. you're watching our see our we've got more head for you this hour. on american dream or american nightmare it's across the wires that. the government

faced with record debt crunches wages and cuts vital step. and although they have more guns per person than any other european country suisse burgess have rejected proposals for tighter controls. glove the problem of under-age drinking russian youngsters 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. this week russia's most wanted terrorist of claimed responsibility for last month's court suicide bombing which killed thirty six while some observers question omar's claim the outrage is forcing the authorities to rethink security in the country and as president medvedev discovered himself the situation leaves much to be desired. russia's most wanted terrorist he seeks more innocent lives have been taken by his deadly complain. this week

he was the mastermind behind january's bombing at the my idea of the. more of might 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. the massachusetts enforces why he's no longer described as just a chechen warlord but as an international terrorist groups. around the world you know their own downfall. in parts of afghanistan but some have been skeptical whether mark was indeed behind the bombing the terrorist is stalking him so 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 ism if you will is 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 waved 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 airport bomber all three are from the north caucasus republic of english and are believed to have known about the attack planned by a twenty year old evil with a manhunt is on for seven other suspects wanted in connection with the bombing as the security operation gathers 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. i see private security agents here but where is the police and where are any metal detectors i don't see them we don't have metal detectors that's true these specs and didn't reveal any society either and just to compound concerns no police in sight. we've all 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 rushes and to 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.

. the extradition hearing in london a wiki leaks founder julian assange has been adjourned until the twenty fourth of february assigned to pay it in court on friday as he continues his fight against being sent to sweden the way he phrases question of the sex crime allegations which were previously dropped it claims the case is politically motivated or has been fabricated so the u.s. can seek his extradition from sweden all season isa 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 flat pack furniture for dollar meatballs top models and lawn bombshells may not be so neutral after all american influence is everywhere from food to feature films

but in sweden it seems to be supersized just the other day the deerhunter film was shown again on swedish t.v. for the. 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 and with nato and the large mass of the population being totally unaware of all the stuff going on but it's not just what swedes are taking in it's also what their leaders are ready to give from julian assange to terrorist suspects to nato support when america wants something they get it but why and what's in it for this so-called neutral nation they get. all the benefits of being an intelligence partner of the united states without the baggage of being in nato it's a partnership decades in the making there is. a willingness to.

do the errands of the united. states over many years from. questions of. making asylum seekers in sweden in. 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 a song 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 love word he is a get over two million homeowners it is a clearly ought to be grabbed and put on trial for well 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 the songs 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 exacting with t.v. 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. on the raise drinking is a growing problem of russia where the government is considering reforms to combat alcohol abuse some say the plan is to tighten restrictions on distribution and sales maybe missing the real root of the problem. find out how russia's years maybe

under the age limit that's alpha over the trading. that. these teenagers just may be russia's future and it's looking rather bleak. the problem is that kids are start drinking around fourteen fifteen years of age regularly the dependency takes a few years to four so when they are brought to us that has already been for for 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 nine hundred 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 ran in with a hidden camera but the experiment didn't work the first time around so no go here the teenage girls were not sold any alcohol they were asked for then to the patient 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 whether they will be able to get some vodka or beer there. sure enough each of them had no trouble getting here from this . when confronted this serious woman got defensive but didn't seem too fazed with breaking the law how does that benefit though i don't know how many times even we tell you not to sell alcohol to the under-aged and you still continue to do that. fortunately practically every second floor supermarkets sell cigarettes and alcohol to adolescents and we have to make positive tendencies to russian parliamentarians have been trying to implement stringent punishments for those who sell alcohol on cigarettes to minors but so far there has been very little progress parents are

responsible for the. children until they turn eighteen i think it would make parents pay a fine when they kids could drink ok we raise the level of responsibility because presently teenagers do all these things practically with a parent's permission. of this rebel held became an intrinsic part of the russian culture after world war two we have a tradition to dream for any reason and that's a huge problem we need to tackle fortunately many youngsters themselves realize the scope of the problem and 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 full scope. as economic troubles continue to wreak havoc

on the u.s. many states a city authorities are crossing pleas services in a desperate attempt to save cash lauren has to take some look at how budget cutting is pushing the american dream father and further away from reality. that it's the reality america cannot escape with the city's roughly two hundred eighty million dollars debt more and more people are talking about bankruptcy news of debt like that hitting cash strapped cities and states all over the country altogether it could amount to two trillion dollars and a bill many may not be able to pay the problem of the state and local debt is more serious than the real estate bubble serious because with millions of americans still unemployed and losing their homes there isn't enough taxpayer money to pay creditors local governments which aren't allowed to operate in the red must come up with the cash this means some may be choosing between default or devastation in many cases it will be fairly simple for cities to cut services before they actually

default on their debt city. isn't states coast to coast seem to be trying this route and the toll it's taking on the streets of america is undeniable. camden new jersey is the second most dangerous city in the country you didn't see many cops on the streets to begin with and now you may really see any the city's had to lay off nearly half of their police force in detroit a city where people have been too broke to bury their dead the city's too broke to repair dying infrastructure to fix roads or lights in the desert state of arizona cuts have been a matter of life and death. governor jan brewer taking a lot of heat over the death of another transplant patient after the state cut funding for the operations here in new york city huge piles of garbage like this one are all over city streets this city's behind on picking up trash after getting behind cleaning up after our snowstorm public officials blame that on any number of

reasons but one accusation that keeps coming up is this is the result of budget cuts cuts have consequences you can't just sort of cut and there isn't enough wasteful spending so to speak to cut you're actually do have to cut services that people depend on analysts say the slashing will amount to an increase in unemployment and a lowering of wages dragging more americans down and the economy with it while the prospect of bankruptcy is threaten the pensions of public workers and may cause a run on municipal bonds so that will push the city counties over the over the cliff it's not something we should either scenario seems to be causing a widespread decline in the american city once relegated to ancient history it's a feedback towards economic shrinking downsizing and the urban ization exactly the same thing happened in the roman empire when in the end broom was left almost a deserted city and all of the production shifted back onto the land that's faced

here although the land in this case looks like it'll be abroad rather than in the united states as investment flees to other countries threatening to take with it the american dream lauren lyster r.t. new york. and you can always find nor have you also the stories we're covering here on our website at home and here's what's one for you right. here a twenty twelve championship promises a new wave of excitement and a brand new song trying to find out about a traditional instrument which hopes to strike a chord with. months of space travel and finally about to pale with a landing on the red. on it find out how the courier of the simulated mission is preparing to go when no man has called this fall.

so it's voters have a draft of a puzzle for tighter controls on gun ownership following a long running debate in the country they aren't a gun lobby said they would have reduced firearm so sides which have the highest in europe however the argument has widened into whether they need it all at all. training for combat preparing for war except these soldiers are from neutral switzerland and are unlikely to ever experience wartime combat more and more the country centuries old militia is being challenged the swiss are voting on the longstanding tradition of keeping a government issued weapon at home a support of military obligations public outcry about high rates of far on suicide and lot of calls to tighten gun ownership regulations with the militia and the country's beloved village shooting clubs under fire whatever the result it's just

the tip of the iceberg of a much bigger battle local activists like the stuff by day has been pushing for a complete abolition of the armed forces as normal cold war we totally surrounded by the european union which is. militarily speaking totally friendly so we have the war in the me so the army has no reason to be no enemy just a tradition do you think that's what someone should have an army. for. certainly not a joke guys make fun you know. just play a big war against but we don't. we don't need. a nine hundred eighty nine referendum on the issue revealed that more than a third of the swiss are in favor of dissolution a figure significant enough to pressure the government to take some action to rein in military activity the size of the army and its budget while still a substantial four point five billion dollars have been cut and the option of

joining the civil service instead was introduced it's not enough there is a political clout which means that the parliament is made moves a lot of rich people. i mean people want a moment to feel because they feel insecure there's still about two hundred thousand army personnel with compulsory military service for swiss males and private gun ownership for all conscripts living up to a local saying switzerland does not have an army it is an army not a pleasant prospect for young draftees like adrian feller who just don't see the point. to. this was. all. in my opinion an army just to get some kind of false security for you say well i saw two army can do. anything against terrorists and can't do anything

against social problems and disorder so why should we. worry about five billion of swiss francs for something to help us solve the problems we have the arguments are there give the serious majority still cannot imagine a nation without their men in uniform. only the political left support evolution we're still a minority in this country it's hard to convince the population because it's really a tradition that is deeply rooted in this with psyche plus there's the rise of populism and demagogy it war is leaving. many swiss feel that abolishing the armed forces is a kid to letting go of a tradition of losing that sense of security real or imagined so does a neutral country with no enemies really need an army while support for abolition is elusive the question has been asked and the debate is about to continue just or so you're r.t. switzerland. the week's top stories are back with the headlines in just

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