the. day's top stories under review of the week talker first in the frame georgia accuses three men behind the camera of being russian agents most critics call it a clear case of complication from echoes of old revolt as thousands once again flood cairo's main square demanding reforms in egypt for forces or the suspension of policemen accused of killing protesters during result risings. a surprise you turkey germany is not willing to provide the only options for nato forces in libya in direct contrast to its original position on intervention and speculation it's

being pressured by other alliance members from one saving grace the country's paralyzed economy is of a total christine the gods to do list she sets out her stall as the new chief of international monetary fund. to r.t. and this is our weekly news review welcome to the program. it's the latest cloak and dagger case georgia has accused three photojournalists of working for the russian secret services a group that includes president saakashvili is a personal photographer was netted on thursday and charged with spying for foreign states and days later to come to the finger at moscow but it's time bottom reports many see it present which aren't. georgia is on a spy role and not for the first time this time the spotlight's been shined on

those usually behind the camera for photographers were arrested on thursday on suspicion of spying who was there suppose it must first georgian authorities didn't say who they thought the alleged spies were working for but a day later they did russia in turn moscow has accused georgia of paranoia the georgians are so quick to stick a supplier label on to anyone i guess is just the level of democracy and that has been noticed not just by russia but by various key international organizations like the un one of the photographers was released without charge the other three were charged with espionage and will remain in pretrial custody for two months one of them has gone on hunger strike and protest. however georgian president mikheil saakashvili is personal photographer has reportedly made a video confession admitting to spying for the russian opposition figures are

skeptical he was barely recognize the only thing actually quite true and they haven't read it come out shout enjoy it you're trying to time where everything. go for no real well we go out there and we never asked for any kind of real human creation of the government saying this isn't the first time this has happened last year thirteen people were arrested and accused of being on russia's payroll earlier this week nine of them received sentences of up to fourteen years in prison for the georgian government this is a matter of national security but others in georgia are very critical of what they see as particular political calculation. or are certainly lester and you are always. right because all that really isn't a russian who's never organised that this is

a very slightly you're going to. tbilisi must know deal with the most serious of allegations spying it has a neighbor with its relations are rock bottom and it has some men in jail but many are questioning whether this is really about justice or about politics thomason. egypt's prime minister has ordered the suspension of war police brutality in the revolution that toppled president back on friday thousands of egyptians turned out for biggest rally in months it was slow pace of prosecuting officials also accusing the leadership of dragging its feet on promised reforms parties and he saw now a way to see from the legacy is still alive. egypt's uprising might have ousted president mubarak but to them he's far from gone thousands of people out here on top here they all see different things into egypt but they join together because

the people we've spoken to feel like their revolution has been still there we go through the book so the more expected question as to the life and where the taste of freedom goes short lived the military is in full power mass media is being choked and oppression still rampant and worse than before i think they werent catching activists as much as they are doing now and take them through a prison i guess now they're being greedy violently want to kill you that evolution this tool that in the first place he's known simply as uncle hosted here in egypt a social network or with a twitter army of some thirty thousand followers the military trials of civilians have to stop immediately immediately this is you know one of the major demands we're putting forward one of many demands including transparent trials for the fallen regime and the purging of corrupt officials they say their freedom was short

lived and they got rid of mubarak you know their high ranking officials but now egypt will be the same way it was before january sort of got that little official little mubarak so mean to barracks rather than what they're offering them for running the country people like myself have been arguing for taking you to the factories they can pay you to be universities taking you to work places meaning that every single word police we had that is amenable now what it was never interested in politics until january she was shot with twenty three pellets by riot police twenty of which are still in her leg the pain is finally gone but her perseverance is not the barrier of fear is gone. and she. continue to fight to the end i want every every egyptian citizen to be treated as a human being every pro chances are has their own vision of the egypt they're

fighting for some want a constitution bend free elections others think the new law should follow the vote but one thing that brings them all together is that this egypt is not the end. and he's in no way are cheap. and still ahead this hour a newspaper for iraq. tabloid news of the world hits the streets in the wake of phone hacking allegations of arrests. and thrown out of court her protesting show rock of luggage ject from the hague tribunal where he's accused of crimes against humanity. this week who rebels in libya made significant advances battling government for since they say progress on their way to tripoli has been slowed by lack of support from nato. germany has agreed to supply missions for the arts is continuing its strikes well indeed not originally

but no permission and some suggest that coalition pressure has caused a shift in position now to decipher whether germany joining the nato operation will turn out to be a good move. to more volumes wanted just over one hundred days of airstrikes and with just over two thousand bombs dropped by nato allies on libya the mission has run into an unexpected problem a lack of shells to drop where there is demand there is the why in this case germany has agreed to provide much needed ammunition previously berlin has abstained from voting in favor of the u.n. security council resolution on libya and move that surprised some and others but it may now be backing out of its decision the germans may not want to participate but they have decided that. position does not preclude them actually sublime weapons in this case or systems some believe germany is under pressure from other nato members

particularly the united states france and the u.k. to take a more active part in the libyan campaign at first hand our. ministries toward the foreign affairs minister don't go into libya it's a very bad conflict it was started by the cia and it's a dirty business don't go there so this is why you voted with russia and china now the backlash from washington is so tough obviously we are under pressure to do something to make up for this decision aside from peer pressure germany may be lured by the possible financial benefits of making its weapons available for natives use in libya probably germany will get paid for delivering these arms to other countries but that is normal practice between grantley between nato countries . out of the twenty eight nato members only eight are actively participating in libya with civilian deaths to which nato recently admitted to a shortage of weapons and the ever relentless more market is still at the helm the

coalition may be facing just picking of its problems. erland is in a tough spot on the one hand it has disappointed nato by refusing to support the mission only being in march on the other by agreeing to supply bombs it may now lose friends in other high places and whatever the real reasons for its contradictory policy may be germany could find that by trying to please everyone it may end up pleasing no one in of those courts. well four months on the nato is protracted intervention in libya has yet to yield its desired result but accusations of violating un mandate insisting that the core blogger rick ross offer these are tearing mission was never high on the coalition's list of goals in the region kirti one thousand meters away or missions over a country of six american or you thief i'm quoting would need or it sounds from knowledge of those five thousand combat missions if it's not. you know this is not

simple your question of your future team will be in civilians from government violence and so forth this is a concerted long term military action nato it's the world's only military force it's one that is in charge of the two major wars in the world right now those in afghanistan and libya i think you know we can do this for you with your reminder of points of contention but i think we should not be confused about what the nature of american morning really organisation. britain's best selling newspaper the news of the world is saying it's fun farewell to its readers after hundred sixty eight years paper was axed by its media mogul owner of having a phone hacking scandal public outrage this week has claims emerged that journalists intercepted phone calls to where the victims and their soldiers' families are missed from reese says rupert murdoch's press has now lost its longstanding community among britain's political elite. i think something changed

this week you know for decades british prime ministers have been on their knees to the to the murdoch press because they knew that when the sun which is his main daily newspaper here in britain when the sun supported a british politician running for prime ministership you know they won it and then you find in the next day you find that prime minister reading the sun and looking like an idiot saying well the sun got me elected i mean so you've got this meaning of democracy as an initiator of democracy really which the murdoch press was at the heart of but i think there was a for a silence as well because important people needed the murdoch press and they couldn't be there they couldn't attack it because of that and i think a line was crossed richard murdoch has a very finely tuned business brain he has a lot of things going on now one of them is to purchase the largest satellite network in britain called b. sky b. and that decision is about to be approved by the government that was in jeopardy i think he felt that as

a businessman he had to sacrifice the news of the world because it in terms of the whole news international it's a tiny part of or good political cast have been sucking up to rupert murdoch for so many years including prime minister david cameron he now has to stand back and say no i can't do it anymore it's going to bad. the international monetary fund has given the green light to a second rescue package for greece and preventing a country from defaulting on its debt and it's the i.m.f. new chief christine lagarde have to keep the problems of. close to heart after picking up the baton from her predecessor and we need strauss kahn ati's christine for xilinx and what francis former finance minister has inherited. from violence on the streets of the middle east. to protest in north africa to europe. portugal's credit rating has been deemed junk.

and in greece. where unemployment hovers at about sixteen percent and the debt crisis has sparked anger nearly all of this anger stemming from poverty and failed economic policies in the us as well high unemployment sits atop a mountain of problems like a housing crisis and slow financial growth this is the world christine legarde inherits as she begins at her new post as managing director of the international monetary fund in her first formal meeting with the press at the i.m.f. headquarters in washington she seemed optimistic in her hopes the international monetary fund is here to serve and to provide services to its hundred and eighty seven members if not those that feel it news stories by fill the inaugural press conference for the new managing director of the i.m.f. there garner quite a bit of media attention most likely it has left to deal with christine lagarde herself and more to do with the reason why she's here in cannes what lessons do you

think or to be drawn from the way the u.s. legal system and though the strauss kahn case we could be any reforms in the human rights and human resources policies here you play in any changes and in light of the controversy over mr strauss kahn the controversy of course with dominique strauss kahn accused of raping a hotel maid in new york and that case now starting to crumble after it turned out the maid had credibility problems but back to the i.m.f. were low guard will take over let me ask you about a couple of issues what worries you the most lagarde did her best to stay on message we cannot be only driven by the hope to reduce. fiscal deficits and organize fiscal consolidation in a big way whether you look at advanced economies or whether you look at emerging

markets or low income countries the issue of unemployment is a critical one the one hundred eighty seven nation organization has already led to one hundred sixty billion dollars to cash strapped nations many of which have little hope for paying it back. so the real questions are manifested here on the streets of some of the nation's suffering the most are expecting aid from the i.m.f. has been presented at times as the only option as a series of measures are now being put into place the questions too are in the dollar and how its value may or may not change under her watch for managing the debt crisis around the world or fall at the top of her agenda as the rest of the world watches with hope first ability and an unstable world in washington christine freeze out r.t. . as the i.m.f. funny you gather funds for greece is portugal which could not hold a second bailout its government bonds were this we classified as junk top

a credit ratings agency but it's interesting the economists but we could hear them both such as portugal and greece should abandon the single currency to avoid collapse of financial analyst michael moss says it's actually footing the bill. behind. we have a no bail out clause in europe everybody is breaking it more not experience of course i'm getting fed up with what is going on here it's a solution if germany would withdraw from the euro many experts say that you have to drop greece or portugal or even island or the southern periphery of europe what would this mean at the end of the day it would mean that they will have their debts in europe and. the local currency is good be devalued the euro will go up and then the problem is even higher if germany pulls out of the euro or some situations forty different then the use ural debts will decrease or

will be devalued and this is exactly that what those countries need. well as most of the coming our weekly program including the end of an era. u.s. shopping list sets off the international space station many believe the closure of the program would have been painful consequences. for french ship that's part of the gaza aid flotilla that's been permitted to leave greek waters. wessels remain blocked and not effectively protesting that this area paid for locating was stopped by greek authorities or. activists then try to reach the palestinian territories. but israel asked european authorities to lock hundreds of planes increased security into it was waiting for it managed to arrive and several were detained wanted. russia has called on nato to

cooperate more with security russian's meeting with the alliance in the black sea resort of sochi moscow said dialogue on european defense wasn't playing as fast as . the proposed missile shield against advice of the ship as russia sees us. plans to deploy its rockets in europe as a direct threat streams and security as an interim belive claim some progress was being made the situation in afghanistan was also high on the agenda for some to efforts to battle drug trafficking in the country a sense of very crude but mostly pointed out there was still no common view in the campaign. response earns raymond the security council's ninety eight steps. former pows and serve general record that it is unlikely to get a new with legal counsel to represent him at the hague war crimes tribunal within days it's hearing this week was disrupted when that which was

a school did out of the courtroom shouting interrupting the judge refusing to enter a plea instead the judge was forced to enter a not guilty plea on his behalf. which is accused of mass killing of. monster in the balkans war but an anniversary of this from it's a massacre only serves feel this sort of the story isn't taking into account the terminals are the reports. liquid little town of state meets in bosnia and herzegovina. and you houses are being built people go about their business and in the center of the town a mosque and a church sit side by side but this apparent unity is an illusion sixty years ago the entire region was torn apart by ethnic clashes during the yugoslav war and seventy two became infamous when the united nations stated eight thousand muslim men and boys were massacred by bosnian serb forces today and immoral for the deceased sits in the grounds of a former un military base the siblings

a memorial ground as well maintained and frequently visited by locals journalists and taurus to get boston in the bosnian capital of. its worst aren't shown by the thousands of serbian graves that line cemeteries all around the region. thousands of people were killed during the balkan wars of the one nine hundred ninety s. but senators like these were entire families of murdered serb civilians only get visited by the very few remaining survivors romney comes here all the time his entire family lives here he says a bosnian muslim general is responsible for this because you know i was only nine years old when i said already stuck away everything i had in life first he killed my mother then my father and brother i was wounded and taken captive they held me for fifty six days and only god knows how or why i survived. but even though gonna

survive his loss just like that of thousands of people here is being ignored. i was at the hague tribunal and i was supposed to be a witness in his trial but in the end me and about thirty other witnesses were simply cast aside they didn't call us didn't ask what had been through families and the tribunal only gave him two years in prison. the balkan war so heinous atrocities visited in all sites and perpetrated by all players but the version most often propagated by buster media is rather one sided in blaming the serbs. or to. create a rationale for so-called humanitarian interventions in the or curb. or circumvent so that so-called precedent can be traced through the years and into today's headlines bosnia iraq afghanistan and

most recently libya have all played unwilling hosts to nato troops and u.s. imposed no fly zones it is very important. the creation of the. scenario for make sure in the minds of most people. which was preventable but for whatever reasons so-called international community didn't do anything about it. some might say the journey from seventy to benghazi via baghdad and kabul could now be traced there's a kind of nato road map but as with any road paved with good intentions there is only one possible destination karina's are about r t bosnia and herzegovina. well there are more of our stories online at r.t. dot com but that's what else is there just a click away right now other reports of widespread deaths in every station from

last until the next stop the government claims it's nothing more than a harmless why we're considered. and found out why more than eleven million websites have been blacklisted and brandan wright giant web search engine google. on tuesday denmark broke ranks with other e.u. states and showing gains or reinforcing its border controls and intensifying customs checks the move has angered neighboring germany and stirred debate about the violation of free travel in europe with danish many people want to know mr schmidt says the security at stake it's high time for e.u. to rethink its out they can put its. all over the european union where more and more people are realizing that the solutions we have been given by brussels another right where the right ones for a modern world we're fighting trafficking which is the one of the most horrible crimes we see of course we're fighting drugs we're fighting smugglers in various kinds and illegal immigrants it's clear that we see what we see in the entire

middle east it's a shooter pressure on the european borders and i think we have a national as well as international responsibility to avoid that the illegal immigrants come to our country so that they create an environment environment that is hostile to those who are legally here i think it's reasonable to use public spending to ensure the everyday life for the change population i mean that's one of the main reasons why you want to pay taxes that you want to police or customs control the army here in whatever publicly funded institution to protect you so i think it's reasonable that we are spending some. hundred million proner on this matter because we have seen the entries of criminal activity due to the lack of control so now we pay a little bit more but we get more control and thereby more safety. nasa shuttle atlantis blasted off to the international space station the final time knocking the end of the u.s. space shuttle era. high chance that bad weather we didn't want for american

astronauts left earth just one minute late. already thanks to the system used to take six heat on reentry he's here lost a voyage in space shuttle history he's paying for those who devoted their lives to all and it's a huge program so he's going to teaching other parts. empty shells of what was once florida's thriving space coast. up to ten thousand people will be out of a job as soon as the last shuttle makes its final voyage back to earth home to many of the kennedy space center workers rock which is on the verge of becoming a ghost town without the space program or pretty much nothing i mean this is what you know your beach is built on the space program you know it's a lot of you are going to be jobs are indiana people are going well for left and right for you chance anthony christa fully spent twenty three years with the

shuttle launch team as an engineer with a client kiss blasting our for its final mission it means the end of his career with nasa and the beginning of uncertainty a year ago he started looking for a new job to no avail i have applied for jobs and so far i haven't gotten any concrete responses there's not that many jobs out there for sure the u.s. scrapped its shuttle program and now wants the private sector to come up with ways to get astronauts to space several companies are working on new vehicles but it's not clear when they'll be able to deliver them one thing is certain though they'll be able to hire only a fraction of the skilled space industry workers will be out of work this is the first shuttle ever it never made it to space but it was used for tests before the columbia shuttle first launch into space a nineteen eighty one a total of five shuttles had been used for space missions says that two of them were last thing tragic accidents a nine hundred eighty six and in two thousand and three those lawsuits and the

skyrocketing price for each launch gradually latched to the cancellation of the program but critics say it's hard to estimate the losses that the end of the shuttle program will bring about both for the space industry and the people involved i think it's a really bad thing for the united states. to lose the skilled workforce it's going to be difficult to rebuild for years the shuttle has been the only vehicle that could ferry crew and a massive load of cargo to space officials say one of the reasons the program was scrapped is that it's safer and cheaper to send cargo and people separately something that russia for example has been doing for many years but whatever the reasons for scrapping the thirty year old program for those who devoted their lives to it is the end of their dream job kind of sad because i've already seen a lot of my friends go and nobody's there being more people that i probably never see again it also means the end of

a once vibrant scientific community that's grown up around the shuttle going to check out on. the back of their minds out of the top stories in a few moments stay with us here.