the day's top stories under review of the week photographers in the frame george are accuses three men behind the camera being a russian agent a critics call it a clear case of provocation. echoes of revolt as thousands once again allowed cairo's main square demanding reforms egypt's of dorothy's or the suspension of policemen accused of killing protesters during fed reserve risings. a surprising new target germany is now willing to provide missions for nato forces in libya direct contrast to its original position or intervention that speculation is being pressured by other alliance members. and saving greece the

country's prowlers the country's at the top of christine lagarde to do list she sets out her stall as the new chief of the international monetary fund. into r.t. and this is our weekly news review welcome to the program. and its latest cloak and dagger case georgia has accused three photojournalists of working for the russian secret services the group that includes president suck us for it is a personal photographer was netted on thursday and charged with spying for foreign state or two days later to receive a finger. but on bottom reports many see it as a witch hunt. georgia is on a spy role and not for the first time this time the spotlights being shined on

those usually behind the camera for photographers were arrested on thursday on suspicion of spying who was their suppose at muster but first georgian authorities didn't say who they thought the lead spies were working for but a day later they did russia in moscow has accused george of paranoia the georgians are so quick to stick a spy label on to anyone i guess is just a level of democracy and that has been no it is not just by russia but their 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 in protest . however georgian president mikheil saakashvili is personally photographer has reportedly made a video confession admitting to spying for russian opposition figures are skeptical

he worked there i read it now i don't really think about it why do you and they haven't read a small child enjoy your prime time where everything can go back and read and go for no real when we go out there and we never saw any kind of real human creations that government is going through 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 if you are into iraq surely you were always there and you are always very you are. if you want to. know. some words because all that. really isn't a russian who's never or who's criticised words like well why was that if you're

going. to police he must know deal with the most serious about occasions spying it has a neighbor with its relations are at rock bottom and it has some men in jail but many are questioning whether this is really about justice or about politics from boston to. egypt's prime minister has ordered the suspension of police accused of brutality to the revolution that toppled president barack on friday thousands of egyptians turned out for the biggest rowdy months and their slow pace of prosecuting officials accused the interim leadership of dragging its feet on promised reforms parties and he's on our way went to see if perhaps next eastern tonight. egypt's uprising might have power. did president mubarak but to them he's far from gone thousands of people out here on top here they all see different visions of egypt but they join together because the people we've spoken to feel

like their revolution has been stolen we've got rid of mobile so the mobile apps that people should. live on when the taste of freedom was short lived the military is in full power mass media is being choked and oppression still rampant 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 what evolution this tool is in the first place he's known simply as uncle horst i'm here in egypt a social network or with a twitter army of some thirty thousand followers the military throws of civilians have to stop immediately immediately and this is you know one of the major demands we're putting forward one of many demands including transparent trials for the phone regime and the purging of corrupt officials they say their freedom was short lived when 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 bit face a little mubarak so i mean the marx brothers what you're seeing now are running the country people like myself have been arguing for taking the whole you to the factors that can prove to be interesting to the world places meaning that in every single word police we have an egypt that is amenable now where it was never interested in politics in till january she was shot with twenty three pellets by riot police twenty of which are still in her like the pain is finally gone but her perseverance is not the barrier of fear is gone. and she will continue to fight to the end. i want every every egyptian citizen to be treated as a human being every protester has their own vision of the egypt they're fighting for some want

a constitution and then free elections others think the new laws should follow the vote but one thing that brings them all together is that this egypt is not the end . and he said no way are cheap kyra. and still ahead for you this hour a newspaper farewell brother edition of the british tabloid news of the world hits the streets wake of radiation and arrests. and thrown out of court protesting internal rock of that it is objected from the hague tribunal is accused of crimes against humanity. sixteen people have been killed in a five an old people's home in ukraine took fire brigades five hours to extinguish the flames in a small village in the country's northwest vanish to rescue the people needed hospital treatment for severe smoke inhalation three of them are in intensive care at a fire completely destroyed the roof of the building and some of its wooden walls police

believe the fire was not started deliberately. but this week rebels in libya made significant bombs says i think government forces but they say progress on their way to tripoli has been slowed by a lack of support from nato and germany has agreed to supply munitions for the large his continuing airstrikes but indeed not originally back the operation and some suggest that coalition pressure has caused a shift in position to decipher whether germany joining the nato bombing operation will turn a good move. to more vons 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 sales to drop where there is demand there is the lie in this case germany has agreed to provide the much needed ammunition previously berlin house of pain from voting in favor of

a un security council resolution on libya and move that surprised some and angered others but it may now be backing out of it this isn't the germans may not want to participate but are they. decided the position does not preclude them actually subserve line weapons in this case or systems some believe germany is under pressure from other nato members particularly the united states friends in the u.k. to take a more active part in the libyan campaign at first hand. you know 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 current and nato countries. out of the twenty eight need to 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 duffy still at the helm they call ition may be facing just the beginning of its problems. berlin is in a tough spot on the one hand it has disappointed nato by refusing to support the mission in libya 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 a ghost court. well for months on protracted intervention in libya has yet to yield

its desired result but accusations persisting a un mandate has been violated dr frankel niner an activist from the americans concerned middle east peace group says there are strikes really uniting people behind colonel gadhafi. the bombing needlessly puts the population on edge it increases anxiety and anger if they do is trying to weaken the regime it seems to me that as history teaches us would be a bomb of population if often the unite behind the government of the day and rather than breaking the connection between the people and the leadership it seems to increase is it was a mistake obama election may be on the line cannot afford a defeat and the victory comes like it's supposed to be i said to saddam and osama you've gotta kill the bad guy so it looks to us like it's now a game of targeting the leadership otherwise nato ruses if they don't loses the

consequences are enormous there's enormous trillion dollar financial consequences for those members of the nato countries who are seen as aggressors and invaders here so the feeling is that they've got to do something the only thing they can do possibly to achieve a victory is either assassinate cut off some of the circle order to add to that they might have to come on the ground nato has joined the side of promoting the rebels against the government again a clear violation of nine hundred seventy three. one of the next hour our focus returns to the table and starvation is often speaks to a syrian politician and his views on the best way out of his country's crisis. britain's best selling newspaper the news of the world saying its final farewell to its readers off to one hundred sixty eight years it was axed starts immediately following the phone hacking scandal. rage that this week us claims image that

journalists intercepted phone calls to victims and dead soldiers families there are listed from greece has now lost his longstanding unity among political elite. i think something changed this week you know for decades british prime ministers have been only needs to 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 looking like an idiot saying girl the sun got me elected i mean so you've got this meaning of rock you see is that missing of him ocracy really which the murdoch press with a partner but i think and there was a for 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 rupert 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 and

that working 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 gone too bad. the international monetary fund has given the green light to a second rescue package for greece and they're preventing the country from defaulting on its debt ceiling they're saying you chief christine lagarde will have to keep the problems of the castro close to heart after picking up the baton from her predecessor dominique strauss kahn well to his question for azhar looks at what france's former finance minister has inherited. from violence on the streets of the middle east. to protests in north africa to europe.

for portugal's credit rating has been deemed junk. in greece. for 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 announcing 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 good news story but still 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 had left to do with christine lagarde herself more to do with the reason why she's here. and what lessons do you think could be drawn from the way the u.s. legal system and go the strauss kahn case we did 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 that case now starting to crumble after it turned out the maid had credibility problems but that of the i.m.f. were low guard will take over the last year of a couple of issues what worries you the most well guarded 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 employment. is a critical one the one hundred eighty seven nation organization has already led 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 suffering the most are accepting 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 her managing the debt crisis around the world will fall of the top of her agenda as the rest of the world watches with hope first ability in an unstable world in washington christine

freeze out our team but as the i.m.f. and the e.u. gather funds for crippled greece it's portugal which could now need a second bailout its government bonds were this week classified as junk top a credit ratings agency where it's been suggested by economists that we could use a members such as portugal and greece should abandon the single currency to avoid collapse a financial analyst michael moore says it's actually those putting the bill should leave the euro behind. we have a no bail out clause in europe everybody is great can you get more not experience of course getting fed up with what is going on here it's a better solution if germany would withdraw from many experts you have to drop greece or portugal or even island of the southern periphery of europe but what would this mean at the end of the do it would mean that they will have their debts in europe and. the local currency is there and will be devaluated

euro will go up and the problem is even higher if germany pulls out of the euro or some situations totally different then do the euro all debts will decrease or will be devalued and this is exactly that what those countries need. whether still ahead in our weekly program today the nightmare returns a powerful earthquake hits japan shores once again bringing a frightening minded people. to pieces from watches the sounds. of a french ship that's part of a god aid for today has been permitted to leave greek waters several vessels remain blocked in port patellar with palestinian activists tearing a book a gaza stopped by a group of forty said this about this then tried to reach the place on their grief but israel asked european authorities to block hundreds boarding planes increased

security in television screens waiting for those him to ride and several wouldn't say that it. has called on nato to cooperate more with security during russia's meeting with the once in a black sea resort of sochi said the other european defense wasn't as fast as had been a proposed anti missile shield remains a divisive issue as russia sees u.s. plans. deploy its rockets in europe as a direct threat to its own security. present regime inventive claim some progress was being made situation in afghanistan is also highly agenda with joint efforts to battle drug trafficking in the country said to me bearing fruit also pointed out there was still one common theme for the campaign in the libya this concerns are available security council's mandate these be it. the former bosnian serb general that cold blood it is unlikely to get

a new legal counsel to represent him but the hague war crimes tribunal within days is hearing this week was disrupted but i think she was escorted out of the courtroom shouting and interrupting the judge using to enter a plea instead of mr enter a not guilty plea on his part. is accused of ordering a mass killing of franzen's of muslims in the war but on the other verse three of the srebrenica massacre many serbs feel this side of the story isn't being taken into account to serve our thoughts. required little plan of slipping needs in bosnia and herzegovina illich your houses are being built people go about their business and in the center of the town a mosque and church sit side by side but this apparent unity is an illusion sixty years ago the entire region was trying to partly ethnic clashes during the war and seventy eight's or 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 some grounds of the former un military base the servants a memorial ground is well maintained and frequently visited by locals journalists and tourists who get lost in the bosnian capital of. what the tourists aren't shown are the thousands of serbian graves that run 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 with 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 bosnian muslim general is responsible so you know i was only nine years old when i said already everything i had in life first to kill 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 but on a survive his loss just like that thousands of people here is being ignored it 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 happened to our families and the tribunal only gave him two years in prison. the balkan war so heinous atrocities visited an old sites and perpetrated by all players but the version most often propagated by western media is rather one sided in blaming the serbs. or through. the create. for. inference which. occurred in considerable number.

so that so-called precedent can be traced through the years 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 or. soon are you from a tour in the minds of people. from inside which was proven but for whatever reasons so-called international community do anything about it. some might say the journey from sitting in such a big ozzie via baghdad and kabul could now be traced as a kind of nato road map but as with any road paved with good intentions there is only one possible destinations. karina's are about our tea party in herzegovina.

they can see more of our stories online at r.t. dot com to see what else is there right now forty one there are reports of widespread deaths and devastation from last season turkmenistan government claims it's nothing more than a harmless firework incident. or find out why more than eleven million websites have been blacklisted and banned by giant web search engine google. the path of earthquake has hit japan mediately prompting fears of a tsunami vast swathes of the country still librarian's after militants huge earthquake triggered disaster it's a story hotel and killed more than fourteen thousand people for months on a mammoth reconstruction effort is taking place along with countries northern coast people's emotional distress will take much longer to repair a short on its report. as the waves crash against a damaged the seawall on the japanese coast volunteers work tirelessly to clean up

the debris and bring some sense of normalcy back to the area you know i want to tell people we need more help more supplies and things are still tight here beyond the physical destruction there is a distressing psychological factor as well as city if you want he is right on the edge of the twenty kilometer exclusion zone for radiation contamination in fact in a recent study by japan's nuclear safety commission forty five percent of one thousand children tested in any watch here and metering cities have tested positive for thyroid radiation exposure a figure that has parents appalled. at the government has researched the great area for safety and they're not concerned with a consequence since their reaction is to help the government save face but they don't actually take care of the damage and the people here. first there was the earthquake then the devastating a wave which rushed in and destroyed this part of the coastal city of it walking also there are the nuclear radiation waves that are coming into this area as well

the volunteers that are coming in to rebuild this city certainly have their work cut out for them but just like the city itself the people who live here the community they need to have their spirits rebuilt as well. that. in an effort to keep the community emotionally strong organizers have brought this acting troupe in from tokyo they say very goal is to provide something beyond a simple entertainment for people who are aware of a certain japanese pride and in this destructive situation i would like to bring good things and present the spirit of japan and japanese pride by bringing people together and making people smile through that shared community experience there is a sense of hope that the city of milwaukee can indeed recover the convenience of a pathetic close to the city hall but you see many lives come by. and with an

understanding that there is still much more work that needs to be done the people here are working to keep their community together. i just want them to stay where they want and if i can be helpful that i kept doing that rebuilding the city one step at a time and we want the city japan sean thomas our team. well shortly we discover the story of an army journalist who walked across the entire american states to draw attention to the war in iraq about something that he kept the week's top stories in a six.