government think 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 particularly ruthless political calculation if you are an entire actually you are a western if you are always there you are a democracy and if you want to go. there is no. human rights because those it really isn't a russian he was never designed or used that this is the worry slightly by which is that you're going. to believe she must know deal with the most serious about a geisha spying it has a neighbor with whom 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 tom

bottom. egypt's prime minister has ordered the suspension of police accused of brutality to the revolution that toppled president mubarak on friday thousands of egyptians turned out for the biggest rally in months over the slow pace of prosecuting officials also accuse the interim leadership of dragging its feet on promised reforms parties and so now we went to see if perhaps 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 say different things into egypt but they join together because the people we've spoken to feel like their revolution has been stolen we go through the. life and 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 to prison i guess now they're being greedy violence they want to kill that evolution they still that in the first place he's known simply as uncle hostel here in egypt a social network or with a twitter army of some thirty thousand followers the military throes 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 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 official little mubarak so many new marks rather what they're calling them are running the country people like myself have been arguing for taking the high you to the

factories taking the higher you to the universities taking the have to the wood places meaning that in every single word police we have an egypt that is i mean you know what 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 be and 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 to 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 at. and he said no way are cheap. and still ahead for you this hour

a newspaper farewell father edition of the british tabloid news of the world hits the streets of wake of phone hacking allegations and the arrests. and thrown out of court protesting journal rock of that it is a jacketed from the hague tribunal where he's accused of crimes against humanity. sixteen people have been killed in a five in 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 managed to rescue the people who needed hospital treatment for severe smoke inhalation three of them are in intensive care the 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 advances battling government forces they say progress on their way to tripoli has been slowed by a lack of support from nato while germany has agreed to supply munitions for the

large his continuing airstrikes berlin did 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 out to be a good move. towards more bombs 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 cells to drop where there is demand there is supply and this case germany has agreed to provide the much needed ammunition previously berlin has abstained from voting in favor of the un security council resolution on libya a move that surprised some and others but it may now be backing out of a decision the germans may not want to participate but are. 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 our 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 alerted 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 he would be in 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 duffy's still at the helm the coalition 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 even a ghost corti. performance on the nato portrait intervention in the as yet to yield its desired result but accusations persisting the un mandate has been violated dr frankel nomen activist from the americans concern. middle east peace group says nato has airstrikes when uniting people behind gadhafi. the bombing needlessly puts

the population on edge it increases anxiety and anger if nato is trying to weaken the regime it seems to me that as history teaches us would be a bomb a population it is 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 it 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 as it is saddam and osama you've got to kill the bad guy so it looks to us like it's now a game of targeting the leadership otherwise nato ruses if nato ruses 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 end to do 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 focus returns to the table and to our beaches altie speaks to a syrian politician his views on the best way out of his country's crisis. britain's best selling newspaper the news of the world is saying its final farewell to its readers off one hundred sixty eight years the paper was axed by its media following the phone hacking scandal public outrage that this week has claims emerge that journalists intercepted phone calls to move the victims and dead soldiers families. from greece has now lost his longstanding unity. 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 on the next day you find the prime minister reading the sun looking like an idiot saying well the sun got me elected i mean so you've got this the meaning of democracy is that 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 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 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 about the political caste who'd 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 aimed at preventing the country from defaulting on its debt ceiling mess you chief christine lagarde will have to keep the problems of the castro close to heart after picking up the baton from their predecessor dominique strauss kahn ortiz christine for azhar looks at what france's former finance minister has inherited. from violence on the streets of the middle east. to protest in north africa to europe. or portugal's credit rating has been deemed junk. 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 a mountain of problems like the 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 the sexiest of news stories but still the inaugural press conference for the new managing director of the i.m.f. did garner quite a bit of media attention most likely it had less to do with christine lagarde herself and more to do with the reason why she's here. and what lessons do you think ought to be drawn from the way the u.s.

legal system handled this case we could be any reforms in the human rights and human resources policies here do you plan any changes in them 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 back to the i.m.f. or lugard will take over then yes you have a couple of issues what worries you the most law 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 lent 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 i stared the 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 will fall at the top of her agenda as the rest of the world watches with hope first ability in an unstable world in washington christine for south r.t. . well 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 it's long been suggested by columnists that we could

eurozone members such as portugal and greece should abandon the single currency to avoid collapse but financial analyst michael ross says it's actually those footing the bill who should leave the euro behind. we have a nor bail out clause in europe and everybody is breaking it more and more taxpayers of course are getting fed up with what is going on here and it's the best solution of germany. many experts you have to drop greece or portugal or even ireland of the southern periphery of europe but what does mean at the end of the day it would mean that they will have their debts in europe and. the local currency is there will be devalued euro will go up and then the problem is even higher if germany pulls out of the. situation is totally different and then do zero debts decrease or will be. evaluated this is exactly that what those

countries need. well still ahead in our weekly program today the nightmare returns of a powerful earthquake hits japan shores once again bringing a frightening reminder to people who really picked up the pieces from march's disaster. a french ship that's part of a guard aid has been permitted to leave greek waters but several more vessels remain blocked in port the fertility with pro palestinian activists monetary aid for catered gaza was stopped by a group of thirty seven of the smart activists then tried to reach the palestine to achieve by their own autonomy but israel asked european authorities to block hundreds from boarding planes increased security in television reports was waiting for those who did manage to arrive and several were detained and deported. russia has called on nato to cooperate more over security during russia's meeting

with the alliance in the black sea resort of sochi moscow said dialogue on european defense wasn't going as fast as had been hoped the proposed anti missile shield remains a divisive issue as russia sees u.s. plans to deploy its rockets in europe as a direct threat to its own security. present major medvedev claim some progress was being made a situation in afghanistan was also high on the agenda the joint efforts to battle drug trafficking in the country said to be bearing fruit in moscow pointed out there was still no common view on the campaign in libya its concerns remain that the security council's mandate is being overstepped. the former bosnian serb general ratko maligned it is likely to get a new legal counsel to represent him at the hague war crimes tribunal within days his hearing this week was disrupted when that which was escorted out of the courtroom for shouting and interrupting the judge refused to enter a plea. he instead of a surprise to enter

a not guilty plea on his behalf that she is accused of ordering the bus killing of thousands of bones in the balkans wall and on the other verse three of the seven it's a massacre many serbs feel this side of the story isn't being taken into account when it was our ports. liquid little town of sibling meets in bosnia and herzegovina who looks it till it 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 sixteen years ago the entire region was torn apart by ethnic clashes during the yugoslav war and. became infamous when the united nations stated eight thousand muslim men and boys were massacred by bosnian serb forces today a memorial for the deceased sits in the grounds of a former un military base the sort of thing it's a memorial ground as well maintained and frequently visited by locals journalists

and tourists who get boston from the bosnian capital of. what the tourists aren't shown are the thousands of serbian graves that lined cemeteries all around us that have been it's a region. thousands of people were killed during the balkan wars of the one nine hundred ninety s. but cemeteries like these with entire families of murdered serb civilians only get visited by the very few remaining survivors but only comes here all the time his entire family lives here he says a bosnian muslim general is responsible so you know i was only nine years old when this had already struck 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 then but on a survive his loss just like that of thousands of people here is being ignored.

each 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 all sides and perpetrated by all players but the version most often propagated by western media is rather one sided in blaming the serbs the purpose of that is to set the stage and create a rationale for so-called humanitarian interventions which. occurred in considerable number. of strokes in it 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 in the creation of the. scenario for make sure in the minds of most people. was drawn aside which was preventable but for whatever reasons the so-called international community didn't do anything about it. some might say the journey from sebring needs it to benghazi 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 destination. castree knows are about r t bosnia and herzegovina. and they can see more of our stories online at r.t. dot com see what else is there right now. while there are reports of widespread deaths and devastation from last season turkmenistan the government claims it's nothing more than a harmless firework instance. find out why more than eleven million

websites have been blacklisted and banned by giant web search engine google. a powerful earthquake has hit japan immediately prompt. phase of a tsunami vast swathes of the country still lying rains botches huge earthquake triggered disaster. hotel and killed more than fourteen thousand people for months on a mammoth reconstruction effort is taking place along the country's northern coast but people's emotional distress will take much longer to repair thomas' ripples. as the waves crash against a damaged to sea wall on the japanese coast volunteers work tirelessly to clean up the debris and bring some sense of normalcy back to the area. i want to tell people we need more help more supplies and things are still bad here beyond the physical destruction and there is a distressing psychological factor as well the city of the walkie 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 walk and may bring cities have tested positive for thyroid radiation exposure a figure that has parents appalled that the government has resets the great era for safety and are not concerned with the consequences their reaction is only to help the governments they 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. and.

again in an effort to keep the community emotionally strong organizers have brought this acting troupe in from tokyo they saved their goal is to provide something beyond a simple entertainment for people on the web 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 store the pathetic clothes. the city all but it's good to see anything like this coming. 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 the fact can be helpful that i keep doing that

rebuilding the city one step at a time in the walkies city japan sean thomas r t. well shortly we discover the story of an army journalist who walked across the entire american state to draw attention to the war in iraq that's a recap of all week's top stories in a state. of

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they are watching our teeth day's top stories under the overweight. claims that three photographers including president saakashvili his personal stuff are russian spies now in custody awaiting me here in september the skeptics say the whole case is an attempt to rattle last. egypt's interim government ordered the suspension of policemen accused of killing protesters during preppers uprisings this risk where is once again stormed by thousands of demonstrators demanding reforms. germany has agreed to supply nato forces in the n.b.a. with munitions for the continuing it strikes many saying the shift from its original position of the campaign was a result of pressure from other members. up next find out

why and journalist involved on a one man walk across the entire five hundred mile length of his home state of utah that's not special reports stated. by having your supper he can't have one without the other and that's the same way if you're going to support the troops you've got to support the war or if you don't support it they keep your mouth shut about it. don't beat it out give it be quiet if you can't. support it like it be quiet and a message from the president of the united states george w. bush good morning the generals are trying to divide america and break our will and we must not go and other just succeed we will defeat the jurors every where they make your skin and we will leave a more hopeful world for our children and our grandchildren are going to run a clearing and changing our goal is victory. veterans for peace in chapter one

eighteen a salt lake city and peace justice organization we basically. work with all soldiers and all veterans to bring about peace some of us all even actually march with him all the way today. one guy who has it down or protested you with this is an army ranger. it started out pretty tense and actually if you guys if these are what this is a u.s. ranger me i'm telling you i got to say i'm going to say look i mean i think i'm going to i think so i think you know the country. but. that's too is credit so. you're not for reading and writing but you're mourning the systematic. yeah i think there's a myth.