today's top stories under review will be the talk of prison defraying georgia accuses three men behind the camera of being russian agents but critics call it a clear case of provocation. like it was a revolt as thousands once again flood tyreese main square demanding reforms egypt's also refused water this expansion of the policemen accused of killing protesters during february is uprising. also surprise he turned germany's now willing to provide million thought and nato nations rather the nato forces and even direct contrast to its original position on intervention and the speculation it's been pressured by other allies members. about thank you angered by britain's

best selling newspaper the news of the world turns the last page of its one hundred sixty eight year history in the wake of phone hacking allegations and direct. hello and welcome to the program this is all she's you know sort of our thanks for joining us and it's late it's cloak and dagger case georgia has accused three photojournalists the wiking for the russian secret services a group that includes president's personal photographer was noted on thursday and charged with spying for a foreign state two days later today he said pointed the finger at moscow but as john barton reports and then he said there's a witch hunt. georgia is on a spy role and not for the first time this time the spotlights been shined on those usually behind the camera for photographers were arrested on thursday on suspicion

of spying but who was their supposed muster but first georgian authorities didn't say who they thought the alleged spies were working for but a day later they did russia in turn that moscow has accused georgia of paranoia the georgians are so quick to stake a spy label on to anyone i guess is just a level of democracy and there 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 was not there are looking actually right here and they have

a great march out enjoy your prime time where everything can go back and go for no real when we go out there and we never saw any kind of real it's human patience 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 you are or are certainly. you are. right because it really isn't a russian who's never or who used the words like were.

police he must know deal with that 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. egypt's prime minister has ordered the suspension of the police the keys that retaliated cheering the revolution that toppled president mubarak on friday thousands of egyptians turned out for the biggest rally in months and get over the slow pace of prosecuting officials and they also accuse the interim leadership of dragging its feet on promised reforms ati's and so now we're going to see if mubarak legacy stand in life. 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 big time together because the people we've spoken to feel like their revolution has been still there we go through the books and the more people should just live on the well the taste of freedom was short

lived the military is in full power mass media is being choked and oppression still rampant north them before i think they werent catching activists as much as they are doing now. through a prison i guess now they're being really violently want to kill that evolution this tool that in the first place he's known simply as hostile here in egypt a social network or with a twitter army of some thirty thousand followers the military troilus 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 got rid of mubarak you know their high ranking officials but now egypt with the same way it was before january sort of got that little officials a little mubarak said we need

a mark souder is what they're putting them out running the country people like myself have been arguing for they think. sticking. to the word he says meaning that in every single word police we have an egypt that is amenable wallach now water 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 the fear is gone. and she will continue to fight till the end. i want every every egyptian citizen to be treated as a human being every player has their own vision of the egypt they're fighting for some want of 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 it and he's in no way are cheap. this is r.t. and still ahead for you this hour the mission to save the world's economy starts with grief the country's paralyzed finance system is a top of christine legarde to do list as she sets out a stall of the new chief as the new chief of the international monetary fund. and thrown out of court protesting general radicalised is objective from the hague tribunal where he's accused of crimes against humanity. sixteen people have been killed in a fire in an old people's home in ukraine it took five brigades five hours to extinguish the flames in a small village in the country's north west they managed to rescue eleven people who needed hospital treatment for severe smoke inhalation three of them are in intensive care the blaze completely destroyed the roof of the building and i'm not sure it's wooden construction police say it was not start of deliberately. this

week rebels in libya may think nick and advances battling government forces but they say progress on their way to tripoli has been slowed by a lack of support from nato meanwhile germany has agreed to supply new missions for the allies as continuing as strikes berlin did not originally banned the operation and some suggest this coalition of pressure has caused a shift in position on she's every now going to cyprus of whether germany joining the nature of bombing operation will turn out to be a good. deal more bombs wanted just all or one hundred days of airstrikes and with just over two thousand bombs dropped by nato allies on libya the mission has run into a. the problem a lack of cells to drop where there is demand there is supply and this is there only has agreed to provide the much needed ammunition previously berlin hundreds from voting in favor of the un security council resolution on libya and move that surprised some and hurt others but it may now be backing out of a decision the germans may not want to participate but are they have decided that

the position does not preclude them actually supplying 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. you know ministries toward the foreign 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 but aside from peer pressure germany may be allured by the possible financial benefits of making its weapons available for nato's use in libya probably germany will get paid for delivering these arms to other countries but that is normal practice between the nato countries. out of the

twenty eight nato members only eight are actively participating in libya with civilian deaths to which need to recently admitted to a shortage of weapons and the ever relentless more market death is still at the helm the correlation may be facing just the beginning of its problems. brylin is in a tough spot on the one hand it has disappointed need to 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 goes carty. sana nature is pretty tragic intervention in libya has yet to yield as desired result with accusations persisting the u.s. mandate has been violated and dr franklin lamb and actually it's from the americans

concerned for middle east peace groups says nato airstrikes are only uniting people behind colonel gadhafi. the bomb being needlessly puts the population on edge it increases anxiety and anger if they that was trying to weaken the regime it seems to me that as history teaches us with the obama population it's often the you guy behind the government of the day and rather than breaking the connection between the people and the leadership it seems to increase it was a mistake obama who's a lecturer maybe 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 gotta kill the bad guy so it looks to us like it's now a game of targeting the leadership or 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 me and some of his circle ordered 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 seventy three. russia has condemned a separate continue military action in libya foreign minister sergey lavrov said bombing the country to force kind of a step down is a cynical political game with too many civilian lives at stake. nature's bombing libya longer that it was bombing yugoslavia several years ago and there is no end in sight it's obvious that politics is a cynical matter we hear from the western capitals the bombing should go on until khadafi backs off but the human cost of these political statements is very high. and later this hour focus remains on the top even arab region as he speaks to

syrian politician for his views on the way out of his country's crisis. britain's best selling newspaper the news of the world it's saying its final farewell to its readers after one hundred sixty eight years the paper was axed by its media mogul owner following the phone hacking scandal public outrage flared this week as claims emerged the journalist intercepted a phone calls to murder victims and dead soldiers families and media and it's if you'll read says rupert murdoch has now lost his long standing immunity 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 a next day you find the prime minister reading the sun looking like an idiot saying well the sun got me elected you've got this good meaning of democracy is this

initiates 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. a very finely tuned is in this brain he has a lot of things going on now one of them is to purchase the largest satellite network in britain called the sky 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 all that the 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 aimed at preventing the country from defaulting

on its debt and the i.m.s. new chief christine lagarde will have to keep the problems of the cash strapped e.u. close to heart after picking up the baton from her predecessor dominic strauss kahn christian from 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. or 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 housing prices 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 by fill in on the world 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 do with christine lagarde herself and more to do with the reason why she's here. campbell what lessons do you think ought to be drawn from the way the u.s. legal system and though these trials time case will 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 then 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 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's suffering the most are accepting aid from the i.m.f.

has been presented at times as the only option as austerity 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 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. . and still ahead in our weekly program the nightmare returns in other powerful earthquake hades japan's shores once again bringing a frightening reminded people picked up the pieces from marchers disaster. wasn't so gentle right cannot it is likely to get a new legal counsel to represent him behaved war crimes tribunal within days is hearing they sway calls disrupted when luggage was escorted out of the courtroom for shouting and interruption the judge and refusing to enter a plea instead big judge was forced to enter

a not guilty plea on his behalf logical knowledge is accused of ordering the marc killing of thousands of bosnian muslims during the balkans war but on the anniversary of the massacre many serbs feel their side of the story isn't being taken into account katrina report. the crude little town of sibley needs in bosnia and herzegovina looks a deliberate you houses are being built people go about their business and in the center of the challenge a mosque and church since side by side disappearing unity is an illusion sixty years ago the entire region was torn apart by ethnic clashes during the yugoslav war instead of it 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 a former un military base the sort of ring to memorial ground as well maintained and frequently visited by locals journalists and tourists to get boston in the

bosnian capital of sorrow over what the tourists aren't shown are the thousands of serbian graves that lined cemeteries all around the serbian it's a region. thousands of people were killed during the balkan wars of the one nine hundred ninety s. but cemeteries like these within terra families of murdered serb civilians only get visited by the very few remaining survivors. bernie comes here all the time his entire family lies here he says advise me a muslim general is responsible. but you know i was only nine years old when i said already stick away everything i had and wife 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 the obama survived his loss just like that 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 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 bringing the serbs. to. create a russian role for so-called. interventions which. occurred. so that so-called precedent can be traced through the years into today's headlines was in iraq afghanistan and most recently libya of old plague unwilling hosts to nato troops and u.s. imposed no fly zones it is very important. the creation of the

or soon are you sure in the minds of people. which schools program but for whatever reason so-called international community. do anything about it. some might say the journey from simply 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 destinations carriers are about r t bosnia and herzegovina. and of course there are more stories online at our homeland let's see what else is there right now. while there are reports of widespread death and devastation from blast in turkmenistan big government claims it's nothing more than a harmless by working with that. and find out why more than eleven million what

five have been blacklisted and banned by giant web search engine google. russia has called the natives of corporate more over security during russia's meeting with the alliance in the black sea resort of sochi and said dialogue and european defense wasn't growing as fast as have been hoped the proposed and missile shield remains a divisive issue as russia sees us once to deploy its rockets in europe as a direct threat to its own national security however present to me that claim some progress was being made the situation afghanistan was also gender with joint efforts to battle drug trafficking in the country said to be bearing fruit but also pointed out there was still no common view on become pain in libya that's concerned remain that the security council's monday's is being overstepped. around let's now bring a few rounds out some of today's other international news stories the australian government does to the countries was five hundred polluters to pay pounds for the

carbon dioxide they give of emissions would be taxed at twenty five us dollars been the tree trunk from next year the money raised will be used to compensate households with high energy bills australia is one of the world's worst in metres of greenhouse gases due to its heavy dependence on call for you tree city. thousands of islamic activities stick to the street outside the capital of bangladesh they were angered at the removal of the clothes in the construction that expressed quote absolute faith in al or they tried to block roads and attacked vehicles that defied calls for a national strike and threw stones at the security forces police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the protesters at least fifty people were injured . two civilians and a policeman have been killed and dozens injured in separate attacks on colombian towns in this south west of the country into radio a bomb was detonated metres away from the town hall and a marketplace packed with people in another town gunmen drove

a small bus loaded with explosives into the local police station officials blamed the spark rebels for their sites. a powerful earthquake had hate japan and mediately prompting fears of it thing army vast swathes of the country still lying areas after not his huge earthquake triggered disaster which destroyed whole towns and killed more than forty thousand people and for months on a mammoth record structure that is taking place along the country's northern coast a people's emotional distress will take much longer to repair as shot on us reports . 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 out here beyond the physical destruction and there is a distressing psychological factor as well the city of you watching 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 the water here and neighboring cities have tested positive for thyroid radiation exposure a figure that has parents appalled. the government has researched the great spirit for safety and they're not concerned with the consequences 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.

again and in an effort to keep the community emotionally strong organizers have brought this acting troupe in from tokyo they say their goal is to provide something beyond a simple entertainment for their 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 that there is a sense of hope that the city of milwaukee can indeed recover a convenience store but put it close to city hall but it keeps you think it's like coming back. and with an understanding that there is still much more work that needs to be done and 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. rebuilding the city one step at

a time any walky city japan sean thomas our team. i shortly will bring you our interview with the syrian deputy foreign minister where he's views on what needs to be done just stabilize his country that's not sad recap of our top stories in just a moment so stay with us when i heard.