with today's news on the week's top stories this is all she ga spy hunter as a chargers high profile photographer is with snooping for more step by step to say it's an anti russian image praised by president saakashvili. demo dead shot before angry egyptians as they returned to tashi of square to vent again as the interim leader is who they say stole their revolution. a change of cheated by germany updated greens to three stages weapons stocks he's in the media despite opposing the military offensive from this town to. the all the front page britain's best selling newspaper rolls out but the last time i heard that murder and

sacrifice is the title while potok in claims that proposed eretz intensified and. true the one zero one lift all. cheers and tears as a plant is makes the shuttle fleet's final flight and it leaves a black hole for the tons of trades ruined now that nasa is moving out. hello and welcome to the program pieces artie's weekly review writing as you know and we're starting georgia where three high profile photographers have been charged with spying for not releasing claims it has video confessions to prove their guilt but skeptics say the whole cycle straight a's on a witch hunt to score political points. reports not what's being seen as anti

russian hype georgia is on a spy role and not for the first time this time the spotlight in shined on those usually behind the camera for photographers were arrested on thursday on suspicion of spying but who was the supposed must first georgian authorities didn't say they thought the alleged 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 they guess is just the level of democracy and it 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 in protest. however georgian president mikheil

saakashvili is personally. has reportedly made a video confession admitting to spawn the russian opposition figures skeptical she was not there are looking back you know why you and they have a great march out enjoy your prime time where everything can help but have no real where we go out there and we never saw any kind of real human patients government you 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 prison for the georgian government this is a matter of actions. but others in georgia are very critical of what they see as taking. political calculation you are. what you are. you are. you are. there is no.

rights because all this. really isn't a russian who's never. slightly. policing must know deal with the most serious allegations of 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 real justice or. from boston to. egypt's prime minister he's vowing to suck any member of the security forces accused of killing protesters during the uprising that toppled former president hosni mubarak a statement comes after thousands of egyptians turned out for the biggest rally nuns angered over the slow pace of prosecuting officials and reforms and people say they will keep fighting until they see change and so now it is at the scene. 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 visions of egypt but they too are together because the people we've spoken to feel like their revolution has been stolen we go through the books of them a box that people should post it on when the taste of freedom was short lived military is in full power mass media is being choked and oppression still rampant force then i think they werent catching activists as much as they are doing now. taken to a prison i guess now they're being revived they want to work with this building in the first place he's known simply as possible 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 this is you know one of the major demands we're putting forth one of the 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 is the same way it was before january so what that little official little mubarak so many in the barracks rather than what they're offering them are running the country people like myself have been arguing for taking behaviors to the factories they can pay you to the universities they can go to the world places meaning that in every single workplace we have in egypt that is i mean no water was never interested in politics until january she was shot with twenty three pellets by riot police twenty of which are still in her like the pain is finally gone or 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 pro chancellor has their own vision of the egypt they're fighting for some want a constitution and then free elections others think the new law should follow the boat one thing that brings them all together is that this egypt is not the end. and he said no way are cheap. and plenty more stories are coming your way this hour here in our c including. just for the anniversary of europe's worst massacres is the nazi era travels to srebrenica where people are still in search of justice. but now rebels in libya are battling past government forces on the road to tripoli they're now moving towards the key town of sleep time after a six week long on parts of the capital still remains over one hundred fifty kilometers away the rebels say their progress has been slow due to a lack of a munition a native support and there have been suggestions that the alliance is a running low on arms itself and has asked germany for munitions reports now on the

in surprise turn after opposing the mission from the outset. of the 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 shells to drop where there is demand there is supply and this is their only 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 angered others but it may now be backing out of a decision the germans will not want to participate but they have decided that the position does not preclude them actually some supplying 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 power 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 allergic to 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 the 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 mark of duffy's 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 only being 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 it goes quietly. russia is holding firm in its condemnation of raters move to action in libya the foreign minister says the mission is a political game that's already cost too many lives. nature is 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 that the bombing should go on until gadhafi backs off but the human cost of these political statements is very

high. that's when the trouble the syrian government is opening talks with opposition activists to discuss the possible of reforms but some leading rivals and prominent can pain is there not that in the meantime mass demonstrations erupted across the country on friday killing at least thirteen people tens of thousands of protesters took the streets calling for president bashar al assad to step down since the protests began in march government crackdowns have killed more than seven hundred going to strangers syria's deputy foreign minister told r.t. best any interference in the country's affairs from the west would have been disaster. serious position has been clearly articulated and the global community is aware of the military force in syria hands so even if the west is thinking. we would advise them not to syria is the key to the balance of the middle east and in this interview for israel to drive this region to the service to the most countries are well aware of this but nevertheless they keep hating arabs and syria particular

was a little star not really i was really kind of it because of our success progress on the reform struggle from under the leadership of president moshe some of what happened in syria really expected to spread. across other our countries in order to weaken israel in the worst posner civilization supremacy and volumes of the mind set on us that are very carefully signals west wants from especially you. and i must say that they do not wish us well. and you can see the full interview with syria's deputy foreign minister in about twenty minutes time. dialogue between nato and russia on european security is not moving as quickly as had been hoped that it was after the meeting with the alliance in the black sea resort of sochi be sure has become a stumbling block since the alliance turned down

a russian proposal to unite in defending europe. nato plans to deploy missiles close to russian borders as a direct threat to its own security presence preventive also mentioned again his concern that the coalition is overstepping the security council's mandate and libya however both sides have praised joint efforts and battling the drug problem in afghanistan saying their cooperation is showing signs of success. that's ahead for you this hour monitoring the eurozone debt crisis that's at the top of the christine loh gods to do list the chip sets out all of the new national ministry. to some more today's world needs now so those spin the violence in bangladesh show about a change to the constitution to make the predominantly muslim region more secular police used tear gas to disperse and where islam is protestors at least fifty are still injured or there is like remain there for sure religion the government has

removed a clause stating absolute faith and trust in. an israeli airstrike has destroyed a palestinian concrete factory in a neighboring in a neighborhood east of gaza apparently in retaliation for cross border attacks into reports that scares but it's not one person they have been killed and witnesses say planes are still circling above causing residents to panic and was from the middle east diplomatic or turns out to meet on monday in washington. the court in kiev has reopened a criminal case against former prime minister when ukraine signed up to sell the lucrative steel production plant it's alleged he made last minute changes to the contract causing the country massive financial losses there to spread minister faces charges of corruption and abuse of power the convicted she could face up to ten years in prison. australis to force the country's five

hundred worst polluters to pay cash for their carbon dioxide pollution starting from next year emissions are to be taxed at twenty five years dollars per metric ton the money raised will be used to compensate households paid by higher energy bills causes of one of the worst emitters of greenhouse gases in the world that's due to high dependence on coal for its treaty. written scandal plagued news of the world newspaper has rolled out the presses for the last time so its final edition was apologetic by the find out of being closed by rupert murdoch this week the embattled media mogul of two to london to take charge of the crisis which engulfed the paper and its parent company news international it's claimed journalists had to the phones of murder victims and soldiers finally police made a number of arrests on friday including a former editor of the paper has also the prime minister's press and media analyst

phil reeves says robert nozick has now lost his long standing in unity among britain's political elite. i think something changed this week you know for decades british prime ministers have been on the news to get to the moon or prist because they knew that when the sun which is his main daily newspaper if you're in britain when the sun supported a british politician running for prime ministership you know they won it and then you find a mix there you find the prime minister reading the sun looking like an idiot saying global sun got me a lift i mean you've got this. the meaning of democracy is the missing of democracy really which the murdoch press was a back part of but i think there was a silence as well because important people needed the murdoch press and they couldn't they couldn't attack it because of that and i think a line was crossed rupert murdoch has a very finely q. business 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 b.

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 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. this week france's former finance minister stepped in to charles can't she's antic over as i.m.f. chief christine legarde first challenge is to deal with the construct a year as well as the world's continuing economic crisis but it is obvious christine facade reports there's still more interest in muck raking than money matters. from violence on the streets of the middle east. to protest in north africa to europe. portugal's credit rating has been

deemed junk. in greece. where unemployment hovers at about sixteen percent and the debt crisis has sparked anger really all of this anger stemming from poverty and failed economic policies in the us as well high unemployment sits atop on the 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 and 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 that if you managing director of the i.m.f. then 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. again what lessons do you think or to be drawn from the way the u.s. legal system handled this crisis can case we could be any reforms in the human relay and human resources policies here do you plan 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. or look article take over then ask you about 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 income countries the issue of employment. 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 expecting 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 of the top of her agenda as the rest of the world watches this hope first to go in an unstable world in washington christine for south r.t. . breaking news this hour two people have died during

a cruise on the riba vulgar in russia's republic of tatarstan after their vessel signed well one half of the one hundred fifty people on board vessel have been rescued but the fate of the others remain unknown emergencies ministry has deployed teams to the scene and effort to save those who are missing and it's not known how the vessel got into trouble and sank and of course we'll bring you more information when we get it. the former bosnian serb general accused of ordering the. likely to have a new legal team to represent him at the hague russia cannot it shankly disrupted his second hearing erasing judges for not allowing him to have his lawyers present but many said to fill the notorious general's trial will not bring forward just as . explaining. liquid little town of slippery meets in bosnia and herzegovina looks a delicate 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 twenty part by ethnic clashes during the yugoslav war and seventy 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 on the grounds of a former when military base was the brains on a moral ground as well maintained and frequently visited by locals journalists and tourists to get boston and the bosnian capital of what the tourists are shown are the thousands of serbian graves that lined cemeteries all around stepping into region. thousands of people were killed during the balkan wars of the one nine hundred ninety s. but cemeteries like these were then terrifyingly 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 guardian muslim general is responsible. but you know i was only nine years old when i said oldish took away everything i had and wife of the 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 the on the survive his loss just like that's 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 said he miss 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. through. the create a rationale for so called humanitarian interventions which. occurred in considerable number. of serpents that so called precedent can be traced through the years into today's headlines rossley iraq afghanistan and most recently libya have all played unwilling hosts to nato troops and u.s. imposed no fly zones. and the creation of the. scenario for make sure in the minds of most people. was. preventable but for whatever reasons. international community didn't do anything about it. some might say the journey from sibling need such

a big ozzie via baghdad and kabul could now be traced as a kind of major road map but as with any road paved with good intentions there is only one possible destination carriers are the r.t.e. bosnia and herzegovina. that has nothing to shuttle atlantis making its way to the international space station for the very last time marking then the u.s. space shuttle era is caring for american astronauts and several tons of vital supplies within a few hours atlantis is to make its final count with international space station is the last voyage in america's space shuttle history and the painful time for many who devoted their lives to the thirty year programs as well she's going to check out reports for destruction just 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 cocoa beach is built on the space program you know just a lot of you are going to be out of jobs are you. people are left and right stands in sydney chris a fully spent twenty three years with the shuttle launch team as an engineer with a plan kiss blasting out 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 in nineteen eighteen. one total of five shuttles have been used for space mission says that two of them were last thing tragic accidents in one thousand nine hundred eighty six and in two thousand and three those lawsuits and the skyrocketing price for each launch gradually lurched 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 this course it's going to be difficult to rebuild it 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 because i've already seen a lot of my friends go in the building more people that are probably may never see again it also means the end of a once vibrant scientific community that's grown up around the shuttle going to show. and remind our breaking news two people have died during a cruise on the river volga in russia's republic of tatarstan after their vessel sunk more than half of the one hundred fifty people on board vessel have been rescued but the fate of the others remains unknown emergences ministry has deployed teams to the scene in the effort to save those who are missing and it's not known how the vessel got into trouble and sank so stay with us he will bring you more

information as soon as we get it. here it tends to be moves towards opposition towards the deputy foreign minister talks to r.t. and a few minutes to give us his insight into whether a solution is possible that's after my update shortly. it's.