in the movie joy see those movies a movie that's the gateway to the grand imperial truly the socialist. socialist good to see don't need to go and. read this in the kindle was such a retreat. the week's top stories on our t.v. the u.s. is stripped of its prized aaa credit rating for the first time triggering fears of another financial crisis has investors ready for monday. in the eurozone debt was provided turbulent week with european central bankers now agreeing to buy talian and spanish bonds to stop the rot. plus revolutionary fervor spreads a quarter of a million israeli protesters demand the government drive down the cost of living or go. finally we go to the republic of south ossetia barking three years since the conflict with georgia devastated the region but finally brought recognition.

to em in moscow i mattress or bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t on friday the financial world was shaken after the u.s. was stripped of its perfect aaa credit rating by standard and poor's for the first time since nine hundred seventeen its rating has been downgraded one notch to double a plus with a negative outlook u.s. treasury department was put on the defensive saying there is a two trillion dollar mistake in our calculations s. and p. admitted that but is sticking with its decision saying the huge budget budget deficit is cause for major concern the draw to go she asians for a debt ceiling deal that rescued the country from a potential default also shook investor confidence dr rodriguez tremblay from university of montreal says the u.s. government's. hands are tied over the economy. it shows

a lack of confidence in the u.s. government we are in there within an economy stormy to you no way and it seems that the as s. and p. and other economists are saying the us government is paralyzed it's a bit like a ship without a captain in a storm this is not very nice or very good and it doesn't look very good for the next two years because the election is on me in two thousand and twelve and then i think the us government is deadlocked and cannot do any very serious policy decisions to contract the economy going don't turn and that danger is that the us economy can turn into an economy depression and that's what politicians american politicians should be trying to avoid and are trying to avoid an economy depression where china is a bit of a prisoner of the united states you know the other main creditor of the united

states with more than a trillion and a half. dollars of u.s. dollars that they hold. hold in their reserves was the beefier what china fears that the fed the american central bank would primo money buy what france three bonds and that. the u.s. dollar that would be appreciated investment in the u.s. and they would be be paid back with monkey money that's why they are afraid down the road and they may try to draw from investing in the u.s. and buy more gold for example the reason why well he's going up so fast is because countries like china and india are buying gold instead of buying u.s. dollars. a long lasting political bickering over the u.s. debt ceiling followed by a last minute deal was widely seen as another factor in undermining trust and u.s. economy porton i house. help us avoid the fall that ceiling measure and

default and that's crisis time's running out the entire world is watching it's been a public spectacle filled with bickering grandstanding and lack of compromise i devise if debate over raising the u.s. debt ceiling created an unprecedented climate of uncertainty over america's so-called sound economy that has been done but i want to put everybody really thinks the united states isn't so secure it isn't so safe even with the craziness subsides it seems to have gotten real close and who knows whether the next month next year this won't blow up again since the underlying causes economic problems are getting worse in this country clear forty five trillion dollars of america's borrowing is owed by foreign countries experts say washington's mismanagement may cause investors to abandon the devalued dollar and their partnership with america it's like being married to someone you have to so many of the richer you want to

know why do i almost. put up with this relationship the u.s. will be. the only game in. the european community is making noises chinese making noises or you know we're alone now or realty to be a repository for the world the results could spark a replay of the two thousand and eight at the nomic meltdown except this time washington not wall street would be responsible it's like the batteries worn out the spark plugs don't work the tears are flat all of this and so what we're trying to do is say we've got a little bit of money in the bank let's say that that we're not doing anything to fix the economy and so we're putting ourselves in a bigger and bigger hole not just because of the dad but really because we're not creating any way to get out of that instead of the u.s. president repeatedly asked americans over the past week to join the campaign. to borrow and spend more make

a phone call the e-mail tweet keep the pressure on washington and we can get this while the eyes of the world have been following the heated saga playing out between u.s. politicians the main problem not going away is america's debt and a growing realisation that elected officials may never be capable of agreeing on how to solve it. r.t. new york. european markets are also braced for a monday morning after a day took a hammering last week meanwhile the e.u. central bank officials have agreed to buy italian and spanish government bonds to calm the markets there's after the german government reportedly admitted that the e.u. rescue fund won't be able to save italy euro zone's third largest economy if it needs help this week europe and america's debt difficulties triggered panic on the markets that saw the worst one for the two thousand and eight economic journalist patrick young says that he needs to change its prices approach. let's try and understand the size of the numbers here the italian government one point eight

trillion euros now that means nothing to anybody but that is bigger than the total government debt arland portugal and greece put together before the end of this year it only needs to sell bourne's debts which is equivalent to the whole of the greek government bond market in other words all of the greek debt that we've been talking about for weeks and weeks and weeks is being. italy is huge needs just too big to manage it in any way be rescued in the way that all their economies have sume far being bailed out by the e.u. that what the euro zone needs to do is completely rethink the approach that they currently have so we're going to actually a completely new approach sometime by september october or maybe november we are in severe danger that the euro zone is going to collapse so ahead in the program

a new political upheaval grips ukraine police surrounded that tent city set up by supporters of the tane former prime minister you are to my shame go a threat of security forces lurks in the background also. a landmark trial former egyptian president hosni mubarak goes on trial for conspiracy and murder conspiracy to murder and corruption. but many v a little has changed since the revolution. first though at least forty two people have been killed in syria's eastern city of there is there i was or in the government crackdown on protesters there scores of tanks and armored vehicles are reported to have entered several layers of the city after heavy shelling according to reports another twenty died in clashes across the country this comes just hours after the country's president bashar assad declared syria is headed toward reform activists say more than sixteen hundred people have been killed in clashes with pro-government forces

since the uprising started in march a modern history lexer a lecture from oxford professor mark almond says there's a lot going on backstage in syria. who tend to see if there's a peaceful demonstrations against. the weapons have. a moment it was. years or. so we have also written over it and. it's remarkable well who represents. the real danger he's we. were in sort of. the revolution is over but few in egypt say their lives are getting any easier even considering that their former president is finally on trial charged with corruption and killing hosni mubarak deny the charges against him at the opening of his hearing into accusations of ordering the killing of protesters

if convicted mubarak could face the death penalty eighty three year old was in a hospital bed when he appeared alongside his two sons and top aides were also if used of corruption and mass killing but six months after mubarak was toppled the post-revolutionary chaos makes many egyptians yearn for what happened before these maria for a notion that. this quaint kyra is now one of the most famous in the world many around the globe. even those with little knowledge of arabic know its name clear means liberation well the revolution of january put this part of the globe on the map but apart from that what else it is really the people of egypt. this man has been running his own business for thirty five years it used to bring him enough money to send his son to study to canada and take his large family abroad one see. it with the economic devastation caused by and rastan political uncertainty mohammed's enterprise has been badly affected now he can barely afford to feed his

children he says the wind of change may have brought freedom to egypt and its grant and survival strong in its wake. but you know i love the revolution when it happened i welcomed it but it looked at the time we got a light at the end of the tunnel you see it's not getting better we have nothing to eat just don't tell me about democracy for hungry people it just doesn't matter. the plight of poverty fuel the revolution your growth has dropped from five to just one percent some thirteen million people live below the breadline unemployment has he twelve percent. egypt's revolution was regarded as the most successful arab spring chapter and took eighteen days to end one of the world's longest dictatorships but five months on there is a legal citizen action and dictator free egypt is far from the best place to live and the people.

will now be about as much. as they are very sad but his own people are indeed tired even those who back the changes this young man is from the revolution youth caliche and he tries to remain up to. because he says sounds a lot like south conviction that he gave us aid we've been living under mubarak for many many years to me i could see that it's great what we did but we do need to be more patient and this is difficult we have a lot of problems right now but we do need to wait for a little longer. recent three need in history sions in countries where shoot at least twice has been pushed to the limit and its trade tests versus patience in the battle to save egypt's from crumbling through their grief an option or not see

current. and life may only get worse for the egyptian people as they fell prey to a political game according to f william engle who's written extensively on the egyptian uprising. there has been no revolution in egypt has said so and in our t.v. interview in late january i believe exactly that would be the outcome because this was incited from the outside it was designed to get rid of mubarak who was a thorn in the side of the obama middle east policy and put the same people in there with a with a different face at the top a lot has changed and it's largely unfortunately changed for the worse the economy plunged since the events of january tourism is not going to be back anytime soon but even still there was a rather healthy growth curve in the last several years even while mubarak was still in power and that that has dramatically changed for the worse this never was about democracy in the first place a lot of youth were brought onto the streets under the illusion that it was and now

you have the muslim brotherhood positioned to become the leading political party in the in the elections when they're held that doesn't bode well at all for you just so i don't think young people have more democracy i think perhaps even less. in neighboring israel more than a quarter of a million people took to the streets saturday venting their anger at the high cost of living and on affordable housing prices surely prime minister benjamin netanyahu has her of corresponded by appointing a new financial team responsible for examining the reduction of taxes and improving access to social services but the move hasn't started calls for an egyptian star revolution with one area of tel aviv being read. a corner of what is are his policy reports protesters are concerned that they're still not getting their message across. tens of thousands on the streets of israel angry and protesting for change but is anyone listening when it comes to a lot of the foreign media want to see more of an action movie and this has been

very violent it's been very hard and been violent all it's been very positive. well into week three the largest demonstration in israel in over a decade and how did a.b.c. c.b.s. and n.b.c. cover that they didn't a younger woman set up a tent like the editors of france twenty four b.b.c. and sky coughed up just a few meager seconds perhaps not even that interesting to be back. in the studios ok there's a protest well what exactly is the protests the social protests for the revolution it's not the same kind of story that they're used to and it's not as big and dramatic some of the bigger revolutions happening around the middle east and i mean this isn't surprised by the worldwide lack of media interest he's worked in these really place for decades reporting from media both foreign and local there is

a box that the international media has put israel in and that is the israeli palestinian conflict also the israeli lebanese and syrian conflict and anything that doesn't kind of fit into that. immediate type of of news i. which is unfortunate that just makes hundred radius and is angry for nine days she's been camping here furious that she can't make ends meet as a university student it makes little sense that when egypt decided to stand up and say we've had enough and. in the seven on they decided to stay we've had enough the media was all over there i haven't seen anyone from c.n.n. or fox news or any other big news channel here and it's really sad we also deserve a chance to be heard out on the streets has teamed up with some feel cornered by some of the people here an optimism perhaps that they can bring down the government in the way the neighbors didn't tell his school. bus was the plan was they were

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change the map of the caucasus forever the five day war unleashed by georgia against his former republic of south said he left the region devastated rock any chance of reconciliation in the for seeable future parties medina kosher over reports from their member of the memorial ceremony for the victims of the conflict in the south a site in capitals. here in the central square of the capital city morial services are under way this so many started as a loving three that exactly the trying when george opened fire over the sites you throwing people out of their bags hundreds have come here to light candles and pray for those who died here three years ago in a brief conflict mamie are listening to the reading of the elements and they're looking at pictures there were taken if you ring the cars later and are being shown on why screens that are placed across the central square of the atmosphere here is

of course a very sad many are wearing black and some women even half a picture of their dad to relatives on their chests local sweetheart to say that we never expected such a sudden attack becomes it's very difficult to answer this question because in any case who are always present poses the suffering and pain to all the bereaved families who can justify any words reasoning can bring back the lives of the innocent people and i think we should realize that such mistakes should not be repeated and we should put maximum effort to avoid the suffering of children human life is very precious and kind of being responsible when it comes so that we can kill people over territory. or any other reason we put our governments choose to use. the georgian aggression and the tough call the sea of sex really is my deepest resentment i think we should all live in peace and try to find ways of communicating other than war. memorial services and will continue in different

parts of the settlers on monday the war lasted full five days but hundreds were killed and many injured and also the face of the city has changed jail with them for three years was a new residential areas in new roads and harvests being open and still locals say they are trying to restore their lives and memories of what happened here a still life in their hearts. russian peacekeepers station i feel safe here in a capital romano first to experience the georgian president medvedev recalls the tragic events of that night. let me remind you what was going on there on the night between august the seventh and all gets the eighth well i received a phone call from the defense minister i was on vacation at the time sailing down the volga river and the whole world was looking forward to the olympics that were about to take off in china a minister told me that georgia had launched a full scale combat operation to look to be honest my initial reaction was complete doubt that i told the minister that we should check this is really completely out

of his mind maybe it's just a provocative act and maybe he stress testing your seconds and trying to send out some kind of message and i will later the minister reported to me this is no bluff they've unleashed an all out artillery barrage and they're using grad rocket launchers and whatnot i said all right old wait for another update some more time passed and the minister called again i have something to tell you i believe they've just leveled a tent full of our peacekeepers killing every one of them and what was i supposed to do i said return fire and shoot to kill. and internet of gave that interview to r.t. along with a whole lot of the radio when georgian t.v. channel p i k extended version is coming your way in about ten minutes so stay with us here at r.t. . also coming up in the program cutting off even hands in london hardline muslims press for the interruption of top islamic sharia laws in the british capital stay

with us for that. but first riot police have surrounded tent camps set up in the ukraine's capital by supporters of former prime minister yulia timoshenko who was arrested on friday but protesters fear officers may storm the camps after the court where her trials taking place banned gatherings outside parties like sarah shops and has been. ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko still remains in detention center in kenya following the decision by according to you have to place on the arrest for that you would have been forbidden to leave the country now she was put behind bars as the judge just explained because of her bad behavior during the trial now you too much frankly is being accused of several very high profile economic crimes including striking unlawful gas deals with russia back in two thousand and nine it's interesting because there has already been a comment coming from the russian foreign ministry saying that. the old these deals

signed in two thousand and nine were completely legitimate and were signed in full accordance with the two countries legislation and urged ukraine to hold a fair and transparent trial over the country's former prime minister yulia timoshenko they've also been very sharp remarks coming from europe in regards to the detention of units and with many organizations in europe with the parliamentary assembly view of the council of europe all criticizing this decision and urging the authorities in ukraine to release going to machine going to hold a fair and transparent trial on what we understand that the protesters which are picketing the detention center that's where i'm standing right now and the court building in downtown here are determined to stay that twenty four hours a day and when to stand up they are trying to garner more people are asking people from all over the country to come to kiev and. their their protest against the decision to place on the rest clearing out of the other stories making headlines across the globe more than forty people have been arrested dozens most of them

policemen were injured after riots flared up in north london protesters attacked officers over the fatal shooting of a twenty nine year old man last week rioters threw petrol bombs of police and torched buildings a bus and patrol cars more than three hundred were involved in what began as a march to demand justice for the killing. of israel's supreme court has started hearing an appeal from the country's former president moshe katsav in march he was saddened to seven years for raping an employee while he was a cabinet minister in one nine hundred ninety eight he was also convicted and sentenced for sex offenses against two other women during his presidency but allowed to stay out of jail while he appealed former president has denied any wrongdoing and claims his case is politically motivated. hard hardline muslims in britain have started a campaign to put several areas of the u.k. under strict sharia law banning drinking gambling and listening to music is just a small part of their proposals or he's laura m. it has been hearing how they spawn to instill their tough code. so we are here to

tell you that a slum. is unstoppable in europe stoning for adultery cutting off hands for stealing death of renouncing islam this group of men is trying to enforce should really look for in the u.k. they've started a campaign to make certain areas of london and other cities islamic law controlled zones starting with walthamstow east london muslims will be along the good of being evil because of these numbers and try to do the same with an almost immediate cause of the movie that was instead of together trade according to the sharia was all the problems all of that issue even police themselves for logic such healthy one day try to summit governments push we have apology look at the security locally you bought overlooking choudhry and his friends are fly posting parts of london with large muslim populations they want to ban drinking gambling and playing music and

they say they've got bands of young men ready to patrol and in full shari'a law by any means these muslims say british society is broken riddled with drugs crime and prostitution because of that they firmly believe members of the communities they're targeting will welcome sharia law but the word of the street about the campaign tells a different story comes down so if you don't like the laws of the place you live find somewhere way to appreciate the laws this is not india or pakistan this is our own laws people have no rights can hear bring their laws in here councillor martin agrees saying this could destroy community cohesion we force words around the bar taking down the house assumes that because we do not want these posters around i do not represent the future and that they have no place in the forest this is an equality campaigners say the shari'a supporters shouldn't be considered a religious movement with a phone right political organization with

a poster campaign design. to divide and conquer communities the danger lies in dividing people and dividing communities and creating mistrust particularly among from non muslims towards moderate muslims i think this is part of their aim is to create mistrust so they can i'm trying to moderate muslims and say look everyone hates you trick we are friend trying to us undeterred by opposition childfree and his group plan what they see is the beginning of an islamic emirate not just in the u.k. but all over europe police have mobilized to take these posters down as fast as they appear but choudhry and his group say they formed bands of vigilante in forces to make sure she is here to berkeley all physically and in other parts of london women have already been harassed for not covering their heads if these muslims ever get their way i won't be able to dress like this on the street so both of them stay or

many other parts of london brussels rome and paris europe and it's r.t. walthamstow love to. stay with us here and i will be back with a recap of our top stories in a little bit. it's

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