but you know what you know. hotels are really cool durable teachers. tons. in serbia booties available in regency. week's top stories here on the gloves are off as protesters feel the strong arm of the law seven hundred people are arrested as authorities adopt a zero tolerance policy towards the rapidly escalating and the wall street movement all against greed and inequality. and pre election fever grips russia with president medvedev forced to clarify both his power plants of. the same time as the sudden departure of the country's long standing finance minister. greece on the brink. specter scramble to secure more bailout cash for the company with

just a week to go until this comes as the french president warns of a new global crisis. and an explosive standoff serbian blockade today disputed border post in northern cause of hit hard by nato troops leaving at least several people injured. but the week's headlines here on r.t. this is the weekly with me will receive showing at least seven hundred people have been arrested after a police crackdown on the ongoing and wall street demonstrations in new york dubbed the occupy wall street movement they say they're protesting against the tremendous influence and misdeeds of corporations and billionaires. not interested. this clash and confrontation between and why he gave the new york city police

department and thousands of protesters took lanes on the brooklyn bridge the police showed up and basically cornered off both sides of the brooklyn bridge and started to move in on the protesters to make arrests that's when things got ugly to say the least are the protesters were were banging drums and chanting the whole world is watching police moved in they were how the wagons brought to the scene and things are very physical and this is just the most recent incident that is taking place in new york and across in the last weekend we saw demonstrators that nice to know these five who these officers police officers using adding to our rights demonstrators that have been camped out on wall street now these protesters have been demonstrating for about two weeks this is a group occupy wall street a group of americans that have called on all those that are frustrated over the

u.s. economy over the fact that people are losing their jobs people can't get their jobs people are struggling to find money to make ends meet and these americans are now saying this is their their american spring and there are they are planning to stay down there through the end of the year and i can tell you this week by week this group of demonstrators that you know out of wall street this group is getting bigger and bigger there's no doubt about that. reporting right now we've got more from new york. from some firsthand accounts of the clashes with police as well you can also last know what you think on the issue as well as discuss the news with others that well as the wall street protests. we look at just what's. growing.

with us here on r.t. this is the weekly now it widely publicized shuffling the. sudden departure of the trusted finance minister dominated the week's news headlines here but this also prompted an unexpected with the president who took the time to clarify his latest political moves. over reports the pre-election period in russia may still hold even more surprises. this week's headlines have been hootin tootin with that it and use of the drops was brought out polemic switch russia hasn't seen for quite

some time while some criticize others applauded the tandems deal and the kings of photo shop rolled out some of their best work yet with the general mood being that the deal had been done long ago but it was an exciting for just a few days until the first rich shuffles in the corridors of power began. you know if you think your views on russia's economic agenda differ from mine as president if you can resign fifty million votes the. sort of my opinions do differ from yours but only take such a decision after i've talked to the prime minister has been to almost absolute will still talk to whoever you want including the prime minister but as long as i'm the president making his decision it. was a surprise right now between the president and putin's longtime ally aleksey kudrin left many questioning is there a split in the tandem at the solution of the situation with mr cooper it is

a matter of discipline in government service we are a presidential republican opponent we want it implements the president's policy if you don't agree you should step down meanwhile maybe read it not as a sign of a split but i mean you maturity in russia's democracy i almost for more severe wishful thinking on the part of the portals of these people probably remember the perils of the whole world where there was a rift inside reported be will which ultimately was one of the reasons for the collapse of the u.s.s.r. i remember before coming to power it gave an interview where he basically said that russia will not survive. inside believes the big news of putin yet again running for president brought up so many questions that nutriment burdett had to to meet. t.v. hat still cross the t.'s and dot the ice. of course it's nice to know that people trust me as president and that my approval rating is quite high under current

circumstances we also know that prime minister putin really remains the most popular politician in our country at this point and his rating is even higher it's the election campaign has just started with a simple question what if our people reject us. and come to him with what will happen to these decisions by the convention was these decisions or merely the party's recommendation to vote for those people that saw the choices made by the people and these are not mere words you type solution true for any politician in any political field may lose an election but many questions are still in the air like why would a politician like nutriment that if his approval rating is still so high in russia not seek reelection and what will the face of the new cabinet of ministers look like under him should he become pm immediately after the united russia congress many rejoiced in the fact that the country's top political is finally over and they

can go about their usual business but this week has shown that when it comes to the chess game of process and politics there are many more moves to be made because the final make up of the new government is no it's to do that show up on our t.v. . just after president here showed x. finance minister the door fears arose the dismissal could throw the russian economy stagnation however london based a russian expert on martin mccauley thinks the country has the potential to overcome financial. russia is a pretty good economic situation present if you look at the old revenues if you look at gas if you look at gold. room materials diamonds and so on russia is a very strong position in. the world isn't really affecting russia really because it has reserves of over four hundred billion dollars. it can take some

doing but at the present economic situation this is quite good because the i.m.f. is expecting something like four percent growth this year which is vastly superior to the european union america. you're watching the weekly here on c.n.n. still to come in the program here months after the overthrow of president hosni mubarak i see lots of what your objections managed to get what they were fighting for. the end game is rapidly approaching for greece its government admits that it only has the cash to pay its bills for eight more days after which the only option would be a default in response the bureaucratic machine into gear in an all out effort to release more cash for this as french president nicolas sarkozy admits that the much criticized bailout of protests that blocks the last line of defense in preventing the crisis from consuming the euro zone germany's angela merkel also announced a meeting in the coming days to finalize

a radical expansion of the blocks emergency cash but is also used first reports it may all get come to nothing record to be crumbled under the weight of one president of course. greece has been the place the child of the year. we can leave a think expanded bailout. look that's to get that much needed cash injection help come with some conditions here in greece that people say the price that they make to pay simply high earning that. is deadline day for the. greek government special tax one of the measures they kiss in place to try to secure the next tranche of money the country needs to avoid bankruptcy the extra tax which is about another three percent for it was. supposed to help block some of the massive deficit in the budget nothing more than a year's salary cuts rises in living costs people here already breaking points

the last two years almost. thirty years of. era cost analysis from the opposition movement entitled pay he tells me how the need means expanded rapidly in recent months as more and more people hit that financial wall before of the most of the people were praying because they want to protest against been an unjust situation no there are thousands and dozens of people who will be government people's desperation has become increasingly evident on the streets of greece but by this is repeatedly breaking out between riot place protesters. even more clashes this parliament again feted in yet another austerity measure and the fall of any property tax where organizing all of this.

important greece and there are. just for political reasons greece and brics do not need that. many people in greece now question just here it is i think control our fortunes very very a leaders in euro zone are the bankers. he's mr. bunker. being. called. again and again out of the. taxpayers in europe just like germany having dated positively to expand the size and power of the year panned out to fund the ready critics are questioning whether that will be enough insights now turn to the many challenges usain still faces the problem will move from. other european countries then to german banks. even germany.

will be you know. it's not just for the european union congress passed measures failing to have the facts it's political leaders continue to struggle to convince that public. still hangs in the balance but these protests. continue many people hate the greece's economy now at risk of having not only a financial the democratic deficit as well. as the parliament building in athens. rushing to intervene in the greek crisis officials are offering solutions that will only make matters worse. british. you cannot tax your way recession or depression it simply isn't possible and the great

winston churchill's quotes on this trying to tax your way out of a recession is like trying to lift yourself up in a pocket. they simply can't work and this soon as the politicians the bureaucrats never really else face the truth of this crisis the sooner we can start to get out of it people are beginning to understand that they will be better off by default thinking i what we need to do the rest of the european union the eurozone and indeed the i.m.f. is to help them in a stable controls default in the same way they must the forces argentina did in two thousand and two only without a complete and total collapse style in a structured way the your opinion isn't part of the solution here you european union is part of the problem it's the european union of the eurozone which has created this terrible cataclysmic problem so new is not part of the solution mr briggs so least of all but sometimes it's easier for governments to stifle protest

rather than. a following a summer of demonstrations in london the locals there find themselves gagged by their own government for a large chunk of the city a protest that. you would not see now in violence flared up again this week around cause of those northern border as nato troops attempted to dismantle or serve you know road block local serbs don't recognize the pristina administration as a legitimate authority and have barricaded roads to a speedy checkpoint that albanian seized earlier with the help of k. for troops parties alexy ever since he went to cause of i to witness the battle. in some parts of the world this walking road probably be part of an extreme safari possible it is now quite extensive. ever says july's border dispute many lives have been dependent on this god forsaken great all roads through the mountains now this is the only way that belgrade can use to deliver food and better all the tens of thousands of serbs living in northern kosovo the course of the serbs have been very

good in the role since july in response to the course of the police checkpoints which in force the trade embargo between belgrade and the meter of itself on tuesday the situation turned critical again clashes between the very caring serbs and the case for troops led to multiple injuries on both sides ok for blame for starting the violence but injured alexandre a father of two saw it differently especially if. we were standing by the barricade when the soldiers started shouting and shooting at us i didn't know what they were shooting with so i got scared and started running away and i was hit on the shoulder and it turned out to be a perforated wound of my lung nato forces also claimed they used only rubber bullets and tear gas against the protesting this was quickly rejected by doctors in meter of itself fuelling speculation as to who restarted. the room or

seven men have a condition gunshot wounds fractures and bruises there were not wounds from rubber bullets not a single of them had a rubber all those wounds were caused by a regular bullet which we extract from their bodies celebration. i don't like. everything serbs but they came too late it's like their trucks pulled up at the border crossing the forehead or with. the barricades how exactly native troops managed to disregard the un's plans is unknown but they quickly set up a perimeter to the web. that journalists and issued should do q four again you want to slight penetrated they have totally and openly stepped out of the un mandate and they're really really now just like three nineteen ninety nine during the bombing when they were the force for the albanian separatists are now acting as their infantry so this is what we have this is a clear breach of the u.n.

charter and of resolution twelve forty four told me destroyed there are standing as any sort of mediator belgrade has reacted with indignation and who could negotiate with core civil until the dispute is resolved meanwhile gave for refuses to comment on their actions and bulldozed the border barricades the border is open now to syria trucks blocking a breach just meters away to destroy block suggests this battle is far from over better is like this one are scattered all across northern kosovo and they pretty much reflect the mood of the local serbs it seems they would never give in and accept the fact that they're living in a self-proclaimed state and in this melting pot nobody knows where this standoff go and. become again and other territorial disputes look serious espied see reporting from kosovo. meantime balkans political expert not

a cold gas if you told us here at r.t. that nato moved in the cause of only to push his own interests and keep a military presence in the region. i do hope that the international criminal court will will have a look at least since the national criminal court claims to be very interested in the way civilians are treated i hope that they won't make an exception for western powers in the way they treat civilians they've decided who they want to sponsor they want to sponsor the greater albania project through which they see their own interest they see cambone still the biggest military base in the world having a permanent presence in the heart of europe for t.v. we were created completing that encircled of russia who is one of the serious aspects of a game plan that's what they're about they're about controlling the flow of oil and controlling the security of energy supplies through this the region they're about control nato is about control of territory and control of resources that's why they can stay on the side of those whose country it was not they will reward. and the greater albanian terrorists with a country because then the albanian maffia owed them big time that's the nato plan

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the country is being run of course that's being posted with barack many feel let down by the transitional military council which is so far failed to implement promised democratic reform and he said now i went to cairo to find out. we knew that change had come to egypt a new chapter of freedom and democracy don't judge a book by its cover when reading post mubarak egypt it's pertwee no lines where you'll find the new chapter hasn't been published edited or slightly revised we still have the sprinkles of the armed forces of those who notice i cannot say that they have been. in. this country towards democracy work may be gone but his policies are not personally mubarak's case is ongoing at this tried you know new figures from human rights watch claims more civilians have been forced

to face military trial for the last six months some twelve thousand during the entire thirty year rule of mubarak average civilians are giving five to you know seven years in prison a lot of torture that has occurred since staff has come into power. actor. doesn't clown around when it comes to the supreme council or scaf he has taken part in protests since day one and still has scars from being detained looks a much worse i said very long they told people they had to stick it wholly from it after that so i shot for the struggle and the sooner the better the head least only because i'm well known now not allowed to leave the country for thirty years according to law if i have to seek asylum stay fight for freedom like mubarak's gaffed gets the support it needs to rule egypt from abroad the aid that we get from

the us that one point five billion a year the easier to see is from our from the us a it most of it in trying to go through the supreme court to the to the army you know the staff and what the west bank. history books will change for the better the arab spring is a massive opportunity to spread peace prosperity democracy egypt since our last reading the writing on the wall in many areas the same as before don't quit if i'm in some areas it's getting more worse and he said no way our team can't run. one of khadafi strongholds or stand on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe a red cross aide workers who have managed to bring vital medicine to the coastal city of south described the situation there as dire timor's they said they saw a city hospital being hit by rockets meanwhile libyan a revolutionary forces say they have surrounded and are preparing

a final of salt on kidnapping a lot of their chairman of the national transitional council also his fighters called a two day truce to let civilians leave however heavy rocket and mortar fire reportedly continues with nato planes roaring a professor of political science powers he says there is no victory for the revolutionaries or only. clearly what's happening right now is intervention under side. one group and its civil war. the winning side because. nato supported where you clearly want to walk and now are probably wants to make sure there is no internal opposition even though there are people who die because of nato military actions matter because it's very unlikely that the people responsible for these massacres could be called accountable by the international court of justice. the situation is that heating up in another rest of the region

palestine fosters hopes for a u.n. statehood israel is approving more settlements on occupied territory coming up just a little bit later today a special report about israeli peace activists who are taking a stand against their own country's policy which they see as illegal for a preview. very first verses of the bible all human beings are created. in god's image doesn't say just jews or god who is. sixty seventy percent of what i did as a common soldier you have to pay territories to do with your turds doing what we call making our presence so we go out should some good so they hear a knock on some doors from to the other corner invade another. religion and nationalism not just judaism have been a part of the problem. part of what leads to. bloodshed

if you want to. kill i thousand four hundred people in a month and you want to expect that this will have no effect in two of you have to be either extremely for terms. of religious jew calling another jew and not the way they really did it. as could have you with us today this is their weekly here and i see now the right to protest is something the u.k. has long up held and defended but now was the british government slap some month long marching band on several london districts over there if you want your civil liberties are under attack lower and it has more on this. the view of workers activists on the home office pound on marching it's clear it's an attack on the basic democratic rights in this country through september in six areas of

london anyone marching like these people did last winter is liable to be arrested and fined or even imprisoned. the ban was prompted by plans by the anti muslim english defense league seen here in luton in february to march through tower hamlets the area with the highest concentration of muslims in the country but instead of banning one march on one day the home office banned all marches in six bars for an entire month activist richard seymour sees a wider motive. doesn't necessarily mean more physical just means that the police to more powers and that's part of the wider problem but if you're restricted to a static instruction the police have a right to pen you in. a restroom very. small appliances or. these people behind me are amongst the lucky few they still can march just by

pure accident of geography we're here in lumberton which is not one of the six borrowers affected by the patent but if as many fear the government extend and widen the bank to take in more parts of london the scenes that you see behind me both small and large marches through london and many other cities across the country could be a thing of the past the burn comes hot on the heels of widespread rioting in many english cities in august it also coincides with the introduction of government austerity measures which some say amounts to the dismantling of the entire welfare state many say public fear of civil unrest is being manipulated to prevent unions from turning out to protest fierce cuts and pat. reagan from the workers revolutionary party says it's just the tip of the iceberg. talk about shutting down facebook social network sites. talking about pictorial civil

war measures because what they're doing in britain is creating a historic change in evidently. the majority of the population will oppose them freedom of expression and association in shrines in u.k. and european law with the u.k. renowned for its powerful union organizations but the ban gives police the ultimate power to step in and arrest demonstrators merely for exercising their right to speak out against the government and that's a dangerous precedent to set. r.t. london. ok so is the weekly live from moscow with me of all research back in a moment with a recap of our top story. wealthy british style it's like it's like if.