with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on r.t. but first we begin with our breaking news story in a nation attempt on the president of russia's republic of english well now get the latest from auntie's medina question of if she is in russia's north caucasus medina what details can you give us at this stage. well very sure and many of those association attempt to place right in the capital of the republican brain and the an armed man opened far over the bodyguards of the republicans had one bodyguard was warned it is the of the republican and that you've caught up but was not injury anyhow injury to warn of the attacker himself also got warned there and he was later arrested by police and also i want to mention that. the heart of the english or another association or term to an op years ago and he is

survived that a tram you were travelling wanted at the time and he's done several weeks in hospital and almost died also and he'd known to be very active that unified plane terror in the republic of congo shanty and and also across the north caucasus of the elated the pale hours is gone this means i can medina thanks very much indeed for that live update medina question of a life from russia's north caucuses and just to reiterate there's been a failed assassination attempt on the president of russia's republic of english and we're trying to get more details for you as soon as we can here on our breaking news story this hour the libyan interim government has declared the symbolic liberation of the country following the death of colonel gadhafi he was gunned down an unclear circumstances while fleeing the city of sirte on thursday the incident sparked international calls for an investigation without a geisha as the ousted libyan leader was executed a leaked video betrays

a man boasting that he shot gadhafi twice during his capture the claim is supported by a post-mortem which discovered to put holes in the colonel's body elections analogy to be held in libya within eight months followed by the formation of a new government in the drafting of a constitution for the post gadhafi future looks uncertain as ethnic and tribal divisions among libyans once united in revolution. and then there's nato which is winding down its military intervention while its members rush to secure lucrative oil deals with the new media. is in tripoli with. not so long ago it was handshakes and hugs now it's his head. and his family and a lot of tales to tell about foreign involvements and fact that though he was always portrayed as a great guy who you also played a lot of banking with the western powers. graphic gruesome footage of gadhafi went viral as news of his death spread after months of being number one on nato is hit

list under the banner humanitarian mission. we came we saw he died. have anything to do with your visit. libya's and t.c. claims he was killed in crossfire but edited video begs to differ shown here clearly wiping blunt from his head then clearly dead look at the footage shown on t.v. proves that he was captured alive and wounded and after that he was killed. well the pressure is growing for an investigation to find out if gadhafi died as clinton put it or was executed the u.n. human rights organization should all push not only for investigation. and certainly the lynching of many of the libyan members of the. support the. but also the bombings that inflicted in libya that destroyed

so many of libya's infrastructure and also so many libyan civilians who died in the u.s. who were killed in the. alliance officials claim the mission in libya is coming to him and the no fly zone will be reviewed at the u.n. security council. but many believe this is only the end of gadhafi and the beginning of a new era of crisis libya is in for a period of horrendous chaos after the nato bombing that's brought parts of libya back to the stone age some say the race for the country's oil has kicked off france is already demanding thirty five percent of libya's gross national gross oil production and i suspect that the people of libya will be furious and outraged that they are paying france for having bombed the infrastructure having destroyed the schools the hospitals the the water supply and

a country united in hatred for gadhafi might not stand together now that he's gone all these these different groups and that we were held together but one thing and that was a trigger. and now that it's gone away you can redirect their anger at each other and i think that chaos ensues and political instability there's a lot of people looking back on libya. and we change and we're back now and that is not a great celebrations continue throughout the week of crossing the country and it seems few people here are really thinking about the future going to libya without gadhafi it really means for them a country with no leader a lot of weapons and even more oil reporting from tripoli and he's now a r.t. . and he says keeping us updated with the latest from tripoli online as well just head to our twitter stream to keep track of her account of events in post gadhafi

libya well let's get some reaction and analysis now from professor he's joining us live from the capital will be professor thank you very much indeed for being with us the new libyan authorities claim the country is now liberated but which just hearing reports that colonel gadhafi is most influential son saif is just released a statement saying he'll keep up the fight so is the war over or not. well of course not because libya has been actually invaded under the pretext of protecting civilians but actually it has been invaded. a lot of devastation in libya much of the infrastructure has been destroyed tens of thousands of people have been killed. so actually it is an occupation and a better brutal occupation and i don't think that there will be peace in libya it's just like in iraq you see the war was not the end of conflict in iraq

the. hostilities stopped actually movement of resistance and i think the same would be happening in libya i think this is nothing except you describe it as a brutal occupation you would deny then that is not what the majority of libyans wanted the outcome being of course the collapse of gadhafi regime. able to see it was not revolution i mean they claimed it wasn't evolution i have studied the revolutions. in this part of the world but in history you know historically speaking this cannot be described as evolution it was some sort of a coup de tat where you have the military coup de back by nato and actually the nato. nato actually under the pretext of helping civilians or protecting civilians waged a war against libya both the infrastructure of the state the institutions the ordinary

civilians reports say that tens of thousands of libyans were killed now that cannot be described as that evolution it's an occupation and the gangs the armed gangs we've seen what they've done to these armed gangs are not dilution. what do you make of nato saying it's actually going to end its campaign in libya by the end of the month. yeah perhaps their official campaign but i think that the. allies in libya those who are going to control. libya or to control libya will find a lot of trouble in convincing the people of their legitimacy i think there will be a resistance movement not only by. but generally speaking there will be. resistance movement in libya and let us not forget that libya has. tradition of resistance of the occupier so i think there will be

a resistance movement in libya similar to what we've had in iraq and we talk about the nature of his death he was apparently executed by the interim government's forces there are many saying actually it's been better to put him on trial and indeed even the the libyan prime minister he wishes gadhafi hadn't been killed but wouldn't pass tensions or perhaps delay libya's future progress and not bring about any form of. yeah yeah well you see i think this is a detail what i mean is that ok what happened with gadhafi whether he was actually executed on the spot whether he was tortured these are details of course details details but still they are details the basic fact is not that hard to build up that was only expected at the hands of these gangs these gangs are. i mean i expect such atrocities from such gangs. but the main issue is occupation

libya has been occupied it was semi independent at one time under gaddafi or we had many. actions were perpetrated by gadhafi but at least libya during that office. regime was actually an independent. country now it has lost its independence there has been a beauty brutal occupation. let me ask you the transitional government is an interim government there promising elections we're seeing elections taking place in tunisia today don't you have the same sort of optimism that a forward democratic election could actually take place in eight months there in libya. where you see there's a fundamental difference between libya and doing as you had a genuine popular revolution which actually deposed. dictator. dictated with a very corrupt dictator and. this is the fruit of

a real genuine revolution not so in libya and libya it is an occupation now. i'm sure they're going to have some sort of election but it would be. just like what happened with what would not be a genuine expression of let me say of the will of the people i don't think so i think that it would be a mere formality. something else because you just like look at that. very interesting because occasionally does not give. you see occupation does not breed democracy that is a fundamental principle of world history i think revolutions breed democracy but not occupation military occupation foreign occupation so i doubt very much that there would be genuine democracy in libya from now on very interesting to have a conversation with you on this thanks so much for your time live from the capital of jordan professor thank you. over in syria

the death of colonel gadhafi sparked a fresh wave of anti-government protests calling for president bashar al assad to step down dozens more people were reportedly shot dead as troops loyal to damascus cracked down on the demonstrators of a three thousand is said to have been killed in the country since march but as an artist has a similar reports from syria both sides of the conflict of plenty of blood on their hands. this is the office of the traitor reads one of the messages on the wall israel and the u.s. were able to buy you with a thousand dollars says another. this is where several opposition leaders work like . he had been a vocal critic and had spent fourteen years in jail a very bad time he recalls like many opposition members he thinks there's really very little room for reconciliation under the current environment. because troops must be withdrawn their backs clear voices and a regime that i know. is listening to people as he

insists peaceful protesters were forced to respond to attacks by security forces but he acknowledges that now it's simply not black and white responsibility for the violence goes both ways we have. this killing civilians but we have some civilians killing. soldiers yes son was one of the first soldiers killed since protests began in the country he was killed in on march twenty three. all foreign media acknowledge that too many of the army and national guards have lost their lives so how can some people say that on groups didn't exist he kidnapped these civilians and the members like my son how could all new members kill other members this is impossible the media that says it is plain lying. and therein lies the problem the moment. there is confusion about what's really going on information is taken by each side and used to defend their position so if you

hear only arguments from one side you'll likely believe them amid this atmosphere of confusion and misinformation the push for reforms continues what's the enduring very forms this is another question whenever a new legislation is made we see an escalation of the security situation in syria of the killing by the guns but we cannot absolutely brooke put the blame on the government as i mean some circles try. to propagate the voices from both sides are calling for a dialogue to sit down and talk to the syrians themselves agree that if this crisis is to be resolved that foundation of trust should be first laid down but with each threat or death syria respond the rising and already widening political gap. does are still you are to damascus. we're live here in moscow with you twenty four hours a day still to come this hour we report on why nato warnings until it's not enough

to get ethnic serbs to remove their parrot caves next to the disputed serbia kosovo border. that's still to come but first european leaders have begun crucial talks in brussels aimed at resolving the region's debt crisis and keeping another recession at bay they are expected to tell banks to accept that the greek debt will never be paid in full and instead they should raise new capital to deal with the losses this week violent clashes broke out in athens where people fed up with more austerity measures vented their anger and sara first was there. phrase has had become a regular occurrence theory behind the five senses thing that's growing public anger. see what that means to the people here in the country has been cut to their wages by around thirty percent in most cases on top of that. the pensions the public funding unemployment here in the country is cripplingly high and we've

seen the emergence of a new generation of homeless these measures seem to have affected everyone here in going. after the. people that get passed on to us to our young and. old sort of five one of the nation of the people who will fight peacefully because we want our lives calm by. the young and the rose and people from all walks of greek life joins the today protest largest police a scene since the crisis began one of the nice violent through fort bliss very far it's but it wasn't to be the anger once again boiling over with fights breaking out not just with the police but amongst the protesters from cells greek society is facing a social disaster for the past two years we've received austerity package after

austerity package people are beyond third breaking point they cannot stand it anymore. and it's not just the protesters with an appetite for change they the veil was passed some top government officials did it plays on a position then the saying he'd think for the nature of business struggling with his conscience he's not the only one speaking to police major after the protest at the start of the month he told me that the pressure today for the riot police involved in these events you know this school of this it is very hard to describe the feeling. the policeman because there are two ways social and professional group who are suffering by the economic measures to the government has to take and sometimes it is really hard for them to take part in these protests as working people but once more they had to take to the streets to protest is even they he wanted to make their point peacefully the rest of europe in the i think it's going to be watching this very closely because this isn't just a problem that affects great it is the situation there thank you so if you can't

think what the people in the country right now willing to go through that have then i think. the people here are going to have to wait a while longer see if anyone's now going to be ready to listen so. it's a race against time for the e.u. leaders to resolve the eurozone debt crisis but financial analysts patrick young says any idea they come up with will be obsolete i think we're actually coming close to the end because ultimately the greek economy is in such a mess there is simply nothing can be done i mean what we're trying to do here is take the world's most obese person and give them a crash diet so they're going to turn into i don't know cindy crawford by the end of next year i mean it's simply impossible you can't do that the greek railways for example i mean the salary bill something like a hundred million euros the total amount of income is like one hundred million

euros in total it costs about seven hundred million euros i believe to run the railway system you cannot possibly manage to change those numbers in such a short period of time the simple truth is greece has too much debt no matter of belt tightening is going to change or not i what's going to happen is we're going to have to take what we call in banking terms our haircut on the debt and ultimately it's not going to be cutting of the hair a lot of people are going to be left somewhat bald. more world news in brief for you now here on twenty one minutes past the hour in the russian capital a seven point three magnitude earthquake has struck the city of van in eastern turkey close to the border with iran authorities said these fifty people have been killed and over one hundred fifty injured after some eighty buildings collapsed in the area including several hotels and a student dormitory there are also reports of power loss and disruption to telephone lines three military planes have taken off from the capital ankara for van carrying aid and supplies with the red cross working on the ground the

aftershocks were also felt in iran armenia and georgia the turkish prime minister is on his way to the affected region. afghan president hamid karzai has said his country would back pakistan if it ever went to war with the us a statement that contrasts with his harsh criticism of his nation's eastern neighbor during the u.s. secretary of state's recent visit to kabul both hillary clinton and one karzai have accused the pakistan government of providing safe haven to terrorist groups launching attacks in afghanistan. a large german satellite rosser that has made an uncontrolled reentry into the atmosphere after being deactivated in space over a decade ago scientists were unable to communicate with the satellite before its return and another trying to determine its whereabouts space enthusiastic worldwide are following the latest developments on the search for the fall and telescope online via micro blogs.

nato led peacekeepers trying to remove roadblocks in northern kosovo had been prevented by serbians who sat on the roads guarding the disputed serbia course of a border crossing serbs set up the barricades in july to stop kosovo from extending its control over the part of the country populated mostly by ethnic servants artie's refreshen reports on the continuing standoff. as months of tension between serbs and ethnic albanian cos worst continue roads in northern course they remain closed for some serbs or for to find their barricades and see themselves again as victims of history these cartoon reads we defeated your grandad we defeated your father's will win again local serbs compare the nature led peacekeeping force in kosovo ok for the fascist occupiers of the past they will then why do they think that they can come and take our land serbia is our home we don't want to live in

albania look how they are meant that we have nothing but flag and faith in god some two hundred meters away they took a four soldiers keep watching i would prefer a peaceful solution by talks by an agreement which i did all in the last week but if that is not to be reached i have to be on my own i have to do fall back on my own needs. some of them are. going to be no surprise the generals only means a military ones the status quo in northern kosovo remains the standoff between k. four soldiers and local serbs is no closer to resolution it's people from both sides of the barricades glad to avoid any further violence but away from media glare hostility is common place this twenty three year old syrian man was with his father when he was shot just three weeks ago visiting an old ben village in courses

south west serves a minority living in tiny and claves i was waiting for him in a car and i saw him coming out of the all being in cafeteria when i heard two gunshots and my dad fall down i rushed to him but i was worried he died immediately i didn't even say goodbye to him. w. bush shows us his wounds he was shocked when his father's killers try to eliminate the only witness i will never return to their place. i'm worrying about my fellow and myself in a separate incident just last week another unarmed serb was killed in a confrontation with a local these two men together with their friend mir drug they follow the big family went to see what used to be served land now owned by ethnic albanians since serbs fled after nature's nine hundred ninety nine bombing of yugoslavia they were stopped by the new yorker pio we talked for five minutes then he said he needed to

come back to his car to take in some form but came back instead with a kalashnikov do you want to lombok he shouted and started firing at aunt's drug was killed at the scene the man who just lost their france they there is only one reason he was killed but just because we are serbs periods eleven years after the end of major conflict here and despite the presence of international peacekeepers violence seems to be still part of everyday life for some in this troubled breakaway province and there is little sign that's like to change refn optionality course or. because external authority isn't hard former british prime minister tony blair to reform their country and improve its standing in the west mr blair will reportedly be paid twelve point five million dollars for his services political analyst jim brown says that blair only cares about acquiring more wealth. blair has that reputation of being quite you know extremely mercenary and he has his finger

in so many pies as soon as he left office he went to work for j.p. morgan bank. some astronomical sum like half a million or a million pounds a year yes his own company tony blair associates he's got his finger in various other pies and as far as being middle east envoy i suspect that he's he's and he's run out to close the lid and i think he's probably kept on as a middle east envoy because the embarrassment of sacking him would be greater than the barest mother keeping him on but he's so overtly pro israeli for example in many people's eyes he whenever he goes back to the iraq inquiry that it's going on in london he simply uses it as a platform to promote. dealing with iran the urgency of dealing with iran so i think he feels he can just go off and make lots and lots of money and he might be the right person to advise people how to make lots and lots of money. jim brown

there and it's bring you an update on our breaking news story this hour there's been an attack on a convoy carrying the president of russia's republic of english here in his back bodyguards were attacked by a single gunman one of the guards was wounded and is now in hospital the suspect was also wounded and is in custody could have himself was unharmed and he addressed the media saying this was not an assassination attempt english president survived a roadside bombing two and a half years ago which put him in hospital for seven weeks that's updating you on our breaking news story this hour. well now is the occupy wall street movement going to change the face of america well that's the question we're asking in our interview in a few minutes from now first though the week's top stories for me very shortly stay with us live here and be back in a couple. of .

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a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report. he used. to. say. the latest news and the week's top stories for you in the weekly update a bloodstained end to an error in libya with allegations color gadhafi was executed by the interim government's troops. breaking point this week violent clashes

erupted in greece as people were hit with more sturdy measures leaders up against the clock me to try and resolve the debt crisis. battle over barricades nato forces failed to remove roadblocks of the disputed serbia kosovo border as ethnic serbs the blockade to stop the peacekeepers advance. and a historic moment a russian soyuz rocket set off from a french space space in the tropics carrying europe's first satellite navigation system. now the ongoing occupy wall street movement which started over a month ago shows no signs of slowing down and next r.t. talks to author and social critic james cussler about the phenomenon and what kind of impact it's going to make on the future of the united states that interview is next now be back with more news for you another update in fifteen minutes from now .