you're watching artie's weekly news review welcome to the program well this week saw nato officially announce the end of its aerial campaign in libya starting from next month the country's interim leadership will take control of all security responsibilities they're also tasked with rebuilding the country as well as preventing gadhafi era military stockpiles falling into the wrong hands of tall order in a nation flooded with weapons and he said no it reports. the war is over but the weapons are fully loaded. human rights watch has expressed grave concern about leftover arms in libya their number one fear warehouses thought to hold ground to air missiles which could in the wrong hands take down passenger aircraft it's through mate so our nato allies in the region which these weapons have been flooding libya and also libya is quite wild country anyway the population has has quite a lot of light weapons in its possession and those light weapons are becoming

a heavy burden on the national transitional council now relying on an army of former rebels for security we try to control the bends and we check if there is somebody who has worked and we ask him if he has but there is a center for this we are not. checkpoints have been set up across tripoli to check that those carrying weapons have proper documentation and those who do have the paperwork are being called on by the national transition committee to return their arms the question now what if they don't and what does that mean for pumps gadhafi libya and its stability and now as you can see is being secured here everything is under control and the only word things that we will make some may come is a how to give weapons but we see something very different i asked this head commander what the plan is to disarm the population that. i swear i don't know

if you. look. at a makeshift arms collection center that covers one neighborhood in the capital we are shown this. these are the weapons people brought to me today not many. walk down one block in tripoli and you'll see twice as many firearms. do you know how many weapons there are in libya i can dislike have to eventually yeah i think everybody have a weapon some think the front of arms in the country could spell disaster ahead in the vacuum after gadaffi and post revolt chaos as groups fight out vicious battle for power. what you have now in libya is schools of

armed factions who have no respect for each other and who have no respect for mates or actually either they've opportunistically used mater to achieve some aims and nato has been foolish enough to go along with this so i think what we're going to see now is an intensification of the civil war between increasingly the factions which have overthrown but the gadhafi regime with many libyans not yet ready to say a farewell to arms the empty sea which could only be gadhafi with nato help is now asking the alliance to continue its mission a vivid indication of just how unstable the country is and he said now a r t tripoli but now that nato is wrapping up in libya the organizations chief describe the operation is one of the most successful in the alliances history but it's patrick hayes a reporter for online magazine spiked says nato had no strategy other than regime change. what we see here more than anything else is opportunism of the worst

possible sorts from western political leaders who are effectively trying to rewrite history through out this entire conflict and to give the impression that they have some kind of strategy they were completely disorientated completely reacting to events rather than directing them the transitional council broadly have been cherry picked by nato these are people that are effectively the puppets of the west that have been put in there because they are kind of safe representatives because the west fears you know what might actually happen if the libyan people actually try and take the democratic initiative for themselves effectively the n.t. ciena has become quite dependent upon western leaders for guidance and i think that's really kind of problematic in many ways because again they're not genuinely representing the libyan people and their particular interests they're orientated instead towards the west and their interests. but it's thought that colonel gadhafi is most influential son saif al islam has thirteen the share count is looking to hand him self over to the international criminal court he's reportedly used

a spokes person to make contact with the hague to deny charges of crimes against humanity some experts believe that putting gadhafi son on trial is the last thing some western leaders want to see tea's of a bennett explains. to some moammar gadhafi was a man who knew too much secrets which will supposedly be buried with him i think that there were tremendous sized relief all over capitals in western europe this is somebody who cut all sorts of deals with the french but also the british and the italians and to a certain extent the americans just well i think they did not want to see him put on trial for any reason and i. should prized that he was captured alive really really quickly ended up dead gadhafi returning from diplomatic cakes are was spec'd. killer hugs handshakes and kisses from the heads of countries which

denounced him get daffy's now silenced but the suspicion around those who laid out the welcome mat is far from buried could own fears to his grave. but the shooter dealing with his constant repetition of all will go away precisely because that is also the situation was fishing will probably grow shrinks it may lead to a situation where big. their interests then british prime minister tony blair was instrumental in get daffy's rehabilitation bringing him in from the cold in two thousand and seven but blair didn't leave empty handed trade between them flourished so did the cozy relationship there were six more secret meetings after blair left office his people denying they were about releasing the lockerbie bomber abdel baset al mcgrath he or britain would lose its lucrative libyan deals i regret myself enormously that gadhafi was should he should have been said to be trash

would cripple call put all the trial and force to all it's a question through all the terrible things he did and if it davidge the contemporary world all previous regimes and leave is tough and we need to know. what is darby. with people some details of the murky dealings have already emerged claiming the reputation of one of britain's leading universities the london school of economics agreed to contracts with the gadhafi regime worth over two million pounds to educate hundreds of its future civil servants the director was forced to resign and now the university of tripoli is demanding the money back french leader nicolas sarkozy was never shy in creating good daffy even letting him pitch his tent in the elise a palace at parentline for bankrolling sarkozy's path to the presidency. so says this man the one who could still tell law. sarkozy must give back the money he took

from libya to finance his electoral campaign we funded and we have all the details and are ready to reveal everything. saif al islam gadhafi son and key right hand man reportedly ready to surrender to the war crimes court saif is going to have low information and now i think we're so used to tony blair intervene formed to help him get his dodgy ph d. degree from the london school of economics one. degree or apparently was plagiarized as a lot of things have gone on so you knows about saif gadhafi is wanted to answer for his own actions in libya is drawn out battle for control but it's what he could reveal about the diplomatic deals with his father keeping the western power players sweating after bennett r.t. london. in his first interview with the western media since syria's uprising began . actions against his regime could transform syria into another afghanistan his

comments came after the u.n. secretary general once again condemned the country's violence calling for the repression to end the arab league also to end the civilian death toll more than three thousand killed and the rest since march ministers are going to meet syrian officials later today to press for dialogue between the government and opposition some protesters have been calling for a no fly zone over the country and support their pains but this isn't a syrian writer and democracy campaigner you know these are the population doesn't want a military solution to the crisis. we're against military intervention whether today tomorrow or in ten years time even if the regime is to ny late every one of us would still be against military intervention we fight for freedom and we don't want to add external slavery to our domestic one we don't want it to become a part of the struggle between the international and internal forces syrians are

peaceful they want to progress under conditions of freedom and development and they don't want to turn into a concentration camp of poly gone for larger countries. still ahead for you this hour social unrest against inequality. the good wages are back on the streets protesting a government spending they say they're not getting enough while the military is getting too much. and the embattled wiki leaks web site has been porter suspend its activities all the details on the stories in just a few minutes. well you leaders reached a long awaited deal on thursday to try and save greece on the euro zone from collapse the measures include writing off piste percent of greek debt capitalizing european banks so they can cope with any future losses and expanding the bailout fund to one trillion euro after the summit in brussels french president nicolas sarkozy said allowing greece to join the euro ten years ago was

a mistake according to doc to be rather of britain's taxpayers alliance and you rescued you won't fix the problem because greece is too far gone. it's almost like one of those 1980's comedy is where the somebody giving a fellow deathbed speech who then keeps getting up and carrying on it's something which. the fundamentals were there to be seen twenty twenty five years ago they were supposed to be sixty percent debt to g.d.p. ratio before state qualified in the first place to join the euro and now it's being seen as some achievement of money she's got to get down to twice that it's long been a ticking time bomb bailouts as a rule of thumb unless they're there to achieve a set end with major reforms as a rule of thumb don't work i don't see within this package not really through the fifteen or so pages of the document i mean there are some aspirations and a lot of aspirations in there but in terms of concrete proposals go a little thin on the ground. well the europe's got to find the money its first stop

is china the bailout fund chiefs visited the country to try to persuade it to help find a huge you rescue beijing is so far form and short of making any promises and economists their belief china will try to test for the following mistakes made by leaders in tackling their problems china will join the battle of all the saviors bug china will not be a white knight in this regard because the understanding is that it is those individual countries who are having the problem will be also their problem solvers in the first place and then what will be the neighboring countries of the community of the of the eurozone can come up with a specific solution even would shine the kind drawing to help china is not very satisfied satisfied with the found those that the austerity plan didn't come on the right time and there are still the war between different stakeholders within the

within this forum not. on the other hand the indecisive in this and the slow pace in of their members particularly those who are leading members in solving those issues so that really saves several taj a number of people in terms of their patients to come up to the rescue plan. well to the u.s. now a police in denver have moved into the camp of the occupy wall street protesters arresting those who refuse to leave becomes just hours after a massive standoff pepper spray and tear gas fired into the crowd but in this footage you can see police dispersing a kind of activist meanwhile in the states of tennessee and california more than fifty people were arrested and squad swept through their camps whooping tents tables and other belongings the movement has already been tested by snow storms in colorado with harsh conditions expected to hit america's east coast test as

a new york are getting ready to withstand blizzards and that's before it is stripped them off their power supplies task on a chicken ports and even arrests upcoming winter to shake the determination. the peaceful nationwide movement that turned violent overnight in oakland. police attacked protesters with tear gas stun grenades. flash bombs and rubber bullets we had been there for weeks we had been taking care of ourselves there been no incidents with the police and they came in one of the most terrifying shows of force that i've ever seen in my entire life and they came in and they either flushed everyone out of the camp or arrested them and then they began to systematically trample all of the tents cut them apart and this need people really really angry a former u.s. marine an iraq war veteran was seriously injured by a tear gas canister that police fired at him. footage of the wounded veteran and

police brutality spread quickly the shock of it galvanizing the nation and the occupy movement across the country who are google says the company received requests from local law enforcement agencies to remove you tube videos of police brutality they did not comply the stronger of forcible response five establishment the stronger the movement. will get the larger the protests will become the protesters through these past six weeks of being careful not to taint the movement's reputation with violence by and large most reports suggest that this movement has been almost entirely peaceful but some in the u.s. media use the night of violence you know clinton to portray the protesters as radicals and more violence from the occupiers a lot of these people are professional educators a good number of these people are radicals no doubt about it you might ask how radical was this elderly woman in a wheelchair who was tear gassed by police or jasper father of two who's working on

his ph d. at the university of california berkeley you know they characterize you know it's. the perspective of the movement marginal and radical and fringe in order to discredit it this moment really is about all americans it's not just about people that make a story we've been poor this is about now it's to the middle class that is starting to feel the impact of corporate greed that has run this country for so long as the movement grows bigger and more structured it's becoming harder to ignore the message of the campaigners who call themselves the ninety nine percent and protest against corporate crime and government complicity protesters tens march through and throughout the country there will be more the movement is only expanding several weeks ago police crackdown on protesters with pepper spray this week it was tear gas and stun grenades protesters now want to hit big business where it hurts

a general strike next week demanding banks and corporations shut down for a day but will the police response be anyone more brutal crackdown i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. what i saw the head phew this hour russia's cultural kingpin reopens. the bolshoi he's back with a medium to the internet lovers have been waiting for as. moscow's landmark theater unveiled its first book almost in sixty years after a massive amount. to israel now where tens of thousands returned to the streets of tel aviv to vent their anger over social inequality and government spending policy that's less than two months since the country witnessed an initial wave of protests or to the support of the reports. the last demonstration back in september in early september sold a million people come to the streets in the country logan i was satisfied with that turnout and after that a lot of the protesters many of them are university students return to process and

things that didn't take a little bit of it out but said he now what we have seen is not only attention on what is happening internally feared to be israeli air force has also known strikes on southern gaza by members of the islamic jihad organization has been killed by the organization that is what holds a sponsible for a grad missile that was fired into israel earlier in the week the concern here though talking to people is that this story of social demonstrations will not be missed by many in the international community as it focuses in on what is happening externally and certainly the mainstream international media is making a lot of what is going on in gaza to the detriment of what is happening here and with me to talk about this is nicholas simmons who is one of the our social protestors nicolette why are you back on the streets after a two month lull. the knesset the parliament is returning from its recess and we

just hope that they'll reconsider their budgetary considerations the problem has been that the budget considerations have been about parties and politics they've been about leaving the tycoons you seem to control everything we want the budgetary considerations to consider just the general good of the country here in israel it's very very important to realize we are not in economic recession a problem isn't that we don't have enough money problem is that it's being mismanaged the government decisions about what to do the money is bad oh the loads so that. certainly when you hear the cries of people here and really they slogan is the people demand of social justice people here saying that the government can do what it wants to attract attention but they certainly will not give up on what they say are very legitimate demands of. course they're reporting. well for more news exclusive footage and analysis you can visit our website at r.t. dot com it's a brief look at what you can find online right now nationalists shadow over germany

as the country's leading right wing party calls for immigrants to be sure to do more on why this dangerous rhetoric seems to be attracting growing support also online. one of the twentieth century's most the tourist get rich quick schemes is back despite the pyramid project wiping out the savings of millions in the past there's still plenty of investors willing to open their wallets once again that more r.t. dot com. on monday the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks was forced to temporarily suspend operations its founder julian assange has said the site would instead concentrate on aggressive fundraising campaign to fight a financial blockade imposed by american and e.u. banks the financial freeze came after a massive leak of secret u.s. diplomatic cables showing the real often highly critical of use of foreign diplomats but also contained thousands of revelations about the afghan and iraq campaigns or so on said cutting off the websites funding is unlawful this daring to

fight it in court the president of the national union of journalists in britain on long says ending which leaks activities will simply encourage others to take its place. these acts of been taken outside of any legal process side of any international political agreements yet they seem to have the ability to shut down a website that some governments find troubling. it's very unclear exactly what the motivations what the power behind them and it is it's good steeply unsettling because there were other very beginning of the situation questions about. attention members of the u.s. government had suggested or asked companies like amazon which was the first to take action against wiki leaks because they were hosting the size and what they may have been asked by individuals within the u.s. government so. obviously one of the issues is there aren't really any rules regarding what companies can can or cannot do with their customers companies are

generally entitled to reject customers if unfortunately wiki leaks was forced to close down that we would see other sides seeking to do the same kind of thing and getting around the restrictions of wiki leaks faced. the central asian country of kurdistan is electing its first president since the bloody uprisings that toppled former leader women back here last spring the front runner is the country's former prime minister wealthy businessman who promises to bring stability and prosperity to the nation current interim the often by over he's not running for the top job these elections signal kurdistan's first he's full transition to a new government in april twenty ten at least ninety people were killed in the capital in the unrest ousted back here that massive ethnic clashes in the south of the country that left more than four hundred people dead. now a brief look at some other news from around the world this hour. a powerful explosion has killed twenty nine people at

a coal mine in one province in central china five of the miners were rescued and one more made his escape to safety through an air shaft the state owned coal mines administration has not confirmed the cause of the blast despite an improving safety record chinese mines remain among the most dangerous in the world. former brazilian president louis enough to the silver has been diagnosed with throat cancer sixty six year old will begin their treatment next week one of his doctors says the former president is in a very good condition that his chances of full recovery are excellent his eight years of leadership saw brazil experience stable growth and unemployment rates plummet. a series of insurgent attacks in afghanistan have claimed at least twenty lives the taliban suicide bomber drove a truck with with seven hundred kilograms of explosives into a nato convoy of foreign troops outside kabul meanwhile in the country's south

a man in an afghan military uniform opened fire on coalition troops killing three it's about has claimed responsibility for the attacks a suicide bombing near government offices and. now then after six years of the boris restoration one of russia's greatest cultural institutions has reopened its doors to the public hundreds of millions have been spent in the bolshoi theater which staged a grand return in moscow on friday night. was among those lucky enough to attend. just three made from scratch it seemed hard on paper but it appeared arduous in reality over seven hundred million dollars of state money and six years of work to bring back all people and send glory to russia's landmark theater even the president sighed with relief. it's been

a painstaking process going through this nightmare was not only the theater's company but also the government on the side construction workers. site workers were the first to the theaters orchestra sang an ode to. a real truck driven on to the stage just showed the scale of renovation the theater underwent unesco has already taxed the works as unique the stage has doubled in size and not by growing wider the bolshoi has remained in its historic contours but by growing underground i think it's absolutely wise choice to try budapest within the old tools of the building and try to modernize it without making it a more real and modern looking it is definitely not kilo's of braided gold tons of crystal and hundreds of meters of silk woven by monks all setting the scene for

some of the world's greatest beauties but. there is nothing. at all right. here. is what is the word bolshoi associated with in the rest of the day is this a ballet. this say. this a chandelier. that incredible standard. and of course this a rush to see the stage with old soviet symbols now removed came the last president of the u.s.s.r. me heil gorbachev bela legend maya p.c. at sca as well as directives from the competition world class values including law scholar the vienna oprah and covent garden precious opening night tickets for the wealthy and well connected only were exclusively available for the president's

office and for others happy to watch in the chilly autumn and the opening night show gala concert was displayed on giant t.v. screens. and as the curtain came down the cheers rob will from all sides could be heard ringing inside be renovated restored to full shopping extending the couch over our teeth. by the dates on the week's top stories shortly stay with us. thanks.

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nato has officially announced the end to its military campaign in libya leaving the country's security in the hands of the new government there are concerns about the heavy on population that's been left. behind. e.u. leaders signed off a massive deal to avert greece's debt crisis and save the euro zone critics say the move is a mistake and it's just a day in the effort that will contest fifty. americas and corporates protest suffer snowstorms and police pressure left one activist critically injured squads are sweeping through occupy wall street cams from an intense arresting those who fused together. and russia's legendary bolshoi theater reopened after a six year no expense spared renovation and grand it was attended by russia's credibility around the world renowned opera lovers. next technology update over the.