latest news the week's top stories from r.t. nato is shipping out of libya after helping topple gadhafi but his secrets haven't been buried with him his sons threatening to spill the details of western leaders shady deals with the late colonel if he gets his day in court. america's occupy wall street to resist growing police pressure packed up despite dozens of arrests and having to endure freaky weather conditions. an outbreak of deadly fire between israel and gaza as this thousands returned to the streets of tel aviv to protest against disproportionate government spending in favor of the military but.

the curtains sadly upon the legendary home of russia's finest ballets and offers as the bolshoi theatre reopens in style after a capital. welcome it's nine pm sunday night here in moscow you're watching the weekly with me kevin oh it's a roundup of the top stories in the past seven days and the late fees most influential son is looking to hand himself over to the international criminal court where he's wanted for war crimes saif al islam claims he's innocent and is threatening to expose details of deed of his father's dealings with western leaders if he does appear in the dog he's alive or bennett reports. to some moammar gadhafi was a man too much secrets which will supposedly be buried with him i

think that there were tremendous sighs of 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 certain extent the americans as well i think they did not want him put on trial for any reason and i am not that surprised that he was captured alive if you really quickly ended up there returning from diplomatic exile with spectacular hugs handshakes and kisses from the heads of countries which denounced him get happy he's now silenced but the suspicion around those who laid out the welcome mat is far from buried i don't feel his gritty you see. but the. dealing with it was constant and worse relations of all would go way over seriously because the situation was mission who probably grew up . around acutely it was traditionally they were there it was then british prime

minister tony blair was instrumental in the daffy three ability taishan bringing him in from the cold in two thousand and seven player didn't leave empty handed trade between them flourished so did the cozy relationship there were six more secret meetings after player left office his people denying they were about releasing them luckily palmer abdel baset al mcgrath he or britain would lose its lucrative libyan deals i regret myself enormously that gadhafi was put should he should have been said to the international criminal court 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 losing all previous regimes and leaves a tough. we need to know. what is darby day with. 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 a contract to get out the 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 greeting good data even letting him pitches tend to nearly say palace but apparently for bankrolling sarkozy's party to the presidency so says this man they one who could still tell all their cause you have never had sarkozy must give back the money he took from libya to finance his electoral campaign we funded it 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 site is going to have low information on now i think we're so eve there tony blair intervened formed to help him get his gargi ph d.

degree from the london school of economics when a lot agree apparently was plagiarized there's a lot of things that have gone on so you fogarty knows about saif gadhafi is wanted to answer for is own actions in libya's drawn out battle for control but it's what he could reveal about the diplomatic deals with his father is keeping the western power players sweating after bennett r.t. london libyan resident cassy fled the city of sirte just days before colonel gadhafi was killed he claims nato has committed atrocities during its intervention which only helped to destabilize the country. they used every possible thing to do to make this so-called revolution successful they used gunships they use a helicopter they use fighter is all sorts of weapons . disposal so they can. make

this successful. so many people who are feeding this operation moshtarak i don't think it's a success because if it was a success for a libyan with been so happy about it i doubt it very much there's a big divide in libya there is a huge gap now between libyans. i mean parts or partially because of. the feeling partially because of let's be honest and say partially because of. but but the way they killed gadhafi the way they treated him the way they bombed my city you. have a lot of civilians inside it who were killed as well i mean this just. generates anger and generates revenge. which

which is in the future will be the fuel of another war in libya which i think will be sooner or later. libyan resident has been to was there was nato winds up his intervention in libya is leaving behind a country full of weapons in the hands of people with a shady past the started tonight for a special report we call for you on the ground in an hour's time as we reveal how some former rebel commanders have no clue how to tackle the gun problem right now. focusing on syria the president there warning western nations that intervening in his country will cause an earthquake that will tear the middle east to cheryl assad told britain's sunday telegraph newspaper that international involvement could turn his country into another afghanistan his comments follow the u.n. chief latest call to end repressions of the we can pressure is plain for their fifty lives the arab league's also weighing in a strong criticism of damascus to take the necessary measures to protect civilians the u.n. now believes more than three thousand people have perished libyan rests and this is

in syrian writer and democracy campaign official kill all things most people they don'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 was 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 law 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 a polygon for larger countries. still to come this hour on r.t. another outbreak of violence in the middle east a report of how deadly exchange of fire between israel and gaza is that we shall have a peaceful mass protest a government spending tell of the. schools of demonstrators supporting the occupy wall street movement been arrested across the u.s.

overnight riot police in denver moved into telling activists who refused to leave. police used pepper spray to try to disperse the crowd. big time at least thirty people were arrested in the states of oregon tennessee and california after police there went into forced curfews removing protest and belongings but it was made sure threatening down those two in new york after the city was hit by unseasonal snow blizzard the activists say the ready to start the harsh weather conditions to make their point however this art is going to change you can reports from washington the occupy protesters are serious in their determination to. 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 new people are 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. 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 course of the response five establishment the stronger the movement and the larger the protests will become the protesters through these past six weeks of being careful not to taint their movements reputation with violence by a march roast reports suggest that this move has been almost entirely peaceful but

some in the u.s. media use the night of violence you know clinton too to poor. read the protestors 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 a big. step to the. marginal and radical fringe in order to discredit this movement really is about all americans it's not just about people that historically been poor this is about now it's in the middle class was 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 an even more brutal crackdown i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . well we couldn't very close the protests of the hitting united states coast to coast head online for more of our coverage of artsy. good. marching in harmony go to our you tube channel to check out the chance which

the occupy protesters a using right now to rouse the rallies across new york. israeli airstrikes on gaza have killed at least ten palestinians in response to rocket attacks on the jewish state that left one dead and that's the worst outbreak of violence again in weeks after a successful prisoner swap deal between tell of even how bass of these policy reports from israel. one of the concerns people have is that among the hundreds of palestinian prisoners who are still in israeli jails and who still need to be released as part of that prisoner exchange deal that saw one israeli soldier return to israel in exchange for more than a thousand palestinian prisoners many of the palestinian prisoners who still need to be released belong to the democratic front for the liberation of palestine and that is one of the small palestinian groups that has claimed responsibility for a number of these rockets that have been fired into israel in recent days so there

are many people here saying that this doesn't jeopardize that prisoner exchange deal and that it will be almost a convenient excuse for the israelis not to release the hundreds of palestinian prisoners that it is still committed to at least as part of their deal there were more than twenty thousand people that took to the streets of tel aviv they were not surprised by the violence it's about this is something that has happened in the past and it is the government's way of the tracting attention away from domestic problems and certainly if you look at the international media coverage the international media was much more focused on what was happening in terms of security concerns and on israel's border with gaza and then on what was happening domestically fair and this is exactly what protesters say they say that they want money to not be spent so much on our on the defense budget for cuts they have to be made so that more money can be streamed domestically and certainly this increase in violence and the government's response in terms of the fact that it is going to give gaza a harsh hand it tracks attention away from what people here say is the ongoing

situation where they have very real demands that are more often than not overshadowed by the excuse of security concerns. for sure they're staying with israel were caught sentenced a former israeli soldier for a half years in prison for releasing classified military documents some files with israeli paper revealing details of military officials of proving yourself nation of the studios of the west by started by she's the director of a legal side from tel aviv so we could see. the soldier in question other families live behind bars the for espionage but the revelation is that she on earth are they being investigated. well that's part of the problem i wish is that the israeli justice system would spend less time and resources investigating cases of leaked documents and more resources actually looking at the content of those documents in this case a whistleblower blew a loud and disturbing whistle the military is violating international law and the directors of the israeli supreme court in carrying out assassinations in situations

in which they are required to try to make an arrest and so the state attorney's office prosecuted the soldier but failed to seriously investigate the conduct revealed in those documents conduct with raises serious questions about rule of law in a democratic system. has no country can afford to be soft on espionage no matter how it's appalled the truth may be contained in those documents if a night comes league dates and does prove to be true what effect do you think that's going to have what it would use or sentence or maybe would it make it even worse for it will be determined to make an example of if you think i've gotten that much of them said could be up to fifteen years in jail at the moment she's received to an offbeat. well she was convicted for not for espionage but rather rather for misuse of classified documents and those documents were published an article that was actually approved by the military censor as are all articles published in israel so there was whatever risk there might have been in publishing it the

military censor made a decision that it was appropriate to publish that story so there's the case of of something she pleaded guilty to turning over classified documents that she was responsible for handling as a soldier but the question of her sentence and the focus of the case is something that's troubling for people who care about rule of law the allegations in the in the article of they are based on documents showing that in cases in which the military was required to make arrests instead they assassinate people and i'm sorry to say that that pattern of behavior violating orders by the supreme court because of the supreme court said that if they take you must try to arrest as part of a pattern or practice within the israeli system and it's something that's very. because when the army does not obey the orders by the supreme court the supreme court is actually more reluctant to issue those orders because no court wants to issue orders that are going to be ignored and then of course you have a serious threat to the rule of law because in a democratic system the army is of course supposed to listen to what usual system tells them to do so well you get a lot i mean. there's

a lot going on with this weekend of course all of it most unfortunate israel's first second day despite probably still you know if. you've been lost on both sides this week why is television still bombing what's being said. well i mean i'm not a security expert i can say what's been reported in the news which is that there's been an escalation of violence on both sides in this equation that needs to stop and certainly nobody here wants there to be more violence and the hope is that with the prisoner release last year last week rather we can get to a different kind of relationship with was a relationship that's based on neighborly relations and not of course you know how is the prisoner release going to israel still get to release hundreds of palestinians as part of the swap deal. is there a danger that might fall through now. well i mean certainly we hope not and there is a gyptian mediation that's designed to ensure the implementation of the deal there's

no indication that there's been a change and it was a first stage the second stage is to come with another few hundred prisoners who are to be released and of course as a as a center for freedom of movement which is what. we hope that will be an additional element of the deal which has been unconfirmed which is that israel will lift some of the travel restrictions imposed on gaza because one of the elements of the deal is reportedly a change in some of the restrictions on the movement of people and goods inside and outside of palestine certainly haven't seen that yet but we'll hope so we also want to ask you about those protests that have been going on as well this weekend again some thirty thousand israelis putting the streets where you live even protests to government spending how will those protests going on be achieving what they want to achieve and i couldn't say that from my field of expertise but what you have seen these people on the streets in your city where you live what sort of impact. but i think it's always exciting when you see people going out in the

streets and exercising their right to freedom of expression freedom of speech and demanding things demanding a better future demanding the social justice what the results will be will just be all right thanks for your thoughts from tel aviv sort of a she director of legal said thank you. thank e.u. leaders managed to strike a last minute deal on the eurozone crisis thursday to try and save greece and avoid further collapse the banks about a bittersweet pill to swallow they ended up agreeing to write off fifty percent of what greece owes them after euro zone leaders decided to half the country private sector debt to one hundred billion euros europe's emergency pot of cash will also swell one for you after the summit in brussels french president nicolas sarkozy said that greece. it was a mistake to learn greece to join the euro in the first place those comments didn't go down well all around based political economist dr marcus kerber told us

extending the daylight is causing concern within germany because people don't want to pay for others mistakes. i have always hoped that germany sooner or later is going to wield her power to bring the continent to back to economic reason because we are in a phase of the euro agonizing and if so a certain concept is agonizing you should bring it quickly to an end the money we have spent on the least is lost money and we know this i have said this in the spring two thousand and ten we should have kept out of the eurozone from the very beginning of the crisis to stop contagion eighty five percent of the germans disapprove the government's bailout policy and sooner or later that massive popular opposition has to be faced by the german parliament they have to pay tribute to that they cannot go on pursuing a policy which has turned out to be failing. coming up on the program just a few minutes and thought report from the much anticipated cultural events in the russian capital that happened on friday indeed. the bolshoi is back

with a million from the inner lovers had been waiting for as moscow's landmark theater and they'll be its first in sixty years after massive repurpose amount and what defense it was all of which are talking of another landmark moment to reporting on tonight a russian cargo ship is on its way to the international space station set to deliver tons of supplies for the orbiting crew two months after its predecessor crashed. there goes a soyuz rocket sent the progress module from the baikonur cosmodrome because of style it's set to reach the sets in three days the think delivering food fuel and other supplies for three astronauts who are currently there there's a russian an american and a japanese there's only half a normal crew there right now that has a similar supply module crashed after blastoff in august temporarily suspending flights since the end of nasa shuttle program in july the soyuz is the only

transport station to the space station. and you get the backstory of the soyuz missions too and the space station's only lifelines it is now at r t the home while you're there more to discover to be still on this day fifty years ago the soviet set off the most powerful explosion in human history flexing its thermonuclear muscles and the device it was never going to do frankly put the real us head to the russell pedia section if you want to find out more about that also the pyramid returns russia's most notorious financial ponzi scheme that robbed millions of their life savings back in the one nine hundred ninety s. is back this crane's the target is getting a surprising number of investors interested to details and crucially love small print is a dark thirty. more

today's world news kenyan jets have bombed the southern somali turned a jillion it's left at least twelve dead and wounded over fifty never were targeting islamist rebels but somali officials claim those killed were in fact civilians including six children witnesses say jets bombarded a militant base in a nearby refugee camp can you send troops into somalia or middle tobar to try to fight somali insurgents thought to be behind assaults on the border. presidential loyalist troops in yemen a reportedly show the petrol station it's left at least four dead most of them children dozens of others were injured in the attack north of the capital where local tribesmen now by anti regime protesters yemen's injured months of violence has left more than seventeen hundred people dead and on the verge of civil war the un's pushing for president so late and leave in line with the gulf states transition. they dismissed radio where

a tribunals ordered an immediate end to the strike action has led to all of those quantiles flights being grounded around the world this weekend become pretty pretty dispute with three unions for several months over cost cutting plans almost seventy thousand passengers have been affected by what's going on among those stranded. people in seventeen countries and seventeen world leaders in fact a billet sending a commonwealth summit in perth. leisure a glamour of zara's opera and ballet has made a big comeback to the heart of the russian capital was last week as the bolshoi theatre reopened its doors after years of expensive renovation of the country a good show it was a very exclusive grand relaunch to find out whether it was worth the wait and the fortune spent. just story made from scratch it seems hard on paper but 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 side with. the. it's been a painstaking process going through this nightmare was not only defeatist company but also the government and the so construction workers. side workers were the first who the theatre's 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 drive the best within the old. building and try to modernize it without breaking into mortar and modern

looking it is definitely not kilo's of braided gold tons of crystal and hundreds of metres of silk woven by monks all setting the scene for some of the world's greatest beauties but. there is the you. see all right. here. is what is the word bolshoi associated with interest of the day is this a ballet. this a. this is a chandelier. that credible. and of course this is a russia to see the stage with all sort of yet symbols now removed came the last president of the us ceasar gorbachev well a legend my appreciate square as well as directors from the competition world class values including last scholar the vienna oprah and covent garden pressures opening

night tickets for the wealthy and well connected only works lucidly available through 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 big cheers rommel from all sides could be heard ringing inside be renovated restored to full. extent of our children our t.v. moscow. well before the artists of course the architect brings you the high drama of the show stopping engineering aboard the bolshoi about to life very shortly tonight come super program coming up for you that's after a break up of our top stories with me kevin o. and next on r.t. international.

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