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breaking news this hour r.t. the egyptian army launches a major assault on protesters in cairo time here square almost a thousand of those running against the military rulers have already been injured in fierce clashes. and all the stories that shaped this week dark over the syrian government as the deadline set by the arab league to end violence expires the president assad is defiant in the face of growing international pressure. two months of magical protests in america market sells and strong marches all over the u.s. and hundreds of arrests and a heavy handed police response. glass breaks and italians give an unfriendly
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welcome to new unelected leaders amid fears the troubled states are losing sovereignty because of harsh economic measures dictated by prospects. to look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly r.t. so we begin with our breaking news this hour egyptian army and police has launched a major crackdown on protesters attack here square tens of thousands of been protesting since friday at a lack of reform coming before crucial elections and could carry the potential to paralyze the country once again. on a way to caro has the latest now from neighboring israel. this is the second straight day that there have been these a vine and clashes in downtown cairo according to the police there some five thousand demonstrators but we're hearing reports that tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets and thousands of people have been injured really the
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focal point in taqiyya square at once again this was the scene of where we saw an eighteen day revolution earlier on here lead to the ouster of the former egyptian president hosni mubarak now people are incredibly angry what protesters want is that the military government that has been in power since february give way to and elected government that represents the will and the desire of the people and what many people are saying is that the military wants to stay in power and in this way they are not not that much different from me for me to some president hosni mubarak so those demands are reaching a boiling point people incredibly angry as i say and all of this coming just eight days before the first parliamentary elections to be held in a post mubarak period what else is significant is that big leading voice behind these demonstrations is the muslim brotherhood which is regarded as a terrorist organization in several countries and this has caused many people many observers to say that we could be on the brink of
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a second revolution if they repress this syrian style this is going to get out of specially against the muslim brotherhood if we see let's see a large swath of that's going to lead to a real square with all the factions of the muslim brotherhood. google generation everybody in this square against a military dictatorship which is something that could happen within the next few weeks which really this week we're going to have to you square people are saying is that mubarak might be gone but what we're witnessing happening in egypt is far from what the people hoped for we witnessing sectarian violence there are more classes and there are important social grievances that are not being addressed. well to discuss what's going on in egypt at the moment i'm now joined live from cairo by political activists. while the protesters are going to get return to his square blood has been spilled an emergency has been declared in cairo's hospitals the
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tension certainly escalating there as the spring revolution been in vain. the first revolution appear to be actually the first part of the revolution we were all cheated into believing that the revolution is over we succeeded we managed to overthrow the mubarak regime this was all wrong the mubarak regime is still employed it is fighting back it's taking the simple route regime is. cheating us the population and the world and believing that they are going to store this transition for democracy while everything they are doing was to conspire into holding into power just trying to strengthen their. themselves and to be stronger to be able to fracture the people and the opposition trying to get people falling in security and violence and for additions and so on and by the
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way i would like to just to add another remark the protests over there and a year since they started the have nothing to do with the muslim brotherhood in these like they are in the heart of protest so forth so who are the main protest of then there are thoughts. just young activists is it. in general don't want these protests they say that first and they would rather wait for elections and they are betting that probably on the election of the can win and that's all i don't want anything through why why then if those elections are so imminent why are people not being patient and waiting to express their views by casting we have not. we do not believe that elections mean much we can see through this and we can see that the supreme council for armed forces staff or. entrenching themselves and we are trying to make deals they are forcing deals with
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some islamists in order to divide the clique among themselves and leave nothing for the people so you're saying so everyone is a democratically elected government in fact it will be totally influenced by the military. if you actually. could be a democratically elected government we do not believe that the upcoming elections will be free and fair in the first place so it will not be a democratically elected government and of course under. the fears trying to. influence every single controlling totally the media they are having a very blunt interference in every thing in this country and even say bluntly and quite frankly to us did you think that you. had a revolution you are mistaken we are still here this isn't exactly what the west wanted after mubarak fell what reaction do you expect to get from western countries
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over this current protests now. we've experienced before the world didn't store siding with us until we were actually prevailing. there in the streets or. actually it's going to be i hope it will not be disappointing i hope it will be action that will. immediately side with people in their aspirations for freedom and democracy. well are you not expecting a reaction fairly soon because clearly tensions are building very very quickly there. clearly a lot of this is been going on at the surface but for many viewing what's going on in car at the moment many thought that actually this was the pathway to a democratic future surely you are expecting a reaction pretty soon from the west you. know i'm not expecting a quick reaction from the west but we can see that all the ammunition used against us is these are american or israeli or actually italian was that it's the tear gas
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canisters or the bullets that are used against. or. actually western support for this military government in the way it is dealing with this current crisis. yes. i mean mission that they have received is. it's course presumably revolution and they are used for population sort of used to kill this revolution and empower them so i don't know what can be the excuse of actually giving. armed forces and the security this. there are some very new and very kind of experimental ammunition that we keep experiencing we are using so many different kinds of ammunition against us. and the problem is some of them are i said because like was there some of them. and. some of them were actually fired. a large amount of what seems to be kind of rubber bullets so it's
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not only that rifles are shooting rubber bullets. all sorts of things that are experimenting on us that's why we have injured we don't care about the injured these just stormed the hospital a while ago about maybe an hour ago with teargas and was every think. we're. probably had seen on television how they were sitting on fire vehicles and shops on fire like they did last night and all of us in the revolution that we are the ones doing the just finally briefly then we seeing a second revolution in egypt. i think we are not seeing a second revolution i think we're seeing the same revolution we are still. trying to get rid of the same regime we are still fighting the seam fight we are what we are we have stopped we stopped on february eleventh what we are resuming now
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because we were cheated into believing that we got rid of the regime there and we are there too until we get rid of. we'll have to leave it there thanks so much for joining us live very political activist. his points of view on the developments that encourage thank you. for your branch of the syrian opposition who claimed responsibility for an early morning attack in damascus at least two rocket propelled grenades at the headquarters of syria's government both party nobody was injured it comes as a diplomatic storm surrounds the country with an arab league ultimatum demanding an end to violence expiring. today but syrian president bashar assad pledged not to go before foreign pressure let's assume he has more now from brussels. the pressure is sort of the increasing the new sighting around syria president bashar al assad seems to be standing firmly on his ground so keeping his position saying that his government as well as himself won't back down despite all of the increasing pressure and of course the statement comes on the back of the end of that three day
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alternator given by the arab league for his government to end the bloodshed in a country that is in addition to to its suspension having been suspended from the arab league and the very latest is that they really had rejected the proposals of syria on amendments to the peace process as well as allowing international observers into the country so essentially there's an impasse at the moment and the pressure is also coming from from the ground from the opposition which is increasingly armed libya free syria army made up of the factors have claimed responsibility for attacks on government buildings and ask this and the head of that. had also called on countries to send his forces cooperate so again and this concerns russia because if the. minister sergey lavrov had said that if pressure is to be piled on syria it should not only be just directed to the government but also to the opposition that is increasingly are. we suggested it would be repositioned. countries concerned with peaceful outcome from syria not only from the syrian
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authorities but also from the opposition to. the ongoing attacks on government buildings in syria looks like a simple use. of course tough words have already come from. the outside since the beginning of this crisis eight months ago it's only escalating at the moment and how it's not just worse right now it seems that the pressure on syria is becoming increasingly organized this well there have been talks of a contact to before to discuss the crisis in syria and the intervening king abdullah had asked the big u.k. leader and spearhead of this campaign having seen it be quote success of the libyan intervention now we know that in any resolution of several years the u.n. security council is going to be confided russia and china have already used their veto in the past the so now there are talk that any resolution would be passed through the human rights committee which are all assembly where there are no vetoes . in the reporting there would discuss further developments in syria i'm now joined live from the u.k. by christopher miles that is a right on middle east affairs for the world socialist web site well just
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a few hours ago the syrian foreign minister lashed out at the arab league for rejecting their proposed amendments to the peace plan and so are all the league's efforts doomed and is it now inevitable that the united nations will be involved. i'm sorry christopher is actually talking to us but i can't hear him we could make contact a little earlier we clearly have the visual contact but not the sound so we'll see if we get back to work for some miles and a little later here on r.t. no i understand or perhaps he can hear is christopher you there i'm very sorry but it's not your fault i can you know well let me just ask you that first question once again just to start afresh we know that the syrian foreign minister has lashed out at the arab league for rejecting their proposed amendments for this peace plan do you think we will see involvement by united nations. well i think first of all
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you have to say that the efforts of the arab league would be signed to fail. basis not genuine efforts of conflict resolution on the part of the audibly because they are a bleak place an ultimatum before the assad regime in syria that it couldn't possibly meet is that they would abandon all military action under conditions in which the free syrian army and all the insurgents were carrying out attacks on military targets and you reported today even carried out a bombing a grenade attack on the bucket but they said court is in damascus so what is the reasoning behind the intended failure of this intervention by the army. well you you ask whether the united nations is going to become involved i think not be sporting very doubtful there in the united nations is going on i did on the
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question of regime change in syria because that is what has been discussed i suppose by russia and china who say syria is and how i. where i was a spain pushed very hard by the united states by france by the u.k. . a method in which they are pushing for regime change through the major regional powers physically turkey and saudi arabia. many of you are a states involved in the arab league including. and jordan. there's a you know there were reports in the press on friday that i would say about a meeting held in paris at the same time as it was meeting. with the turkish government involved in the united states britain. france and many of the arab parties about a coordinated response which included which seems so close not just here to russia
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quickly you talk about what he thinks kind of influences want to see regime change what do they want to seen replacement and to. well i think ultimately it is for them for all of a push for the united states to secure its domination of the middle east which is the same reason why i pushed for the war against libya and now they're making very bellicose noises together with israel against iran it's a sense that in power that you really get a lot of talk obviously a lot of pressure from elsewhere from the military and other influences is sad really the man in control now in syria. well i don't think even in the most repressive regime any single man is in charge showing particularly in syria is in elsewhere regime relies on the army for that alternately is not the issue here the issue is that they want a regime breaks me or may not include sections of the army which is more amenable to us foreign policy until you see this distance from iran just finally we're
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seeing violent clashes on top here square a moment where protests against military rule as a replacement baraka being clamped down on and yet the arab league which ironically is based in cairo was very silent about why. prime example selected outrage i don't believe that the collective courts across state it isn't really a tree rulers of the middle east are anything to tell anyone about democracy. and what's taking place in egypt because egypt has been called a very is a regional ally of the united states workers seriously in target so because he's not seen in those terms christopher thanks so much for that sort of our problems a little earlier great to talk to you thanks for your time krista martin wright from middle east affairs joining us live from the u.k. thank you. to libya now the libyan government says it won't send good happy son saif al islam to the hague and will try him at home that's despite the
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international criminal court demanding to hand him over to europe and it appears he could be lynched by his father and i think was seized along with two of his aides one attempting to flee. neighboring even authorities were tried on charges that potentially carry the death penalty or despite the national transitional council promising a fair trial critics doubt this is unlikely outcome. well what fate awaits saif al islam gadhafi we're asking your opinion on that on our web site politics dot com some look at the results on screens as well when the majority think you will most likely get the death penalty in libya around a third of skeptical about saif gadhafi is captured believing he could still be loved and the rest is split between two options that he be tried at the international criminal court or he'll be killed by vigilantes before there's any chance to send him to the hague log on to what he dot com submit your vote you could hear from. hundreds of act arrests accusations of police brutality and thousands of injuries this is how the occupy movement in the u.s.
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markets two month anniversary this week officers in riot gear tore down camps and broke up most peacefully mostly peaceful democrats against the unequal distribution of wealth in major american cities but hardly campaign in new york a crowd of activists took to the subway and tried to block off the stock exchange has been merging a disproportionate police action response to the rallies university of california a group of students staging a sit down protest were pepper sprayed in the face in an earlier incident an officer was filmed beating in iraq war veteran so hard he suffered a ruptured spleen and he seemed to pose no threat and yet as i started to report the crackdown is not turning protesters. human tsunami of tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of new york. hundreds arrested dozens dragged and abused by police thousands more protest across the u.s.
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on thursday the feast of america's civil war against corporate greed and wealth inequality zuccotti park the place where occupy was. it was born looks nothing like it did just a couple of days ago officials were hoping that a big thing the protesters would put it and to the movement but this has backfired a day of action brought more people out onto the streets with more bigger than ever before it's absolutely a story we haven't seen something like this in america thirty forty years and its history of eating itself that leads you to make believe you see the last month and have two months of history making two months after occupy wall street kick started in the big apple new york authorities decided to keep protesters out of their camp bloomberg expose themselves as the clueless out of third world. that he would like this forceful addiction only added more fuel to the fire a way that we were sort of discarded like trash that our civil liberties were really run over by our billionaire mayor has galvanized another more powerful stage
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of occupy wall street out of being campaigned and over the city said no we're absolutely stage two i think what happened yesterday was we showed the world that we are strong we are number amour we're angry about what's going on and we want we want solutions protester see the lack of a camp the presence of police violence and the fact that officials remain deaf to demands only empower them where they can still it is. it will happen late and it will cause you their desire to stick by each other is now stronger than before take place for a living will be. a new dawn for the occupy wall street movement has broken on the horizon especially a church in our hearts. party's crew in the u.s. is constantly following developments surrounding the occupy movement loosely cut off is currently in oakland this is posted on
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a twitter stream that hundreds of people have been gathering in the city despite the police warning which is also tweeted that an american lobby group suggested u.s. banks should undermine a campaign by researching the motives of protesters you can log on to lucy's twitter feed to find out. said to become a reality a eurasian union is to be established by twenty fifteen russia along with some of its post soviet partners are planning a common economic space with the power to resist the global financial crisis what are you going to say not as a story. three nations twenty million square kilometers of land one giant idea. is because like we will repeat the mistakes of the european union in our integration we're conscious or what we're doing and understand who we are integrating with all three countries sharing a common history and today we are forming a common economy your region union will be based on the already existing customs union between the three nations which are among the largest economies in the balls
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or the area within its framework in just six months russia will lose in kazakhstan managed to increase their total free turnover by over forty percent of. its plans their way twenty fifteen the union will not only have one borderline an economic zone let me switch to one currency as well can you stand down or aspiring to join ukraine is selling i would which will be becoming a member of quirk of the news because of this sort of cooperation means more jobs bigger salaries and the chance to boost reforms and modernize our country that's why most ukrainian support the idea they want stability reform some groups have dismissed the union as an attempt to restore the u.s.s.r. but experts say the difference is clear with a show of the u.s.s.r. was built on ideology while the eurasian union will be based strictly on economy and pragmatism but experts say that even some latin american nations like cuba and
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venezuela need join the so-called you tube in the future while new zealand has already shown interest in joining as a large producer of meat with no cost them charges the benefits of being a member are simply too attractive to ignore surely it's way too early to talk about in massive economic and industrial bridge which would stretch all the way from europe into the pacific ocean so far only three states are throwing their hats in but if the current momentum is anything to go by and more are certain to follow it or it's going off are to moscow. the head of the eurasian commissioner victor christan co has outlined ways he believes the new union could sidestep the financial turmoil that's gripping the european union and the full interview is in ten minutes from now. for the current situation there in the euro zone this fleecing internal economic problems doesn't help us to identify probably to integrate and correlate with financial and monetary policies this way we'll be able
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to avoid piling up internally risks and generally situations like this one the crisis has underlined one simple thing if you go so far as creating a single currency union you must exercise tight control over a budget monetary and tax policies that national levels which is not the case in some regions of the rules on will be exposed to poles as a similar to what's happening today in greece italy and spain but. in spain voters are heading to the polls to elect a new government and it concerned the debt contagion will hit their country next to help the nearly one third of euro zone's unemployed and there's little hope among the people that any of the candidates can help them in additional reports now from the capital in the draft. the socialist party which is the ruling party right now is expected to lose to the popular or the people's party however the question remains whether or not there will be huge margin between the two parties you have to understand that at this point spain is a brain is that is in
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a very dire situation the countries are experiencing tremendous problems of employment there more than five million people without jobs right now one and a half million households i do not have a wage earner at all in fact there was a census conducted here recently and i found that in september an average four thousand people have been losing jobs daily in the country and this is of course the situation that the winner will have to deal with you also have to realize that the country has the highest unemployment rate among the young people in the entire european union in fact there is a kind of a sad job going around spain right now that majority of the pizza delivery men here have not to create at least and of course because that is because a lot of people who do spend a lot of money on education end up not being able to get a job so here's the deal basically a lot of people i have been saying that they're just simply not going to go to the polls because they have been this intransitive with the entire political situation they do not like the choices that either of the political parties present so this
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election is really going to show what is going on in the country by the number of people who actually turn up to vote because a lot of them are simply not going to do that because they have lost faith in the country's political system. and initially in greece the new and elected governments are already at work felons of people offered a less than friendly welcome to the new prime ministers are just caught there in the past with many of monty and lucas papademos circulated to extremely unpopular solutions including budget cuts and tax hikes that market so often convince with debt interest rates across the e.u. reaching catastrophic levels. only exciting development for football fans will be. sitting possibly taking the reins of a team from a small court cases republic sports update about twenty minutes when i had comments on the rumors he might be coaching baggage stands angie featuring some of the world's top footballers. we're not in our sports update in about
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twenty minutes now back to our breaking news this hour the egyptian army and the police force of launched a major crackdown on protesters in tahrir square with live pictures from there at the moment there in cairo clashes have broken out across the capital with hospitals declaring a state of emergency at least two people being killed and over a thousand people have been injured since the protests against the luck of the foreign erupted a head of crucial elections for military rulers who took control of the present with results that are being accused of trying to cling to power. really all the latest from current and plenty of comment on this as a story develops here on r.t. . commit to twenty eight and a half minutes past the hour here in moscow i'll be back to recap our top stories we are just a couple of minutes. limitlessly
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