breaking news this. least two people reportedly killed in a major assault launched by the egyptian army on protesters in caro's tahrir square have a thousand of those running against the military rulers of also be injured in fierce clashes. in other stories that shaped this week twelve stock over the syrian government as the deadline set by the arab league to end violence expires the presence of is defiant in the face of growing international pressure. two months of magical protests in america remark and thousand strong marches all over the us and hundreds of arrests and heavy handed police response. plus greeks and italians

given unfriending welcome to new unelected leaders amid fears the trouble states are losing sovereignty because of harsh economic measures dictated by brussels. a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on r.t. and breaking news this hour three people have reportedly been killed in new clashes in cairo after egyptian short soldiers and police launched a major crackdown on protesters in tahrir square tens of thousands have been protesting since friday at a lack of reforms ahead of crucial and actions. on the way to cholera as the latest from neighboring. this is the second straight day that there has been these a vine and clashes in downtown cairo according to be police there's 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 focal point being taqiyya square once again this was the scene of where we saw an eighteen day revolution earlier a year lead to the ouster of the former egyptian president hosni mubarak now people are incredibly angry protesters want is that the military government that has been in power since february give rate 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're not not that much different from me for me to come president hosni mubarak so those demands reaching a boiling point people incredibly angry as a stake 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 beacon 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

of the service to say that we could be on the brink of a second revolution if they repress this syrian style this is going to get out of hand specially against the muslim brotherhood and if we see let's see a large swath of what's going to lead to a real square with all the factions of the muslim brotherhood. the google generation everybody in this square against a military dictatorship touristic which is something that could happen within the next few weeks let's put it this way we going to have three square to what people are saying is that mubarak might be gone probably witnessing happening in egypt is far from what the people hoped for we witnessing sectarian violence there are more clashes and there are important social grievances that are not being addressed. paul asli reporting that egyptian political activists are metzeler told me earlier that he doesn't expect a swift reaction from the west as he blames these countries for supplying the army regime with the means of oppression. i'm not expecting

a quick reaction from the west but we can see that all the ammunition used against these are american or israeli or actually was that it's the tear gas canisters or the bullets that are used. in that they have received an eleven presumably volution and they are used for population so they are used to kill this revolution and so i don't know what can be the excuse for actually giving. forces under security this munition that's why we have cells of injured they don't care about the injured they just stormed the hospital a while ago and was every think. we're. probably seen on television how they were sitting on fire. and shops on fire like they did last night and all of us in the revolution that we are the

ones doing the. looking at live pictures from cairo and all the latest developments as this story unfolds and in addition we got this live transmission on a website. called. the armed branch of the syrian opposition has claimed responsibility for an early morning attack in damascus at least two rocket propelled grenades hit the headquarters of syria's government party nobody was injured it comes as a diplomatic storm surrounds the country with an arab league ultimatum demanding an end to violence expiring on saturday but syrian president bashar assad pledged not to before foreign pressure as a syria has more now from britain. the pressure is certainly increasing the noose tightening around syria president bashar al assad seems to be standing firmly on his ground seche from his position saying that his government as well as himself won't back down despite all of the increasing pressure now of course this statement comes on the back of the end of that three day alternator. given by the arab league

for his government to end the bloodshed in the country and that is in addition to its suspension having been suspended from the arab league the very latest is that the greek had rejected proposals of syria on amendments to the peace process as well as allowing international of service 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 to the free syrian army made up of the factors have claimed responsibility for attacks on government buildings that they're asking us and the head of the f.s.a. and also called on countries to send his forces not bread 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 what opposition that is increasingly armed moment we suggested in order to put the initiative in place countries concerned with peaceful means. not only from the

syrian authorities but also from the opposition. which the ongoing attacks on government buildings in syria looks like a civil 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 you know 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 contact him to before to discuss the crisis in syria and the interesting have king abdullah had asked that the u.k. needed spearheaded this campaign having seen it be a quote success of be a libyan intervention now we know that if any resolution is to reach the u.n. security council it's going to be hit by the russian five have already used their vetoes in the past hour or so now there are talk that any resolution will be passed really human rights committee of the general assembly where there are no vetoes. correspondent eric margolis thinks that we're currently witnessing a build up to outside intervention that. it certainly looks like the beginning of

a military intervention and there's no doubt it's a war as a gun but so far it's very minor it's repressed a little sissy is sort of performing lower action followed by the western powers in syria that also are unveiled in libya and washington has been wanted for one time to overthrow the assad regime because it's a key ally of iran and a key supporter of hezbollah letter not. launching the savage the overthrew along the saudis and israel it's over there are wise heads in washington to that are saying wait a minute if you go to throw the regime or it's going to take its place and god held the world convention on something now but now we're such an eagerness to get ready iran via syria the question has been i think thrown to the winds. the libyan government says it will not send gadaffi son saif al islam to the hague will

try him at home that's despite the international criminal court demands to hand him over to europe amid fears he could be lynched by his father so if gadhafi was seized along with two of his aides while attempting to flee to neighboring israel given authorities want to try it on charges that potentially carry the death penalty and whether despite the national transitional council promising a fair trial critics doubt this is a likely outcome. so what fate await saif gadhafi well we're asking your opinion on our web site r.t. dot com and i'm looking for the moment of the latest results so far we can see the majority think you'll get the death penalty in libya or other fifth believe you'll be killed by vigilante's before is any chance of sending him to the hague sixty two percent are skeptical about his capture but really he's still at large and the minority thinks he'll be tried at the international criminal court local to r.t. dot com and submitted over. hundreds of arrests accusations of police brutality and dozens of injuries this is how the

occupy movement in the u.s. markets two month anniversary this week officers in riot gear tore down camps and broke up mostly peaceful demos against the unequal distribution of wealth in major american cities in the heart of the campaign in new york a crowd of activists took to the subway and tried to block off the stock exchange and it's been a merging of this portion of police action response to the rallies of university of california a group of students staging a sit down protest with pepper sprayed in the face and an earlier incident an officer was filmed beating an iraq war veteran so hard he suffered a ruptured spleen well they seem to pose no threat and yet as i started checking the reports a crackdown is not the time to test. i don't know any tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of new york. hundreds arrested dozens beaten. dragged and abused by police thousands more protests across the u.s. on thursday the feast of america's civil war against corporate greed and wealth

inequality zuccotti park the place where occupy wall street was born looks nothing like it did just a couple of days ago officials were hoping that a good thing the protesters would put an end to the movement but this has backfired the 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 to make it where you perceive it there are two months of its 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 expose themselves as the clueless out of touch third world dictator that he was this forceful eviction only added more fuel to the fire in a way that we were sort of discarded like trash that our civil liberties were really run over by our billionaire mayor has to galvanize a lot of people another more powerful stage of occupy wall street out of being

campaigned and over the city said no we're absolutely at stage two i think what happened yesterday was we show the world that we are strong we are numbers a murder 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 jeff to demands only empower them more they don't still it is something. which is. their desire to stick by each other is now stronger than before i think the bush thank you for being. a new dawn for the occupy wall street movement has broken on the horizon mr fischer can our party. artie's crew in the u.s. is constantly following developments surrounding the occupy movement you see coming off is probably an open and has posted on twitter string hundreds of people have

been gathering in the city despite the police worry he's also tweeted that an american lobby group suggested u.s. banks should undermine a campaign by researching images of protesters who want to use these turkey to find out more. set to become a reality eurasian union is to be established by twenty fifteen russia along with some of its partners applauding a common economic space with the power to resist the global financial crisis going on as the story. three nations twenty million square kilometers of land one giant idea. is because like we won't repeat the mistakes of the european union in our integration we're conscious or what we're doing when to stand how we are integrating with what there are three countries sharing a common history and today we're 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 area

within its green work in just six months russia and kazakhstan managed to increase their total trade turnover by over forty percent of. its plans that way twenty fifteen the union will not only have one borderline an economic zone but we switch to one currency as well to stan and stan are aspiring to join ukraine is sitting i would say which will be becoming a member of the news because of this sort of cooperation means more jobs bigger salaries and a chance to boost reforms and modernize our country and that's why most ukrainians so called the idea they want stability reform some critics have dismissed the union as an attempt to restore the u.s.s.r. but experts say the difference is clear. that the u.s.s.r. was built on ideology while the eurasian union will be based strictly on the economy and pragmatism but experts say that even some latin american nations like

you work in venezuela me join the so-called e.u. two 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 move in or surely it's way too early to talk about anything like an industrial average which 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 more are certain to follow it got this one off our to moscow. head of the eurasian commission victor christine co has outlined ways he believes the new union could sidestep the financial turmoil that's gripping the e.u. and that interview in full is in the next hour here's a brief preview on. the current situation here in the euro zone. economic problems has helped us to identify probably to integrate and pull it out of financial and monetary policies this way we'll be able to avoid piling up internal

risks and generally essentially since like this one the crisis is on the line one simple thing if you go so far as creating a single currency union you must exercise tight control of the budget monetary and tax policies at its national levels but just not the case and some regions of the rules on will be exposed to pools and some similar to what's happening to you greece italy and spain but. this week saw the un atomic watchdog challenging iran to prove its nuclear activities have no military pretensions there was no suggestion for a new sanctions against iran in the i.a.e.a. report but washington said it is preparing penalties that could be introduced as early as monday anyway in a separate move the un general assembly has passed a resolution condemning terror on alleged plot to kill the saudi envoy to the u.s. claims iran has dismissed fabricated all this amid talks washington could stop holding back israel's alleged plans for attacking the islamic republic is not

easily said no explains the situation with iran is beginning to resemble the iraq war lead up. iran has long been a hot topic. but. the greatest threat that america in the world faces at faced was a nuclear iran but it's heated up since last week's report from the un's nuclear watchdog sparking fears iran was pursuing atomic weapons the i.a.e.a. says iran developed a high explosives initiation system a detonator with the help of a foreign expert questions that aren't expert is called it the mystery science who is the russian by some western media even though the i.a.e.a. report doesn't mean hitler's and he's not russian but ukrainian many years now former weapons inspector david albright talks not for his silence as nuclear credentials on c.n.n.

weapons showed him how to build of a thin hemisphere all shell with holes in it and where the detonation happens and you simultaneously set off explosive pellets in a series of holes in that a woman's shell and those explosive pell pellets ignite the high explosive underneath and into various ferric away it compresses the core and then you get a nuclear explosion and it just then you know is a scientist but not a nuclear specialist those who actually know danny and can't say this. because he worked in a nuclear facility but not every person who does is in a clear specialism he's actually trained to construct the airplanes to you and it's not the i. question him no but journalists rodion nevertheless all right accused is going to come who specialize in nano diamonds in iran working with the iranians to help them miniaturize their nuclear warhead so they can put it on top of one of their missiles so it can be fired specter outright has

a history out pointing fingers just before iraq was invaded he said then in two thousand and two. in terms of the chemical and biological weapons iraq has those now how many how could they deliver them i mean these are big questions then backtrack to the l a times once no w m d's were discovered in iraq. if there are no weapons of mass destruction i'll be mad as hell i certainly accepted the administration's claims on chemical and biological weapons i figured they were telling the truth and some us politicians think non-truths could be repeating with iran i'm afraid what's going on right now is similar to the war propaganda that went on again still around you know they didn't have. weapons of mass destruction but there were enough official reports implying otherwise in terms of the report there is limited information

a lot of the reason it's when it is because it's most likely that iran does not it is you know it is the case iran does not have a nuclear weapons program. diplomatic days are who could be called critics say the public especially in the us are about to be inundated with another flood of so-called expert analysis the wearer of a dangerous mideast country that's presumably hiding secret nuclear weapons and may require a military strike the difference this time it's iran not iraq he said now artsy moscow. earlier we've also discussed the iranian issue with dr saeed mohammad marandi from tehran university and he said this week's resolutions by the un and its atomic watchdog show that washington's influence on the situation is weakening . they've imposed sanctions. on the ronnie an oil ministry for years now and the iranians continue to develop oil and gas fields they continue to

develop a chemical petro chemical industry and i don't think there's going to be any change whatsoever basically what it is doing it is that it is showing the american hand and how the americans are really i'm able to do anything about iran so in general the iranians feel that the americans their strength is weakening meaning we're going to see that in the matter in the statement issued by. a board did not contain any of the major elements that the americans were seeking for her seem that there's a relative decline in american for a trans an american pow. the political level. economic its ability to apply economic pressure remember there's always more for you on our web site r.t. dot com here's a quick look at what's in store there at the moment. the russian spacecraft soyuz with three members on board has successfully joined the s s you can find out what

it will be doing in the final frontier at r.t. dot com. you see there on the web site of once in a lifetime chance to get something truly divine use of believe a stretch for more than three kilometers in moscow as one of the most revered orthodox relics goes on display at russia's main cathedral those stories availability. in spain voters are heading to the polls to elect a new government amid concern that contagion will hit their country next it's home to nearly one third of the euro zone's unemployed in this little hope among the people that any of the candidates can help. reports now from the capital madrid. 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 of being is and is in a very dire situation the countries are experiencing tremendous problems of employment there are more than five people without jobs or 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 a situation that the winner will have to deal with you also have to realize that the country has the highest and on the trait 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 nostrils to create priest 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 are 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 election is really going to show what is going on in the country by the number of people who actually turn out 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 it is really in greece the new unelected governments are already at work thousands of people often are less than friendly welcome to the new prime ministers have just got back to their desks with mario monti and lucas papademos are committed to extremely unpopular debt solutions including budget cuts and tax hikes the markets are far from convinced that interest rates across the e.u. reaching catastrophic enough. and an exciting development for football fans will be soccer sorceror guus hiddink possibly taking the reins of a team from a small caucasus republic not sports but of about twenty minutes from now hiddink comments on the rumors he might be coaching dagestan's angy a team featuring some of the world's top footballers that'll be in the next year party. in the meantime let's remind you of our breaking news this army and police forces have launched a major crackdown on protesters in tahrir square really live pictures from there at

the moment clashes have broken out across cairo just because declaring a state of emergency at least three people being killed in iraq thousands injured since the protests against a lack of reform erupted ahead of crucial elections the current military rulers who took control over president apparent was i'll still be accused of trying to cling to power will be all the latest from cairo as the story develops. twenty five minutes past the hour here in moscow from money for that i'll be back with the main news stories in just five minutes from now stay with us live here in moscow.

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