the. egyptian military launches a major assault on protesters in caro's tahrir square the demonstration since friday against the country's military rule over calls in the brain injured in this clashes. and other stories that shaped this week's cloud starting over the syrian government of the deadline set by the arab league to end violence it sponsored president assad is defiant in the face of growing international pressure. to months of magical protests in america a multi thousand strong marches with us on the arrests and heavy handed police response. concentrates on italians going on from the well to new collectively to

some interesting trouble state solution something because of harsh economic measures dictated by. the minute back in the car seven days top stories the latest developments this is the weekly. egyptian soldiers and police have launched a major crackdown on protesters in tahrir square at least five people have reportedly been killed since friday when tens of thousands began protesting at a lack of reforms ahead of crucial elections. who's on the way to current as the latest from neighboring his right. this is the second straight day that there has been these are violent 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 focal point in tahrir square at 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 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 not matter that much different from me for me jackson president hosni mubarak so those commands 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 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 observers 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

specially against the muslim brotherhood and if we see let's see a living large not all that's going to lead to real square with all the factions of the muslim brotherhood. their golden generation everybody in this square against the military dictatorship touristic which is something that could happen within the next few shooting which literally this week we're going to have three squares what people are saying is that mubarak might be gone forgotten witnessing happening in egypt is far from what the people hoped for we're witnessing sectarian violence there are more clashes and there are important social grievances that are not being addressed. well to discuss developments in egypt i'm now joined live from tel aviv by yaakov macklin he's author of correspondent for the jerusalem post so violence has returned to tell his square and it comes just before those crucial elections in the country after a period of calm is this perhaps a revolution in the making. i would say that this is

actually the real revolution in the making because what happened at the beginning of this year was that the figurehead of the regime post mubarak was ejected from power but the regime itself stayed in power and in the between the time of that first major developments with mubarak the box rejection and now there was been trying to come up with ways to stay in power and bypass reform so that it could keep its grip on the most important decisions in the country what we're seeing now is really the final confrontation between all of those in egypt would like to see this regime gone and the military going back or for the first time going to its role as the physical defender of the country and not the government and we're seeing on the other hand the regime doing everything it can to draw a line in the sand and say we're going to stay in some form or another but what does promised elections achieve all of that. well not if the regime has its

way it's coming up with all kinds of attempts to bypass the elections for example they would want to come up with a constitutional committee which would be tasked with drawing up egypt's constitution the future of the country it would want to be able to choose the vast majority of the members of that committee and obviously the protesters are saying well if that happens what's the point of having elections the regime will be the one the military will be the side who chooses who's going to implement the change so no this is the concern of the people on the streets is that even if legends are held the regime will stay in power but at the same time i think it's also very important to note that unlike the first round the first time that egypt blew up with this kind of anti regime violence the muslim brotherhood is now leading these these demonstrations these unrest the civil unrest the muslim brotherhood has gone from being a low profile stealthy player to being a very high very much

a high profile player because it senses that its time has come and i think that's a very very important development to know that as this crisis continues so there is a big challenge that islam is could eventually take. in egypt because it points up that it's not what the west exactly because it does it. but it's certainly not i mean if you look at just some of the statements that have been coming out of muslim brotherhood out of the movement and its new party the freedom and justice party they're saying vets and nobody there you've been question the notion that islamic law shari'a should be the law of the land which on i'm sure that's a statement that a lot of factions in egypt would disagree with i mean there and other leaders have said that anyone who questions this idea of the church should be the law of the land they're being described as adulterers and alcoholics and drug addicts so this process of demonizing anybody who. as opposed to this fundamentalist view is

already underway but she's also. just sharon or can be moderate just because literally brotherhood is getting possibly into power doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be a radical islamic regime to follow doesn't it. i'm not going to try and guess what the future will bring but what i would say is that up until now the muslim brotherhood's. vision for egypt is not a moderates a vision it's a vision where a religious fanatic interpretation of the koran would be the law of the line it's a place where adultery could be punishable with jail sentences it's a place where any form of alcohol or any form of. activities that are deemed an islamic could be banned it's a slippery slope the minute that you allow people with a fundamentalist religious vision to run an entire country yet called the i'll never know where things could end up you are in israel in tel aviv just how concerned is israel over this that. israel's been concerned about this from day one

from the moment that egypt erupted into unrest israel's primary concern ease with the with the idea that a country can go from being a police states a dictatorship to democracy within a year israel always doubted that it always believed that it would take a long time possibly decades to lay the groundwork for a proper democracy and these are exactly the concerns that we're seeing playing out right across our southern border right now we're also seeing the breakdown of law and order not only in the streets of cairo but also on the sinai peninsula which is allowing a lot of fanatical jihadi groups to raise their profile there so israel's concerns are certainly well founded and we're seeing them being played out as we speak of nothing working because one of the dri slim legs live television thank you it's time. well you're now looking at life pick. from.

the latest developments in the story unfolds vision. which i'm afraid of a little would start and i'm simply local to. the syrian of your branch of the syrian opposition who claimed responsibility for an early morning attack in damascus that these two rocket propelled grenades at the headquarters of syria's governing party was injured it comes as a diplomatic storm surrounds the country with an arab league ultimatum going to expire on saturday syrian president bashar assad. before for. more now from brussels. the pressure is certainly increasing the noose tightening around syria president bashar al assad seems to be standing firmly on his ground so i keep in his position saying that his government as well as himself won't back down despite all of the increasing pressure and of course his statement comes on the back of the end of that three day alternator given by the arab league for his government and the bloodshed in the country and that is in addition to that

suspension having been suspended from the arab league and the very latest is that the greek 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 in the past this and the head of that f.s.a. had also called on countries to send his forces so again this concern so russia because if for instance 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 an opposition that is increasingly are. we suggested in order to. please all countries concerned with a peaceful outcome and syria not only from the syrian authorities but also from the opposition because. violence the ongoing attacks on government buildings in syria

look like a civil war. 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 to how it's not just worse right now it seems that the pressure a serious becoming increasingly organized this well there have been talks of contacting to be formed to discuss the crisis in syria and the interesting of king abdullah had asked for you k. we needed spearheaded this campaign having seen it be a quote success and get rid of intervention now we know that if any resolution is to ever reach the u.n. security council try to get by they have already use their vetoes in the past up or so now there are talk that any resolution would be passed through the human rights committee of the general assembly where there are no vetoes. correspondent eric margolis thinks we're currently witnessing a build up to outside intervention it certainly looks like the beginning of a military intervention there's no guilt civil war has begun or it's very minor it's repressed

a little sissy is sort of forming low ground. in the western powers in syria or and libya one of these one for one time to overthrow the assad regime because it's a key ally of iran and a key supporter of hezbollah living up. washington who overthrew along with the saudis and it's really it's however there are wise heads watching children who are saying we're going to if you're going to throw the regime what's going to take its place and hell google earth intervention on something now but now there's such an eagerness to get out iran vs syria cautions i think. a libyan government says it won't send kidnap his son saif al islam to the hague and 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 like his father so you could have he was seized along with two of his aides while attempting to flee to

neighboring region where they've been authorities going to be tried on charges that potentially carry the death penalty that is partly national transitional council promising a fair trial predicts that this is a likely outcome. so what fate awaits saif gadhafi what we're asking your opinion on this on our web site r.t. dot com that's a look at the resulting screen so far what we can see the majority think you'll get the death penalty in libya run a fifth believe you'll be killed by vigilante's before there's any chance of sending him to the hague and sixteen percent are skeptical about saif gadhafi is captured believing he could be still at large and minority thinks he'll be tried at the international criminal court level to r.t. dot com and submit your vote. 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 offices and right here tore down camps and broke out mostly peaceful demos against the unequal distribution of wealth in major american cities hard to campaign in new york

a crowd of actually took to the subway tried to block off the stock exchange and been imagining disproportionate police actions speak to the race listed california a group of students staging a sit down protest with pepper sprayed in the face of an earlier incident an officer was filmed beating an iraq war veteran so hard he suffered a ruptured spleen he seemed to pose no threat and yet his report now reports the crackdown is not just tearing protesters. in the financial capital of the world a movement called occupy wall street is born in weeks the fight against us corporate greed and wealth inequality manifests in all fifty states i dynamic american movement not seen since the sixty's as the power of the people grows louder police force stronger peaceful activists beaten by baton blinded by mays and thrown to the ground unarmed activists pitched tents law enforcement

flash grenades. being. democratic right. why would. they go and. tell. them that. thousands of occupy activists have been jailed throughout the two month campaign the mass arrest of eight hundred on the brooklyn bridge international attention but this image of an eighty four year old former schoolteacher pepper sprayed during a demonstration captures the crackdown activists face brought to

a boiling point by economic injustice and a political system failing the majority protesters demonstrated unprecedented resilience and then u.s. authorities began occupying the occupations one by one even activists under the pretext of health or safety concerns a raid on the headquarters in new york came one am hundreds of armed officers destroying and displaced. the heart of this democratic movement you can't get that idea to the idea that we are that i did i percent of americans that you know we need to resist the do influence of right and trying to do from the corporations the right direction of in terms of those messages that are being spread around the country what began as an occupation in a park has grown into a national movement fighting for principles the momentum has shifted much more to large existing institutional actors like labor unions and well known community organizations that are picking up their basic message and i think that that message

has got such resonance right now that people are going to turn out on the streets around these issues whether or not there's an encampment in socratic park the largest the loudest turnout so far came thursday as ws turned two months old a day marked by the attempt to shut down the new york stock exchange occupations in parks and subways and heavy handed tactics by the n.y.p.d. a protest that began peacefully turned to look more like urban warfare hundreds more a rustic and by the evening more than thirty thousand activists students and labor unions showed their strength in numbers along the brooklyn bridge from new york to l.a. and just about every city in between the occupy movement has flooded the streets uniting thousands of strangers bound by common hardship and frustration two months in there is no denying this grassroots campaign has become

a branch of the big apple and the social marker in america. hartstein me on. ati's crew in the u.s. is constantly following developments surrounding the occupy movement if you couple of those currently open in this posted on twitter stream of hundreds of people have been gathering in the city despite the police warning but also tweeted with an american lobby group suggested u.s. banks should undermine the campaign by researching the motives of protesters you can log on to lucy's twitter feed to find out more. set to become a reality eurasian union is to be established by twenty fifteen russia along with some of its post partners are planning a common economic space with the power to resist the global financial crisis r.t. europe is going on the story. three nations twenty million square kilometers of the land one giant idea. is because we won't repeat the mistakes of the european

union in our integration or conscious or what we're doing when to stand who we are integrating with there are three countries sharing a common history and today were forming a common economy the region union will be based on the already existing customs union between the three nations which are among the largest economies in the poles or area for a mortgage in just six months russia will lose in 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 the switch to one currency as well q.e. stan and stan are aspiring to join ukraine is sitting i would team which will be becoming a member of. this sort of co-operation means more jobs bigger salaries and a chance to boost reforms and modernize our country that's why most ukrainian support the idea they want stability for some groups have dismissed the union as an

attempt to restore the u.s.s.r. but experts say the difference is clear as they show up in 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 there are even some latin american nations like you were in venezuela me join the so-called e u two in the future well new zealand has already shown interest in joining as a large producer of meat with no cost and charges the benefits of being a member are simply too attractive. surely it's way too early to talk about in massive economic industrial bridge which right all the way from europe into the pacific ocean so far only three states up wrong are hats in but if the current momentum is anything to go by and more are certain to follow it got this one off our to moscow. head of the eurasian commission victor has outlined ways he believes a new union could sidestep the financial turmoil is gripping the n.f.l.

it is in about ten minutes from now here's a brief previously. the current situation here in the euro zone this fleecing internal economic problems has helped us to identify probably has to integrate and just for financial and monetary policies this way we'll be able to avoid piling up internal risks and generally situations like this one will be a glass is on the line and simple thing that what if you go so far as creating a single currency union fifth you must exercise tight control over the budget humanitarian tax policy that is national levels which is not the case in some regions of the rules on will be exposed to poses a similar to what's happening to greece italy and spain which. in spain voters are heading to the polls to elect a new government amid concern that contagion will hit their country next time for nearly one third of euro zone's unemployed and those little hope among the spanish that any of the kind of it's. going to be capital so it was

choice of the spanish having this election. as a matter of fact the spanish did not seem to have that many choices we do have of course the socialist party which is ruling right now and they have got their the people's party which is expected to win by a lot of by a lot of reasons of course that probably means is that whoever will be the winner in this election will have to deal with the same old problems and you have to understand as you have mentioned spain has one of the highest infant rates in the entire eurozone has more than five million unemployed people there was a census conducted here in september which established that about four thousand people just over four thousand people have been losing their jobs daily in the country also the country has the highest unemployment rate among the youth in the entire euro zone that is almost fifty percent around forty eight percent or so so almost every other person who is between the ages of eighteen and thirty five does not have a job and they have this sort of

a sad joke going around the country and that is that it's a little boys in spain have probably the hostage occasion in all of the euro zone because they all have master's degrees because as i have just mentioned the people who do get their graduation who do get there how decrees simply cannot afford to get a job they can also also other people who are not able to afford to continue paying for their homes. for their apartments that is happening in madrid almost daily people of course have been taking to the streams through the streets since march the so-called indignados or the indignant marches have been happening here on a monthly basis and this is something that whoever will win the election and that again will most likely be the people's party they will have to deal with a lot of a lot of the analysts are saying that either party will have to either party is. promising not to cut in one or the other of the social of the social areas but they will have to take some sort of cuts either i think that the education or health care or pensions or probably all of those areas will again under or have to undergo

through very strict a series of measures and of course that will not leave a lot of people happy and that also means that spaniards are less likely to actually go and vote a lot of people though you know we have spoken to have said that these are not have faith in any of the choices they have in the political arena right now so they're simply not going to go voting you also have to remember that there it was raining unfortunately all across the country today and you'd be surprised but apparently the does play a large role in spanish elections because when it rains people also have a tendency to stay home because they do not believe that it's getting out and literally being rained on is going to help them in making a choice because again it's not have faith in any of the political parties which are really ruling the ball in spain right now. three. and in italy in greece the new unelected governments are already at work thousands of people often a less than friendly welcome to the new prime ministers who have just got their feet under that mario monti and lucas papademos circumvented two extremely

unpopular patricians including logic cuts and tax hikes markets are far from convinced for their interest rates across the e.u. reaching catastrophic levels results are first reports are a growing concern processes will interfere in the domestic politics of the two nations. it was never going to be easy to put it that sought to unite year at seventeen countries of which are now under one currency attracted fierce criticism we've witnessed the beginning of a dishonest and downright dangerous german president. to revive the constitution but to do it in such a way that you want to go for a referendum to achieve member states some might now be wishing they'd heeded the warnings of one after another the member states begin to wobble at least in the latest country to come under scrutiny we have been witnessing in the last response . a growing pressure from europe and i'm talking in particular from france

and germany partly the u.k. certainly the european parliament and the commission is going to start but the crisis is safe on the leaders of greece and italy replaced by people who were never elected to office he made their way around brussels and here in italy with palace gainey now god doesn't and they're paying for forms now need to be implemented to meet itamar for the first time since began talks have now begun to turn to the possibility of exit from the year or the creation of the call europe because countries like germany seem to be leading the way but i think it's not in the best interest of the germans to keep on going with this arc if you know you you have behaved badly we're going to punish that's not a union. in united states of america the first three behaved virally imagine packs of behaving badly when you think obama is going to we're going to keep you out of united states of america no they're not going to be the growing sense of

a bad year agree with a good year. missed by struggling countries it's clear that those who wait to spend this now face a painful stories he measures the sense of being treated like a naughty school child only added to the growing strain every year in community because it's only now starting to be well so see there will expose much more france and especially germany to the times there must be up to a say two to express a politically defeat not just for their own countries but for europe as a whole your attentions have not caught on this by the financial markets punish political leaders. each in dealing with a crisis and struggling economies like italy are now cool even the. mistakes it's least being considered by many the test case for the entire a year if it fails and it could take down the entire system the question now is

whether or not those measures can fix the whether we'll see them going the same way as previous measures put forward by european leaders. fails to come up with a convincing rescue service r.t. . exactly twenty eight minutes past the hour here in moscow a reminder of our top stories on the way in just a couple of minutes from now stay with us live here in. the.

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