oh my god so it's a new royal hotel bel-air princess in bangkok radisson hotel something called dream hotel bangkok so if you tell some tara grant a phone call kansas city coach told going call told bankole close it isn't even called. the egyptian military launches a major assault on protesters in cairo's tahrir square who have been demonstrating since friday against the country's military rule to be injured in fierce clashes. in other stories that shaped this week talking over the syrian government as the deadline set by the arab league to end violence expires president assad is defiant in the face of growing international pressure. magical protests in america a march one thousand strong launches all over the u.s. hundreds of arrests and a heavy handed police response. plus greeks and italians give an unfriendly welcome to new unelected leaders amid fears the troubled states are losing sovereignty

because of harsh economic measures dictated by brussels. with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on r.t. good to have you with us this hour 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 her way to current has the latest from neighboring israel. this is the second straight day that there has been these 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 the protesters want is that the military government that has been in power since able we give weight to and elect a 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 much better much different from me from egypt from president hosni mubarak so those demands 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 the 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 repressed this jury and this is going to get out of

specially against the muslim brotherhood and if we see let's see a large metal virtually career square with all of the factions of the muslim brotherhood. called a generation everybody in this square just a military dictatorship which is something that could happen within the next few weeks let's clear this way we're going to have to you square what 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 clashes and there are important social grievances that are not being addressed. they're reporting that and egyptian political activist. doesn't expect a swift reaction from the west as he blames these countries for supplying the army regime with the means of oppression but i'm not expecting a quick reaction from the west but we can see that all the ammunition used against us is easer american or israeli actually could tell you was that it's the tear gas

canisters or the bullets that were used i mean mission that they have received is an eleven it's forced to zuma be with lucian and they are used for oppressing the population so they are used to kill this revolution and empower them so i don't know what can be the excuse of actually giving. forces and the security of this title for a munition that's why we have cells of injured we don't care about the injured these just stormed the hospital a while ago and was everything in that attempt to retake this we are. probably have seen on television how they were sitting on fire. vehicles. on fire like they did last night in order to charge us in the revolution that we are the ones doing the. the armed branch of the syrian opposition has claimed responsibility for early morning attack in damascus at least two rocket propelled

grenades at the headquarters of syria's governing party nobody was injured it comes as a diplomatic storm surrounds the country with an arab league ultimatum at the moment . and saturday. for. the first year as more from the. pressure is certainly increasing the noose tightening around syria president bashar al assad seems to be standing firmly on his ground keeping its position saying that his government as well as themself 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 automator given by the arab league for his government to end the bloodshed in the country and that is in addition to to a suspension having been suspended from the arab league and the very latest is that they really have rejected a proposal from 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 with the free syrian army made up of the factors had claimed responsibility for attacks on government buildings and that's this and the head of that f.s.a. had also called on countries to send his forces and so again this concerns russia because if he. 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 increasing we are at the moment we suggested in order to. place all countries concerned with peaceful outcome developments in syria not only from the syrian authorities but also from the opposition to. the ongoing attacks on government buildings in syria looks 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 on syria is becoming increasingly organized this while there have been talks of

a contact in to before to discuss the crisis in syria and theater again and king abdullah had asked for u.k. we needed spearheaded this campaign having seen the quote success of be a libyan intervention now we know that if any resolution a separate nuclear security council is going to be divided russia and china have already use their veto some to pass the so now there are talk that any resolution will be passed through the human rights committee of the general assembly where there are no vetoes. correspondent eric margolis thinks that we currently witnessing a build up to site intervention that 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 reforming lowbrow actually being sold by the western powers in syria that was sore and very old in libya in washington early 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 and little not. russia who overthrew along with the saudis and it's really it's over there are wise heads in washington children who are saying wait a minute if you go through the regime what's going to take its place and then hell google's intervention on something now but now there's such an eagerness to get iran to syria the question has been i think. margolis there the libyan government says it will not send his son saif to the hague and will try home that's despite the international criminal court's demands to hand him over to europe amid fears he could be lynched like his father so if gadhafi was seized along with two of his aides one attempting to. look for it is want him tried on charges that carry the death penalty. discussed so. it's a little bit of a list of forth from one of there as well libyan rulers are insisting on trying him

at home would any forthcoming trial be a fair one adrian given the fact. the facts about what happened to his father. well after seeing what happened to margaret garfield i would hate to be in a safe. these shoes either way there will be very strong pressure on the provisional iraqi libyan government to try and have him now. what. as a terrible choice between being shot or being hanged because if we use judge him tried in libya he might end up very much in a sabbatical saying right trial where he will end up being wrong or he will end up being here one way or the other and if he is extradited to the hague the international criminal court has already said and we've seen what they've done in the cases of the from serbia of the milosevic it will not be a fair trial because the international criminal court is very much in line of of the historic nuremberg tribunal where the victors in war feel that they have the

the right to judge those who are defeated in a plan b. not just as they are them now least of all in or come for the prosecutor for the international criminal court as usual of international war and against islam above because of quote in the peace and in direct quote perpetrator of murder i'm trying to go along those lines i think we should also include george w. bush a while now so only hillary clinton who laughed when she heard of the draft is a murderer started posy cheney and rumsfeld. you know back in that time yet at least on the list of people to be judged in the international criminal court where you mention all those people surely a trial would prove to be very uncomfortable for those with whom or. has had international contacts with would it not secrets will be spilled. absolutely and that's where i fear that one will have all of the other they will silence about the sun as has been the constant throughout history every time somebody survives who

may be uncomfortable but are asians we've seen it very violently in the case of lee harvey oswald we've also seen that he was of our james are already killed martin luther king who we've seen in the case of tests from world war two who worked very strangely committed suicide during the british watch found their president one hundred seven we've also seen and this is all of this horrible documents how wal-mart of gadhafi only in the last two years has shook the hands of tony gwynn or iraqi. leadership jack shit out of the end only last year in september there was an arab league summit in syria to libya and silvio berlusconi who says mr gadhafi is hand so no doubt a lot of things were really go through here it is a lot of very uncomfortable that the regime's own information would be given by saif al islam gadhafi the son so i think he will one way or another besides i've

been through life imprisonment or through execution or through some of the lynching parade as we saw with one more of the duffy only a month ago in libya just briefly there if he was sentenced to death how would the international community react to that what would it do for the entities reputation and indeed for a country supposedly in transition to being a democratic country what would it not be harmful to libya's reputation well but i don't think anybody cares about what reputation of being or not this basically has to do with it basically has to do with more modest the idea of introducing a goal the dinar it has to do with the fact that under gadhafi libya central bank was in the pendant of the international banking cartel so justice is not part of the formula the international global power elite care much what the image of libya will be or will not be besides executions on the part of the markets as we see in the united states is an everyday occurrence so it will be just one execution more aged always good to talk to on these matters thank you very much indeed your time

agent i'll get chief political analyst offer from one of the areas thank you. what fate awaits saif al islam gadhafi we're asking your opinion as well on our website dot com that's one of the results so far well the majority think you'll get the death penalty in libya around the fifth believe you'll be killed by vigilantes before there's any chance of him being sent to the hague sixteen percent are skeptical about his capture believing he could still be at large in the minority things you can try the international criminal court in the world are people called and said look you've got. 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 have become paid in new york a crowd of activists took to the subway and tried to block off the stock exchange

has been emerging of disproportionate police action in response to rallies the university of california a group of students staging a sit down protest were pepper sprayed in the face incident an officer was filmed beating an iraq war veteran so hard he suffered a ruptured spleen where he seemed to post in the thread and yet as i started checking the reports the crackdown is not deterring protesters. human tsunami tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of new york. hundreds arrested dozens beaten dragged and abused by police thousands more protest 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 victim of 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. years and it's history of eating itself pleasure to me to see for the last month i have two months into this issue to make two months after occupy wall street kick started in the big apple new york authorities decided to kick protesters out of their camp expose themselves as the clueless out of third world dictator that he would like be 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 all 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 numbers 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 more they don't start to see. which is going to. happen later and it will cause their desire to stick by each other is now stronger than before they took the place i love you thank you for be our appreciation. a new dawn for the occupy wall street movement has broken on the horizon mr churkin our party. analyses crew in the u.s. is constantly following developments surrounding the occupy movement you see coming from new york and it's tweeted that police have closed some parts of manhattan that and that in lucy was an oakland where she said offices raided a new protest account well you can check out her twitter page for the latest updates. set to become a reality eurasian union has 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 not

a euro is going off as 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 conscious or what we're doing my understand who we are integrating with there are three countries sharing a common history and today we are forming a common economy eurasian union will be based on the already existing customs union between the three nations which are among the largest economies in the balls or area within its framework in just six months russia will lose in kazakhstan managed to increase their total return over by over forty percent. its plans their way twenty fifteen the union will not only have one borderline an economic zone but we switch to one currency as well do you stand and are aspiring to join ukraine is selling i would team which will be becoming a member

a 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 just the shell of 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 mean 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 ignore surely it's way too early to talk about any massive economic and industrial bridge which all the way from europe and from the pacific ocean so far only three states have thrown their hats in but if

the current momentum is anything to go by and more are certain to follow it is going off hard to moscow. the head of the eurasian commission victor christi outlined ways he believes the new union could sidestep the financial turmoil that's gripping the e.u. and that full interview is coming up in the next hour but here's a quick look we in the meantime. the current situation there in the euro zone is policing internal economic problems the president has to identify probably to integrate and cool it all just for financial and monetary policies in this way will be able to avoid piling up internally risks and generally situations like this one because this is underlined 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 national levels but if this is not the case then some regions will be rules on will be exposed to poles as a similar to what's happening today greece italy and spain which.

polls have closed in spain where people have been voting for a new government amid concerns that that contagion will hit their country next attempt a nearly one third of the euro zone's unemployed and there's little hope among the spanish that any of the candidates can help that in a political report from the capital literally. well the preliminary polls are showing that the popular party does seem to be the winner in this particular election of course that was predicted by a lot of experts earlier because of course the socialist party has been largely blamed for the current economic crisis which finds itself mired in a moment where there will be the winner in this election will have to deal with the same old problems and you have to understand spain has one of the highest unemployment 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 percent or so so almost every other person who is between the ages of eighteen and thirty five does not have a job and we have this sort of a joke going around the country and that is that it's a little boys in spain have probably the highest education in all of the euro zone because they all have master's degrees and this is something god 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 the analysts are saying that they will have to take some sort of cuts that be education or health care or pensions or probably all of those areas will again have to undergo through a very strict a series of measures and of course that will not leave a lot of people happy. and it's an increase the new unelected governments are already at work thousands of people of the leslie friendly welcome to the new prime ministers who have just got their future. moment in lucas papademos limited to extremely unpopular debt solutions including budget cuts and tax hikes like it's

a far from convinced that interest rates across the e.u. catastrophic. do remember there's always more fuel our website r t v dot com online all the time here's a quick look at what's in store for you the moment docking there on the russian spacecraft soyuz with three members on board successfully join the international space station and you find out what it will be doing in the final frontier on party dot com also on the web site and i'm. once in a lifetime chance to glimpse something truly divine queues of believers stretch for wardle three kilometers here in moscow one of the most revered orthodox relics goes on display at russia's main cathedral. this week saw the un atomic watchdog challenging iran to prove its nuclear activities had no military pretensions there's no suggestion for a new sanctions against tehran 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 is possible solution can bear me around

alleged plot to kill the saudi envoy to the u.s. planes iran has dismissed as fabricated all this amid talks washington could stop holding back israel's alleged plans to attack the islamic republic. and he said no explains the situation because iran is beginning to resemble the lead up to the iraq war. i 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 experts question that current expert is called the mystery scientists and russian by some western media even though the i.a.e.a.

report nothing name him and he's not russian by ukrainian it here's how former weapons inspector david albright talked suffer the scientists nuclear credentials on c.n.n. when he showed him how to build of a thin hemispherical shell with holes in it and where the detonation happens and you simultaneously set off explosive pellets in a series of holes in that are going to shell and those explosive pellet pellets ignite the high explosive underneath and in a very spiritual way it compresses the core and then you get a nuclear explosion and i just love benny and kurt is a scientist but not a nuclear specialist those who actually know donegan say this. because he worked in a nuclear facility but not every person who does is in a clear specialist he's actually trained to construct the airplanes and it's not the i.a.e.a. that is pushing here now but journalists iranians nevertheless albright accuses the newly uncovered who specialized in nano diamonds in iran of 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 oh bright has a history of pointing fingers just before iraq was invaded he said been 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 u.s. 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 when i want to instill iraq you

know they didn't have the weapons of mass destruction. anough official reports implying otherwise in terms of the report there is limited information a lot of the reason it's what 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 where 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 and he's now artsy moscow. twenty six minutes past the hour here in moscow a recap of our top stories coming your way in about three minutes from now stay with us live here in the russian time.

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