three die as egyptian security forces launched a major assault on protesters in cairo tahrir square demonstrating since friday against military over a thousand to being injured in fierce clashes. these are live pictures from the heart of the egyptian capital where as you can see crowds defiantly want to stay and continue their protests through the night. and other stories that shaped this week cloud started over the syrian government as the deadline set by the arab league to end violence expires but president assad has to fight in the face of growing international pressure. to months of magical protests in america

marked a thousand strong marches all over the u.s. and hundreds of arrests and a heavy handed police response. plus greeks and italians given a friendly welcome to new unaffected leaders amid fears the troubled states are losing sovereignty because of forced economic measures dictated by brussels. have a look back at the past seven days top stories and 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 and the lack of reforms ahead of crucial elections he's paula who's on our way to cairo has the latest from neighboring israel. 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 it 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 the end 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 that much different from the four major can president hosni mubarak so those demands reaching a boiling point people in critically 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 we can 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 large group of what's going to lead to a real square with all the factions of the muslim brotherhood. google generation everybody in the square just a military dictatorship which is something that could happen within the next few weeks literally this week we're going to have three squares 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 classes and there are important social grievances that are not being addressed. reporting that an 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 am not expecting a quick reaction from the west we can see that all the ammunition used again these are american or israeli actually. was that it's the tear gas canisters or the bullets that were used. in that they have received it is two thousand eleven course presumably evolution and they are used. population of used to kill this revolution and empower them so i don't know what can be the excuse of actually giving. forces under security this munition that's why we have thousands of injured we don't care about the injured the just the storm the hospital while of always teargas and was everything in their attempt to retake the square. probably had seen on television how they were sitting on fire vehicles and shops on fire like they did

last night can all look to charge us in the revolution that we are the ones doing the subtle touch. the branch of the syrian opposition claimed responsibility for an early morning attack in the massacres at least two rocket propelled grenades hit the headquarters of syria's government golf party no one was injured becomes as a diplomatic storm surrounds the country with an arab league ultimatum to violence expired saturday the syrian president bashar assad pledged to go before foreign pressure. from brussels. the pressure is certainly increasing the noose tightening around syria president bashar al assad seems to be standing firmly on his ground psyche think its 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 old tomato given by the arab league for his governments and the bloodshed in the country that is in addition to its suspension having been suspended from the arab league and the

very latest is that they really have 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 army the free syrian army made up of the factors have claimed responsibility for attacks on government buildings and the massacres and the head of that f.s.a. had also called on countries to send in his forces weapons so again this concerns russia because if the foreign minister sergei lavrov had said that if pressure is to be called 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 put the arab initiative includes all countries concerned with a peaceful outcome of events and syria not only from the syrian authorities but also from the opposition. which 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 in. months ago it's only escalating have a momentum now it's not just words right now it seems that the pressure on syria is 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 that the u.k. lead and spearheaded this campaign having seen it be quote success and be at least intervention now we know that if in any resolution or several weeks the u.n. security council is going to be hit by dead russia and china have already use or vetoes in the past 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're currently witnessing a build up to outside intervention that it certainly looks like the beginning of a military intervention it is not. a gun or it's very minor it's repressed

a little some see is forming lowbrow actually followed by the western powers in syria. libya and washington early as one to one time to overthrow the assad regime because it's a key ally of iran and a key supporter has little or not. washington. to overthrow along with the saudis and it's really it's over there are wise heads of washington children who are saying we're going to if you go through the regime what's going to take its place and hell google's intervention now we know we're such eagerness to get any run vs syria cautions i think. hundreds of patients of police brutality and dozens of injuries this is how the occupy movement in the us. this week. camps and broke up mostly peaceful demos against the unequal distribution of wealth. at the heart of the campaign in

new york a crowd of activists took to the subway and tried to block off the stock exchange evidence of disproportionate police action response to the running of the university of california a group of students staging a sit down protest where pepper sprayed in the face. of an officer was. so hard. he threat and others marina portnoy reports the crackdown is not. in the financial capital of the world a movement called occupy wall street is born in weeks the fight against u.s. corporate greed and wealth inequality manifests in all fifty states i don't now make american movement not seen since the sixty's as the power of the people grows louder police force stronger peaceful activists beaten by the time line did by me and thrown to the ground i know armed activists pitch tents law enforcement

clash create. fear. make people who are what you think. people like you democratic right. why would. you. go and. tell you all. get them. thousands of occupy activists have been jailed through. at the two month campaign the mass arrest of eight hundred on the brooklyn bridge garnered 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 at one am hundreds of armed officers destroying and displacing the heart of this democratic movement that idea to the idea that we are than i did i percent of americans that you know we should resist the points of right and trying to do the corporations right for economic justice those messages 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 some 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 zuccotti 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 were arrested and by the evening more than thirty thousand activists students and labor unions showed their strength in numbers along the brooklyn bridge for me. york to l.a. and just about every city in its meaning the occupy movement has flooded the streets uniting thousands of strangers bound by common hardship and. two months and there is no denying this grassroots campaign has become

a branch of the big apple and its social marker in america. r.t. me our. crew in the u.s. is constantly following developments surrounding the movement you see coming off as in new york i'm just tweeted that police have closed some parts of manhattan earlier lucy was in oakland where she said offices raided a new protest camp you can check out twitter page for the latest updates. set to become a reality eurasian union is to be established by twenty eight fifteen russia along with some of its post soviet partners are planning a common economic space with the power to resist big lobel financial crisis. as the story. three nations twenty million square kilometers of the land one giant idea. is good that we won't repeat the mistakes of the european union in our integration we're conscious or we're doing when to stand who we are integrating

with there are three countries sharing a common history and today we are 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 within its framework in just six months russia bosun kazakhstan managed to increase their total trade turnover by over forty percent. its plans they're great twenty fifteen the union will not only have one borderline an economic zone but we switch to one currency as well he's done and tragically stan or aspiring to join ukraine is selling other team which will be becoming a member but work on the news because of this sort of cooperation 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 that this 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 nor surely it's way too early to talk about any massive economic and industrial bridge which right all the way from europe into 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. it decreased anchor who is set to become the head of the eurasian commission has outlined ways he believes the new union could sidestep the financial turmoil that's gripping the u.n. the full interview is coming up this hour but here's

a quick that we in the media. the current situation the eurozone this loosing internal economic problems has helped us to identify probably always to integrate and. financial and monetary policies this way will be able to avoid piling up and turn risks and generally essentially something like this one of the crisis has underlined one simple thing if you also virus 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 poses a similar to what's happening today in greece italy and spain but. that interview coming away a little later here. polls are close in spain where people have been voting for a new government amid concerns the debt contagion will hit their country next it's going to nearly one third of the euro zone's unemployed and there's little hope among the spanish that any of the candidates could help out is there any politico

reports now from the capital madrid. 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 finds itself mired in at the moment whoever 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 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 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 very 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 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 the analysts are saying that they will have to take some sort of cuts i think that the education or health care or pensions or probably all of those areas will again under have to undergo through very strict measures and of course that will not leave a lot of people happy. and in italy and greece the new unelected government already at work thousands of people of the less than friendly welcome to the new prime ministers just. spoke mario monti and lucas papademos are committed to extremely unpopular debt solutions including budget cuts and tax hikes the markets are far from convinced with debt interest rates across the e.u. reaching catastrophic levels. remember there's always more for your website r.t. dot com here's a quick look at what's in store the moment docking down the russian spacecraft soyuz with three members aboard and successfully join the international space

station you can find out what it will be doing in the final frontier of our dot com . also on the web site in a moment once in a lifetime chance to glimpse something truly divine cues that would leave a scratch for more than three kilometers here in moscow as one of the most revered orthodox relics goes on display at russia's main cathedral. this week saw the u.n. atomic watchdog challenging iran to prove its nuclear activities have no military pretension as there was no suggestion for a new sanctions against iran in the i.a.e.a. report but washington said it is preparing pelosi it could be introduced as early as monday anyway a separate move the u.n. general assembly has passed a resolution condemning terrans alleged plot to kill the saudi envoy to the u.s. claims iran has dismissed as fabricated all this and that washington could stop holding back israel's alleged plans to attack the islamic republic and the saudis

and it's now it's what is the situation with iran is beginning to resemble the lead up to the iraq war. iran has long been a hot topic but. the greatest threat that america 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 doesn't name him and he's not russian but ukrainian id here's how former weapons inspector david albright talks such as scientists nuclear credentials on c.n.n. 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 a woman shell and those explosive pellet pellets ignite the high explosive underneath and in a very severe cool way it compresses the core and then you get a nuclear explosion and i just loved any lamp is a scientist but not a nuclear specialist those who actually know danny and say this. he worked in a clear facility but not every person who does is the nucleus specialist he's actually trained to construct the airplanes and it's not the i.a.e.a. that is question you know but journalists audience nevertheless albright and q.'s is going to come who specialize in i know 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 this 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 just covered 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 went on against iran you know they didn't have the weapons of mass destruction but there were enough official reports implying otherwise in terms of the report there is limited information on 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 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 and he's now artsy moscow. the libyan government says it won't send gadhafi sons safe and his land to the hague and will try him at home that's despite the international criminal court to monster hand him over amid fears he could be lynched like his father safety at afi was seen slower to aids while attempting to flee to neighboring egypt air given authorities want him tried on charges that potentially carry the death penalty agents of good cheer political analyst and author and what is known as the story earlier that his son will get a fair trial either in libya or in the hague. as

observable the choice between being shot or being hanged because if he is judged and tried in libya he might end up very much in a saddam hussein like trial where he will end up being harmed or he will end up being killed one way or the other and if he is extradited to the hague it will not be a fair trial when we are of all of the other we will silence the baffin son as has been the constant throughout history every time somebody survives who may speak and uncontroversial relations we've also seen and this is all the historical documents how moammar gadhafi only in the last few years has shook the hands of tony blair. no doubt a lot of things were negotiated a lot of very uncomfortable that the racial information could be given by so long that that field. well what fate awaits saif al islam gadhafi when we're asking your

opinion the moment on a web site r.t. dot com as a look at the results on the screen so far the majority think you'll get the death penalty in libya jeff if believe he'll be killed by vigilante's before there's any chance of sending him to the hague fifteen percent are skeptical about his capture believing he could still be at large and a minority thinks that he'll be tried at the international criminal court log on to r.t. dot com and submit your vote if you could to him from. an exciting development for football fans with the soccer sorcerer guus hiddink possibly taking the reins of a team from a small caucuses republic and all sports are they going about twenty minutes from now hitting comments on the rumors he might be coaching dagestan's and the team featuring some of the world's top footballers. that a little later in our sports update for you here on r.t. i'll be back with a recap of our top stories for you in about four minutes from now stay with us live here in moscow.

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