the egyptian military launches a major assault on protesters in cars town here square the demonstration since friday against the country's minute treat every thousands of people injured in fierce clashes with my pictures there from khartoum. and other stories that shaped this week club skulking over the syrian government as the deadline set by the arab league to end violence expires president assad is the client in the face of growing international pressure. two months of magical protests in america a mob of thousand strong marches all over the u.s. and hundreds of arrests heavy handed police response. plus greeks and italians

given unfriendly welcome to new unelected leaders some of the troubled states a losing sovereignty because of harsh economic measures taken by brussels. look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on r.t. egyptian soldiers and police have launched a major crackdown on protesters in tahrir square at least six have reportedly been killed since friday when tens of thousands began protesting a lack of reforms ahead of parliamentary elections in just over a week from now the first of that the overthrow of hosni mubarak. who's on a way to caro has the latest from neighboring israel. this is the second straight day that there have been these a vine and clashes in downtown cairo according to the police there some five thousand demonstrators but we're hearing reports that tens of thousands of people

have taken to the streets and thousands of people have been injured really the focal point in tahrir 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 what protesters want is that the military government that has been in power since february give way to any mic to 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 different from me from egypt and president hosni mubarak so those demands are reaching a boiling point people incredibly angry as i say and all of this come in 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

of the service to say that we could be on the brink of a second revolution if they repress this syria and this is going to get out of hand specially against the muslim brotherhood if we see let's see a large group of what's going to lead to real square with all the factions of the muslim brotherhood. google generation everybody in this square i juz through military dictatorship which is something that could happen within the next few weeks which really this week we're going to have career square what people are saying is that we're brick might be gone but what we're witnessing happening in egypt is far from what the people hoped for we witness in sectarian violence there are more clashes and there are important social grievances that are not being addressed. and for more on this i'm now joined live by author and political commentator mark glenn he's in idaho in the u.s.

well this violence is only a week before the country's first parliamentary elections so why nar why are we seeing this impatience when they a chance to express their view through the ballot box well i think reflects that the people don't believe that there are changes these changes at the ballot box of one particular fact. this and believes that prior to the the revolution earlier this year that if the same system will be there just with a different face a different makeup and things like that so i think that on the surface we can assume that the egyptian people do not believe that there will be any sense of change taking place but we also have to take into account the possibility that there are outside forces who are responsible for bringing this violence about we have seen throughout the course of the last year how in these various revolutions particularly in egypt that there were foreign elements. people working for foreign intelligence services who were on the ground in order to stoke up this kind of

violence and so we have to at least consider the possibility that there are outside forces who are trying to scuttle any type of what we would consider a peaceful transition of power to a new system we have to at least consider that what about the islam brotherhood clearly opinions differ on the influence that having at the moment is regarded as some i saw an organization by some countries in fact is a terrorist organization but just how involved are they in these protests at the moment in cars well we can't say for sure we don't really know we we can only guess i mean they are a rather large body of. of the electricity from want to call them that they represent that one of the larger bodies and so the idea that they would not be on around trying to take advantage of this and to steer this this next election in zero eight that they consider favorable to their long term agenda i think we would be naive to think that they wouldn't be there so as far as the actual final numbers

to choose something like obviously this is something that has to be done by people who are in there on him or hands off man or would be actually tally for themselves how much this particular group is playing a role in mr. i think that it would be. inaccurate for us to to assume that they're not there and that they are trying to steer this thing in a direction that is favorable to their again is there also not be the argument that they're trying to make it clear to the military that in fact that people will have their say despite the fears that the military wants to still have a grip on power after these what's supposed to be a democratic election well i think that given the events of the last year i think that what you have in egypt and really throughout the entire region are a lot of people who don't know what they want all they know is that they are unhappy with the status quo they do not want to return to things as they were

before but as far as actually being able to sit down and formulating a plan as to how to bring these changes about that they are somewhat in that regard i mean what is the essence of surely surely the essence is to see political change that allow free and fair parliamentary elections this is what the people in egypt want after all that was the main aim of the revolution wasn't it are they going to get your are they going to get absolutely no they are not going to get i hate to have to be the one to inject a certain amount of realism into this but we have to remember that the very first thing that this new egyptian government did on getting rid of mubarak are still in the west but it's and out asking for economic aid so it's seen as it did that it automatically surrendered itself in its ideals whatever ideas it me and changed the future to western interests so we can just assume that at the end of the day you're going to find and say oh my take on this new. i think you just dropped out there

a second i can still hear you can you can you hear me yes i can hear your story. now one of the issues of course is that this rest perhaps indicates. maybe a bad time for the arab spring in general i mean in some ways many would say that this is undermining the whole aims of the revolution we've seen in egypt. but also you could suggest that other revolutions going to be as successful as originally hoped for well i will be plain about this as i have been in other interviews that i have done on this topic i do not believe that the arab spring is going to produce anything substantively different for the people in the region i think that it's just going to be a cosmetic change explained and in general the same policy is going to me back in the proof of this as i said in my last comment is the fact that this government in particular egypt the first thing that it did on cleaning up in the us after the room. was to ask eight west economic aid so nothing is going to change in that

regard there out there may be a key change to take place maybe more liberalization of the media and things like that the young people will be able to access western media and western websites that formerly they have been barred from viewing but in general the system is going to remain the same american foreign policy is going to remain the same israel's foreign policy is going to remain the same and of course sadly the loser in all of this are going to be the people themselves who have literally paid for this revolution with their own blood. should the west be fearing a fact that there is a chance of the muslim brotherhood could get into power it doesn't necessarily mean that will be a radical islamic regime does it there are all sorts of interpretations of sharia law but is it a concern for the west is that what the west really want to know about the topic. esther's not worried at all if egypt really looks like it's going to go in a direction that is inimical to western and israeli foreign policy objectives and you will see military force being go there against egypt and it was against libya

and this will go on and on throughout the region we have to keep in mind that the united states and israel and great britain invested a great deal of money and effort into people up with these shackles in order to keep the compliance from western foreign policy gap of course the extraction of their natural. which is the west is not just going to allow that you go by the wayside just because a few million disgruntled arabs happened to rise up and start demanding a freedom. and thanks so much for your time thanks for joining us author of political commentator a. story about. communication but we heard pretty much everything you have to say thank you thank you thank you. roger the syrian opposition claimed responsibility for an early morning attack in damascus these two rocket propelled grenades hit the headquarters of syria's governing party no one was injured becomes a diplomatic run for

a country with arab league ultimatum demanding and exploring the syrian president bashar al assad pledged not to before foreign pressure certainly has more now from russia. 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 this statement comes on the back of the end of that three day old tomato given by the arab league for his government and the bloodshed in the country and that is in addition to its 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 free syria army made up of the factors had claimed responsibility for attacks on government buildings and the baskets and the

head of that f.s.a. had also called on countries to send his forces white bread so again that this concerns russia because if the. minister sergey 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 armed. the moment we suggested in order to put the arab initiative in place all countries concerned with the peaceful outcome of developments in syria would demand not only from the syrian authorities but also from the opposition at least on their violence and on doing attacks on government buildings in syria looks like a civil war. of course tough for some 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 well there have been talks of contacting to before to discuss the crisis in syria at the intraday high king abdullah had asked for you k. we needed spearheaded this campaign having seen the quote success of be

a libyan intervention now we know that if any resolution is several weeks the u.n. security council is going to be hit by the russians have already used their veto in the past 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. and one course one eric margolis thinks we're currently witnessing a build up to outside intervention there it certainly looks like the beginning of a military intervention there's no guilt. or it's very minor. crystal we also see is forming lower action by the western powers in syria there was sore on libya and washington is one for one time the overthrow the regime because it's a key ally of iran and a key supporter of hezbollah living on. the washington. overthrow

along with the saudis and israel is however you are wise the children who are saying we're going to if you go through the regime what's going to take its place and then hell with intervention now but now we're such eagerness to get iran to be as serious. as we i think. i mean government says it won't send gadhafi son saif al islam to the hague and will try and home prices by the international criminal courts commands to hand him over to europe amid fears he could be lynched like his father so he was seized along with two of his aides who are attempting to flee to neighboring share even authorities want to try them charges that potentially carry the death penalty agents out to cheap political analysts and says his son won't get a fair trial either in libya or in the hague. as a terrible choice between being shot or being hanged because if he used germs 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 the deal one way or the other and if he is extradited to the hague it will not be a fair trial one way or of all the other of it will silence that that the son as has been the constant throughout history every time somebody survives who may speak in uncountable that already since we've also seen and this is all this store of documents how moammar gadhafi only in the last few years has shown the hands of tony blair barack obama no doubt a lot of things were negotiated a lot of very uncomfortable there for oceans of information could be given by so long that that field. 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 toward council broke up mostly peaceful demos against the unequal distribution of wealth and major american cities campaign crowd of activists took the subway and tried to block off

the stop evidence from the merging of disproportionate police action and sponsor the rallies bus to california students staging a sit down protest with pepper sprayed in the face with another incident an officer was filmed beating an iraq war veteran so hard he suffered a ruptured spleen they seem to pose no threat and yet as i understand you're going to report a crackdown is not deterring protest it's. a human tsunami of tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of new york. hundreds arrested dozens dragged and abused by police thousands more protest across the u.s. on thursday the feet of america's civil war it gets corporate greed and wealth inequality zuccotti park the police were occupy wall street was one looks nothing like it did just a couple of days ago officials were hoping that a big thing the protesters would and to the movement with this has backfired

a day of action brought more people out onto the streets with more bigger than ever before it's absolutely a store we haven't seen something like this in america for thirty forty years and its history of eating itself simply is here in america where you receive what they have to most of its history making two months after all keep my wall street kickstarted in the big apple new york authorities decided to kick protesters out of their camp bloomberg expose themselves as the clueless out of touch third world dictator that he would like to 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 galvanized another mork. powerful stage of occupy wall street are being campaigned and all over the city said we are absolutely at stage two i think what happened yesterday was we showed the world that we are strong we are numbers i'm sure 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 will only empower them more they don't store to see. which is gone or. related and who will coach and their desire to stick by each other isabel stronger than before listen i love you you will be appreciated because of being. a new dawn for the occupy wall street movement has broken on the horizon and if they see a church in our party or. orgies crew is in the us at the moment constantly following developments for you surrounding the occupy movement and you see coming of this county oakland this posted on her twitter stream which from just looking at the moment that hundreds of people have been gathering in the city despite the police warning has also tweeted that an american lobby group suggested u.s. banks should undermine the campaign by researching the motives protest as you can log on to my twitter feed on that. set to become a reality

a 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 what is your position on has the story. three nations twenty million square kilometers of land one giant idea. is because like we will repeat the mistakes of the european union in our integration conscious or what we're doing and i 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 poles or area within its framework in just six months russia bellew's in kazakhstan managed to increase their total trade turnover by over forty percent. its plans then wait twenty fifteen the union will not only have one borderline in economic zone let me

switch to one currency as well he's done and gone or aspiring to join ukraine is selling i would team which will lobby becoming a member 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 at this level 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 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 mina member are simply too attractive. surely it's way too early to talk about any massive economic

an industrial bridge which will stretch 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 got a spin off party in moscow. in spain with counting three quarters completed the country's general election indications are that the conservative people's party is victory party could one hundred eighty seven seats out of three hundred fifteen part of an overall majority of the center right party ahead of the ruling socialist expected to get one hundred eleven seats elections have been held against european contagion will hit the country next artie's has more now from madrid where 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 in which they finds itself mired 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 is one of the highest unemployment rates in the entire eurozone has more than five million unemployed people it was a census conducted here in september which established that about four thousand people just about 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 eurozone 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 so they have this sort of a just a sad 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 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 i guess have to undergo through a very strict a series of measures and of course that will not leave a lot of people happy. this week saw the u.n. atomic watchdog challenging iran to prove its nuclear activities have no military pretensions there's no suggestion for new sanctions against tehran in the 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 terrans alleged plot to kill the saudi envoy to the u.s. claims iran has dismissed as predicated all this amid talks washington could stop holding back israel's alleged plans to attack the islamic republic but it's obvious you need to know explains 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 in the world faces at traist 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 question not current expert is called at the ministry scientists and russian by some western media even though the i.a.e.a. report doesn't name him and he's not russian by ukrainian and here's how former weapons inspector david albright talks not the sciences the nuclear credentials on c.n.n. and what he showed how to build 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 pell pellets ignite the high explosive underneath and in a very spiritual way it compresses the core and then you get a nuclear explosion which is pawlenty and is a scientist but not

a nuclear specialist those who actually know danny and kurt say this than you do that he worked in a clear 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 question him no but journalists rodion nevertheless all right 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 their own right has a history of pointing fingers just before iraq was invaded he said it 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 and 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 nuclear weapons of mass destruction but there were enough official reports implying otherwise in terms of the report there is limited information the reason it's limited is because it's most likely that iran does not it is you know it is the case of iran does not have a nuclear weapons program therefore magic 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 beware 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. i'll be back with a recap of our top stories when in just a few moments this is r.t. live here in moscow with the weekly.

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