granted the hotel because of initial marco resort hotel was sold at the same. resort michael's levelly close to tomoko riviera hotel because cintra hotel macaque . protesters demanding that egypt's military leadership step down immediately agreed by tear gas and rubber bullets in cairo's tahrir square. just eight months off its first state police in the country seems on the brink of a second thousands of protesters demanding too many people live from the details in just a few minutes. moscow rounds on the west accusing it of putting prospects of peace talks in syria for violence between protesters and government forces carries on unabated. and as new center right leaders take the helm in madrid we have a spanish voices doubting whether the new law will do anything to lead them through

mounting debt and skyrocketing joblessness is. a very warm welcome this is r.t. live from moscow with me recently shy tear gas rubber bullets and angry slogans have been flying in egypt's tahrir square as police and protesters clashed for a third day the country's officials claim at least thirty five people have been killed in the largest demonstration since february uprising that ousted dictator hosni mubarak. is live in cairo right now let's cross. paula good to see you so what exactly has brought the people to the streets this time around i but despite the new camp is really trying to be the most easy tens of thousands of people who want gathering here in town his mayor is the. it is the end of the work days of

people are coming here on business the schools have closed for the day and society witnessing the numbers swell now people have formed themselves into small groups they're chanting various slogans among the slogans like only on the military regime that has been in power since the film egypt's president hosni mubarak was ousted in favor me they cling on after she stepped down they will say we changed taffy a square in four weeks youngsters have been trying to come back to the square but they've been prevented from doing so by the police and on the system and now that they're back here as you can see behind me they have no intention of leaving the demands really is quite simple they don't believe that the military is any different to the regime of hosni mubarak they are against the trough constitution that this regime supports saying that the military really wants to stay in power even after it handed over to and in which to civilian government and talking to youngsters here that's the way it is based expressed by one person i spoke to he said with the chance to the parliamentary elections next monday it will be the

first elections to be held in this person of our era who cares about elections to help with the elections we need to come back to turkey square and finish our revolution people here we don't believe that exceeds elections will be free and fair and will achieve anything they believe the only way to achieve something is to come back to this point of revolution paula so it's been you know almost that knowing that months since the arm rest that toppled president mubarak as you say elections around the corner just next week how has life changed in the country. well this is the point that people here are saying that the military actually hasn't changed anything be pretty even so much the same as they were under the time of mubarak but what is interesting is that whereas in february we met revolution took place the army was much on the side of the people very much is done a one hundred eighty degree turn in terms of how people view it they feel betrayed by the army and we have witnessed. it's testifying that some of the worst violence

over the last few days in which movie twenty people have been killed the army has been firing rubber bullets it's been firing tear gas was protests insults to be throwing stones it was the five hundred tell so no anger being expressed by both sides against each protest as earlier they said it may not thank you anywhere and tubby but at least it's down some poppy mind sees some kind of showdown and certainly the mood here is incredibly tense it's incredibly funny it's how just anything could unfold all right art is our policy there live right about tahrir square thank you. i mean time and egyptian election may be just around the corner but question marks over its legitimacy are still hanging very heavy independent online journalist james corporate says the oppressive regime it wasn't asked of following the february revolution what ultimately happened was throwing out a figurehead instead of the actual power structure itself which has been with him

for many years and continues to be believe in military dictatorship that egypt really is it may be so and so i think the illusion of democracy is just that until the the underlying power structure that's going on there can be ousted i don't think anything really has changed and i think ultimately that falls into the type of power politics they get played in in situations like this where you have the the after needed western intervention it's policies that assume that people can't quite handle democracy yet unless they need to be a real overvalued dictator of some sort so and so i think that that just plays into the hands of the people who are watching this from behind the scenes and wondering how they're going to fit into the new geo political paradigm rather than what's in the interests of the people themselves. on our website r c dot com we've been asking you when do you think the violence in egypt will end let's see how your votes are stacking up here at r.t. dot com so far the majority of you are sure it will stop when the military rulers decide enough is enough but just over

a quarter think it will happen after unemployment and inflation is dealt with and almost the same number of people see the end coming with the election of the muslim brotherhood finally here less than a fifth of our viewers believe the violence will end when mubarak's cronies are behind bars do have your say and r.t. dot com. there were three live from moscow for spain is a shifting right to attempt to balance the books the country's conservatives have won a landslide victory in a general election they now have to tackle record unemployment of over twenty percent and find a way out from underneath a growing pile of mass that result he's going to stray has been hearing spaniards don't hold much hope that the new crew will bring about any change. this is what the spaniards want from the elections but it's very unlikely they'll get it the popular party may have won sunday's polls but it's highly unlikely they're in for an easy term the reality of economic crisis in spain means five million people out

of work while only half million households are without a wage earner and if you know that employment rate which has shot up to nearly fifty percent this is state of affairs the winner will have to deal with but will they really be able to make a difference probably not only is gail allard and economics professor at madrid's i even a school we're going to have to cut benefits sharply we may have to differentiate among recipients of benefits we may have to limit programs so this could really be . we may be seeing the death knell of the welfare state but most spaniards have had enough with budget cuts and empty promises protests by the fifteen m. movement the so-called indignant marchers have been spreading throughout spain since march and many people have chosen not to go to the polls on sunday believing politicians will not help the country i think people have been disappointed with the choices they have all through throughout this campaign really for the last couple of months at least because i think they feel that there isn't

a great deal of difference between the two candidates in terms of what they want to and it seems there is no easy way out of the current economic downturn in fact some of the minorities in the parliament believe spain is a vicious circle. because it's all poles who said being dictates and brussels the elections will help in creating more jobs it will be the opposite the public expense will go down because purchasing power will go down that will mean fewer investments and that translates into unemployment. and though there may be new faces in the spanish government they will have to deal with the old problems in much the same way meaning nothing is likely to change for spain neared already tired of the economic catastrophe in the country it is a gold quality madrid. more money matters are being chewed over on our website r.t. dot com where economists predict the fall of the u.s. dollar within a decade china becoming the world's strongest economy and it's you on the reserve

currency. also as wiki leaks founder julian assange faces extradition to sweden over sexual assault charges and unlikely supporter comes to his defense as a world renowned feminist calls for an end to the witch hunt them step toward just a bit over to r.t. dot com. now moscow has accused western powers of stirring up tensions in the arab world by calling for the overthrow of the syrian regime now let's get more on this from an author and journalist webster tarpley now joining us live from damascus. i thank you for coming on the program today so russia says that calls are from certain states that the syrian opposition should avoid talks with the government or only provoking further politics for a moment here let's listen to what the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has said. it's of a cd in syria we're now seeing a situation where the arab league is calling for a halt to violence and beginning of dialogue and western countries and the capitals

of some countries of the region and making calls to the country expressly recommending the opposition hold new talks with the assad regime it looks like a political provocation on an international scale yes the violence has to be stopped but this demand has to be addressed to the authorities and the only groups in the syrian opposition that was in the shoes of some of the so so what's what's your take on this too do you agree that the calls coming from the west are not helping to stabilize the situation in average. surely not certainly mr mr large brought his own very firm ground there i've just completed a one week fact finding tour of the country i've been in the hands of been in tower two. in the military hospital here in baghdad and i can tell you what average every day syrians of all ethnic groups all know why. what they say about this is that they are being shot at by snipers in homs in

particular people complain that there are terrorists like us who are shooting at civilians men women and children line terrorism random killing simply for the purpose of the stabilizing the country i think i would not call this a civil war by any stretch of the imagination i think that's of that's a very very misleading term in the following sense what you're dealing with here are death squads you dealing here with terror commandos the kind of thing that everybody remembers from argentina and central america this is a typical cia method in this case it's a joint production of c m i six and most. of the french it's got money coming from saudi arabia the united arab emirates and qatar and it has a couple of interesting managers the manager i think you should point to perhaps most is a guy called down was the foreign minister in this country for quite

a couple of decades he's almost eighty years old who operates from paris and i think he's being groomed by trying nato as the new dictator of some christians are but i'm sorry to interrupt you if i could just jump in for a moment it's very interesting how you bring in the issue of that there are there are snipers there are terror death squads with links to the west and the west and west allies in saudi arabia for example but assad's rule is increasingly being called illegitimate but isn't that. the u.s. and that of europe that getting rid of the syrian president could just cause even more violence for example what we're seeing right now in several square in egypt. well to libya becoming a bloodbath with one hundred fifty thousand dead and now with egypt showing what it was all along it was no revolution there it was a complete failure and now people are beginning to understand it notice that nevertheless mrs clinton and miss rice at the united nations are continuing to push

this bankrupt to spread this model of the cultural revolution to see people power crew backed off by terrorist groups people from people from the muslim brotherhood people from salafi store going to say she and so forth and i've heard this from some very important religious authorities here there's a growing movement inside the islamic community here which says we want reconciliation we want law and order we want in the gallery we don't want that fanatics to run the show the fanatics are being brought in by the western powers so there's a voice and look at the way coming in by the western powers you're seeing a fair amount of unification among the muslims that but let's i mean let's roll some comparisons if we may u.n. resolution one ninety seven three for libya to protect civilians do you think is the grand plan here for syria that of the western western states to get in there for a regime in syria and if that is their plan then what is the point what is that again

. very very important thing is that this is the most tolerant society in the middle east this is one place where all kinds of people live together in i think remarkable harmony and again it's a it's a very wide variety moslems of all kinds christians of all kinds of christian greek orthodox greek catholics melkor syriac many many other kinds druzes curves and so forth this is a model of the peaceful coexistence of various ethnic groups now the u.s. policy i think right now is to smash the middle east according to ethnic lines and other words if you can have a divide and conquer policy which says to let the christians will be kicked out of lebanon and the christians will be say kicked out of syria in the way that they have been kicked out of iraq and ironically a lot of them went to syria you can you can get a situation where all of these countries are are fatally weakened. way in which

it's introduced is if you look at syria the main centers of trouble are on the turkish border the syrian border with jordan with iraqi kurdistan and then with lebanon and i think lebanon thanks to saad hariri may be the main one it isn't critical but we are running already very short a time when i'm so sorry we are running a long time but if i may with western powers calling for restraint on both sides in egypt why do they only take a one sided approach when it comes to what's going on in syria. well this is it's all the tactics of demagogy and the modulation of demagogy from one one minute to the next but what we have year in syria is a cynical media campaign because i've been in homs when you go to homs and you go to this neighborhood which is supposed to be the hottest point in the whole country you find people who are probably they're concerned number one about they want to have heating oil because when it was coming in it's getting cold and you asked them

what is your demand they say we want the syrian army to come in here we want the syrian army posted on the roofs of the houses with helicopters and tanks stop these snipers from killing us don't let please these black hooded figures which is where they are tending to be deserted when they are really maybe from cheney they are from libya they are from afghanistan or pakistan foreign fighters have been brought in here by the cia and other western services and that is what's going on and that is a very very large part of it and then in the city of homs for example in one hospital they were telling us it was five dead and seven wounded on one day and what was it it's all snipers it's all these terrorists who are shooting the civilian population of course when al jazeera arrives they say oh those those deaths are the responsibility of the city it is absolute baloney this is a gerbils big lie campaign there is no civil war here there is no insurrection

there is no mass political movement against assad these are very very limited minor and strictly localized phenomena and this looks nothing like libya i know what a civil war in a modern arab country looks like i've been in libya during the summer this is no civil war here this is not often i do you say and it is as you say there's no civil war here as you are suggesting this is simply about it's about terra commanders and death squads being imported by this the exploited by the cia and brought in by other. in fact it's about i'm afraid i wish we had more time for this author and journalist our website it's our play live from damascus many thanks thank you. wore a tragedy for many but the chance to make a fast buck for an unscrupulous few of the amount of money missing in iraq and afghanistan has reached i watering levels and yet no one is being held to account. you can reports. not everyone leaves the war zone empty handed

a number of people indicted and convicted by the u.s. for bribery fraud in there in iraq and afghanistan has never been so high among those a marine in iraq who sent home forty three thousand dollars in stolen cash by hiding it in a food locker among american flags a soldier thousands more concealed in a toy stuffed animal they can go after people to steal forty three thousand dollars all they want necessary ok sugar we have but what about on the larger scale in two thousand and six michael o'brien was tasked with helping build the iraqi military he says those who have pocketed mili is enjoyed complete impunity they rebuilt an iraqi army base and i'm telling you the condition of the space and this is just one example of the poor it was so pathetic and when i asked the american construction project manager for one of this cost how much money went into this i really thought he was going to say three million or five million one hundred

sixteen million dollars george royal commission on work time contracting estimated that between thirty one to sixty billion dollars has been lost to waste and fraud in iraq and afghanistan it figures seem even more staggering considering the overall amount the u.s. has committed to rebuilding iraq roughly sixty two billion dollars a different view and was the head of an iraqi reconstruction team working for the u.s. they department the squandering of resources occurred while levels of thousand dollars a couple of thousand dollars here and there and all the way up into hundreds of millions of dollars were spent on hospitals that never opened or prisons that never took any prisoners in the commission on wartime contracting is out of business now after congress had its funding. the details of their program see. move until two thousand and thirty one they don't want certain people in high places. to come

under scrutiny in the u.s. congress wants to put the to talk all of our iraq invasion behind it the scope of the waste and fraud is enormous the u.s. justice system goes after individuals who have stolen a few thousand dollars here and there but not after the big players the big contractors that have really made a killing on the wars i'm going to check our reporting from washington our kate. now i twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow let's go to some other world news for you from the world here the long awaited trial of greece of viking former camero rouge officials charged with genocide and crimes against humanity has now begun three top regime leaders are accused of orchestrating the killing fields in the late one nine hundred seventy s. and which almost two million people died the defendants including former cambodian a communist groups main ideologist along with this former minister. and the parents

of a murdered teen whose phone was hacked by its have a lawyer the news of the world have given evidence to an inquiry into the standards of the british press but they say some messages were deleted from her phone after she disappeared in two thousand and two and making them think she was still alive in fact was there and the person who delivered a message was work for a report but murdoch's newspaper cross over to live pictures right here including actor hugh grant as you can see in the courtroom he's he's also said to give evidence about illegal eavesdropping by journalists again live pictures here without actually if you grant rights other hollywood celebrities are expected at some point to take steps to fight. the so-called lone wolf terrorist has been arrested in new york jose pimentel born a u.s. citizen is accused of plotting to attack police sun post offices and troops returning from combat illegibly youth instructions on how to build a pipe bomb from an al qaeda magazine mental had been under surveillance for over

two years. but a total failure of justice that's how a jewish human rights organization dubbed a recent decision by estonia to close a case against a suspected nazi criminal activists say there's no political will in tallinn punish nazi collaborators and critics warn it's only part of a wider problem as i see as alexia shift ski reports. coffee is rated eighth in simon wiesenthal list of most wanted nazi war criminals but when it was this he participated in the murder of three thousand jews in baton rouge in the one nine hundred forty s. but documents proving its were provided for years to north orators because they give them a story as anti-fascist committee says the proof of god's course atrocities in a belorussian concentration camp is solid and undoubted but instead of seeing off his days from behind bars he now lives the life of a free man in this baltic state that. was deported from the u.s.

and stripped of u.s. citizenship but says a lot of time and give him shelter and try to hide him here but then under international pressure the authorities had to initiate an investigation. however the probe brought no results after months of investigation is still only in authorities close the case a well grounded doubt remains that the god squad mentioned in the material is not let me hail going to court who is at present a citizen of the republican isto nia the case will be closed as it has been impossible for the investigative team to find any additional evidence the decision raised eyebrows in israel at first but then simon wiesenthal center recalled which country they were dealing with they called washington spoke to the people who are here with this prosecution. and where it was any doubt regarding and they said no none whatsoever. this doesn't surprise me personally because for the last fifteen

years i've been dealing with historians historians have totally failed in terms of prosecuting nazi war criminals and it's clear that there's absolutely no political will to bring these people to justice and the good school story is not a one off case from sanctioning s.s. veterans marches to glorifying former nazi collaborators this has been tolerance policy for the past decade recently this man made just about every had line in a story are almost on the scale of a national holiday a country marked in one thousand birthday of the only remaining holder of the iron cross one of the highest medals of nazi germany sixty five years ago the new hundred tribunals sentenced the nazi leadership to either executions or prison terms this trial of history was meant to get rid of nazism for good but the s.s. marches in baltic states and other cases of rehabilitation of fascism nowadays suggest that history lessons have not been fully learned. ski artsy reporting from

tallinn in a store near. just a few minutes here i think we discussed whether america's war on terrorism making the world a safer place for the business with current. business here in r t thanks for joining me russian markets are having a bad day but he's around the world tumble on concerns that the sovereign debt crisis could spread to the euro zone's biggest economies he warns that the rising cost of french debt this week and its weak konami outlook threatening its aaa credit rating also it sees rising risks for germany due to its banks exposure to troubled european economies now let's have a look at the numbers now oil is trading near its lowest in seven days on speculation that feels about may falter light sweet is trading at over ninety six dollars per barrel while brand is at one hundred seven dollars

a barrel european stock markets are dropping sharply banking stocks are under pressure and frankfurt shares of commerce bank tumble five percent daughter bank fell four and a half percent well in paris shares of societe generale and. each i should think over five percent and here in russia the global weakness in equities is being made worse by the polls in the oil price wise it's lost almost four percent. its biggest on course for the biggest lies since october for now let's have a check on some of the individual channels on the my side's decline in the eyes it's led by russia's biggest coking coal producer metro almost seventy percent over six percent noise is also along the top loses just under four percent and energy shares are retreating lower crude prices look oil is heading over three percent. another roadblock has been part of the path of russia's privatization program this time by the government that wants to ensure it gets

a fair price for state assets prime minister says shares and state companies should be sold no lower than their initial list prices the proposal has already been approved by palace to put said last year the government announced a large scale participation plan but top officials blame turbulance financial markets for messing up. their capital outflow from russia in the first ten months of the year has surged to sixty four billion dollars and you figure is almost twice the earliest central bank estimates that thirty six billion dollars would leave the country this year and capital flight is equivalent to nearly four percent of russia's g.d.p. christopher from troika dialog believes it's not domestic stories but global was try to castrate. a significant factor in this year's capital flight has actually been destroying all revenues the way the central bank or the way the government accounts for those revenues if oil companies are either slaw to repatriate that

money or keep it off shore because he can't invest it back home for some time that actually counts as capital flights and other words money earned and not brought back as distinct from when you put in a suitcase and brought them to zurich i think it's parky to do with just the global situation rather than in anything in russia per se people are nervous all over the world to see the euro zone debt crisis could result in a global recession. that's our outfit for this hour but remember you can always find most always just log onto our web site r.t. dot com that's for much.

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