the. week's top stories here on r.t. heat is turned up on egypt's ruling generals hundreds of thousands protesting their rule on where the country is leading to a full body of monday's parliamentary paul. sounds the alarm of u.s. missile shield in view it as a big ones that. it washington's plan continues without russia's safety. and pressure credit rating downgrade shakes europe. to control soaring interest rates and that's one way or falling market fears of a collapse is now imminent.

watching on t.v. weekly news if you welcome to the program one of egypt's main contenders for president mohamed el baradei says he's ready to drop his candidacy and his offer to lead a unity government instead announcement comes after his meeting with the country's political groups see a coalition cabinet as the only way out of the count crisis. point to reports this could lead to even more confrontation within egypt. the situation doesn't maintain now we've had an announcement five some sixteen is just a little food he said to save a full scale is happiest with what they are calling a civil celebration of government named mohamed el baradei is a presidential candidate and it was also a name that was being bandied about earlier in the week as

a possible person the army might approach to be the prime minister as the head of the new government and there are high profile names that have been named as his victims he's a leading physician and a leading economist in the meetings politicians you know have the most bizarre situation where you have a government that has been a series of here while there's another government that has been declared by the army and it is worthwhile noting that the muslim brotherhood does not support the middle baradei in any way all of this is painting this scenario for growing internal why are we there can only lead to more and with one thing that is happening against the backdrop of this political posturing is that the violence continues to climb one person was killed another four people were injured when protesters tried to stop kemal al gonzales who is the new prime minister that has been named by the army entering a government building according to eyewitnesses the person who was killed was driven over by and on is the articles we are also hearing from eyewitnesses that

there was a lot of people just fired by the security forces the ministry is going ahead with parliamentary elections on monday as i stated its main this new prime minister come out all guns will eat it says it will have presidential elections and say fine it's still june this is not enough to satisfy the people and so people something that this new prime minister is an attempt to form a government but again come out all guns really comes from the mubarak era people here one of the one hand like him some of the stuff he did when he was prime minister back to the ninety's they think that he has been tainted with russia will go it and they are very suspicious of any kind of government wants to see any kind of people here point with their neck problem and. button's polis they're reporting from kyra so far every revolution in egypt hasn't brought the reforms demanded by the public has turned into frustration on the streets and some analysts think outside influence is to blame for what ultimately happened was throwing out

a figurehead instead of the actual power structure itself which has been in for years and continues to be believe the military dictatorship that egypt really is it means so and so i think the illusion of democracy is just that until we the underlying power structure that's going on there can be outstanding i don't think anything really has changed and i think alternately falls into the type of power politics to get played in in situations like this where you have the after only western intervention is policies that assume that people can't quite handle democracy yet unless they need to be ruled over by. some sort so and so i think that just leads into the hands of the people who are a 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 interest of the people and souls of ministers from the arab league have agreed on a draft plan for economic sanctions against syria and measures which are expected to be finalized later on sunday include travel about other countries senior

officials freezing of government assets and the suspension of flights into the country it carries out the mess this failed to respond to a deadline for getting all observers to monitor how the government copes with civil unrest francine become the first western country to suggest intervention here in basis some analysts believe president sarkozy is being driven by the need to deflect attention from his domestic problems and. action next year. circles are certainly news a distraction from the economic disaster that is facing to france is looking forward to downgrades in its debt very soon a european major recessions are coming if he wants to stay in power he needs something of this type to distract the people so they can complain about their going to conditions and for its own fortunately paris has a long history of sponsoring terrorist groups and other illegitimate groups for example the iranian communist majida to call good kind of as terrorists are

headquartered in paris whatever groups want to form some place purposes but a great historical place to be protected by france attentively and with the most prominent son of woman in them with not a doubt these weights and justice in other countries knew this promise i treated fairly and amounting concessions that weren't the case other then it calls. safe well islam gadhafi is a man with a lot to say he's the last chance the world has to know how they get that the regime turned from public enemy number one to prison buddies with britain and the other western powers but the international criminal court in the hague says it's not going to extradite him allowing libya to try him instead with libyan officials already calling for the death penalty many fear it's a tactic to keep those dirty secrets hidden forever that's a controlled forum or the the western interest to look at look at what happened

with the trial of which you can be sure that the information that could offer a family has about the relationship between gadhafi and the cia over decades will not come out save good that he was his father's right hand man and the crucial mediating go between with the west he enjoyed a playboy lifestyle in london counting tony blair peter mandelson and prince andrew amongst his pals there are even reports he was entertained at buckingham palace this is where safety that he was given a place to study i want to london's top universities he was even invited back in to give a speech as recent as last year is introduced by his old professor as someone who looks to democracy civil society and think liberal values for the core of his inspiration a far cry from the good that his previous role as international pariah is libya's oil wealth meant it had a lot to give some details of what britain won in return have already emerged

safety daffy's alan a martyr was given one and a half million pounds by his charitable foundation as part of the deal to educate hundreds of libya's future civil servants and it wasn't just britain according to gadhafi libya funded nicolas sarkozy's party to the presidency with a good athlete fall from favor was sudden and spectacular according to safe their former friends have been trying. to cover up any links since turning against them desperate to stave off a trial at the international criminal court. i know the one they are trying to negotiate with us a deal to appeal to this day and we will take you at the care of the court of what is new means is it's a call is controlled by those countries. which attack us with and i don't think it's going to be in anyone's interest for this to promote the new government in libya one blood that's my reading of it europe wants silence and wants to do is

move one attractive because of course the hypocrisy in the double dealing with europe with one hand condemning human rights abuses rather limited kind of wide the same time deporting daffy's enemies back to libya who were tortured almost at the very point when tony blair was making a graphic in the tent so i think there's an awful lot of truth that ought to come out and i really doubt it will. be insists it's capable of giving a fair trial despite its judicial system not being independent for over forty years is still unclear where safe that he will be tried rival ruling factions of fighting over who gets to exact revenge with the death penalty lightly it seems safe gadhafi and his secrets will be silenced on it when it see london. well so they had this are the peacekeepers accused of staring things up but it clashes at the border

later forces them to tear down a test a roadblock despite promising to stay away. but the masses of economic warfare take aim at iran as the u.s. hits terror on with fresh sanctions and. russia's president sent a strongly worded warning this week to western powers a planned nato isaf shield in europe. said that if the plans go ahead about guarantees of russia's safety while still respond by deploying missiles of its i. thought of our reports the dispute also threatens to derail the much vaunted deal on nuclear cuts between russia and the u.s. zero hope. and the years of talks surrounding the united states proposed missile shield in eastern europe russia says the u.s. still won't give in i think we are sure it is over who will be targeted prompting

stern words from president made yet and. other measures are insufficient russia will deploy a contemporary strike systems in the west in order to prevent fire damage from u.s. missile systems employed in europe the deployment of us going the missile system in the coming region will be one such step. there is also the possibility this could be real the landmark nuclear disarmament process agreed to by bush and the us. have got to give me an extra couple link between strategic offensive and defensive weapons reasons could emerge from russia's withdrawal from the strategic arms reduction treaty this is a vision within the content of the treaty rusher in the united states had hoped to reset relations between the years of drift during the bush administration remarks from president obama in two thousand and nine led to optimism that the missile defense program would be scaled down the united states now plans to increase the amount of countries which would replace missile defense systems all of those

nations are in russia's backyard going against assurances from washington that he would do no such thing and move the political analysts say is a game of brinksmanship with a potentially devastating outcome once one side has missile defense courage patchouli launch a first strike so this kind of movement these kinds of threats actually increase the chance of a nuclear war washington maintains that it shield would protect against nuclear attack from so-called rogue states like iran who's following the systems development believe it only had one hundred one target the american version. directed against iran which is completely absurd every joke political analysts know this is directed against russia and this is not the obama administration's pentagon program there are also those who lay the blame for escalating the situation at the door of weapons manufacturers but i think it's being driven by. the military

industrial complex in the united states that's getting billions of dollars in contracts to build business. that we have professors like. postal former rep military people that's. say it could never actually work president medvedev stresses that russia remains open for dialogue with the united states and nato over missile defense issues but if that dialogue has to take place then a clear legal framework must exist saying who is the real target peter all over r.t. . but former m.e.p. clinton forward says it's in europe's interests russian he west reach an agreement as no one would like to see any delay the process of cuts he said your purpose deployment it does they give them the capability of making a preemptive strike or at least responding to a preemptive strike against iran but at the same time it does change the balance of

forces between if you're a u.s. nato one and russia and i'm not sure it necessarily wants to get that way very easily it's actually in everyone's interest to be continued nuclear disarmament and i think the european union and european members of nato have a responsibility to press the united states to actually try and come to some accommodation with. it with russia on this matter the two things would either be to not deploy or provide information to moscow clearly we don't to be assured if you want a change in the balance of forces was comparatively small when meanwhile tehran says it's ready to hit nato as missile defense network in turkey if threatened by military action the warning was made by a high ranking rain military official also said country onto new targets and western pressure on the islamic republic showed no sign of easing this week rest fresh set of sanctions and for the first time directly iran's oil and christian

chemicals industry researchers also target the country's banking system that was described as a sense of money laundering. and state clinton news blogger david lindorff the sanctions simply won't work only if the population is standing by the president. all the signs are looking exactly like the look in the period of two thousand and one if you doesn't three here in the u.s. with this you know drumbeat of hysteria and the weapons of mass destruction if you really want to get a country to get a nuclear weapon then just keep threatening it with attack the sanctions will probably have a negative effect on the u.s. goals of trying to drive a wedge between people in their government i think what you'll see in iran is probably something similar with the rallying by people to their government and to the you know nationalistic feelings when they're under attack from countries like

the united states in israel you know with r.t. and still ahead this hour a safe haven for fascists in case of a nazi war criminal lives in the baltics raising questions of why some countries support. and austerity enthusiasm in brussels evaporates as bureaucrats and sweeping wage cuts the. presence of goals like. but this week saw a new escalation in a four month standoff the course of the. war. protests the same forces agreement with them by trying to clear their roadblocks once he's keep as well with resistance used tear gas and once a class resulted in dozens of injuries on both sides. what mr journalist says nato is they just actions of blatant aggression. ok four is

a con struck that was developed for you know the united nations and developed for that which happened in yugoslavia after the west decided to take it apart so there is a legal basis you know the sure for this but the legal basis comes more or less at the point of a gun i really don't see a justification for what's happening i just see one more act that's a pattern of blatant international aggression by nato in the united states kosovo has been a part of serbia for a long time and kosovo and serbia did very well together with in yugoslavia until tensions were you know stirred up more or less by u.s. intelligence. well our team has been covering events in the north of course of since the protests first up this summer you can find our correspondents reports and analysts opinions on our website that's not a dot com also online. from rising started down in out out her hand and once ran

for governor the u.s. ended up sleeping rough crane where he'd gone looking for not. think underdog support rather than saddam hussein came from stars of video advertising check out the full version of the at and t. dot com. it's been one of the toughest weeks yet for the european union as markets italy recently on fit to weather the storm and the current economic climate interest on italy's debt has hit seven point eight percent unimaginable just a few months ago but both of them with a straight downside of the e.u. that its ratings agencies have been forced to act on a grim figures downgrading hundred portugal's debt to junk status warning of what account number of italian banks were also hit by the decorating as e.u. leaders promote more austerity to come back across many capital of brussels leading

by example doesn't seem to taken hold as aussies teso are silly reports. this has become a familiar sight in the streets of europe symptomatic of the euro crisis and now it seems that the tide of discontent is rising within the plush halls of a vast european commission bureaucracy the. staff unions are threatening to go on strike after rejecting a proposal by the commission or the e.u. civil service to save a one billion euros over seven years by reducing pensions increasing working hours from thirty seven point five to forty a week raising the retirement age limiting pay rises and cutting five percent of jobs but you know they get one point eight three rise. and they say it's a union representing lower paid staff says the media tends to lump them with the fat cats who get most of the e.u.

gravy train he wants the highest salaries of those at the top to be slashed instead the commissioners have privileges which the room is stopped in time they do not contribute to their pensions we pay eleven point six percent and they do not contribute anything but some politicians are astonished at the notion of a strike by officials they claim are featherbed while ordinary workers are losing their jobs and face hardship they get excellent health care free education for their children to private schools here wonderful pension deal and you wonder people listening to this at home looking or. perhaps earning working. these guys are grumbling because they're being asked to work eight hours a day while they're perfectly within their rights to contest the proposed changes to their working conditions were raises eyebrows is the fact that they're complaining at a time when millions of e.u. citizens are bearing the brunt of our facility measures imposed by the very same

institutions they work for not to mention the twenty three million who don't even have jobs to speak of to remove one or two perks to suggest that perhaps they take a slightly lower. percentage increase is hardly going to bring the world to an end still union members are adamant they're getting the short end of the stick. you know putting everything on the shoulders of the secretaries we think. the salary cap is much too high and we would like to close the guard. many of us would be ready to pay for it but whether european taxpayer share the same willingness to sustain the benefits of their civil servants in brussels at a time when they themselves are forced to accept a sturdy measures is another question to answer cilia r.t. brussels. is a bureaucrat rushed to protect their pay when new protests erupted in portugal the first states to feel the full force of austerity transport and public services were

paralyzed as thousands fled on to the streets to protest. the noises of the strike or stand just twenty the country's economy would sink even further and the e.u. desperation to uphold its crisis management credentials has put tremendous pressure on this and just as it has greece for the auntie's kaiser reports winning states into submission is bound to leave its mark. the arrow was supposed to restore peace and harmony i'm in the euro zone but they're breaking down along country by country divisiveness once again and this can't end good because these countries let's not forget have spent hundreds of years at each other's throats now we're back at it you have to understand this is a systemic problem that requires a totally architecting of the system and it's all execution in one way or another all of these facts that are just predatory leeches a cancer on the system they add no value they simply make things worse not take

a problem from the chaos they're trying to refloat trillions of debt and say it's a brand new day and look great for about maybe twenty minutes but then we'll be back to exactly where we were where we started which is a massive debt the leveraging sovereignty being lost amongst all these euro zone countries and predatory i.m.f. bankers on the loose room bankers looking to destabilize countries for a quick buck so that the some more news from around the world this hour pakistan there's a lot of the withdrawal of american forces from one of its bases in response to nato is a strikes and checkpoints in the country and west it's killed twenty four soldiers this really seems like about not liking supply routes for the advanced and stop him sophisticated and was admitted it's likely the forces were behind. sunday's incident has dealt a severe blow to the nation's between pakistan and was in afghanistan.

police in germany have again dispersed activists with tear gas and. it's an attempt to you know rather trying you can waste from once since the train crossed the border protesters have thrown smoke bombs on the tracks and even the rails are going twenty thousand right police to ensure trains safe arrival at a store which was city center in germany. dozens of riot police were injured in the south korean capital clash with protesters angry to free trade agreement with us more than two thousand demonstrators marched in the center of so volatile resignation of the president they say the deal will favor the u.s. and korean workers aiming towards us through like a roommate is on tuesday afternoon approved by washington a month ago. a total failure of justice was the

reaction of an israeli human rights group the recent decision by still here not to bring one of the world's most wanted nazi war criminals to trial as artie's exercise the reports it's just the basis criticism of the un's expats approach to fascism. i mean gosh coffee is rated eighth in simon wiesenthal list of most wanted nazi war criminals and you will it was just he participated in the murder of three thousand jews in the roots in the 1940's documents proving it were provided for the u.s. attorney and author of his. story is anti-fascist committee says the proof of god scores atrocities in a bell the russian 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's called the country of was deported from the u.s. and stripped of u.s. citizenship but says a lot doesn't it 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 the hail core who is at present a citizen of the republican isto me at 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. things to the people who are here with this prestige. any doubt regarding his a belly and they said no none whatsoever. this doesn't surprise me personally because for the last fifteen years i've been dealing with these tyrants have totally failed in terms of prosecuting. it's clear that there's absolutely no

political will to bring these people to justice and the good score story is not a one off case from sanctioning as 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 the nineteenth birthday of the only remaining holder of the iron cross one of the highest medals of nazi germany sixty five years ago the new 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 now days suggests that history lessons have not been fully learned. ski r.t. reporting from tallinn in a store near. well just ahead another look at the headlines followed by our

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