week's top stories here are no heat turned up on egypt's ruling generals but hundreds of thousands protesting their ruling congress square and across the country it's leading to fears of more violence ahead of monday's parliamentary call . sounds the alarm of the u.s. shield in europe president warns that most noble devoid of rocket supporters in washington's plan continues without guaranteeing russia's safety. and fresh credit rating downgrade shape europe as the e.u. battles to control soaring interest rates and its runaway debt. market this sort of

collapse is now imminent. costing life in the heart of the russian capital this is artie's week. 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 denouncements comes after his meeting with the country's political groups which see a coalition cabinet as a only way out of the current crisis but there's still reports this could lead to even more confrontation within egypt. the situation doesn't maintain now we've had an announcement by some sixteen is just a little tweak he said to save a school to lose half its weight what they are calling a civil celebration government named mohammed el baradei is

a presidential candidate and it was also a name that was being bandied about earlier in the week as a possible socially on the minds 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 deputy a leading position a leading economist for meeting politicians do you not have this most bizarre situation where you have a government that has been replaced serious affair while there's another government that has been declared by the army and it is worthwhile noting that the muslim brotherhood does not support ramadan baradei in any way all of this is painting with an aria for growing internal winery that can only lead to more and with one thing that is happening against the backdrop of this political posturing is that violence continues to climb one person was killed another four people were injured when protesters tried to stop them all guns all reason is the new prime minister that had been named by the army from entering a government building according to eyewitnesses that this is what was killed was

driven over by an army vehicles we are also hearing from eyewitnesses that there was a lot of fear just fired by the security forces the military is going ahead with parliamentary elections on monday as that stated its name this new prime minister come out are going to lead it says it will have presidential elections in spacetime next june for this is not enough to satisfy the people and so people from seeing with this new prime minister is in a sense to form a government but again come out on through we come from the mubarak era people here one of the one hand perhaps like to him with some of the stuff he did when he was prime minister back to the ninety's they they think that he has been tainted with russia mubarak and they are very suspicious of any kind of government he tries to and any kind of people he appoints within next government. not in the was there reporting from kyra but so far the breeze revolution in egypt hasn't brought the reforms demanded by the public has turned into frustration on the streets what of that's when british m.p. jeremy corbett the international response to the arab spring has put vested

interests of those people it's western gold standards work par excellence they invaded libya in order to change the government because of threats against the people. they have put sanctions against some countries because of oppressions of civil liberties because of bahrain saudi arabia has invaded so bahrain tech the molecule the case of saudi arabia massive violations of human rights and no intervention i think the west basically quite happy to carry on with a military strike in egypt to do something that is really because the whole of the west has to wake up you cannot on the one hand you deal with kingdoms and dictatorships that repress human rights in the same time pretend to be on the side of the demonstrators democracy and human rights of all people well thought out ministers from the arab league have agreed a draft plan for economic sanctions against syria measures which are expected to be

finalized interim sunday include a travel bag with countries senior officials freezing of government assets on suspension of flights into the country it comes as damascus fail to respond to a deadline to their own observers to monitor how the government hopes of civil unrest france meanwhile has become the first western country to suggest intervention on humanitarian basis but this criticism it could be a pretext for libya style intervention resulting saucily reports. creepily thanks to the libyan intervention of french president nicolas sarkozy bad destroying a first for his country first call for nato to impose no fly zone over libya. first to officially recognize the opposition as libya's only richard admit government first to strike with libya now in the rearview mirror syria appears to be the next stop france is once again the first western nation suggests an international ground intervention in syria calling for

a quote secured zone to protect civilians and first to endorse the exiled opposition syrian national council plans is a. human thing and it's very very powerful the agreement between most of the left and most of the right about that and sarkozy has the. definition so it seems to me that these more even more aggressive than obama would be even though he doesn't have the military strength of the and sweeping popularity at home is what circles he needs if he intends to let the french decide his fate as president it's only twelve elections it's trying president nicolas sarkozy talks about syria craziest he's been spoken to. you know he's really really. bad situation when it comes to the polls and he's using the syrian crisis as a way to. to or to be seen as provocative the way he was with libya

but where the french government deems a success doesn't seem to be too promising for those living in the post gadhafi era violent clashes between rival militia groups have continued adding to the death toll a new u.n. report says that some seven thousand people are being held in libya detention centers controlled by militias with no access to courts or a functioning judiciary and many are still armed scenarios some warn it could be repeated in syria and once those regimes are overthrown a pound or as box is opened in other words chaos can be the result while one is always happy to see the end of brutal dictatorships and my own view is that these the ends to these regime should have been the people themselves critics or france's latest move to raise the question of whether any foreign intervention in syria would actually owned the watch as well other countries have taken a slightly more cautious step it seems that the french leadership are putting its foot down and planting its why part of everyone else french assertion is not

entirely welcome by syrians themselves a lot of opponents in syria actually would not welcome. what was his or even turkish forces you can be an opponent of the regime and against foreign intervention and for all the gains france is get out of intervention in syria even critics wonder if it's really worth it at least no one could argue about who said it first dozen or so your r.t. brussels. with some western nations toasting the results of their intervention it turning their focus towards syria some analysts are warning that the stakes in the vastness of maybe much higher. well if they're serious about their it's true tat is catastrophic. to essentially invade syria which is what they were up to. by the from the air. they're going to bring in potentially syrian allies and syrian allies iran as well and i don't think

this is a very good idea they haven't thought through least at the political level they haven't thought through whom they might get the assad regime for us. now the intelligence people probably thought this through. here in the united states for instance politically this is done without any work but as to what the consequences of this but i had this out of peacekeepers accused of stirring things up in clashes in serbia because of the boredom of the nato forces being to tear down the test a road that despite promising to stay away from. busts the masters of economic warfare take a myth and run as the us hits tehran with fresh sanctions that kind of. russia's president sent a strongly worded warning this week to western powers of the planned nato missile

shield in europe which meant that if somebody plans go ahead about the penalties of russia saying the moscow will respond by deploying missiles of its own as our teams a piece on reports the speed also threatens to derail a much vaunted deal on nuclear cuts between russia and the u.s. bureau the only hold of the years of talks surrounding the united states proposed missile shield in eastern europe russia says the u.s. still won't give adequate assurances over who will be targeted from time stern words from president made yet of. yes the beach if other measures are insufficient russia will deploy a contemporary strike systems in the west and south in order to prevent fire damage from u.s. missile systems deployed in europe the deployment of the is going to missile system and accounting region will be one such step there is also the possibility this could be real the landmark nuclear disarmament process agreed to by russia the us.

well look at got to give me an extra google 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 continental treaty rusher in the united states had hoped to reset relations between limit the years of drift during the bush administration remarks from president obama in two thousand and nine led to optimism that a missile defense program would be scaled down but the united states now plans to increase the amount of countries which it will place missile defense systems all of those nations are in russia's backyard. sure instance from washington that they would do no such thing and moved political analysts say is a game of brinksmanship with the potentially here to stay to come once one side has missile defense courage actually launch a first strike so this kind of movement these kinds of threats actually increase the chance of 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 ever had one target the american version. directed against iran which is completely up surd here fried chicken little arrows no this is directed against russia and this is not the obama administration this is a pentagon program and there are also those who laid the blame for escalating this situation at the door of weapons manufacturers but i think it's driven by. the military industrial complex of the united states. of dollars and contracts to build these missiles the irony is that we have professors like. ted postol former red military people that say it could never actually work president medvedev stresses that russia remains open to dialogue with the united states and nato over

missile defense issues but if that dialogue is to take place then a clear legal framework must exist saying who is the real target people all over. according to russia's envoy to nato moscow with a case for transparency and construction of the missile shield every country well we'll say nazis but it will we will carry on talks with our american and nato partners until the u.s. passes the point of no return in this matter the point of no return is a finalize ation of the european system if we should make sure that the matter in question is a complement of the sites the locations and which is strategic nuclear force can be monitored off a deductive approach will be implemented. therefore there is still time for negotiations and we are calling upon our american counterparts and nato partners to waste no time and make sure that all european countries involved even those involved against their will get not only assurances but legally binding guarantees

based on specific technical quote syria of missile defense. tehran says it's ready to hit this all defense network in taking effect and by military action the warning was made by a high ranking iranian military official also said the country to new targets western pressure on islamic republic has shown no sign of easing this week this fresh set of sanctions first time correctly around while i checked chemicals industry and measures also target the country's banking system that was described as a center for an evil american secretary of state hillary clinton. and their expert on quicker nomics told r.t. attempts to influence or rather the sanctions really bolster support for the current regime in the country. but when you bomb a country that unifies the population with a government even if they don't like the government any time you either take

economic use economic warfare or actual warfare you're going to get a rally around the flag effect and sanctions are good for smart persuading nations to do small things but overthrowing governments or getting them to stop nuclear weapons when they live in a dangerous neighborhood it's just not going to work israel has nuclear weapons and other countries are working secretly the believed to get nuclear weapons presumably so iran. feels threatened and when they feel threatened it will probably push the population to support a regime that they wouldn't normally support. it with on t.v. and so they had this money down the drain billions of dollars but they're completely reprogram may have been spent in many ways the same amount of the things the u.s. military. and a lawsuit is filed against the few ania the hosts in one of america's secret prisons it's in the right side since you cannot run it actually which is that and

you know i don't know day. well this week saw in u.s. collation a four month standoff in consonance opening to north except to say forces but green and trying to clear the roadblocks and outs as peacekeepers were met with resistance and some stones passed from south and dozens of injuries and sights on the don antiwar activists and journalists as natives the latest actions of blatant aggression. ok for is a time struck that was developed for you know the united nations and developed for that which happened in yugoslavia after the rush decided to pick it apart so there is a legal basis you know the shore 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 kossovo has been a part of serbia for a long time and kosovo and serbia did very well together within yugoslavia until tensions were you know stirred up more or less by u.s. intelligence. he has been covering events in the north of course since the protests spread out the sun you can find our correspondents reports on this opinions on our website. and also online i see started down an out and out her man who once ran for governor in the u.s. now sleeping rough in ukraine but he'd gone looking from the. likes of the martin tough incident hussein and stones of advertising. seem to come. as the deadline

approaches for the u.s. to withdraw its troops from iraq looks like it's not just soldiers that are leaving the country billions of dollars have reportedly been stolen from iraq during the military campaign but one of the justice system is chasing petty crime by granting offices people the top appeared to be immune from investigation. not everybody leaves the war zone empty handed the 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 foot locker among american flags a soldier who shipped thousands more concealed in a choice stuffed animal they can go after people to steal forty three thousand dollars all they want necessary ok they should go. but what about on a larger scale in two thousand and six michael o'brien was tasked with helping

build the iraqi military he says those who have pocketed nearly 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 so poor boy it was so pathetic and when i asked the american construction project manager what did 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. the commission on wartime contracting estimated that between thirty one to sixty billion dollars has been lost to waste and fraud in iraq and afghanistan the figures seem even more staggering considering the overall amount the u.s. has committed to rebuilding iraq roughly sixty two billion dollars viewer and was the head of an iraqi reconstruction team working for the u.s. they department the squandering of resources occurred at her small 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 cut its funding. the details of their probe see. until two thousand and thirty one they don't want certain people in high places. to come under scrutiny with the us congress wants to put the debacle 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 on reporting from washington. that's been one of the toughest weeks yet the european union is markets christly on fit to

weather the strong current economic climate interest on the. seven point eight percent unimaginable just a few months ago the bulk of their business travel downs and other members ratings agencies have been forced to act because downgrading hundred watch of those debt to junk status with warning of more to come a number of italian banks were also hit by the debt rating for new leaders spirity to combat the crisis and investment advisor known leaves time for tough decisions. right no there is definitely are pople smell of fear in brussels over what's going on when you're in the euro parliament in the coffee shops the huddled corners or discussions of whether the euro really is going to survive in any shape or form this crisis is like a pandemic of financial panic because ultimately you have individuals who are managing pension funds for yourself or myself all over the world and when they wake

up in the morning and they've got to go and do something with our money for the next five or ten years ultimately they're their most important facet right now it is the keep that money see it and as i'm sure you can appreciate it nobody really think you see if in the euro zone germany either has to decide that it wants to be sickly take away the ball and threw a lot of other members out of the euro zone club because they view them as not being worthy of being membership or they're going to have to essentially bite their tongue and they're going to have to come forward and do something with the marketplace and in some way find a solution. i mean weren't protests erupted in portugal for the first east it's to feel the full force of austerity has gotten public services were paralyzed thousands for them to the streets force that was issued to get more cuts organizers of the strike are mr minister to new countries economy saying that he used desperation to show its crisis management credentials

a spokesman this pressure has been to carry on with the cuts. to the school reports it's all fueling a growing exodus of that country. now expects readers really to go leave your home which has probably never been easier critical why stay in portugal when we know that architects with five years' experience are paid just eight hundred euro's a month is a question a lot of young specialists have been asking themselves lately and surprising answer may be to leave for portugal's former colonies like brazil to supply them through and has been rather stable there their national proof and then a massive reconstruction process began so there are a lot of opportunities for us to construction companies especially and a lot of what he's still construction companies went there and they're currently they're very active and go maybe know something about many portuguese are starting to view it at least as a present day. an african country rich in diamonds an oil resources presents an

appetizer an opportunity for a lot of people who have lost hope of finding a decent job at home or member of over who ever i tell i'm moving abroad invariably says drew and then you get mad job two friends even asked me to take their c.v. . according to some reports around ninety thousand portuguese are currently living in goa compared with just ten thousand in two thousand to some goalkeeper better income but most are simply looking for something something better than the ever worsening situation at home recently i think salaries unfortunately are not the main reason and the main reason is the lack of opportunities in the portuguese markets due to the well to the prizes the mass exodus of fortunes young smart educated may portend the end of an era for the country a lot of specialize people have hired a creation scientists brain drain as if you were called to go in or leave abroad

and study abroad and there's just stay there and of course we will most likely never recover those human assets like rita they hardly think twice before moving abroad but as i had to work for a decent salary far outweighing any possible fear of flying it. was going. a small baltic state of if you were in your may face trial in the hague for torture and with allegations it's been harboring a secret cia prison and so after a lawsuit filed by a terrorist suspect it was no talk about charge when the u.s. almost a decade what is next in the story. terror suspect abu zubaida now at guantanamo a prisoner has been in washington's hands for almost a decade the allegedly al qaeda recruiter has not been charged with anything just yet however he claims that crimes were in fact committed against him during his interrogation by the cia there is evidence. from us in there in our

government records and also from reports of the international committee for the red cross there probably will be there was tortured in the hands of the cia. he was subjected to very cruel treatment for example people markets accusations and waterboarding which is a form of drowning he seems to have every reason to hold a grudge against washington but from behind bars a blizzard by the file the rather surprising lawsuit against lithuania he claims that in two thousand and five he was held in a secret cia prison in the baltic state and ukrainian bears responsibility for its role in facilitating the operation of the cia program others obey the request and the european court prednisone as a victim and forced disappearance secret detention and torture only plain and territory a secret cia prison in

a small country in central europe that may seem like a conspiracy theory just sun but not if you're right activists with the cia planes landing in the b. have the records of conversations between the senior security officials and the fenian top politicians will be don't have to argue about the bruising it was the question how many people were brought and possibly cloture moreover authorities do not even deny that there were secret cia facilities on their soil for some reason though they are refusing to comment on the bill's abiders last. mister pilots just police they're simply scared they knew where to they accept people who may be tortured and if we knew and that is twice as bad as it could be but i think we're responsible of fishes from united states and from here including george w.

bush should be brought to international hague tribunal for crimes against humanity against prisoners it may take months for those who buy this lawsuit to bring any results but even at this early stage it has highly explosive potential say experts as it may trigger actions in other european countries poland macedonia and romania along with lithuania have all been accused of having cia prisons on their territory but it's the first time that their former detainee has decided to file a lawsuit against the country and experts are now speculating what the possible consequences of this case may be let's hear a fast t.r.t. reporting from in lithuania. but a few minutes time watch a special report on how a food crisis is possible a time when the world food for thought is produced in abundance but first a short break they took with us so.

that has become more and more home to me of creation of the food system the global food system is not created to feed the people of the world is created to maximize the profits. and you're not trading the actual care should physical grain or trading promises for grain to be delivered a month or six months or twelve months or eighteen months in the future.