previewing the week's top stories on our t.v. he is turned by egypt's ruling generals with hundreds of thousands protesting their rule on cairo's tahrir square and across the country leading to fears of more violence ahead of monday's parliamentary polls. russia sound the alarm over the u.s. missile shield in europe and present medvedev warns moscow will deploy rockets at its borders if washington's plan continues without guaranteeing russia's security. french credit rating downgrades of shaky europe as the e.u. battles to control soaring interest rates on its runaway debt all fending market fear is that a collapse may be eminent. two pm in moscow i match reza bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t one of egypt's main presidential

contenders says he's ready to drop his candidacy and lead a unity government instead mohamed el baradei is announcement comes after he met political groups which see a coalition cabinet as the only way forward but as artie's policy reports from cairo the worry is that it could cause even more confrontation within egypt. the situation doesn't maintain now we've had an announcement by some sixteen is just a little truth to say that they have there is such a story of what they are calling a civil salvation government fake names 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 this new government and there are high profile names that have been named as his deputies a leading position leading economists and leading politicians so you not have the most bizarre situation where you have a government that has been the case series 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 mohamed el baradei in any way all of this is painting the scenario for growing internal why every that can only lead to more and with the 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 come out guns already who is the new prime minister that has been named by the army from entering a government building according to eyewitnesses the person who 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 ministry is going ahead with parliamentary elections on monday as i stated its name this new prime minister come out are going to read it says it will have presidential elections in place sign next to june but this is not enough to satisfy the people and certainly what we're seeing with this new prime minister is an attempt to form

a government but again come out all guns really come from the mubarak era people here while on the one hand have likened him with some of the stuff he did when he was prime minister back in the ninety's they think that he has been tainted with the brush of mubarak and they are very suspicious of any kind of government wants to see any kind of people point with him at. artie's paulus we're reporting there for us from cairo well so far february's revolution in egypt hasn't brought the reforms demanded by the public but has turned into frustration on the streets some analysts think outside influence may be to blame. what ultimately happened was throwing out a figurehead instead of the actual power structure itself which has been for many years and continues to be the military dictatorship that egypt really is it may be so 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 meant that falls into the type of power

politics to get played in situations like this where you have the the often the the western intervention is the type of policies that assume that people can't quite handle democracy yet and that's they need to be ruled over by a dictator of some sort so i think that that just plays into the hands of the people who are on 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 interests of the people themselves yeah roebling is meeting in cairo but its focus is on another troubled member syria the group's finalizing draft economic sanctions the measures include a travel ban on senior officials freezing government assets and suspending flights to the country damascus failed to respond to a deadline to let foreign observers monitor the government's methods against civil unrest france meanwhile has become the first western country suggesting humanitarian intervention which is being seen by critics as president sarkozy diverting attention so he can cling to power the. circles are certainly news

a distraction from the economic disaster that is facing the france's looking forward to downgrades in its debt very soon the european major recession zirconium if you was to stand power and you need something to distract the people so they can complain about their going to conditions in france well unfortunately paris has a long history of sponsoring terrorist groups and other illegitimate groups for example the iranian communist. communist terrorists are headquartered in paris whatever groups want to form some poise person has been a great historical poised to be protected by france. turning to libya where the most prominent son of former leader moammar gadhafi is awaiting justice the country's new rulers promised say you follow salaam will be treated fairly but there is deep skepticism over that as artie's ivory better reports. say fellow islam gadhafi is a man with

a lot to say he's the last chance the world has to know how they get their fee regime turned from public enemy number one to bosom 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 where the the western interests look at look at what happened with the trial of the loss of it you can be sure that the information that the khadafi family has about the relationships between gadhafi and the cia over decades will not come out good that he was his father's right hand man 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 because even invited back here to give a speech as recent as last year was introduced by his old professor as someone who looks to democracy civil society and 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 safe get their fees album art it was given one and a half million pounds by his charitable foundation as part of a deal to educate hundreds of libya's future civil servants. and it wasn't just britain according to gadhafi libya funded nicolas sarkozy's path to the presidency but they get that phrase fall from favor was sudden and spectacular according to safe their former friends have been trying to cover up any link since turning against them desperate to stave off a trial at the international criminal court the other day what they are trying to

negotiate with us a deal to get of this day and we will take care of the court what does mean that means is at its core 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 come out of the new government in maybe one blood that's my reading of it europe wants silence and wants to do is move on attractive because of course the hypocrisy in the double dealing reviewer with the one hand condemning human rights abuses rather limited kind of wide at the same time deporting gadaffi enemies back to libya who were tortured almost at the very point when tony blair was meeting gadhafi in the tent so i think there's an awful lot of truths that ought to come out and i really doubt it ever will. was. libya 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 get that he will be tried rival ruling factions of fighting over who gets to exact revenge with the death penalty likely it seems safe gadaffi and his secrets will be silenced either bennett artsy london. stay with us here on r.t. still to come the p.s.p. peacekeepers accused of stirring things up while in clashes along the serbia kosovo border after nato forces move in to tear down a protester roadblock despite promising to keep away. but just a week left till voters go to the polls to decide on the country's next. time they'll that vision for the future. but first russia's president sent a strong warning to nato countries this week over their play and european missile shield dmitri medvedev said if it goes ahead without guarantees of russia's safety

moscow would deploy its own missiles as peter all over explains one casualty could be russia any united states is much vaunted nuclear cuts. hope on hold of the use 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 woods from president made yet of. other measures are insufficient russia will deploy a contemporary strike systems in the west in order to prevent further damage from u.s. missile systems deployed in europe the deployment of the is going to missile system in the coming good region will be one such step. there is also the possibility this could derail the landmark nuclear disarmament process agreed to by russia and the us. 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 them of the years adrift 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 hurts the united states no plans to increase the amount of countries which it will place missile defense systems all of those nations are in russia's backyard going against assurances from washington that they would do no such thing a move that political analysts say is a game of brinksmanship with a potentially devastating outcome once one side has missile defense playing courage that sidetracked to a 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 ever had one target the american version it's directed against iran which is completely absurd every joke all it's a collateral there's no this is directed against russia and this is not the obama administration this is a pentagon program there are also those who laid the blame for escalating the situation at the door of weapons manufacturers but i think it's being driven by the the military industrial complex and the united states that's getting billions of dollars in contracts to build these missiles the irony is that we have professors like at mit ted postol on the 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 peter all of

a. former i mean pete glen ford says it's in europe's interest that russia and the u.s. reach an agreement that no one would like to see any delay in the process of nuclear cuts. it's a tool purpose deployment it does a 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 will the u.s. nato on russia and i'm not sure it necessarily will give that way very easily be in everyone's interest to be continued nuclear disarmament and i think the european union and the 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 cannot be ploy or provide information to go to the able then to be assured that if

you will a change in the balance of forces was comparatively small we'll stay with us here on r t still to come this hour a safe haven for fascists the case of a nazi war criminal who lives as a free man in the baltics raising questions over why some countries avoid pursuing the horrifying crimes of the past. austerity enthusiasm in brussels quickly evaporates as bureaucrats faced with a very wage cuts they champion throughout the e.u. threatened to go on strike. but first there was an escalation in the four month standoff in kosovo serb populated north this week ethnic serbs protesters say nato forces broken agreement by trying to clear one of their roadblocks alliance peacekeepers were met with resistance and responded with tear gas resulting in dozens of injuries on both sides anti-war activist don de bar thinks nato his latest actions are blatantly aggressive. ok four is a construct that was developed for you know it's the united nations and developed

for that which happened in yugoslavia after the west 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 kosovo 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. art has been covering the events in north of kosovo since the protests first flared up this summer you can find our correspondence reports and al and alice's on our website r.t. dot com here's what's also online from rising star to down and out by the whole a man who world once ran for governor in the u.s.

ended up homeless in ukraine where he'd go looking for love. the likes of moammar gadhafi and saddam hussein become the stars of a t.v. commercial check out the full version of the ad at our team dot com. it's been one of the toughest weeks yet for the european union is markets and italy increasingly unfit to weather the current economic storm interest on italy's debt has hit seven point eight per cent unimaginable just a few months ago and above the level that triggered meltdowns and other eurozone nations the shock wave saw ratings agencies downgrade hungary and portugal's debt to junk status and warned there could be more to come a number of italian banks were also dealt a ratings blow as the e.u. leaders pledged more cuts to combat the crisis but in the capital of brussels leading by example doesn't seem to be taking hold as are his tests are silly reports. this is become a familiar sight on 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 the vast european commission bureaucracy. 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 week raising the retirement age limiting pay rises and cutting five percent of jobs in the day they get a one point eight a rise. and they say it's a union representing lower paid staff says the media to. 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 normally stopped on 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 it 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 working ten hours a day these guys are grumbling because they're being asked to work. day while they're perfectly within their rights to contest the proposed changes to their working conditions what raises eyebrows is the fact that they're complaining at a time when millions of e.u. citizens are bearing the brunt of harsh a steady measures imposed by the very same institutions they work for not to mention the twenty three million 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 that the center we got is much too high and we would like to close that. 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 tesser cilia r.t. brussels. as euro bureaucrats rushed to protect their pay renewed protests erupted in portugal one of the first member states to feel the full force of austerity transport and public services were paralyzed as thousands rallied over yet more cuts strike organizers argued if the austerity keeps up the country would sink even further but the e.u. is desperation to uphold its crisis management credential is putting huge pressure on lisbon just as it is on greece artie's financial analyst max kaiser says

bullying states into submission is bound to leave a 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 total re architecting of the system and a total execution in one way or another all these factors that are just predatory leeches a cancer on the system they add no value they simply make things worse so they can profit 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 deal 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. russia's largest political party united russia is debating vladimir putin's official nomination as the party's candidate for presidency delegates will vote any moment now on what will largely define the party's future artie's a catherine a grouch over the conference with more of our catarina so at what stage is the nomination a matter as you've just said we expect that any moment from now voting will take place on what led him of his candidacy from russia's ruling party united russia to the upcoming presidential vote in march twenty twelve well president dmitry medvedev has already addressed the convention just be just now as you can see it's you left him or putin stern blocked out of course all eyes are focused on him because eventually nigeria the face we because you did next sunday's parliamentary elections are widely seen as

a leetle sachi more his fault as it is the first time that voters will go to the polls after he announced that he accepted an invitation to run. presidency in march of the liquid into the most recent polls of the united russia which led to him is largely associated with its number one party with fifty three percent of supposedly support with the voters in other words that's two hundred fifty three potential seats at the state duma the communists would come second with twenty percent of the vote liberal democrats would get twelve percent on just russia would be nine percent if your whole of the party is according to the polls what we want worse and that's less than an entry threshold to the seven percent meanwhile the board is oppositional claims that the united russia's popularity is dropping steadily and becoming a vote has lining up to be one of the party's worst performances have or we should mention that like him or putin also acknowledged last week that problems in the party do exist and we also if you want that. the ruling united russia good launch

the country to happen on the crisis is similar to those which have great european countries now and he said that it was only thanks to the united russia's majority that russia survived the economic crisis of two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine was not needed while the cold across at united russia say that as you crispino the popularity is not significant and that the parties still favored by the majority in this country we have to understand of course that united russia party would not be satisfied with just coming first in the upcoming vote what it needs is a constitutional majority that means to be able to track all cabinet bills drug bills to be able to produce any changes to the constitution and this was the focus right the main focus of this eventually lead to more pollution and we trim admitted they both lurched senior knots of russian members to strike for a maximum victory in the upcoming vote what might a victory next week bode for the future of the united russia party and in many ways

russia itself. well first of all that would mean that it would become as he had been least of all the united russia party in the upcoming vote that would mean that he would become the fourteenth and the first thing we could expect from him is that the world was shuffling of the party's leadership and of course he'll be trying to tailor the parties the executive the matinees into his station know that there would fall outs between which a man may vary from the past in certain areas such as foreign policy as well as the budget spendings what we do expect from the bed of some new government should he become the country's next prime minister is that he will continue the liberal reforms which he introduced to the country when he was there when he was the president and that would mean more social spending cash injections in infrastructure industries we need can all make more denies nation analysts say of course that today's speech and the program which is now working on the work plan for the ruling party for the next five years is that is aimed at reassuring

believes what otherwise might be skeptical about political future and and he has a plan says the next prime minister and so today he focused specifically on that he will keep up with the trend but he will keep up with the modernization track of the country i know you are right argue catarina live for us in moscow thanks for looking forward to checking in with you later. a total failure of justice when israeli human rights group sees a stone in his recent decision not to bring one of the world's most wanted nazi war criminals to trial like sarah sharp's europe or it's just the latest criticism of the baltic states approach to fascism. mikhail gosh coffee is rated eighth in simon wiesenthal list of most wanted nazi war criminals but when it was just he participated in the murder of three thousand jews in baton rouge in the one nine hundred forty s. the documents proving it were provided for the estonian authorities because then

you know a 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 school. was deported from the u.s. and stripped of u.s. citizenship that 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 they got a score of mentioned in the material is not the me i am going to call who isn't present a citizen of the republican isto near 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 called washington spoke to the people who handle this prosecution united states and asked them whether there was any doubt regarding his a belly and they said no none whatsoever now this doesn't surprise me personally because for the last fifteen years i've been dealing with this these stories have totally failed in terms of prosecuting criminals and it's clear that there's absolutely no political will to bring these people to justice. and the good 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 the country marked the ninetieth birthday of the only remaining holder of the iron cross one of the highest medals of nazi germany sixty five years

ago the nuremberg 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. artsy reporting from tallinn in a store near. stay with us here on our team plenty more still to come this hour including the latest news from the russian football premier league that's coming away in sports in about fifteen minutes but first i'll recap you give you a recap of the headlines stay with us.

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