looking back at the week's top stories on our team are in turmoil the most violent clashes since the egyptian revolution during the war then a week of protests as calls grow for military rulers to go away head of monday's elections. from defiance to defend colonel gadhafi as most influential son will stand trial in libya despite concerns that the usual system is a shambles and a fair hearing could be impossible. russia gets stirred overplaying u.s. missile shield in eastern europe as president medvedev warns of deploying strikes systems less moscow's assured it's not

a target plus. it would use you know you can do that i gratefully accept my nominations to candidates for bush's presidential election. he did a. lot of your putin formally chosen as the ruling united russia party candidate for the country's top job. for pm in moscow i met tresor bring you today's top stories in a look back at the week's news here on r t we start in egypt where clashes and political instability continue to rage just a day before the country's first parliamentary election since the fall of hosni mubarak the muslim brotherhood branded a terrorist movement in some countries claims it set to win a majority of the seats for more on this we turn live to our teas and he said no

way who joins us from tahrir square now a nice and so how are the people in tahrir are reacting to the muslim brotherhood's parliamentary ambitions. when you talk to people here on talk or about the muslim brotherhood most of them talk about it as their revolution being hijacked because the organization is very well organized itself and they claim that they're going to win some forty percent of the votes on monday's election and they also say they have up to a million. million supporters but if you're look at some numbers some of those numbers are as little as seven hundred thousand still there a movement that is really use this revolution to mobilize people here on the square angry about that and in fact some analysts that we've been speaking to from around the globe feel that if they do come into power there's a very big chance of that but it could serve as a pretext for some kind of similar nato mission here in egypt as we saw perhaps in

libya if the people fight them in the people by the media and they off a very popular. of course if that was to happen then you could see in a few years time. all the british press western press talking about how awful the regime is there how dangerous it is and then you're back to a situation again where there's discussions about nato air strikes against egypt. that's something that i found out about the muslim brotherhood in these election is that people here right ahead of this vote are so focused on the police brutality and the killings that we saw over the past week that they're not really that focused on the fact that the muslim brotherhood could win and that is dangerous in the sense that it could help them get even more votes because a lot of the people we've been speaking to are in fact not going to vote they're going to boycott the vote because they feel like it's a joke like they're voting in the same kind of people that's gaffney is still running the country making sure that who they want to come into power gets into

power so a lot of people both here at tahrir square and at the newly organized occupy cabinet when this was being called just outside the prime minister's office people are saying we're not going to vote because voting just supports. the military council that's running the country and when he said this is the first time you've been reporting for us from there in cairo how much have things changed entire square since you were last there back in september. in september i have to say things were much calmer there's a sense now that anything can happen at any moment it is fairly quiet we're expecting a much bigger march throughout sunday and then into monday and when i say march really it's what they call it here it's expected that thousands of people will come on to talk we're so the situation is tense although today it's been relatively quiet what has changed i have to say is the level and curiosity of the people's anger what happened here over the past week has really changed the game here.

people are furious and alone in september there were protests and people were still saying that nothing has changed the staff is just like the bar exam of our people are still in positions and egypt has not seen its promise of democracy people now are much more determined to make things change and that's going to play into elections tomorrow and sense of the security situation a lot of people are going to not vote not just because they feel like it's useless because they're afraid that it might be too dangerous to go to the polls in fact so a very serious situation now in november here in egypt it does differ and when i was back here in early fall but really it's the people that have changed certainly not the situation in terms of how the government is running the country all right thanks much for the. way live for us from cairo thank you. well it's not just egypt's fate that's being decided in cairo syria's future being debated as well arab league members meeting there sunday said to impose unprecedented economic

sanctions against damascus the draft draft proposals include a travel ban on senior officials freezing banking deals and suspending flights to the country this in response to syria ignoring the league's deadline to allow foreign observers into the country western reaction to the deadly clashes include france becoming the first country to call for a humanitarian supply corridor to be set up in syria many experts see this could be a first step toward a full scale military intervention the french proposal has been to create a humanitarian corridor or and this is where the similarity with libya lies i'm sure your viewers remember the libyan campaign which started off in the name of a humanitarian operation to protect civilians now the french the british and the americans failed to get a united nations resolution on this but they are trying effectively the same thing again they're trying to get humanitarian aid will they say they're trying to get humanitarian aid in but i think that russia and the world in general should regard

this initiative with the greatest possible skepticism we know from libya that the claims made about massacres of civilians were untrue we know that they were exaggerated and they were manipulated for the purpose of overthrowing gadhafi in my view the same motives are false here if a humanitarian corridor is opened it will allow among other things secret service agents to penetrate into syria and they will presumably be there with the overthrowing the regime so i think is an extremely dangerous and on welcome development. on our website we're asking if you think there's a need to set up a humanitarian corridor in syria here's how the results stack up so far in our online poll overwhelming majority says such a mission would be another name for a g.m. change thirteen percent think intervention in that case is long overdue a similar amount say the west has no money to accomplish accomplish this the majority thinks situation is really not that bad at this point have your say click

on our tea dot com and vote. turning now to libya where moammar gadhafi his son and onetime heir apparent saif al islam awaits trial the war crimes court gave in to the new libyan rulers demands this week that he is to be tried on home soil instead of being brought to the hague this despite warnings that a fair trials are unlikely because the country is judicial system is in disarray as artie's ivor bennett reports. say fellow islam gadhafi is a man with a lot to say he's the last chance the world has to know how the get that the 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 a lot of it you can be sure that the information that they could offer family has about the relationship between gadhafi and the cia over decades will not come out good that he was his father's right hand man in 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 here to give a speech as recent as last year is 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 he's fall from favor was sudden and spectacular according to save 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. and that is what they are trying to negotiate with us a deal to get of this the we will take care of the court what does mean that means is the court 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 libya want blood that's my reading of it europe want silence and

wants to do is move on a chapter because of course the hypocrisy in the double dealing of europe at the one hand condemning human rights abuses rather limited kind of way the same time deporting gadaffi as 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. you said she 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 gadaffi will be trying to rival ruling factions of fighting over who gets to exact revenge for the death penalty likely it seems safe gadhafi and his secrets will be silenced either bennett artsy london. well stay with us here on r.t. still ahead brussels say the euro crisis is taking its toll on everyone including

them. at a time when millions of citizens are bearing the brunt of the stair the measures imposed by the very same institutions they work for you look at what's made the commissioner's unhappy and compare the scale of. the ordinary citizens in europe's debt crippled nation plus. the case is closed on one of the world's most wanted nazi war criminals and. why one european nation seems to be offering safe haven to fascists. but before we get to that russia's president sent a strong signal to nato nations this week over their plan to european missile defense shield dmitri medvedev said if it goes ahead without guaranteeing russia's safety moscow will deploy its own missiles although dialogue although the dialogue door remains open peter all over explains hero hope on one

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 who will be targeted. from president made yet if. other measures are insufficient russia will deploy the contemporary strike systems in the west in order to prevent damage from the u.s. missile systems deployed in europe the deployment of the is going to missile system in the coming to the region will be one such step. there is also the possibility this could derail the landmark nuclear disarmament process agree to blame bush and the us. have got to give me an extract of a 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 but 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 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 launch a first strike so this kind of movement these kinds of threats actually increase the chance of a no clear war washington maintains that it shield would protect against nuclear attack from so-called rogue states like iran those 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 is 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 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 piece for all of us on c. latimer putin has been officially chosen as the candidate to represent russia's largest party in next year's presidential election at the united russia convention in moscow the prime minister outlined the direction he would take

a full active next march artie's a catarina groucho about as more. the riddle of the twenty one presidential election also want to go at the first part of the united russia convention in september but now it's ambition to temple run to seek reelection as president of this country in several months from now he is an official candidate from russia soon reality united russia today in his speech will stalking about the way the election process is going on in this country he said that the some of the criticism from the opposition is justified but he also warned the green exist specially from the west and he said that that in the first place elections in this country is a domestic a federal question and secondly advice that the money cash injections which the west spans on the county of united russia broke again that should matter of despond goes on we all make raises prices the same the european union and elsewhere but he

did it because i know that representatives of some foreign states pay money to so-called receivers of grants and instruct them how to do certain activities to influence the election campaign in the country in the long run it is as people say a waste of time under waste of money firstly because judas is not the most respected character in the bible and secondly they should rather channel this money into settling this debt and cut short an effective and costly foreign policy where our foreign partners will be better to unite their efforts with us to fight against the challenges and threats to the world. many described as upcoming sunday's momentous elections as the legal steps for running a supporters' popularity in this country the most recent public opinion polls show that united russia remains number one party in this country with these two three percent of voters supporting the party while opposition meanwhile claims that united russia party is popularity is dropping steadily and that set me up coming though it is lining up to be one of the norse performances ever and prime minister

vladimir putin acknowledged that problems do exist in the united. but you said that it was only things to the united russia's majority in the last elections that russia survived the economic crisis of two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine the forty means in the upcoming election which is it which seems to be back you know in that mission that if you leave this party would become the new box if you didn't need some of it if it did it's goes around now and it's main goal is to assure. that ensure the elite who might be a little not so certain about mission would that have some of your travel plans as a prime minister that he will continue with the liberal group of your business which he started as a country's president and that means you know socialist i think what that means cash injection is something in infrastructure and industry is an open on the good modernization so he is a top goal today not only by you not only from the collection of the speech was to

talk about the rules of the game of politics in these actions about these agenda about these short term and long term plans here for the country's largest thought to be about it i'm. sure to check out our tea dot com here's what's online right now america's annual black friday left one shopper black and blue a brand of grandfather wrestled to the floor by police and left bloodied in front of his young grandson after being accused of shoplifting during the annual spending spree also online. if you think you are still under we are staying the course we are determined to down. you travel to gaza to explore how some palestinians say they refuse to be bombed out of their homes by israel. it's been another tough week for the eurozone with italy's borrowing costs are

reaching record highs well above the levels that triggered other nations to melt down the shah. news pushed the euro to a seven week low ratings agencies also downgraded hungary portugal and belgium a number of italian banks were also dealt a ratings hit is the e.u. leaders pledged even more cuts to fight the crisis but for the euro euro crash capital of brussels leading by example doesn't seem to be a popular idea as artie's tests are so your 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 the 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 they get a one point eight a 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 from the e.u. gravy train he wants the highest salaries of those at the top to be slashed instead the commissioners have privileges which indeed 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. 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 or raises eyebrows is the fact that they're complaining at a time when millions of new citizens are bearing the brunt of a sturdy 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 less. the 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 against. you know putting everything on the shoulders of the secretaries we think that the center we've got is much too high and we would like to close that gap and 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 tess or cilia r.t. brussels. as the e.u. bureaucrats rush to protect their pay renewed protests started in portugal one of the first e.u. states to feel the full force of austerity throughout the country transport and public services were paralyzed thousands rallied against yet more cuts strike organizers argue that if the cuts continue portugal will sink even further investment advisor patrick young says brussels decision makers admit it's now make or break time for the euro zone. right now and there is definitely a 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 are discussions about whether the you're always going to survive in any ship or form this crisis is like a palm demick 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 their their most important facet right now is to keep that money safe and as i'm sure you can appreciate it nobody really fear you see if in the euro zone germany either has to decide that it wants to basically take away the bull on through 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 greece has been relying on international cash injections for well over a need a year now and it's finance minister still describes his country's financial troubles as a mortal danger and less than ten minutes time r.t. talks to the man who exposed the greek debt disaster he says greeks are left with no other option and painful austerity measures. the black maids

every day they're saying to them that look if you don't accept what the europeans are saying if you don't accept this they're the misery imposed by the government and by the i.m.f. . it will be headed it's every day black maids so they are afraid. that. one of the world's most wanted nazi war criminals remands afer remains a free man a new europe israel's leading human rights group this week rounded on a stone he has decision not to bring. to trial as a complete failure of justice it's not the first time a stone has been accused of harboring fascists as artie's alexei are chefs the reports. mickael guts coffee is rated eighth in simon wiesenthal list of most wanted nazi war criminals but when you persist in which he participated in the murder of three thousand jews in baton rouge in the one nine hundred forty s. and what documents proving it were provided for the estonian authorities as well

because then you know a story is anti-fascist committee says the proof of god's cause 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. got to go of 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 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 closed the case a well grounded doubt remains that the god squad mentioned in the material is not the me i am going to call 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 a cord washington spoke to the people who handle this prosecution united states and asked them whether there was any doubt regarding his age and they said no none whatsoever. now this doesn't surprise me personally because for the last fifteen years i've been dealing with the estonians these stories have totally failed in terms of prosecuting that to walk home and it's clear that there's absolutely no political will to bring these people to justice and they go to school story is not a one off case from sanctioning s.s. veterans marches glorifying former nazi collaborators this has been tolerance policy for the past decade but recently this man made just about every had line in a stony 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 newton 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 alexy risky reporting from tallinn in a stone here. in about twenty minutes r.t. sports looks at how the russian football stars are preparing for their big finale their last game before winter break first of all recap the top stories stay with us .

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