today's news in the week's top stories on our t. top three are in turmoil the most violent clashes since the egyptian revolution during more than a week of protests with growing calls for military rulers to go ahead of monday election. from defiant to defendant colonel gadhafi is most influential son stands trial to stand trial in libya despite concerns the judicial system is a shambles and a fair hearing maybe impossible. brushy get stirred over the planned u.s. missile defense shield in eastern europe as president medvedev warns of deploying strike systems unless moscow is assured that it's not a target. and vladimir putin formally selected as the ruling united russia party's

candidate to run for president next year. five pm in moscow i met tries to bring you today's top stories in a look back at the week's news here on r t we begin in egypt where military rule where the military rulers have warned of grave consequences if the crisis doesn't end this comes a day before the country's first parliamentary election since the fall of hosni mubarak the muslim brotherhood claims it's set to win the majority of seats artes and he said no way has more from cairo. when you talk to people here on talking or about the muslim brotherhood most of them talk about it as their revolution being hijacked because of the organization is very well organized itself they claim that they're going to win some forty percent of the votes on one day's election the

movement that is really this revolution to mobilize people here on the square angry about that and in fact some analysts that we've been speaking to people around the globe feel but if they do come into power is a very big chance of that but it could serve as a free pass from one of them or may do this in here in egypt as we saw perhaps in libya if the people fight the main the people fight 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 well for the regime is there how dangerous it is and then you're back to a situation a game where there's discussions about nato airstrikes against egypt and then of course there's the news that the former head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog. is really took him off his name on the ballot for the presidential elections and take over and run emergency government here in egypt people here are very very supportive of that so in terms of the popularity of the

muslim brotherhood and the support from baron i'd actually be another situation where we see some kind of tension or clashes between those two facts there's a sense now that anything can happen at any moment it is fairly quiet we're expecting a much bigger markets throughout sunday and then into monday what happened here over the past week has really changed the game here. people are furious and one september there were protests and people were still saying that nothing has changed the staff is just like mubarak on the works people are still in positions and egypt has not seen its promise democracy people now are much more determined to make things change and that's going to play. into a lot. 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 so he's a niece and now a reporting from cairo you can tune into the latest developments going on in tahrir

square through twitter and he says updates on the allegations that the muslim brotherhood entered into a shady deal with the military rulers since mubarak's fall and it's not just in egypt that's being decided in cairo but syria's future as well arab league members meeting in cairo sunday are said to impose unprecedented economic sanctions against a masochist draft proposal include a travel ban for a senior official freezing bank deals in 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 includes france becoming the first country to call for a humanitarian supply accord or to be set up in syria but many experts see this as 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 the 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 all 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 web site 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 the

overwhelming majority says such a mission would be just another name for a regime change thirteen percent think such action is long overdue a similar amount say the west has no money for it and the minority thinks the situation really isn't all that bad at this point what do you think. dot com and if you were. turning now to libya where moammar gadhafi son and one time heir apparent saif al islam is awaiting trial the war crimes court gave in to the new libyan rulers demands this week that he's to be tried on home soil instead of at the hague that's despite warnings that a fair trials unlikely because the country's judicial system is in disarray artie's eye for bennett has more. say feliz long get daffy he's 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 safety daffy 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 safe gadhafi 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 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 or 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 their fees fall from favor was sudden and spectacular according to save their former friends have been try. to cover up any links and turning against them desperate to stave off a trial at the international criminal court. a little while they are trying to negotiate with us a deal of this the we will take care of the court what does it mean. that means.

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 blood that's my reading of it you will want silence and wants to move on a chapter because of course the hypocrisy in the reviewer at the one hand condemning human rights abuses rather limited going to the same time deporting gadhafi 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 truth to come out and i really feel with. libya insists it's capable of giving a fan despite its judicial system not being independent. is still unclear when it's safe to be trying to rival the ruling factions of fighting over

who gets to exact revenge for the death penalty likely it seems safe secrets will be silenced on the bennetts london. stay with us here on r.t. still to come your brussels say the euro crisis is taking its toll on everyone including that. raises eyebrows is the fact that they're complaining at a time when millions of e.u. citizens are bearing the brunt of part of a steady measures imposed by the very same institutions they work for we'll look at what's maybe e.u. commissioner is unhappy and compare the scale of their hardship that of ordinary citizens in some of europe's debt crippled nations plus. the case is closed on one of the world's most wanted war nazi war criminals but now some ask why one european nation seems to be offering safe haven to fascists. but first russia's president sent a strong signal to nato countries this week over their planned european missile defense

shield medvedev says if it goes ahead without guaranteeing russia's security moscow will deploy its own missiles although the dialogue door remains open peter all over has more. zero hope on top of the years of talk 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 prompting stern words from president made yet of yes if each other measures are insufficient russia will deploy a contemporary strike systems in the west and south east in order to prevent fire damage from the u.s. missile systems but he did loyd in europe and the system of the deployment of the is going to missile just an accounting or a region that will be one a search step there is also the possibility this could derail the landmark nuclear disarmament process it briefly but russia and the us. but got to give me an extra couple link between strategic offensive and defensive weapons yet 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 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 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 those following the systems

development believe it only ever had one target jemera conversion 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 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. 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 r.t. moscow. lattimer putin has been officially chosen as the candidate to represent russia's biggest party in next year's presidential election at the united russia convention in moscow the prime minister outlined the direction he would take if elected next march artie's a catarina groucho has more. now it's a vision of the typical run to seek reelection as president of this country in several months from now he had been russia's president for two terms from two thousand to two thousand and eight according to the constitution one cannot keep the top job for three terms in a row that should let him if he were to win the upcoming presidential vote will be the first leader in modern russia to keep this post for six years today and his speech will still being about the way the election process is going on in this country he said that some of the criticism from the opposition is justified but he also warned the meanings to specially from the west and he said that in the first

place elections in this country is a domestic affair approaching already did. 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 and a 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 state debt and cut short an effective and costly foreign policy our foreign partners will be better to unite their efforts with us to fight against the challenges and threats to the modern world. many described as upcoming sunday's moment elections as a legal status for prime minister because popularity in this country the most recent public opinion polls show that united russia remains number one party in this country where these two three more sound the 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 its enormous performances ever and prime minister vladimir putin knowledge that problems do exist in the united russia party but he also warns that a defeat of the ruling party would mean that the country could plunge into an academic crisis similar. to the crisis which has great the whole of europe now and he said that it was only thanks 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 member there's always more for you a click away at r.t. dot com including this how america's black friday shopping day left one shopper black and blue a grandfather was wrestled to the floor of one store by police and left bloodied in front of his young grandson after being accused of shoplifting during the he will spending spree plus. the boys we go to rome to

we travel to gaza to explore how some palestinians say they were used to be bombed out of their homes by israel. shifting gears to europe now it's been another tough week for the european union with italy's borrowing costs are reaching record highs well above the levels that triggered meltdowns in other nations the shock news pushed the euro to a seven week low ratings agencies also downgraded hungary portugal and belgium a number of italian banks also dealt a ratings hit as e.u. leaders pledged even more cuts to battle the crisis for the euro crack capital of brussels leading by example doesn't seem to be a popular idea sarkies tests are so your reports. this is 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 walls of the vast european commission bureaucracy. stuff 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 pay 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 indeed normally stopped on time. 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 earning working ten hours a day 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 or raises eyebrows is the fact that they're complaining at a time when millions of e.u. citizens are bearing the brunt of harsh austerity 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 we are

against. you know putting everything on the shoulders of the secretaries we think that the salary we 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 taxpayers. the same willingness to sustain the benefits of their civil servants in brussels at a time when they themselves are forced to accept a steady measures is another question tess or cilia r.t. brussels and as e.u. bureaucrats rushed to protect their pay renewed protests erupted in portugal one of the first states to feel the full force of austerity throughout the country transport and public services were brought to a standstill as thousands rallied against yet more cuts organizers argued if the cuts keep up portugal will sink even further investment advisor patrick young says brussels decision makers at mit it's now a make or break time for the eurozone. right knowing 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 they're their most important facet right now is to keep that money safe and as i'm sure you can appreciate it nobody really feel 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 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 year now in the country's finance minister still describes his nation's finances as being in mortal danger in the next hour as he talks to the man who exposed the country's debt disaster he says greeks are left with no option other than painful austerity measures. the black comedians every day they're saying to them that look if you don't like what the europeans are saying if you don't accept this their demands are imposed by the government and by the i.m.f. . it will be headed its every day black maids so they are afraid. iran's parliament has approved cutting diplomatic ties with britain and withdrawing their ambassador from london that is in comes less than a week after the u.k. banned its financial institutions from doing business with tehran i was part of

a new wave of sanctions that western countries including the u.s. are imposing to iran's alleged nuclear weapons program but there are fears that such punishing measures may only provoke the islamic republic. all the signs are looking exactly like they looked in the period of two thousand and one to two thousand and three here in the us with this you know drumbeat of hysteria and weapons of mass destruction if you really want to get a country to get a nuclear weapon then just keep threatening it with an 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 and israel. turn out as some other stories making headlines across the globe pakistan is demanding the u.s.

vacates an air base used by american drones this in response to nato admission that a coalition helicopter was most likely responsible for the deaths of up to twenty eight pakistani troops if confirmed it would be the deadliest so-called friendly fire incident by the alliance against the country's forces in a decade the dead pakistani soldiers have been buried in peshawar in a ceremony attended by senior officials including the army chief. rescuers searching for survivors after a bridge collapsed in central indonesia sending a bus cars and motorcycles crashing into the river below four people were killed scores more remain missing it happened when a steel support cable snapped while workers tighten bolts and screws on saturday at that filing is news black one of the world's most wanted nazi war criminals remains a free man in europe israel's leading human rights group this week rounded on a stone his decision not to bring mikhail gorshkov to trial as a complete failure of justice it's not the first time in stone he's been accused of

harboring fascists as artie's alexei are reports. mikhail ghosh coffee is rated eighth in simon wiesenthal list of most wanted nazi war criminals but when you post this thing which is to be participated in a murder of three thousand jews and bell reuss in the one nine hundred forty s. documents of the proving it were provided for the estonian orifices were in because they knew them estonia's anti-fascist committee says the proof of god's cause atrocities in a better 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. was deported from the u.s. and stripped of u.s. citizenship that says a lot doesn't it alan gave him shelter and tried 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 me i am going to call who isn't present a citizen of the republican a stone in the case will be closed as it has been impossible for the investigative team to find any additional evidence the decision raised eyebrows in israel at first but then simon wiesenthal center recalled which country they were dealing with they called washington spoke to the people who handled this prosecution united states and asked them whether there was any doubt regarding his identity 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 astounding in these stories 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 school of story is not a one off case from sanctioning s.s.

veterans marches to glorifying former nazi collaborators this has been tolerance policy for the past decade but recently this man made just about every headline in a stone 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. ski reporting from tallinn in a stone year. stay with us here on our team still to come we explore how corporate gambles with fluctuating food prices could be toying with millions of hungry people around the globe coming your way after a wrap of our top stories. that

has become normal and nobody is talking 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 physical grain you're trading promises for grain to be delivered a month or six months or twelve months or eighteen months in the future. for reasons madi likely silver or gold that can be negotiated and accorded to some degree in the same place. yet or. possibly it's not traded now but it could be in the future.