day's top stories and a look back at the week's news on our teeth 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 elections. from defiant to defended colonel gadhafi is most influential son to stand trial in libya despite concerns that the judicial system is a shambles and a fair hearing maybe impossible. to rush to get stern over the planned u.s. missile defense shield in eastern europe as president medvedev warns deploying of deploying strikes systems other less moscow's assured that russia isn't a target. blood of your putin formally selected as the ruling united russia party's

candidate to run for president next year. seven pm in moscow i met très a good to have you with us as we look at today's top stories and a look back at the week's news on r.t. we begin in egypt where the military leader has warned of grave consequences if the crisis doesn't come to an end this just a day before the country's first parliamentary election since the fall of hosni mubarak the muslim brotherhood claims it set to win the majority of seats artes and he said no way has more from tahrir square. but when you talk to people here on talk here 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 monday's election in their 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 there's a very big chance of that but it could serve as a pretext to some kind of similar nato mission here in egypt as we saw perhaps in libya if the people fight them in the people for 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 airstrikes against egypt and then of course there's the news that the former head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog mohamed el baradei is really to give up his name on the ballot for the presidential elections and take over and run emergency government here in egypt people here are very supportive of that so in terms of the popularity of the muslim

brotherhood in the support for all barrett i'm back would be another situation where we see some kind of tension or clashes between those two factions there's a sense now that anything can happen at any moment it is fairly quiet we're expecting a much bigger marts 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 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 in the 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. that's an isa now a reporter from cairo when she's also covering the latest developments in tahrir square through her twitter updates there and he says reporting on allegations that

the muslim brotherhood entered into shady deals with military rulers since mubarak's fall you can follow her for more updates her twitter tag is on the screen right now. that's not just egypt's feet being decided in cairo but syria's future as well are of league members meeting there sunday have approved unprecedented economic sanctions against a mask is over its crackdown on protesters measures include a travel ban on senior officials freezing banking deals and suspending flights into the country this in response to syria ignoring the league's deadline to allow foreign observers in western reaction to the deadly clashes including france becoming the first country to call for a humanitarian somebody corridor or to be set up in syria many experts see that 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 american still to get the united nations resolution on this but they are trying effectively the same thing again they're trying to get humanitarian aid to all 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 or he's 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 r.t. dot com 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 the overwhelming

majority says such a mission would be just another form of regime change thirteen percent think such action is long overdue a similar amount say the west simply has no money left for it and the majority thinks the situation of the country really not that bad just yet already you think . you are saying. to me 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 be true that he is tried on home soil instead of being sent to the hague this despite warnings that are fair trials unlikely because the country's judicial system is in disarray bennett explains. say fell islam 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 or 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 the gadhafi family has about the relationships between gadhafi and the cia over decades will not come out say forget that he was his father's right hand man and the crucial mediating go between with the west he enjoyed a playboy lifestyle in london counting tony blair peter mandelson and prince andrew amongst his pals there are even reports he was entertained at buckingham palace this is where safety that he was given a place to study i want to london's top universities 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 want in return have already emerged safe get their fees our martyr 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 get daffy libya funded nicolas sarkozy's path to the presidency but they get that he's fall from favor was sudden and spectacular according to safe their former friends have been trying. to cover up any links since turning against them desperate to stave off a trial at the international criminal court. and the little one they are trying to negotiate with us a deal of years of this the we will take care of the court court what does it mean

that means is the court is controlled by those countries. which attack us but then 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 wants silence and wants to do is move on attractive because of course the hypocrisy in the double dealing of europe with the one hand condemning human rights abuses rather limited kind of wide 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. libby 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 trying to 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 your brussels say the euro crisis is taking its toll on everyone and . the fact that they're playing at a time when millions of citizens are bearing the brunt of a steady measures imposed by the very same institutions they work for you look at what's made. compare the scale of their hardship with out of the ordinary citizens in europe's debt crippled nation. but first russia's president sent a strong signal to nato countries this week over their planned european missile shield and medvedev said if it goes ahead without guaranteeing russia's safety moscow will deploy its own missiles although the door remains open for dialogue artie's peter all for explains euro hope only 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. and woods from president made yet of. other measures are insufficient russia will deploy a contemporary strike systems in the west and south 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 u.s. . but got to give me an extra couple link between strategic offensive and defensive weapons reasons could emerge from russia's withdrawal from the strategic arms reduction treaty this is a vision within the content of the treaty rusher in the united states had hoped to reset relations between the years 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 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 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 trying 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 it's 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 peter all of us on sea. at archie dot com right now look at how u.s. black friday has left one shopper a black and blue was her grandfather was russell to the floor by cops and look what

he did in front of his young grandson after being accused of shoplifting during the annual spending spree plus. if you think. we travel to gaza to explore a palestinian say they refuse to be bombed out of their homes by israel. vladimir putin has officially been chosen as the candidate to represent russia's biggest party at next year's presidential election at the united russia convention in moscow the prime minister ally in the direction he would take if elected next march artie's a catarina groucho has more. now it's ambition to. run to seek reelection as president in 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 but should let him if we do in the upcoming presidential vote will be the first leader in modern russia to keep this post for six years today in his speech will still being about the way the election process is going on in this country he said but some of the criticism from the opposition is justified but he also warned the meanings to special even from the west and he said that in the first place elections in this country is a domestic affair approaching. 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 causes 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 four sons some of 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 nurse performances ever the prime minister vladimir putin acknowledged that problems do exist in the united russia party but he also warns that they didn't beat up the ruling party would mean that the country could plunge into an academic crisis similar to the crisis which has gripped the whole of europe now and he said that it was only thanks to you not to russia's majority in the last elections that

russia survived the economic crisis of two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine. for some perspective on this let's go live with martin mccauley an expert on the russian river city of london thanks for joining us so putin is still seen as a strong leader here in russia how do you think that perception was affected countries direction if he returns to power next march if you look back to two thousand russia was in crisis because of the mad nine hundred ninety s. and putin gave russia stability and he give it respect and that was very very important during the period he was he was president in two thousand and eight now he's come in he always said he would be reelected next year he has different tasks no because he's seen as a stable conservative leader and then you talk with face russia the development of the infrastructure the high tech industries he says enormous about money is going to be developed be spent on security and the military which means that less money

will go into the culture. how is russia going to develop its infrastructure and country to say you signed international. opinion polls indicate that billions united russia party currently the ruling party could lose its dominant position in next sunday's parliamentary elections how might that affect the decision making process in the country do you think. if that happened i expect united russia to come out as the top party and possibly with a with overall majority but if we didn't gain an overall majority he would then produce a pro precision where they would be uncertain who's going to form an experiment what's the legitimacy of that government and so on and foreigners would look at russia and say is russia stable is russia needs to belittle the in these very very difficult period with the you know in crisis with the united states and crisis of

the world needs a stable russia needs a stable leader and it needs a stable government therefore. one question leads in the parliamentary elections next week next month is clear majority for you know for united russia because that would give russia and the world a clear indication that the present course the present course just believes is going to continue and the international reaction to putin's potential return to the top job has been far from ecstatic why do you think that is. i think because they see putin is a hard man if you look at him during the period two thousand two thousand and eight he gradually became harder and he fell out with practically everyone he represents if you like russian nationalists line the outside world doesn't really like that. and he's got all it's got gas and he says that these will be used as weapons russia

is enormously rich hydrocarbons and metals this will give russia a seat at the top table the outside world is rather nervous about that especially the united states and the european union because at this time they're very weak they're weaker than they've been some twenty forty five so therefore russia at present if it has a strong leader and putin this is probably will be in a position to drive russia russia forward and. arrange certain things according to russia's interests and the key for russia is really europe and united states is one aspect the other aspect of china russia has to compete with china if you look at the united states it regards its main opponent its main competitor in the next ten years to be china so therefore both russia and america will be looking to china and be interesting to see if they find common policies which drive forward a world in which china plays

a more important role but also russia and america play a very important role all right thank you very much martin mccauley expert on russia from university of london thanks for your time. thank you. it's been another tough week for the european union with italy's borrowing costs reaching record highs well above the levels that triggered meltdown and other even nations the shock news pushed the euro to a seven week low rating agencies also downgraded hungary portugal and belgium a number of italian banks also dealt a ratings hit as the evil leaders pledged even more cuts to combat the crisis but for the euro crack capital of brussels leading by example doesn't seem to be a popular idea as artie's tests are cilia 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 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. they get 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 of the gravy train he wants the highest salaries of those at the top to be slashed instead the commissioners have privileges which the normal stopped in 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 turn these guys a 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 but steady 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 how to go 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 show does the secretaries we think that the center we got is much too high and we would like to close that guy up and many of us would be

ready to pay for it but whether european taxpayers 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 steady measures is another question tesser cilia r.t. brussels 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 paralyzed as thousands rallied against yet more cuts organizers argue that if the cuts keep up orchard it will sink even further investment advisor patrick young says brussels decision makers at mit it's 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 shape or form this crisis is like

a pound 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 for you see if in the euro zone germany either has to decide that it wants to basically take away the bow and 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 and its finance minister still describes his country's finances as being in mortal danger the next hour as he talks to the man who exposed the country's

debt disaster he says greeks have been offered no options other than painful austerity measures. the black comedians every day they're saying to them that look but if you don't accept what the europeans are saying if you don't accept this they're the misery be bulldozed by the government and by the i.m.f. . we'll be heading it's a have every day black made so they are afraid. to turn now to some other stories making headlines across the globe people in pakistan are venting anger over nato's admission that a coalition helicopter was responsible for the deaths of up to twenty eight pakistani troops dead pakistani soldiers have been buried in peshawar in a ceremony attended by senior officials including an army chief the response the country's authorities are demanding the u.s. to vacate an air base used to launch american drones. britain's prince william has

taken part in a naval rescue mission saving two russian sailors in the irish sea their cargo ship the swan land sank with eight crew members aboard the duke of cambridge was the copilot of the air sea rescue helicopter that lifted the two seaman to safety five mariners still missing one body has been recovered from the water. and coming up we'll explore how corporate gambles with fluctuating food prices could be toying with millions of hungry people around the globe that's after a recap of our top story stay with us.

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