day's news in the week's main stories on our team in turmoil the most recent violent clashes since the egyptian revolution jury more than a week of protests with growing calls for military rulers to go ahead of monday's election really careful also from defiant to defend been killed at the office most influential son will stand trial in libya despite concerns that the judicial system is a shambles and a fair hearing is impossible. russia gets turned over the planned u.s. missile shield in eastern europe is president referred it warns of deploying strike systems unless moscow gets assurances that it's not a target. putin has formally selected as the ruling united russia party

candidate to run for president next year. welcome this is r.t. it's now eight pm here in moscow you're watching the weekly with me kevin oh it's the round up of the top stories for the past seven days for us and first we start in egypt where the military leaders warned of grave consequences if the crisis doesn't end it comes just a day before the country's first parliamentary election since the fall of hosni mubarak the muslim brotherhood claims it's said to win the majority of seats parties in this in our here's more from tahrir square. but when you talk to people here on talking 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 their 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 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 to take over and run emergency government here in egypt

people here are tough here very supportive of that so in terms of the popularity of the muslim brotherhood in the support for all baradei 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 market throughout sunday and then into monday what happened here over the past week has really changed the game here easy people are furious and zero in september there were protests and people were still saying that nothing has changed that's gaffers just like mubarak that mubarak's 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 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. what is

missing now is they're reporting from karachi covering the latest developments in tahrir square through twitter and this is reporting that the egyptian army chief claims the new constitution will not affect the military standing in the country for more updates and this is true tags on the screen right now. it's not just egypt's fate that's being decided in cairo but syria's future as well arab league members have in the past couple of hours approved unprecedented economic sanctions against the massacres over its crackdown on protesters the measures were voted for by nineteen out of twenty two nations and they include a travel ban on senior officials freezing deals with the syrian central bank and suspending flights into the country damascus has already condemned the moves of betrayal of arab solidarity while to discuss the repercussions of the vote let's talk now to dr ron your mastery of the university of bellemont in beirut dr thanks for being at r.t. good to see you the arab league appears to me came with a very strong voice here these tougher sanctions got through with the big majorities or just mentioned but will it make any difference at the end of the day

to the situation in syria. well i think it's going to make the situation much worse definitely for the syrian government for the syrian people part particularly but perhaps that's a good thing because it reveals the honesty of the arab league arab league is basically digging its own coffin here and it is publicly declaring that it has no more legitimacy in the our world it is no longer speaking for the arab people are representing our ventures and any way whatsoever. as you say it's not president it movements or it doesn't doesn't seem to care what it says at the moment what's the what's the broader picture here about the arab league's future and the future for syria now and how it would work with the league in the future. well the catch is when we look at who is really pushing for these decisions within the arab league we see it's primarily being led by the g.c.c. the gulf countries particularly qatar and saudi arabia and when we look at the credibility of these countries i mean that if you want to take one example when we had mass protest and by hurricane protests that the government of the day and

responded with brutality against a protest in which the people were asking for democracy and reform as is their legitimate right the g.c.c. countries did not ask for sanctions against the government for these for pressure rather they introduced their own armed forces into a hurricane and supported the repression so when you have these very countries here themselves condemning repression committed by another arab country they like any credibility to call for that so it's extraordinarily ironic and hypocritical for the g.c.c. and for any other member of the arab league i would argue to be asking demands of the syrian government when they themselves have failed to make those demands upon their own people and they have even failed to make those demands upon others of their colleagues within the same reach of. a lot of what you thought about the western response this week to the ongoing issues in syria from snow talking about establishing a humanitarian corridor a lot of talk though that it could be the first step towards foreign intervention what do you think. yes very much so very much so the calls by france and by turkey

for humanitarian corridor i mean the word humanitarian has gotten tremendously misplaced shall use the gentle term here when countries such as france and turkey and others throughout europe actually call for humanitarian corridors they are not doing it out of the good of the people they're actually doing it to introduce their own foreign control into the region so a humanitarian corridor would be the first stop for foreign armed intervention into syria and this is what we're all worried about we're all tremendously worry that they're going to turn syria into what they have done in libya which would be tremendously harmful for the syrian people as well as for the entire arab region so it also has not gone unnoticed this week where the arab league members have been meeting in cairo in egypt where we've seen all the trouble this week but not a word about that not a word about what was going on outside the was there windows. exactly exactly exactly so how can we look to the arab league with any kind of credibility or legitimacy how can we claim that they are speaking on behalf of the arab people

rather it becomes evident that they are speaking on behalf of western interest again if we look at qatar and we look at saudi arabia and we see the positions that they have taken and with whom they are most closely aligned we see their alliances are quite close with the united states and they seem to be mouthpieces from the for the united states which again for anyone who has studied the arab league and none of this is surprising the arab league was constructed officially to protect our poor old you would think one of its most basic that it would do would be to protect the arab countries against invasions they each of these are countries have promised to support and defend any arab country that has been invaded and yet when lebanon was consistently invaded by israel not one our country came to its protection so again what is this our league gets and it's another farce it's another joke about that was imposed upon the arab world by the former colonialist that were here before i just got a final thought from you where are we to regard syria seems to be deadlocked syria

close to full scale civil war. who knows there are reports that syria may be approaching a civil war there are reports that talks of a civil war are simply propaganda committed by both sides who knows what could happen in syria who knows if the syrian government will be able to hold on or if there actually will be further onslaught committed by both parties what is clear though is that there is bloodshed today and there are more likely will be bloodshed tomorrow bloodshed against those in syria that support the government and bloodshed against the armed members and the protesters themselves that oppose the government we are not looking at a win win here in syria but rather to a very negative options of course the downfall of the syrian regime will very likely lead to further bloody chaos in syria thank you for being on the program to run a massive universe of bottom of the very roots and. answer now on our website that we're asking if you believe there's a need to set up a humanitarian corridor in syria this is what you've been telling us seems that the

overwhelming majority of you saying it such mission would be just another name for regime change fourteen percent of you think it's long overdue similar amount say the west simply has no money for it we've heard that time and again the minority believes the situation really isn't that bad at this stage it's really good here for you as well r.t. dot com it's placed of your say. let's take a look at libya moammar gadhafi son of one time heir apparent saif al islam is awaiting trial the war crimes court gave in to new libyan rulers demands this week the team should be tried on home soil instead of the hague that's despite warnings that a fair trial is unlikely because the country is judicial system is in disarray as it is over bennett explains. 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 gadhafi family has about the relationship between gadhafi and the cia over decades will not come out say forget 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 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 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 that he's fall from favor was sudden and spectacular according to save their former friends have been trying. 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 to get of this the we will take care of the court what does it mean. that

means is 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 wants silence and wants to do is move on a chapter because of course the hypocrisy in the double dealing of europe with the one hand condemning human rights abuses rather limited kind of way 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 truths that ought to come out and i really doubt it will. be insists it's capable of giving a fair trial despite its judicial system not being independent for over forty years

is still unclear where it's safe good 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 to death and the secrets will be silenced either bennett artsy london . coming up for this year across same brussel say the euro's crisis is taking its toll on everyone including their. own raises eyebrows is the fact that they're complaining at a time when millions of e.u. citizens are bearing the brunt of harsh staring measures imposed by the very same institutions that work for the local what's made the e.u. commission is unhappy and compare the scale of their hardship with that of the ordinary citizens of europe's debt crippled nation. russia's president sent a strong signal to nato countries this past week over their planned european missile defense shield to meet from a vet of said if it goes ahead without guaranteeing russia's safety moscow will deploy its own missiles although he says the door for dialogue remains open peter

all of us got the story. zero hope on 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 it if other measures are insufficient russia will deploy a contemporary strike systems in the west and south in order to prevent fire damage from u.s. missile systems deployed in europe and the deployment of the is going to missile system in the coming ground 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 only 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 limit the years a 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 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 its ago out of this no this is directed against russia and this is not the obama administration this is a pentagon program there are also those who lay 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 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 lima potence officially been chosen as the candidate to represent russia's

biggest political party at 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. i was at the conference 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 that should let him in which is when the upcoming presidential vote will be the first leader in modern russia to keep this post for six years today in his speech he was talking about the way the election process is going on in this country he said that the sound 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 of russian. 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 their 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 threat to the modern world. many described as upcoming sunday's parliamentary 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 fifty three percent of the voters supporting the party while opposition meanwhile claims that united russia party's popularity is dropping steadily and that set me up coming vote as lining up to be one of its enormous

performances ever and prime minister vladimir putin acknowledged 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 action on the 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 russia works but much of a cold day from the university of london told her siblings putin can bring stability and protect the country's interests. 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 we give it respect and that was very very important during the period he was president going to twelve thousand little he gradually became harder and he fell out with practically everyone he represents if you like russian nationalists lined the outside world doesn't really like that

russia is enormously rich in hydrocarbons and mingle this will give russia a seat at the top table they are child the world is rather nervous about that especially the united states and the european union because at this time they are very weak they are weaker than the been some twenty forty five so therefore russia at present it as a strong leader and putin is a strong leader will be in a position to drive russia's russian forward and. arrange certain things according to russia's interests. over r.t. dot com right now america's black friday left one shopper black and blue a grandfather see here best song to the floor by cops and left bloodied in front of the young grandson accused of shoplifting to ring the annual spending spree for that on line also. everything goes wrong but we are staying because we are down we travel to garza to explore how palestinians say they refused to be bombed

out of their homes by israel. 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 in other e.u. nations the shock news pushed the euro to a seven week low ratings agencies have also downgraded now hungary. portugal and belgium a number of italian banks were also dealt a ratings blower's the e.u. leaders pledged more cuts to calm about the crisis but for the capital of brussels leading by example doesn't seem to be a popular idea as artie's tester is silly or found out. 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 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 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 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 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 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. a 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. the salary cap 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 steady measures is another question does or cilia r.t. brussels and it's a huge crowds push to protect their pay renewed protests erupt in portugal one of the first the states to feel a full force of the course for the country transport and public services were paralyzed as thousands rallied against yet more cuts the struggle geysers argued that if the cuts continue portugal will sink even further investment advisor patrick says brussels decision makers admit it's not a make or break 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 euro always going to survive in any ship 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 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 ball and 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 patrick greece has been relying on international cash injection for well

over a year now as well as finance minister still says his country's finances are in mortal danger and about five minutes then tonight out 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 maids every day they're saying to them that look if you don't do what the europeans are saying if you don't accept if their demands are imposed by the government then baby i have ever it will be hell it's every day black males so they are afraid. some worldviews in brief and people in pakistan are venting their anger over nature's admission that a coalition helicopter was responsible for killing up to twenty eight pakistani troops dead pakistani soldiers have been buried in push shower and ceremony attended by senior officials including the army chief in response the country

authorities are demanding that the us vacates an airbase used to launch american drones. prince william's taking part in a naval rescue mission saving two russian sailors from the irish sea the cargo ship the swan and sank with eight members on board the cambridge was copilot of the air sea rescue helicopter that lifted the to see when to say fifty five mariners are still missing and one body has been recovered from the water. he just under twenty minutes to show death tonight well as his football manager and from a field star dies just forty two years of age kate's got more on that for you in the sports politics i'll be back with a recover top stories in just a minute or two before.

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