today's news of the week's main stories on our t.v. time in turmoil the most violent clashes since the egyptian revolution during more than a week of protests with growing calls for the military rulers to go ahead of monday's election. also from defiant to defendant colonel gadhafi is most influential some will stand trial in libya despite concerns judicial system there is a shambles and he will get a fair hearing. russia get stern over the planned u.s. missile shield in eastern europe as president medvedev warns of deploying strike systems unless moscow is assured it's not. a bloody even approach it is

formally selected as the ruling united russia party can do that to run for president next year. this is r.t. it's no midnight here in moscow you're watching the weekly with me kevin oh it's our round of top stories from the past seven days and we start in egypt there are 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 branded a terrorist movement for some countries claims it's said to win the majority of seats in this and now is the latest 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 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 and 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 from 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 for some kind of similar nato mission here in egypt as we saw perhaps in libya if the people fight the main the people for the main 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 a game where there's discussions about nato airstrikes against egypt and then of course there's the news of the former head of the u.n. you know one. is really to give up his name on the ballot for the presidential

elections and take over and run the government here in egypt people here are very supportive of that so in terms of the popularity of the muslim brotherhood and the support from barrett i'm back maybe 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 markets throughout sunday and then into monday what happened here over the past week has really changed the game here these are 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 all access to the security situation i want i'm going tomorrow not just because they feel like it's useless because

they're afraid that it might be too dangerous to go to the polls and this in our reporting from cairo has course also covering the latest developments on terra square on twitter bringing us up to date at the same time there alissa writes that medical personnel and ambulances are gathering in the square in case balance breaks out on the eve of a parliamentary vote that we'll be following very closely keep up to date with the latest from her and this is to the tags on your screen right now to. talk to a wife is chief of public international law and current versity delighted to say he's on the line now to talk to us give us more perspective about these upcoming parliamentary elections dr thank you for taking the time out to be with us it seems tomorrow's monday's parliamentary election threatens to split egyptians even further some calling for a boycott of the vote others like the muslim brotherhood encouraging people to go to the polls it really is an increasingly unstable time in your country what do you think lies ahead. i think you could even think the overwhelming

majority of the people here in egypt will go to the to these elections which or the first ones to be here in egypt after the revolution twenty five january to two thousand and eleven so people will go. from the morning seven elections will be. here today. and the day after. if the mother the muslim brotherhood does as well as it says it could do up to what forty percent of the vote some people are saying it's got high hopes how would that change the political standing in the country because of course it's considered by some to be a terrorist organization. well i think calling for a. forty or at least more movement muslim brotherhood is

a terrorist organization is a qualification and the description given by the west or not by the gyptian people . of this movement when. you have to weigh in as many seats as possible i think up to forty percent is said boy leader by the leaders of the small also boy political who there is here in egypt. dr if they do come to power of majority how change foreign relations regarding israel between you and your company to a new country in israel. nor you know the viewers know that very happy is pretty between egypt and. the state of israel. one of the fundamentals of contemporary international relations as well one of the fundamentals of even

islamic law is to carry it is too. soon is also of islamic relations as well as. contemporary international. relations so i think if the other quarter full fairly the his engagement and respect to the treaty i think any party which will want to win the elections will respect. the this treaty. could you explain for me. player why the muslim brotherhood paste of dunces u.-turn lately when all this happened in your country the revolution started back in january it was the muslim brotherhood playing a very pivotal role in organizing the protests now they say protests on the way forward going to the polls are the way forward why this very big utero.

i think. did not disappear you mean by that because you didn't tear very well your question just saying when all this started off back in january it was the muslim brotherhood that was organizing a lot of the protests that we saw on the streets they were foremost in the front of the now they were behind the protests we've seen this last week and they say protests are the way forward now people must go to the polls why they changed their mind about protest. you're know the before of the last the last event a week before they participated alone i think with the salafist in. freud a. protest in tahrir square but they did not participate after. this is. a political dimension for the readers of this movement not to participate in or

do they have said not to cause any deterioration of relations between egyptians or between egyptians and the supreme military council can i just ask one final question about relations between. the former chief is now said that he will agree to give up his presidential aspirations and instead act for the interim government how does he get on with the muslim brotherhood if they come to power in the dominating parliament what are the chances that they can work effectively with one another. i think you see poor political dealings. or to be held in the interest of the huge shame people. if the muslim brotherhood won. this election is these elections i think they will try to. present accepted. by them

which will carry out with their. relations their program so if they see that mr bradbury which. was the. director of the international atomic energy agency is the best. place we need to talk so thanks for being on the line from cairo tonight appreciate it my pleasure. but it's not just egypt's fate to speak decided in cairo but syria's future as well arab league members have on sunday approved unprecedented economic sanctions against a mascot's over its crackdown on protesters the measures were voted in the end by nineteen of the twenty two day sions and they included a travel ban on senior officials also a freezing of deals with the syrian central bank and the suspension of flights into the country damascus is already condemned the move as a betrayal of arab solidarity spoke to dr rania mastery of the university of balad

mind in beirut you told me that these are unprecedented actions against another arab country by the league actually discredits the organization itself. the arab league is basically digging its own coffin here and it is publicly declaring that it has no more legitimacy in the arab world so it is no longer speaking for the arab people are representing are of interest in any way whatsoever 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 in beheading protests that the government of the day and responded with tyler to against 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 the suppression rather they introduced their own armed forces into bahrain and supported the

repression so when you have these very contrary is here themselves condemning repression committed by another arab country they like any credibility to call for that so again what is this arab league it's not it's another farce it's another joke about that was imposed upon the arab world by the former colonialist that were here in libya moammar gadhafi some of one time heir apparent awaits trial war crimes court gave in to the new libyan rulers demands this last week that he should be tried on home soil instead of the hague despite warnings that a further trial is unlikely because the country judicial system is a disarray right now so it is of a better. say fellow islam gadhafi is a man with a lot to say he's the last chance the world has to know how they get their fee regime turned from public enemy number one to bosom buddies with britain and the other western powers but the international criminal court in the hague says it's

not going to extradite him allowing libya to try him instead with libyan officials already calling for the death penalty many fear it's a tactic to keep those dirty secrets hidden forever that's a controlled forum where the the western interests look at look at what happened with the trial of the loss of it you can be sure that the information that 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 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 pariahs 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 the little one they are trying to negotiate with us a deal of years of this the we will take care of the court what does it 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 to maybe one 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 at 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 will. serve god. 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 the 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. coming up here this hour euro cracks a brussels say the euro crisis is taking its toll on everyone including their. raises eyebrows is the fact that they're complaining at a time when millions of citizens are bearing the brunt of harsh and steady measures imposed by the very same institutions they work for when you look at what's made the e.u. commissioners unhappy and compare the scale of their hardship with that of the ordinary citizens. ripple nation. russia's president said a strong signal to nato countries this week over their planned european missile defense shield demeter were very upset if it goes ahead without guaranteeing russia's safety moscow will deploy its own missiles although he says that offer dialogue remains open his paper all of us got the story. hope on

hold 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 over who will be targeted prompting stern words 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 fire damage from u.s. missile systems deployed in europe 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 us. have 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 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 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 sidetrack trying 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 and 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. . but him of putin's 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'd like to take if elected next march but he's a katrina conference now with some vision. in the run up 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 like him if we do win 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 some of the criticism from the opposition is justified but he also warned the meaning specially when we're on the west end 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 quo promise supporters popularity was around tripp the most recent public opinion polls show that united russia remains number one party in this country we were fifty three were sound and all the voters supporting the party of all 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 i wanted 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 economic 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 of two thousand and nine. 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 in the weak ratings agencies have also downgraded hungary portugal and belgium a number of italian banks were also dealt a weight blow is a u. leaders pledged even more cuts to come about the crisis the feeling here across the capital of brussels leading by example doesn't seem to be a popular idea right now as all tests for a similar fund that. 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 but the end of the day they get a one point eight a rise. and they said follow 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 in the normal stamp don't turn. 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 pretty . 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 were raises eyebrows is the fact that they're complaining at a time when millions of e.u. citizens are bearing the brunt of harsh 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 lower percentage increase is hardly going to bring the world to an end still union members are adamant they're getting the short end of the stick. you

know putting everything on the shoulders of the secretaries we think that the 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 sturdy measures is another question tess or cilia r.t. brussels so is a huge bureaucrats rush to protect their pay were new protests erupted in portugal this week one of the first to you states of course to feel the full force of a state or a t. for the country transport and public services were paralyzed just how soon is rallied against yet more cuts to strike organizers argue if the cuts continue portugal will sink even further investment advisor patrick told us brussels decision makers admit it's now 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 euro was going to survive in any shape or form this crisis is like a pound 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 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 threw 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. for the world in brief people in pakistan are venting their anger over the nature of the mission the coalition helicopters responsible for killing up to twenty eight pakistani troops dead pakistani soldiers have now been buried in a ceremony attended by senior officials including the army in response to the country's authorities demanding now that the u.s. takes an air base used to launch american drones. prince william taken part in a naval rescue mission saving two russian sailors from the irish sea the cargo ship the swan and sank with eight crew members aboard the british royal navy has released video footage of the rescue operation that you could cambridge was copilot of the helicopter there left to cebu to safety five mariners is still missing one body has been recovered. several hundred protesters were out in force in germany with some even tying themselves the bell way trucks they hope to stop a cargo trade which was carrying a shipment of eleven nuclear waste containers to

a storage facility which demonstrators say is unsafe the annual shipment from since been a regular focal point to test just as nuclear energy has become unpopular and the come from since the 1980's the south from ukraine germany has yet to decide where weight that's on the to the school. midnight twenty eight moscow time in just over a quarter of an hour shocked death to record whales as football manager and former field star dies at just forty two years old more on that with kate shortly but it's a headline up before that with me kevin our.