today's news in the week's main stories on our team clashes in cairo as protesters gather on top british square head of the country's first parliamentary elections since the announcing a process in the bar. colonel gadhafi is most influential son saif al islam is said to stand trial in libya despite concerns over the country's justice system and speculation holds information the west would rather bury. and russia sends a strong signal to nato countries this week over their planned missile shield in eastern europe as moscow warns of deploying its own strike systems unless it's assured it's not a target. i knew that some foreign states pay money to influence the election campaign in the country and it is 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 roll the channel this money into settling this was some words of advice from prime minister putin as he is officially nominated by the ruling united russia party as its candidate to run for president in next year's election. thank you for joining us five o'clock here in moscow to our top story we go as talker square remains the scene of mass demonstrations the head of egypt's military gives a stark warning to protesters saying there will be grave consequences if the country fails to pull through the current turmoil earlier in the day he also met with top army political and revolutionary leaders to form an advisory council designed to help the government during this transitional period this comes ahead of the country's first parliamentary election since the fall of hosni mubarak artie's an

isa now and brings us the latest from cairo. 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 and they claim that they're going to win some forty percent of the votes on one day's election and 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 the main the people the media and they are in favor. 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 again with his discussions about nato airstrikes against egypt and then of course there's the news that the former head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog we're hammad el baradei is reeling to give up his name on the ballot for the presidential elections to take over and run emergency government here in egypt people here on top here very supportive of that so in terms of the popularity of the muslim brotherhood in the support for al baradei i mak 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. people are furious and one september there were protests and people were still saying that nothing has changed that scaf is just like mubarak anwar it's people are still in positions and egypt has not seen this problem is democracy people now are much more determined to make

things change and that's going to play into the 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 was our tease and he said now we're reporting from cairo's tahrir square you can also find all the up to minute developments on our twitter page there and he said reports that the square is packed with medical personnel and ambulances in case violence escalates on the eve of the parliamentary elections follow her for more updates and he says twitter is on the screen now. let's move on to not just egypt's fate that's being decided in cairo but serious future as well arab league members have on sunday approved unprecedented economic sanctions sanctions against a mask this 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 move as a betrayal of arab solidarity meanwhile violence continued on sunday with syrian activists saying at least eleven people were killed across the country author webster tarpley says the revolution in syria and elsewhere in the arab world is nothing more about a well planned spy agencies a set up. the u.s. policy i think right now is to smash the middle east according to ethnic lines people complained that there are terrorist snipers who are shooting at civilians men women and children and blind terrorism random killing simply for the purpose of destabilizing the country i would not call this a civil war by any stretch of the imagination what you're dealing with here are death squads dealing here with terrorist commandos it's a joint production of a m i six most. of the french after libya becoming

a bloodbath with one hundred fifty thousand dead and now with egypt showing what it was all along it was no revolution and it was a complete failure and now people are beginning to understand it notice that nevertheless mrs clinton and miss rice at the united nations are continuing to push this bankrupt the spread the model of the color revolution the cia people power coolly backed up by terrorist groups. to libya now where moammar gadhafi son and one time heir apparent saif al islam awaits trial for war crimes the international criminal court originally wanted to see the ex leader son tried in the hague but this week agreed he should be tried on home soil that's despite warnings that a fair trials unlikely because the country's judicial system isn't disarray as i prefer nhat explains. 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 turn 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 relationships between gadhafi and the cia over decades will not come out safe good effie 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 safe gadhafi 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 was introduced by his old professor as someone who looks to democracy civil society and deep 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 want in return have already emerged safe get their fees album art and. 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 free fall from favor was sudden and spectacular according to save their former friends have been trying to cover up any link since turning against them desperate to stave off a trial at the international criminal court. and that is what they are trying to negotiate with us

a deal of this deal we will take care of the court what does it mean. that means is at its core is controlled by those countries. 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 europe wants us and wants to move on a chapter because of course the hypocrisy of your one hand condemning human rights abuses rather limited going to the same time deporting. these back to libya who were tortured almost at the very point when tony blair was. in the tent so i think there's an awful lot of truths that ought to come out and i really. believe so. libby insists it's capable of giving a fair trial despite its judicial system not being independent for over forty years

is still in a clear way a safe. rival ruling factions a fighting over who gets to exact revenge for the death penalty likely it seems safe gadhafi and his secrets will be silenced on the bennetts london. still ahead for you this hour you're in brussels say the euro crisis is taking its toll on everyone including them. is the fact that they're complaining at a time when millions of e.u. citizens are bearing the brunt of harsher stared measures imposed by the very same institutions they work for we take a look at why e.u. commissioners are unhappy with their lot and compare their hardships to those of ordinary citizens in europe struggling nations. and what to expect next from iran as the islamic republic severs diplomatic ties with britain will look at how further international pressure on made pan out. also a safe haven for fascists reexamine the case of a nazi war criminal who lives as

a free man in the baltics raising questions over why some countries and. what pursuing the horrifying crimes of the past. russia toughens its stance on the planned u.s. missile defense shield in eastern europe president medvedev said moscow won't hesitate to deploy its own missiles if nato countries proceed with their plans without guaranteeing russia safety but medvedev also pointed out that the door for dialogue remains open artist peter all over has the details you know hope on one of the years of talks surrounding the united states proposed missile shield in eastern europe russia says the u.s. still won't give adequate assurances 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 round region will be one such step there is also the possibility this could derail the learn more nuclear disarmament process agreed to by russia and the us. 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 limit 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 move the 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 young american version of it 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 you about ministration this is a pentagon program there are also those who lay the blame for escalating the situation at the door of weapons manufacturers but i think it's being driven by. 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. 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 seek. and nuclear disarmament campaign or brisk on your own says the u.s. policies are langue the groundwork for a new round of a cold war era arms race but i think it's long been the policy of the u.s. to push forward the missile defense deployments literally surrounding russia and in addition surrounding china as well i see a public relations campaign being being created directed at the american people being directed at the people of europe in order to essentially demonize russia in order to justify these deployments so i don't think russia's being paranoid at all

i think it's sad fortunate that we're going to see what appears to be a new cold war and a new arms race unless people around the world begin to see that the united states the obama administration who wanted one hand has been saying they want to get rid of nuclear weapons but on the other hand is taking policies that are only going to grease the amount of nuclear weapons by both russia and china if these missile defense deployments continue the ruling united russia party has unanimously voted to nominate its leader prime minister vladimir putin as presidential candidate for the march fourth elections and if he wins he will take up the post for six years that he has the details. now it's ambition to lead to murder to temple 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 appointed when the upcoming presidential vote will be the first leader in modern russia to keep this post for six years today in his speech was 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 gratings 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 their 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 them or they want. many described as upcoming sunday's parliamentary 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 proxy in this country with these two three four sons will be voters supporting the party while opposition meanwhile claims that united russia party's popularity is dropping steadily and that be upcoming voters lining up to be one of its nurse 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 wander 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 united russia's maturity in the last elections that russia survived the economic crisis of two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine. russia expert martin mccauley from the university of london says putin

will maintain stability and promote the country's image on the world stage. if you look back to two thousand russia was in crisis because of the mad nine hundred ninety s. putin gave russia's stability and you give it respect and that was very very important during the period he was president of. he gradually became harder and he fell out with practically everyone he represents if you like the russian national law and the outside world doesn't really like that russia is enormously rich and i did call the middle east will give russia a seat at the top table they are told the world is rather nervous about that but for the united states you have to be new because. they're very weak or weaker than the been going to forty five so therefore russia present it as a strong leader. will be in a position to drive russia rushing forward and. arrange things

according to russia's interest and r.t. dot com right now he's the snake wielding chicken throwing heavy metal gore master onstage but. at home alice cooper is the perfect husband artie catches up with him to hear about the domestic bliss and the good life of a member of rock royalty plus. one ukraine an aspiring american politician who was promised the love of a good woman is left literally lying in the gutter it's the romance that's more bitter than sweet and that's on our t.v. dot com now. in south the city a former education minister is heading the presidential runoff race with just over half the votes counted ology oyu secured a five percent leave for her main rival emergency situations minister on

a deal that's all in all over twenty thousand seven over twenty seven. thousand people have voted in the tiny south caucus country elections are the first since south the city had declared independence in two thousand and eight following a five day war with georgia. your opinion house suffered another tough week italy's borrowing costs have soared to record highs way over the level that led to the meltdown of other nations the news calls the euro to plummet to a seven week low ratings agencies have downgraded hungary portugal and belgium a number of italian banks have faced a ratings blow leaders pledged to even more cuts to combat the ongoing crisis but as tests are so we're reports the euro crap capital of brussels is not willing to set an example for the people. 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. 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. they get a one point eight three 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 would be 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 job. abs 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 water to 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 against . you know putting everything on the shoulders of the secretaries we think that

the center we've got is much too high and we would like to close that gap and many of us would be ready to pay for it but whether european taxpayer share the same willingness to sustain the benefits of their civil servants in brussels at a time when they themselves are forced to accept a sturdy measures is another question does or cilia r.t. brussels iran's parliament has approved severing diplomatic ties with britain with do to withdraw their ambassador from london soon the decision comes less than a week after the u.k. banned its financial institutions from doing business with brown was part of a new wave of sanctions that western countries including the u.s. imposed on iran over its a legit nuclear weapons program but as blogger david lindorff tells us there are fears that such punishing measures will only provoke around further. 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. weapons of mass destruction if you really want to get a country to get a nuclear weapon and just keep threatening it with 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 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 the stone his decision not to bring the kyle go to trial as a complete failure of justice it's not the first time stone has been accused of harboring fascists as onyx ski reports.

coffee is rated eighth in simon wiesenthal list of most wanted nazi war criminals but when you post this in which he participated in a murder of three thousand jews in bel roost in the one nine hundred forty s. documents of the proving it were provided for the estonian authorities as well because then you know a story is anti-fascist committee says the proof of god's course atrocities in a belorussian 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. called was deported from the us and stripped of u.s. citizenship that says a lot doesn't it tal and gave him shelter and try to hide him here but then under international pressure the authorities had to initiate an investigation. every role brought no results after months of investigation a story in authorities closed the case a well grounded doubt remains that they got

a score of mentioned in the material is not the me i am going to school 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 called washington spoke to the people who handled this press corps for the 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 a stone the ins 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 they go to school story is not a one off case from sanctioning s.s. veterans marches laurie fine former nazi collaborators this has been tolerance

policy for the past decade but recently this man made just about every headline in a story 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 sentence the nazi leadership to either execution or prison terms this trial of history was meant to get rid of that says and 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. see reporting from tallinn in a stone you. have twenty seven now more of today's international headlines prince william has taken part in a naval rescue mission saving two russian sailors from the irish sea their cargo ship the swampland sank with eight crew members aboard the british royal navy has released video footage of the rescue operation the duke of cambridge was copilot of

a helicopter that lifted the two seamen to safety mariners are still missing and one body has been recovered from the water. several hundred anti-nuclear protesters were out in force in germany with some even tying themselves to railway tracks they hope to stop a cargo train carrying a shipment of eleven nuclear waste containers to a storage facility which demonstrators say is unsafe the annual shipment from france has been a regular focal point for protesters as nuclear energy has been unpopular in the country since the one nine hundred eighty six trouble disaster in ukraine germany has yet to decide whether radioactive material will be scored permanent. in mexico thousands of people have chosen an unusual way to protest against the violence that has plagued the country since the beginning of a war against organized crime launched by president called that on over fifty thousand people have been killed in the five year long campaign to symbolize the victims of bloodshed demonstrators painted their faces as skulls and carried

blackened mexican flags as a sign of mourning. technology update is on the way after a recap of the week's main news and today's headlines i'm karen taraji your with our team.