all of the armed forces to see the power to a civilian government they're unhappy with how the generals have been running the country few reforms being made and increased repression of the opposition dozens of protesters were killed over the last few months and clashes with the police all over the country and you parliament's been elected and is drawing up a constitution or the military says it won't step down before the end of june but one middle east expert tells us here at r.t. that the gyptian people have already waited far too long. what you see is more or less pressures on the street. very much reflects the frustration of the protestors with the mismanagement or the management of the transitional period by the scouts i think the supreme council is willing to leave power in the end but with very strict conditions conditions that ensure that it still has reserved a means of power in terms of national security policy in terms of foreign policy in

terms of legal and constitutional immunity for its leaders and in terms of the vast konami interests and the economic empire that the military establishment owns and in a meeting with america's top military officer egypt's senior general defended the clampdown on international nongovernmental organizations in cairo the country's armed forces want to restrict the work of n.g.o.s and avoid a probe into the conduct claiming that some were working to destabilize the country . reports from cairo. egypt's new government crackdown on n.g.o.s has raised many questions and they may want is why now the groups many of which funded by washington have been on the ground here for a while they were at the vanguard of the uprising against mubarak that eventually brought the supreme council of the armed forces to power last february and no one has ever seems to care about their sources of income that is until they directed

their criticism to the new military leadership lehmann scaff for the slow pace of reform some of them are used by the other. that are quoting people they are working. they are the ones that evolution they have the tactics now when the radicals live there this is very much a dangerous war the rhetoric of this is especially led to prosecutors raiding seventeen offices of advocacy groups forty three activists including americans germans and egyptians are now facing trial for illegally using foreign funds to promote unrest in the post mubarak country activists however claim they are the victim of scarves reluctance to give up power with dreaming the people about with their brights with the scaf looking for enjoy all. subdivisions against the regime and all the mind the round up of activists has also not had a son of u.s. transportation secretary ray la hood further fueling tension between cairo in

washington. than simply because. of them in a sort of plans for. i don't think that. at all in the thing. so this is it and there it was military aid to egypt reaches one point three billion dollars annually has been very serious there has been quick to condemn car one in the days of blank checks are over or they condemned mubarak tons of times but at the end of that the continued on flowing that the provide that support also continued flowing we don't buy or washington's so-called support for democracy here in the middle east and washington wants to study law as the situation as much as possible in order to get on to its interests they don't care about democracy meanwhile even those on the streets protesting against car sharing the council's concerns are being jim's motives the usa has had a hand in tips policymaking for years but the whole n.t.

and your campaign has become the first serious disagreement between america and the countries your story takes cairo wanted to send washington and message that it's no longer the silent dog it was under mubarak but an independent state which will last for the rate any outside interference some doubts though they really minute the end to military movement growing have a bigger you can see it over there this it didn't tell us all the armed forces or scaf now running egypt is in a very vulnerable position and this nationalistic pronouncement may just be a nationalist show put on to calm the people down and to win back a shred of credibility. in cairo. part was we continue to hear about the unrest and i suppose a sense of disappointment with people in cairo with the ongoing military rule there although the muslim brotherhood has taken the majority of seats in parliament let's talk about are not the issues in cairo so to speak but the actual plan are

a body this meeting today in cairo to discuss the ongoing crisis in syria that are trying to decide i suppose what. exactly what to do with syria's on going problems here between the government forces on the opposition let's cross over now live to auntie's or we're going to go stunning buying. no no consensus in the u.n. security council on syria what do you think we can expect to come out of the league's meeting today and how might that actually change anything what's going on in syria. well if anybody has high expectations for today's meetings that the syrian opposition were hoping that the arab body the arab league will at least partially accept the syrian syrian national council as the official the official body right now in libya recognizes them so maybe they're hoping that this will be their chance to be recognized officially now the arab league observers

mission in syria which began in december of last year but they stopped their mission there in january already saying that the violence was escalating there are hopes that the arab league will team up with the united nations observer mission and they will start their proceedings over in syria to order to reestablish peace in the country now of course over the past several weeks we've seen a rise. rise of violence in syria particularly the city of holes. has been hit heavily. with the opposition they say hundreds of people have been killed just over the past week however. however the official damascus has a different point of view on the matter let's have a listen. people who have been on people who should the government. and people who were kidnapped by the armed

groups and they were massacred on the. evening after the. or during the time of the meeting of the security council in new york. again violence continues to spread to the syria just on the friday there was there were twenty car bombings in the series seconds because the city of aleppo got that but those bombings took the lives of twenty eight people and the day afterwards and saturday a syrian general was killed just outside his home in the mass because of course syrian officials say that these armed rebels are being supported both financially and militarily. forces from abroad who wants to see foreign intervention in the country there have been reports that that security services from qatar and from the u.k. are operating in syria of course those forces those those that information has not been confirmed just like it pretty much all the reports from syria to or block out

of foreign media it's really hard to see what exactly is happening on the ground. or i mean if i may just a moment let's just talk about russia's role here for quite some time now moscow has been trying to mediate some sort of a peace agreement between the assad government between the opposition how was. trying to achieve that as we know it hasn't seen much of any any blessing from the international community however still tries to bring both sides to the negotiation table. well russia insists that the only people who really can bring the solution in this crisis are the syrians syrians themselves in fact russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov i was in what was in damascus for talks with. the syrian president bashar assad after those talks says syrian president looked looked like he was ready to sit down for talks with the syrian opposition but the opposition of refuses for those talks they do however say that if those talks are to happen if

the negotiations between the opposition and the syrian government are to take place then russia must play and mediating role meanwhile russia's envoy to the united nations security council tell you have been told art see that the only solution in this case it will be for all. size in syria to lay down the arms. as the money during mission of that i believe was there and as the situation was evolving everybody saw that the government troops were pulling out of certain. quarters of the city is that territory was taken over by armed rebel groups that would mean that the. armed confrontation will continue and escalate. now again it's important to you it's important to acknowledge that just on sunday al-qaeda lead the new leader said that he also supports a syrian opposition he actually called on all of muslims in the arab world to unite

and. basically come into syria and support those fighting against the syrian the syrian regime at the moment in fact there that there are obvious points from the iraqi intelligence to say that's ok eventually the militants already flying in from iraq into syria to fight on the side of the armed rebels and of course you'll see our troops keep an eye on washington we're trying to gather a coalition of the willing so to speak who are hoping to put more pressure on this on the regime of president assad in order to step down again washington refuses to have any anyone. any talks with the syrian president they basically have in their mind done away with the. regime and they're hoping that if they continue to press their points in the united nations and among their allies they will reach their goal all right there will be checking in with you later in the day to see how it goes with the arab league meeting in cairo discussing the future of syria thanks very much. now as the u.s.

and its allies pile pressure on the syrian regime i was putting their faith in the opposition some analysts warn that a revolution in the country could spell disaster for the syrian people. united states and european allies are interested in regime change in syria and they won't stop at anything. that does not deliver a different government that they hope will be more sympathetic to western interests which is quite naive really when you think about it because the people in syria are likely not going to be more sympathetic to american and israeli aggression throughout the region the free syrian army is the armed opposition it's conducting very violent acts against civilians in syria against both the government and you know innocent syrians i don't think the syrian people are really going to appreciate you know an outside exile group arming and training these people and it's grateful to think of what could be coming next if an externally force

power is is suddenly implanted in syria that is not at all representative of the people and syria could lead into another iraq so it's just really quite devastating right now the way things are progressing. and you can always find more news on the latest updates on syria website all to dot com some of the other items of study by a few there right now for example the other day you rage against new piracy laws has rocked the world with protests taking place in dozens of cities will. also one law in a solve. between o.c. u.s. military threats from the u.k. around the disputed.

now a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital this is our say the greek prime minister lucas papademos warned of quote uncontrollable economic chaos if parliament does not approve a plan for fresh cuts on sunday new austerity measures have already been adopted by the greek cabinet to secure a one hundred thirty billion euro bailout from the e.u. and the international monetary fund but without it the country could default in march in the meantime our six ministers have already resigned in protest over the new cuts package and some m.p.'s from two major coalition parties are threatening to vote against it in parliament the draft bill suggests firing fifteen thousand civil servants and lowering the minimum wage increases two biggest trade unions have held a four day at how a strike against the measures of demonstrators clashed with police and. moderate a book on roof of the financial advisory firm a.c.m. partners in chicago believes the new bailout will merely delay

a greek economic catastrophe. greece is either going to commit to last year or the measures which i and many economists argue still is not enough to guarantee that recent deep balls or it will default just sooner rather than later a lot of people are talking about disorderly default i don't think the european union more greece is going to allow that to occur because frankly i think the markets have been fooling themselves the last six months by thinking that there is a better or there are an option i think what your first point is the much like reagan hanumant have been saying is a shrinking economy who are to buy percent this year think about what that means for our country already on the brink of you know social not necessarily collapse but definitely definitely instability and economic not through it but certainly you know it's certainly not growing in things certainly aren't getting better a decrease of mortify her sense of growth combined with the measures combined the political pressures of the european union will definitely distort disrupt result

significantly in two thousand and twelve. and artie's financial analyst mike sky's a believes that greece has become a convenient scapegoat for some other major countries the creditors who are going to take a haircut on their debt already have that fully insured in the credit default swap market and they're going to make money no matter what they don't take any risk that's why greece is in this problem to begin with all of the toxic debt that has been accumulated on banks' balance sheets around the world in germany and the u.k. and the u.s. have been put onto the balance sheet of greece and now the government of greece wants the people of greece to pay for this toxic debt the debt in greece did not originate in greece it originated in these other countries that have used greece as a toxic debt don't turn to don't their dad. well there are two we always love it when you participate in our story say would love to get your opinion on the ongoing situation in greece if you log on to dot com you can have your say in our latest

worldwide poll but today we're asking you what impact will the latest rescue measures have on the greek economy here's are you voting for this hour of dot com but exactly half of you believe that the new measures will do nothing as the greek economy is already a third think it will mean only more hardship for the greek people all eleven percent of you think the e.u. won't allow greece's economy to collapse and getting down to the nitty gritty here just a minority now believing that bailouts are the only way the country can survive or those are the figures for this hour all that could change if you had your thoughts in our debate. and as greece struggles to control its economic crisis the e.u. turns up the heat on iran over its nuclear program the european union has announced a series of financial sanctions including plans to stop importing iranian oil from july meanwhile the rons president mahmoud ahmadinejad announced that the islamic republic would soon reveal major advances in its nuclear program he also europe is

playing a risky game by cutting off trade with tehran because e.u. consumers account for around twenty percent of iran's oil output the spanish ambassador to tehran said that sanctions will hurt his country more than any other european state madrid based journalist. says the e.u. embargo serves only the interest of the us that what we're seeing here is not at the station that comes actually from european countries to spain never want to disembark go to to prove to be put in place this is something that comes externally from the united states pressure on the european union and he's not just to spain and italy also greece imports lots of oil from iran and it could be hard hit in a way that would bring them by. for the coming future that would be a complete disaster for the european union and for the euro and that can happen because of the. political move it has now become an economic issue and can have

even more. destructive effects if the iranians decide to say cut of the strait of hormuz or even if they now decide to beat europe to it by. by by cutting off their oil now because we need this time to find alternative supplies if they cut the supply now we want to be able to find them there will be a huge recession in europe. you're watching the weekly here on. live from moscow and still on the way in the program are saint or center but the man accused of being wiki leaks source of american secrets branded a terrorist by some others nominated him for the nobel peace prize. civil society is stepping into the front line of russian politics with the aim of keeping the upcoming presidential election fair and transparent leading figures and

members of the public and joining forces and most importantly they seem to have the support of all five candidates well as the voters. going off as these details. it doesn't take long to find videos of alleged violations during the recent parliamentary vote in russia just a couple of clicks is enough since years of these files have flooded the internet and even though most of the allegations are still to be proven in court tens of thousands of people have been taking to the streets demanding fair elections with marches presidential votes just around the corner events are unfolding quickly where. people want to vote responsibly and to know where their votes go they want political competition independent courts and media fooling the voters league is not . the idea it was floating in the air the voters league was officially founded in january by a group of journalists bloggers activists reuters and other public figures i'd

stay with swain g.d.s. clegg t.v. host and now activist. the lady. or the head of a charity fund and blogger. also known as dr lisa. ordinator of the blue buckets movement fighting for equal rights for everyone. our league is an opportunity to gather peace. who are not indifferent to what's happening the more people with a civil position there are just better the league's main goal is to ensure fair elections it's published a list of initiatives on the web divided into groups that everyone can be a part of public discussions and online votes are the key instruments and letters have been sent to all presidential candidates asking them to cooperate with the week and even though the project is less than a month auld everyone has so far agreed including pledging little to another

candidate businessman mikhail prokhorov has already struck a deal with the leak you have to go i'm willing to authorize one hundred fifty thousand league observers was also arranged to put together a unified database to keep track of the election for two cols according to its founders around ten thousand observers are needed to ensure a fair election in moscow alone. it's great that the civil society wants to be more active but it's clearly important not to cross the line and observers not only are positioned it is serious so for the mutations not to take sides in the political process. the league's founders say they'll shut the organisation down if it ever starts turning into a political movement they are keen to work with all candidates equally there's no doubt society has changed more people want to have more influence on russia's political life perhaps that's why it took less than one month for the voters league to establish ties with both the authorities and the opposition and with the help

promise from candidates the league just may secure enough access to effectively monitor the vote in march as long as it avoids taking sides and protects its neutrality is going off r t moscow. let's get to some other global news for you in brief this hour l.t.r. they will stop israel and gaza specifically israeli airstrikes on the gaza strip have left one person dead and at least four others wounded warplanes fired missiles at. three different areas just after midnight on saturday the first hit a field east of gaza city with another landing near the israeli border and a third near the city of qom eunice the israeli army confirmed the strikes saying they had targeted sites belonging to terrorist organizations. police fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of anti-government protesters in the capital manama and no injuries were reported but witnesses say at least one protester was detained has been on the rise over the past few weeks as the country

heads towards the first anniversary of a brutally crushed protest against king. five newspaper journalists have been arrested over alleged payments made to police and public officials rupert murdoch the owner of news international says he's committed to keeping the tabloid newspaper the sun up and running the investigation as part of the country's phone hacking scandal that came to light last year he revealed that journalists it was a common practice to monitor the private voicemail messages of celebrities. whitney houston has died at the age of forty eight the six time grammy award winner was found in a beverly hills hotel room on saturday the performer struggled with drugs and alcohol problems later in her career even went to rehab last year authorities have yet to determine the exact cause of houston's death.

while the u.s. army private bradley manning accused of passing government secrets to wiki leaks has been nominated for the nobel peace prize he's been put forward by the icelandic parliamentary group which said he should be recognised for exposing war crimes the twenty four year old who spent more than a year behind bars awaiting trial in the us meantime. a member of parliament things that manning has played an important role in helping to tackle war crimes committed by governments. bradley manning deserve this honor because he's been criminalized or blown whistle on war crimes it is not a criminal act to blow the whistle world or to blow the whistle on any crunch we feel bad. by these leaks for example the video calero motor. the wall. and to go loopy to people that have. pulled their way to

war in afghanistan and iraq through their governments need to now what is really going on there and by knowing what is going on there then we citizen can apply more pressure on our governments to be accountable for the crimes that have been put out in our name we do not and let the bradley manning case be a big part of his in just treatment to be the course of silencing all the people the courageous people who want to do their civic duty by reporting on crime spear corporates state or or military. it's a good to have you with us on this sunday you're watching ots here live from moscow with me rory suchet back with the headlines in just a moment. download

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to decide its future a. coalition of the willing. hundreds of people. killed across syria. protest of. which they refused to give up. on the people of greece.

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