arrive in chicago for the nato summit the city welcoming them with thousands strong . heavy handed police reaction. and the g. eight nations throw their weight behind greece staying in the euro zone but speculation that this is simply damage control and that a very different fate is being mapped out. plus the u.s. and. despite concerns the weapons could strengthen the regime's crackdown on growing demonstrations fueled by the ruling family plans for unity with saudi arabia.

with the top stories of the week today this is the weekly on the with me wrong. streets flooded with protesters chicago is greeting world leaders congregating there for the nato summit thousands are rallying against the block. walls demonstrations that have already received a harsh response from police i would details in our. throughout the last couple of days we have seen groups of protesters taking the streets of chicago different actions taking place we've seen about a thousand protesters walk the streets of the city they were chanting there were in fact clashes with police police took out with taunts we are hearing that one activist was run over by a police van we saw a woman protester with her face bleeding definitely clashes it was quite an intense

several hours of marching and protesting and at least a thousand people walking through the city hundreds of police officers everywhere people coming out on the streets of all walks of life to protest the nato summit taking place they disagree with the policies being implemented by the u.s. government and nato when it comes to afghanistan and the wars that the united states is fighting the protesters believe that money could be could be put to much better use especially in difficult economic situation in the united states for more details on what went on on the streets of chicago earlier today take a look at our report. being down and. handling this is what i am trying to capital murder everybody against the economic interests of many of them in the united states the one real changes. protesters now breaking through police barricades literally the entire

crowd hundreds of people running through the area that's being barricaded off by the police. great now the protesters are in the very heart of chicago they look like they have no intention of stopping and this really looks like a preview of things to come because this sunday march is actually expected to be the biggest one the biggest anti nato action that will be played. on the ground. of course we'll be keeping you updated on events in chicago throughout the day here on sci plus later we'll look closely at the rocking of the u.s. as we examine the timeline of the occupy movement that will be in our special report. we have to begin to identify.

my people don't see. it as a bunch of losers i'm i have a very good. people have jobs here that's all nonsense they're losers. and i do stay with us for our special report later on but for now the debt stricken in greece should stay in the euro sign that's the united message from leaders of the world's most powerful economies softer a day of cry sixty crisis talks in the u.s. athens dominated the g eight gathering all amid fears it may be headed for

a chaotic and unprecedented exit from the single currency bloc however some believe the talks behind closed door suggested a different agenda for that troubled nation and he said he has more on this. camp david was invaded by the europeans over the weekend or at least it seemed that way with almost all g eight talk touching the euro zone zone and there were new faces all focus was on a not so new an ever growing crisis and the million dollar question of could greece be current loose and leave the euro zone practically every financial analyst things that greece will leave it has to be an orderly withdrawal from the euro anything else would be disaster the official mantra from a new door to fear we must do everything so the greeks are able to stay in the euro zone. to remain young and that was once again the united stance is this camp david summit wrapped up but plan b.

is already in place officials in brussels have a back up just in case and germany has been hinting a referendum on a euro exit could be greece's best bet to believe the smiles and handshakes are just damage control i think this is just trying to put a pretty face on it is hoped in is so when the markets open monday they can have some good news to report but some media are more concerned with who was not a camp david then what was president putin says he's busy with his cabinet this weekend others think he's steamed over the street protests lots of speculation as to why putin skipped this g eight but very little based on logic president putin couldn't really contribute anything to a solution he could say right you have to solve your debt problem germany perhaps should in fact extend more danger to other weak members of the european union and so on but basically he'd be a bystander not the case for obama who in an election year can't afford to let euro

zone fall out worsen the u.s. economy russia sees this summit as a stop on the way to dunes g twenty where putin and obama. will sit down for talks with the g. twenty it focuses on a wider range of issues much more pressing to countries like russia and china who seek to have greater expectations from the broader format especially when it comes to financial turmoil and making sure all global issues make the cut reporting from the g. eight at camp david and he said no way. or disorderly so many analysts who believe greece will default on are trying to predict just how the events will unfold later we are scared to church economics writer for the guardian newspaper what he sees next patterns that if you are coming your way later this hour on r.t. for now a quick look. people have been modeling what

a greek exit from the euro zone would look like for the best part of a year politically and economically politically even those who are in favor of greece leaving so. they would accept that it would involve beyond being instruments people it would mean banks would. be akin to not be working it would mean that people start from the country especially with this the bureau's in their back pocket because the country would then need to stop copper from the country and to maintain a very high level move so it would feel a bit like a country with. the question all in the saudis really for the rest of the euro zone if the eurozone can say to the rest and to financial markets look greece is leaving but we all know greece is a special case you know behind the hands will say it's a bit of a basket case and actually its problems are not the rest of the euro zone that's what they really mean by an orderly exit if they can convince everyone that greece

is leaving because of greece not because of the euro i don't think the markets would buy that. and no interviews in twenty minutes time here on the program for now our attention to syria at least nine people have been killed another one hundred injured in a suicide bombing in the eastern part of the country the latest in a series of blasts in recent months targeting security hubs damascus claims it's being attacked by a terrorist alliance comprised of al qaeda and elements backed by regional powers and as artie's further reports there's a growing sense that a third force is creeping into the civil conflict with its own terrifying agenda. it was a little known terror group the l. ners for a front they claimed responsibility for last week's massive bombing in syria the blast carried out in a busy residential area designed to cause maximum damage damascus which the so long

had been through and they sheltered from the conflict throughout the rest of the country as in recent months the target of an increased bombing campaign this latest explosion considered the largest one and you can just see the devastation that it's caused. at the scene angry crowds to quite their terrorist acts shouting blame at saudi arabia and qatar is blame that many analysts think these countries actions are undermining the peace process if you. put the support. of america. to the. everything will be finished within two months but if they want to continue supporting them they want to be in the region treading amongst the rubble as people show the ruins of their homes in what is one of

damascus is poorest neighborhoods there's a real sense of a revolution spinning out of control there is uprising began as a peaceful pro-democracy movement that has splintered into a confusing mix of various groups political a nonpolitical. and the continued instability here and left the country wide open to attacks like this taking place. it's a plug problem. that. policy a very. provided chance for everyone to win the world to interfere this year. either by providing arms of providing funds providing fighters and soldiers and terrorists as people are left to bury their dead and with the hospitals full syrian people are once again trying to rebuild their homes and their lives and the focus has once

again turned to the ongoing peace question which is looking more and more by the day a wall is now in place around the blast site stark reminder that terror has served only as yet another barrier to peace here surface. it is good to have you with us here on r t still to come in the program london sees a protest policing itself. of officers joined the rallies furious over massive job losses and salary cuts also. we need a holocaust survivor story secret. and there's concern of further violent unrest in another country sucked into the arab spring that of bahrain this week the u.s. announced it's partially resuming sales to the country despite international

criticism over the ongoing crackdown on regime protesters there and as you can explains the move demonstrates washington's a selective approach to popular uprisings in different parts of the world. that was the immediate bahrain's persistent crackdown on protesters journalists and human rights activists that washington welcomes bahrain's crown prince and as well for the united. and pledges to resume arms supplies to a key ally in the gulf. the u.s. had suspended weapons sales to bahrain in the light of massive human rights violations by these sorties there but now the state department has issued a statement saying that american weapons will soon be heading to bahrain again. we've made this decision i want to emphasize on national security grounds we've made this decision mindful of the fact that there remain a number of serious unresolved human rights issues in bahrain which we expect the

government of bahrain to address bahrain host the u.s. fifth fleet it's around forty ships two aircraft carriers sixteen thousand personnel and major force in the gulf region clyde prestowitz a top economist in the reagan and clinton administrations argues the u.s. has traded principles for military bases that are worth the ruling. regime because of the base. in the gulf. and so yeah i think we compromised in the same statement announcing the resumption of arms supplies to bahrain washington calls for the countries opposition to show restraint. we're concerned by what has now become almost daily street violence and we are in this context bahrain's political opposition to call for an end to the violence against police that's a stark difference from the u.s.

approach towards other countries in the region engulfed in anti-government protests where the u.s. has tacitly or openly encouraged violence against government forces and libya the united states well it's over well. it supporting it was open openly supporting the libyan rebels and their acts against the state even though this was very hard to piece a truly sure that now was the one proper board and move and then syria similarly there has been no love in their holy war or restraint from by once by the opposition forces there so it's a little bit r c there's only in bahrain it's a highly asymmetrical it's a lot of situation it's not a case of them which. in which there's enormous violence brought by the protesters against the police forces it's clearly by the bahraini state against the civilians the general perception is that the u.s. doesn't want to rock the boat in bahrain because of its fifth fleet there so it's

a case of eyes wide shot that human rights violations it might seem like a normal trade off in the walls of politics but critics say it makes a mockery of america claiming the high moral ground in other countries in the arab world where political progress wages company check our reporting from washington r.t. . and the resumption of om sales the bus rain was followed by another controversial announcement that triggered mass protests in the country bahrain's ruling family and saudi arabia want to form a union the plan and despite being put on hold for now was denounced by protesters as an attempt at the next station the proposed deal also sparked outrage across iran which is some experts say has good cause for alarm. bahrain's government is enthusiastic for the very reason that the bahraini people are an enthusiastic because it's going to legitimize and systematize the saudi involvement in crushing the bahraini revolution drowning the bahraini revolution in in blood seventy

percent of the population sheer and increasingly actually systematically excluded from any positions of influence power effectively disenfranchised always have been in this regime and you know we have to ask why what's in it for saudi arabia and i answered that it's crucial to remember saudi arabia doesn't have an independent foreign policy never has done its foreign policy like those of the other gulf states is formulated in washington and london so we really have to ask why the colonial powers britain france and of course now the us why are they pursuing this course and i think we have to understand this in terms of the preparations which are underway for several years now for an aerial strike against iran which is still on the on the table the crushing of the bahraini resistance is crucial to the war plans against iran because it was the biggest deterrent to an attack on iran is of course the fear amongst the west at least in israel that actually the sheer

population in other countries will rise up. and start to resist that attack on iran so actually what's the crushing of the bahraini revolution is all to do with trying to preemptively destroy any potential resistance to the coming attack on iran. while many fear that unity with saudi arabia would mean an end to bahrain's democratic aspirations some initiatives of the saudis at home have already proven of those critics are correct as you'll find on our web site r t v dot com no two english saudi arabia bans the language calling it an unnecessary practice those details that are to dot com. plus twenty thousand. marched through the streets of frankfurt and the latest wave of rage sweeping europe we've got the latest footage and pictures from the heart of the protest on the i.

will get to the r.t. world update in just a few moments here on r t but for now this week's or a game of cat and mouse play out in moscow between opposition activists and police at several protest camps continued to spring up in the center of the capital only to later be evicted by offices a city court on tuesday ruled to support a lawsuit from local residents wanted the business to be evicted from the central square because of noise and little room police moved in after protesters refused to leave several people were detained but others moved to other the locations setting up new camps which were also broken up after locals template the camps were adopted by the opposition movement in moscow following flooded me at putin's inauguration as president on may the seventh they have almost one hundred permanent activists who pledged to continue their sit out campaigns indefinitely. over thirty

thousand u.k. police officers took to the streets to protest against salary cuts and job losses all in with the grip of the u.k.'s austerity squeeze artie's either ben it looks at the plight of the british bobby. a protest policing itself is a rare sight especially one this big that's because these protesters are the police thirty five thousand officers from across england and wales demonstrating against government cuts they call criminal never before so many bodies on one beat the problem is never again these black caps represent the number of police officers who lose their jobs in the carts sixteen thousand over the next four years cuts they say that could seriously threaten public safety it will have an impact on the executive not just that perception of the police and its people will see if you

that this is on the street and at the end of the day people see police police help is on the street they feel safe bitingly presence and that's just not going to happen in egypt it was known as the baxter police force in the will and with these kids it simply it will continue like that the police will be hit hard by government desperate to get more for less over five thousand officers have already been booted off frontline policing in the past year alone police pay and pensions will also be slashed in a sweeping twenty percent cuts the thin blue lines about to get much thinner we will be able to provide a service that's efficient as it is it. feels. like almost it was considered to be able to provide that service for them as it was a direct result will be saved it was up it's not just police probation officers are up for the chopper to the government wants to replace them with machines expected

to look like this removing yet another barrier protecting the public they're supposed to stop criminals re offending with nothing but a series of yes no questions they'll be trialed first in parts of london but without a lie detector these machines aren't exactly the spanish inquisition. nonsense to suggest that a machine could do the job of human being there's a real likelihood in danger that public protection in britain will be compromised if these machines are rolled up nationally. reviewed review deterioration behavior will be missed and most people will go and commit serious crimes against the public the government insists the machines are to cut costs stating this is a misrepresentation the london probation trust is investigating a range of a negative approach is to allow professionals to cut bureaucracy and spend their time more effectively with the offenders they supervise public protection will always be our priority not according to those charged with that role it's been four

years since police officers lost marched on mass three london the next time sure to be sooner than that if the government continues its squeeze on the bennett r t london. and an earthquake in italy starts off the r.t. what are they for you now some other global news in brief at least five people killed two others injured in the town of aurora after a powerful five point nine earthquake struck northern italy the tremor initially registered six point three the same magnitude as the deadly quake that hit like you know three years ago that killed three hundred. serbians are casting their ballots on sunday in a presidential runoff that pits the previous leader boris tadic against nationalist thomas in the college both candidates support the e.u. membership bid but says it shouldn't be achieved at any cost to her served two terms in office saw serbia capture some of europe's most wanted bosnian serb war

crimes suspects belgrade handed over rather than general ratko to international prosecutors and the hague and move criticized by many serbs that it was slightly ahead of his rival in the first round of voting two weeks ago facing accusations of forward by supporters of the. fuels fears of post-election violence. thousands of cambodians have gathered in the capital to commemorate the victims of the camero rouge regime some two million people died during the party's brutal four year rule most notorious was the use of so-called killing fields where thousands were tortured and executed. clashes between israeli forces and palestinian demonstrators erupted during the annual knock or catastrophe day march in the west bank the rally remembers the hundreds of thousands displaced after the creation of the state of israel in one thousand forty eight well arty's has met the story of

one woman who survived another war and kept it secret during the decades of the israeli palestinian conflict. for seven decades hid her secret only now has this muslim mother of seven and grandmother of twenty nine revealed to her family the full truth about her past and that i didn't want my children to be afraid for me and be part of my grief we're here all the time in a war between jew and arab so why tell them about another war that other war was in one nine hundred forty two parents were among the millions of jews rounded up across europe and sent to al should stay at a camp by the nazis layla's mother was eight months pregnant with her at the time or they are part of ritchie again i was born in auschwitz i was a jew i spent three years in auschwitz and i survived only because a christian doctor in the camp hit me and my two brothers under the floor in his house my mother and father worked for him and at night they would crawl in with us

and give us dry bread soaked in hot water with salt when they are members and make a playlist still feels fear when she hears loud knocking at the door and i think they're coming to kill me i remember the bones the bodies legs hands the people this barbed wire fence i remember terrible beatings in the camp that i cry a lot when i cry my heart is calm. after she was freed from the camp immigrated to israel when she was sixteen she met her husband a local arab man. i was working in a neighbor's house and she brought me something to drink we liked each other and decided to get married it did not matter to me that she was jewish. but it mattered to layla's family her father didn't speak to her for a year and most of her israeli jewish cousins have disowned the young couple moved here to. an arab village in northern israel their local versity islam she says so

that whole children would not have to serve in the israeli army and to now they knew their mother had. but they didn't know she'd been a holocaust survivor there i did not betray the jewish people i don't hate jews i definitely not really any converted for my children i feel completely accepted here if i hear someone say they hate jews i answer them and say you receive right from this country why hate the people who give them to you. now after seventy years her secret has finally come out clearly went to collect her pension money and the clark made the connection and that. we were shocked or didn't know what to say it was so difficult to hear but we opened our mouths and nothing came out to god she survived. his jewish name is the shaft but she hasn't really essence all those years ago when she arrived in israel as

a refugee just months before the state of israel was declared him a nine hundred forty eight a date is really celebrate but one that palestinians mourn is the nakba or catastrophe the displacement of hundreds of thousands of their ancestors so that the ocean i'm not happy or sad on this day i understand how israelis feel and i understand how arabs feel and i feel both a lot of people have died for nothing the jewish mother and the muslim mother feel the same pain and it's that pain that palestinians around the world remember today . fear r.t. all more for israel. it is a pleasure to have you with us here on our to today our interview examining the eurozone financial black hole that's coming up in just a moment where we talk to a leading economics writer for the guardian that's off to a recap of our top stories and i want to.

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