leaders arrive in chicago for the nato summit the city welcoming them with. protests. staying. at speculation that this is simply possibly damage control but a very different. despite the weapons could strengthen the regime's growing demonstrations fueled by the. saudi arabia.

with the top stories of the week today. streets flooded with protests. for the nato summit rallying against the block. walls demonstrations that have already received a harsh response from police. 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 tongs 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 not that is murder everybody against the economic interests of many of them in the united states and the one real change is. 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. and right 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 of the biggest anti nato action that will be playing. around. when of course so we will keep you updated on the events in chicago throughout the day plus later today we look closely at the anger rocking 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 those. pushed.

by people. such as a bunch of losers but i have a very good. people have jobs here that's all nonsense they're losers. he watching on t.v. that stricken greece should stay in the eurozone that as the united message from leaders of the world's most powerful economies ofter a day of crisis talks in america dominated the g eight gathering i had fears it may be headed for a chaotic and unprecedented exit from the single currency bloc however some believe

that talks behind closed doors suggested a different agenda for the troubled nation. has more on this. camp david was invaded by the europeans over the weekend or at least it seemed that way with almost all ga talk touching the eurozone. 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 predict put a pretty face on it does hope to ms or so when the markets open monday they can have some good news to report but the 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 doan's 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 this in no way. well orderly or disorderly many analysts who believe greece will default and are trying to predict how events will unfold later we asked the church of a party economics writer for the guardian newspaper what he sees next for athens the interviewer coming your way next hour here on r.t. for another way quick preview. of 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 people it would mean banks would. be a kim's would not be working it would mean that people stop from the country especially with this bureaus in their back pocket because the country would then need to stop copper from the come and to maintain a very high level move so it would feel like a country marshal. the question all in the saudis really for the rest of the euro zone if the euro zone 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. it's only ten minutes past the hour here in moscow thanks for joining us on r.t. at least nine people have been killed another one hundred injured in a suicide bombing in eastern syria the latest in a series of blasts in recent months targeting security hobbs' damascus claims it's being attacked by a terrorist alliance comprised of al qaida and elements backed by regional powers and as r.t. sara further reports from syria there is a growing sense that a third force is creeping into the civil conflict the tone 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 that's 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 at the quite then terrorist acts shouting blame at saudi arabia and qatar is blame that many analysts. saying 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 us the ruins of their homes and what is one of

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

again turned to the ongoing peace mission which is looking more and more fragile 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. still ahead for you in the program here on our london sees a protest. thousands of joining. the rallies of massive job losses and. also. holocaust survivor the. first seventeen years. of israeli palestinian. concern of further violent unrest in another country sucked into the arab spring of bahrain this week the u.s. announced its partially resuming arms sales to the country despite international criticism over the ongoing crackdown on the regime protesters that. explains the

move demonstrates washington's approach to popular uprisings in different parts of the world. that was the emmett 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 have sided with the ruling sunni. regime because of the base of the. in the gulf. and so yeah i mean 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 in libya the united states well it's over. for larry king in supporting it was open openly supporting the libyan rebels and their acts against the state even though this was a hard to be situation that now was the ruling proper board and then syria similarly there has been no and there were only four or restrain from by wants 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 not a situation it's not a case in 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 at 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 unrest wages company check out reporting from washington r.t. . now the resumption of bombs sales to bahrain 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 to sought despite out being put on hold for now and was denounced by protesters as an attempt at an acceleration the proposed deal also sparked outrage across iran which 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 answering that is 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 and france and of course now the u.s. why are they pursuing this course and i think we have to understand this in terms of the preparations which have been 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 western elites 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. and while many fear unity with saudi arabia would mean an end to bahrain's democratic aspirations some initiatives of the saudis at home have already proven those critics are right and you'll find a call to come here we are no two english saudi arabia of bands the language calling it an unnecessary practice those details that are to dot com. plus twenty thousand marched through the streets of frankfurt in the latest wave of occupy rage sweeping europe we've got the latest footage and pictures from the heart of the protest in life.

you're watching the weekly on r.t. and this week's or a game of cat and mouse play out in moscow between opposition activists and police circle protest camps continue to spring up in the center of the capital only to later be evicted by officers a city called on tuesday rule to support a lawsuit from local residents who wanted activists to be evicted from a central square because of noise and littering police moved in after protesters refused to leave several were detained but others moved to other locations in setting up new camps which were also broken are the locals complain the camps were adopted by the opposition movement in moscow following of lot of near putin's inauguration as president on may the seventh they have also almost one hundred permanent activists who pledged to continue their sit out campaigns indefinitely. with over thirty thousand a u.k.

police officers took to the streets to protest against salary cuts and job losses amid the grip of the u.k.'s austerity squeeze about it now looks at the plight of the british bobby. approach policing itself is a rinse site 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 executives not just that a section of the police it is people will see if you well 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 a presence and that's just not going to happen in egypt it was known as the facts the police force in the will and with these it's 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 issued it is it. feels. like almost it was created to be able to. direct the stores of course 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 in big. there's a real likelihood and the public protection in britain because if these machines are rolled out nationally. even if you are deteriorating behave you 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 knowledge of approaches to law 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 last marched on mass three london the next time sure to

be sooner than that if the government continues its squeeze either bennett r.t. london. as a mother global news for you in brief with the r.t. world updatable of italy least five being killed and two others injured in farah 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 three years ago killing almost three hundred. serbians are casting their ballots on sunday in a presidential runoff that pits the previous leader boris tadic show against nationalist thomas lapham the college of both candidates support the e.u. membership bid but in a college says it shouldn't be achieved at any cost target shooter served two terms in office saw serbia capture some of europe's most wanted bosnian serb war crimes suspects belgrade handed over another one. to international supporters at the

hague a 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 fraud by supporters of nick college which fuels fears of post-election violence. thousands of have gathered in the capital to commemorate the victims of the 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. clusters of between israeli forces and palestinian demonstrators erupted during the annual 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 nine hundred forty eight. heard of 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. 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 auschwitz to camp by the nazis layla's mother was eight months pregnant with her at the time all our pleasure richey 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 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 so when they are medicine we care.

still feels fear when she hears a 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 or immigrated to israel when she was sixteen she met her husband a local arab man. i was working in a neighbour's house and she brought me something to drink we liked each other and decided to get married it did not. mattered to me that she was jewish. but had matter to his 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 they were converted to islam she says so that whole children would not have to serve in the israeli army and to now they

knew their mother had been through it but they didn't know she'd been a holocaust survivor there law i did not betray the jewish people i don't hate jews and 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 the feds that we were shocked we didn't know what to say it was so difficult to hear that we opened our mouths and nothing came out of her gut she survived. his jewish name is leah shufti 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 israeli celebrate but one that palestinians mourn is the nakba or catastrophe the displacement of hundreds of thousands of their ancestors led them should 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 their pain that palestinians around the world remember today . r.t. omar for israel. certainly hope you can stay with us here are to you in just a few minutes we travel to a remote republican russia south renowned for its waterfalls canyons and of course local delicacies that will be in just a moment after the top story.