we wanted to present. something you know. thousand strong protest welcomes nato leaders in chicago but police give it a heavy handed response wielding their batons on activists. the world's leading economies of the g eight call on greece to sit tight in the eurozone but analysts believe they're painting a very different picture behind the scenes. how the u.s. opens its weapons arsenals to brains embattled king as a popular uprising in the state threatens to unseat the morning.

you are watching the weekly here on ars he is we highlight the top stories of the week and of today i'm wrong receipt showing nato summit in chicago has been greeted by thousands of activists pouring into the streets to protest the block's costly and deadly wars there were clashes with police sun further arrests where the protesters pledging their numbers will swell over the next two days. looks at what lies at the heart of the popular discontent. throughout the last couple of days we have seen groups of protesters taking up 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. these are. being down in. handling this. murder everybody against the economic system many of them in the united states 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. right now the protesters are in the very heart of chicago it looks 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 today. and we will be bringing you extended coverage of the next summit and how it's going on the streets of chicago throughout sunday and monday. see that makes it. to cable. and the legacy of atrocity. they tell see how the sunspots. watching r.t. live from moscow to stay or not to stay that's a question facing greece as political instability catapulted towards an exit from the euro zone however the leaders of some of the world's most powerful economies gathered for talks in the u.s.

publicly declaring it should stay put that behind the smiles and handshakes analysts sorkin's desire to let greece go he said he said now it's at the g eight summit in america 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 there were new. focus was on a not so new an ever growing crisis and the million dollar question of could greece be corrupt 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 march route from a new door to here with us to everything so the greeks are able to stay in the euro zone. to remain in your room and that was once again the united stance of 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 greeted at that time to believe the smiles and handshakes are just damage control i think this is just trying to predict what a pretty face on it is hoped in is so when the markets open monday they can have some good news to report but the media are more concerned with whether or not a camp david but 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 people get this gate but very little based on logic president putin couldn't really contribute anything. to a solution you 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. as a result on the way to twenty nine obama will sit down with the g. twenty it focuses on a wider range of issues much more pressing to countries like russia and china who seem 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. well sincere or not once deafening chorus calling for greece to stay is now a mere chant but marcus kerber professor of political economics at the berlin institute of technology says that now even a greek exit won't be enough to save the euro the unconditional. euro savers as they are now prisoners of their own misjudgments their errors of judgment turn

out to be fatal because the crisis about the euro is on far more than just a currency it's about the future integration of europe and we have come to a point where we can no longer solve the euro crisis by simply urging or pushing all requesting greece to opt out and to leave the eurozone because the problems are far beyond that we could have said some two years ago when the crisis was a very beginning so the discussion is no longer about greece the discussion is no longer about whether germany is profiting or benefiting less or more from the you from the eurozone the question is how we can get the problem solved as quickly as possible without damaging the european integration process. you're watching r t it's good to have your company today and still to come at this hour the blame game in syria a series of deadly blasts ripped through the conflict on a country raising concerns that foreign powers are playing an increasing part in

their. learning the hard way we bring you more on what's left of egypt's security in the wake of the uprising now people are surviving and made the impotence of the police. and not far from syria the people's plight against a totalitarian monarchy has hit a brick wall of state security forces but despite an ongoing crackdown the island kingdom of bahrain is now off america's weapons export black list with a gun sales about to resume its artie's guy nature can explains that keeping with washington selective approach to just who deserves freedom. that was the emmett bahrain's persistent crackdown on protesters journalists and human rights activists washington welcomes bahrain's crown prince and his back to the united states. and pledges to resume arms supplies to

a key ally in the gulf. the us 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 we've 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 country's opposition to show restraint. we 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 was openly acting in supporting it was open and openly supporting the libyan rebels and their attacks against the state even though this was. an art and the situation that now was the doing proper border and and then syria similarly there has been no and there were only four or restrain from violence by the

opposition forces there so it's a little bit are you there's only in bahrain it's a highly asymmetrical about a situation it's not a case in which. and once 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 wall of politics but critics say it makes a mockery of america claiming the high moral ground in other countries in the arab walled where political unrest wages company check out reporting from often hard to . long sigh those weapons shipments saudi arabian forces are also said to be heavily engaged in suppressing dissent in bahrain professor sayat mohammad marandi from the university of tehran says there's only one goal to save

a decrepit but friendly regime. this is basically for the survival of the dictatorship in bahrain because the dictatorship the king is immensely unpopular the vast majority of the people of bahrain want to go over throw of the regime but unfortunately the west supports the saudis and the dictatorship and in order to crush the revolution he allowed saudi forces to effectively occupy the country it's very interesting that the people of bahrain despite all this this small country has put up so much resistance and i think this itself shows the immense weakness that lies behind the saudi regime the fact that the united states supports the bahraini and saudi dictatorships also makes them responsible for the both the bloodshed as well as the current situation at large you're watching r t thanks for joining us today much more ahead for you including that of memorial day

violence israelis and palestinians clash during a rally to remember those who lost their homes in their conflicts we meet a woman whose life broader excuse me whose life brought from her from one side to the other. a series of blasts took place in syria over the past week killing at least sixty four and causing widespread damage they were carried out by suicide bombers targeting security and military facilities islamist militants from al qaeda have been blamed for the attacks and sara further reports there's a growing suspicion in syria that third parties are fueling the conflict. it was a little known terror groups the al nusra front they claimed responsibility for last week's massive bombing. last carried out in a busy residential area designed to cause maximum damage damascus which for so long had been through and then sheltered from the conflict throughout the rest of the

country has in recent months found the target of an increased bombing campaign this latest explosion it can fit the largest one you can just see the devastation that it's cool that. there are. at the scene angry crowds at the quite the paris shouting blame at saudi arabia and. it's plain that many analysts. think these countries actions are undermining the peace process if you. stopped supporting of united states of america. supporting. everything will be finished within. but if they want to continue supporting them they want to. in the region trying amongst the rubble is. that what is one of damascus is poorest neighborhoods

is a real sense of a revolution. was there is uprising began as a peaceful pro-democracy movement that is splintered into a confusing mix of various groups political a political. and the continued instability here left the country wide open to attacks like this taking place. it's a problem it's a dilemma for the syrians that they're. very she provided the chance for everyone to in the world to interfere and this you know. either by providing arms or providing fire funds or providing fighters and saw gers 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 is once again turned the on going piece. looking normal for the day

a wall is now in place around the blast site stuck with mind that terror has served only as you know that the area to peace here. and the violence in syria has been echoing in neighboring lebanon where ten people were killed and dozens wounded in sporadic clashes throughout the week shootouts erupted in the northern city of tripoli between sunni supporters of the syrian opposition and our whites that backed president assad the army had to move in to maintain order the violence is being stoked by the fact that on the transit route for weapons shipments to syria and also by the deep ties shared by the two states this according to mark almond a visiting professor of international relations at bill kent university in turkey lebanon obviously has a history of civil war not released. clearly because of the role of lebanon as the

key route into syria arms and equipment to so-called free syrian army up of rebel groups. not least because many lebanese shia creel one particular faction in syria. could lead to that group also dominating lebanon also written a long time until five years ago maybe now. we might see a new syria. regime reimposing many lebanese border. you're watching the weekly on r.t. police and opposition protesters in moscow have played a game of cat and mouse with illegal encampments popping up in the city's center this week only to be evicted later a city court on tuesday ruled in support of a lawsuit from local residents who wanted activists removed from a central square because of noise and littering police went in after protesters refused to leave several people were detained but others set up new sites in

different locations were for being forced on again the camps have become the opposition movements the latest protest tool in moscow following vladimir putin's inauguration as president on may the seventh almost one hundred activists have pledged to continue their sit in campaigns indefinitely. well i don't hesitate to log onto our web site dot com for the stories you may have missed as well as the latest news and videos here's a taste of what's there for you right now the not so holy active very holy place an online leak of internal documents from the vatican exposes back door dealings and corruption in what's supposed to be a sacred kingdom plus. facebook's c.e.o. mark zuckerberg updates his relationship status after a surprise wedding ceremony and more on that on our web site.

so nearly twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital egyptians vote next week in the country's first presidential election since former leader hosni mubarak was ousted but the ballots amid accusations by human rights watch that the military has been torturing hundreds of protesters arrested earlier this month they were to go to school has more on the security nightmare left after the revolution. it's not just protests the disruptive peace on the streets of cairo just ask taxi driver. it was calm before the revolution one hundred percent where in a total mess now i used to drive anywhere wherever they want us came from never refused a customer now i park my car in the guard at six pm and go home with

a special security system on it so it would be harder to steal. robberies car thefts all have become part of a daily life in large cities like cairo and alexandria since after the revolution many people say the police at times simply choose to turn away when a crime is being committed in the mayhem that followed the uprising of january two thousand and eleven many believe thousands of convicts escaped from unguarded prisons a crime wave has followed with egyptian media reporting more than twenty five hundred murders and some two thousand abductions since their revolution yet the police are accused of doing little or the police a lot of respect a lot of. the tools that they had to work with like the weapons. most of the egyptian people for that this police has been treating

my. this. is no nothing to us we are the police. and the minister charged with enforcing the law has a very different view saying the situation is under control. i want to settle about like the shop i told the members of the people's council look at the results he managed to achieve in record time i'm sure that no one could have done as much yet we had a total collapse of everything and stability was nonexistent i don't have it all numbers regarding organized crime groups robberies and thefts they were committing and the achievements we've made at that in the meantime until com returns to egypt heba him and others will continue to close up shop early and head home before sunset fearful not only for their property and possessions but for their safety and lives in cairo in a ghost go. and in the next hour here on r t will bring you more on security

prospects but this time in the u.k. tens of thousands of police officers take to the streets protesting against planned cuts that could sixteen thousand bodies off the beach it's all in a move critics say will be fatal for the public safety. palestinian demonstrators clashed with israeli forces this week during the annual not commo day of march in the west bank translated as a catastrophe the day remembers the hundreds of thousands displaced after the creation of the state of israel in one nine hundred forty eight artie's paul asli i met one jewish woman who survived an even earlier conflict and ended up with an arab family. for seven decades hid her secret only now has his muslim mother of seven and grandmother of twenty nine revealed to her family the full truth about her past i need 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 auschwitz did camp by the nazis mother was eight months pregnant with her at the time or layout clarity 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 a 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 still when they are members and make a playlist all 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 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 she brought me something to drink. decided to get married it did not matter to me that she was jewish. but had matter 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 layla converted to islam she says so that her 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. i did not betray the jewish people are really only converted from 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's where we were shocked we didn't know what to say it was so difficult to hear but we opened our mouths and nothing came out i think got she survived. his jewish name is leah shufti but she hasn't really since 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 that one left palestinians mourn is the nakba or catastrophe the displacement of hundreds of thousands of their ancestors and 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 paying. for israel. and straight to the r.t. world update for you now some other global headlines in brief a powerful earthquake has killed at least four in northern italy and caused serious damage to buildings in several towns the six point zero magnitude tremor struck at night and forced terrified residents out onto the streets the victims were killed when the building walls and roofs collapsed in two thousand and nine a devastating quake killed more than three hundred in the central italian city of lucky or. so it's a casting their votes in a presidential runoff pro europe candidate boris tadic shoes already served two terms in office is up against nationalist love and acknowledge that the election is key for serbia's e.u. membership and will determine its policy towards reconciliation with its balkan neighbors including cause of the first round of the ballot on may the sixth was marred by allegations by the nationalists about rigging although foreign monitors

to clear their results for. our interview examining the eurozone financial blackhole that's coming up in a few minutes every talk to a leading economics writer for the guardian newspaper that will be after a recap of our top stories.

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