video on demand. an r.s.s. feed in the palm of your. dot com. a thousand strong protest welcomes nato leaders in chicago but police give it a heavy handed response. to. the group of eight industrialized nations expressed hope the greece can stay put in the eurozone but expos paint a very different picture of what's happening behind the scenes. and the u.s. opens its arsenal of weapons to popular king as a mass uprising in the state threatens to unseat the pro western.

with the top stories of the week and of today this is the weekly on the with me rule received a nato summit in chicago has been greeted by thousands of activists pouring into the city streets to protest the blocks costly wars there were clashes with police and further arrests with the protesters pledging that 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 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 in the words that the united states is fighting the protesters believe that money could be bitter 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. of the ramping down and. handling it is that i am so maybe not but it was march everybody against the economic system 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. 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 the biggest anti nato action that will be played. on the ground today. he will be bringing you extended coverage of the nato summit and how it's going on the streets of chicago or throughout sunday and monday. seeking an exit from a decade more than it used to leaving a legacy of atrocity. nato's chicago summers non-si. i know r.t. is coming to you live from moscow to stay or not to stay that is the 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 other behind the smiles and handshakes analysts saw concern and desire to see greece go. is at the g eight summit at camp david was invaded by the europeans over the weekend or at least it seemed that way with almost all of the g eight talk touching the euro zone zone and there were new faces focus on the not so new an ever growing crisis and the million dollar question of good grief be corrupt loose and leave the eurozone practically every financial analyst think that greece will leave it has to be an orderly withdrawal from the euro anything else would be disaster if it's a marker from a new door to fear as to everything so big groups are able to stay in the euro zone . to remain in the euro and that was once again the united

stance of this camp david summit wrapped up but plan b. it's already in place officially drop of a back up just in case and germany wasn't doing a referendum on a euro exit the greek thing that they did come 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 hope tim is or so when the markets open monday they can have some good news to report but the media are more concerned with what 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 he did the gate but very little. president putin couldn't really contribute any. 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 but euro zone fallout worsened the u.s. economy. as a result on the way to twenty nine obama city council which presents 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. but the chances of a greek eurozone exit greater than ever economists are predicting just how it will happen later on here on r.t. we are scared teacher chakraborty an economics writer for the guardian newspaper how he sees events unfolding the end of us next hour an hour a preview. people have been modeling what the 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 kims would not be working it would mean that people stop from the country specially with this bureaus in their back pocket because the country would then need to stop all copper from the country and to maintain a very high level move so it would feel like a country of marshall faulk. 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 that greece is a special case you know behind our 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 he

greece is leaving because of greece not because of the euro i don't think now the markets would buy that. it's good to have you with us here on r t today the island kingdom of bahrain is now off america's weapons export black list with a gun sales set to resume and that's despite an often bloody government crackdown on a popular uprising against the ruling monarchy and artie's suggests that in keeping with washington's 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 us has traded principles for military bases we 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 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 in libya the united states was openly attacking and supporting it was open openly supporting the libyan rebels and their attacks against the state even though this was. an arson essentially sure that now was the doing proper board 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 and 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 walled where political unrest wages company check out reporting from washington r.t. . and about iran's uprising is also being eagerly watched in iran that mass protests created attempts by a saudi arabia to form a union with buck reins ruling munna came when he saw the proposed union now on hold as being aimed at curbing iran's. regional influence as we saw the u.s.

house of representatives possibile intended to tighten the screws on iran's nuclear program the bill would make tehran a wall it's all good if it ever reaches a stage where we could just theoretically develop nuclear weapons. policy director from the national iranian american council says it's already just. well we have to remember that this is one week out from when the next round of negotiations are going to occur between the u.s. iran and the other u.n. permanent five security council members but it puts pressure on the administration to not be able to make the deals necessary in order to achieve the real goal and the goal that the president has stated which is to prevent a nuclear armed iran so this really is congress sending a message that the united states is should take a very hawkish approach to this and the meaning of capability has for a long time and controversial and has been sort of code for no enrichment

that having nuclear weapons capability is something that could be applied to any country that has a civilian nuclear program by the congress passing a resolution that says we can't contain a nuclear weapons capable iran it sends a signal that. we may already be at a point where war would be necessary in order to serve that goal. you're watching r t thanks for joining us today still to come for you in this hour out of law and disorder u.k. police protest in their thousands saying government cuts would leave them out of work and the public at risk. for and at most an aries and al qaeda linked militants are fighting in the ranks of rebels inside syria that's according to government officials damascus says even released the names of alleged foreign terrorists it claims to have captured twenty are said to be arabs who have confessed to working for al qaeda but the list also includes french and british

citizens meanwhile washington denies reports it's coordinating arms for the syrian opposition through qatar and saudi arabia yet syrian rebels say they've recently seen an influx of weapons from abroad and antiwar activist jim brown says the u.s. has a particular interest in making sure the opposition in syria is well armed clearly you have an opposition that is and there isn't a single opposition bloc and there are those voices that are clearly calling for foreign intervention and there are those who are clearly against it and i think these those two tended to be in particular afflicted in the splits in the opposition the united states has its own very special interest anyway and it would to some extent it would rely on its local allies but on the other hand it would never see complete control to them so they would be working in parallel and the united states would prefer a regime change as it preferred. they would like

to eliminate part of the opposition to iran. and i don't think that they consider there's a possibility of a favorable outcome if the syrian government remains in power and whatever they say whatever they talk about peace i think for them that's the that is the bottom line and that is their objective. a series of blasts took place in syria over the past week killing at least sixty four and of course in widespread damage they were carried out by suicide bombers targeting security and military facilities and as our correspondent on some of the reports syria's once flourishing tourism industry has unsurprisingly taken a major hit during the year long conference. he wanted to see the world but became a touring sensation himself martin at twenty eight year old boss driver from germany was on

a year long by journey when he answered syria about two weeks ago while his home country has kept a fairly low profile in the diplomatic spat over the fate of syria he says he often hears locals complain about the western meddling in serious internal affairs i think the problem is that new is trying to tell you sometimes from seeing and you believe it at the news hour board to tell you different stories in the news instead of the country so i always thought it's just a problem that inside of syria but now many syrian people came here their problems are coming out from outside of the country our home and this interest like martin would be very welcome guests in syria these days but there are very few and far between the countries tourism industry was devastated by the revolution but the number of visitors slumping by more than ninety percent in the lap of the country's largest city and home to countless you know ask a heritage site the ten percent occupancy rate is now considered as joke of luck

you know this is one of the sixty five rooms you are talking about an hour out of the sixty five how many in the uk but not more than five rooms and it's not just about lost profit in aleppo which some claim is the oldest continuously inhabited settlement on earth tourism has helped save vital landmarks such as remain martini's boutique hotel. we gave a new lease of life to the four centuries old building ramy money team is not shy in criticizing the assad government for the slow pace of economic reforms yet he believes that's no reason to bring the whole country to the point of self-destruction nobody could imagine that syria could. get to such a situation like now at the beginning everybody was looking for freedom but afterwards when it comes to clashes and fire and killing and killing for nothing just only

that you're with the government or against the government and kidnapping people really we are sorry for syria to come like this what's made things even worse is that do you thousand and ten the last year before the syrian uprising was the most successful on record for serious tourism industry revenues john by sixty percent prompting many to take out investment loans they're no longer able to repay no wonder many now feel bankrupted by their revolution in times of crisis tourism is always the first to fall and the last to recover and sarah learned the hard way what's ironic is that in order to rise from the ashes this country desperately needs visitors from the same nations that contributed to the current crisis actually work our sea syria. don't hesitate to log onto our web site r.t. dot com for the stories you may have missed as well as the latest news and videos

here's a quick taste of what's standing a by a few on the website of the moment of the not so holy i've to vittie in a very holy place an online leak of internal documents from the vatican exposes back door dealings and corruption and what's supposed to be a sacred kingdom plus. facebook to see. updates his relationship status to married after a surprise wedding ceremony. to find out more that are don't come. this is r.t. will get to the world update shortly for now though 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 the lives of local residents who wanted activists removed from the central square due to the noise and littering police went in after protesters refused to leave several people were detained but others set up new sites in different locations before being forced on again the camps and become of the opposition movements the latest protest tool in moscow following a lot of me of putin's inauguration as president on may the seventh almost one hundred activists have pledged to continue their sit in campaigns indefinitely. now the austerity squeeze in the u.k. is driven tens of thousands of police officers onto the streets to protest funding cuts and they believe the measures will leave thousands of unemployed on the streets and less protected by this report now to r.t. as i have been at. but 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 cuts sixteen thousand over the next four years cuts they say that could seriously threaten public safety it will have an impact on public safety not just that the perception of the police and its people we'll see if you will this is on the street and at the end of the day people see police the police and this is on the street they feel safe bitingly a presence and that's just not going to happen egypt it was known as the baxter police force in the will and with these cuts 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 is committed to be able to provide that service for them as it has 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 and. position nonsense to suggest that a machine could do the job of a human being there's a real likelihood in danger that public protection in britain will be compromised

if these machines are rolled up nationally. deviant behavior deterioration behavior will be missed and most people will go and commit serious crimes against the public the government insists the machines 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 last 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 to some other global news in brief with the r.t. world update no. way has killed at least four people in northern italy and caused serious damage to buildings and several towns the six point zero magnitude tremor

struck at night and forced terrified residents out onto the streets the victims were killed when building walls and roofs collapsed in two thousand and nine a devastating quake killed more than three hundred people in the central italian city of lockyer. casting their votes in a presidential runoff pro europe candidate boris tadic shoes already served two terms in office is up against a nationalist thomas law from the college the election is key for serbia's membership 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 four and one of those declared the results for. the palestinian demonstrators clashed with israeli forces this week this during. the annual dark day march in the west bank translated as catastrophe of the day remembers the hundreds of thousands displaced after the creation of the state of israel in one nine hundred forty eight and as artie's fall

asleep reports even now some palestinian families are being literally walled off from. a lonely house on a hilltop tells the whole story of palestinian plots of land passed on through the generations now under threat i don't read a number i don't want one i want my gran and for his insistence almost paying the price is small papa she is on the wrong side of the wall tel aviv is building between israel and the palestinians and what was once on mars was part of a larger village he'll soon be cut off from it and alone on the other side from this time i feel. it's really tractors have already for eight months been building the prison or more refers to digging up the ground around his house the plan will see his home cut off by a five metre high electrified fence and a tunnel monitored by security cameras will connect him with a larger village. after. the experience for the around. this this

this rod and go for in the tunnel. there is there live there now and go the village . she's got this tunnel two hundred fifty meter. this done well which is very very big ball for this tunnel five nearly on hundred thousand jekyl just to build this for just only one family. for decades already israel has been building a wall that cuts through the west bank these raby states for security but palestinians complain it saves them from their land and communities the leadership of israel is going crazy and they have no real plan their have no really vision no real vision of a very good long term israel because walls will not and will never ever provide security for this one is a good neighbor is actually provide security and we do not have good neighbors eventually the village of larger will also be completely closed in by the wall the

only way in and out will be through this entrance that the israelis will control here too the israelis are building another tunnel this one is so that omar's neighbors can reach a small family cemetery they'll be an electrified fence and the local joke is that not only are the israelis separating palestinians from their land they're separating the living from the dead but with each tilt of the soil almost families connection to the land is threatened to be even more polluted for emergency. what they can do just the idea term future in. this. this for you all and this for my father or. my grandfather. don't live in the future it's. like a future times against him and with every new brick that goes up the families isolation is cemented policy r.t. the larger village. and just a few few minutes i hear on t.v.

we will travel to a remote republican russia's south there were known for its waterfalls and canyons much natural beauty there and do stay with us for that that will be after a quick recap for our top story. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

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