but thousand strong protests welcomes the nato leaders in chicago but police give it a heavy handed response wielding their batons on activists. the group of eight industrialized nations expressed hope that greece can stay in the euro zone but exports paint a very different picture of what's actually happening behind the scene. and the u.s. opens its arsenal of weapons to bahrain's unpopular king as a mass uprising in the state threatens to unseat the pro western money.

with the top stories of the week and of today this is the weekly on our t.v. with me rule research nato summit in chicago has been created by thousands of activists pouring into the city streets to protest the blocks costly and deadly wars there were clashes with police and further arrests with the protesters pledging their numbers will swell over the next two days. look at what lies ahead 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 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 and. handling it is that i am trying to capital murder everybody against the economic instability in the united states the one real change of. the 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. on the ground. and also you will bring you the extended coverage of the nato summit and how it's all echoing on the streets of chicago throughout sunday and monday. see it for me to get. used to believing the legacy of atrocities. need to be sick. to stay or not to stay that is the question facing greece as political instability catapulted towards an exit from the eurozone however the leaders of some of the world's most powerful economies gathered for talks in the united states publicly

declaring it should stay where it is behind the smiles and handshakes analysts saw concern and a desire to let greece go and he said is that the g eight summit 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 there were new faces of focus was on a not so new and 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 flirt with must do everything so the greeks are able to stay in the euro zone. breeze to remain in the euro and that was once again the united stance 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 is hoped in is over so when the markets open monday they can have some good news to report but the media are more concerned with who was not at camp david then what was present. 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 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 dunes 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 do 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 now a r.t. well sincere or not once deafening chorus calling for greece to stay is now a mere chant but marcus the professor of political economics of 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 years and the question is how we can get the problem solved as quickly as possible without damaging the european integration process. it's good to have you with us here on our t.v. today still to come for you this hour of the blame game in syria series of deadly blasts ripped through the conflict torn country by raising concerns that foreign powers are playing an increasing part in

a. band of learning the hard way we'll bring you more on what's left of egypt's security in the wake of the uprising and people are so by thinking of it the chaos on the streets. the island kingdom of bahrain is now off america's weapons export blacklist with gun sales about to resume that despite an often bloody government crackdown on a popular uprising against the ruling monarchy and artie's garniture can suggest keeping with washington's selective approach to just who deserves freedom. to meet bahrain's persistent crackdown on protesters journalists and human rights activists washington welcomes bahrain's crown prince as well to the united. and pledges to resume arms supplies to

a key ally in the gulf. the us had suspended weapon sales to bahrain in the light of massive human rights violations by these stories 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 a major force in the gulf clyde prestowitz a top economist in the reagan and clinton administrations argues the us has traded principles for military bases weaves either the worth of the ruling sunni. regime because of the base of the of the fifth fleet. 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 openly supporting the libyan rebels and their attacks against the state even though this was. an art in the situation that now was the doing proper board and then syria similarly there has been no then 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 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 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 washington r.t. . and alongside those weapons shipments to saudi arabia and forces are also said to be heavily engaged in suppressing dissent and buck rein professor sayyid mohammad marandi from the university of tehran says there's only one goal to say to create that but friendly regime. this is basically for the survival of the

dictatorship in bahrain because the dictatorship the king is immensely popular the vast majority of the people want to go before the regime but unfortunately the west supports the saudis and the dictators 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. live from moscow still much more ahead for you this hour including your memorial

day violence israelis and palestinians clash during a rally to remember those who lost their homes in conflicts we meet a woman who crossed from one opposing side right to the other. a series of blasts took place in syria over the past week killing at least sixty four people causing widespread damage they were carried out by suicide bombers targeting security and military facilities now islamist militants from al qaeda have been blamed for the attacks and as sara further reports there's a growing suspicion in syria that third parties are helping to fuel the conflict. it was a little known terror group the al nusra 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 has in recent months found itself the target of an increased bombing

campaign this latest explosion considered the largest one and you can just see the devastation that is cool. but at the scene angry crowds at a quite them terrorist acts shouting blame at saudi arabia and qatar is playing that many analysts saying these countries actions are undermining the peace process if you. stopped supporting of united states of america. supporting guns to that. everything will be finished within two months but if they want to continue supporting them they want to. in the region chatting amongst the rubble as people show us the ruins. and 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 has splintered into a confusing mix in various groups political a nonpolitical. 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. provided the chance for everyone to in the world to interfere and this you know. either by providing arms of providing five sons or providing fighters and saucers 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 fake is his once again turned the peace it is looking more able to day a

wall is now in place around the blast site stuck with mind that terror has served only as yet another barrier 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 alawite backed president assad and the army had to move in to try and maintain order the violence is being stoked by the fact that lebanon is a transit route for weapons shipments to syria and by the deep ties shared by the two states and 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. because of the role of lebanon. into syria arms and equipment free syrian army up

a rebel group it makes sense to publish because many lebanese. action in syria. would lead to that group also dominating government also written a long time until five years ago maybe now. we might see a new syria. regime reimpose in many lebanese border. live from the russian capital this is artsy police and opposition protesters here in moscow have played a game of cat and mouse with illegal encampments popping up in the city center this week only to later be evicted 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 were detained but others set up new sites in different locations before being forced out once again the camps have become the opposition

movements 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 sitting campaigns indefinitely. well i don't hesitate to a logon to our website on t.v. dot com for the stories that you may have missed as well as the latest news and videos a quick taste now of what's standing by you at our north com other not so holy activity 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 mark zuckerberg updates his relationship status to married after a surprise wedding ceremony more details on that side. egyptians are vote next week in the country's first presidential election since

former leader hosni mubarak was ousted but they will cast their ballots amid accusations by human rights watch that the military has been torturing hundreds of protesters arrested earlier this month artes are going to go has more on the security nightmare left after the revolution. it's not just protests the disrupt 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 were. never refused a gust now i park my car in the garden at six pm on my own 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. the police a lot of respect a lot of. the tools that they work with like the weapons the cars most of the different people for that this police has been treating my. this police is not looking 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 out

like the shot you 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 as to billet he was nonexistent i don't have it all numbers regarding organized crime groups robberies and fests they were committing and they achieve means we've made. that in the meantime until calmer turns to egypt he brought 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 r.t. . and in the next hour here on r.t. will bring you more on a 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 bobbies off the beat in a move critics say will be fatal for the public saying. we're going to be artsy

world or very shortly for an elbow palestinian demonstrators clashed with israeli forces this week during the annual not by day of march in the west bank translated as a catastrophe the day remembers the hundreds of thousands to displaced after the creation of the state of israel in one nine hundred forty eight. about one jewish woman who survived an even earlier conflict and then still ended up with an arab family. for seven decades later between 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 the past because i didn't want my children to be afraid for me and be part of my grief we hear all the time interval between jews and arabs 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 you had and sent to auschwitz did camp by the nazis layla's mother was eight months pregnant with her at the time all our

pleasure ritchie again i was born in auschwitz i was a jew i spent three years in auschwitz and i survived only victims are christian daughter in a camp and my two brothers and i said lauren he's my mother and father worked for him as 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. list to feel safe here when she hears a loud knocking if they do a lot of my things they're coming to kill me i remember the bone in the body legs. it's barbed wire fence i remember to. terrible beatings in the camp i cry a lot when i cry my heart is in the army. 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. and she brought me something to drink

your very decided to get married. she was jewish. but it mattered to layla's family her father didn't speak to her for you know 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 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 have the law i did not betray the jewish people are really only converted from my children should i feel completely accepted here if i hear someone say they know i answer them and say you receive right from this country why hate the people who give them jim had a home and now after seventy years the secret has finally come out clearly when she collect her pension money and the clark made the connection and that's that. we

were shocked we didn't know what to say it was so difficult to hear opened their mouths and nothing came out of god she survived. layla's jewish name is a shock 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 let 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 and. a lot of people have died for nothing the jewish mother and the muslim mother feel the same painting policia r.t. for israel. time now for the r.t. world update here and a stronger aftershock hit northern italy causing more damage and more buildings to collapse it comes after

a powerful earthquake killed at least four people and cost serious damage to buildings in several towns terrified residents were forced onto the streets in the early morning hours walls and roofs collapsed back in two thousand and nine a devastating quake killed more than three hundred people in the central italian city of luckier. the man convicted for the nine hundred eighty eight lockerbie bombing which killed two hundred seventy has died at his home in libya said ellen mcgirt he was found guilty of blowing up a flight over scotland in two thousand and one he was released from prison in scotland two thousand and nine on health grounds and returned to libya where he received a hero's welcome the former libyan intelligence officer has always denied responsibility it was the night when moscow became the perfect place for everything aspiring cinderella when the glitz and glamour of the annual viennese bore walked straight into town well arty's to buying mazzei never needs much of an excuse to pop up on

a posh frock and she danced along to find out more. vienna is in moscow it's a night here at that splendid mean ya's holding it. up to be a no ball now the city has been transformed into a magical spectacular swamp with the feedback on my head right. now the money was not made. by no means it's going to be into this wonderful magical world of the long debutantes and of cause music. the boy is an annual highlight event in the cultural and social life of rush him over fifteen hundred guests a businessman celebrities media people from russia germany austria visited every year. traditionally the ball is opened by debutantes one hundred twenty pairs of girls in white dresses and tiaras and young men in black top coats

a desert all of us in the perfect harmony on the don's feel. part of the spectacular performance came from the ballerinas to the most powerful voice from an opera singer. not one. whit but a little bit of thought and a lot so we don't think a lot about their brain mind put words in a little bit of thought into the vienna pot ok not. right do stay with us here and see you know just to have it all to be a special interview analyzing of the eurozone financial blackhole that'll be a recap of the headlines i hope to see you and you might see what i mean.

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