thousands of strong protest welcomes nato leaders in chicago but police give it a heavy handed response will bring their batons on activists. the group of. greece can stay within the eurozone but i suppose paint a very different picture of what's actually happening behind the scenes. at the u.s. opens its arsenal of weapons to bahrain's 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 r.t. with me wrong received shame nato's summit in chicago has been greeted by thousands of activists pouring into the city streets to protest against the blocs costly and deadly wars and there were clashes with police and further arrests with the protesters pledging their numbers will swell over the next two days. looks at what lies ahead at the heart of the popular discontent. 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. handing. everybody against the program it is a beautiful day in the united states and the one real change of. 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. around. and of the nato summit will see more talks on the fate of its mission some of the blocks key member states such as france and australia preparing to make exits u.s. based antiwar activists to lay a bold just says it's time for nato members to stop dancing to washington's junes. and there's probably all kinds of pressure that we don't see overtly you know economic and political pressure to do what led to the u.s. wants my feeling is that nato should be dissolved and i applaud france for removing its troops from this illegal war of us and imperial aggression

i wish all nato troops would refuse to do the bidding of the united states in our in our foreign policy so i you know the summit i understand the focus of this summit is to talk about afghanistan i. wrongly hope that that that nato will come to realize that they are being used as puppets of the american government that they are being used to do our dirty work and that all of us are at odds he will be bringing you extended coverage of the nato summit and how it's echoing on the streets of chicago throughout sunday and monday. see it for me. to believe you will see. it's good to have you with us on our to today to stay or not to stay that is the question facing greece as political instability catapults it towards an exit from

the euro zone however the leaders of some of the world's most powerful economies who gathered for talks in the u.s. publicly declaring it should stay where it is though behind the scenes and behind the smiles and handshakes analysts so concern and a desire to let greece go at the g eight summit as ati's and he said no. 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 eurozone. there were new faces all focus was on a not so new an ever growing crisis and the million dollar question of good grief be cut loose and leave the euro zone practically every financial analyst thinks 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 most to everything so the greeks 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. 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 aspect 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 whether or not a camp david that 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 because it is th but very little based on logic president putin couldn't really contribute anything to a solution he could say right you have to solve your debt problem germany perhaps

should in fact extend more danger to other weak members of the european union and so on but basically he'd be a bystander not the case for obama who in an election year can't afford to let euro zone fall out worsen the u.s. economy. has a dog on the way to june 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 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 r t. with the chances of a greek eurozone exit greater than ever economists are predicting just how it will happen later on r.t. we ask a teacher chakraborty an economics writer for the guardian newspaper how he sees

events unfolding the interview is next hour for another approach. people have been modeling what a greek exit from the euro zone would look like for the best part of a year politically 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 teams would not be working it would mean that people stop from the country especially with this bureaus in their back pocket the question all in the saudis really for the rest of the euro zone if the eurozone can say to the rest and to financial markets look greece is leaving but we all know 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.

you're watching r t now the island kingdom of bahrain is now off america's weapons export black list gun sales are set to resume that despite an often bloody government crackdown on a popular uprising against the ruling monarchy and i 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 in washington welcomes bahrain's crown prince said his approach to the internet. and pledges to resume arms supplies to a key ally in the got. the u.s. had suspended weapon sales to borrow. 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 region clyde prestowitz a top economist in the reagan and clinton administrations argues the us has traded principles for military bases we've sided with the ruling certainly. a 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 attacking and supporting it was open 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 board 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 not a situation it's not a case in which. and once there's enormous violence abroad 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. . bahrain is the only middle eastern country that the u.s. has accused of meddling in washington and is alleged to be funding and arming the opposition rebels in syria to pursue its own agenda in the region that is coming up in just a bit later in the program. graines uprising is also being eagerly watched in iran mass protests greeting attempts by saudi arabia to form a union with brains ruling monarchy money so the proposed union i want to hold is being aimed at curbing iran's regional influence this week the u.s.

house of representatives' possibile intended to tighten the screws on iran's nuclear program a bill that would make tehran a military target if it ever reaches a stage where it could just theoretically develop nuclear weapons. the policy director from the national iranian american council says washington's holds are ready to strike but 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. it's good to have you with us here on r.t. today still to come for you in this hour that of law and disorder u.k. police protests in their thousands saying government cuts will leave them out of work and the public at risk. foreign mercenaries and al qaeda linked militants are fighting in the ranks of rebels inside syria according to government officials damascus has 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 at 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 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 would never see complete control to them so they would be working in parallel the united states would prefer a regime change i think preferred. they would like to

eliminate part of 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. well 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 and as our correspondent oksana boyko reports syria's once flourishing tourism industry has unsurprisingly taken a major hit during the year long conflict. 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 as kept a fairly low profile in the diplomatic spat over the fate of syria he's asking of one hears locals complain about 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 bored 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 the outside of the country are called visitors like martin would be very welcome guest from syria these days but they're 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 sites 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 for 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 booty call. how you gave a new lease of life to the four centuries old building remember the team is not shy in criticizing their side 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 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 jumped by sixty percent prompting many to take out investment loans they're no longer able to repay no wonder many now feel bankrupted by the 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. well i don't hesitate to log on to our web site r t v dot com for the stories you may have missed as well as the latest news and videos

it's a taste of what's standing by for you there right now the not so holy activity in a very holy place an online leak of internal documents from the data can expose his back door dealings and corruption in what supposed to be a sacred kingdom plus. facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg updates his relationship status to married after a surprise wedding ceremony find out more about the. police 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 be later effected 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 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. now the austerity squeeze in the u.k. has driven tens of thousands of police officers onto the streets to protest against funding cuts they believe the measures will leave thousands unemployed and the streets last safe with us reporters r.t. as i have been at. the 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 or. 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 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 places a place emphasis on the street they feel safe bitingly a presence and that's just not going to happen peaches it was known as the baxter police force in the wilderness and with these kansas city 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 if she does is it a moment and as a result i will feel as if. it almost got us confident to be able to provide that

service for all members of the car as a direct result will be said to most of them 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 is supposed to stop criminals reoffending 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 to nonsense to suggest that a machine could do the job of human being there's a real likelihood in danger that public protection in britain will be compromised if these machines are rolled up nationally. 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 approaches to allow professionals to cut bureaucracy and spend their time more effectively with the offenders the supervised public protection will always be our priority not according to those charged with their 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 and straight to italy as we kick off the r.t. world update now and strong aftershocks in the northern part of the country has caused more damage and more buildings to collapse it comes after a powerful earthquake killed at least six people and cause serious damage to buildings in several towns terrified residents were forced onto the streets in the early morning hours walls and roofs started to collapse in two thousand and nine a devastating quake killed more than three hundred in the central italian city of lucky. the man convicted for the nine hundred eighty eight lockerbie bombing which

killed two hundred seventy has died at his home in libya. he was found guilty of blowing up a pan am flight over scotland in two thousand and one he was released from prison in scotland in two thousand and nine on health grounds and then return to libya where he received a hero's welcome the former libyan intelligence officer had always denied responsibility. palestinian demonstrators clashed with israeli forces this week during the annual nakba day march in the west bank translated as catastrophe the day remembers the hundreds of thousands displaced stuff for the creation of the state of israel in one nine hundred forty eight as artie's paul asli are now reports even at the present time being some palestinian families are being literally walled off from their own land. a lonely house on a hilltop tells the whole story of palestinian plots of land passed down through the generations now under threat i don't read a number i don't want. i want my gran and for his insistence almost paying the

price is small probably she is on the wrong side of the wall tel aviv is building between israel and the palestinians and what was once omar was part of a larger village he'll soon be cut off from it and alone on the other side from this i fear. is really tractors have already for eight months been building the prison over first to digging up the ground around his house the plan will see his home cut off by a five meter 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 road and go for in the tunnel go go downstairs the tunnel and go the village the side she's got all this tunnel two hundred fifty meter. this tunnel she there is very big bowl for this five million eight 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 long term israel because walls will not and will never ever provide security for this one is a good neighbors 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 introns 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 drove 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 uprooted for emergency. what they can do just as i did term future in. this. this for you all and this for my father. my grandfather. don't live in the future it's. burka future times against him and with every new brick that goes up the families isolation is cemented policy are to the larger village. i'll be back in just about hope you can stay with us here on same.

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