a thousand strong protests welcomes nato leaders in chicago police given a heavy handed response wielding their pack loose on activists we go live to chicago very shortly here on r.t. . the group of eight industrialized nations expressed hope greece can stay put in the euro zone but experts paid a very different picture of what's happening behind the scenes. and the u.s. opens its arsenal of weapons to bahrain's king has a mass uprising in the state threatens to unseat the pro western monarchy top stories this hour.

with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments it's the weekly on r.t. nato summit in chicago is being greeted by crowds of activists pouring into the city's streets to protest against the blocs costly and deadly wars such as they saw clashes with police and further arrests with the protesters pledging their numbers will swell over the next two days. is chicago style as this summit has just begun what's the situation with the protests at the state of the day bill we're in grant park in the very heart of chicago about two miles from the convention center where delegates will be gathering for the official nato summit right now we're seeing hundreds of people flooding into the park this is where a rally will begin shortly followed by a march that some are saying will gather as many as ten thousand people we're seeing groups gathering here right now they're coming in they're chanting they're getting all pumped up we are seeing police we do have to keep in mind that the

march and the protests in general here in chicago are being. kept away quite far from the convention center and they will throughout the march throughout the day try to get as close as possible to where the delegates are staying up but because of the security and really over millions of dollars that have been pumped into months of preparations to ensure security here on the ground all of these crowds will most likely not be able to get too close to where the delegates are meeting like you mentioned they are protesting the whole substance of the nato summit people are unhappy with the fact that the war in afghanistan is going on they are unhappy with the income inequality that continues to take place in the united states as well as the amounts of money that nato was a military bloc continues to be spending on warfare these and many other issues are in people's minds they're definitely excited to be here they are excited to get their message across and we will be here on the ground covering all of these events all throughout the day yesterday we saw clashes with police police were using but

tongs their bicycles to keep protesters away they were closing them in on big intersections in downtown chicago whether or not this kind of violence and clashes with pete we will wait and see and we'll certainly be bringing our viewers all the latest as those events in iraq. starts and thanks very much indeed for that live update in chicago she has more from chicago later well the nato summit that's taking place will see more talks on the fate of its afghan mission some of the blocks key member states such as france and australia are preparing to make the exits u.s. based antiwar activists live bolger says it's time for nato members to stop dancing to washington's choose. 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 us once my feeling is that nato should be dissolved and i applied france for removing its troops from this illegal war of a 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. stress 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 ought to be will be bringing extended coverage of the nato summit on how it's echoing on the streets of chicago throughout sunday and monday. i do believe you will see. to stay all not to stay that is the question facing greece's political instability cut

a pull 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 put behind the smiles and handshakes analysts saw concern and a desire to see greece go off season he is at the g eight summit. camp david was invaded by the europeans over the weekend or at least it seemed that way with almost all ga talk touching the eurozone. there were new faces 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 thinks 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 must do 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 the 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 what a pretty face on it is hoped in is 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 did 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 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 stop on the way to twenty nine obama. we'll sit down for talks with the g. twenty 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 it's in our way our. sincere or not the 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 or requesting greece to opt out and to leave the eurozone because the problems are far beyond that we could have 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. r t live here in moscow it is that weekly still to come this hour blame game in syria. is a deadly blast ripped through the conflict torn country raising concerns that

foreign powers are playing an increasing part in it. also still learning the hard way we bring you more of what's left of egypt's security in the wake of the uprising in how people are surviving amid the chaos on the streets. all that still to come but first the island kingdom of bahrain is now off america's weapons export blacklist with guns sales about to resume that despite an often bloody government crackdown on a popular uprising against the ruling monarchy nazis got a church can suggests that's 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 that washington welcomes bahrain's crown prince albert as well thanks to the united states. and pledges to resume arms supplies to

a key ally in the gulf. the u.s. had suspended weapons sales to bahrain in the light of massive human rights violations by these sorties there but now the state department has issued a statement saying that american weapons will soon be heading to bahrain again. we've made this decision i want to emphasize on national security grounds we've made this decision mindful of the fact that there remain a number of serious unresolved human rights issues in bahrain which we expect the government of bahrain to address bahrain host the u.s. fifth fleet it's around forty ships two aircraft carriers sixteen thousand personnel and major force in the gulf region clyde prestowitz a top economist in the reagan and clinton administrations argues the us has traded principles for military bases we have sided with the ruling sunni. regime because of the base of this 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 supporting 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 and there were all or or restrain from violence by the opposition

forces there so it's a little bit are see this only in bahrain it's a highly asymmetrical 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 washington r.t. . alongside those weapons shipments saudi arabian forces are also said to be have engaged in suppressing dissent in bahrain professor saad mohammed monte from the university of tehran says there's only one goal to save a decrypted 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 about one third of the regime but unfortunately the west supports the saudis and the rainy 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 of 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 bad any and saudi dictatorships also makes them responsible for the both the bloodshed as well as the current situation at large. there's more ahead for you this hour including memorial day violence is simplistic clash during

a rally to remember those who lost their homes in the conflict we meet a woman who crossed from one opposing side to the other. the first a series of blasts took place in syria over the past week killing at least sixty four people 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 the sara first reports there's a growing suspicion in syria that third parties are feeling 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 then 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 caused. at the

scene angry crowds today quite them as 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. supporting. everything will be finished within. but if they want to continue supporting them they want to. in the region trading amongst the rubble its people the ruins of their homes and what is one of damascus is poorest neighborhoods there's a real sense of a revolution spinning out of control syria's uprising began as a peaceful pro-democracy movement that is 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. that. provided . for everyone in the world to interfere in this. i there by providing arms of providing funds are providing fighters and saw gers and terrorists as people are left to bury their dead and with the hospitals full the syrian people are once again trying to rebuild their homes and their lives and the focus has once again turned the peace it is looking more able. all is now in place around the blast site stark reminder that terror has served only as yet another barrier to peace here.

the violence in syria has been occurring in neighboring lebanon where ten people were killed and dozens wounded in sporadic clashes throughout the week shooting answer ruptured in the northern city of tripoli between sunday supporters of the syrian opposition and the whites the fact president assad the army had to move in to maintain order the violence being stopped funding from lebanon to transit route for weapons shipments to syria and by the deep time shared by the two states says mark almond the visiting professor of international relations at bill can university in turkey. lebanon obviously has a history of civil war not restrict. the role of lebanon. into syria arms and equipment and arming up the rebel groups. because many lebanese. one action in syria.

could lead to that group also dominating. long. ago maybe now. we might see a new syria. regime reimpose in many lebanese border. police in opposition protesters in moscow have played a game of cat and mouse with illegal encampments popping up in the city center this week only to be evicted later a city called on tuesday remember the support of a lawsuit from local residents who wanted activists removed from the central square because of noise and the treat 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 they can become the opposition movements latest protest told in moscow following let me put it all gratian is president on may the seventh almost one hundred activists a pledge to continue their sit in campaigns indefinitely. this is the weekly here in r.t. don't hesitate to log onto our website r.t.

dot com for the stories you may have missed here on screen as well as the latest news and videos here's a quick taste of what's there for you at the moment. and also holding activity in a 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. a facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg updates his relationship status to married after a surprise wedding ceremony find out more on that party dot com. egyptians vote next week in the country's first presidential elections since former leader hosni mubarak was ousted but they'll cast their ballots amid accusations by human rights watch that the military has been torturing hundreds of protesters arrested earlier this month. 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 scam from never refused a customer now i park my car in the garage 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. the police

a lot of respect a lot of. the tools that they work with like the weapons. of the egyptian people for that this police has been treating my. this police is not looking to us we are the police and that's the life and the minister charged with enforcing the law has a very different view saying the situation is under control i. want to say that. i told the members of the people's council look at the results we managed to achieve in record time i'm sure that no one could have done as much 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. that in the meantime until calm returns 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. and in the next hour we'll 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 put the sixty thousand bodies off the beat in a move critics say will be fatal for the public safety. palestinian demonstrators clashed with israeli forces this week during the annual day march in the west bank translated as catastrophe the day remembers the hundreds of thousands displaced after the creation of the state of israel back in one thousand nine hundred eight. one jewish woman who survived an even earlier conflict and ended up with an arab family. for seven decades later breen 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 death camp by the nazis as mother was eight months pregnant with her at the time or they are part of ritchie again i was born in auschwitz i was a jew i spent three years in auschwitz and i survived only because a christian doctor in the camp 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 when they are members and we care. still feels fear when she hears a loud knocking at the door 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 a neighbor's house and she brought me something to drink we liked each other and decided to get married it did not matter to me that she was jewish. but it mattered 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 later when to collect her pension money and the clark made the connection and that. we were shocked we didn't know what to say it was so difficult to hear we opened our mouths and nothing came out i think got she survived. layla's jewish name is leah the shaft but she hasn't really are 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 but one that 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 pain policia r.t. for israel. now some other news making headlines around the world in our world update our strong the shock has hit northern italy causing more damage and more buildings to collapse it comes after a powerful earthquake killed at least six people of course serious damage to buildings in several towns terrified residents were forced onto the streets in the early morning as walls and roofs collapsed in two thousand and nine a devastating quake killed more than three hundred people in the central italian city of lucky. the man convicted for the one thousand nine hundred eight lockerbie bombing which killed two hundred seventy people has died at his home in libya abdelbaset al mcguire 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 returned to libya where

he received a hero's welcome the former libyan intelligence officer had always denied responsibility. was on a one off basis out to nato soldiers have been killed in an insurgent attack in southern afghanistan according to officials a suicide bomber blew himself up at a police checkpoint in the provincial capital of town and caught scores of people were injured including six children two of them critically the taliban has claimed responsibility for the tell which is incident prince the total number of foreign troop deaths in afghanistan to one hundred fifty six of them this year alone. will be about another summary for about fifty minutes from now in the meantime our interview examining the euro zone financial black hole is next we talk to a leading economics writer for the guardian newspaper that'll be after the first reminder of our top stories that that's with me we'll go to him live in moscow stay with us it's the weekly.

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