why you should care only. about this is from protest welcomes nato leaders in chicago but please give it a heavy handed response wielding their batons on activists we go live to chicago shortly here on r.t. . the group of eight industrialized nations expressed hope greece can stay put in the eurozone but experts paint a very different picture of what's happening behind the scenes. the u.s. opens its arsenal of weapons to bahrain's king it's a mass uprising in the state threatens to unseat pro western monaco top stories this hour.

with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments it is the weekly. 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 was sort of they saw clashes with police and further arrests with the protesters pledging their numbers will swell over the next two days. is in chicago join us now the organizers of this rally promised to attract tens of thousands to the streets earlier in the day but have they succeeded so far do you think. but the law the crowds have definitely swelled we're seeing several thousand people here already and people are still coming and we're going to have to wait and see it's really hard to estimate we're in a huge park and literally a sea of people here we do think that it will get to ten thousand because our lot

of attention brought to this we're seeing people. tomorrow walks of life women with children. who are here to return their medals back to nato because they think they were betrayed by the system the occupy wall street movement and truck occupiers from all across the united states all of these people are here now as we speak the march is beginning to take off this is supposed to be the biggest event abbasi several days of action taking place here in chicago all of these thousands of people intend to walk towards the convention center where the nato summit is to keep in. place. is a big question fischel is here in the city that really best to try to keep away protesters as far away as possible from the convention center right now. is really getting started it's a day of bands marched up the day yesterday we did the some mob clashes with.

well apologies for that as you can see we're getting a live broadcast there from a star amongst those protests in chicago through mobile phone by the looks of things and clearly we've lost the connection there for the moment but who will get our turn to later now the nato summit will see more talks on the fate of its afghan mission some of the blocs key member states such as france and australia a parent to make the exits u.s. based antiwar activist bolger she says it's time for nato members to stop dancing to washington's tunes. 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 the 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. struck wrongly hope 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. will be bring you extensive coverage of that nato summit and how it's occurring on the streets of chicago throughout today sunday and monday. i do believe you will see. to stay or not to stay that's the question facing greece's political instability catapult it towards an exit from the eurozone 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 though behind the smiles and handshakes analysts are concerned and a desire to see greece go and he said no it is the g eight summit. camp david was invaded by the europeans over the weekend or at least it seemed that way with almost all g eight talk touching the euro zone zone there were new faces of focus was on a not so new an 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 for may. want to flirt 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 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 but 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 who was not at camp david then 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 putin skipped 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 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 russia sees this summit as a stop on the way to dunes g twenty where putin and obama. will 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 he said now a r.t. . with the chances of a greek eurozone exit greater than ever economists are predicting just how it will happen later on we ask chakraborty he's an economics writer for the guardian newspaper in the u.k. how he sees events unfolding that interview in the next hour but here's a quick preview for you. 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 eight kids would not be working it would mean that people stop from the country especially with this euros in their back pocket the question all in the saudis really for the rest of the euro zone if the euro zone can say to the rest of the markets look greece is leaving but we all know that greece is a special case you know behind will say it's a bit of a basket case and actually its problems are not the rest of the euro zone. the island kingdom of bahrain is now off america's weapons export blackness with concerns about resume that despite an often bloody government crackdown on a popular uprising against the ruling monarchy and that is going to can suggest

that seeing keeping with washington selective approach to just who deserves freedom . that was the emmett bahrain's persistent crackdown on protesters journalists and human rights activists washington welcomes bahrain's crown prince and his back to the united states. and pledges to resume arms supplies to a key ally in the gulf. the 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've sided with the ruling sunni. regime because of the base of the so 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 attacking and supporting it was open and openly supporting the libyan rebels and their acts against the state even though this was. an arson essentially sure that now was the doing proper board and and then syria similarly there has been you know then there were all or 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 and 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 waltz where political unrest wages company check our reporting from washington r.t. . bahrain is not the only middle eastern country that the u.s. accused of meddling in washington is alleged to be from opposition rebels in syria to pursue its own agenda in the region that's coming up a little later in the program the sound. but first the uprising in bahrain has also been eagerly watched in iran mass protests greeted attempts by saudi arabia to form a union with bahrain's rudy monarchy many saw the proposed union now on hold as being aimed at curbing iran's regional influence this week also saw the u.s. house of representatives passed a bill intended to tighten the screws on iran's nuclear program the bill would make a military telling it if it ever reaches a stage where it could just theoretically develop nuclear weapons policy directive from the national iranian american council says washington's 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.

well still to come here in the weekly law and disorder you could protest in the thousands saying government can't leave them out of work and the public at risk. the first foreign mercenaries an 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 and said to be arabs who have confessed to working for this also includes french and british citizens meanwhile washington denies reports is 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 activists jim brann says the u.s. has a particular interest in making sure the opposition in syria is on 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 affected in the splits in the opposition benighted 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 the united states would prefer a regime change as it's preferred outcome they would like to eliminate its part of opposition to iran and i don't think 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 that is their objective. 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 and as our correspondent sana boy to report syria's want a 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 a twenty eight year old boss driver from germany was on a year long by journey when he entered 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 inside 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 this issue is 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 sites the ten percent occupancy rate is now considered a stroke of luck you know this is one of the sixty five rooms we were 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 boutique hotel which gave a new lease of life to the force. centuries old building rumi martini's 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 deployment of self-destruction nobody could imagine that could. get to such 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 two thousand and ten the last year before the syrian uprising was the most successful on record for serious tourism industry revenues jump 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. by the way don't hesitate to log on to our website r.t. dot com for the stories you may have missed here on the screen as well as the latest news and videos here's a taste of what's there few right now but not so funny activity in a very holy place a long line leak of internal documents from the vatican exposes back door dealings and corruption in what's supposed to be a sacred kingdom plus. facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg updates his relationship status to married after surprise wedding ceremony find out more on that at r.t. dot com. they are thirty screens in the u.k.

has driven tens of thousands of police officers olds on to the streets to protest against funding cuts they believe the measures will leave thousands unemployed and the streets less safe ati's other ballots reports. 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 carts sixteen thousand over the next four years cuts they say that could seriously threaten public safety it will have an impact on the executive not just that perception of the police and its people will see fewer this is on the street and at the end of the day people see police the police help 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 if it's a shooting it. feels. like almost it would have to be able to provide that service for them as it was a direct result will be said to most of them it's not just police probation officers are up for the chopper too the government wants to replace them with machines are expected to look like this removing yet another barrier protecting the public they're 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 and. ization 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 deteriorating behavior will be missed and most people will go and commit serious crimes against the public the government insists the machines are 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 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 either bennett r t london and here in moscow police and opposition protesters 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 court on tuesday ruled in support of a lawsuit from local residents who wanted activists removed from the central square because of noise and littering police went in after the testers refused to leave several people were detained but others set up new sites in different locations before being forced to move on again the camps have become the opposition movements the latest protest tactic in moscow following let me put in an organization as president on may the seventh almost one hundred activists have pledged to continue their sit in campaigns in definitely. now to some other news making headlines around the world in our world update this hour a strong aftershock is it more than italy causing more damage or more buildings to collapse it comes after a powerful earthquake killed at least six people and call 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 lackey. the man convicted for the nine hundred eighty eight lockerbie bombing which killed two hundred seventy people has died at his home in libya a bill but said 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. 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 provisional capital of turning caught scores of people were injured including six children two of them critically the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack the latest incident brings the total number of

foreign troop deaths in afghanistan to two hundred fifty six this year alone. palestinian demonstrators clashed with israeli forces this week during the annual but 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 in one hundred forty eight as is paul asli reports even some palestinian families are being literally walled off from their 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 ram 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 omar was part of a larger village he'll soon be cut off from it and alone on the other side from

this i feel for me. it's really tractors have already for eight months been building the prison or refers 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 side she's got all this tunnel two hundred fifty meter. this tunnel which is very very big ball for this tunnel five million eight hundred thousand jekyl just to build this for just only one family. for decades already israel's 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 or with very good long term israel because walls will not and will never ever provide security for this one is 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 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 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 family's connection to the land is threatened to be even more polluted for merchants. what they can do are just idle term future in this murder. and

this for you and this for my father or. my grandfather. don't live in the future it's. black a future times against him and with every new brick that goes up the families isolation is cemented policy r.t. the larger village. twenty eight minutes past the hour now the russian capital i'll be back with a recap of this week's main stories and count it's in just a couple minutes from the.

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