canada server and you know banning un sanction protests as a government grows desperate to end months of relentless student demonstrations. u.n. observers in syria pointed human rights violations from both the regime and the rebels and he's that is crumbling right in neighboring lebanon the shock waves of the unrest are being felt for a second week running. in egypt early results see the country torn between islamic candidate and a former bank official in the first round of the race to the presidency is talking the country could fall on the hardline room.

this is artie's weekly news review of kerry johnston welcome to the program. and you quebec last seen as a government attempt to once and for all end the ongoing student protests has renewed fury among canadians this week far from stopping demonstrations clashes are intensifying its thousands more joining in to demand that the act be repealed critics say the bill for bids any large protest peacefully or otherwise without prior to this approval rating association of university teachers described as a terrible act of mass repression to suppress dissent and journalist mission by police that this nation will do nothing but inspire further unrest. bill was seventy eight which is what that's it's all and its goal is to con everything down it was established by the provincial government. in canada we have a we have a charter and one of the articles in the charter is the right to protest peacefully

and people and protesters now are saying is that certain provisions of this new law are infringing on the freedom to protest peacefully so people are in fact even to retaliate even stronger one of the most extremist groups has publicly said it is completely going to do you shy this new bill is going to go against it it's going to continue protesting so it's going to be quite an interesting scene of events here we really don't know what's going to happen really until the until the government since down with this student organization since down to talk canada's southern neighbor the united states also witnessed on the rest of its own this week a nato summit in chicago that national leaders met to discuss the move true that since future as riot police beat back thousands of protesters just a few hundred meters away a correspondent tends to see it and it was that. chicago

under siege. the last couple of days have seen oceans of protesters thousands marching under a blistering sun to vent their anger at the military alliance wants to know if. this rally fronted by iraq and afghan war vets who feeling betrayed by the system throw away their medals. yet after a minute of silence for those who perished in the u.s. led war is. all hell breaks loose. chaos but tons of people shelved and dragged police thrown on to their knees bleeding faces. one officer stabbed dozens of protesters arrested someday these men may consider this conduct that they engaged in today unbecoming of the dignity that is demanded of them by their station hundreds and hundreds of police

not just in riot gear but military armor with guns and but tons that they willingly deploy on people. a day earlier a smaller but louder march also took to the streets it's an ad capital. i'm sure everyone here hopes to start a revolution they're calling it the chicago spring like the arab spring. signs ripped off crowds clashed with police but times and police bikes used to block off the crowds with more blood in the chaos. with over a million dollars spent on new gear for chicago police a war breaks out with outraged americans fighting for change at home while the u.s. president is busy hosting a summit on the future of warfare abroad and stacy churkin r.t.e. chicago illinois. number of demonstrators in chicago. kevin zeese activist come home america. expensive relic of the past

nato seems to be the group that is a dirty work of the us empire when they can get the un to go along you saw it in libya you see in afghanistan it's another military arm of the united states and the and the us empire it is client state so because we want to see nato and the fact veterans for peace which is a u.s. veterans group try to deliver a letter u.s.a. to nato nato officials refused to accept it and they're calling for the disbandment of nato nato was a relic of the past is no longer needed it's causing more division than unity among nations as i first movie on military solutions he way from empire. you're watching around the top of today's and the week's top stories here now taste i had for you in the program the world's economy wobbles on its axis leaders and economists own catastrophe greece these the euro zone as prevalent as your stereotype actions by which the greek people. and around the top nuclear official defends the discovery

in iran of uranium enriched wiring levels sixteen situation between technical glitch that. tanks and heavy machine guns have been used to pound the western syrian town of houla where un observers say more than ninety people have been killed by government forces syrian officials say the attack was aimed at stopping terrorists targeting police in the region this week un report accused both the regime and the rebels of gross human rights violations free syrian army is refusing to abide by the peace plan unless the u.n. security council ensures a billion safety france has called for an urgent meeting of the friends of syria group which aims to present a sad and said to be funding the opposition. has been covering events in syria for some time says politics has to go on the back burner when people are losing their

lives daily it's just devastating tragedy and in a number of people confirmed killed their children there is no ceasefire. doesn't exist this crisis that is just becoming increasingly militarized and having this devastatingly high death toll and say we actually spoke to the acting foreign minister in syria. just the other day i'll tell him where the final responsibility lies what's happening in the country right now the ball is not the call to the syrian government the syrian people. out of those who do not want to see peace and stability and security in serbia particularly those who are calling declaring every now and. for arming the. smuggling of arms and weapons. from neighboring countries also financing groups there is

a probably. when. you accuse others of the point your fingers accusing. just remember three fingers of accusation are directed against you see the rhetoric right from the beginning of the game the un monitors being there has been now before the plans even reach this three month deadline that it's a failure well ok but it's one thing to say terminologies but what is what's the alternative to constantly giving these problems without any other solution is only going to later further violence and you see in some of the western countries again continuing right through this peace plan calling for the arming of the opposition we know the answer traveling into the country you know all of this is undermining massively the u.n. attends to implement a cease fire which is so important that you know that they're able to continue that work and get that done and i think it's very important to remember you know

politics aside and mr human cost of this conflict is devastating and if the u.n. mission thousand it is going to get even higher facing an infinite is already. the security council guaranteeing civilian protection that is not going to even attempt to abide by this society then they can see the full interview with the syrian deputy foreign minister next hour. before from the conflict in syria is being felt in neighboring lebanon street violence has been shaking the capital their interest second week running the rest started following disputes between sunni opponents of president assad's regime and its other what supporters. spoke to locals who fear the beginnings of a new civil war i and other night of street protests in beirut. it was sparked when thirteen lebanese pilgrims were kidnapped in syria apparently by groups linked to the syrian rebels the lebanese capital witnessed what it hadn't

seen in years is where i am right about here but i'm moving to a real war between sunni and shia muslims and this is at least what i see in the last day. the reason the spillover from the chaos in neighboring syria shia muslims here generally support syria's president assad while most sunni's favor the rebels likewise lebanon's ruling coalition led by the powerful share hezbollah is process while the opposition backs the uprising the situation is getting worse obviously in the region and this is having a spillover effect here in lebanon and where we're having to cope with the consequences of that there's also internal tension that's increasing there's a large flow of refugees and there's a lot of instability all around us. some though believe the problems in lebanon aren't only down to the crisis in syria local observers like spanish journalist thomas alcove editor says they are a symptom of a deep divide that's long bubbled under the surface but there were many unresolved

issues after the nine hundred seventy five nine hundred ninety civil war like religious divisions and the authorities didn't support it and now they're discovering it again they kept this situation of instability for many years and that's a good ground for a new conflict like a spark in a powder keg get out and the bad news is the resplendent of power in the cag the recent history of warfare here makes sure. that and means the political and religious reefs are riven more dangerous they were more the start of our liberal know there are so many factions now sunni shia salafi what's really bad everybody has weapons not only hezbollah they may think but everybody in every house and they use them about the shia and sunni neighborhoods exist side by side in central beirut and in recent years it's been a stable peaceful arrangement but the syria in fact means fear has now greet them feel over it turn into a deadly bloody past which residents here desperately hope to avoid but doing it is

nothing that has nothing to do with politics or what's happening in the region at the moment my sister's but then use it against violence and level here some of the people have to leave but the world people have paid for this to happen even in her mother's seventy he remembers all the major conflicts morden lebanon has gone through and has a chilling forecast about the latest trouble surely you back what i see no reminds me of the nineteen eighty two in two thousand and six israeli wars and the one nine hundred seventy five civil war and the two thousand and eight political uprising here i didn't think i'd witness yet another conflict in my life. but it seems a worse case scenario could be getting more and more likely this neighborhood in beirut where the violence started is known as the ticklish d.d. meaning new roads many fear this road may lead the country to civil war.

mary for nationality beirut lebanon well still to come on the program doubts over whether london is ready to host the olympics some fear the city's transport system or buckle the massive number of visitors traveling to the games. any election results mean egypt will see a muslim brotherhood candidate in a runoff against an ex prime minister of the mubarak era it comes amid numerous complaints of ballot violations in the country's first presidential election since the uprising but as our t's'pol a slayer found that regardless of the outcome egypt's future could be bleak. it's a result that stunned many and has the potential to split the country into an islamist candidate pitted against a member of the former regime mohamed morsi is the choice of the powerful muslim brotherhood well as much afic was the last prime minister to serve under hosni mubarak egyptians and now have to choose one or the other for the country's top job

and no one is happy. because he has become the. candidate of the revolution should we get rid of the remnants of the regime and prevent the country from moving backwards but the muslim brotherhood is tainted by the same accusation and critics fear the group will stay egypt away from democracy into hardline islamic rule already the brotherhood controls more than half the seats in the new egyptian parliament and their appeal among poor communities gives them the edge which is why those who took to tell his square last year are worried i'm sure of the martyrs who are alive the real thing that this is all is just no one chances for elections they wanted to free them now there's a new monthly massacre that takes place will even kill those who don't even have the right to be listened in the big square how can the reason why we stand here last but of which are fixed wrong showing also threatens to undo everything mariam and her friends fought for shafiq is deeply hated by many egyptians and was pelted with stones and shoes when he went to vote but for that the taxpayer

revolutionaries weren't able to field a single compelling candidate in the country's first post mubarak presidential elections. not change quickly. but many egyptians expected their mommies to be replaced by moderates like i'm almost the sick list of vice a former member of mubarak's regime and abdomen. name a bush or to a local former brotherhood member adding to their woes egyptians also fear the military that's been ruling the country for the past fifteen months won't stick to its promise to hand over power and instead will continue to pull the strings even from a far less an area that dr hassan a far believes would have unthinkable consequences i mean a very cool has to be excluded and then i thought will be very very violent and

there will be a month of bloodshed and i think the time is very much aware of this it's very likely egyptians will vote in and it's not just president marking one of the most dramatic political turnarounds in history after all it wasn't that long ago that the muslim brotherhood was outlawed and it's members imprisoned now it's mubarak in the dock and the brotherhood almost in the presidency but there's been nothing about this election that's been predictable and until a new constitution is approved it's still not clear what powers the new president will have but whoever wins his hands will be full of problems here run deep and economic and political frustrations are not that far from spilling over into different protests what is the r t cairo. but there's more for you on our web site at r.t. dot com lou plans for schools in texas to track students every move i guess and carry microchip i.d. cards. and more from the russian grannies who narrowly missed out on your vision

victory last night as one hundred twenty five million people watch sweden take the top prize. greek public sentiment is once again split pro and anti austerity factions neck and neck ahead of next month's parliamentary elections and it seems parties supporting further cuts are gaining ground they say that threats to abandon austerity are tantamount to flirting with catastrophe as artie's piece on of the reports this time the e.u. isn't leaving anything to chance. should they stay or should they go germany's angela merkel is adamant to feel mine is that for my part i would like to say that i think we agree we want greece to remain in the euro zone we know that it's the same for a majority of greek people. but it seems plans are being drawn up in case those hopes fail the german blunders bank says the situation in greece is extremely

worrying but isn't predicting the demise of the single currency should the greeks quit the euro a view certainly not shared by all if it would happen if it won't become reality then we are really in a mess and it means automatically that this postpone a domino effect all over europe because then we have also a question of moral hazard for example if you overdo it you pull out of the euro zone and every problem is nowhere then the others will also begin to start ok it's a very nice solution for us we all sort of adepts for so fast it's easier to pull out of the euro portugal ireland i did here and also spain and there to be had from the beginning the only question was where right now it's there in fact year zero skeptics feel that drastic german government action may be needed if europe's dominant economy is to avoid being swamped in the economic mire which is so called

carex it or greek exit could cause the only logical to you solution for this problem where we are in is that germany parts of germany has to pull out of the euro then the new currency that we have will go through the sky we will have difficulties because sasha not so long but we can live with it we can cope with it well it's not just here in germany that a post greek eurozone is being discussed finance ministers from all member states have been drawing up contingency plans to try and determine how a greek exit would affect their economies european leaders continue to throw their support behind greek single currency membership the country's rerun elections next month are rapidly looking like a referendum on the euro in everything but name france's socialist president speaking after the informal brussels summit looked like a man trying to woo the greek electorate with rather softer talk than austerity.

it was mentioned that we would be using the structural fund to support the growth efforts of greece as well so that the greek voters can be confident as to what support will come after june the seventeenth so as the future of greece in the eurozone enters what could be its final act toppy you figures say it's all down to its people but swayed for the people of greece to have their say on the seventeenth of june and we will not be the by those who want to promote speculative scenarios let's wait i do real of the greek people but it's wait and see time with deep resistance in greece towards austerity there's no clear outcome in sight for this crisis these are all other r.t. there lynn. greece's creditors notably the i.m.f. and the e.u. have also made it clear they're not going to like an austerity burden for greece

which aims by the way of the new economics foundation think tank says that's precisely the wrong move as austerity is only deepening the crisis. if you drive weak economy europe is collection of weak economies if you drive a weak economy into greater and greater austerity you don't make the economy stronger you make it weakest still because only see the short term impact already i mean if you take the the social impact in greece it's absolute catastrophic even greece used to have one of the lowest suicide rates in europe suicide rates there risen by forty percent over the last year you can see the social impact from one end of the continent to the other but it's the long term economic impact that starts here if there are no realistic prospects recovery inside europe certainly inside the euro zone is austerity is in place i suspect what will happen is that you'll start seeing increasing. or a deadlock at the center of your with no clear agreement to what exactly should be done next. traces of high level enrich uranium found at the site in iran were due

to a technical error according to iran's envoy to the un's nuclear watchdog experts say the particles discovered by international specters of an underground facility are still far from what's needed to create a nuclear device and this tehran's version is notable over the revelation plays in the hands of those convinced that iran is seeking nuclear weapons this week's summit in baghdad failed to put the nuclear issue to bed tehran rejected a new package proposed by the u.n. security council members and germany saying it makes too many demands while offering little in return value wideness c.e.o. of country risk solutions believes both sides are far from reaching a compromise. you know i look at iran and the west as sort of like mars vs venus they want completely different things even if the west was inclined to ease the sanctions that are proposed for july and they can't simply turn off the spigot and that's exactly what iran wants in the west i think what the west and israel are

looking for is something which iran is simply not going to give them they're looking for a complete cessation of enrichment they're looking for a reversal of the process that has gone on for more than a decade now i just don't see how this is going to happen fortunately there's plenty of oil in the world markets and those nations that need to find alternative sources of oil are likely to be able to do so and those nations that have become accustomed to working with the iranian central bank will find other ways to do business with iran if that's what they need to do. london on the homestretch for the olympics but they could be one incidental final hurdle to face it is some fear the country's transport system won't be able to handle the huge number of spectators so if he's out of that experience. welcome to britain where you'll be greeted by queues longer than many flights to get here the maximum wait for passport checks at london's heathrow airport should be forty five minutes but these

passengers were stuck for up to two and a half hours last month as britain's busiest airport seized up why because it rained says the government there are huge problems with the transport infrastructure in london as anybody who has visited the city will realise we are basically running on a kind of nineteen fifties infrastructure in terms of airports railways the metro system three million journeys a day are enough to make even a normal service grind to a halt on london's famous underground never mind the gap it severe delays and impromptu line closures that are notorious here and with a surge of fifteen million journeys on the busiest days of the olympics it's no wonder even transport officials admit you'll be better off on foot this is waterloo station one of london's busiest and a limb pick transport hotspots in fact is expected to be so congested here during

the olympics that people already being handed maps like these telling them how to avoid stations like this one and advising them to walk to work during the olympics because it'll be quicker and taking the team the advertising may be light hearted but walking to work is no laughing matter for most commuters were not hiding behind the fact that the network's going to be busy and that's why we give you the last century guidance and advice so they can avoid it and the brakes are on the buses to this london icon may not be seen at all this summer drivers are threatening to strike because they're london's only transport workers not in line for a limp dick bonus pay without them it'll leave another six million passengers to squeeze on to the chub if london's buses do come to us. still because the strike action our members will be forced into this city will be gridlocked nothing will most people get to the guy the athletes the journalists the coaches and the

spectators won't even get anywhere near that. with barely two months left much of london twenty twelve is on the home straight but in getting from a to b. there are still plenty of hurdles ahead either bennett r t london. this week saw prime minister dmitry medvedev appointed as the leader of the united russia party the country's main political force he promised a major overhaul a top saying he plans to remove people who discredit the party comes after some significant changes were made in the russian government as president putin unveiled his new team of ministers despite some familiar faces remaining more than two thirds of the cabinet the new appointments political commentators. who team can rise to any political challenge. from my point to you this is the movie's dramatic cabinet reshuffle in the decade and what matters is not only the number of the new

faces which is really amazing can you imagine three quarter of new faces but that qualitative changes that there was an enormous outcry or that all of it presumed comes a later point of the cabinet and what added to the confusion to the story that we didn't didn't go to as you know to. get in there so what we see today is that the reality of this system often blame is that these are working it is quite effective it might be criticized it might be ridiculed by someone but still it is able just to meet all those threats and challenges which are faced by the russian. are coming up next hour in r.t. lessons in hate but it's from that fear reveals and right wing nationalists dressed in nazi uniforms using machine guns as visual aids for young children. recapping the week's top stories for you after a short break stay with us. so

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