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you're watching the week. we're highlighting the top stories of the week today it has. crossed the muslim world with protesters rising up against a film mocking islam countries which are less than two years ago witnessed the dawn of the arab spring once again engulfed in violence. u.s. embassies in more than a dozen islamic countries have been attacked at least seven people have died during the violence including the american ambassador to libya the violence has also spread to europe asia and even australia with clashes taking place in sydney and

this latest report two artes paula slayer. the united states has awarded the immediately speculation of all non essential u.s. diplomatic stock and the families from sudan and as yet in a statement issued by washington it said that all u.s. citizens should need to visit he immediately now the u.s. has been refused permission to send the means to sit down this is because the government in khartoum says it can't deal with the security situation there where the u.s. marines have arrived in the yemenite capital of some of this despite was by no coolio monocular makers that they should be expelled immediately we are hearing from our client at fresh attacks against u.s. embassies to be carried out this line of thought it's on to state egypt's capital of cairo we're not hearing any egypt's prime minister that these that some of the thousands of these. insects paid to so the goddess be put to sleep at this point to libya where the u.s. ambassador and the other american citizens were killed now all these investigations

to go with their tests even for people the race that the u.s. as well as the members say they believe that this attack has its own hideout a kind it has not taken with the sponsibility but it has issued a statement in which it says that the attack was in response to being of al qaida is number two by u.s. marines from libya by them spread across the region it doesn't go through countries such as they have been on somalia iraq actually started to keep gone's and even the small demonstration the intent of it was over the weekend there were demonstrations in the french capital of paris to the demonstrations to say see if you. can see you. at least this is the eldest son and let me take over the weekend it was just this is just several other continents in sydney australia with the police five deaths on protesters and civil unrest in the main.

on. this and. this. is not just. to me i am this is i am. my this is me a lot of a lot of mine in the situation it seems i don't think it's safe the city is a region. polis leary's are closely watching the unrest from cairo as the violence shows no sign of letting up so you can check our twitter feed for the latest updates on photos from the egyptian capital where the events started to unfold that was earlier this week. now american journalist and antiwar activist don de bar says the core of the issue lies much deeper than just in the film. the

movie or actually just the trailer really which is what's been available on you tube may be serving as a catalyst but certainly the animosity goes much deeper and the issues run much deeper people do not go into the streets over a movie and bring an r.p.g. with them first of all they generally don't carry them around either this is a case of blowback as many people are saying with al-qaeda or someone else being responsible for this and the issue being this movie and then if you look at egypt the situation there is one where the government the president morsi has made a break with the people over two major issues in the last week or two is coming down on the side of the united states over the over the situation in syria and iraq with israel neither of which are with the center of gravity exists among the egyptian people and they've had almost continuing revolution since january february

of last year where he each time when they felt the revolution was betrayed they went into the streets so the dynamics underneath this i think are much more complex than this movie first of all in libya al qaida and the united states were allies who were the ground troops in the u.s. the air support in the early stage with united states u.k. and french troops arming and guiding them from february twenty third on as reported in the pakistani observer back then. is in many people's minds a creature of the united states intelligence operation. and in the wake of the violence which started in cairo barack obama has said the u.s. does not consider egypt an ally now for a check triggered by a you tube film posted in the states swiftly and did years of efforts by the u.s. government to establish friendly relations with cairo and other muslim communities are the story now belongs to wanting more important. anger is rising

rage is spreading and american flags are burning throughout the arab world this isn't exactly the type of relationship washington envisioned after barack obama became president i've come here to cairo to seek a new beginning between the united states and muslims around the world the new u.s. leader promised to turn the page and mend relations tarnished by george w. bush's war on terror he even granted his first foreign television interview to al arabiya an arabic language channel my job to the muslim world is to communicate with americans are now you're out of washington invested huge resources in building a massive social media presence comprised of nearly two hundred different accounts to spread its message of friendship by the end of last year the u.s. had spent seventy million dollars assisting foreign citizens with the resources to bypass online firewalls and censorship. the bitter irony is that

a you tube clip posted by one american instantly buried massive efforts made by the u.s. government as americans were being held hostage by a small group of extremists people here in america think when they put their views on you tube and now the technology is such that it can be seen all over the world i think people in. some of these places don't understand this is not the view of most americans this is not the view of the u.s. government according to many experts a large majority of the arab world has grown too familiar with the anti muslim sentiment america is accused of cementing the policy of the americans towards this part of the world is inadequate and doesn't call for dialogue doesn't call for development it doesn't call for progress and calls for the moving of those units because the foods american interests and some western interests a cause for war and invasion of iraq as we have seen this truck. no progress on the peace lebanon palestine i think the spark for it to you know all come out in

violent forms as we can see now on the screen and this is what's happening within forty eight hours the fury that began in egypt spread to libya yemen lebanon and iran in afghanistan due to push shut down but tensions in the muslim world seem to be only increasing there has been a lot of simmering nancy american feeling a right across the entire world it's their worst in. polls show there were ninety percent of pakistanis marrons their primary an enemy america's middle of blunders and it's made in the arab spring countries america helped revolutionize the line between friend and foe has blurred despite all the time and money washington has spent you see me internet to promote it's islam friendly foreign policy the world wide web also served as the platform that enabled one american extremist to infuriate millions overseas and the real heroes of

progress. r.t. we are. now in the u.s. has strongly condemned the film and in an effort to calm the firy u.n. secretary general ban ki moon also slammed the production saying it was deliberately designed to sow bigotry and bloodshed but it was also reaction from russia with president putin saying that all governments should work to prevent religious provocation. do you think this will that if history doesn't react in a timely and tough manner to provocations that are directed against the religious feelings of people then what happens is that the humiliated and insulted ones start to defend their own interests sometimes this can lead to wide bloodshed if we feel the region can fall into chaos which is exactly what's happening now in this respect i'd like to remind the rulers of these new governments in states that underwent serious changes that they should not forget their personal responsibility for what's going on in their territories which are typically and they're keeping

with the escalating tension in the region to charlie mcgrath an independent news editor in america says it was just a matter of time before the rest of the region boiled of. we have this convoluted destabilization throughout the middle east and north africa and you know this is the end result i know this this video this innocence of muslim video is being blamed for all this but i mean really this is a powderkeg looking for a spark i believe that if most if most americans understood what was being done in our name in the stabilizing the middle east and north africa it would be absolutely horrified and what other result can we expect these people you know a lot of cases you know they have no hope their economies are destroyed they see their calling for foreign invaders in their land flying drones over their country their leaderships being you know assassinated and these forms of government are being installed of course this kind of thing is going to happen i'm surprised it's

taken this long and i also wouldn't be surprised if we see it escalate from here if we were going outside in having predator drones blowing up buildings in our neighborhood if we were constantly under for an assault we too would take the same position i think that a lot of these people are. and here at r.t. we are closely following the violence that's continuing to unfold throughout the arab world and we're doing so via our website r.t. dot com there was a timeline of events as well as the full profile of the man who was thought to be behind the scandalous and most of them failed to spot the protests just a lot while website find out many details.

you're watching the weekly here on our to the e.u. debt crisis has sparked renewed separatism calls and spain's. lonia this week over a million people took to the streets of barcelona to call for independence blaming central government issues over economic woes and this was followed by fresh anti austerity protests in the capital madrid with tens of thousands of spaniards voicing outrage over a new wave of belt tightening but the government is due to announce a fresh set of spending cuts by the end of the month but the message was later echoed in portugal capital lisbon protesters threw fireworks and tomatoes at the local headquarters of the international monetary fund john laughland a director of studies for the institute of democracy and cooperation says governments are focusing on the wrong issue when it comes to fixing the crisis. the basic problem in europe and indeed in other countries of the world is of course

that there is too much debt both private and above all public and nothing today and nothing on any other future occasion is going to make that problem go away even budget cuts are not going to make that essential problem go away which is that the states are too heavily indebted and evil need various so-called austerity programs which have been imposed i'm not going to produce a budget surplus which is the only way of repaying debt unless of course there is economic growth and there's a final point this is the european union for many decades now it's played a game of smoke and mirrors whenever there's a crisis whenever there's a problem to be solved it rearranges the institutional furniture. and germany's federal court has backed a motion considered crucial for containing the continent's debt crisis has approved a new five hundred billion euro bailout fund for struggling the eurozone countries over the ruling comes with several conditions including a restriction on the size of berlin's contribution. back a specialist in e.u.

law at the school of oriental and african studies in london says the motion won't bring any long term solutions the past is an imperfect guide to the future so far the german parliament has always approved aid i think we are reaching a point where germany has spent so much money that she's locked in parliamentarians will continue granting further assistance every time the only way of getting out of this vicious circle would be the success of the save big spro grab in southern europe i can see that happen the economic situation in southern europe this dire every cation we have is that it's getting worse if you probably sub you will gobble up his government debt to a not limited extent it will take away the said if for cuts it will not enforce it

. and voters in the netherlands have elected to continue on a pro european path broadly sticking to a german led way out of the financial crisis the conservatives claim victory but may have to form a coalition with labor which does hold similar economic views however despite her rejecting parties calling for an exit from the eurozone a rethink of some austerity measures looks inevitable artists are are sillier reports. it was back in ninety ninety two when a treaty was signed of michelle toe in maastricht and another less establishing the economic and monetary union later paving the way for the creation of the single currency but today mounting a euro skepticism has spread to even countries considered poor eurozone nations including the very one where it all began so i don't know at this moment what is the best this for europe i have my jobs because of greece. and the shelf and the netherlands it's a pro european country of course it shouldn't come to the stream level that we see

greece now in a repeated fashion this annoyance among the dutch at having to bail out greece again and again has reached a point where some dutch customers refuse to pay the bill of greek restaurants because well they've already paid with bailout money taking on a euro skeptic and brussels stat has become a popular campaign strategy from the far right freedom party which is called for the return of the dutch guilder to the once fringe leftist socialist party openly challenging the german led a steady strategy for europe well we are protesting against our liberal government you know made to distinction between the rich. part of the problem is you know did you run brussels has a lot of power now people feel like they have nothing to say about what's going on with their money or we cannot make our own decisions anymore and we can see in europe that. are becoming less convinced

of the rationality of continued austerity policies and begin to vote for parties who oppose the logical force territory we've seen it in front we've seen it in regional elections in germany which makes america very worried about the elections next year in the end it was the center right liberals who claim victory followed closely by the center left labor party both. viewed as pro europe but the fact remains that discontent has risen to the surface among citizens of a nation part of the so-called core of the euro zone does or cilia r t the netherlands. and r.t. is coming to life from moscow it's a pleasure to have you with us today just ahead in just a few minutes here on the program a thousands of activists across the u.s. regrouped for another round of banti corporate action as the occupy wall street movement marks its first birthday. an effort to cripple iran's economy and derail

its nuclear ambitions are seem to be failing as tehran hosts huge oil sales in the face of western sanctions. now the a wiki leaks editor julian assange continues his legal tug of war with the u.k. as he remains inside ecuador's london embassy he's been there for several months with the south american country recently granting him political asylum and london is still refusing to grant the whistleblower free passage from the embassy threatening to arrest him once he steps foot outside a soldier's lawyers also remain wary of his extradition to sweden saying his human rights will be put at risk and they fear stockholm would pass him over to the u.s. where he could face the death penalty if tried on charges of espionage for his role in wiki leaks a soldier's lawyer. says his client did nothing more than express his freedom of speech. i do not think mr resound is a spy all he did was exercise his right to freedom of information he received and

shared it much i'm surprised that there's been no investigation into the glaring crimes documented in those leaked reports featuring u.s. interference with issues that have absolutely no relation to either national security all the safety of american citizens or defense. we have plenty more news for you on our website our dot com you can for the latest on a variety of issues a. russian opposition supporters are flooding back onto street the. dot com has the full report on yesterday's rally right here in central. prosecutor the video project worth an a plus attention not only from his class teacher but also from the federal intelligence agency more details on that also.

so two twenty pm on sunday here in moscow in the united states thousands of bracing for rallies against fat cat corporations this just ahead of the occupy wall street movement celebrating its first anniversary activists hoping to regain some momentum by rallying support for demonstrations are massing on new york's financial district the protests snowballed last year with dozens of cities across the u.s. but racing corporate america for its role of the country's failing economy the police were accused of using heavy handed tactics to break up several events arresting thousands and evicting tent camps from public parks for activists to caleb maupin believes the anticapitalist movement can be reborn in more ways than one. i would say without a doubt one looks at the world right now one looks at what's happening in the middle east in spain greece everywhere there's a confrontation going on against the one percent so the idea that somehow the u.s. is exceptional and it's just a small passing phase i mean the u.s.

is part of the world capitalist economy in the world capitals to communism the state of collapse profits rule and we just get more as we just you know home foreclosures we just get mass unemployment get all this wealth exist but it is not utilized for so absolutely we're going see it may take on a different character you know organized labor chicago the chicago teachers strike that maybe cause more problems than it was in the early days of occupy wall street but there's going to be more confrontations as the system dies. and i hear it out so you know we are following the events planned by the occupy wall street movement in new york and other cities across the country if you can do stay with us for more on that. the general spread world war. i the ninety nine percent versus the one percent with all the money. are they getting in quality into the economy.

the recession ahead can we afford not to. you. are to. look at the aussie wild update in just a couple of minutes. western sanctions on iranian oil seem to be having little effect sales increase to more than one million barrels a day the us hoped that strict regulations would force to iran to hold its atomic ambitions would mean. meanwhile washington extended exemption waivers for japan and several of the e.u. nations as they rely heavily on iranian oil. policy directed at the national iranian american council believes tyrone's nuclear program is not in any way being thrown off course. i don't know that you could actually look at the lost revenues from oil exports and say iran has taken away money from its nuclear program or reduced money for military spending because frankly with the threat of war i think

iran is probably continuing down that path that has already already has been on with sanctions you know there's no perfect sanctions regime there's always going to be a whole series always going to be loopholes there's always going to be this game of whack a mole where iran responds in the u.s. tries to ratchet up and you're never going to get a perfect embargo. so i think that the question the question is ok now you have these sanctions what do we do with these are we going to leverage these or is this a repeat of what we had with iraq where we did a great job of restricting oil sales have been doing well for food but the end of the day that didn't actually yield anything but massive humanitarian suffering suffering and then eventually this movement for disasters invasion. you're watching r t how the russian gas giant gas problem is fighting against you pressure on the company's pricing policy it's after the european commission launched a case accusing the supplier of violating european anti monopoly on tuesday the

government introduced a new law which forbids gas problem from disclosing information to foreign parties without the kremlin's permission while the e.u. insists castro has abused its dominant position russia says brussels is just trying to interfere in the energy market to get a gas price discount all analyst alexander. says the e.u. is only looking out for its best interests. these looks like to me as. a protective measure which may war mean or to work but. the contrary the russian companies will be supported by russian government. brought. forward as promised it's our world. and i will start with a southern accent on western troops have been killed by afghan police officers it

comes less than twenty four hours after two british soldiers died in a similar insider shooting so far this year fifty one foreign soldiers killed by the perceived allies in the so-called green on blue attacks two of the marines were shot dead on a u.s. base whether u.k.'s prince harry is stationed the taliban said that attack was in response to the anti muslim fill made in america. fifteen people are dead after a roadside bomb exploded in northwest pakistan near its border with afghanistan twelve others were wounded when the bus was hit by the blast it's believed the bomb was planted on a dirt road and detonated by remote control. unclear who set it off. and protests continue across china as demonstrators voice frustration over disputed islands with japan as a heavy police presence outside the japanese in shanghai hundreds to claim the islands of east china sea belong to beijing despite tokyo controlling that region

of water attention increased last week when japan's government purchased the islands from private owners the land areas in question are believed to be surrounded by energy rich. shortly on r t it's our interview which features a man who survived more than six weeks in taliban captivity that will be after a short week of our top stories on odds.

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