a look back at the week's top stories in the latest news on r t muslims continue to vent their fury over a movie filmed in the u.s. mocking the prophet muhammad as violent protests rage across the globe for almost a week. while washington asked what happened to the arab spring its diplomatic efforts so far failed to salvage years of war building bridges with islamic states and. spain and portugal once again struck with a sturdy demonstrations as the people demand an end to brussels interference as one and a half million march through barcelona calling for catalonia is independence from spain.

five am in moscow i met a good to have you with us here on r t anger and protests tore across the global muslim community this week in a fierce outpouring against a film made in the states that ridiculed islam centering in a region still reeling from more than a year of on the rest it's become one of the bloodiest episode since the start of the arab spring. western diplomatic missions in businesses have been targeted by mobs of protesters incensed by what's seen as a direct attack on the prophet mohammed washington's ordered most of its diplomatic staff out of tunisia and sudan after attacks there led to casualties protests

erupted in dozens of countries across the world with clashes in europe asia even australia violence left at least a dozen dead over the past week artie's paullus leader is in cairo with the latest . class of iraq to meet pakistanis to see how much work the one person has been killed and some often doesn't means it as thousands of people passed with the security forces not far from the constant moving in the street now the police riot you want to stop being a nice place to live in this is. also on sunday people demonstrations housing boom. times in the city this one hundred some of the local businesses want to make hold of the american ambassador to pakistan to be held they also point out on more u.s. goods and services now for pakistan the parties that blocked access to this on you tube it is a thirteen minute train out of

a form that has been entitled innocence of muslims to meet the office was taken in for placement in the united states has since been released although he has gone into hiding on sunday to meet with. me this time to come in and see me so this is only intensifying and for that i've been painting american mason this line in the united states have seen. this. i have a right. to vote no people who make their money for the use of these cells for the night on the winding down and the government saying that they could deal with this situation by themselves the demonstration waiting until after i mean the police to approach is happening in lebanon in somalia in the run in turkey in gaza and even

instead of being able streets of europe paris protesters took to the streets near the american embassy in the build conflict and for at least one hundred twenty people were detained this weekend off the demonstrations there and this is far afield of australia where the police were forced to use gas to disperse not protesting their mind. in the raid on a. merry ambassador in libya and now brings me in mind these two pieces on the boat now the united states has eluded the evacuation of the one thing still diplomats and the families come down on this net as well as anybody holding american citizenship in those countries who want to this is just a minute intimate scene very dynamic situation in the region temples often times simply not. at the situation it will be calm down in the coming days paul is

heading up our coverage of the anti us on arrests with the latest developments and first hand accounts on our twitter feed you can find that at paula's sillier underscore r t. v from the pack nationalists forum says the controversial video may have been the spark that lit the bonfire but anger against the u.s. has been simmering in the muslim world for a long time. these demonstrations really are not really directed at the film itself they are a result of an accumulation over the past few months and years the good film right now has acted as the sparkle that really exploded as a result of the failure of the u.s. government to contain what many many muslims are seeing right now as an organized campaign in inside the united states not to be timid speech but an organized campaign to insult and humiliate this religion i think most of the demonstrations we're seeing right now most of them were spontaneous with the probably one

exception of the attack and the murder of the u.s. and the us that are in libya that was that appear to be the work of militant groups on the ground ironically i think the and chris stevens who actually advocated that the united states and nato arm the militants in libya eventually fell prey to the same militant groups on the ground so with the exception of that one unfortunate incident i think most of the did history as we're seeing right now are really spontaneous and the pain and the anger is really genuine. mending relations with the middle east has been a top priority of the obama administration but now years of work are in jeopardy of coming undone through a single you tube clip diplomats are under pressure to limit the harm done by the film and diffuse the anger felt by muslims are very important i reports. 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 and our. big language channel my job to the muslim world is to communicate that the americans are not your enemy 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 youtube 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 a 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 it calls for the moving of those units because it puts american interests and some western interests a cause for war and invasion of iraq as we have seen destruction of afghanistan no progress on the peace level in palestine thanks 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 right across the entire world it's their worst in pakistan. where polls showed they were ninety percent of the pakistanis americans their primary an enemy america's middle of bloggers and it's made enemies 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 is lot of friendly foreign policy the world wide web also served as the platform that enabled one american extremist to infuriate millions overseas and the rail years of progress marina portnoy artsy the us

defense secretary leon panetta admitted that washington expects and is readying for the protests to continue journalist and broadcaster neil clark thinks the u.s. should have seen this coming. bradley all saying you reap what you sow and the us are reaping what it's shown that since back to two thousand and eleven the us took nato in the attack on iraq is libya. destruction and they created this sort of violent situation so what of course we condemn the terrible attacks on the u.s. consulate the murder of christine romans and of course the people responsible are those who carried out the killings we've got to put this in its wider context and this would have happened had nato not intervened last year governments losing its grip in libya in egypt that going across the region and the u.s. it is the car that's been stoking all this up the u.s. has been aggressively supporting. writings of course across the region for its own interests and now it's a kind of blowback time the u.s. is getting it back and you know i think you know interference is the best way to go really what are they going to do regime change again i mean we had this last year i

mean exactly what was it take it was a stable country with us and they decided to demean me because we look across the globe everywhere where nato has to make has been a disaster look at iraq one million people killed there you go slower because of it we have the ethnic cleansing of serbs and roma somalia chaos and they're going to start living is a war and yet we still get the same or people calling for intervention across the globe. but it just leads to more death and destruction the u.s. has strongly condemned the production. mantei us fieri un secretary-general ban ki moon joined the chorus of disapproval saying it was deliberately designed to instigate bigotry and bloodshed while russia's president putin award all governments should work to prevent religious provocations. because. 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 you could

feel the region could fall into chaos which is exactly what's happening now in this respect i'd like to remind the rulers of these new governments and. states that under one series changes should be should not forget their personal responsibility for what's going on in their territories which are difficult with the protests going across the arab world we've got full coverage on our website r t v dot com ariel find a thai life charting the evolution of the protest post profiles in the former pornographer and convicted fraudster thought the people behind the production much more on our website.

now to some of the days of the week's other top stories the e.u. financial crisis led to new calls for catalonia to separate from the rest of spain more than a million and a half people packed the streets of barcelona thursday demanding independence from madrid the country's fiscal woes and perceived interference have contributed to the region's desire to go it alone carlos del close a sociologist at pompei you fabry university thinks this could be the first of many such protests. the difference between this year and last year particularly is that now the by the obama lot is in the government and it's there a lot more aggressively centralist and and it's and there are a lot more aggressive against sort of the autonomous rights that the regions that like that feel themselves as nations like the loony our the basque region they're a lot more aggressive in imposing that sort of identity of on the this could

certainly. service an impulse to more sort of secessionist secession is i guess sensibilities. the spanish capital saw tens of thousands protest against planned austerity measures the government said to announce a new package of cuts by the end of september meanwhile in the portuguese capital lisbon an angry mob pelted the local headquarters of the international monetary fund with fireworks and tomatoes john lackland from the institute for democracy and cooperation says governments are repeating their mistakes. the basic problem in europe and indeed other countries of the world is of course that there is too much debt both private and a bubble up like nothing today and nothing in any other future occasion is going to make that go away even budget cuts are not going to make the essential problem go away which the states are too heavily indebted and even meet various so-called austerity programs which should be done post 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 not just play the game of smoke and mirrors whenever there's a crisis whenever there's a problem to be solved it rearranges the institutional front. germany's highest court cleared the way for the country to proceed with plans for a new bailout fund five hundred billion euro fund is intended to help euro zone countries are riddled with debt germans feared the project could commit berlin to paying unlimited amounts to struggling states what the judge or a strict of the country's contribution to one hundred ninety billion euros dr gunnar back a specialist in e.u. law at the school of oriental and african studies so as the motion is dealing with the symptoms but not curing the disease. 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 knocked in and

parliamentarians will continue granting further assistance every time the only way of getting out of this vicious circle would be the success of the savings program in southern europe i can see that happen the economic situation in southern europe is dire every indication we have is that it's getting worse if you probably sub you will gobble up his government debt too and our limited extent it will take away the said if for cuts it will not enforce it. an early general election in the netherlands has shown the eurozone is still trusted by the people there with a majority of the votes going in favor of two pro european parties this means the country is more likely to back a german led solution to the debt crisis but as artists are still your reports a rethink of some austerity measures could be inevitable. it was back in ninety

ninety two when a treaty was signed in this château in maastricht in the netherlands 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 is for europe i have my jobs because of greece. and then other loans it's a pro european country of course it shouldn't come to the stream level that we see that 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 and 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. voters. are becoming less convinced of the russian out of the continued austerity policies and begin to vote for parties who oppose the lord you call for stereotypes we've seen it in france 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 sylvia r.t. the netherlands and stay with us here on r.t. still ahead a year on of the occupy protests still alive and kicking anti-corporate activists in the us set to return to the streets of manhattan ahead of the first anniversary of the start of the occupy movement. and western sanctions to pressure iran into talks over its nuclear program having little apparent effect as the country announces oil sales. but before we get to any of that julian assad could find himself in the clear as forensic evidence in a swedish sex assault case against him points to the alleged victim's story being possibly untrue there was no trace founder julian assange has d.n.a. on a key piece of evidence submitted to support the allegations assad has always denied the charges maintaining they were trumped up to get back at him for his wiki leaks activities

a distinguished spanish human rights lawyer belters our cars saw and is now heading aside is the legal team as the whistleblower works to evade extradition to the u.s. is renowned for fighting the most controversial cases and says his client did nothing more than exercise his right to free speech. i do not think mr song is a spy all he did was exercise his right to freedom of information he received and shared it but much was surprised that there's been no in this to. ation into the glaring crimes documented in those leaked reports featuring u.s. interference with issues that have absolutely no relation to either national security or the safety of american citizens or defense and. plenty more if you want to solve his plight as well as other stories on our t. dot com our website including this russian opposition supporters back into moscow streets find out the new group that joined in this time and why. washington of years up for a massive overhaul of its nuclear arsenal we'll look at how plans to pay for it

with the government now facing more than a trillion dollars in federal budget cuts. and scientists in kenya fight a new breed of mosquito that could put hundreds of thousands of lives at risk find out why on our website. at least twenty activists have been arrested in new york as they gathered for her soul for monday's occupy wall street march in downtown manhattan the anti-corporate movement started a year ago in new york rapidly spreading to other major american cities and abroad it often faced a heavy handed response from police with numerous activists injured in tent cities brought down the occupiers say they're determined to show the world they're still going strong and are ready to regain momentum activists caleb maupin thinks the

capitalist campaign can be were born 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 capitalist economy is in a state of collapse profits rule. in the end we just get more as we just get home foreclosures we just get mass unemployment get all this wealth exists but is not utilized for even good and so absolutely we're going to see it may take on a different character in organized labor that's chicago this chicago teachers strike that they become more prominent than it was in the early days of occupy wall street but there's going to be more confrontations as the system dies will be closely following the events planned for the occupy movement in new york and other cities so stay with us for more on that.

spread worldwide. ninety nine percent versus the one percent with all the money. are they getting in quality into the economy. the recession ahead of food not. the occupying. violence rising in afghanistan is four u.s. soldiers were killed in a suspected insider attack the american servicemen were coming to the aid of afghan police after getting reports of an attack but since the incident three of the four local officers disappeared off the base this after two british soldiers were killed trying to help a man dressed in an afghan police uniform this brings the overall death toll from so-called green on blue attacks to fifty one in the last few months why meanwhile eight women were killed in a nato airstrike targeting suspected militants some of the victims as young as ten alliance officials admit the strike on armed insurgents may have included some

civilian casualties. iran's oil exports now exceeding a million barrels a day flouting western sanctions designed to curb the trade washington's had to waive restrictions for japan and several nations that rely heavily on iranian oil sanctions are aimed at forcing terror on to halt its atomic program that it insists is peaceful the policy director from the national iranian american council thinks the sanctions only force iran to spend even more on nuclear research. 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 the path that has already already has been on which sanctions you know there's no perfect sanctions regime there's always going to be. whole there's 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 is 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 and then doing well for food but the end of the day that didn't actually yield anything but massive humanitarian suffer suffering and then eventually this movement for disasters invasion. russian energy giant gazprom lashed out at the e.u. for what it claims is blatant political pressure from brussels to get better gas prices the european commission launched a case accusing the supplier of violating the monopoly law tuesday russia's government barred gazprom officially from disclosing any information to foreign parties without kremlin permission moscow and says is protecting gazprom from aggressive attempts by the e.u. for to get gas discounts the company spokesman. says europe didn't even try to

negotiate a solution. during this past year the european commission didn't take a single step to resolve any of the present disputes through dialogue we have always insisted on the open discussion of any undecided motss time and again. the russian government invited the dialogue but were ignored they were taking a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe anti japanese protests have escalated in china as police use force to disperse crowds japanese businesses factories and vehicles have been attacked in major chinese cities demonstrations were sparked by japan's decision to purchase a chain of disputed islands in the south china sea the archipelago claimed by both countries may be sitting on vast gas reserves. and a peaceful march of several hundred striking miners has been blocked by south african police workers who are calling for an end to police violence a day after tear gas and rubber bullets were used to disperse similar protests

south africa's government recently announced a crackdown on widespread minor on unrest that's already halted production at several platinum and gold mines the protest movement was galvanized after police shot thirty four miners dead last month during a strike over low wages up ahead the story of thomas miller an american who spent thirty years on death row is coming up after the headlines stay with us.

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