i know what's really happening to the global economy with my stronger no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. egypt's opposition friends to storm the presidential palace amid nationwide protests against the country's leader mohamed morsi. earlier this week the birthplace of the arab spring witnessed a similar scenes of unrest as anti-government protests were sparked by the assassination of a prominent opposition figure. soon to be cia chief john brennan went through a confirmation hearing amid catcalls and protests but it's still hard to tell where the architect of the targeted assassination program will take america's spy bureau

. and russia countdown to the two thousand and fourteen a winter olympics with moscow promising a grand a spectacle the highly anticipated games are shaping up to be the most expensive in history with huge overspending already costing a key organizer his job. and a recapping the week's top stories live from moscow this is our t. with the weekly. now egypt's opposition has called for more rallies and threatened to storm the presidential palace the process protesters accuse mohamed morsi of not upholding the goals of the revolution that ousted hosni mubarak two years ago the turmoil has also been fueled by the authorities decision to block the video sharing web site you tube in the country for

a month over its anti islam content but as artie's belcher reports the decision is only likely to inflame more tensions. there's been a lot of condemnation of the by protest movements who see you tube as a vital resource for disseminating information about human rights abuses by the security forces it's also an indication of an islam mind zation of egypt there's been a number of quite controversial statements made by these hardline muslim clerics in the last few weeks including a religious edict calling proposition forces to be killed and a muslim cleric speaking to me. justifying sex mob attacks on egyptian protesters in tahrir square you have a very restive country here in egypt in the last two weeks especially since the second anniversary of the tourney went into five revolution when thousands gathered in the streets of egypt said complaining that their president ahmed morsi had not made key changes in demands of the revolution friday we saw more protests as part of friday's day of security thousands of protesters gathered across the main

rallying points in this in the country which devolved into clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in the capital here by the presidential palace when groups attacked by the building with molotov they were pushed back by take us and water cannons and so bloody of violence in the in the governor with unconfirmed that's an awful shake as well as violent clashes and alex . we have more protests on the horizon with further expected violence we don't see this finishing anytime soon another country rocked by unrest this week was tunisia public fury very has been ignited following the murder of a secular opposition leader. had dozens were injured and more than three hundred people detained during the rallies which ended with anti-government demonstrators clashing with police are more if a notion has been following the dramatic developments in the tunisian capital forty eight year old lawyer shockley ability to criticize the islamist government for creating and really just state in tunisia and burying democracy now delight is dead

but his ideas are not in the museum. the country has been in crisis economic political and social the ruling troika how to chona it's been a year and a home but we didn't see any progress the death of all commemorate becomes the last june. anger moved to the streets with protesters demanding the authorities and they built to protect its citizens to leave the city with. some crime because below he was a symbol of dignity and a symbol of the defense of the country that this is a political assassination and that means the violence is not over. the interior ministry said that one million in the have joined the ceremony that turned into a political minister's station people said that if the crowd reached the city center it would have been the last day of the government. as your attend the funeral of shockey belayed on friday after the seventy try to make their way to the

city's main haven't yet to continue antic i didn't protest but they were not allowed to do that police used tear gas immediately it was such a such a siege is packed with people but slogans we're hearing are completely different. carrion islamist flags people masterly in support of the ruling and not a party the local branch of the muslim brotherhood police were at the scene to protest and demonstrators this time this reverse gathering didn't pull more than five thousand participants but the government used this to illustrate that their position was still strong. men did improve the people support and believe our party . they try to save face but don't have the choice they lost credibility and have no choice but to dissolve the government which is by de facto

dissolved already. standing on the brink of a political crisis prime minister protests to form a new cabinet consisting of neutral politicians his own party rejected the plan and christenings idea of a possible farthest pleat and fears are growing that the political divisions may lead to even more victims i was threaten to another guy from the opposition was attacked at the funerals i don't want to panic and say x. why is that person there is a list of people those who fight for the revolutions principles liberty democracy dignity we're all in danger do years ago tunisia became the first nation to have an arab spring revolution that has been hailed as a success story praised for the minimum of violence and turmoil but as we watch the country face a political implosion it may be only now it is free and it has been wound up tightly it's been sprung for three days clashes between police and protesters shook

the country leaving many injured and cars burnt out across the city but it all finished as quickly as it started just hours later the capital looks empty and come and the loudest noise here at the moment is sound of birds twittering here. g.'s yeah he meanwhile the streets of europe are also lacking a stability as a wave of countrywide protests that spain and ireland are this week with people expressing their discontent over austerity policies this story and much more later in the program. john brennan barack obama's pick to head the cia and the architect of the drone assassination program had his senate confirmation hearing this week while critics accuse the lawmakers of giving john brennan an easy ride some members of the public weren't shy in expressing their disapproval multiple protesters interrupted the session raising you posters accusing brennan of being the driving force behind the so-called. killing operations human rights

activists claim the use of drones against suspected terrorists is unlawful and leads to a high number of civilian civilian casualties after demonstrators were removed from the hall a law makers questioned brennan on torture and cia shortcomings however critics claim that those inquiries seem strictly ceremonial scholar and author calling cavell says that given brennan's views his confirmation could set a troubling precedent this is a complete denial of our constitutional rights under the fourteenth amendment due process and equal protection of the laws and yet when the administration is doing here is they're usurping the. united to the american citizens and saying that we can be just jury and executioner we can do you know american citizens abroad without them having their court we can say they are yours and we can kill them

and the danger is this is when you look at ministrations says we can determine who are the jurors then that means they go anywhere in any american citizen. without any trial without any problems and that is a very dangerous precedent. on tuesday john brennan is said to go through a closed door classified hearing to iron out sensitive technicalities the debate is already bring about what direction he could take of the cia as art he's going to can't comment. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream was drone makers in the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability in their revolutionizing warfare by allowing us to see and

keep you from happening. world away a major draw manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on drones aired recently on u.s. public television counting the technological capabilities of the killing machine from trailers like this pilots of the predator and its larger cousin the reaper have killed thousands of individual since two thousand and one using remotely piloted aircraft contrary to popular belief actually provides the greatest degree of ethical oversight for their use of this young man in pakistan would probably disagree several of his family members died at the remote hands of a drone more than a thousand other civilians were reportedly killed by u.s. drone strikes in pakistan and yemen we find ourselves murdering people in many cases children with no evidence whatsoever that they're involved in any criminal or terrorist activity the numbers should not come as a surprise considering the broad definition the obama administration gives us to

who should be on their kill list the leaked memo on targeted assassinations on the us justice department suggests the us government can kill people even without evidence that they are actively plotting against america somebody a us citizen or otherwise is believed to be thinking something that could lead to actions against the united states then this illogical logic would present the idea that it would be ok for the president to order that that person be killed despite the u.n. raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the u.s. is said to expand its remote control warfare setting up new drone bases across the world drama has redefined war there an intervention in libya he made the case that the war powers act in a quiet because there was no risk to american soldiers and so under that rationale he can expand the global war while in his state of the union address queen meaning that we don't need perpetual war for peace but it is perpetual war when you can

drop bombs. on any country and then claim that it's not working john brennan often referred to as the architect of the administration's drone war counts the new opportunities for the u.s. to wage wars without risking american lives there's another reason a targeted strikes can be a wise choice to strategic consequences that inevitably come with the use of force . as we have seen deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense all in all the u.s. now has around ten thousand drones in its fleet not all of them carry weapons of course a lot of them are for surveillance both domestic and international there's a great push both from the administration and the drone makers to present them as america's next best thing john brennan if confirmed will soon be at the helm of the cia and no one doubts that under him the program will expand even further in washington i'm going to stick around. and i'll be back with more news after a short break you're watching archie don't go away.

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download. stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just. now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. and recapping the week's top stories today's top news this is r.t. glad to have you back with us now planned multibillion dollar u.s. missile defense shield in europe might not be able to protect america from possible iranian air strikes the flaws were highlighted in classified studies made by the defense department prepared for a congressional briefing for more on this we're now joined live by bruce gagne a coordinator of the global network against what the nuclear power base bruce thank you very much for being with us. now first i mean let's get right to this if the

complex is flawed why is it still on the cards to be built in the first place. well first off and most importantly i don't think it was ever intended to protect against iranian missiles something in fact that do not even exist today iran has no nuclear weapons nor do they have capability to launch a missile all the way to the united states so i think the missile so-called missile defense system which in fact is a key part of the u.s. first right strategy it's that she believed to be used after the sword has launched in the heart of russian and chinese nuclear forces and clearly this missile defense system has always been about surrounding russia and china and that's why it doesn't the math doesn't work when you look at having it protect against an iranian system

now one of the flaws that has been mentioned is the actual location of the system in romania and poland something that we all know that russia has been voicing their concerns about can we expect any changes on the location issue. i think so in fact as nato is expanding in its encircled men of russia i think we're only going to see more of these so called again missile defense deployments into various nato countries so i think the ones in poland and romania and others are radar going into turkey these are going to stay but i think attempts are going to be made to put these systems into places like georgia and other countries very close to the russian borders which in fact is only going to increase tensions between the united states and russia as is happening in china today as the u.s. is in circling china with the same missile defense systems the aegis destroyers the

navy destroyers that are outfitted with these missile defense interceptors are going to be put into the black sea the baltic sea mediterranean sea really. increasing the cost and soar on the to russia in the years ahead and in fact as the new generations of these interceptor missiles are built they're going to become even more i don't logically sound sophisticated much faster. wow long the problem worse well given that the billion billions of dollars have already been spent on the system in its current state it's now showing serious flaws does it make sense to spend any more money on this will the u.s. invest more. i think it's a bad expenditure of course as our economy is collapsing here at home in the united states we're wasting enormous amounts of money on the military industrial complex so clearly i'm opposed to these systems but looking at how this all of our key runs

our country today how the corporations control our congress i think it's clear that congress will continue to support these systems the new secretary of defense that obama is nominated chuck hagel former republican senator from nebraska was one of the co-sponsors in the senate of the missile defense program so he clearly is a strong ally of this system and i think that he is being brought into running the pentagon because of partly because of that relationship what we're seeing right now is some criticism from the republicans about the about this particular school system but there is a competition going on for various missile defense projects the boeing corporation has projects that the bush administration favored the obama administration is favored ones that are being manufactured by raytheon in general dynamics and so

really what little argument we see in the congress is more about which corporations are going to get the big contracts in the years ahead or i appreciate your thoughts on the subject bruce gagne on corner coordinator of the global network against weapons and nuclear power in space thank you for a thought on the subject thank you. massive strikes have shaken the streets of spain to this week as tens of thousands of teachers and students voiced their anger over education cuts but the government seems to be turning a blind eye to the crowds and says it's committed to belt tightening measures as it struggles to dig the country out of its debt hole the message from the people of spain it was echoed on the streets of ireland where tens of thousands of trade unionists gathered in a massive show of anger against severe austerity measures their tough cuts were implemented to please ireland's creditors it's been relying on a joint e.u. international monetary fund alone since two thousand and ten. and angry crowds have

been spoiling the mood of leaders as they celebrate and historic a budget deal cutting the blocks spending for the first time ever however the bill after the european parliament unimpressed with its m.p.'s now planning to block it in a private vote economist james midway weighs in. constitutionally they're well within their rights to reject the thing and send it back and have another go at writing this now whether they actually do that will probably depend on the fine print and the budgets are already present when you politic to said he would be able to support the steel and the heads of one of the major groups in the parliament the socialist group said there were likely to be supported so it's going to be a rocky ride i think this budget over the next few months cameron's right talk about this being like a reduction in a credit card limits and of course you can have your credit card limit reduced and still spend on spending more money now that's almost certainly what's going to happen to britain over the next few years the amounts that britain is expected to

pay into the main e.u. fund will increase as a result of increased payments to a new member countries so he's going to pretend that this will show how britain can still be a force in europe how we can push the rest of europe around this glosses over the fact of course that he would have got anywhere in this without the support of angle of merkel in particular so he can he can try to push that line that you know he knows what he's doing to europe and that we don't need to go so far as to step out of the european union but i wouldn't see the more euro skeptic members of his own party being particularly impressed by any of this meanwhile in his last public appearance before retiring the pentagon chief leon panetta admitted that he back to the plan of arming syrian rebels however the white house reportedly vetoed the idea russia's envoy to the un told r.t. that despite this the u.s. still has a lot to do with the ongoing crisis in syria you tell your kids exclusive interviews coming your way next hour but here's a quick look. but there were not as these chose to stay clean of the bad guys at

some point of the crisis the did realize it seems that things going very wrong you know that various terrorist groups were coming in that the radical islamists where we were active and that then original scenario they had in mind that it would take just a couple of months to topple the assad regime and then sort of democracy will triumph was completely unrealistic but i mean they're not us this is an extremely powerful country definitely with a lot of mentor influence on for example such a country as qatar which is reportedly of the main source of weapons and support for for armed opposition so the fact they simply say that they themselves are not doing that does not does not really absolve them completely from responsibility of what is happening in the. and what looked like a distant olympic dream for russians has now become

a very close reality and the countdown has kicked off across the country marking one year before russia hosts its first ever winter games but celebrations and praise for the unique facilities built from scratch went hand in hand with harsh criticism for overspending and mr deadlines artie's enter farmer reports from such . fireworks lit up the sochi sky this week marking exactly a year to go before the winter games begin since two thousand and seven piece by piece the city has been putting its a limpy dream together in the company in charge of construction says russia will be ready and. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of hosted test competitions all hotels and limpid villages are in the final phase of construction being referred unfurnished the show jewels to open in the autumn we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year said personnel can train

a managers can gain experience in providing a good service however such a vast undertaking has not been without its problems presentation was in the region this week to check on private grass and was taking no prisoners a ski jumping center the anything not yet up and running and this exchange with russian olympic officials are the costs of this whole facility costing us what's the overall. but what's your initial have you been assessing the amount of the loan with the story what's a rough estimate whom you've got these initial price with one point two billion now it's filled with one point two billion has turned into a billion yes well done good work let's move on. it resulted in the sacking of a key member of rushes and intake committee at fifty billion dollars the sochi games will be the most expensive in nearly history they have cost ten times more than. last winter games in vancouver and ten million dollars more than the new some

against however the results can already be seen and they are impressive if you do take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the limpid which has six families all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey and this is the june in the crown the bolshoi i studied. the past arena was used for a spectacular skating show it was part of the countdown celebrations and in a year's time it will how you speak and in the ice hockey finals in the sheeny subtropical like ation the slogan for thought you twenty fourteen is hot cool your top because the limbic park is them by their backs in case their i'm cold because all the alpine events or take place in just forty kilometers away. progress is rapid up there to the resort has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of

alpine skiing biathlon and cross country courses have also been created along with the bob sleigh track and a road or elite class spectators to get from the mountains to the coast in just a few minutes sochi itself has undergone massive upheaval as kilometers of road am rail lines are put in place and new hotels all day out but the mayor believes the region will reap the benefits for years to come our residents are aware of the conditions they have to face during changes especially. we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly dug up which causes traffic jams all the time however the residents are aware that it's necessary for their future those brilliant future she then has been overhauled in just six years but the transformation easily most complete in the black sea resort believes it can and will deliver the games to remember this time next year andrew

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